culture
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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…
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Maggie Smith never does anything ‘merely’.
Back in 1987 the celebrated British playwright Peter Shaffer followed up the enormous success of his Tony Award-winning play Equus with a new play called Lettice and Lovage that he wrote especially for Maggie Smith (in her pre Dame days). It centered around a flamboyant tour guide who loves to embellish the history behind an English country house and who…
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Justin David: He’s Done Ever So Well For Himself
As part of QUEERGURU’S quest researching the hotbed of queer East London, we came across Justin David as he was just launching his debut novel with a title we would have loved for our own memoir HE’S DONE EVER SO WELL FOR HIMSELF. A self-proclaimed working-class queer writer Justin is also a photographer, publisher and full-time teacher. He’s…
