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It is impossible not to Love Scott : a new documentary about an exceptional man
In 2013, 26-year-old musician Scott Jones was attacked outside a gay bar in a small town in Nova Scotia and as result was paralyzed from the waist down. Even though the perpetrator was caught and convicted, the Police refused to even consider it a hate crime that was motivated by a hatred of gay people. Scott’s best…
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Johnny Ward reviews GROTTY a study of the sexual mores of lesbian London
Grotty is the study of the sexual mores of lesbian London seen through the eyes of Rigby (played by playwright Izzy Tennyson). Rigby has her work cut out juggling romantic liaisons, maintaining friendships with the more hip and cooler lesbians as well as her job as an intern. We follow her on her Everyman…
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Back to Nature in the barest sense of the word
Today, like every first Saturday in May, is officially Naked Gardening Day. We have no idea quite who makes decisions like this, but we are guessing that they live in a warm climate somewhere. This idea, we are told, is to tend your portion of the world’s garden unclothed as nature intended. This may be just window…
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Otis and The Von Tramp Family are singing all the way to L.A. (and cycling too)
Otis Morgan a gay nurse from San Francisco is one of 3000 cyclists in taking part again in the AIDS/LifeCycle from his hometown to Los Angeles. The ride is 545 miles and takes seven days and a helluva lot of stamina. Over the past eight years, he has raised a total of over $150,000 for the cause benefits the…
