2022
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U Try Livin’ : a new take on a track from RED, HOT + FREE the 1990 AIDS Benefit Album
During the 1990’s the Red Hot Organisation, an international organization dedicated to fighting AIDS through pop culture. released a series of albums called Red Hot +Blue. The first one sold over a million copies worldwide and was heralded as one of the first major AIDS benefits in the music business. Since its inception in…
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PTown Swim For Life 2022: the annual fundraiser that marks the end of Summer
Provincetown Harbor Swim for Life + Paddler Flotilla began in 1988 to raise funds and awareness about the AIDS pandemic and celebrate Provincetown Harbor. The event has raised $5M+ for AIDS, women’s health, and the community. Beneficiaries of the Swim include: the AIDS Support Group of Cape Cod Helping Our Women Outer Cape…
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ELSKA Magazine visits SINGAPORE where finally it is no longer illegal to be gay
As a former British Colony SINGAPORE inherited a great many of the laws imposed on them by its British rulers. One prohibited sodomy regardless of sex and as such heterosexual and homosexual anal or oral sex was illegal. In 2007, such sexual activity was legalized for heterosexuals and lesbians, but not between men who…
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Queergurus’ pick of MUST SEE MOVIES @ Hong Kong Lesbian & Gay Film Fest
When we saw newsreel footage of enormous lines of people in Hong Kong this week we thought for one fleeting moment that maybe they were buying tickets for the upcoming Hong Kong Lesbian & Gay Film Festival. Of course in fact they were waiting to show respect for the Queen by signing…
