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Connie Francis who sang the ‘gay anthem’. ‘Where The Boys Are’ has died aged 87
Connie Francis, the most popular female singer of the late 1950s and early ’60s, with such hits as “Who’s Sorry Now,” “Stupid Cupid” and “Where the Boys Are,” and who became an unlikely TikTok sensation at 87 for a song she recorded six decades earlier, has died at 87. She was one of the earliest…
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Richard Greenberg : the author of the multi award winning ‘TAKE ME OUT’ that deals with homophobia, has died
Richard Greenberg, the writer of the multi-award-winning play (inc 3 Tonys) TAKE ME OUT has just died aged 67 This extraordinary play first premiered in London. Much of the play is set in the locker room of a professional baseball team, and as such has an all-male cast that explores themes of homophobia, racism, class, and masculinity in sports. Professional…
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Richard Chamberlain one of our very first TV/Film hearthrobs dies aged 90
If you were an adolescent boy …. or girl….. back in the early 1960s then there is a very good chance your first heartthrob was Richard Chamberlain i.e. DR KILDARE of the hit TV series. He was devastatingly handsome and we totally obsessed with him for the 5 years run of the show. Sexuality was…
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Alain Delon a cultural and cinematic leading man of the 20th century has died aged 88
Alain Delon who died this week was acknowledged as a cultural and cinematic leading man of the 20th century. Delon emerged as one of the foremost European actors of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, and became an international sex symbol. Although totally heterosexual he became a symbolic icon for the the queer community which…
