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‘Serving in Secret: Love, Country, and Don’t Ask Don’t Tell’ a new doc on Peacock TV
In 1970, Tom Carpenter graduated from the Naval Academy ready to follow his family’s lineage in the military as a US Marine Corps attack pilot. Then he met Courtland Hirschi. Tom and Court fell deeply in love, keeping their illicit relationship a secret. At that time, homosexuality – if discovered – resulted in being…
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When Harry Met Santa
The Norwegian Postal Service has produced the most wonderful gay television advert that not only celebrates Christmas but also the fact it is 50 years since the decriminalization of homosexuality in Norway. It depicts the developing relationship between Santa Claus and another older man, whom he visits each Christmas over several years. Eventually, the …
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How will the World react to Russia’s latest clampdown on the LGBTQ+ community labeling them ‘extremists”
The Russian Supreme Court held a four-hour session on Thursday behind closed doors to officially announce another major blow to the LGBTQ+ community. It was the result of a lawsuit brought by the Ministry of Justice who had decided ‘the activities of the international L.G.B.T.Q. movement had exhibited “various signs and manifestations of an…
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Provincetown’s Holly Folly : It’s Beginning to Feel Like Christmas
If you believe that life in PTown, the gay mecca of the. very tip of Cape Cod comes to a standstill when it empties out after Labor Day, you are so wrong. Christmas and the whole Holiday Season are far too queer for us to miss out, especially when the town is…
