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Martyn Butler OBE activist and co-founder THT major AIDS UK Charity dies aged 71
Sad news has reached us from the UK about the death of one of London’s leading queer activists. Martyn Butler OBE was one of the co-founders of the celebrated TERRENCE HIGGINS TRUST, which became one of the world’s most successful and effective campaigns that provided services relating to HIV and sexual health. Established in 1982, Terrence Higgins…
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There Are (STILL) Things To Do : the live and times of outspoken queer activist URVASHI VAID
Outspoken immigrant, lesbian, and woman of color, Urvashi Vaid, was a leader who helped shape the modern-day gay rights movement. She was an expert in gender and sexuality law and was the first woman of color to lead a national gay-and-lesbian organization. This film presents Vaid’s life in Provincetown, including her 34-year relationship with her…
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Billy Bean : the MLB player who had big enough balls to come out as gay and then become an activist : has died aged 60
Sad news today about the death of the iconic Billy Bean, one of Major League Baseball’s first openly gay former players and who became such a passionate advocate for LGBTQ+ equality in sports. 60 year old Bean died earlier this week after a year long battle with acute myeloid leukemia “Our hearts are…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah raves about JOIN THE CLUB an excellent doc on DENNIS PERON the greatest queer activist we’ve never heard off
Dennis Peron is the greatest queer activist you’ve never heard of. A fantastic new documentary, Join The Club, however, seeks to address that. It tells the story of how the one-time queer hippy improved millions of American lives through his 1980s and 1990s activism in launching the San Francisco Cannabis Buyers Club, and the subsequent legalisation…
