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Happy Birthday Alain Delon

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French movie star ALAIN DELON celebrates his 80th Birthday today.   Delon was one of most prominent actors and screen “heart throbs” in the 1960s. He achieved critical acclaim for roles in films such as Rocco and His Brothers (1960), Purple Noon (the original Talented Mr Ripley in 1960), L’Eclisse (1962), The Leopard (1963), Lost Command … Continue reading



‘Hi Di Hi’ the three little words that made Ruth Madoc a Star and a gay icon.

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      Ruth Madoc   16 April 1943  _  9 December 2022 (aged 79)  RIP From 1980 – 1988 Hi Di Hi was one of the most successful sit-coms on British Television.  Irs setting was a Holiday Camp in the 1950s  which was then the most popular vacation destination for blue-collar families still recovering from … Continue reading




Jeffrey Schwarz talks Tab Hunter

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Amongst Emmy Award winning director Jeffrey Schwarz’s prolific output are four excellent documentaries on iconic gay figures : first it was activist & cinephile Vito Russo, then celebrated porn actor Jack Wrangler, followed by the definitive profile on John Water’s favorite actress Divine.  I get to talk to him now about his latest movie on … Continue reading



PEKKA STRANG talks about being gay icon TOM OF FINLAND

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  Even though Tom of Finland’s homoerotic art of beefed up masculine men is known and loved by almost the entire global LGBT community, very little is known about them man who created them. That is all about to change with the arrival of new film from award-winning Finnish filmmaker Dome Karukoski that tells the … Continue reading



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