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  • Greg Gould pleads Don’t Let Go

    Greg Gould pleads Don’t Let Go

    Out-gay singer Greg Gould, a runner-up on Australia’s Got Talent in 2013, was recently dumped by his Record label for being ‘too gay’. They went as far as to say ‘aren’t we done with the gay equality thing?’ This is so-called liberal homophobia of the worse kind. But now 28 year old Gould is independent and he is…

  • The Dapper Young Kurds

    The Dapper Young Kurds

    Exactly one year ago a group of some 30 dapper (and extremely handsome) young Kurdish men who live in  Erbil, the capital of Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan Region formed the country’s first ever gentlemen’s fashion club called Mr. Erbil. Their aim is not just about bringing western styles to Kurdistan,  but helping to resuscitate the local failing…

  • It’s Official : We Can Throw Shade

    It’s Official : We Can Throw Shade

    It’s official. Throwing ‘shade’ has now been added to the Merriam-Webster dictionary along with another 1000 ‘new’ words last week.  For those of you who have been careless bandying shade around recklessly recently and don’t know your queer history, then we should tell you it was first largely introduced into the LGBTQ  lexicon by Dorian Corey…

  • Girls Just Wanna Have Fun (and Boys too)

    Girls Just Wanna Have Fun (and Boys too)

    Anthony Gilét the editor and director of Cocktails & Cocktalk the rather hot (and very NSFW) webzine that we love to follow, went in front of the Phil O’Connor’s cameras to recreate some saucy poses from his favorite pop idols.  The results are very cute, and extremely sexy too.  How many of them do you…