Celebrating the Queer Stars and Allies who died in 2023 and whom we will never Forget

  Kenneth Anger was a renowned queer, avant-garde artist known for his surreal films who died at 96. He produced almost 40 works beginning in 1937 which variously merge surrealism with homoeroticism and the occult. One of America’s first openly gay filmmakers” with several films released before homosexuality was legalized in the U.S. he also wrote two “Hollywood … Continue reading

Celebrity queer coupling and uncoupling that are making headlines

    Gay men have been coupling and uncoupling for years but since the advent of gay marriage separations and divorce have become much more public.  And in the case of  ‘celebrity gays’  the news of their break-ups have become fodder for gossip columns. They are trying to persuade us that in post-covid 2023 we … Continue reading

Champagne and Sodomy : The Art And Crime of Oscar Wilde

  For the past nine years since it was founded The Williams Project, a national professional theatre ensemble in Seattle,  has fulfilled its mission of building ambitiously re-imagined productions of American plays, while paying artists a living wage.  What caught our attention was their next production  Champagne + Sodomy ‘The Art And Crime of Oscar … Continue reading

Charles Leslie and The Art of Looking

Charles Leslie  with Kim David Smith posing as a “classical nude,” photographed by Alex Geana Charles W. Leslie was one of the fathers of modern SoHo in New York,  and he also had the biggest penis art collection in the world. Together with his late partner Fritz Lohmann, he founded the first-ever museum dedicated to … Continue reading

Charles Nelson Reilly : The Life of Reilly

  The late great  CHARLES NELSON REILLY was known by most of the general public as one of the funniest men of American TV shows in the 1960’s and 1970’s.  He was however so much more than that. He was a serious stage actor, starred in many Broadway musicals winning a Tony Award in the … Continue reading

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