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All Gay Men (especially the marrying kind) should avoid ALL hotels in the Marriott Group at all costs
; It wasn’t too long ago that the website www//queeradventurers.com praised Marriott Hotel chain as being a trailblazer in LGBTQ+ inclusivity for decades. They were the first hotel group to introduce same-sex domestic partner benefits back in 1999—fifteen years before same-sex marriage was allowed in all 50 states. But now they own Sheraton Hotels, and all that…
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Queerguru’s Jose Mayorga reviews SKIFF a coming of age story from Belgian flmmaker Cecilia Verheyden
This is the fictional story of teenager Malou (Femke Vanhove), her personal struggles, body issues, and the relationship with her immediate family in Willebroek, Antwerp province, Belgium. Malou is into water sports, and she may be a rowing competitor in the coming Olympic Games, meanwhile sport teammates gossip about Malou not showering again, and they…
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Harvard has hired drag performer and scholar Kareem Khubchandani, known as “LaWhore Vagistan,” to teach gender and sexuality studies
Some of the most recent, enormously depressing items in the news are the way Harvard University seems to roll over and play dead. They are not alone, as for reasons we still cannot comprehend, the most uneducated US President in history seems hellbent on destroying all places of higher learning. There are rumours that he…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews ‘NIGERIAN MODERNISM’ an excellent show about the development of modern art in Nigeria @ London’s Tate Modern
Nigerian Modernism is a new exhibition at London’s Tate Modern gallery. Tracing the development of modern art in Nigeria, the show spans a period from the 1920s to the 1990s. This was a time of huge political and social change in Nigeria as the country went from indirect colonial rule through to independence, civil war…
