culture
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LANDLINE : the story of the only helpline for gay farmers in the UK
One of the most compelling films selected for the Mens Queer Shorts Program at Provincetown Film Festival this year is Landline a documentary about the only helpline in the UK for gay farmers. This fascinating look at a highly marginalized section of our community is quite an eye opener especially for us urban types, and…
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Nothing Like A Dame
Nothing Like a Dame ☆☆☆☆☆ What a wonderful change for a Saturday night in front of the TV in the UK, Ladies in Lavender with Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, and great eye candy Daniel Brühl, but the main event is the 90 min documentary, directed by Roger Michell of Notting Hill fame. It is about four…
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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…
