Review: Perfume Genius

Michael Turnbull | 13 May, 2017

Remember in Bambi when, after winter, all the forest awakes and everything comes back to life? The shaking of the trees, the budding of the flowers, the yawning creatures emerging from their slumber into the glories of spring? This scene was triggered in my head upon listening to Perfume Genius’ newest album, No Shape. Loverboy […]

Chechnya tortures gay men in concentration camps

Michael Turnbull | 11 April, 2017

More than 100 gay men have been sent to prison camps where they are subjected to torture, says human rights organizations accoring to the Russian newspaper, Novaya Gazeta. The independent Russian newspaper reported last week that a large number of gay men between 16 and 50 had disappeared without a trace in Chechnya. The same […]