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Drag Queen Story Hour
Personally we never usually think about drag queens and children in the same sentence, but maybe we are wrong . The folk at the Feminist Press think that they have a lot in common : well they both love dressing up and all things sparkly and fancy! So they have established a popular children’s storytelling series,…
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Gene Malin : Queen of the Pansy Craze
For a few short years in the 1930’s when Prohibition meant that drinking was very much on the down-low, one group of performers experienced a surge in underground popularity, especially in Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco. Up until then much of the public image of gay people was still limited to the various drag balls…
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Paradise behind The Pale Blue Door
Back in 2009 Tony Hornecker took dining at home to a whole new experience. He is an immensely successful installation artist and set designer in London whose idiosyncratic work has gained him commissions from the likes of The Royal Opera House and The Royal College of Art and clients such as Alexander McQueen, Stella McCartney and…
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Un-Royal Variety Show
There is a very quaint British theatrical tradition that was started in 1912 for King George V to help raise funds for Variety Artistes’ Benevolent Fund and is still going strong today. Originally called The Royal Command Show implying that all the Acts had been asked to perform by the King himself, it later morphed into…
