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  • Queerguru reviews FIONA CLARK : UNAFRAID an affectionate profile of an unlikely queer icon @Wicked Queer

    Queerguru reviews FIONA CLARK : UNAFRAID an affectionate profile of an unlikely queer icon @Wicked Queer

          Fiona Clark Unafarid is an affectional profile of a rather eccentric photographer who is something of a queer icon in her native Aotearoa’s (New Zealand) that the rest of the world …….. particularly the LGBTQ+ one … should know about. Back in the 1970’s  Clark captured images of the fringes of the…

  • Gay Rugby Player, LGBTQ activist  and former bobsledder SIMON DUNN dies aged 35

    Gay Rugby Player, LGBTQ activist and former bobsledder SIMON DUNN dies aged 35

      It’s sad enough whenever there is a ‘death’ in our LGBTQ community but it’s particularly wretched when one is taken way before their time.  It has just been announced that Simon Dunn, the Australian rugby player, activist, and former bobsledder has passed away at age 35. Dunn was the first openly gay man to…

  • TALKING TO TAKEI : Take Two

    TALKING TO TAKEI : Take Two

    To many people the Japanese-American actor George Takei, will always be fondly known for his role as Lieutenant Hikaru Sulu the helmsman of the USS Enterprise in the celebrated television series and subsequent movies of ‘Star Trek’. When he wasn’t acting he was passionately working away to promote the work of The Japanese American National…

  • Ben Cohen wants to spend next year in your house

    Ben Cohen wants to spend next year in your house

    ​ Ben Cohen, the former English rugby player is probably the nicest LGBTQ ally we ever have had the pleasure to meet.  It doesn’t actually hurt that also is the hottest-looking one too.  When he retired from the English Team he became a full-time activist and founded The Ben Cohen StandUp Foundation to combat homophobia…