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Night Flowers: From Avant-drag to Extreme Haute Couture.
Celebrated photographer and Soho habitué DAMIEN FROST has been capturing the undisputed stars of the London’s alternative drag scene for some years. His stunning photographers of all those club ‘kids’ were the subject of his book Night Flowers: From Avant-drag to Extreme Haute Couture. It featured over 300 portraits of the loose-knit community of drag…
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The One You’ll Never Forget : a tale of first love
Teenage Carey (London Curtis) is nervously preparing for this first School Prom Whilst he is upstairs getting ready, downstairs his parents are reminiscing about their first dance . It eventually led to them getting married. As his mother has to go to work, she insists that Carey’s father be sure to take a photo…
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Queerguru’s Jonathan Kemp reviews SALOME ‘full of sexual energy & spectacular dancing
Salomé ☆☆☆☆☆ EDIFICE Dance Theatre The Place, London Salomé is the biblical gift that just keeps giving, from Wilde’s scandalously decadent take on it and the Aubrey Beardsley drawings it inspired, to the curate’s egg of Ken Russell’s film version. Last year, I reviewed for Queerguru a production that cast Salomé as a pretty…
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Studio 54 : Night Magic. a fab new Exhibit at Brooklyn Museum
It’s been 40 years since Steve Rubell and his partners shuttered the legendary Studio 54 after they were jailed for tax evasion. And even though the Club had only been opened for less than 3 years. even today it is still regarded as as pivotal part of the NY night club scene, and spoken…
