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Rendez-Vous Dance presents The Monocle which brings to life the feel of 1930’s Paris in the city’s very first lesbian club
It is always such a joy to discover what is playing at Wilton’s Music Hall in London. In the mid-19th-century it was a grand music hall attached to an 18th-century terrace of three houses and a pub. Originally an alehouse dating from 1743 or earlier, it may well have served the Scandinavian…
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London’s Pleasance Theatre’s new adaptation of John Gay’s forgotten gender-bending, anti-colonialist and proto-feminist ballad opera, Polly (The Heartbreak Opera)
London’s Pleasance Theatre is about to mount a new adapation of John Gay’s forgotten gender-bending, anti-colonialist and proto-feminist ballad opera, Polly (The Heartbreak Opera) Bringing a gritty, vibrant energy to the scandalous sequel of The Beggar’s Opera, this new show features 18 original songs inspired by the likes of Britney Spears and Peaches. Think ‘Toxic’.…
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A flamboyant Canvey Island boy who went on to shape the Blitz Kids silhouette in the 1980s — David Johnson recalls the life of fashion designer Stephen Linard
Stephen Linard, the Blitz Kid fashion designer whose clothes were worn by David Bowie, Boy George and Spandau Ballet, died on March 10, aged 64, after enduring painful cancer during recent months. David Johnson remembers the life and career of the man he knew: The press called them the New Romantics and the Blitz Kids, declaring the Eighties…
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Two extraordinary places to stay in California to fulfill your desires for more than a little fantasy
We were taken back with all your response to Queerguru’s wee film last month about The Madonna Inn which we think is possibly the most fabulous hotel in the World. (Check HERE ). And we loved even more your suggestions about other possible contenders for that title ….. here are just two of…
