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Queer Matter : News, Reviews And Interviews
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Ben Stokes bats for England
The quintessential English game of Cricket that Brits have been playing for about 700 years is considered by non-aficionados (i.e. most of the World) as being very straight and very boring. They are right. There are only two openly gay professional cricketers in the World, and one of them is a lesbian, and there is still only…
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Queer rapper Mister Wallace : It Girl
Mister Wallace is a black queer rap artist who claims he is as ‘fab as fuck’. In an interview with Madison Moore of Thought Catalog to promote his new EP called Faggot he expounded on not just what fabulousness means to him but about how the whole dialogue about gender fluidity is shaping how he thinks…
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Don’t Leave Me This Way
Jimmy Sommerville of The Communards is releasing a new version of ‘Don’t Leave Me This Way’ which was a UK gay anthem 3o years ago. It’a a track from their new acoustic album, meanwhile below is a video of the original version, as we ask (yet again) where did all the time go?
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The Only Gay (Bar) In the Village
Strabane in West Tyrone, Northern Ireland was once a thriving country Town, but when the Cattle Market closed, and the whole region suffered under the ‘Troubles’ : i.e. the intercine lethal struggle between North & South, it became one of the most economically depressed in the U.K. It has not prospered a lot since these dark days…
