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Mar '02
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Beyond Beavers
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You can't even say haute
couture without uttering French. If you're in North America, the nearest place to sample the
je ne sais quoi of francophone fashion is Montreal. |
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Mar '02
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Blithe House Quarterly
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"His head cracks the floor. Fingers claw some non-existent insect. Eyelids remain ajar. Gravity presses the body to the carpet, holding it there, gloating, triumphant in
the wrestle. But it is not over yet." |
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Feb '02
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Kalani Oceanside Retreat
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Hawaii-- Pearl Harbor was so World-War-II. In the po-mo, media-dependent, never-declared, never-over World War III, mayhem and mega-death are unlikely again to touch Hawaii-- it's just too far from the epicenters
of power. |
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Feb '02
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Chicago Ablaze
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Chicago-- According to the event's FAQ, red used to be the official color of the Fireball Weekend, but now there is no official color
per se. |
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Jan '02
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Fairy Tales
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Calgary may be far from the Hollywood Hills, far even from Toronto, that favorite location of cost-conscious directors. But that's no reason to give "Fairy Tales," Calgary's fourth annual queer film-and-video festival,
short shrift. |
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Jan '02
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Punk & Nude
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"We have tribal markings that distinguish us from the rest of the world," declares Davin. "We have rituals that are practiced by members of our tribe. Throughout the world our tribe can be identified. Throughout the
world we grow like weeds under the white fences of suburban culture." |
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Dec '01
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Pink Loerie Carnival
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Welcome to "Jeopardy"! Perhaps you'd care to choose the category "gay-friendly Mardi Gras-style carnivals on the Africa." If so, there's only one answer: the Pink Loerie Carnival. |
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Dec '01
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The art of Douglas Simonson
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Hawaiian artist Douglas Simonson, known for paintings and drawings of the male nude, has just released his 2002 limited edition calendar. |
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Nov '01
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Mr. Leatherman Toronto
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Among cattle and pigs, the hide may crawl at its prospect. But among their two-legged masters (sex-pigs included), this month's "Mr. Leatherman Toronto Weekend" can only set the
flesh atingle. |
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Oct '01
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Lambda Literary Festival
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One would think a group of queer literarians could come up with a better name for a writers' conference than "Behind Our Masks." And they have. This year's rechristened "Lambda Literary Festival" is
set for San Francisco, October 19th to 21st. |
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Oct '01
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Queeruption 2001
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Does a successful lesbian and gay consumer lifestyle require a BMW in the garage, a Soloflex in the den, an apartment in Castro/Chelsea, a bottle of every flavor of Absolut, a subscription to
Out, and a membership in the Human Rights Campaign? |
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Oct '01
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Skott Freedman
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Skott Freedman has a resonant voice, mean keyboard skills, and a capacity to yodel that leaves one somewhere between fright and delight. |
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Sep '01
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Queens for Monarchs
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Space in this column is so tight-- and the secret kickbacks received from promoters of gay events so lucrative-- that Queer & There is loth to herald non-gay causes. But what homosexual pulse doth not
quicken at the thought of pretty flowers, what queer heart not melt at the prospect of saving the little butterflies? |
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Sep '01
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The fair's the thing
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All's fair in love and war. Well, S&M isn't war-- just perhaps its closest representation within love's sphere. |
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Aug '01
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Fetish Fantasy Weekend
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So much in gay life these days revolves around real estate. |
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Aug '01
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Twist Weekend in Montreal
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Gay pride is a generally Juneish affair,
n'est ce pas? Chalk it up to a more relaxed pace of Quebecois life, but Montreal's gay pride happens in August. |
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Aug '01
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Last Splash in Austin
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"Last Splash," the venerable end-of-summer party, turns 18 this year. |
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Jul '01
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Gay History Quiz
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Sharpen your pencils, girls and boys! It's time for the gay quiz. |
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Jul '01
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Fourth-of-July Picnic
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If you and your beau-- or your pooch-- are in Austin over July 4th, "come on out for the fun" at the Austin Tavern Guild's annual Fourth-of-July Picnic. |
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Jul '01
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Queer as Folk - The Soundtrack
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Was it the witty writing? The cute-actors? The astute sexual politics? Its likeness to life? Maybe it was just the soundtrack. |
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Jun '01
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MP's Northeast Third Annual Camping Run
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Imagine a world where gay leather clubs fell into bitter antagonism-- spreading hateful lies about their rivals, staging chaps-and-thong raids, sabotaging the annual beauty pageants. |
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Jun '01
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San Francisco Gay Softfball League
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Queer and There's
eventsmeister studied philosophy in college, so always appreciates when gay events are built from a firm axiomatic foundation. |
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May '01
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Gay Immigrants Beware
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Given the penchants of US lawmakers, you'd be forgiven for thinking that the "LIFE Act" stands for something like "Legal Initiative to Force Executions." It doesn't-- the law is about immigration. But a deadline
of a real sort looms April 30th, and if you're in the US illegally and homosexually-persuaded or positively-HIV, that may be the last day to get your affairs in order with US immigration authorities or face the boot. |
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May '01
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Mr. International Leather 2001
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Whether it's the tanned hides of calves, cows, sows, snakes, or lizards that wet your whistle-- wait, scratch the reptiles-- the United Nations of leather events comes to America's Second City this month. |
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Apr '01
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Homosexuals do the hippest art?
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One hopes Pridefest America, the big springtime Philadelphia homo-cultural extravaganza, notified Guinness Book about "Artistic Alternatives"-- the "first exhibition in Philadelphia of major American artists themed around sexual orientaiton." |
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Mar '01
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Music of the Queers
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New York-- Think homosexuality and music. Do you think
grand opera? Judy Garland? Tchaikovsky and Copland? Billie Holiday? |
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Feb '01
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Richard Anthony Films in Microsoftington
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Hombre, are you Latino, aged 18 or up, and want to be in pictures? Then fly high with RAF. The Royal Air Force? No-- Richard Anthony Films, an "independent lesbian-and-gay film producer" that
boasts that it's a "registered Washingon-state corporation." |
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Jan '01
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"Symphony of Sorrows" - Amsterdam
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Amsterdam-- The art song-- scored for voice and piano-- is just the sort of refined, slightly archaic, tad decadent medium that you'd expect aesthete Oscar Wilde to take a fancy to. |
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Jan '01
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Leatherfests in Washington DC and Chicago
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Two upcoming events of interest to the gay leather
mundo... |
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Dec '00
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A hundred flowers
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The packets of marigold seeds arrived inopportunely in the
Guide mailbox just as leaves were turning and gardeners were packing away spade and hoe. |
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