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QWEER SHORTS : the newest project at Manchester UK’s award-winning Hope Mill Theatre
Manchester UK is considered the country’s second LGBTQ+ city (after London). It dates its claim way back to the 1940s when The Union Pub had drag shows which became extremely popular with US servicemen. In the 1960s the city’s Homosexual Law Reform Committee was one of the very first groups behind the movement…
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Terence Blanchard’s opera CHAMPION about legendary gay boxer Emile Griffith heads for The Met in NY
Terence Blanchard’s six-time Grammy Award–winning composer’s operatic retelling of the dramatic story of gay boxer Emile Griffith arrives in New York. Bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green stars as the closeted young hatmaker-turned-prizefighter, who rises from obscurity to become world champion and, in one of the great tragedies in sports history, kills his homophobic archrival in…
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David Hockney kept himself busy during Covid by creating a 314′ frieze
“> So how did David Hockney, one of the most influential British artists of the 20th century, while away his time during the Covod lockdown? Well. he decamped to his house in Normandy, and he took the opportunity to watch and record the changing seasons on his iPad. The stunning result is 200…
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BUTTMITZVAH London’s ultimate queer Jewish party celebrates PURIM
Buttmitzvah , London’s ultimate queer Jewish party is again taking over the iconic drop-dead gorgeous Troxy for an epic Purim simcha, and that’s no April Fools. They will be celebrating the booziest, most extravagantly costumed Jewish holiday. The line up includes a spectacular Purim treat from The Rimmers, a Hamantaschen eating competition, mass…
