A special preview screening of new documentary Are You Proud? will be followed by a Q&A with director Ashley Joiner on Wednesday 3rd July at London's Picturehouse Central. Some of the participants from the documentary will also be present. Are You Proud? a new documentary by Ashley Joiner Are You Proud? brings together rare archive... Continue Reading →
Theatre Review: ‘Riot Act’ Arcola Theatre (London) ★★★★★
Alexis Gregory’s brilliant piece of verbatim theatre, Riot Act, has stopped by East London’s Arcola Theatre as part of a national tour. Looking at the events of Stonewall, the politics of drag and the rise of British LGBT activism in the 80s, this swift show packs a punch in its 60 minutes. Photo by Dawson... Continue Reading →
Film Review: Before Stonewall The Making of a Gay and Lesbian Community ★★★★★
The path of the queer community has never been walked in a straight line. The seminal 1984 documentary Before Stonewall charts the history of the gay and lesbian movement in the United States from the Twenties to Stonewall in 1969, making for an invaluable primer into our own collective backstory. Restored and re-released in selected... Continue Reading →
Film Review: The Lavender Scare ★★★★
As I sit here, in 2019, wearing a Kylie Minogue t-shirt, staring at a bookshelf littered with queer literature, fashion biographies and tasteful portfolios of homo-erotic art, there is no doubt to the world around me that I am a homosexual. Trust me, my Netflix and Amazon algorithms are well aware. While watching filmmaker Josh... Continue Reading →
John Cameron Mitchell presents Entertaining Mr Sloane in 35mm at The Quad
As part of New York's LGBTQ film festival NewFest's monthly Coming Out Again series at The Quad cinema, filmmaker and actor John Cameron Mitchell will present director Douglas Hickox's 1970 dark comedy Entertaining Mr Sloane, based on the play by Joe Orton. Mitchell, who can be seen in the new Hulu series Shrill, describes Sloane on the Quad... Continue Reading →
NYC Drag March Storytelling Workshop at Tompkins Square Library
As part of the New York Public Library's (NYPL) Stonewall 50 exhibition and related series of events, this Thursday 14th March 6 - 8pm The Drag March & Other Tales of Glamour and Resistance: A Storytelling Workshop will take place at Tompkins Square Library, East Village. Open to all, its the first in a series of... Continue Reading →
Metanoia: Transformation Through AIDS Archives and Activism at The Center New York
Opening Monday 11th March, Metanoia: Transformation Through AIDS Archives and Activism runs at The Center, New York City, through 29th April 2019. Examining community responses to the AIDS crisis, the archival exhibition aims to demonstrate that "HIV/AIDS is a powerful agent of change and that transformation happens through community, activism, words, sex, care and the... Continue Reading →