culture
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When Chicago’s Belmont Rocks were a ‘gay paradise’
Any gay man of a ‘certain age’ who grew up in the Chicago area in the 1970’s & 1980’s would have most certainly spent some summer days at Belmont Rocks the city’s lakeside gay cruising area. On a large grassy expanse punctuated on one side by a series of tiered limestone blocks that separated the…
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An intoxicating mix of theatre cabaret & drag reveals a Hollywood icon’s extraordinary commitment to duty
Want to buy some illusions, Slightly used, just like new? Such romantic illusions ……….. so goes the refrain to a Marlene Dietrich song….if you do then make sure you see Peter Groom in his one (wo)man show DIETRICH – NATURAL DUTY It is 1942, on the battlefields of North Africa, in a gold sequin…
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Something Big is happening in Dublin
For those of you who still think of Ireland as the ‘old-country’ and imagine it through rose-colored glasses where everything is green and Guinness, then you may want to book that Aer Lingus flight to jet over to Dublin this weekend. It’s the annual Leather Pride Dublin which is a weekend of events organized…
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Top Ten LGBT Feature Films of 2017
Its MOVIE AWARDS time again, and although occasional an #LGBT movie will break through, for the most part, they are overlooked. However there is such a wealth of good queer cinema out they that we feel needs recognizing and their own accolades, so here then are our TOP TEN LGBT FEATURE FILMS of 2017, most of…
