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Cynthia Nixon is honored with HRC’s Visibility Award

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Cynthia Nixon the actress and activist has just been honored with the Human Rights Campaign Visibility Award which will be presented to her  later this year  HRC President Chad Griffin said: “Cynthia Nixon is a fearless and outspoken advocate for all LGBTQ people.“ “Cynthia uses her talent and public platform to speak out for equality in this country … Continue reading



Tom of Finland’s full-bodied wine for full-bodied men

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    If you cannot get enough of Tom of  Finland (and who can?) then you’ll be excited to know he has his own wine cellar too.  The Foundation named after him that educates the public on the merits of erotic art and healthier and more tolerant attitudes to sexuality, have produced their own full-bodied … Continue reading



HERVÉ KOUBI What The Day Owes To The Night

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The fact that the  French-born choreographer Hervé Koubi only learned of his Algerian heritage as an adult is quite remarkable when you see what this discovery led too. The revelation prompted his first trip to Algiers at age of 25, where he held auditions, received 250 (mostly self-taught) dancers and selected twelve, whom he calls his … Continue reading



Miami’s Flaming Classics : a must for all queer film aficionados

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  We love the fact that our community keeps claiming back terms once thrown at us derogatively and which we now use as a celebration of our queerness.  Flamers was one such word, and here it is now used describing a rather fabulous series of some outrageously wonderful LGBT films that so deserve reviving. Flaming Classics, … Continue reading



John Mahoney will always be Broken Hearts Club’s Jack to us

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  The British born veteran character actor JOHN MAHONEY has died aged 77.  Best known in mainstream entertainment as the dad in the sitcom “Frasier”  for all of its 11 seasons, portraying an ex-police officer often disturbed by the gentleness of his younger son Niles played by David Hyde Pierce. Although he never came out publicly as gay, he … Continue reading



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