Tag: Gay community
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Disney and Don’t Say Gay
I’ve been watching several of these videos and they sum up not just what’s wrong in Florida and Disney with the Don’t Say Gay bill they helped fund (as did many other corporations including the new owners of Sky and Dreamworks) but also wider problems – with class, representation, and exploitation. The latter point is…
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Coming Out Part 2 – Falling Down
“The first time ever I saw your faceI thought the sun rose in your eyesAnd the moon and stars were the gifts you gave” And the second Coming Out part is about falling in and out of love…from the mid-90’s dance songs sampling Ewen Macoll’s ‘The First Time Ever I Saw His Face’ (via Roberta…
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Coming Out mix Part 1 – Coming Up
Is it asking too much, of my favorite friends,to take these songs for real.Is it asking too much, of my partner’s hands,to take these songs for real? It’s just over 20 years since coming out, so I thought given all the current 90’s nostalgia I’d (re)create a mix of music that I was listening to…
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Chozen the gay bear rapper
Can’t wait for this…and I do suspect even in jest this opens the doors a little more for an out famous rapper to be accepted….but in the meantime it’s going to fun messing with those macho cliches!
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I’m a feminist & Pride
Yes just like this video says far better than I could say it, I am, as much as possible a feminist (I hate saying I’m an -ist about anything because it suggests you’re finished, perfect, formed, kind of the reverse of ‘practising homosexual’ – it’s much more fluid than that). I don’t see a difference…
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Homophobic and Transphobic hate crime on the rise world wide
I missed this report from UN’s Navi Pillay from May, but worrying the trend for homophobic and transphobic hate crime across the world is rising…I heard about this via the Metro’s excellent piece about being transgender in Latin America where the majority of the world’s transgender murders are occuring…although I was heartened by the statistic…