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  • Ronnie Larsen : Sex (with smiles)  in South Florida

    Ronnie Larsen : Sex (with smiles) in South Florida

      Wikipedia always says it like it really is  For out-gay South Floridian Ronnie Larsen, the entry says he “is a playwright and film director specializing in writing plays about sex”.    Like his play Making Porn which was about the gay porn industry in the 1980s, and the production was notable for casting gay…

  • Its time for NUNSENSE AMEN!

    Its time for NUNSENSE AMEN!

      Now that the Lockdown restrictions are being lifted across the US at least, theaters are beginning to open up again.   Including the Epiphinay Theater in Fort Lauderdale who are about to mount a new production of Nunsense Amen. When the original version opened on Off-Broadway in 1985 for four days at Manhattan‘s Duplex and remained…

  • Three Time Academy Award Winning costume designer Anthony Powell dies.

    Three Time Academy Award Winning costume designer Anthony Powell dies.

      The wonderful British costume designer Anthony Powell nominated for 5 Academy Awards and winning 3 of them. died in London aged 85.  Powell enjoyed great success designing for both stage and screen (he won a Tony too). Although his raison d’etre was period costumes such as  Travels with My Aunt (1972), Death on the…

  • Help Save Central Station : a vital queer space in London

    Help Save Central Station : a vital queer space in London

      From the outside Central Station looks unprepossessing and somewhat shabby sitting at the end of a residential street in London’s Kings Cross area.   But it’s what inside that counts, as for the past 30 years this independent Bar has been a safe space for members of London’s LGBT+ community and its varied artists and…