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Russian Chefs are saying ‘Bollocks’ to Putin
Russian Restaurant Owners and their staff, like the crew from Funky Food 11 restaurant in the photo above, are so pissed with the Authorities about being stripped of their livelihoods during the continuing Lockdown they are literally stripping naked. Hundreds of bar, restaurant and cafe employees have taken to posting pictures photographs of themselves…
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The Cockettes: Acid Drag & Sexual Anarchy : reviewed by Jonathan Kemp
Like many others, I discovered the Cockettes through David Weismann and Bill Weber’s wonderful eponymous 2002 documentary (frockumentary?), and like that film, this book is an essential monument to the countercultural force of nature that was the Cockettes, the late 60s/early 70s San Francisco queer drag troupe who took on the tedious establishment of mainstream…
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Rufus Wainwright : Unfollowing the Rules with his new music
Not one, but TWO new music videos from RUFUS WAINWRIGHTprobably the best queer singer/songwriter recording today. Could life in Lockdown be any better? Firstly he has has shared a video for “You Ain’t Big” a song off his highly anticipated upcoming album Unfollow The Rules, out July 10 through BMG. Rufus told us “I originally…
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Loudest Whispers: queer art exhibit goes Virtual
LOUDEST WHISPERS is an annual queer arts exhibition supporting the creative LGBT community in Camden, London. They started with 14 artists in 2003 and now in their 11th Edition have attracted 52 this year. Just before the COVID 19 Lockdown hit everyone’s plans, queer filmmaker Darren Brade made this video about the Exhibit. It…
