Dan Ireland–Reeves is an award-winning writer and actor based in the UK. He creates original contemporary work touring the international fringe circuit. His “Bleach” is a soul-jolting story of sex, violence and city living and the stage production won the Write for the Stage award for best new writing at the Greater Manchester Fringe … Continue reading
Brit queer playwright Tom Wright is following his sold out run of My Dad’s Gap Year at London’s Park Theatre with his brand new play #UNDETECTABLE directed (as always) by Rikki Beadle-Blair at London’s King’s Head Theatre. He talked to QUEERGURU via Facetime on the eve on its opening about this, and also the healthy state of queer theatre.
\You have to hand it to British Television programmers they have never been afraid to grab sensitive issues by the balls. Literally. As US TV networks cling to their reputation of fake modesty, the Brits steam ahead with programs such as ‘Celebrity Save our Sperms.’ Yes you read that right as evidently in the last … Continue reading
In 1995 the UK National broadcast the august BBC launched the country’s very first all gay TV show. Gaytime TV was a late night comedy and lifestyle magazine that naturally was completely groundbreaking at the time, and although they managed to secure excellent guests like Harvey Fierstein and Martina Navratilova for the very first … Continue reading
Way before there were any gay men in the UK (well, officially that is) in public at least it was only women that ogled after men’s near-naked bodies. Each year there was a competition to find Mr. Apollo from a bevy of masculine beauties dressed in skimpy Speedo swim trunks. The year was 1959 and the Judges were … Continue reading