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MUSIC REVIEW: Everything You’ll Ever Need – Jake Shears’ flies solo

Craig Hanlon-Smith August 14, 2018

Jake Shears and his Scissor Sisters were the stealth queens of LGBT+ acceptance and progress upon these island shores now more than a decade ago. It was almost as if under the cover of darkness their uplifting brand of acceptable queer stage performance dragged the wider heterosexual music buying public unwittingly into the circus and our heterosexual brother in-laws and their mates were proud of their 02 Arena show tickets even though they’re a bunch of gays.

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Pride in the sky from Thomas Cook Airlines

Besi Besemar June 11, 2018

Holiday company celebrates Manchester Pride Festival this year with specially branded plane. Thomas Cook Airlines shows support for Manchester Pride from 35,000 feet in the air by emblazoning one of its long-haul aircraft with a special rainbow edition of the airline’s heart logo.

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Rita Ora to headline Manchester Pride

Besi Besemar April 26, 2018

Rita Ora, Jake Shears, Sigala, Alexandra Burke, Nadine Coyle and Louise head up Manchester Pride’s Big Weekend in August.

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Arts

BOOK REVIEW: Boys Keep Swinging: A Memoir by Jake Shears

April 4, 2018

All the way up and down, in and out and every which way he can Shears is searingly honest and this makes this autobiography a rare thing, a popstar who can write beautifully and entertain on the page as much on the stage. Sigh, he’s such a hottie!

Recommended.

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