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Madame F : Queer Britain Art Award
We rarely hear anything from QUEER BRITAIN, the UK’s first and only LGBTQ+ museum, so we are guessing that their Madame F Queer Britain Art Award is a big thing. The Award celebrates queer creativity in artists: pride, passion, inclusivity and originality. 140 artists submitted illustrations, paintings, or drawings that celebrate the theme…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews WHO I AM NOT : breaking the intersex taboo
Who I Am Not is a fascinating documentary chronicling the lives of two engaging, very different, black intersex people; South African ex-beauty queen Sharon-Rose, and unemployed fellow South African, Dimakatso, both of whom live in Johannesburg. Intersex people are people born with any of several sex characteristics including chromosome patterns, gonads, or genitals…
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GMHC presents The Latex Ball® Music Is My Life @Terminal 5 in NYC
The Latex Ball, annually hosted by GMHC in New York City, has celebrated over 30 years of ballroom magic. The purpose of the Ball is a celebration of life and a tribute to all those we have lost in Ballroom to AIDS-related complications. It is a commitment made in 1993 by GMHC that the…
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‘Chasing Chasing Amy’ : a personal take on how Kevin Smith’s film affected a 12-year-old queer kid’s coming-of-age
Chasing Amy, the third film from actor, comedian, and writer Kevin Smith was considered a critical and commercial success in 1997. The film is about a male comic artist (Ben Affleck) who falls in love with a woman (Joey Lauren Adams), to the displeasure of his best friend (Jason Lee). Intriguing as it was,…
