culture
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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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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…
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Leave Hyacinth Alone
When things are so absolutely perfect that they are just as fresh and popular almost 30 years later, then queerguru think that they should not be tampered with. So we are so disappointed that the BBC in London is filming a prequel to one of favorite TV programs of all time ‘Keeping Up Appearances’ which introduced…
