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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews CHESTNUT a beautiful queer love triangle the debut film of Jac Cron
Chestnut is a beautifully poetic coming-of-age tale that champions those under-rated periods in our lives where we are in-between jobs, or between education and our first proper job. Those eternal times when we mourn the loss of our previous life and are slightly anxious about our future life. We have time on our…
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Free Guided Tour to discover London’s Queer History
The first ever Gay Pride in London may not have taken place until 1972 ……. three years after both the Stonewall Riots and the legalization of homosexuality in the UK, but the city is steeped in queer history. The best way to take a crash course in this is to sign up for one…
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QUEER NATURE Celebrating diversity in art, plants and fungi @ KEW’S ROYAL BOTANICAL GARDENS
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in southwest London houses the “largest and most diverse botanical and mycological collections in the world” Founded in 1840, from the exotic garden at Kew Park, its living collections include some of the 27,000 taxa, while the herbarium, one of the largest in the world, has over 8.5 million preserved plant and fungal specimens.n The library…
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Identfying the LGBTQ+ community by Flags
We always tell our heteronormative friends and allies that there may not be an actual exam to pass to be gay BUT we are expected to absorb an awful lot of additional knowledge. Take flags for example. The original rainbow flag was created in 1977 by Gilbert Baker, an artist, activist, and openly gay…
