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ELLE HUNGARY steps up to the plate with their significant support of the country’s LGBTQ+ community
Hélène Gordon-Lazareff started Elle in Paris in the immediate aftermath of World War II. Women won the right to vote in 1944,] and Elle dove immediately into long-form “newspaper-like” features on women’s role in national politics and the growing feminist movement. It had some notable ‘firsts’ in its history: In its 100th issue in 1947,…
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Queerguru’s Jose Mayorga reviews CASSANDRO the story of the gay amateur wrestler who rose to international stardom
Mexican Lucha libre is the most spectacular of sports and the most sporty of spectacles…and was declared an Intangible Cultural Heritage in Mexico City in 2018. Based on Greco-Roman wrestling, it is a mixture of sport and theatre (dance and performance in the ring). The Lucha Libre wrestlers are well-known and among the…
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Queerguru’s latest love the Bavarian Polka Band THE HEIMATDAMISCH and their offbeat take on mega pop and rock hits
Queerguru’s music editor Allison Ananis went to Europe for her summer hols and also to look for some new sounds. Part of the time she stayed in a Schloss (well, that’s what we think she said) where she made a fabulous discovery. The German Polka Band The Heimatdamisch may be new to us…
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The Matthew Shepard Story: An American Hate Crime : 25 Years On
It is so very hard to realize that it has been 25 years since gay teenager Matthew Shepard was brutally murdered. Partly due to the unceasing work that his mother Judy Shepard has done to help our community become a safer place. Aided by Matthew’s father Dennis the pair used their grief to change things…
