Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterThe LOL Word: Coming Out Special ☆☆☆☆ The Vault Festival, London As the number of gay bars in London is decimated and the number of lesbian bars is well, we can’t even do the maths, were there ever enough to decimate? then we are often left asking, where do all the women go on a … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterOver the past decade there has been a major global photo-storytelling project by 130 people living with HIV and AIDS that successfully set out to de-stigmatize the disease. All of them have participated in workshops led by South African photographer Gideon Mendel, with photo educator Crispin Hughes, and David Gere, director of the Art & … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterToday is the Official Brexit EXIT Day. Well, we guess the nearest thing we will ever get to it as Britain’s divorce from Europe will still simmer on for years. There may be come celebrating in the streets of London today, but frankly our hearts lie with the French on this one, and we … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterBody Talk ☆☆☆☆ Full Disclosure Theatre The Vault Festival, London Body Talk opens with three semi naked bodies standing on stage. Before the story starts their bodies are already telling tales on them. Those stories hang in the air around them like the worst kind of gossip even before we hear a word of David … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterOver My Dad’s Body ☆☆☆☆ The Vault Festival When Simon David opens by mounting a glittery ladder and singing a big brassy rendition of ‘I’m gay, I’m gay, I’m gay’ containing the line ‘I don’t have a personality – beyond my sexuality’ it does create a certain set of expectations about what is about … Continue reading
