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Jonny Ward is enamoured with Pippa Winslow’s stand out performance in STRIKE UP THE BAND
Strike Up The Band ☆☆☆ Upstairs at the Gatehouse It has to be one of the more unusual topics for a musical: a quintessential American business magnate (making cheese – for comedy value!) manipulates the US Government into war with tiny neutral Switzerland in order to protect his profits. As the programme notes suggest…
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Two new Exhibits to celebrate our LGBTQ History
Since writing about Brooklyn Historical Society’s new Exhibit On The (Queer) Waterfront which traces 150 years of queer history in their Borough, we have come across another couple of US Museums who are curating very similar exhibitions. The Oakland Museum of California (OMCA) is currently planning Queer California: Untold Stories the first-of-its-kind that will…
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Queerguru’s JONNY WARD reviews CIRCA ‘fascinating and challenging in equal measure”
Circa ☆☆☆☆ Old Red Lion Has the LGBTQ community reached a crisis point? Has the hard won promise of endless sexual freedom begun to conflict with a desire to settle down and lead heteronormative lives? This revival of the 2016 play Circa approaches this dilemma in a deliciously complex way. A cast of five…
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Gillian Freeman author of the groundbreaking queer book/film The Leather Boys has died aged 89
Gillian Freeman, the British author who in 1961 wrote the groundbreaking novel The Leather Boys has died aged 89.. The controversial novel which she published under the pseudonym Eliot George, was the a story of a gay relationship between two young working-class men, later turned into a film for which she wrote the screenplay, this…
