• How to Create a Met Gala Outfit at Home

    How to Create a Met Gala Outfit at Home

      This week the likes of The Blonds and Christian Siriano  get to take more time off than.  Usually this time every year one of them would be designing another outrageous outfit for Billy Porter to trot around the annual Met Gala.  Over recent years Porter’s flashy and flamboyant costumes have actually started overshadowing his…

  • New Queer Music : Perfume Genius, Edmund Bagnell, Arca, Kelyan Lonsdale and Rufus Wainwright

    New Queer Music : Perfume Genius, Edmund Bagnell, Arca, Kelyan Lonsdale and Rufus Wainwright

      Queer singer/songwriter  Michael Hadreas, better known by his stage name Perfume Genius, has a new music video out “On The Floor”.  Hadreas always wears  his heart on his sleeve and his music explores topics including sexuality, his personal struggle with Crohn’s disease, domestic abuse, and the dangers faced by gay men in contemporary society.…

  • Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind : an HBO Doc

    Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind : an HBO Doc

      This new documentary about the three-time Oscar Nominated actress Natalie Wood has not only been sanctioned by her family but daughter Natasha Gregson Wagner acts as an adhoc host.  Even so it still seems inevitable that any sort of biography of Wood is always dominated by her early tragic death and sadly at the…

  • Boys on Film 20: Heaven Can Wait : Heavy going on the way to Heaven

    Boys on Film 20: Heaven Can Wait : Heavy going on the way to Heaven

      Hidden in this collection of shorts are two or three better, more focused films. It is too long to bare all the weight of its sombre content in one sitting. Anyone trying to bake their way out of their coronavirus confinement will be familiar with the problem that a good ingredient, eaten too often,…