London’s OLIVIER AWARDS make for a gay old night

London theatres’ OLIViER AWARDS  (the British equivalent of the Tony’s) were handed out last night into well deserving hands that had the LGBT community dancing for joy. Matthew Lopez’s acclaimed stage epic The Inheritance that has been universally recognised as one of the most important gay dramas of a generation won ‘Best New Play’, ‘Best … Continue reading

London’s Pigeon Shrine FRIGHTFEST champions young queer filmmakers

    Two emerging young queer filmmakers from America and Australia are set to scare UK audiences with the premieres of their genre-bending debut features at this year’s Pigeon Shrine FrightFest, London, which runs 24th – 28th August 2023. Teenagers George Baron and Alice Maio Mackay herald exciting new voices of diversity from the LGBTQ+ … Continue reading

London’s QUEER EAST FILM FEST is back online

  Good news from the Queer East Film Festival in London.  They are back online in the coming weeks for a series of virtual screenings that will be available throughout the UK.  On 31st March, the International Transgender Day of Visibility, they kicked off by teaming up with Focus Hong Kong Film Festival to screen … Continue reading

London’s queer spaces have a shiny new kid on the block : QUEERCIRCLE in the heart of Greenwich Design District

    London’s queer spaces have a shiny new kid on the block. www.queercircle.org opened a physical, David Kohn Architect designed, LGBTQ+ community centre at North Greenwich’s new Design District this week, a stone’s throw from the O2 Centre. Founded by film-maker/curator Ashley Joiner, the impressive board of trustees includes actor Russell Tovey, artist/film-maker Isaac … Continue reading

London’s Rebel Dykes of 1980’s on the Big Screen

London in the 1980’s was a hotbed of radical lesbian feminism with its Rebel Dyke community which for some inexplicable reason has never been mentioned in feminist history books about the period. But that is all about to change with a brand new documentary.  The movie’s producers take great pains to point out that before the … Continue reading

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