Special Feature: Kansai Rainbow Parade
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Special Feature: Kansai Rainbow Parade

‘There’s Pride in Osaka?’ My incredulity says something about my expectations of Kansai Rainbow Parade 2013; I had been fore-warned that Japan, wonderful as it is, is sometimes not the most tolerant or permissive of countries when it comes to certain personal preferences. So, it was with a little trepidation and cautious enthusiasm that I…

Love and Relationships: Case Studies, Closet-cases, and Aliens!
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Love and Relationships: Case Studies, Closet-cases, and Aliens!

So, you might have met him on the train, at the supermarket (no comment *guilty look*), at work (no comment, again), at the gym, walking home from the movies, at the movies, at your Soho hair salon, while shopping for that ‘must have’ scarf to match that ‘needed to have’ sweater you bought last year,…

Love and Relationships: It’s not an easy road…
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Love and Relationships: It’s not an easy road…

Look at us now! A decade or two later and you can vaguely see the scars (and I’m not talking about Mac make-up working its magic here); we don’t cry anymore (or at least not for the same reasons); we are bandaged up, and all our bones have finally been reformed; we emit love instead…