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The BBC’s First Homosexual : when being queer in the UK was illegal and in the closet
It’s probably tough for Gen Z and gay Millennials to even imagine a time when everywhere in the world it was not only illegal to be gay, but also socially and morally unacceptable. Like in the UK in 1954, one year after a very young Queen Elizabeth just ascended to the throne, when the country’s…
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Provincetown going back in time & sleeping in the wild
Wherever we live in the world it is impossible to avoid ‘change’ even in this tiny spec at the end of Cape Cod we call home. This is Provincetown, which started out as the first stop for the Pilgrims, then became a Yankee whaling village, a Portuguese fishing town populated by the descendants of…
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We could do with a few less Christians this Christmas……
Should we be surprised at all that a Christian charity in the UK has chosen Christmas to sue the British Government for their (Christian?) support of Gay Pride. It’s not just what happened to all that ‘love thy neighbour’ bit that annoys us, but it’s the fact The Christian Institute has launched legal action against…
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Queerguru;s TOP PICKS of MUST-SEE PANTOS this Holiday Season
If you know anything at all about queer life in London. than you will know that THE (legendary) ROYAL VAUXHALL TAVERN is the epicenter of everything gay in the capital. Queerguru’s Brit Editor assures us that if you have never met at least one potential Mr Right (or Mr Right Now), you are not a…
