culture
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Manchester’s history of Queer Raving
For most queer men (and women) of a certain age(!) The Smiths were the definitive band of the 1980’s that started to really get the city of Manchester in the North of the UK noticed as a major force in music. In the same decade, the city also gave birth to other groundbreaking bands…
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MATTHEW GOULD talks about the world’s first gay ‘resort’ which was hardly a holiday camp
We were very intrigued when we heard about San Domino – A Musical Drama the true story of how gay men were rounded up in pre-WW2 Italy and jailed in an all-gay prison in a remote island as part of Mussolini’s attempt at cleansing the population. We caught up with director Matthew Gould on the eve of the Musical’s…
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SANDRA DICKINSON talks about THE UNBUILT CITY (and her life in the limelight)
The actress Sandra Dickinson left her native Washington DC in 1970 to follow an Englishman man back to his home country. Even though that relationship didn’t have a happy ever after ending, she fell in love with the country and stayed. The English fell in love with her too and for the past almost…
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Queer Eye Season 2 is here & with a theme song from Betty Who
It’s been fifteen years since the Emmy Award-winning series Queer Eye for the Straight Guy first reached our screens. The series returned to Netflix in 2018 and despite some apprehensions on our part, this brand new of queer experts were an immediate hit. Ths new Fab Five: Antoni Porowski (Food & Wine), Bobby Berk…
