London
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Henry Miller: Focusing on the Male Form
Henry Miller Fine Art has a unique collection of work that focusses on the male form that its founder has been collecting for several years. Its permanent home is in a beautifully restored East London period home, but for the next 10 days, there is an exhibition of selected works at the Coningsby Gallery in Londons…
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Jonny Ward goes to CLUEDO CLUB KILLINGS to try to work out Who Really Did It?
Did Professor Plum kill the Reverend Green in the Ballroom with the Candlestick? No this is not the latest kinky sex scandal to hit London but rather the sort of question you might ask yourself whilst watching The Cluedo Club Killings – the latest production by the Arcola Queer Collective. Based at the Arcola Theatre in…
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queerguru reviews ‘Margaret Thatcher Queen of Soho’
Margaret Thatcher was really a man in drag. This was a popular (pre-internet) accusation leveled at the former British prime minister. Contemporary cultural representations also pitched her as a fella. Spitting Image, the phenomenal satirical TV show that ran throughout the 80’s, portrayed her in a man’s pinstripe suit & tie – the…
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Under Cover: A Secret History of Cross Dressers
The French filmmaker Sébastien Lifshitz has had a lifetime fascination with men and women who refuse to conform to the strictures of gender roles. In fact, his Teddy Award-winning Documentary Film in 2013 Bambi, a profile of French entertainer Marie-Pierre Pruvot is one of the best transgender films ever made. Lifshitz also made a film and a book called Les…
