Better Known as Peaches Christ

Joshua Gannell aka Peaches Christ, underground drag performer, emcee, filmmaker, and actor, explains in this touching new video that Peaches is a superhero version of what he wished he could be as a kid.  He says ‘I didn’t name myself after Jesus so that I could  go to church,  I was pissed and angry and gothic so … Continue reading

Better than Bohemian Rhapsody!

    The best thing about the critically drummed mish-mash of the movie Bohemian Rhapsody was the award-winning performance of Rami Malek as Freddie Mercury.  The micro-managing of the project by the remaining members of Queen who ensured that they were shown in a good light, meant that the Freddie we saw on screen was … Continue reading

BETTY : “It’s called being down for my girls.”

  In 2018 Crystal Mozelle’s film Skate Kitchen about a bunch of skateboarding teenage girls in NYC first bowed, becoming an instant coming-of-age queer classic. Now two years later HBO will premiere the first episode of BETTY a brand new TV show based off of the characters and stories of Skate Kitchen, just stretched over six gorgeous … Continue reading

Between Certain Death & A Possible Future: Queer Writing on Growing Up in The AIDS Crisis : reviewed by Jonathan Kemp

Reaching sexual maturity is an overwhelming enough experience at the best of times: worrying that everything is functioning properly and there was nothing untoward about what one did or how one did it; but for an entire generation, like myself, reaching puberty in the 1980s, that stage of our lives was made scarier yet by … Continue reading

Beware Bareback Bicycling

The Brits do things differently.  Not only does A.A. have nothing to do with drink, but this venerable motoring association which was founded over 110 years ago has a well-deserved reputation for not dressing up things unnecessarily and presenting the bare facts to its Members and the public at large.   In its new P.S.A. (which we assume … Continue reading

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