2022
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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…
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Queerguru reviews BROADWAY RISING the story of how The Great White Way came through COVID
At the height of the COVID pandemic when so many of us were in isolation at home it did seem like the world outside had actually stopped turning. Having given up watching most news broadcasts since the previous resident of the White House had single-handedly destroyed their credibility, we had no real inkling of…
