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Lita – Fuck You

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Available in English and German. Also works well without knowing the words.
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#OUR_STORY / poems / writing

A QUEER DILEMMA

A Queer Dilemma by T. M. Brown poem If the theory is true that our formative years are what made us queers – what difference does that make to us now? As we’re life long...

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cards against harassment

Tom Moore – Tough Luck Fucko

Have you ever experienced street harassment? Do you dread the warmer times of the year, because people comment on your body all the time? What are the situations that you find most annoying? Do...

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#OUR_STORY / Highlights / short stories / writing

The Group

TEXT BY: Nod Ghosh // New Zealand || ILLUSTRATION BY: Falco Verholen // Netherlands

She left the group before I did, even though my partner joined before me. A sanctuary for people like us, the group should have been somewhere we both felt safe…
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#OUR_STORY / poems / writing

BENEVOLENT WINGED ANGEL

TEXT BY: Aabbchot aabbaadd Aabbswallow // Australia

Aaabbchot Aabbaadd Aabbswallow, tall body hair free callow, dreaming again of being naked, exploring gorgeous creature,….
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#TheGalleryProject / Exhibitions / Highlights

Exhibition N° 5 – BERLIN, GERMANY

24.03. – 06.04.2018 open every day
Where? ReTramp, Reuterstrasse 62, 12047 Berlin
For two weeks beginning on March 24th 2018, Transnational Queer Underground presents drawings, prints, photographs, comics, collages and installations by 47 queer artists from 27 countries.

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#TheGalleryProject / BLOG

Exhibition N° 5 – workshops

These workshops are part of Exhibition N° 5 of #TheGalleryProject. When? The exhibition is open every day from 12pm to 7pm. The workshops are on the 30th and 31st of March. Where? ReTramp, Reuterstrasse...

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BLOG / Music Manatee

New Music March 2018

Music Manatee presents: Nakhane from South Africa, Lal from Canada and The Shna from Germany.
Listen to them: they are great!

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The Christening

TEXT BY: Jocelyne Rigal // Ireland || ILLUSTRATION BY: Tigrowna // Germany

I broke the uneasy pause which followed, with a statement which boomed throughout the car. ‘But that’s nothing to worry about!’ I said, making a wide gesture as an invitation for tolerance.
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My Two Mothers

TEXT BY: Nyar Afrika // Kenya || ILLUSTRATION BY: Elizabeth Watkin // USA

My mothers are two women in love and they raised me just fine. They are the best example of a prefect family and I am forever thankful that they taught me how to respect everyone else’s identities and sexual orientation without bias.
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WHITE DREAMING ON MOUNT WARNING

TEXT BY: Aabbchot aabbaadd Aabbswallow // Australia || ILLUSTRATION BY: Lekouzinthomas // France

I am dreaming about men. I am dreaming about women. I am dreaming i have tits walking across the nearby highway, walking along the local street with busy endless small shops. I am dreaming this recurring unresolving dream….
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Exposed

TEXT BY: Nyar Afrika // Kenya || ILLUSTRATION BY: Elizabeth Watkin // USA

I want this mysterious woman to have me. To take me in a way known to her and make me moan endlessly. To touch me in places that crave for touch; a woman’s touch and make me moan.
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If I Should Fall Asleep – CW: Suicide

TEXT BY: Cassia Gaden Gilmartin // Ireland || ILLUSTRATION BY: Avital Yomdin // Germany

It’s nine o’clock, evening but not yet night, and the sky is the colour of peaches. Colours, rather. A pinkish red in the high places and yellow nearer the horizon, as if the sun’s split open and leaked all over the sky.
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BLOG / INTRODUCING / PROPS LIST

Alhaji Mansaray

Where? Sierra Leone – Wellington – Freetown
What? ONLINE HIV/AIDS SUPPORT FOR LGBTQI/MSM COMMUNITY IN SIERRA LEONE

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BLOG / PHOTO COMPETITIONS

A Glance – All Photos & Winners

See all submissions and vote for your favorite photos. A glance is a first look, a moment when you look over, not sure if you should keep looking. How would you capture a glance in a photo?

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HOMOPHOBIC POEM NO. 8

TEXT BY: T.M. Brown // Ireland || ILLUSTRATION BY: Tom Moore // Germany

Are Gay People Artistic Because They’re Gay Or Gay Because They’re Artistic?, Either Way It Seems A Strange Conclusion To Reach And To Say The Least Over Simplistic.
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#OUR_STORY / BLOG

Call for Submissions

Storytelling is one of the oldest and most accessible tools used to share culture and experiences over generations. But telling our own stories, and sharing our own experiences in our own words, is also...

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a lake, a sea so far

TEXT + ILLUSTRATION BY: E. C. Schuster // Germany

They are a young, queer lesbian based in Germany. They are a student of English literature, an activist, and work as an academic researcher and freelance journalist.
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BLOG / MULTIPLIER / PROPS LIST

Homoground

Where? Northern America – USA
What? Podcast
Looking for: Music – all genres and geographic regions accepted.

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PHOTO COMPETITIONS

A Glance – Call

A glance is a first look, a moment when you look over, not sure if you should keep looking. How would you capture a glance in a photo? Read Interview with Judge Adrien Leavitt.

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#OUR_STORY / short stories / writing

Eat, Pray, Puke – CW: bulimia

TEXT BY: Nate Eileen Tjoeng // Singapore || ILLUSTRATION BY: Falco Verholen // Netherlands

My name is Beverly. I am 29 years old, I have bulimia and I have lived purging what I consume for 13 years. It all started when I was a plump kid at 16. The mockery and scorn tore me apart.
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#OUR_STORY / short stories / writing

In Ireland and in Love

TEXT BY: Jocelyne Rigal // Ireland || ILLUSTRATION BY: Lea Daniel // Ireland

How do you heal a broken heart? Mine had been reduced to shreds by Mairead, an out and proud lesbian I met at work. Mairead, all hoodies and short hair, didn’t take my feelings for her seriously because I’d had two babies
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Nyelethi

text by: Nyar Afrika // Kenya || photo by: Ambika Thompson // Canada

That surprises me. She never talks about us when we are together. To her, I am this dirty little secret, something she enjoys having by her side. I am okay with that. Personally, I am not out looking for anything that would tie me down.
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#OUR_STORY / short stories / writing

Quest as in Question or Quest as in Journey

text by: Julius // Trinidad and Tobago || illustration by: Elizabeth Watkin // USA

I stared into his dark eyes. I was washed with pure hate. He hated me. I had no idea why. Three words separated me from gaining his acceptance. I am gay. Those words rang in my ear and danced in the whirlpool of thoughts that strangled my mind. He hated me.
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PHOTO COMPETITIONS

Your Favorite Place – all photos & winners

This month’s winners are: Dete Kafka from Bulgaria, Tigran Zhamkochyan from Armenia, Luis from Switzerland, Celine Watson from Namibia and Shiru Kamande from Kenya. (photo by Dete Kafka)