Arts REVIEW: Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends Brian Butler gets very emotional watching a tribute to the late great Sondheim By Brian Butler • 3 min read
Arts Explosive new gay dating series For the Love of DILFS to premiere in the UK on Tuesday, January 31 Froot.TV, the LGBTQ+ streaming platform from OUTtv, has released the official trailer for explosive new gay dating series For The Love Of DILFS, hosted by Stormy Daniels, which premieres on Tuesday, January 31 in the UK. By Graham Robson • 1 min read
Arts Terrence Higgins Trust works with BBC’s EastEnders on major HIV storyline HIV/sexual health charity Terrence Higgins Trust (THT) has confirmed it is working with BBC’s EastEnders to develop a major new storyline, which will see character Zack Hudson (James Farrar) diagnosed with HIV 30 years after the seminal Mark Fowler storyline. By Graham Robson • 1 min read
Arts FILM REVIEW: Iris Prize shorts Part 1 – Queer Youth In the first of three articles, Brian Butler looks at six finalists from this year’s Iris Prize available to watch now on Channel 4’s All4 By Brian Butler • 3 min read
Arts Black Peppa celebrates Birmingham’s LGBTQ+ community on RuPaul’s Drag Race UK “In Birmingham the queer family that I have made there, they have brought out who Black Peppa is.” By Catherine Muxworthy • 2 min read
RuPaul’s Drag Race UK Series 4,Meet The Queens,Pixie Polite;Le Fil;Sminty Drop;Danny Beard;Starlet;Dakota Schiffer;Cheddar Gorgeous;Black Peppa;Just May;Baby;Jonbers Blonde;Copper Top,World of Wonder,Guy Levy Arts ‘We are all born naked, and the rest is drag’: How RuPaul’s Drag Race ‘spectacularises’ LGBTQ+ stigma Researchers have spent months analysing more than a million tweets, thousands of newspaper and magazine articles, and countless items of user-generated content in an attempt to discover what makes RuPaul’s Drag Race such a success. By Contributor • 3 min read
Arts Revry announces ‘Stitch, Please!’ – a new costume design competition series, hosted by Blu Hydrangea Hosted by Northern Irish drag queen and social media star Blu Hydrangea, ‘Stitch, Please!’ will follow two designers each week, as they compete to create a different outfit inspired by iconic designs from the worlds of fashion, film, television, and cosplay. By Graham Robson • 1 min read
Arts Cadbury recreates Black Peppa’s Drag Race UK headdress Following Black Peppa’s win, Cadbury put their Bournville chocolatiers to work as they re-created the iconic chocolate headdress, this time using real chocolate as their materials. By Catherine Muxworthy • 1 min read
Arts Birmingham’s Black Peppa joins the cast of Drag Race UK season 4 Their drag name comes from a combination of things – celebrating their blackness, a friend obsessed with Peppa Pig and a love of spiced food. By Catherine Muxworthy • 2 min read
Arts West Midlands star announced as Strictly Come Dancing’s next same-sex pairing Richie Anderson, a radio and TV personality, has been announced as the third celebrity dancer added to the hit BBC show, Strictly Come Dancing. By Catherine Muxworthy • 1 min read
Arts Tom Daley picks up the baton for LGBTQ+ rights across the Commonwealth As thousands of athletes prepared to compete on the global stage at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, Olympic gold medallist and double world champion diver Tom Daley shone a light on an issue he cares passionately about By Graham Robson • 3 min read
Arts West Midlands star announced as Strictly Come Dancing’s next same-sex pairing Richie Anderson, a radio and TV personality, has been announced as the third celebrity dancer added to the hit BBC show, Strictly Come Dancing. By Catherine Muxworthy • 1 min read
