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Queerguru’s Robert Malcolm reviews ‘E.1207’ the life and work of the remarkable Irish furniture designer EILEEN GRAY
Around 1921, at the age of 43, the Irish furniture designer Eileen Gray, whose partners had previously all been women, met the much younger, penniless, architectural critic Jean Badovici and fell in love. They decided to build a house together in the south of France. Although their hideaway, perched on the side of a cliff…
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SALT LAKE CITY create new flags to show support to LGBTQA people after Utah banned Pride Flags
Right on the heels of our last story about the ultra-queer Eurovision Song Contest and the ultra-right UK Reform Party banning Pride Flags comes a good news story that so needs sharing The Democratic controlled cities of Salt Lake City and Boise, Idaho, adopted new city flags this week that show support for LGBTQ+ people…
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EUROVISION SONG CONTEST arguably the ‘gayest’ Event in the World ‘BANS PRDE FLAGS’
If you’re a European gay it’s highly unlikely that you would have grown up without some special memory of the Eurovision Song Contest. Over the years it became such a queer phenomenon that it began to dominate our social life and formed a central part of our annual calendar. It’s hard to pinpoint just one…
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Superfine: Tailoring Black Style : the new Exhibit at Met Museum’s Costume institute
Whilst all the celebrities de jour (and some de hier) vied with each other clamouring for attention at ths year’s Met Gala, we were inside the Costume Institute seeing the ‘real thing’. The Exhibition this summer is a cultural and historical examination of Black style over three hundred years through the concept of dandyism. In…
