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FOR YOUR PLEASURE: 15 YEARS OF DUOVISION Celebrating the fledgling queer club culture of the 90s in the UK
At a time when Section 28, a law introduced by Margaret Thatcher in the UK, made it criminal for local authorities and schools to ‘promote’ homosexuality, silencing the voices of queer people while the AIDS crisis tore through communities, queer people still danced, loved and came together to be themselves. This new exhibition For…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah previews WET MESS who is immersing London audiences in TESTO an hour-long performative extravaganza
This coming February, multi-faceted queer artist Wet Mess ‘messifies’ the messiness of life in their award-winning show, Testo, immersing London audiences in an hour-long performative extravaganza both physically charged and thought-provoking. With teeth and one chin hair, they explore transitions, testosterone, the edges of drag plus the blurry line between performance and reality, character and…
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Love Is Love: Thailand celebrates with one enormous wedding of 300 Same Sex Couples.
Today, in Thailand, February 23, same sex marriages are now legal to be registered due to Thailand’s move toward full marriage equality, and QUEERGURU was on site in the person of Paul Overdijk, co-chair advisory board at Workplace Pride, Amsterdam, Netherlands, who sent us these wonderful pictures he took at the mass wedding…
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All Black Campbell Johnstone marries his groom Ben Thomson in a glorious wedding that is anything but normal
In this week of all weeks we want Queerguru to keep its focus on all the good that is happening in the world. Like the fact that former All Black Campbell Johnstone and his groom Ben Thomson made the grandest of entrances for their wedding ceremony at The Flaxmill in Oxford. The pair were choppered in by…
