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Private Lives, Drama, Baby. by Paul Burston
(Reprinted by kind permission of the author Paul Burston) I don’t know how this happened, but I appear to have reached the ripe old age of 58 without having seen a production of Noël Coward’s Private Lives or witnessed the great Patricia Hodge live on stage. Yesterday I put both of these grave injustices…
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We Will Not Live In Fear : Queer Night Pride responds to the brutal homophobic attack in London
On 13th August two men were knifed outside the Two Brewers LGBTQ+ venue in Clapham (London) in a brutal homophobic attack Six days later two men were attacked and punched repeatedly after leaving Black Pride. Queer Night Pride protest by London’s LGBT+ community through Clapham 26 Aug, responding to four brutal homophobic attacks…
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Lesbians : celebrating the past, and partying for the future
The world’s only independent lesbian museum, The Charlotte Museum has just opened in Auckland, New Zealand. Its on Karangahape Road which is commonly known as K’ Road and has a long, queer history. In the 1970s, it was home to one of the country’s first lesbian nightclubs, as well as several gay clubs in the ’80s…
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Museum Bums: A Cheeky Look at Butts in Art …’Its All About The Base!”
It appears that we don’t all the have same reasons for visiting galleries and museums. For Mark Small and Jack Shoulder is all about checking butts. Not those of other visitors (!) but all the ones on statutes or in a work of art. So much so they have a Twitter account…
