QUEERGURU
Queer Matter : News, Reviews And Interviews
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The Best of The UK’s Girl Singers of the 1960’s ( who somehow seem the epitome of camp now!
Britain was the world’s undisputed centre of pop in the 1960s. Though male groups dominated the UK charts, each of the four main record labels had a girl singer to satisfy those teenagers in need of a heroine fix. And give all those gay men a whole new slew of icons to worship. Together…
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RED H0T ROADTRIP that will fulfill all your ginger fantasies
If you have a ‘thing’ for redheads …men that is…. then you just have to be familiar with the work of (red head) photographer THOMAS KNIGHTS. He does a series of calendars of which our favorite one is RED HOT ROADTRIP Buckle for a wild ride through sun-soaked highways, neon-lit motels, and raw Americana. This…
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Matt Nadel talks about CASHING OUT and how the practice changed the landscape for AIDS patients in the Pandemic
At the height of the AIDS crisis in the US, thousands of people were dying from the ravages of the disease, and also in sheer poverty … (AZT was the most expensive drug in the world!). Little could have been done to stop their terminal diagnoses, but there was a way to alleviate their financial…
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From Buggery to Blasphamy : the life and tImes of the queer newspaper with a huge set of balls : GAY NEWS UK :
GAY NEWS was the first LGBTQ+ newspaper in the UK, and it had a huge set of balls! Founded in June 1972 in a collaboration between former members of the Gay Liberation Front and members of the Campaign for Homosexual Equality (CHE). At the newspaper’s height, circulation was 18,000 to 19,000 copies.. With homosexuality partially…
