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Chromeo an amazing musical duo of an Arab and a Jew with their stunning new video Words With You
Chromeo is a Canadian electro-funk duo from Montreal, formed in 2002 made up of two men, one Lebanese and one Jewish musician David “Dave 1” Macklovitch and Patrick “P-Thugg” Gemayel. They call themselves “the only successful Arab/Jewish partnership since the dawn of human culture.” This is the first official single since their last studio album and its STUNNING. …
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IF you were straight (!) could you be ‘gay for pay’ like these guys can?
So how straight is someone who is ‘gay for pay’ is a topic that always gets a group of gay gays’ conversation very heated. It’s one that keeps getting dragged up all the time with the proliferation of porn sites such as Broke Straight Boys. This particular brand is one of the more well-known…
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QWEER SHORTS : the newest project at Manchester UK’s award-winning Hope Mill Theatre
Manchester UK is considered the country’s second LGBTQ+ city (after London). It dates its claim way back to the 1940s when The Union Pub had drag shows which became extremely popular with US servicemen. In the 1960s the city’s Homosexual Law Reform Committee was one of the very first groups behind the movement…
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Terence Blanchard’s opera CHAMPION about legendary gay boxer Emile Griffith heads for The Met in NY
Terence Blanchard’s six-time Grammy Award–winning composer’s operatic retelling of the dramatic story of gay boxer Emile Griffith arrives in New York. Bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green stars as the closeted young hatmaker-turned-prizefighter, who rises from obscurity to become world champion and, in one of the great tragedies in sports history, kills his homophobic archrival in…
