Turn Back Time
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Don’t Leave Me This Way
Jimmy Sommerville of The Communards is releasing a new version of ‘Don’t Leave Me This Way’ which was a UK gay anthem 3o years ago. It’a a track from their new acoustic album, meanwhile below is a video of the original version, as we ask (yet again) where did all the time go?
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Performance Artist Leigh Bowery Goes Shopping
Recently uploaded to YouTube is this wee gem of a video of Leigh Bowery shooting a shopping segment for the UK BBC TV’s ‘The Clothes Show’ in 1988. Bowery was a London-based performance artist, club promoter, and designer who created the legendary club Taboo which became the hang out of London’s alternative ‘artists’. Taboo was really ahead…
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Happy 81st Birthday Diahann Carroll
Happy 81st Birthday Miss Diahann Carroll : from Carmen Jones and Porgy and Bess when you first started out in the 1950’s to your Golden Globe Award for your ground-breaking Tv series ‘Julia’ and then gaining ‘gay icon‘ status as Blake Carrington’s tough sister Dominique Deveraux intent on taking Alexis (Joan Collins) down in Dynasty, we…
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And May I Say What An Honor It Is For You To Have Me
The late and very great Kenneth Williams was a much loved British comic actor and comedian who was a mainstay of the classic ‘Carry On’ movies in the 1960’s and 1970’s. A wickedly funny and articulate man who was probably like the U.K.’s own Charles Nelson Reilly. Although he was as camp as a row…
