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UK LGBT EVENTS JULY 2017
Events Calendar: Our monthly LGBT guide & listings of What's On & Where to Go !! - UK LGBT social, sporting, networking & business events available to view on line by Members/Visitors also emailed to our Members/Subscribers.
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Exmouth Pride
LGBT Pride is celebrating diversity in Exmouth. All updates will be posted both on Facebook/Twitter. Call us on 07881 867345...
LGBT Pride is celebrating diversity in Exmouth. All updates will be posted both on Facebook/Twitter. Call us on 07881 867345...
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Bourne Free (Bournemouth's Pride Festival (until 2 July)
Bourne Free is Bournemouths LGBT Pride Festival. It is an annual celebration of all diversities that live in Bournemouth and...
Bourne Free is Bournemouths LGBT Pride Festival. It is an annual celebration of all diversities that live in Bournemouth and...
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Queers @ The Kings Head Theatre
Writer Patrick Cash (The HIV Monologues) and director Peter Darney (5 Guys Chillin) team up to bring this exhilarating play...
Writer Patrick Cash (The HIV Monologues) and director Peter Darney (5 Guys Chillin) team up to bring this exhilarating play...
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Bristol Pride Festival
Bristol Pride 2017: 29-9 July| Pride Day: Sat 8 July Were excited to announce BUSTED will headline Bristol Pride 2017...
Bristol Pride 2017: 29-9 July| Pride Day: Sat 8 July Were excited to announce BUSTED will headline Bristol Pride 2017...
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Pride in London: Pride Festival (24 June until 9 July)
The Pride Festival takes place from Saturday 24 June to Sunday 9 July 2017, with the Parade and main events...
The Pride Festival takes place from Saturday 24 June to Sunday 9 July 2017, with the Parade and main events...
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Rotterdam @ Arts Theatre (until 15 July)
Alice wants to come out as a lesbian. Her girlfriend Fiona wants to start living as a man named Adrian...
Alice wants to come out as a lesbian. Her girlfriend Fiona wants to start living as a man named Adrian...
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Rotterdam @ Arts Theatre (until 15 July)
Alice wants to come out as a lesbian. Her girlfriend Fiona wants to start living as a man named Adrian...
Alice wants to come out as a lesbian. Her girlfriend Fiona wants to start living as a man named Adrian...
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The Philanthropist @Trafalgar Studios directed by Simon Callow (until 22 July)
Out in the real world the Prime Minister and his cabinet have been assassinated and Englands most treasured writers are...
Out in the real world the Prime Minister and his cabinet have been assassinated and Englands most treasured writers are...
01 - 31
Albert Kennedy Trust; Skydive We Dare You Through Out The Year, Nationwide
Join the Albert Kennedy Trust on our 25th Anniversary year and help make a difference to the young LGBT homeless...
Join the Albert Kennedy Trust on our 25th Anniversary year and help make a difference to the young LGBT homeless...
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Albert Kennedy Trust; Skydive We Dare You Through Out The Year, Nationwide
Join the Albert Kennedy Trust on our 25th Anniversary year and help make a difference to the young LGBT homeless...
Join the Albert Kennedy Trust on our 25th Anniversary year and help make a difference to the young LGBT homeless...
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Angels in America @ The National Theatre (until 19 August)
America in the mid-1980s. In the midst of the AIDS crisis and a conservative Reagan administration, New Yorkers grapple with...
America in the mid-1980s. In the midst of the AIDS crisis and a conservative Reagan administration, New Yorkers grapple with...
01 - 31
National Portrait Gallery: Speak Its Name .. I am the Love that dare not speak its name (until 29 October)
2017 sees the fiftieth anniversary of the partial decriminalisation of male homosexuality in England and Wales in 1967. This display...
2017 sees the fiftieth anniversary of the partial decriminalisation of male homosexuality in England and Wales in 1967. This display...
01 - 31
Shakespeare Globe: Twelfth Night (until 5 August)
How does he love me? With adoration, with fertile tears, With groans that thunder love, with sighs of fire. Synopsis:...
