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William Haines : Hollywood’s forgotten queer Hero
William (Billy) Haines was a Hollywood queer legend. The only openly gay movie star who defied the major Studio’s blatant homophobia, and yet from 1930-1933 was their most successful male star. In fact this record as the Number One Box Office Star who was/is openly gay sadly remains unchallenged some 85 years later. Haines…
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Bill Cunningham was an original, a true character, in the best sense of the word.
FASHION CLIMBING A MEMOIR WITH PHOTOGRAPHS By BILL CUNNINGHAM Preface by Hilton Als After Bill Cunningham died in 2016, his family found a memoir he had written about the earlier period of his life. It was an unexpected, and enjoyable, find. Most people remember Cunningham’s work as the photographer behind the On the Street and…
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Kitty Always Tells It As It Is
To most Americans (and other non Brits) 89 year old Dame Patricia Routledge is best known as the social-climbing snob Hyacinth Bucket (that’s pronounced Bouquet) in the long running hit TV sit.com Keeping Up Appearances. There is of course a lot more to this the veteran classically trained actress than that. She was a…
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meatzine’s calendar for 2019 celebrates real guys – as they are.
London photographer Adrian Lourie celebrates “ordinary” gay men by taking their pictures and publishing them in meat, a UK gay pinup fanzine. Unlike Elska Magazine that recently devoted a whole issue to the boys of London, Lourie’s subjects are all completely naked. He is being doing this since 2010 when he just grew tired of body…
