Fringe! -queer film and arts fest celebrates 15
Fringe! -queer film and arts fest celebrates 15 years - offering a loud story of joy, solidarity and radical imagination. Here are just a few items that caught my eye.
Brian Butler
Was Shakespeare queer ?
William Shakespeare’s sexuality, the homoerotic relationship between a talk show host and a composer, and the closeted world of Hollywood’s gay actors all feature on the London stage this month and next.
Scholars and LGBTQ+ commentators are undecided about whether our greatest playwright William Shakespeare was gay or
Sandi Goodwin: The art of making art
Queer musical theatre genius Stephen Sondheim said: “the art of making art is putting it together, bit by bit.”
And Sandi Goodwin has certainly done that, in a varied life which has encompassed being an aspiring dancer and actor, then HIV nurse and activist, theatre producer, and now an abstract
Actually Fabulous - 20th anniversary concert from Actually Gay Men's Chorus
For their 20th anniversary concert, Actually Gay Men’s Chorus in Brighton chose Actually Fabulous as the title of the show. No modesty and none needed.
It’s an ever-surprising choral group under the meticulous and energetic musical direction of Samuel Cousins and with Simon Gray’s immaculate accompaniment, and
This year's official Brighton & Hove Pride dance video to support the trans community
Five trans drag artists will headline in this year’s official Brighton & Hove Pride dance video.
The brainchild of 201 Dance Company’s Brighton-based artistic director Andrea Walker, the video, which last year had one million social media hits, will strongly support the trans community.
And Brighton queers and
7/7 - 20 years on: a personal memory
On 7 July 2005 I was not in my office at the British Medical Association’s HQ in Tavistock Square, London.
Instead, as Director of Communications I was attending a meeting at the British Medical Journal’s offices in the same building but further up Upper Woburn Place towards Euston.
“What they do to one of us, they do to all of us” - Rainbow Chorus Summer concert
On the anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, Brighton’s Rainbow Chorus gave an emotional, defiant and joyful concert under the title Anthems In Colour.
And they had a battle of their own with technical issues. No stage lighting because it had been stolen and a last-minute sound system didn’t