Tag: Homosexuality
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How Do I Look?
Michael Henry does it again, prodding the gay psyche and revealing the nasties within with this haunting wordless video on bad self-image and body fascism in the scene. As people get ready to go out and socialist after the Great Gay Pause, this is a good reminder of what the bad mental self-image spirals look…
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RC 345: How To Survive A Plague Part 2: We Will Survive
Second part of How To Survive A Plague, and we cover the period 1989-2000 and beyond as the fight for drugs, money and action for the AIDS crisis comes to a crunch, and as Hollywood starts to pay attention (although no straight Oscar-baiting tragic gay tropes here – Peter’s Friends/Philadelphia *cough*). It’s not all doom…
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Summer Pride Disco Mix
I WILL SURVIVE! FREE MY PEOPLE! I wasn’t planning to make a Pride mix this year, but friends asked me to DJ a two hour set at a live disco event and y’all know how much I L-O-V-E D-I-S-C-O! It was on Midsummer’s Night, the night of the Solstice on Saturday, the start of summer,…
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#Horseproblems
Petrol Hoers came into my life (fnar) last night through the odd means of 6Music (playing silly horse themed crumpltastic punky speed/breakcore? Really?). I’ve been through the whole of his equine oevre (err, horses don’t lay eggs, neither do humans I guess…) and this is my favourite still from the latest album. As Petrol Hoers…
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Percy and Louis 50th Anniversary of Decriminalisation
A few days ago it was the 50th anniversary of partial decriminalisation in the UK – the result of the famous Wolfenden Report, which was fallout over the Peter Wildeblood case. This is a great little video showing how being illegal to be gay affected 78 year old Percy, and the difference in how 13…
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Ruth Coker Burks
https://vimeo.com/226478796 Moving short film by Rose MacGowan about a hero, Ruth Coker Burks, who cared for, claimed and buried those abandoned during the AIDS crisis in Arkansas. This was when people wouldn’t even touch those with GRID/AIDS without gloves, families disowned their children, the plague brought out the worst in people except for the likes…