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Palestinian filmmaker Dima Hamdan wins prestigious LGBTQ+ film prize for ‘Blood Like Water’

Palestinian filmmaker Dima Hamdan wins prestigious LGBTQ+ film prize for ‘Blood Like Water’

Dima Hamdan, a Palestinian filmmaker and journalist, has won the prestigious Iris Prize, supported by the Michael Bishop Foundation, for her short film Blood Like Water. Based in Berlin, Dima’s film Blood Like Water tells the story of Shadi, who embarks on a secret adventure and accidentally drags h

REVIEW: Dave Lynn and Allan Cardew bring ‘John and Thomas’ to life

REVIEW: Dave Lynn and Allan Cardew bring ‘John and Thomas’ to life

There’s many a double act that split – through ill health, retirement or death – and there’s sometimes a sense of not knowing how the remaining partner feels. And that’s a central theme of Andrew Kay’s latest play John and Thomas. But this 50-minute gem is so much more than that. John (Allan Cardew)

Iris Prize Film Festival kicks off this week in Cardiff

Iris Prize Film Festival kicks off this week in Cardiff

The 18th internationally acclaimed LGBTQ+ Iris Prize Film Festival kicks off this week in Cardiff but you, like me, will have the chance to catch some of its best bits online.

Rehearsed reading of Andrew Kay play ‘John and Thomas’ with Dave Lynn and Allan Cardew to raise funds for new LGBTQ+ drama prize in honour of Jason Sutton aka Miss Jason

Rehearsed reading of Andrew Kay play ‘John and Thomas’ with Dave Lynn and Allan Cardew to raise funds for new LGBTQ+ drama prize in honour of Jason Sutton aka Miss Jason

It’s several decades since drag performer Dave Lynn first met then amateur actor Allan Cardew at Marilyn’s club behind Brighton station. Since then, they’ve shared the stage in many a gay-themed play and Allan has gone on to be a director and producer – most recently of the alternative panto. And so

The Coast Is Queer, Brighton’s well-established festival of LGBTQ+ writing, returns this year from 10-13 October

The Coast Is Queer, Brighton’s well-established festival of LGBTQ+ writing, returns this year from 10-13 October

The Coast Is Queer, Brighton’s well-established festival of LGBTQ+ writing, returns this year from 10-13 October with conversations, panels, workshops, performance and films, celebrating queer writing. It was the first festival of its kind in the UK, and it’s once again at the Attenborough Centre fo

REVIEW: ‘Why Am I So Single?’ at Garrick Theatre

REVIEW: ‘Why Am I So Single?’ at Garrick Theatre

The creators of smash hit musical SIX, Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss, have done it again with their new show for the Gen Z age – Why Am I So Single?. Where SIX was all about girl power, this show delves deep into a specific personal relationship and is said to be semi-autobiographical. It breaks […]

Multi-award-winning theatre director Andrew Keates to launch Queer Theatre to tell LGBTQ+ stories and nurture queer talent

Multi-award-winning theatre director Andrew Keates to launch Queer Theatre to tell LGBTQ+ stories and nurture queer talent

A year ago, multi-award-winning theatre director Andrew Keates woke up in a shed at the bottom of a garden pumped full of drugs and on the brink of a heart attack after being sexually assaulted by two men.

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