East London’s Textile and Fashion Museum founded by the eccentric designer Dame Zandra Rhodes is now hosting a new Warhol Exhibition. It is dedicated to the iconic artist’s commercial textile designs and showcases and explains how this body of work contributed to the artist’s oeuvre and would become coveted by collectors on a global … Continue reading
Auntie’s House ★★★ Kings Head Theatre, London Auntie’s House, by Paul Stone, is a very new piece of theatre that feels fresh from the workshop. Whilst in need of some development this embryonic work has a heartwarming charm and comic potential that is ripe for future success. Auntie Tamina (Ruchika Jain), a Muslim widow, … Continue reading
Buttmitzvah , London’s ultimate queer Jewish party is again taking over the iconic drop-dead gorgeous Troxy for an epic Purim simcha, and that’s no April Fools. They will be celebrating the booziest, most extravagantly costumed Jewish holiday. The line up includes a spectacular Purim treat from The Rimmers, a Hamantaschen eating competition, mass … Continue reading
A Hard Man Is Good To Find! is a great new exhibition on at The Photographers Gallery, London, documenting queer male photography in London during the twentieth century. Such photography doesn’t actually exist in the public realm in great quantities, partly because it was illegal under the Obscene Publications Act 1857, and … Continue reading
Hot on the heels of the recent news that the queer Spanish auteur Pedro Almodóvar ‘s upcoming film Strange Way of Life starring Ethan Hawke, Pedro Pascal, and Manu Rios is a gay western romance comes an announcement about the original queer cowboy love story , “Brokeback Mountain” is set for a stage adaptation in London’s West … Continue reading