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What changed for the LGBTQ+ community during the Queen’s reign?
One of the first major pieces of LGBTQ+ legislation Queen Elizabeth II gave royal assent to was the Sexual Offences Act of 1967. That history-making act marked the first major crack in the UK’s long-held criminalization of same-sex sexual activity – it decriminalized gay sex in private between men aged 21 and over in…
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THE QUEER CODE: Secret Languages of LGBTQ+ art
THE SIGNIFIERS OF IDENTITY ARE HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT LBTQ artists have always existed and so has LGBTQ+ art. Antiquity was a time of more acceptance, Greeks and Romans had more open attitudes towards sexuality (Hadrian and Antinous, Achilles and Patroclus, David and Johnathan) that is why artists from all ages constantly return to…
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Queerguru’s Andrew Hebden checks into REHAB (The Musical)
Rehab The Musical ☆☆☆☆ The Playground Theatre, LondonQueer At the beginning of the first number in this musical, it may cross your mind that The Playground Theatre is too small. By the end of the number, it will be more than evident that it’s Rehab The Musical that is too big. This…
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The DINAH 2022 : the largest queer/lesbian/nonbinary event in the world
In 1991, Mariah Hanson threw her first Dinah party at the Palm Springs Art Museum in California, which was intended for the queer women attending the nearby Dinah Shore Nabisco Classic, a women’s golf tournament founded by singer Dinah Shore in the late 1970s that historically attracted crowds of LGBTQ women. Shore was an…
