Tag: UK
Inside the UK’s Rapidly Changing Drag Culture | Documentary
This well-meaning documentary from Netflix takes a look at how the UK’s rapidly changing drag scene is surviving the Covid lockdowns. However, somewhere along it mixes its message so much and it eventually trails off into confusion. The film starts out acknowledging the hardworking local drag queens who have always been the mainstay of…
Queerguru’s Ris Fatah stirs up happy memories of the 1970’s Mods music scene reviewing The Pebble And The Boy
The four-year period from 1978 to 1982 was probably the most fertile period in British music history. A complete soundclash of music genres peaked and ruled the airwaves, including punk, new wave, disco, Two-Tone, new romantic, heavy metal, and of course the late 70’s Mod revival. A bleak UK political and economic landscape plus…
Grayson Perry : The Vanity of Small Differences
Grayson Perry is a Turner Prize-winning English contemporary artist, writer, and broadcaster. He is known for his ceramic vases, tapestries[ as well as his observations of the contemporary art scene, and for dissecting British “prejudices, fashions and foibles“. He is also one of the country’s most famous inhibited crossdressers. His new exhibition currently touring…
Adam Carver cannot hide his enthusiasm for The Palaver Project …..here’s why
Adam Carver aka #FattButcher a Brit award-winning performer & cultural activist is presenting Palaver Project celebrating the radical potential of #LGBTQ+ inclusive performance work specifically created for children aged 3-8 and family audiences. at Cambridge Junction. The ebullient Carver shared his enormous passion for the Project in this interview with Queerguru https://adamgcarver.com/portfolio/palaver/ https://www.junction.co.uk/events/palaver-festival
The Coast is Queer : Queer literary Festival Feb 2021
At one point during the session Queers in the Library, there was a brief discussion of the concept of space itself, that the library can be as much a virtual zone as a material one, a space both physical and theoretical. It seemed to me to sum up the whole of the festival…
