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  • Can You Save Superman?  A new queer Virtual Art Exhibit at the Leslie-Lohman Museum

    Can You Save Superman? A new queer Virtual Art Exhibit at the Leslie-Lohman Museum

      We can always rely on  NY’s epicenter for queer art the  Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art to mount an excellent Exhibit that reflects hot button issues of our community.  And their current Virtual one is no different. This new powerful show from NY artist Jordan Eagles   who preserves blood and through his invented process, he…

  • Pet Shop Boys : It Couldnt Happen Here

    Pet Shop Boys : It Couldnt Happen Here

      In the late 1980’s the superstar queer pop duo PET SHOP BOYS were reluctantly to undertake more touring so they embarked on making a film consisting of several of their music videos. However once the met Jack Bond a director of the acclaimed Brit TV culture program The South Bank Show, the project morphed…

  • TOM GOSS : Body Postive Ode to Plus Size Men

    TOM GOSS : Body Postive Ode to Plus Size Men

      Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. But we live in a world that is obsessed with one specific, narrow type of beauty. How would our perceptions of beauty change if we dared to idealize other types of beauty? This is queer singer/songwriter TOM GOSS ‘s ode to round men . He says…

  • AUNT CHARLIES the last drag bar in San Francisco’s Tenderloin has been saved

    AUNT CHARLIES the last drag bar in San Francisco’s Tenderloin has been saved

      Thanks to a tenacious devoted group of fundraisers, AUNT CHARLIES the last drag bar in San Francisco’s Tenderloin has been saved and lives to fight another day. This  historical landmark, and a symbol of the city’s vital queer and trans culture closed its doors in March due to COVID-19 and because its owner William…