Temporary Cruising Zone is an all-gender queer sex party based in Birmingham, UK.

  Temporary Cruising Zone (est. 2019) is an all-gender queer sex party based in Birmingham, UK. TCZ seeks to provide queer people of all genders with a space to express themselves and their desires, to flaunt their sexuality, and to meet new friends and lovers in a welcoming environment. What TCZ is: – A queer … Continue reading

Ten Plagues : one man’s journey through a city in crisis

  Brit queer playwright Mark Ravenhill (Shopping and F**king, Mother Clap’s Molly House)has joined forces with Ulster queer composer Conor Mitchell (Abomination: A DUP Opera) to create Ten Plagues. Originally created for the theatre, this bold new film version marks the Belfast Ensemble’s first work during the Covid-19 pandemic and is filmed in locked-down Belfast. … Continue reading

Ten Short Films: A Scrapbook of the Pandemic

  In early 2021, choreographer Doug Varone created 10 short films exploring aspects of the early months of the COVID pandemic. Having been a cinephile all his life he channeled his love of MGM musicals and built intimate filmed reflections of the isolation and frustration we all experienced. These are not dance films in the … Continue reading

Tennessee passes Law to ban all drag queens : It could be the start of a very slippery slope

  Last year Tennessee was debating a bill that failed to include a minimum age limit for marriage.  Child brides are evidently fine for the upstanding legislators the self-appointed moral guardians of the state.  However, these are the same lawmakers who this week actually passed a bill banning drag shows in public ! This law … Continue reading

Terence Blanchard’s ‘Champion: An Opera in Jazz’ the story of a queer man in a macho world

  Terence Blanchard’s Champion: An Opera in Jazz (2013) tells the real-life story of world champion boxer Emile Griffith, a man haunted by memories of his past who struggled to reconcile his sexuality in a hyper-macho world. This groundbreaking work combining the disciplines of opera and jazz, was co-commissioned by the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis in … Continue reading

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