It’s a Sin: Remembering lost friends
By Ian Temple Russell T. Davies’ new five-part series It’s A Sin on Channel 4 has floored me. Not only does it portray London in… Read More »It’s a Sin: Remembering lost friends
Television
LGBT+ History Month is Back On YouTube!
We are now live on YouTube! There are currently 55 videos, stretching as far back as 1987, including footage of CHE founder and father of… Read More »LGBT+ History Month is Back On YouTube!
“Equal” – New Docudrama Series (HBO Max, October 2020)
HBO Max Announces Powerhouse Cast for LGBTQ+ Docuseries EQUAL, a Four-Part Chronicle of Landmark Events and Forgotten Heroes of the LGBTQ+ Civil Rights Movement. Led… Read More »“Equal” – New Docudrama Series (HBO Max, October 2020)
Jeff Evans – We’re Here, We’re Queer, And We’re Not Going Shopping!
Back in early 1990s, with the AIDS crisis at its height, Dr Jeff Evans and Simon McGurk, then students in Salford, fell foul of the… Read More »Jeff Evans – We’re Here, We’re Queer, And We’re Not Going Shopping!
Chewing the Cud – Maisie Barker talks about LGBT+ History Month
Schools OUT UK Committee member Maisie Barker was recently interviewed by Manchester-based Chewing The Cud.
How To Queer Your Museum by Ancient House Teenage History Club
Ancient House Teenage History Club created this film to inspire other museums to find LGBTQ+ object in their collections and encourage better representation of queer… Read More »How To Queer Your Museum by Ancient House Teenage History Club
Tony Warren 08-07-1936 to 01-03-2016
Writer Tony Warren, founder of Coronation Street, has died aged 79. To read the Guardian obituary of this remarkable man go here
Obituary: Roger Rees, Welsh actor dies aged 71
Welsh actor Roger Rees, star of Cheers and The West Wing, has died aged 71. Mr Rees, who was born in Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, won Tony… Read More »Obituary: Roger Rees, Welsh actor dies aged 71
“I've had enough”: Complaint letter sent to RTE by Dublin theatre producer
Eire: “I’ve had enough”: Complaint letter sent to RTE over Saturday Night Show ‘apology’ – by Brian Merriman, Artistic Director International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival. Radio Television Eireann (Ireland) probably thought they were doing something ‘avant garde’ in inviting one of Ireland’s most articulate and talented drag artistes/advocate, Panti on the ‘Saturday Night Show’. The interview named a few ‘right wing’ journalists and a ‘catholic’ funded Iona Institute as being homophobic in their activity. Themes like religion, politics, media, history, etc. are unpacked in his analysis of the importance of telling our modern LGBT lifestyle and culture on the stages of the biggest International Gay Theatre Festival in the world.
Update 7th February 2014: Irish state broadcaster RTE pays out €85,000 compensation for suggestion that the legal discrimination of ‘Gays’ does not = ‘homophobia’
Channel 4 to flood peak-time advertising slots with "Gay Mountain" Anthem
Channel 4 to flood peak-time advertising slots with “Gay Mountain” Anthem. Tonight (6th February) watch out for an extremely camp version of the Russian national anthem, set to a disco beat and performed by a ‘bear’ in front of a rainbow of necoloured lightbulbs as Channel 4 wishes ‘Good luck to everyone in Sochi’