Tag: politics
London : Bridges Not Walls
Donald Trump’s Inauguration, is scarily just one week away, and whilst most of us will mark the occasion by just keeping our televisions off, other people have much more pro-active plans to mark their fear of what is to come once this unstable man gets the keys to the White House. Across the Pond in the…
How We Got Gay
This remarkable National Geographic documentary How We Got Gay made in 2013, tells the powerful story of the struggle for gay rights, from the 40’s and 50’s to the present day. It tells the incredible story of how gay men and women went from being the ultimate outsiders to occupying the halls of power, with a profound…
queerguru’s weekly barometer
Usually every week queerguru takes a brief look at some of the big things that have made us smile and get a real ‘high five’ aka the ice cream emoji, and at the other end of the scale, those things that have really pissed us off and get a very big thumbs downs aka the…
The Stately Homos of England
Britain’s National Trust are the latest official august body to announce plans to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the passing of the Sexual Offences Act effectively criminalizing homosexuality in 2017. The Trust founded in 1895 is a conservation organization which owns over 350 heritage properties which includes many of the country’s finest historic houses and gardens,…
A Circle of Diamonds
Photographer B. Proud started her project First Comes Love after the defeat of Prop. 8 in California in 2008. With same-sex marriage now illegal again in that State, the prospects for it been approved in the rest of the U.S. suddenly looked very bleak. She therefore set about honoring and recognizing same-sex couples who had…
