Le Gateau Chocolat: a queer renaissance man

    Le Gateau Chocolat is the nearest thing the queer community has to a renaissance man. This multi-faceted performer with an exquisite baritone voice is equally home of the stage of the Royal Opera House or wearing outrageous drag acting the fool at Jonny Woo ‘s The Glory in London’s East End. He is wickedly funny, honest as the day is … Continue reading

Le Gateau Chocolat is electric in Effigies of Wickedness (Songs Banned by the Nazis)

  Effigies of Wickedness (Songs Banned by the Nazis) at the Gate Theatre  ☆☆☆☆ Once the Nazi regime took power in 1933, it required a registry of all German musicians and as a result, hundreds of talented composers had their work deliberately suppressed and careers ended simply because their race or style of music offended … Continue reading

Le Gateaux Chocolat always leaves you wanting more

  Le Gateau Chocolat is an extraordinary performer.  A giant of a man with an outrageous sense of dress and a booming baritone voice who is equally at home at The Glory (East London’s legendary alternative drag venue) and starring in the Royal National Theatre’s production of ‘Threepenny Opera’. Here’s one of queerguru’s favorite videos … Continue reading

LE HAVRE

There is a wonderful old-fashioned sensibility in this latest movie from idiosyncratic Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismaki that portrays an essentially gritty story about a major casualty of contemporary life as a somewhat sentimental fairy tale.  Set in the French Port Town it tells of Marcel a shoeshine man who plies his diminishing trade wherever he … Continue reading

LE VENDEUR aka THE SALESMAN

Marcel Lévesque has been the Salesmen on the Month for the past 16 years in a small car dealership in a backwater town in Quebec where it never ever  seems to stop snowing.  Marcel is past retirement age but whilst he is still fit and anxious to keep working, the town that was totally dependent … Continue reading

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