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Gillian Freeman author of the groundbreaking queer book/film The Leather Boys has died aged 89

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Gillian Freeman, the British author who in 1961 wrote the groundbreaking novel The Leather Boys has died aged 89..  The controversial novel which she published under  the pseudonym Eliot George,  was the a story of a gay relationship between two young working-class men, later turned into a film for which she wrote the screenplay, this … Continue reading



Goodbye Jerry : the legendary Broadway composer of Hello Dolly & La Cage Aux Folles has died.

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Six time Tony Award winner  songwriter-composer JERRY HERMAN died here in Miami Beach yesterday aged 88 years old. This legendary Broadway figure who created such camp hot musicals such as Hello Dolly, Mame and the first ever ‘gay’ musical La Cage Aux Folles (the latter he wrote with Harvey Fierstein) In his long career Herman … Continue reading




‘Hi Di Hi’ the three little words that made Ruth Madoc a Star and a gay icon.

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      Ruth Madoc   16 April 1943  _  9 December 2022 (aged 79)  RIP From 1980 – 1988 Hi Di Hi was one of the most successful sit-coms on British Television.  Irs setting was a Holiday Camp in the 1950s  which was then the most popular vacation destination for blue-collar families still recovering from … Continue reading



Hubert de Givenchy the last of the great French Couturiers has died.

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  The legendary 6′ 6″ aristocratic Haute Couture designer HUBERT de GIVENCHY has died at aged 91 at the Renaissance chateau near Paris, where he and his husband designer PHILIPPE VENET had lived for decades.  Givenchy was the last of the old school of a small clique of talented groundbreaking designers that made Paris the fashion … Continue reading



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