Peter Herbert
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Queerguru’s Peter Herbert revisits THE BLACK CAP: A LEGENDARY LGBT PUB IN CAMDEN TOWN LONDON
Doff your black cap and salute one of our great pubs that has bucked a current worldwide trend for accelerated closures of LGBT venues. London’s famous The Black Cap has returned after a shock closure in 2015 when the pub, which spawned over 1,000 nights of “Palladium-style drag acts,” closed overnight. During these eleven years,…
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Queerguru’s Peter Herbert reviews ‘EARWORM’ at The Camden People’s Theatre as part of Camden Fringe Festival.
ARiot Theatre production Earworm was first performed in 2024 and returns as part of the Camden Fringe Festival during an unusual London heatwave. The play itself is a cool, observant look at a hot gay relationship between an alternative cabaret musician and a slightly older academic student of gay philosophy who examine their relationship and…
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Queergruru’s Peter Herbert reviews. WHAM! 10 DAYS IN CHINA.
A refreshing new documentary manages to reframe the origins of one of the music world’s superstars through extensive restored visual and audio material. The result is closer to a visual essay along the lines of the Maysles Bros’ 1970 Rolling Stone film Gimme Shelter and is a credit to director Mike Christie, who intercuts original…
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Queerguru’s Peter Herbert reviews ‘TENDERNESS AND RAGE’ which explores HIV and AIDS during the UK’s AIDS epidemic
Tenderness and Rage is a multimedia exhibition staged in the heart of London that does not so much look back in anger as much as reflect on how HIV/AIDS disrupted so many lives in the 1980s/90s and beyond. The irony of The Wellcome Collection staging Tenderness and Rage is not lost, as it acknowledges public…
