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Gay Comic and TV Star Slattery Passes On

Posted on 15 Jan 2025 in Other

The gay television personality and stand up comic Tony Slattery who found fame in the rapidly changing media world of the 1990's, has passed on at the age of sixty five, reports the Guardian newspaper. Mr Slattery died of a heart attack. He was a regular on night time television shows, especially on Channel Four, which in the nineties was considered the radical channel, full of alternative inventiveness. A punishing early nineties saw Mr Slattery appearing on mainstream as well as fringe television programmes, and his star was very much

Y Chromosome is not the Only Male Determinant

Posted on 10 Dec 2024 in Other

Indy 100 web portal reports that a discussion is taking place within the scientific community about the future of the Y chromosome in humans, which for us and other related species, determines the sex of a developing embryo. In an interesting and informative article written with

Statue of Hermaphrodite Father is Unearthed

Posted on 26 Oct 2024 in Other

LGBTQIA+ Culture magazine INTO reports that archaeologists working at the ancient city of Heraclea Sintica, which is today on the border between Bulgaria and Greece, have found a very well preserved statue of the god Hermes from the Greek Pantheon - a god who had several male lov

Radical Press Reveals Hidden Trans History

Posted on 6 Sep 2024 in Other

Anarchist and libertarian socialist publisher AK Press have issued a statement for Pride season, promoting their range of LGBTQIA+ titles. Among the printing press's titles are The Other Olympians, the fascinating story of Zdeněk Koubek, one of the most famous s

Fascinating Presentations at Conway Hall

Posted on 3 Aug 2024 in Other

Conway Hall, the ethical focussed community hall in London, has published its programme of lectures, presentations and discussions for the month of June. On Wednesday 12th June, delve into the lives of overlooked LGBTQ+ figures with writer and journalist Luke Turner and bestsel

Jul

Women Could Become Gladiators in Ancient Rome

Explored Planet website reveals many fascinating facts about Roman society and culture this week, many of them contradicting established beliefs about the ancient

May

Gender Exploring Expressionist Artists

Gender identity was explored by the early twentieth century arts school known as expressionism. Now, says LGBTQIA+ arts newsletter Queerguru, a c

Apr

Amazon Women More than Just a Myth

The Guardian reports that gender radical, androgynous and possibly lesbian loving women, who lived on the edges of the Ancient Greek world, were more than just a myth. Recent arch

Apr

BBC Wales Celebrates History of Women's Day

On Sunday 3rd March, the kick off of International Women's Week, BBC Radio Wales, which is the English language public service network for Wales, broadcast a histo

Mar

Dancing Hero Robin Windsor Passes On

The Daily Mirror newspaper reports that gay hero and noted dancer Robin Windsor, who rose to fame on the BBC-1 programme Strictly Come Dancing