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Pete Buttigieg the first ever out-gay member of the US Cabinet
Pete Buttigieg, the former Mayor of South Bend Indiana broke through another glass ceiling today when he became he first out LGBT+ person confirmed to serve in the US Cabinet. The new Transportation Secretary was confirmed with overwhelming support from the Senate who voted 87-13 to approve him. Only retired general and…
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Help Save Birdland : star-studded online cast party
President Clinton introduces this star-studded ‘cast’ of jazz vocalists and musicians and cabaret headliners (and some rising talent to) in this superb online ‘concert’. It’s all in aid of helping New York’s legendary Birdland Jazz Club that after some 70 +years is actually in danger of closing for good. It’s desperate in need of capital…
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Linda Simpson : THE DRAG EXPLOSION of the 1980s
If you still yearn for queer life in = New York City back in the 1980’s, when drag was so much more original, creative and really fun, then you’ll love this new book THE DRAG EXPLOSION by Linda Simpson The one time publisher of the revolutionary queer magazine, My Comrade , Simpson would go on…
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Florida gets FREE films from OUTSHINE At Home
OUTshine At Home is the new virtual experience from the Miami’s OUTshine LGBTQ+ Film Festival. They are presenting new FREE Movies each week starting February 19th through March 28th, which can be streamed throughout Florida In honor of Black History Month the first four films will be focused on the black experience here in…
