culture
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Protected Beauty : Gay Art Exhibit at WEAM for Art Basel
Protected Beauty is a new Exhibit launched at Art Basel/Miami Art Week at the World Erotic Art Museum in Miami Beach. Presented in conjunction with The Kinsey Institute and Indiana University it examines some controversial ideas about masculine beauty and sexuality in art. On display are photographs, prints, drawings and paintings created between 1890 and 1982…
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Fawlty Tower’s Manuel dies
The actor Andrew Sachs who played the hapless and much beloved waiter Manuel in Fawlty Towers (ranked number one in a list of the 100 Greatest British Television Programs by the British Film Institute) died recently aged 86. Sachs had a long and distinguished career on TV and in Films that lasted almost 60 years, but…
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100 Years of French Knickers
It’s not often that you will see underwear like this featured on queerguru pages (!) but according to the Association for the Promotion of Corsetry Industries (PROMINCOR) this is Art, and important enough to have its very own exhibition here as part of Art Basel/Miami Design Week. So as big art lovers we including it as part…
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Drag Queen Story Hour
Personally we never usually think about drag queens and children in the same sentence, but maybe we are wrong . The folk at the Feminist Press think that they have a lot in common : well they both love dressing up and all things sparkly and fancy! So they have established a popular children’s storytelling series,…
