culture
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SHOWER : a short film about repressed sexuality
After being shortlisted for the prestigious IRIS Prize four years ago, this controversial Norwegian short film directed by Henry K. Norvalls has been playing the Film Festival circuit, but is now available to view free online for the first time. It’s a story about the consequences of repressed sexuality after a man overhears…
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What is LGBTQ art?
There is a wonderful new Course at London’s Victoria & Albert Museum next month which addresses the whole issue of what is LGBTQ art. It is a question that goes to the nature of art itself as well as LGBTQ identities and cultures. By using key objects in V&A’s rather magnificent collection, the course will…
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Paul Freeman’s Australian Working Men Exposed
According to Websters dictionary a ‘larrikan yakka’ is an Australian term for a ‘boisterous, often badly behaved young man who does hard physical work’. In this new superb book by acclaimed photographer PAUL FREEMAN these particular muscular rugged larrikans have just finished work and are in a state of undress presumably to start the…
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Fancy a Finn?
ELSKA one of our favorite queer bookazines goes Finnish. Every edition of the magazine is devoted to the men in just one city, and this month the spotlight falls on the people of what is perhaps the most under-discovered Nordic capital. As usual they are all very regular guys ……not a single model in sight…
