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Portraits, protest, pride: photography and queerness – Sunil Gupta in conversation with Ghislain Pascal
London’s National Portrait Gallery is hosting a discussion of queerness in photography. And as we have come to expect from what is arguably the first national public gallery in the world that’s dedicated to portraits, it is doing is some style. Taking part will be Sunil Gupta, the judge of this year’s Taylor Wessing Photographic…
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Scotland’s Pitlochry Theatre will debut OUT IN THE HILLS. a three-day celebration of LGBTQ+ theatre, music, and dance.
Barely some 40 miles south of Balmoral Castle in Scotland is the town of Pitlochry. Thanks to the nearness of Queen Victoria’s favorite residence, the town soon became a tourist attraction. At the center of this is the Pitlochry Festival Theatre is a large performing arts theatre that was conceived in the late 1940s by John Stewart,…
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Thank You PRUNELLA SCALES for giving us one of our best all time gay icons Sybil Fawlty (and so much more)
The world is a sadder place today with the passing of one of Britain’s most beloved actresses and our very favorite gay icon. Prunella Scales started her career back in 1951 and was very quickly cast in very notable movies such as Pride and Prejudice (1952), Laxdale Hall (1953), Hobson’s Choice (1954) and in the Academy Award-winning Room at the…
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The Netherlands elects ROB JETTEN as their first openly gay Premier
It looks from the recent polls coming out of the Netherlands today that their next Prime Minister will be their youngest one ever, but more importantly, the first openly gay one. 36-year-old Rob Jetten is the leader of the centrist Democrats 66 (D66) Party, and in his victory speech after the election exit poll, he…
