Tag: same-sex marriage
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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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Low Triptych
I’ve been listening to Double Negative – in fact my mask from when they played live in August is just a few feet away – and the album is taking some time to settle with it’s ‘Beach House’ and chillwave distortion and vocal effects…Quorum was such a shock I was like – do I like…
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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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A reminder in these trying times
Just been called a ‘SJW’ and that I’m the wrong colour and should put on some paint for questioning someone who thinks those attacks on minorities in America are just ‘letting off steam’ even though the link had violent attacks in it. Then got offended and claimed there was ‘anti-white racism’ and that I was…
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John Criscitello and Seattle Gentrification
Loving these images from John Criscitello, a queer artist responding to the gentrification and changing nature of Capitol Hill in Seattle, previously a gay enclave but invaded by ‘Tech Bros’ and ‘Woo girls’. Amazon has taken over Seattle in part, and the ‘bros’ and hen-party good-time girls have flocked to the new bars in the…
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Same Love – Angel Haze
As Pride Month comes to a close, here’s Angel Haze with their amazing freestyle version of Macklemore’s Same Love. Fallen in love with this song all again, I’d argue better than the original – and incidentally this song is how they came out as pansexual and later agender.