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  • Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go to Mint Tease

    Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go to Mint Tease

      Appearances can be awfully deceiving sometimes.   There is this stately looking townhouse in the heart of Shoreditch in Londons East where behind the closed doors and four floors of wicked merriment, waiting for you to come, and explore to your heart’s content.  But ONLY if you are a girl. MINT TEASE is THE club where you leave your…

  • An Open Letter to the CEO of Royal Caribbean on Safety, Negligence, and Drug Use on Atlantis Cruises

    An Open Letter to the CEO of Royal Caribbean on Safety, Negligence, and Drug Use on Atlantis Cruises

    Michael Bayley, President Royal Caribbean International January 29, 2018 Dear Mr. Bayley: Since Atlantis Events refuses to take responsibility to protect the lives of passengers on Royal Caribbean-chartered and operated ships, you—and the heads of other cruise lines that do business with Atlantis—must take action. The tragic death last week of Discovery Channel’s Joel Taylor…

  • Aretha Franklin makes the perfect call in picking Jennifer Hudson

    Aretha Franklin makes the perfect call in picking Jennifer Hudson

      The legendary Aretha Franklin has handpicked Oscar Winner Jennifer Hudson to play her in a new biopic on her life called Queen of Soul that is due to start filming soon.  MGM have yet to announce who will direct but producing the film will be Straight Outta Compton‘s Scott Bernstein and music producer Harvey Mason…

  • Angela Davis OUTSPOKEN

    Angela Davis OUTSPOKEN

      Angela Davis the black lesbian radical scholar who went from political prisoner to revolutionary icon, to public intellectual is being celebrated in a brand new exhibition opening in San Francisco’s GLBT History Museum soon. Curated by collector Lisbet Tellefsen and historian Amy Sueyoshi the Exhibit  considers some of the roles Davis has played in the American…