How does he love me? With adoration, with fertile tears, With groans that thunder love, with sighs of fire. Synopsis:...
01 - 31
Tate Britain: Queer British Art 1861-1967 (until 1 November)
Presenting the first exhibition dedicated to queer British art Featuring works from 18611967 relating to lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and...
Presenting the first exhibition dedicated to queer British art Featuring works from 18611967 relating to lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and...
01 - 31
V&A Museum: Balenciaga Shaping Fashion (until 18 February 2018)
This exhibition examines the work and legacy of influential Spanish couturier Cristbal Balenciaga, with over 100 pieces crafted by the...
This exhibition examines the work and legacy of influential Spanish couturier Cristbal Balenciaga, with over 100 pieces crafted by the...
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Shakespeare Globe: Twelfth Night
How does he love me? With adoration, with fertile tears, With groans that thunder love, with sighs of fire. Synopsis:...
How does he love me? With adoration, with fertile tears, With groans that thunder love, with sighs of fire. Synopsis:...
02
London Gay Symphony Orchestra: 21st Anniversary
Finnissy NEW COMMISSION Stravinsky Petrushka Rachmaninov Symphony No.2...
Finnissy NEW COMMISSION Stravinsky Petrushka Rachmaninov Symphony No.2...
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Quentin Crisp: Naked Hope @ The Arts Theatre
Quentin Crisp was one of the most memorable figures of the twentieth century. Naked Hope depicts Quentin at two phases...
Quentin Crisp was one of the most memorable figures of the twentieth century. Naked Hope depicts Quentin at two phases...
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Ruby Slippers @ The Arts Theatre
Get ready to strut your stuff down at The Ruby Slippers, a tender love story between two flawed souls, Raz...
Get ready to strut your stuff down at The Ruby Slippers, a tender love story between two flawed souls, Raz...
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Yanks ! A WW11 Love Story @ Charing Cross Theatre (until 19 August)
Some stories didnt make it into the history books Based on the Off-Broadway hit production, and transferring to London following...
Some stories didnt make it into the history books Based on the Off-Broadway hit production, and transferring to London following...
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La Cage Aux Folles, Liverpool (Bill Kenwright Production)
Audiences are standing and cheering, and the national critics are raving about Bill Kenwrights spectacularly stunning and hilariously funny new...
Audiences are standing and cheering, and the national critics are raving about Bill Kenwrights spectacularly stunning and hilariously funny new...
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Torn Apart (dissolution) @The Hope Theatre
I fell in love once. With the wrong woman This is a love story. A love story set in three...
I fell in love once. With the wrong woman This is a love story. A love story set in three...
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London Gay Mens Choir @ Barclaycard Presents British Summer Time, Hyde Park, London
Barclaycard Presents British Summer Time Hyde Park again this summer, and were thrilled to be returning to perform. Were part...
Barclaycard Presents British Summer Time Hyde Park again this summer, and were thrilled to be returning to perform. Were part...
05 - 31
He Shoots, He Shoots @ Above The Stag (until 6 August )
Fresh off the train from rural Devon, Joe joins the Hercules Harriers: Londons worst gay football team. He sets out...
Fresh off the train from rural Devon, Joe joins the Hercules Harriers: Londons worst gay football team. He sets out...
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Marlene Dietrich -Ultimate Gay Icon
Marlene Dietrich has been a favourite gay icon for both men and women over several generations. In this highly-praised show...
Marlene Dietrich has been a favourite gay icon for both men and women over several generations. In this highly-praised show...
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Marlene Dietrich: The Ultimate Gay Icon
Marlene Dietrich was undoubtedly a superstar of Hollywood's Golden Era - but she also was much more than that. By...
Marlene Dietrich was undoubtedly a superstar of Hollywood's Golden Era - but she also was much more than that. By...
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Tate Britain Performance - A Vision of Love Revealed In Sleep
See author and theatre-maker, Neil Bartletts one-man homage to the defiant life and work of pre-Raphaelite painter Simeon Solomon Bartletts...
