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Phranc : Queer For 50 Years : a solo exhibit at Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica
To celebrate Phranc’s fiftieth anniversary of coming out, Queer for 50 Years opened on October 11th, National Coming Out Day. For this body of work, Phranc sculpted boxing shorts, boxers, and socks out of cardboard, kraft paper, and thread, then painted the surfaces with vivid colors and stripes. As a self-described multi-disciplinary “queer artist, Jewish…
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Queerguru has discovered that 2026 is going to be the Year of Gay Cowboys
When we started to look for a new Wall Calendar for 2026 for the Queerguru Office, we thought we would make the search easy by just typing in GAY COWBOYS. Wrong move! We’re not sure who is still ‘home on the ranch” looking after the cattle (and whatever else they do) as it seems like…
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Brévo Theatre’s annual production of Langston Hughes ‘BLACK NATIVITY’ comes to South Florida this December
The legendary Langston Hughes was a queer celebrated American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist as is best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance. In 1961 he adapted the Nativity story imto a musical play BLACK NATIVITY, which was performed off Broadway by an entirely black cast. Hughes was the author of the…
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TRANS RIGHTS NOW CAMPAIGN CELEBRATES TRANS AWARENESS WEEK
WASHINGTON, DC — In response to the first Trans Awareness Week since Trump took office, Tyler Hack (they/them), the Executive Director of the Christopher Street Project, released the following statement: “Today marks the start of Trans Awareness Week — the first since Trump’s unprecedented attacks on transgender Americans. Trump is attempting to take us back…
