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Fellow Travellers : Gay Love in the McCarthy Era
Gregory Spears’s critically acclaimed opera Fellow Travellers based on Thomas Mallon’s novel about gay love in the notorious McCarthy Era is having its Florida debut thanks to the Florida Grand Opera. It is set against a background of homophobic paranoia in the 1950s’ where gay men and women were publicly hounded and humiliated in…
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Queer Utopias on the Dancefloor and Beyond
Facing the AIDS crisis and an indifferent mainstream culture at best, an outright hostile one at worst, L.A.’s Gen X LGBTQ+ community found a home for themselves in the performance spaces, and on the dancefloors of clubs like Jewel’s Catch One, Arena, Club Chico, The Palms, Paradise Ballroom, Outer Limits, and Circus. While many…
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‘The Inheritance’ ‘possibly the greatest American play of this century so far is’ coming to Boston.
The multi-award-winning play that The Telegraph called “perhaps the most American play of this century so far“ is coming to Boston’s South End. Matthew Lopez‘s “The Inheritance” brilliantly transposes E.M. Forster’s great classic novel Howards End to 21st century New York. It examines love between gay men in contemporary New York a generation after…
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Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story
We should maybe start by saying this new 2 part Netflix series: Jimmy Savile A British Horror Story is not in the same vein as the recent A Very British Scandal. The latter which we also reviewed was the fascinating tale of the stunning socialite Duchess of Argyll who have a very scandalous…
