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Performance Artist Leigh Bowery Goes Shopping

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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 … Continue reading



Happy 81st Birthday Diahann Carroll

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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 … Continue reading




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