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  • Nancy Pelosi promises us an Equality Act

    Nancy Pelosi promises us an Equality Act

      Getting good news from Speaker Nancy Pelosi has become almost a daily ritual now, and in this political climate that the current Administration have debased beyond what we ever could have ever imagined, she has become our Hero. Yesterday the Speaker promised that an Equality Act, which would ban anti-LGBTQ discrimination nationwide in employment,…

  • Wanna Pucker Up with James Frederick?

    Wanna Pucker Up with James Frederick?

      James Frederick (one of) our favorite P Town artists has just released his latest very cute comic books. He has never admitted it to us but we think they are all auto-biographical and so hence in the middle of winter when the town is all but deserted his mind has wandered back to a…

  • Iceland to bring some BDSM to Eurovision this year

    Iceland to bring some BDSM to Eurovision this year

      In the 60 year history of the legendary (and extremely camp) Eurovision Contest most of the winning songs have been innocuous jolly pop-lite sing-along songs . Think Sandie Shaw and Puppet On A String,The Brotherhood of Man and Save All Your Kisses for Me , Lulu and Boom Bang-a-Bang (!), and even Abba and…

  • Jonathan Kemp reviews ” Lipstick: A Fairy Tale of Modern Iran”   at London’s Omnibus Theatre

    Jonathan Kemp reviews ” Lipstick: A Fairy Tale of Modern Iran”   at London’s Omnibus Theatre

      Lipstick: A Fairy Tale of Modern Iran  ☆☆ Omnibus Theatre I really, really wanted to like this. Great, I thought, once I’d read the blurb, a play exploring Iran’s queer subculture, about a boy who transforms every night into a beautiful woman. I was looking forward to it and invited a queer Iranian friend…