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Bollywood, the worlds campiest film genre, finally goes Gay.
Bollywood has just made its first ever gay rom-com and the news has spread like wildfire and its trailer has have 59 million hits in just one month. It’s been only two years since the Indian Supreme Court finally overturned its ban on homosexuality that had been imposed by the British when they ruled…
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New Music this week ….Kyle Motsinger: Single, Lauv: Lonely and Mike Taveira : Curious
New York-based queer singer/songwriter Kyle Motsinger has just the released the third single and music video from his upcoming sophomore album “Whenever” is all about being patient for the right person to come along. We don’t know whether this is autobiographical or not, but its hard to imagine that tall striking bearded redhead would…
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Treatment By Adrian Bridget
It’s difficult to write about this text, mainly because it defies categorisation and scrambles the logic of what we understand by the noun, “novel”. Whilst the front cover proclaims it is a novel, the inside blurb calls it ‘a mash-up of love story, pornography, art criticism, literary appropriation, and essayistic meditation, operating on the peripheries…
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Will San Francisco allow Gay Bathhouses to Re-Open?
After being closed 40 years ago in the height of the AIDS pandemic, there is now a suggestion that it is time to allow gay bathhouses to reopen in San Francisco City Supervisor Rafael Mandelman who represents District 8 – including the Castro has made a proposal that would update existing bans on adult…
