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Queerguru’s Andrew Hebden reviews REBECCA the musical, a tale of cheating, blackmail, murder and obsession.
REBECCA ✯✯✯ CHARING CROSS THEATRE, LONDON Written in 1938 the gothic novel Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier was quickly turned into a film. And that film, directed by Alfred Hitchcock went on to become Best Picture at the Oscars. The source material has enormous potential, but it was a huge challenge that Michael…
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Private Lives, Drama, Baby. by Paul Burston
(Reprinted by kind permission of the author Paul Burston) I don’t know how this happened, but I appear to have reached the ripe old age of 58 without having seen a production of Noël Coward’s Private Lives or witnessed the great Patricia Hodge live on stage. Yesterday I put both of these grave injustices…
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We Will Not Live In Fear : Queer Night Pride responds to the brutal homophobic attack in London
On 13th August two men were knifed outside the Two Brewers LGBTQ+ venue in Clapham (London) in a brutal homophobic attack Six days later two men were attacked and punched repeatedly after leaving Black Pride. Queer Night Pride protest by London’s LGBT+ community through Clapham 26 Aug, responding to four brutal homophobic attacks…
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A gay (American) family in Vietnam : a shining example for the local LGBTQ+ community
Ted Osius (aka Theodore George Osius III) was one of the openly gay diplomats that President Barack Obama appointed to be a United States Ambassador. (Remember those good old days!) Osius was appointed to head up the US Embassy in Vietnam in 2014 and this Vietnamese-speaking Ambassador moved to Saigon with his husband of…
