Posts Tagged ‘Arts and Entertainment’

VIDEO: DRAG IDOL 2010

VIDEO: DRAG IDOL 2010
Cheryl Cole. Dusty Springfield. Shakira. Audrey Roberts. Drag Idol 2010 kicked off last week at London’s glamourous Black Cap in Camden. Drag Idol is the nationwide search for the UK’s cabaret diva. Many previous winners and contestants have become regular fixtures on the campy-loo scene....
March 15th, 2010 | Clubland, Highlights, Latest videos | Read More

THE LEATHER BOYS: SMOKE AND LEATHERS

How many of you old and young-timers have heard of The Leather Boys? It’s got nothing to do with Warhol or Kenneth Anger, despite the imagery it conjures up (anyway, it’s far too playful a title for Anger) and nor is there any debt to Tom of Finland. No, The Leather Boys is a 1961 British pulp novel...
December 7th, 2009 | Comment, Theatre | Read More

TRAGEDY AS CORRIES BLANCHE ACTRESS DIES

Tragedy has struck HOMOVISION TV CENTRE. Maggie Jones – the actress who has played Coronation Street’s Blanche Hunt – and possibly the only reason why we watched Corrie these days – has died in hospital aged 75. In October she was admitted to hospital for major surgery. Her condition...
December 2nd, 2009 | News, Theatre | Read More

RUPERT EVERETT TELLS GAY STARS TO STAY IN CLOSET

Today’s Sun reports on Rupert Everett urging gay actors to remain in the closet for the sake of saving their careers. In the feature, he says: “I would not advise any actor necessarily, if he was really thinking of his career, to come out. The fact is that you could not be, and still cannot...
December 2nd, 2009 | News, Theatre | Read More

GAY HATE BEENIE MAN TO PLAY AT FESTIVAL

Listen to this. Beenie Man – the nutcase Jamaican “artist” famed for such lyrics as “I’m dreaming of a new Jamaica, come to execute all the gays” and “Hang chi chi gal [lesbian] wid a long piece of rope” – has been invited to play at New Zealand’s...
November 12th, 2009 | International, Music, News | Read More