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Miami Beach’s Very Gay Pride Day
For those of us lucky enough to be able to call Miami Beach our home, we tend to think that every day living in this tropical paradise we are proud to be gay and here. Nevertheless 8 years ago we started having an official Gay Pride Day … and as it can be as hot…
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A Park full of (really big) Penises
If you’re pining for more penis on your next vacation, then queerguru knows about the perfect place for you. It’s in South Korea and is officially known as Haeshindang Park (??? ??) but everyone actually simply calls it Penis Park. Evidently there is a really good reason for the world’s biggest display of phallus statutes…
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‘Walk’ : a look back at ‘Voguing’.
As witnessed with the recent Sundance of the stunning documentary Kiki, ‘voguing’ is still very much alive and well in N.Y. The outside world first got to know about it back in 1990 with Jenni Livingston’s Paris Is Burning which became the definitive film about the history of ball-culture, but now another ‘new’ record of…
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The Companion
Every country in the world dealt with the AIDS epidemic in the 1980’s & 1990’s in different way, and the government in Cuba chose to round up patients and send them to a military facility turned into a sanitarium where they were very carefully ‘supervised’. If the patient conformed and behaved they were allowed out on…
