Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterIf you are in London this coming Saturday, October 8th then you should be making your way without fail to Bateman Street Gallery in Soho. For two days only they are showing Dirty Queers a “glorious, multi-sensory exhibition of photography, film, art, and sculpture brought to you by a collective of sex-positive, queer artists” … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterQueer Brit writer/director Bryon Fear is revisiting VAMPIR which he first produced in 1994 for the South London Theatre. Its a physical theatre dance piece that explores the vampire myth as an allegory for homophobia. A creature invented in folklore, given credence by religion and celebrated in the arts, emerges from the twisted shadows … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterHouse of Flamenka ✩✩✩✩✩ Peacock Theatre What is one of the greatest achievements a Spaniard can make? To surprise the putamadre. This putamadre was shaken up like a good cocktail and, along with the rest of the audience watching Arlene Phillips House of Flamenka, left with a smile of satisfaction. House of Flamenka delivers everything … Continue reading
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This memoir is of the extraordinary frenetic life of a skinny queer kid who left his home in the grim North of England to ‘find himself in London‘. In the 1980s and 1990s he found himself as a central figure in a colorful larger-than-life hedonistic queer group of non-binary drag queens and soon become known as the Queen of Soho.
He ran Trannyshack his own club night at Madame Jojo’s THE place to party and be seen. There was however another side to Hodge, now known as Dusty O, as at the height of the AIDS pandemic he took a day job as a service worker at The London Lighthouse the purpose-built leading AIDS Hospice, It set him aside from many of his celebrity buddies, and it grounded him enough to be able to move forward to his present life as a very successful artist
Queerguru talked with the disarmingly charming Hodges about this biography that has been getting rave reviews on both sides of the Atlantic. It’s not just the joyous tale of Hodge’s fascinating roller-coast life but it is a remarkable and essential record queer history of one of the most tumultuous times of our Community’s history.
The Boy Who Sat By the Window: The Story of the Queen of Soho : David Hodge https://www.mardlebooks.com/dustyo
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterMaps carve borders through landscapes. Clothes are maps for the body. Both are arbitrary constructs, omnipresent in our society, and have a real impact on people. Mapping Gender is a multisensory exhibition of dance, image, scent, sound and research. It’s an invitation to explore the parallels between cartography and historical clothing through a lens of … Continue reading
