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April Ashley : one very classy dame
The stunningly beautiful April Ashley has always been one very classy dame. In her youth, she was a showgirl in Paris’s famous Carousel Club before becoming a very successful fashion model and was photographed by David Bailey for Vogue magazine, and then had some small movie roles, after which snagged herself the son and heir…
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London is planning a gay old time for 2017
London is planning to have a gay old time in 2017 when it gets down to celebrating the 50th anniversary of the passing of the Sexual Offences Act in July 1967, which partially decriminalized homosexuality in England and Wales. Asides from the two major Exhibitions that the Tate Gallery have planned i.e. the biggest ever…
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Teenage Kicks
Don’t be fooled by the deceptive title of this movie which implies it is just another teenage romp, as Craig Boreham’s feature film debut, is one of the most powerful edgy LGBT dramas to come out of Australia for some years. It’s hard not to compare it with Ana Kokkinos’s 1998 award-winning break-out hit ‘Head…
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Arisce Wanzer struts the cover of Spiegels
Arisce Wanzer a transgender fashion model has become a cover girl. Not for some edgy hip clothing brand, but for Spiegels one of the country’s oldest established mainstream catalogs that has been in the mail order business for over 100 years. This is no mean achievement for Wanzer who is one of the rising stars…
