Straight Up Laughs At Guilt And Shame
Guilt & Shame is so utterly hilarious that it’s actually difficult to write about. As we’re reliving the action from Soho Theatre we’re laughing too much and losing our train of thought. The...
View ArticleUK’s Top LGBT Choir Brings Harmony To Hackney
Hackney Empire plays host to London’s biggest LGBT choir this summer (19 July). The Pink Singers are one of the city’s finest collections of remarkable voices and they’ll be celebrating the best of...
View ArticleZanna Don’t! A Musical Fairy Tale
First things first — this vibrant, energetic musical is the campest, gayest and most glitteringly homosexual show you’re ever likely to see. In comparison, Zanna Don’t! makes the Wizard Of Oz, Sound...
View ArticleLondon Short Fiction: First
Continuing our series of short stories set in, or influenced by, London. This month’s theme is ‘sexy, sensual, saucy London‘, which concludes today with a brewing romance in a gay club. First Even...
View ArticleRock Meets Love As The Irrepressibles Take Shoreditch
London outfit The Irrepressibles headline Village Underground on 26 March, bringing their unique take on orchestral pop with an unabashed message of universal love to Shoreditch. Ignoring for a moment...
View Article10 First-Date Suggestions For Gay Londoners
So you’ve found a handsome fella out in the club or via Grindr/Tinder, but where do you go for that all-important first date? The Sun, Clapham Common The Sun does a mean Sunday roast and a tasty Bloody...
View ArticleA Guide To London Pride Weekend
The head of the procession by Zefrog Will this weekend’s London Pride events see an improvement on the trainwreck that was World Pride 2012? Let’s hope so. This time last year, what should have been...
View ArticleThe Pansy Project: Because Homophobia Is Horrible
Faggot! Canary Wharf by Paul Harfleet “Accidental activist”, artist Paul Harfleet plants pansies at the sites of homophobic abuse. The Pansy Project started as a personal act, marking places where Paul...
View ArticlePreview: 27th London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival
This year, BFI Southbank hosts the 27th Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, its annual celebration of LGBT cinema from around the world. Handily split into three sections – Hearts, Bodies and Minds – it...
View ArticleTheatre Review: Sour Lips @ Ovalhouse
A real-life fantasy Remember the Gay Girl in Damascus? A blog with that suggestive name went viral during last year’s Arab Spring, only to be outed as a hoax — or should we say a fantasy — by its...
View ArticleClub Watch: Queers In Crisis @ Vogue Fabrics
Club night Queers in Crisis provides a window onto the flourishing, yet fragile avant-garde art scenes of the two most economically stricken European nations: Greece and Portugal. Performer and...
View ArticleFilm Review: Leave It On The Floor @ Leicester Square Theatre
Andre Meyers in Leave it on the FloorGay African-American musicals aren’t exactly ten a penny in cinemas, but for two weeks director Sheldon Larry’s Leave It on the Floor will be showing at the...
View ArticleIn Pictures: World Pride In London 2012
World Pride was celebrated on the streets of central London on Saturday, despite last-minute cuts and timing changes. Crowds were thinner on Oxford Street than in previous years but the lack of floats...
View ArticleConcert Celebrates 21 Years Of The London Gay Men’s Chorus
The London Gay Men’s Chorus celebrates 21 “glorious years of harmony” with a big gig at the Royal Festival Hall on Sunday night, entitled A Band of Brothers. Alongside their famous arrangements of...
View ArticleOpera Review: Don Giovanni @ Heaven, Charing Cross
Production photo by Cleo Pettitt It’s a weekend night and we’re standing in Heaven cruising the hot bodies on stage and the trendy polysexual crowd below. The only differences from 1987 are that this...
View ArticlePreview: Fringe! Gay Film Festival
Fringe! Gay Film Festival is back with an eclectic weekend of events between 12-15 April. This year’s programme includes more than 30 events from movies and workshops to wild parties at different East...
View ArticleA Look At LGBT Month And Pride House 2012
LGBT History Month had its pre-launch event at the Oval last week, revealing that in Olympic year, the focus of February’s activities will again be sport, particularly focusing on promoting the...
View ArticlePreview: Gaywise Festival – GFest 2011
Visit the exhibition at Dreamspace GalleryThe cross-arts Gaywise Festival – GFest 2011 – returns on 7 November with visual artists, film makers, provocateurs, drag acts, lesbian hip hop artists,...
View ArticleGay Couple “Removed” From A Soho Pub “For Kissing”
The John Snow Pub, Broadwick Street, Soho A popular Soho pub found itself facing accusations of homophobia today after a gay couple claimed they were asked to leave the premises for kissing. According...
View ArticlePride London 2010
On Saturday, loud music, dancing, singing, bright colours, bare flesh and whistles coming from over 130 walking groups and floats filled the streets of the West End and the eyes and ears of onlookers...
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