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SYLVIA SIMS who starred in ViCTIM in 1961 the very first UK film about homosexuality has died aged 89
The veteran British actress Sylvia Sims has died aged 89, and whilst ‘younger fands’ will remember her playing the Queen Mother opposite Dame Helen Mirren in the 2006 film The Queen, she will always be in Queerguru’s heart and mind for her performance in The Victim in 1961 This British neo noir suspense was a…
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‘Sam Kenyon’s ‘I am not Raymond Wallace: one man’s mistake is another man’s making’ reviewed by Jonathan Kemp for Queerguru
In this impressive debut, Sam Kenyon offers a painful meditation on lost opportunities and the grievous consequences of thwarted love. In prose that is as delicate as it is precise, we are given the tale of Ray and Joe, whose lives entwine briefly in New York in 1963 when Ray is just 21 years…
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OUT OF THE SHADOWS an evening of music for LGBT History Month in London
As part of the LGBT History Month in 2023, Robert Hugill presents Out of the Shadows, a recital featuring pianist Nigel Foster (artistic director of the London Song Festival), tenor Ben Vonberg-Clark, and baritone James Atkinson in the world premiere of Hugill’s cantatas Out of the Shadows and Et expecto resurrectionem. Alongside these two will be a selection of Hugill’s songs, from love songs and…
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The continuing transitioning of Brit singer/songwriter Sam Smith with their latest music video ‘I’m Not Here To Make Friends’
In March 2014 Brit singer/songwriter Sam Smith had an international breakthrough hit with the song Stay With Me. Two months later Smith came out as gay, and when the song won Smoth a Grammy for the Record of the Year, they said “I want to thank the man who this record is about,…
