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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
