LISTEN: SCISSOR SISTERS AND SIR IAN MCKELLEN

Remember when the Scissor Sisters were good and you’d writhe around dancefloors flicking your legs like an epileptic? Then remember when they went bad and their whining and screeching began to do your head in? Well – they’re back. And they’re better than ever. 4realzdealz with...

May 14th, 2010 | Highlights, Music | Read More

GAY BASHING MUSLIM FOR ALBERT SQUARE

EastEnders is to feature a dramatic storyline next month when gay Muslim Syed is eventually exposed to wife Amira, leading to Christian getting gay bashed. Again. When Amira discovers the truth about her husband’s sexuality, she turns to her family for comfort. Heartbroken she leaves Walford, leaving...

March 29th, 2010 | Entertainment, Highlights | Read More

OWN SOME GAY CLUBBING HISTORY: DTPM, TRADE, QUEER NATION, FLESH…

Art associated with clubs such as DTPM, Queer Nation, High on Hope, Trade and Flesh (Hacienda) recently featured in a series of exhibitions in London, Tokyo and Shanghai in 2009. The Our History show included photography, film, art, canvases, prints, and original material covering the clubbing from...

December 8th, 2009 | Theatre | 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

GOK WAN TO HOST STONEWALL AWARDS

:( The fourth Stonewall Awards ceremony will take place on Thursday 5 November at the V&A in London. Hosted by TV presenter Gok Wan and supported by Barclays, the ceremony celebrates those who have made a positive impact on the lives of lesbian and gay people in Britain. Here’s the blurb: ...

September 3rd, 2009 | News | Read More

TENOR LADIES @ THE RVT

WHY TENOR LADIES, WHY NOW? Recently in the guardian and BBC they featured articles slamming obese celebrities as glamorising being fat – well what’s the problem with being fat? It got me and Sami thinking – we want to prove that fatties can be sexy and sassy and we want other fatso’s...

July 16th, 2009 | News | Read More