See author and theatre-maker, Neil Bartletts one-man homage to the defiant life and work of pre-Raphaelite painter Simeon Solomon Bartletts...
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Tate Britain Talk - Library Show and Tell: Queering The Library and Archive
Join us as we explore narratives of queer art histories and LGBTQ representation The show and tell will discuss the...
Join us as we explore narratives of queer art histories and LGBTQ representation The show and tell will discuss the...
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V&A Museum - 7 Decades of Dior with Alexander Fury
Published to mark the 70th anniversary of Dior's first ever collection, the iconic New Look (launched in 1947), Dior Catwalk...
Published to mark the 70th anniversary of Dior's first ever collection, the iconic New Look (launched in 1947), Dior Catwalk...
07 - 09
Sparkle
Sparkle The National Transgender Charity presents the Sparkle Weekend 2017. The world's largest trans celebration is completely free to attend...
Sparkle The National Transgender Charity presents the Sparkle Weekend 2017. The world's largest trans celebration is completely free to attend...
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LGBT Poet Laureate hosts Camp Confidential @ London Pride & Library
Enjoy London Pride in comfort, at a sophisticated private members' club, a few steps away from Trafalgar Square. Chill out...
Enjoy London Pride in comfort, at a sophisticated private members' club, a few steps away from Trafalgar Square. Chill out...
08
Worksop Pride
Returning to host is the founder of Worksop Pride Crystal Lucas. With Lucy Spraggan opening the event followed by the...
Returning to host is the founder of Worksop Pride Crystal Lucas. With Lucy Spraggan opening the event followed by the...
09
Quentin Crisp: Naked Hope @ Jermyn Street Theatre
Mark Farrellys hit show Quentin Crisp : Naked Hope comes to Jermyn Street Theatre for one night only for the...
Mark Farrellys hit show Quentin Crisp : Naked Hope comes to Jermyn Street Theatre for one night only for the...
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An Evening With the Reverend Richard Coles @ Oundle Festival
The irrepressible Reverend Richard Coles is a regular presenter of BBC Radio 4s Saturday Live and can often be seen...
The irrepressible Reverend Richard Coles is a regular presenter of BBC Radio 4s Saturday Live and can often be seen...
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GaysTheWord: Bold Strokes Author Event: One Night, Five Authors
I don't know, you wait ages for one Bold Strokes Books lesbian author and then five come along at once...
I don't know, you wait ages for one Bold Strokes Books lesbian author and then five come along at once...
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Tate Britain Tour - Curators Tour: Queer British Art 1861-1967
Join us for a behind-the-scenes tour of this landmark exhibition Curator Clare Barlow will lead this tour, with the aim...
Join us for a behind-the-scenes tour of this landmark exhibition Curator Clare Barlow will lead this tour, with the aim...
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Briefs:Close Encounters @ Southbank (until 30 September)
Following sold-out London seasons in 2013-2016, the worlds hottest all-male boylesque circus stars return in a brand-new show for 2017...
Following sold-out London seasons in 2013-2016, the worlds hottest all-male boylesque circus stars return in a brand-new show for 2017...
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Cadogan Hall: Pink Singers from Queer To Eternity Songs of Struggle and Celebration
Europes longest running LGBT choir returns to Cadogan Hall for a sizzling evening of choral music to mark 50 years...
Europes longest running LGBT choir returns to Cadogan Hall for a sizzling evening of choral music to mark 50 years...
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Rotherham Pride
We welcome the LGBT+ community, our allies and families to join us for our 5th annual Pride event. This is...
We welcome the LGBT+ community, our allies and families to join us for our 5th annual Pride event. This is...
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Isle of Wight Pride
We are proud to introduce the very first Isle of Wight Pride event IW Pride' to be held in Ryde...
We are proud to introduce the very first Isle of Wight Pride event IW Pride' to be held in Ryde...
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Sexual Offences Act,50th Anniversary Talk-Parliamentary Archives,House of Commons
The talks are part of a series of events being held to mark the 50th Anniversary of the Sexual Offences...
The talks are part of a series of events being held to mark the 50th Anniversary of the Sexual Offences...
