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Image description: LGBTQ+ pride rainbow colours textured as crinkled paper “Flower children” – Alice Watkinson you are not stunted there is no need to arch and bend and fold and crease cup your bruised knees and stop repenting for you are an extension of the world and the air repeats itself through you you’re […]
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Image description: Ancient Greek pottery art of two men in the Greek symposium TW: Mentions of pederasty and non-consensual sexual activities. The Greek symposium was a respectable affair… until it wasn’t. The men of ancient Greek societies gathered in small groups with their friends and enjoyed a night of engaging discussion, exciting entertainment and (most […]
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Image description: many different Smiths albums scattered over each other CW: xenophobia, transphobia, Holocaust denial A dreaded sunny day So I meet you at the cemetry [sic] gates Keats and Yeats are on your side While Wilde is on mine Cemetry Gates, The Queen Is Dead (1986) A few months ago I was […]
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Image Description: Two men kissing at the Baltimore Pride Parade block party 2017 TW: Body Image, Eating Disorders From an outside perspective, the idea of the ‘twink’ can be something of a joke. It helps non-LGBTQ+ people to neatly categorise queer people into more easily understandable stereotypes, often with the aim of ridicule. In my […]
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Image Description: Two men laying down on their side surrounded by technology *MSM stands for men who have sex with men For MSM, the internet can be both the best and worst place. On one hand, it offers an anonymous place where one can express their sexuality, learn more, and meet others whether they are […]
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Picking your favourite film is a very difficult task indeed. When getting to know somebody, presenting an elaborate list of every film you’ve ever considered interesting or meaningful isn’t the best way for them to understand you better. So, if I had to pick a favourite film, it just might be Handsome Devil. Released in […]
Continue ReadingAnyone who has donated blood will know that the minutes spent in the (oddly comfortable) chair, watching a small bag fill up with blood constitutes a tiny fraction of the entire process. Before you are sat down, you are tested for anaemia and must fill in a lengthy health questionnaire. The first section on the […]
Continue ReadingThat year the school play was ‘The Sound of Music’. At an all-girls school, this meant one thing: girls playing boys. Or more specifically, one certain girl playing Captain Von Trapp. I had become obsessed with her bewitching curls when I was in year 8. She was head girl and four years above me. As […]
Continue ReadingAn Oxfordshire Councillor has claimed that the recent flooding and bad weather is a direct result of Parliament’s decision to legalise gay marriage last year. UKIP councillor David Silvester, 73, revealed in a letter to a local newspaper that he had written to Prime Minister David Cameron last year to “warn him” of the “storms, […]
Continue ReadingAn email has been sent to Merton’s JCR by their LGBTQ rep, condemning the use of the terms ‘gay’ or ‘homosexual’ as insults. The JCR exec member, second year English student Alex Beecham, said in the email: “Recently, I have personally heard or been told by others about Mertonians using ‘gay’ or ‘homosexual’ as an […]
Continue ReadingRecord attendance was observed at last week’s LGBTQSoc’s drinks. Although attendance was expected to be under 150, organisers said over 300 people turned up to the social. The event, held at The Plush Lounge, was Oscar Wilde themed, and ran out of nearly every type of beverage. Drinks rep Nick Toner commented: “We were really […]
Continue ReadingThe Oxford English Dictionary is to change its definition of marriage after a law authorising same-sex weddings passed its final hurdle last month. Currently, the dictionary includes a reference to same-sex marriage being legal “in some jurisdictions”, but this move is expected to amend the entry itself. “We continually monitor the words in our dictionaries, paying particular [attention] […]
Continue ReadingThe French aren’t too happy at the best of times, but there was an especially palpable sense of rage among the locals at last Sunday’s ‘La Manif Pour Tous’ (The March for Everyone) in Paris. With police expecting around 350,000 attendees (while organisers claimed there were at least 800,000) it was one of the biggest […]
Continue ReadingUPDATE: In response to the decision by the Oxford Union to rescind his invitation to speak on Thursday, Nick Griffin has responded on his Twitter page (@nickgriffinmep): “Disgraceful cowardice so if I get back from parliament I’ll go anyway. As a life member of the Cambridge Union I have reciprocal membership. ” He also expressed anger […]
Continue ReadingJCRs across the University have written to an Oxford MP expressing dismay at her intention to oppose the government’s proposed gay marriage legislation. The JCR Presidents have written a draft letter to express their shock at the intentions of Nicola Blackwood, whose constituency contains nine colleges. The letters also attempt to cast her views as […]
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