Tag: London
The Copla Musical : how a drag sensation, finds love… yet always struggles to merge her Spanish past with her American future.
The copla is a form of Spanish popular genre of risqué cabaret songs which had its heyday in the 1930s. The lyrics often feature marginalized characters, including prostitutes, sailors, escaped convicts, gypsies, and so on, and have themes based on the “illegitimacy of all relationships outside the recognized heterosexual marriage” (i.e., mistreated women,…
Author, Journalist and Activist Paul Burston talks about his memoir “WE CAN BE HEROES”
When you read a resume like PAUL BURSTON‘s you feel (a) totally exhausted and (b) that you really should achieve more with your own life! He’s a journalist, author, activist, one-time editor, and founder and host of POLARI the LGBTQ+ literary salon. Before we started talking to him we knew a little about…
Queerguru’s Andrew Hebden falls in love with Frank and Percy a heart-touching queer romance
Frank and Percy ✩✩✩✩ The Other Palace, London Loneliness has a special fear for a generation of senior gay men. There were those who lived before the legalization of gay sex, those who loved before the establishment of marriage equality, and those who lost friends, lovers and peers to the AIDS crisis before medication…
Free Guided Tour to discover London’s Queer History
The first ever Gay Pride in London may not have taken place until 1972 ……. three years after both the Stonewall Riots and the legalization of homosexuality in the UK, but the city is steeped in queer history. The best way to take a crash course in this is to sign up for one…
QUEER NATURE Celebrating diversity in art, plants and fungi @ KEW’S ROYAL BOTANICAL GARDENS
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in southwest London houses the “largest and most diverse botanical and mycological collections in the world” Founded in 1840, from the exotic garden at Kew Park, its living collections include some of the 27,000 taxa, while the herbarium, one of the largest in the world, has over 8.5 million preserved plant and fungal specimens.n The library…
