• Three Time Academy Award Winning costume designer Anthony Powell dies.

    Three Time Academy Award Winning costume designer Anthony Powell dies.

      The wonderful British costume designer Anthony Powell nominated for 5 Academy Awards and winning 3 of them. died in London aged 85.  Powell enjoyed great success designing for both stage and screen (he won a Tony too). Although his raison d’etre was period costumes such as  Travels with My Aunt (1972), Death on the…

  • Help Save Central Station : a vital queer space in London

    Help Save Central Station : a vital queer space in London

      From the outside Central Station looks unprepossessing and somewhat shabby sitting at the end of a residential street in London’s Kings Cross area.   But it’s what inside that counts, as for the past 30 years this independent Bar has been a safe space for members of London’s LGBT+ community and its varied artists and…

  • Gay Life in the 1950s’ Cherry Grove on Fire Island

    Gay Life in the 1950s’ Cherry Grove on Fire Island

      The New-York Historical Society is about to launch an exhibit of  SAFE/HAVEN: GAY LIFE IN 1950s CHERRY GROVE.  This OUTDOOR photographic Exhibit will give an intimate look at one of the first gay beach towns in the United States.  It explores mid-20th-century gay life in Fire Island’s remote hamlet of Cherry Grove, located on…

  • Ricky Martin : post-pandemic is hotter than ever

    Ricky Martin : post-pandemic is hotter than ever

      While most of us are whinging about post-Covid extra pounds, queer Latin singer Ricky Martin has got slimmer and hotter.  In a photoshoot for Schön! Magazine, the 49-year-old is sporting a blond beard and wearing a leather vest and has never ever looked better. The occasion is to promote his enw album, but the…