Grace Jones
Grace Jones is the ultimate pop star; gorgeous, timeless, unearthly and endlessly inventive. She exists in her own time zone and as a live act, never fails to deliver a…
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A queer trip into the Italian Renaissance
Michelangelo featured a a kiss between men in his greatest masterpiece. Leonardo Da Vinci faced charges of sodomy and spent a lifetime exploring androgyny is his art. Historians still argue…
Mark Moore
The culturally queer roots are often overlooked in the UK history of acid house. DJ and producer Mark Moore was there at the raving dawn. He played in the gay…
Porn stars and Prozac
As the pandemic death toll rises, jobs crumble and confusion reigns, we’re spinning deeper into a mental health crisis. Lockdown experiences are having psychological consequences – including restrictions on funerals…
Milos
Coronovirus has sabotaged planned holidays and travel restrictions and economic collapse looks likely to jeopardise future plans. Unable to travel in real life, the only option was to take a…
Wasteland Experience: Viral Pandemic
In June 2016, I threw myself into an immersive theatre piece staged in an abandoned shopping mall in Reading. The theme? Contagious killers, zombies and savage bandits roam a dystopia…
The Masculine Prison
Society expects strict behavioural patterns from both men and women, but gender isn’t strictly binary and on that sliding scale of biology and nurture exists a lesson for us all,…
Piers Morgan
Some are singing the praises of Piers Morgan, because he’s shouty and furious with the Government. I have a longer memory. He might be seen as a ‘key worker’, but…
Set me Free from GHB
GHB, GBL or G is an industrial solvent that’s often used as a party drug. It is highly likely that Reynhard Sinaga used the drug to spike and then rape,…
Dita Von Teese
Dita Von Teese is the most celebrated burlesque performer since Gypsy Rose Lee. She’s an enduring pin-up, costume designer, actress and entrepreneur. Von Teese is currently touring the UK with…