culture
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Happy Birthday George & Leslie
Out gay actor and activist George Takei who has just finished the Broadway run of Allegiance the musical based on his life in an Internment Camp during WW2, celebrates his 79th Birthday today. One of the many things that this former Star Trek star is known for is his catchphrase …..so in his own words Oh My…..Happy…
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Award-winning British Comedian Victoria Wood dies
The UK lost one of it’s much loved comedian/writers today with the untimely death today of the multi-talented Victoria Wood at the age of 62. Since she burst on to British television in 1974 by winning the ATV talent show New Faces, Wood became one of the most popular award-winning comic performers of her generation. Her…
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Reigning Men
queerguru loves LACMA! The Los Angeles County Museum of Art is adding yet another stunning exhibition to its roster so soon after it just opened it’s breathtaking Mapplethorpe Retrospective last month (see ‘Looking at Mapplethorpe’). This time they are turning their attention to the much neglected subject of mens fashion that is always treated like a…
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Rufus Sings Shakespeare
Just a few days to go until Rufus Wainwright’s fabulous new album is released as April 22nd sees the launch of ‘Take All My Loves “ Wainwright’s homage to Shakespeare. Wainwright chose 9 of Shakespeare’s (154) sonnets that inspired the tracks he composed for a stage production that the avant-garde theater director Robert Wilson mounted for the Berliner…
