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On This Gay Day: Bob Brown was elected to federal parliament

Bob Brown became the first openly gay politician in Australia’s federal parliament Australian went to the polls on 2nd March 1996 bringing an end to to the Keating Labor government and bringing John Howard to power. The Hawke-Keating government has been in power for five terms since 1983. Elected to the parliament on that day […]

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Village People, Dusty Springfield and Tina Turner added to Library of Congress

Village People, Dusty Springfield and Tina Turner added to Library of Congress

Recording by The Village People, Tina Turner, Dusty Springfield and many others have been deemed culturally significant and added to the official record of the US Library of Congress. The Village People’s 1978 hit Y.M.C.A. has been acknowledged as a culturally important track. The song which has been performed with its dance moves all over the world […]

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Not By The Hairs On My Big Thrusting Chin

Roger Lewis, columnist for The Spectator recently caused controversy in his review for Karen Bartlett’s ‘Dusty: An Intimate Story’. The book speculates on the late singer Dusty Springfield’s alleged homosexuality, which Lewis claims should have been evident due to her prominent jawbone: “Call me a crazy old physiognomist, but my theory is that you can […]

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Lesbians Can be Identified by Their Chins, Claims Columnist

Lesbians Can be Identified by Their Chins, Claims Columnist

PinkNews yesterday reported on a series of remarks made by Spectator columnist Roger Lewis in a review of the Dusty Springfield biography, ‘Dusty: An Intimate Portrait’ by Karen Bartlett. The book speculated on the subject of the late singer’s sexuality, which Lewis claims should have been immediately evident due to her apparently prominent jawbone. Springfield told […]

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