Tag: Lesbian
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Poppy – All The Things She Said
What IS it with new music and now? There’s a deluge of good music, I assume either planned for later in the year or cos of COVID-19 the fruitions of lockdown. Poppy’s t.A.T.u cover was meant for Pride – she is gender questioning – but also as she says in the dooblydoo it has other…
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Let them show your true colours
It’s OK, I didn’t mind becoming a complete mess, honest. Cyndi Lauper performs True Colors at St Augustine, Florida later on the day of the Orlando shooting which was nearby (well 100 miles, but for the States that’s down the road!). And then she dons the rainbow flag from a fan. It’s nearly a week…
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Japanese Gaycation
Fascinating look at Japan’s LGBTQ culture with Ellen Page and Ian Daniels. Makes me even more want to go there! Glad they covered Yaoi which I find problematic for several reasons – 1) it’s ‘Boy’s Love’ and tends to focus on what we would say in the UK is ‘Barely Legal’ or underage and 2)…
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It costs me £38,000 for being queer
It’s well known that if you’re a woman, not white, queer/LGBTQ that you have to work harder and longer than cis white straight men. This glass ceiling is there, I’ve seen it in corporates, usually hedged in bullshit like ‘corporate fit’ or the like, and it’s well acknowledged that privilege and entitlement means a less…
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Sez me
Sez Me is so much fun – think Yo Gabba Gabba but with Charmin Ultra, a drag queen and for families that are less traditional, LGBTQ or just open and accepting. I wish when I was a kid this was around, it would have saved so many questions later about gender, drag, pronouns (I learned…
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RIP Lesley Gore
Can’t stand the thought of people just posting ‘It’s My Party’ – so much more to Lesley Gore, like ‘The Old Crowd’ and the incredibly funky ‘Wonderboy’ with an amazingly cheesy video: Although ironically she was more about the ladies, she was an out lesbian and an activist for LGBTQ rights…she was with her partner…