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Gay News issue 319, March 2018 (12)




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Out & About: Happy Faces, and Party-Goers Enjoying A Good Night Out

Jurandy Lucas (Creative Producer of Backdoor Amsterdam) and Dave Koster (photographer) report monthly on GLBTQIA+ events in Amsterdam and elsewhere in the country. This month, Backdoor’s third Anniversary Fest and ten years Bear Necessity.
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theatre, art & expo


Peter Hujar: Speed of Life

The life and art of Peter Hujar (1934–1987) were rooted in downtown New York. Private by nature, combative in manner, well-read, and widely connected, Hujar inhabited a world of avant-garde dance, music, art, and drag performance. His mature career paralleled the public unfolding of gay life between the Stonewall uprising in 1969 and the AIDS crisis of the 1980s.
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theatre, art & expo


Pop Art, Homoerotic Themes and Personal Journeys

Toddities held its first formal exhibition on the 2nd of February featuring the work of Jason Swinehammer. The name of his installation is Lovers.
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columns & opinions


Friendship (Euphemism)

Last year saw the thirtieth anniversary of the Homomonument, signifying that for three decades now, the call “Naar vriendschap zulk een mateloos verlangen” (Such an endless desire for friendship) can be heard from the old centre of Amsterdam. In 1979, when the plans for the monument were just in the early stage, this line of poetry by Jacob Israël de Haan had already been used as the title of an anthology of Dutch homoerotic poetry.
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columns & opinions


Student Life: Impersonating James Bond in Düsseldorf

A.S.V.Gay’s first trip of the year! Last January, we went to Düsseldorf for a weekend with a group of about forty-five people. As this trip was in the form of a car rally, our destination was not known in advance. We only knew that the weekend’s theme would be “James Bond,” so naturally, most teams wore matching outfit.
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lifestyle & fashion


Fierce by Silk

Silk Jewellery is a jewellery brand founded in 2006. The jewellery collection consists of handmade sterling silver bracelets, rings, necklaces and pendants for both men and women. There are no specific collections for men or women, as everything is unisex.
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columns & opinions


Letter from Brussels: Bo

Dear Neighbors to the North, For a while, Flemish political TV journalist Boudewijn Van Spilbeeck became international news. This time as “Bo,” as of January 30th, Boudewijn is going through life as Bo. A remarkable story, especially if you have a lot of respect for Boudewijn’s long professional career and how he could keep this a secret for so long.
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history & politics


Prominent Turkish Queer Activist Arrested in His Home in Ankara

On Friday, February 2, Ali Erol, a prominent Turkish human rights activist and a founder of Kaos GL Association, Turkey’s first registered GLBT organization, was arrested and detained in a home he shares with his partner. Clear indications of the purpose of his arrest are yet unknown, though Kaos GL has reported that Erol’s social media posts were included in the authorities’ detention warrant.
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columns & opinions


Daring To Stand Up For Our Rights

I saw #ikbenhetzat (I’ve had enough) on the social media profiles of gay friends after a twenty-four-year-old gay man was beaten and robbed in Amsterdam.
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films & books


Pink Movie Days 2018: 21st Edition of the Amsterdam Queer Film Festival

Again, for eleven days in a row, cinema Het Ketelhuis on the Westergasterrein will serve as Holland’s GLBTQ hotspot from March 8 until March 18. The twenty-first edition of Amsterdam’s queer film festival has an impressive number of 140 screenings with the most beautiful and interesting gay cinema on offer. To get in the mood, but also to choose from 125 titles, we present some of the highlights here.
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theatre, art & expo


Great Bear Photos at Getto

A female fetish photographer embraced by the gay scene in the shortest possible time may well be called special, but it is exactly what happened in the past few years with Suzanne van de Laar. As Suus, she captured the hearts of many in the Dutch fetish scene by storm.
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events & agenda


Enjoy Amsterdam Bear Weekend!

March can mean only one thing! It is time for yet another edition of the Amsterdam Bear Weekend! Amsterdam again will be the epicentre of bear life till March 5, welcoming bears and enthusiasts from both home and abroad.
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