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Queer Matter : News, Reviews And Interviews
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Kim David Smith and his fab annual A Very Werry Weimer Christmas is back at Club Cumming
So more HGailday gaity So here’s even more holiday gaiety. This time its Bistro Award-winning Kim David Smith and his annual A Wery Weimar Christmas, at the Club Cumming in NY. Smith has been described by Broadway World as the “David Bowie of cabaret,” “slyly subversive” by the Wall Street…
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‘Hi Di Hi’ the three little words that made Ruth Madoc a Star and a gay icon.
Ruth Madoc 16 April 1943 _ 9 December 2022 (aged 79) RIP From 1980 – 1988 Hi Di Hi was one of the most successful sit-coms on British Television. Irs setting was a Holiday Camp in the 1950s which was then the most popular vacation destination for blue-collar families still recovering from…
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Peaches Christ and (much) More Holiday Gaiety
Its sometimes hard to keep track of teh whereabouts of San Francisco’s drag Grand Dame Peaches Christ. Last week she was in London breaking records as the first Drag Queen to perform in the city’s; very grand Royal Albert Hall that seats some 5700 British peeps. The occasion was the UK debut of her…
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Poor Stacy : every time she brings a boyfriend home, he fancies one of her family members instead
Some girls just cannot catch a break. Like Stacy. Back in 2004 as a very young teen she brought a boyfriend home, who ended up fancying her mother instead. The pop/punk group Fountains of Wayne wrote about the drama in a song that they aptly called Stacy’s Mum. It didn’t end well for…
