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France says Au REVOIR to the Brits & Brexit BUT they want their language back
Today 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…
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Body Talk : The Odd Throuple find each other
Body 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…
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Over My Dad’s Body : Daddy Dearest
Over 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…
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Safe/Haven: Gay Life in 1950s Cherry Grove
Thanks to Sen. Joseph McCarthy’s ‘Lavender Scare’ culture, the 1950s’ became one of the most homophobic times in American history. McCarthy and his people created a world in which gay people were persecuted and ostracized both at work and at home. After President Eisenhower’ issued an Executive ORder “sexual perversion” it became grounds for the investigation…
