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Share Palentine’s Day with your people.
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What is Palentine’s Day well if you’re single or disillusioned by the commercialism of Valentines Day, you spend the 13th or the next day hanging out with your best friends, eating pizza, watching movies, and playing video games. Or have … Continue reading

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Wonder Woman says it’s not Gay Marriage, It’s just Marriage
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Originally published @ COMIC SENSE “It’s not ‘gay’ marriage”—why Wonder Woman and other comics tell strong political stories By Kate Groetzinger August 28, 2015 She gets it. (JD Hancock/Flickr, CC-BY-2.0) In the latest Wonder Woman comic (released in digital format on Aug. 20), … Continue reading

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Jedward – Waterline – Live – 2012 Eurovision Song Contest Semi Final 1
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Eurovision what’s it all about? Last night! Ireland looking to the future? Even with a space age retro look it’s all good. John and Edward a pair of unlikely entrepreneurs. Certainly they took  their chance seized the the day with four hands & ran skipped, hopped and jumped with it.

John Grimes & Edward Grimes

Jedward an Irish pop duo comprising identical twins John and Edward Grimes (born 16 October 1991 in Dublin, Ireland). Widely known for their blond quiffs, they first appeared as John & Edward in the sixth series of The X Factor in 2009, generating a phenomenon described as “the Jedward paradox”. They finished sixth and are now managed by Louis Walsh, who was their mentor during the show.  For more see planetjedward.net

Best feet forward for the Final boys!

Jedward – Waterline – Live – 2012 Eurovision Song Contest Semi Final 1

LOREEN “Euphoria” (new single 2012) Eurovision 2012 Final winner

JEDWARD – Put The Green Cape On – EURO 2012

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PHASE it was just a Phase
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The year was 1994, March 1994.

In the space of few months a number of gay magazines arrived on the market in Britain. The magazine industry has discovered a new consumer group to target. Three new-style gay magazines–**Diva, *Attitude and Phase— were different to publications such as Gay Times. These glossy lifestyle magazines targeted lesbians & Gays as a new consumer group.

Phase Issue One • get out of that lazy bed.

Independently owned Phase was Britain’s first gay style magazine, competing directly with the leaders in that market, including Arena, GQ and Esquire. The first issue, was glossy and stylish enough to have prompted W H Smith to circulate a memo to its stores telling them to display it with the other style magazines and not with the other gay and sex publications on the top shelf.

Phase Issue two • Featuring RuPaul on the Cover

Phase Issue two • Featuring RuPaul on the Cover

Peter Cummings, then 32, having previously set up the biggest gay publishing house in Britain, Prowler Press. Blase, the new firm he has started to publish Phase, was funded by a group of colleagues including Wanda Goldwag, director of international foreign exchange for Thomas Cook, and Ivan Massow, a financial adviser who presents the financial news on Scottish TV.  According to Mr Cummings: ‘The pink pound has never been more fiercely chased. The spending power and brand loyalty of gay consumers are not to be ignored lightly.’

The Phase ethos: The important point is that all other gay magazines have a message of being oppressed and having problems and being arrested. Our message is that it’s great to be gay, we’re having a really good time, come and join the party.’

Even the film director Derek Jarman, who was dying of Aids, was upbeat and hedonistic in the first issue. He writes: ‘I’ll have a state funeral, send all the boys to saunas, get them suntanned so they can march on the streets of London quite naked, bronzed and good-looking. Turn the House of Commons into a back-room for the under-21s for a night. I hope boys will carry on falling in love with boys and girls with girls, and they’ll find no way to change that.’

There were 5 issues in total. The final issue coincided with the archivists end of College term. So what happened to Phase? Phase had paved the way when Attitude and Diva took to the field running, they didn’t look back. With bigger backers they took no prisoners and can be found on a shelf near you at every good book shop.

Phase Issue Three • Featuring Madonna on the Cover

Phase Issue Four

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*Attitude British lifestyle magazine owned by Attitude Media Ltd. The first issue appeared in May 1994.
** Diva is a leading lesbian periodical in the UK. It was launched March 1994 by Millivres Prowler Group Ltd., who also produce the Gay Times.

 

& for your next trick! Can anyone find a copy of PHASE 5??

 

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