Terry De Havilland: the colorful cobbler of London’s Swinging Sixties, dies aged 81

Terry De Havilland born in London’s East End just before WW2 broke out, became the capital’s (and then the world’s) most colourful cobbler with his stunning ‘look at me’ shoes in the 1960s’ .  His outrageous platform shoes. away ahead of its time ,attracted an enormous band of followers from celebrities like Marianne Faithfull, Led … Continue reading

Test

When the AIDS epidemic first started back in the early 1980’s the air was rife with panic and dramatic rumors that took the place of hard facts about the disease that were so few and far in between. Nowhere more so than in San Francisco home to a significantly large gay community.  By 1985 when … Continue reading

Testosterone Vol. 2

Testosterone Volume 2, a new collection of short gay movies from TLA Releasing, is much darker than its predecessor which was released last October.  With the exception of two of these films they all take an intriguing look at the male psyche via  somewhat traumatic stories. Straight of the bat,  the first film in this … Continue reading

Testosterone Vol 4 of short queer movies

  At the risk of repeating ourselves again , we are still rather bemused why TLA the distributors of this latest volume of short queer films should publish them under such provocatively sexy title, which gives a false impression of the contents of this compilation. True the first (and best) film in this set  RUBBER … Continue reading

Testosterone Volume 3 of gay short films

  TLA Releasing have compiled this third volume in their Testosterone Series, and as good as this selection is, we’re still unsure, exactly why the anthology deserves such a title. 1992 : this award winning nostalgic film from France is the tale of 17 year old Martin (Louis Duneton) who is left to his own … Continue reading

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