The queer performance artist David Hoyle is something of a legend on the London cabaret circuit. His performances are known to combine many disparate elements, from satirical comedy to painting, surrealism and even striptease, much of which is aggressive in nature.  Hoyle is a pioneer of alternative drag and as a fervent socialist he loves to attack what he sees as dominant trends in “bourgeois Britain and the materialistic-hedonistic gay scene”.

Queerguru had the pleasure of sitting down with Hoyle in London at the BFI Flare Film Festival in 2018 to discuss his new movie Uncle David.   We discovered what a totally charming man he was, that’s not something that always comes with talented  geniuses like him,  https:// queerguru.com/david-hoyle-talks/

Over the past few years East London  queer filmmaker/writer/performer Nathan Evans  has been making a series of delightfully entertaining short films starring Hoyle just being himself.  Evans is currently loading them up to view on his YouTube Channel, and we love them all, but below we have included our favorite one (so far).

Hoyle takes a tour around Vauxhall an area in London which has become something of a queer district now.  Hoyle refers to it as village, which is was a century or two ago, and so one Sunday afternoon he shows us how green it still is around the legendary Royal Vauxhall Tavern