HOMOVISION REHAB with THE SWARMITE: AGEING (Part 2)

In her book “How to Grow Old Disgracefully”, the actress Hermione Gingold remarked: “There’s nothing so ageing as the past – especially when it catches up with you. I like to live in the present”. How gay was Hermione? Well for starters her sister Angela Baddeley played iconic...

January 19th, 2010 | Highlights, Rehab | Read More

COMMENT: HIV – 20 YEARS ON

As I come into the year of the 20th anniversary of my HIV positive diagnosis the gap between two observations before me is so vast I am moved to make what I am seeing public, in the hope of sparking more conversation about a subject that is a huge factor in every gay man’s life. Every gay man has to...

December 1st, 2009 | Health, Highlights | Read More

BEENIE MAN CONCERTS AXED IN NZ

All of Beenie Man’s Australian and New Zealand concert dates have been cancelled. This follows protests by gay rights groups, including the Australian Coalition for Equality. It also follows representations to the tour organisers by Peter Tatchell of OutRage!, acting on behalf of the international...

November 16th, 2009 | News | Read More

BRIGHTON PRIDE MAY DITCH DANCE TENTS

Brighton Pride’s £50,000 shortfull in funding for the 2009 event may mean that it’s famous dance-tents may be ditched in favour of a more community friendly event. Although no decisions have been made yet, Pride’s Chief Executive Leslie Burn said: “By changing the format of...

October 30th, 2009 | Clubland, Pride, Theatre | Read More

LONDON’S FIRST GAY TOURIST OFFICE OPENS

So right. You’re in London for the first time. You’re wandering around in your skinny jeans, geometric hairstyle, hating yourself for not having a brickie’s shoulders. The lights, the people, the music, the men. But what to do and where to go? London’s first gay tourist office...

October 23rd, 2009 | News, Theatre, What's on | Read More

COMMENT: FROM JAMAICA, WITH HATE

Last year, Bounty Killer – one of the hearty proponents of Jamaican Murder Music – performed some of his homicidal hoedowns at the Stratford Rex, with the full blessing of the London Met Police Force. This July, Buju Banton (he of ‘Boom Bye Bye’ fame) did the same at the Hammersmith Apollo....

October 21st, 2009 | International, Music, News | Read More

Peppermint is Hardcore Glamour

Peppermint! Peppermint! Peppermint!! New York’s most hardworking and hottest drag queen has truly been a ‘Working Girl!’ She’s just finished the European leg of her Hardcore Glamour Tour, with stops in London, Dublin, France, and Germany. Now she’s getting global rave reviews on her newly...

October 20th, 2009 | Music, News | Read More

DRAG ME TO HELL!

Think music. Think glamour. Think blood. Think Titti la Camp and Spike Rhodes and a group of Drama Queens for the launch production – Drag Me To Hell – a horror musical in two acts – that takes place at London’s Palladium of Drag, The Black Cap. The show has been especially Created...

October 9th, 2009 | Theatre | Read More

REVIEW: CARDIFF PRIDE

Cardiff or Manchester, Cardiff or Manchester, Cardiff or Manchester. Dan Harrop-Griffiths chose Cardiff. Here’s his review…! When I heard that Cardiff Pride was going head-to-head with Manchester Pride, I shrieked in wild Welsh wonder. What’s occurring? Would there be enough gays to go...

September 9th, 2009 | Pride | Read More

CLUBBING GOES CO-OPERATIVE: BUMBACLART

“We love disco, but there are only so many good records that Amanda Lear put out. The word gay has become synonymous with the word rubbish, shouldn’t the scene itself take some responsibility for this?” says Bumbaclart’s promoter Scally DanDan. “Everything on the scene...

August 20th, 2009 | Clubland | Read More