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Queer Matter : News, Reviews And Interviews
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Was Sir Arthur Guinness gay? Well, Netflix thinks he was.
There was a time in British history when wealthy young men….. especially the handsome ones …. who never married were assumed gay. Although in the case of Sir Arthur Guinness, subject to such rumors, he did wed but very strangely for that period, he never had any children. Back then in the 1860s, Ireland was…
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The Best of The UK’s Girl Singers of the 1960’s ( who somehow seem the epitome of camp now!
Britain was the world’s undisputed centre of pop in the 1960s. Though male groups dominated the UK charts, each of the four main record labels had a girl singer to satisfy those teenagers in need of a heroine fix. And give all those gay men a whole new slew of icons to worship. Together…
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RED H0T ROADTRIP that will fulfill all your ginger fantasies
If you have a ‘thing’ for redheads …men that is…. then you just have to be familiar with the work of (red head) photographer THOMAS KNIGHTS. He does a series of calendars of which our favorite one is RED HOT ROADTRIP Buckle for a wild ride through sun-soaked highways, neon-lit motels, and raw Americana. This…
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Matt Nadel talks about CASHING OUT and how the practice changed the landscape for AIDS patients in the Pandemic
At the height of the AIDS crisis in the US, thousands of people were dying from the ravages of the disease, and also in sheer poverty … (AZT was the most expensive drug in the world!). Little could have been done to stop their terminal diagnoses, but there was a way to alleviate their financial…
