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Craig Hanlon-Smith

FEATURE: The Face of You – Madonna at 60

FEATURE: The Face of You – Madonna at 60

On July 13, 1987, Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone stood on stage at Madison Square Garden in New York City midway through her Who’s That Girl Tour set to address the audience. The show was an additional date added to the schedule in memory of her friend Martin Burgoyne who had died from AIDS related

MUSIC REVIEW: Everything You’ll Ever Need – Jake Shears’ flies solo

MUSIC REVIEW: Everything You’ll Ever Need – Jake Shears’ flies solo

Jake Shears and his Scissor Sisters were the stealth queens of LGBT+ acceptance and progress upon these island shores now more than a decade ago. It was almost as if under the cover of darkness their uplifting brand of acceptable queer stage performance dragged the wider heterosexual music buying pu

OPINION: Craig’s Thoughts – In My Tribe or Everything Changes

OPINION: Craig’s Thoughts – In My Tribe or Everything Changes

And so at a gently ripe 46 years old, our protagonist is calm and content, a happy homosexual with, hopefully, half his life ahead of him. It’s now June 28, 2018, exactly 49 years to the date since the Stonewall riots of New York launched the LGBT+ civil rights movement and international Pride event

Caplin promises Action Not Words!

Caplin promises Action Not Words!

Ivor Caplin has been elected the new Chair of The Jewish Labour Movement at a key point in the history of both the movement but also The Labour Party itself. The party has recently been beset with accusations of anti-Semitism deep within its ranks, a fact Mr. Caplin did not shy away from in his acce

FEATURE: My So-Called Chemsex Life

FEATURE: My So-Called Chemsex Life

I originally tried to write this piece 18 months ago, but rather than an unsophisticated or educated guess along the theme of what has come to be known as ‘ChemSex’, I wanted to hear real and current stories from those who were actually engaged, in some way, with this lifestyle and recreational prac

OPINION: Craig’s Thoughts

OPINION: Craig’s Thoughts

IS THAT my tribe? Asked the awkward seven- year-old, skirting along the outer perimeter of the all-weather pitch on a 1970s wet spring Lancashire lunchtime. Envying the gaggles of energetic boys and their temporary but automatic friendship. Staring lost at their heptathlon of sports that he was cert

Fringe REVIEW: #BeMoreMartyn @The Warren Theatre Box

Fringe REVIEW: #BeMoreMartyn @The Warren Theatre Box

MARTYN Hett unwittingly became the face we all remember in the days following the terrorist attack on Manchester Arena in May 2017. The success of this play, #BeMoreMartyn is not in its staging of the manner of Martyn’s death – it does not, but in its focus on his life and those he impacted closest

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