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EUROVISION SONG CONTEST arguably the ‘gayest’ Event in the World ‘BANS PRDE FLAGS’
If you’re a European gay it’s highly unlikely that you would have grown up without some special memory of the Eurovision Song Contest. Over the years it became such a queer phenomenon that it began to dominate our social life and formed a central part of our annual calendar. It’s hard to pinpoint just one…
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Superfine: Tailoring Black Style : the new Exhibit at Met Museum’s Costume institute
Whilst all the celebrities de jour (and some de hier) vied with each other clamouring for attention at ths year’s Met Gala, we were inside the Costume Institute seeing the ‘real thing’. The Exhibition this summer is a cultural and historical examination of Black style over three hundred years through the concept of dandyism. In…
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The Art Of Drag continung a glorious tradition at London’s legendary RVT
If there ever was such a thing as a sacred holy queer place of worship in London it would not be a church but the legendary ROYAL VAUXHALL TAVERN (known as the RVT). Built between 1860 and 1862 in Kennington Lane on land which was originally part of the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens it is South…
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Breaking Barriers in Gaming: 5 Ways the Industry Is Becoming More Inclusive by Queerguru’s Lifestyle Editor Peter Minkoff
Over the past years, the gaming industry has grown tremendously in technology and its adoption of principles like diversity and inclusivity. As demographics change and more access to digital cross-border lines grows, game developers and publishers are increasingly realizing the plurality of identities, cultures, and abilities in the spectrum of their representations. Indeed, diversity and…
