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Rocketman”s Taron Egerton sings Your Song

One of our very favorite clips from ROCKETMAN is not Taron Egerton being an outrageous Elton John, but when he is sitting down quietly at the piano composing ‘Your Song“. His rendition of what we think is Elton’s best song ever sends tingles down our spine. Check it out. The second video is … Continue reading

Rodarte Sisters make a really weird movie

Kate and Laura Mulleavy are the two sisters behind the rather precocious fashion house Rodarte that is lauded by industry heavyweights (their first collection of just 10 pieces landed them a meeting with Vogue’s Goddess Anna Wintour), and has the Art world at the feet. Yet their fame and their fashion is still restricted … Continue reading

Rodrigo Oliveira: Carioca, Negro, Queer

Brazilian photographer Rodrigo Oliveira lives in his childhood home in Barra de Guaratiba, a seaside suburb of Rio de Janeiro about 30 miles to the west of the city. The rural surroundings often serve as the backdrop of his compelling portraits of the Black queer community. Oliveira started his portrait work when he returned to … Continue reading

Roger Casement : a gay Irish martyr or victim of a British forgery?

Sir Roger Casement, CMG, was a diplomat and Irish nationalist between 1911 and 1916, but was executed for treason during World War I. He worked for the British Foreign Office as a diplomat, becoming known as a humanitarian activist, and later as a poet and Easter Rising leader. Described as the “father of twentieth-century human rights investigations”, he was honored in … Continue reading

Roger Rees (1944–2015) R.I.P.

Out-gay Tony Award winning Brit actor 71 year old Roger Rees died last night in New York after a brief illness. Classically trained, he started his career with The Royal Shakespeare Company and created the title role in the original production of ‘The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby’, David Edgar’s stage adaptation of the Dickens … Continue reading