2025
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The BBC’s First Homosexual : when being queer in the UK was illegal and in the closet
It’s probably tough for Gen Z and gay Millennials to even imagine a time when everywhere in the world it was not only illegal to be gay, but also socially and morally unacceptable. Like in the UK in 1954, one year after a very young Queen Elizabeth just ascended to the throne, when the country’s…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews PILLION possibly the HOTTEST queer film of 2025
Storytelling in British film-making is at its best when an underdog punches above their weight, romantically or otherwise. It’s always a subtle journey, no fairy-tale Hollywood gloss or high-action required, just humour, restraint and emotional, sometimes sad, honesty. The journey is internal rather than physical. Think Shirley Valentine, Notting Hill, Educating Rita, Calendar Girls, Billy…
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Provincetown going back in time & sleeping in the wild
Wherever we live in the world it is impossible to avoid ‘change’ even in this tiny spec at the end of Cape Cod we call home. This is Provincetown, which started out as the first stop for the Pilgrims, then became a Yankee whaling village, a Portuguese fishing town populated by the descendants of…
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Richard Willett talks about his novel A FRIEND OF DOROTHY’S
When Canadian native RICHARD WILLETT emigrated to New York in the 1980s’ his ‘coming out’ took place against the AIDS pandemic, which made him (and all of us) take stock of life in general. So he channelled energy into writing his first (and only novel) A FRIEND OF DOROTHY’S about living through that time. Parts…
