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ANTONY PRICE one of the very first (and the best) to meld fashion and rock together has died aged 80
Antony Price, who has just died at the age of 80, was orignally an ‘up and coming’ fashion designer in 1974 he opened a store in London’s King Road around the corner from Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood’s shop. His raisin d’etre was “Clothes for Studs and Starlets’’ and the space was described by Vogue…
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Netflix shamefully cancels another Queer Show after just one Season : OLYMPO bites the dust
It looks like NETFLIX is determined to ruin our queer Christmas this year, as hot on the heels of the news, they are cancelling the critically and commercially acclaimed series BOOTS (read HERE) comes a report today that another LGBTQ+ program is for the chop. Olympo, the queer-inclusive drama from the creators of long-running LGBTQ+…
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The BBC’s First Homosexual : when being queer in the UK was illegal and in the closet
It’s probably tough for Gen Z and gay Millennials to even imagine a time when everywhere in the world it was not only illegal to be gay, but also socially and morally unacceptable. Like in the UK in 1954, one year after a very young Queen Elizabeth just ascended to the throne, when the country’s…
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Provincetown going back in time & sleeping in the wild
Wherever we live in the world it is impossible to avoid ‘change’ even in this tiny spec at the end of Cape Cod we call home. This is Provincetown, which started out as the first stop for the Pilgrims, then became a Yankee whaling village, a Portuguese fishing town populated by the descendants of…
