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Twinkle the story of a (Pantomime) Dame scorned .
The official definition of Pantomime is ‘a play or entertainment in which the performers express themselves mutely by gestures, often to the accompaniment of music.’ The reality of this very traditional English stage show which is full of crude double entendres with some of the first drag queens in history would never pass as children’s…
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GIna Lollobrigida fabulous Italian movie star from the golden age of Hollywood dies
Gina Lollobrigida, the fabulous Italian movie actress who became one of the post-World War II era’s first major European sex symbols, died on Monday in Rome. She was 95. In the 1950’s Lollobrigida emerged as the face of la dolce vita, a siren beckoning Romans to once again indulge, celebrate and embrace. Ms. Lollobrigida…
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Putting the spin on Tom of Finland’s Organic Vodka
As you should know by now (!) Tom Of Finland was a Finnish artist who made stylized highly masculinized homoerotic art, and influenced late-20th-century gay culture. He has been called the “most influential creator of gay pornographic images”. Over the course of four decades, he produced some 3,500 illustrations, mostly featuring macho men wearing tight…
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The Ward Revisited : an Exhibition celebrating the first AIDS Ward in London
When the AIDS pandemic really got a grip on London, it made so many people have to re-think the treatment and care of an unprecedented vast number of patients whose chances of recovery or survival were extremely slim. It meant the creation of hospital wards specifically to treat people diagnosed with HIV or full-blown…
