Tag: UK
Manchester Rubber Weekend
It may come as something as a surprise to LGBT visitors to the UK that there is queer life outside of London too. Manchester, best known as being the northern city where the original Queer as Folk TV Series was based, has a thriving and very diverse gay community. None more apparent than the 7th…
Award-winning British Comedian Victoria Wood dies
The UK lost one of it’s much loved comedian/writers today with the untimely death today of the multi-talented Victoria Wood at the age of 62. Since she burst on to British television in 1974 by winning the ATV talent show New Faces, Wood became one of the most popular award-winning comic performers of her generation. Her…
Naked Boys Reading Love Letters
In time for Valentines Day the next Naked Boys Event will be Reading Love Letters on February 13th in Brighton (UK). The boys will strip down and do the best they can to sketch a portrait of love, one-sided, fraught and desirous. From the cocaine laced love letters of Freud to his fiancé to the…
#MulberryMiracle
On December 25th the miracle birth in this household was not the Baby Jesus but in fact a brand new Mulberry Handbag although it attracted the same worshippers as the Messiah did himself. This very tongue-in-check new television advertisement is causing all sorts of merriment back in the UK, but we wonder if the Evangelical…
Queer Story Showcase : I Love The Nightlife
The Queer Media folk up at the University of Salford in the UK are presenting a Queer Story Showcase under the banner ‘I Love The Nightlife’ ….which is inspired by the song from the cult classic drag queen movie Priscilla Queen Of The Desert. The event on Thursday 24th September 2015 will consist of a…