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I Loved Lucy @ The Arts Theatre (until 2 September)
Showered with rave reviews and following two sold-out runs in 2016, Lee Tannens incredibly personal, funny, bittersweet play charting his...
Showered with rave reviews and following two sold-out runs in 2016, Lee Tannens incredibly personal, funny, bittersweet play charting his...
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GaysTheWord Fighting Proud: The Story of Gay Men Who Served in WWI & WWII
Join us at Gay's the Word bookshop for what promises to be a fascinating event with Stephen Bourne for his...
Join us at Gay's the Word bookshop for what promises to be a fascinating event with Stephen Bourne for his...
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Rev Richard Coles: Bringing In The Sheaves @ Buxton International Literary Festival
What is life like for the parson in Britain today? For centuries the Church calendar and the Church parson gave...
What is life like for the parson in Britain today? For centuries the Church calendar and the Church parson gave...
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Newcastle Pride
WELCOME TO NORTHERN PRIDE ... Providing a strong and positive LGBT voice in the North East .. http://www.northern-pride.com/ Welcome to...
WELCOME TO NORTHERN PRIDE ... Providing a strong and positive LGBT voice in the North East .. http://www.northern-pride.com/ Welcome to...
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L Fest music, arts and comedy festival
Back in August 2016 we started our search for a new venue, let me tell you this is no easy...
Back in August 2016 we started our search for a new venue, let me tell you this is no easy...
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Brighton Trans Pride
Trans Pride Protest March Meet outside the Marlborough Pub / Princes Street at 11.30 March leaves at 12 midday...
Trans Pride Protest March Meet outside the Marlborough Pub / Princes Street at 11.30 March leaves at 12 midday...
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Eastbourne Gay Pride
Eastbournes very first Gay Pride is taking place on the 22nd of July 2017 at Princess Park. There will be...
Eastbournes very first Gay Pride is taking place on the 22nd of July 2017 at Princess Park. There will be...
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Pride in Hull
Go Through the Decades with Pride in Hull! Pride in Hull is a family event for the LGBT+ community, our...
Go Through the Decades with Pride in Hull! Pride in Hull is a family event for the LGBT+ community, our...
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THT Fundraising - London Triathlon 2017
Welcome to the worlds largest triathlon, set in one of the most famous cities on the planet. Get ready to...
Welcome to the worlds largest triathlon, set in one of the most famous cities on the planet. Get ready to...
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La Cage Aux Folles, Glasgow (Bill Kenwright Production)
Audiences are standing and cheering, and the national critics are raving about Bill Kenwrights spectacularly stunning and hilariously funny new...
Audiences are standing and cheering, and the national critics are raving about Bill Kenwrights spectacularly stunning and hilariously funny new...
25 - 31
Coming Clean @ The Kings Head Theatre (until 26 August)
Tony and Greg seem to have love all figured out. Theyre in a committed relationship, but with room for a...
Tony and Greg seem to have love all figured out. Theyre in a committed relationship, but with room for a...
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Queer Spirit Festival 2017
At Queer Spirit Festival a diverse range of groups will come together to offer ceremonies, rituals, workshops, discussions, drumming, dancing...
At Queer Spirit Festival a diverse range of groups will come together to offer ceremonies, rituals, workshops, discussions, drumming, dancing...
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A Boy named Sue @ The Kings Head Theatre
Three seemingly disconnected characters search for a sense of community in London's rapidly disappearing gay scene. Ian refuses to leave...
Three seemingly disconnected characters search for a sense of community in London's rapidly disappearing gay scene. Ian refuses to leave...
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Stonewall Summer Party
This year marks 50 years since the decriminalisation of homosexuality in the UK, an important milestone in our community's history...
This year marks 50 years since the decriminalisation of homosexuality in the UK, an important milestone in our community's history...
27 - 29
F*cking Men @ The Vaults
Following multiple smash-hit, sell-out runs in London, the Kings Head production of F*cking Men returns to The Vaults Theatre in...
Following multiple smash-hit, sell-out runs in London, the Kings Head production of F*cking Men returns to The Vaults Theatre in...
