Beautiful People: The Boutique in the 1960s Counter Culture

  A unique exhibition has just opened at the Fashion and Textile Museum in London’s East End. The museum was started by designer Zandra Rhodes, a product of the ’60s and still going strong today, with the latest collaboration for Ikea. The museum’s striking exterior was the concept of renowned Mexican architect Ricardo Legorreta. Since … Continue reading

Beauty On The Piste : a raunchy gay panto

Pantomime (or Panto for short) is a quintessential traditional British musical family entertainment staged at Christmas time.  It includes songs, gags, slapstick comedy and dancing, employs gender-crossing actors, and combines topical very low-brow humor with a story loosely based on a well-known fairy tale,  and in which audiences are expected to sing along with certain parts … Continue reading

Bebe is Back and ready to tell her story

Bebe Zahar Benet aka Marshall Kudi Ngwa was the very first winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race back in 2009, and one of the most larger-than-life queens to ever compete and is now back on television, in competition on RuPaul’s Drag Race All-Stars (Season 3) on VH1. What Bebe has been up too since winning, and … Continue reading

Becoming Cherrie : a journey so worth taking

  The Iris Prize LGBT+ Film Festival based in Cardiff, Wales awards the largest short film prize in the world – the prestigious £30,000 Iris Prize.  It’s enough money for filmmakers to convert their shorts into full-length features like past winners like Daniel Ribeiro ‘The Way He Looks’ and Dee Rees ‘ Pariah’. This last … Continue reading

Becoming Colleen: Finding the Shoe that Fits

  Becoming Colleen: Finding the Shoe that Fits is a compelling documentary about a remarkable 85 year Australian transgender woman who is about to move to a Christian retirement village where she fears that they will insist she dresses as a man. Having lived most of her life as Colin – a husband, father, policeman, … Continue reading

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