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Queer Matter : News, Reviews And Interviews
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Putting the spin on Tom of Finland’s Organic Vodka
As you should know by now (!) Tom Of Finland was a Finnish artist who made stylized highly masculinized homoerotic art, and influenced late-20th-century gay culture. He has been called the “most influential creator of gay pornographic images”. Over the course of four decades, he produced some 3,500 illustrations, mostly featuring macho men wearing tight…
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The Ward Revisited : an Exhibition celebrating the first AIDS Ward in London
When the AIDS pandemic really got a grip on London, it made so many people have to re-think the treatment and care of an unprecedented vast number of patients whose chances of recovery or survival were extremely slim. It meant the creation of hospital wards specifically to treat people diagnosed with HIV or full-blown…
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Queerguru’s TOP PICKS OF MUST SEE MOVIES @ Queer Screen – Mardi Gras Film Festival, Sydney
In 1993, a group of queer Sydney filmmakers, students, and supporters approached Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras to establish an independent organization whose focus would be queer film and screen culture. This organization was Queer Screen. (One of those pioneer filmmakers was Stephen Cummins who died in 1994, and now is…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah ‘loves ‘ LUCIAN FREUD New Perspectives @ London’s National Gallery
Lucian Freud’s landmark exhibition to mark the centenary of his birth finishes next Sunday 22nd January at London’s National Gallery, so head on down there while you can. Freud (1922-2011) was one of Britain’s most renowned figurative painters. Born in Berlin, and the grandson of the famous psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, his family fled the Nazis…
