Written by Dominic Montague and directed by Paula McFetridge, A Queer Céilí at the Marty Forsythe is an exciting new production from Kabosh that explores the events of the first National Union of Students Lesbian and Gay Conference, Queen’s University Belfast 1983. One year after the decriminalisation of homosexuality in Northern Ireland, and two […]
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Matt Cain: Pop, Persecution and Politics
In a week that also saw him meet Michelle Visage after watching her as Miss Hedge in the wonderful musical Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, the LGBT History Month patron, journalist, novelist and former editor-in-chief of Attitude takes time to chat with Sam Bennett Firstly, very importantly, you just met Michelle Visage. [Laughs] Brilliant, I […]
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Chaune King On…
South American-born and London-based Chaune King once identified as a masculine female or masculine lesbian, and hit the music scene in 2002 with LGBT status-confirming lyrics. “I felt if I wasn’t going to be honest about my life,” he says, “I would be lying to my fans.” In 2008, the LGBT History Month patron recalls, […]
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The new Ferrari Portofino
Kevin Haggarthy Car buffs are well familiar with the emotive superlatives used to describe Ferrari. Some of you may even be bored with it. Yet each time I drive a new Ferrari I lose myself to a spiral of poetic prose; like a lovesick child, I’ve finally found love… again. And after a day spent […]
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The Trouble Boys: A Q&A with E.R. Fallon
Irish-American novelist E.R. Fallon has written a compelling historical crime drama. The Trouble Boys paints a vivid picture of 1940s and 1950s gangland New York, and explores the deadly consequences of loyalty to family and friends. Here the author tells us a little bit more… You’ve dedicated The Trouble Boys to your family. Could you […]
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Simon Cowell says sorry for back door joke
X factor judge Simon Cowell has said sorry after he seemingly joked about a TV presenter’s sexuality and caused upset among many viewers. Simon was appearing on the X Factor spin-off show Xtra Factor when the comment was made by the 57 year-old music mogul, which is co-hosted by openly gay singer and previous contestant […]
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LGBT women less confident about their financial future than LGBT men
BlackRock’s Investor Pulse survey, one of the largest studies exploring attitudes to saving, investing and retirement, has revealed the financial outlook for British Lesbian, Gay Bi-sexual, and Transgender (LGBT) people for the first time. In a survey of 4,000 individuals in the UK aged between 25 -74, 213 respondents identified themselves as LGBT. The survey […]
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