London

  • Loudest Whispers: queer art exhibit goes Virtual

    Loudest Whispers: queer art exhibit goes Virtual

      LOUDEST WHISPERS  is an annual queer arts exhibition supporting the creative LGBT community in Camden, London.  They started with 14 artists in 2003 and now in their 11th Edition have attracted 52  this year.   Just before the COVID 19 Lockdown hit everyone’s plans,  queer filmmaker Darren Brade made this video about the Exhibit. It…

  • BEYOND ‘There’s Always A Black Issue Dear’

    BEYOND ‘There’s Always A Black Issue Dear’

      Growing up in an English Orphanage in the 1950s and 1960s there was always black and bi-racial children in my ‘family’  who were also my good friends.  However, when I came out as gay in the 1970s in London I had somehow been adopted by a new group of friends who were primarily.  It…

  • The Pale Blue Door :  the end of a Queer Fairytale

    The Pale Blue Door : the end of a Queer Fairytale

      When we first went to The Pale Blue Door in London’s East End the Uber driver was actually scared for us when he dropped us off.  The most unique and absolutely fabulous Dining Club is down the city’s scuzziest back alleys down a particularly uninviting Haggerston back street. This was the actual home of…

  • Holly Revell : artist photographer and documenter of performance

    Holly Revell : artist photographer and documenter of performance

    We first came across the work of London photographer HOLLY REVELL when we interviewed the legendary Brit alternative performance artist DAVID HOYLE.  He shared with us her stunning photo-book  David Hoyle: Parallel Universe which is is a limited edition book of photography and artworks emerging from the intimate eight-year collaboration between him and Revell.  Revell…