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Queer Matter : News, Reviews And Interviews
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Abigail Ekue’s Bare Men
New York based author/artist/photographer Abigail Ekue’s body of work is entrenched in health, fitness and nutrition, sex, dating & relationships, and body image as well as social commentaries. She writes on her website My art is here to stir thoughts and emotion. Some of my work will make you smile or make you cry, turn you…
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‘Turn Back Time’ with Rita La Roy singing Gay Love in 1929
This gentleman with the rather most outrageous hairstyle is in a rather déclassé nightclub inhabited by a mix of swanky dressed swells and rough looking sailors. He is listening to Rita La Roy a movie star of the early talking pictures, as she croons “Gay Love” to the crowd in the 1929 film “The Delightful…
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Mascots
Christopher Guest the cinematic genius who defined the ‘mockumentary’ movie genre, is back on the big screen after a 10 year absence. This time his sardonic humor is aimed squarely at the rather bizarre culture of furry sports mascots, and in which bares more than a passing resemblance to Guest’s take on the dog world…
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Gay Gotham: Art and Underground Culture in New York
Gay Gotham: Art and Underground Culture in New York a new exhibition that opened last week at the Museum of the City of New York looks at how the marginalization of LGBT people in the 1920’s – 1990’s also gave rise to a great deal of creativity. The show looks at queer networks that grew in…