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Queers - One Voice: Monologues funded by The TS Eliot Estate @ Old Vic Theatre
Queers marks and celebrates some of the most poignant, funny, tragic and riotous moments of British gay male history over...
Queers marks and celebrates some of the most poignant, funny, tragic and riotous moments of British gay male history over...
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BSO Rusties
Have you ever wanted to perform in a professional orchestra, or played an instrument in the past but not had...
Have you ever wanted to perform in a professional orchestra, or played an instrument in the past but not had...
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Norwich Pride
Norwich Pride is a celebration of the LGBT community for everyone. Our mission is to ensure that Norwich is a...
Norwich Pride is a celebration of the LGBT community for everyone. Our mission is to ensure that Norwich is a...
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Pride Sheffield 2017
PRIDE SHEFFIELD 2017 29TH JULY 2017 | ENDCLIFFE PARK, SHEFFIELD | FREE ENTRY -------------------- Pride Sheffield is an annual FREE...
PRIDE SHEFFIELD 2017 29TH JULY 2017 | ENDCLIFFE PARK, SHEFFIELD | FREE ENTRY -------------------- Pride Sheffield is an annual FREE...
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Queer Fashion Flee @ Hackney Town Hall LGBT Charity Fundraiser
YES!! Even Fleas Are Now Queer!! The Queer Fashion Flea is a day of events celebrating Hackneys world-class fashion community...
YES!! Even Fleas Are Now Queer!! The Queer Fashion Flea is a day of events celebrating Hackneys world-class fashion community...
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Swindon and Wiltshire Pride
Details for the day Our Sponsors Wiltshire Police, Wiltshire Police Federation and Unison Wiltshire Police & Justice will be leading...
Details for the day Our Sponsors Wiltshire Police, Wiltshire Police Federation and Unison Wiltshire Police & Justice will be leading...
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V&A Museum - LGBTQ Tours
Join this volunteer led one hour tour which explores gender and sexual identities through a selection of lesbian, gay, bisexual...
Join this volunteer led one hour tour which explores gender and sexual identities through a selection of lesbian, gay, bisexual...
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West Lothian Pride 2017
The third West Lothian Pride event will be taking place on Saturday 29 July 2017. The purpose of the event...
The third West Lothian Pride event will be taking place on Saturday 29 July 2017. The purpose of the event...
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Weston super Mare Pride 2017
Join us for a party in the park! Due to the success of last year, WSM Pride we will be...
Join us for a party in the park! Due to the success of last year, WSM Pride we will be...
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Liverpool Gay Pride
Liverpool Pride's OWN Big Weekend comes to St George's Quarter once again on 29th & 30th July - The Saturday...
Liverpool Pride's OWN Big Weekend comes to St George's Quarter once again on 29th & 30th July - The Saturday...
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Pride Dog Show
Woof woof! The Pride Dog Show 2017 Its time to fetch those pooches and paw your way to one of...
Woof woof! The Pride Dog Show 2017 Its time to fetch those pooches and paw your way to one of...
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Stockport Pride
Stockport will hold its first ever Pride festival July 30th with a special tribute to Martyn Hett at the heart...
Stockport will hold its first ever Pride festival July 30th with a special tribute to Martyn Hett at the heart...
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THT Fundraising - Prudential RideLondon - Surrey 100
This is the marathon on wheels! Cycle 100 miles through the closed roads and fantastic scenery of London and the...
This is the marathon on wheels! Cycle 100 miles through the closed roads and fantastic scenery of London and the...
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Pluto @ The Kings Head Theatre
The now notorious anti - LGBT laws passed in North Carolina last year, which requires transgender people to use the...
The now notorious anti - LGBT laws passed in North Carolina last year, which requires transgender people to use the...
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Polari Literary Salon: Alys Fowler
Award-winning journalist and passionate gardener Alys Fowler headlines Polaris first summer read of 2017. Also contributing to the literary heat...
Award-winning journalist and passionate gardener Alys Fowler headlines Polaris first summer read of 2017. Also contributing to the literary heat...
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