2016
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Performance Artist Leigh Bowery Goes Shopping
Recently uploaded to YouTube is this wee gem of a video of Leigh Bowery shooting a shopping segment for the UK BBC TV’s ‘The Clothes Show’ in 1988. Bowery was a London-based performance artist, club promoter, and designer who created the legendary club Taboo which became the hang out of London’s alternative ‘artists’. Taboo was really ahead…
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Theresa May Goes (A Little Bit) Gay
Whilst most people are still despondent that the recent UK Referendum on BREXIT turned the clock back to the bad old days in British politics, there is at least some positive news that things are actually moving forward with the new Prime Minister selecting her new Team . When it comes to LGBT rights Theresa…
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Happy 81st Birthday Diahann Carroll
Happy 81st Birthday Miss Diahann Carroll : from Carmen Jones and Porgy and Bess when you first started out in the 1950’s to your Golden Globe Award for your ground-breaking Tv series ‘Julia’ and then gaining ‘gay icon‘ status as Blake Carrington’s tough sister Dominique Deveraux intent on taking Alexis (Joan Collins) down in Dynasty, we…
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Film Stars Do Not Die in Liverpool
Multi-Oscar nominated Annette Bening is currently filming one of those true love stories that could have only have happened in Hollywood, although this one actually played out in Liverpool in the UK. Bening is playing the Oscar winning Gloria Grahame (The Bad & The Beautiful) who in 1978 at the age of 54 was playing…
