st. lucia
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RuPaul’s Drag Race’s Monét X Change Spills the Tea
Growing up in the Caribbean, Monét X Change saw no LGBTQ representation. But then there was St. Lucia Carnival every summer. “There was this one tall gay dude. His name was Sharmark. He was, like, 6 feet 5 and he would be in, like, a woman’s garment. It was, like, the bra and the panties…
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Caribbean Poet Derek Walcott Dead at 87
Nobel laureate and poet Derek Walcott died early Friday morning at his St. Lucia home after battling a long illness. He was 87. Walcott was considered one of the world’s best poets, often challenging some of the greatest works written by Dante, Shakespeare, Chaucer, Yeats and Homer. Fiercely Caribbean, Walcott sought to define not only…