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  • Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level

    Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level

      Great news if you live in Europe or your computer can play Region 2 DVD’s as next week sees the release of a fully restored high definition version of The Naked Civil Servant, unquestionably one of queerguru’s  favorite classic queer movies. From 1976, it tells the remarkable true story of Quentin Crisp, self-proclaimed England’s…

  • The Boys In The Band is Back

    The Boys In The Band is Back

    Two years shy of its 5oth Anniversary, Mart Crowley’s ground-breaking play The Boys In The Band has been revived for a run in London’s Park Theatre. Originally opening off-Broadway just a year before the Stonewall riots which would signal a major shift in the start of the the first throes of ‘gay liberation, although the…

  • Macbeth

    Australian filmmaker Justin Kurzel’s starts his awe-inspiring take on Shakespeare’s most violent tale of Macbeth on the battlefield on the mist-drenched Scottish heath that he stages dramatically like an epic, but bloody opera. It sets the pace for what turns out to be one of the most enthralling adaptions of the Bards work on the…

  • Oh Deary Me : It's The High Life

    Years before actor Alan Cumming had his breakthrough performance on Broadway playing the M.C. in ‘Cabaret’ and picking up Tony and Drama Desk Awards, he was back in Scotland writing and starring in a very low budget TV situation comedy that became a camp classic. With fellow actor Forbes Masson he created ‘The High Life’ that followed…