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Manchester’s history of Queer Raving
For most queer men (and women) of a certain age(!) The Smiths were the definitive band of the 1980’s that started to really get the city of Manchester in the North of the UK noticed as a major force in music. In the same decade, the city also gave birth to other groundbreaking bands…
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Queer Eye Season 2 is here & with a theme song from Betty Who
It’s been fifteen years since the Emmy Award-winning series Queer Eye for the Straight Guy first reached our screens. The series returned to Netflix in 2018 and despite some apprehensions on our part, this brand new of queer experts were an immediate hit. Ths new Fab Five: Antoni Porowski (Food & Wine), Bobby Berk…
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Maggie Smith never does anything ‘merely’.
Back in 1987 the celebrated British playwright Peter Shaffer followed up the enormous success of his Tony Award-winning play Equus with a new play called Lettice and Lovage that he wrote especially for Maggie Smith (in her pre Dame days). It centered around a flamboyant tour guide who loves to embellish the history behind an English country house and who…
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For black gay men in US the chances of contracting HIV are 1 in 2
The leading UK newspaper The Guardian has made a mini-documentary about what they call the hidden HIV epidemic in America. Reporter Leah Green went to Atlanta which has a very large black gay community and discovered that if you are a gay, black man in America today, your chances of contracting HIV are 1 in 2. That is in sharp contrast…
