An interview with Darren Hayes.

An interview with Darren Hayes about the album This Delicate Thing We’ve Made, the DVD This Delicate Film We’ve Made, and the issue of gay rights.

I definitely come from a generation where my first sexual awareness was based in shame. It wasn’t like I put on my ruby slippers and headed off to the magical West End.

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UK: 135 min • Really Useful Group • Adelphi Theatre, London

Gareth Gates is a revelation in this production of Joseph.

What can be said of Gareth Gates is that if he’s given half the chance, he could not only keep the show afloat, but he could breathe fresh life into the production and take it to new uncharted heights.

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192 pages • IDW Publishing Horse • March 15th, 2008 [PB]

In the third collection of the Season Eight comic series Buffy finally gets in touch with her inner lesbian. Nerds worldwide mourn that this is not televised …

Both the girls are naked and just about everyone who matters – even twinkster Andrew – interrupt their post-coital embrace.

136 pages • Dark Horse • March 5th, 2008 [PB]

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378 pages • Public Affairs • October 2nd, 2008

A fascinating collection of journalism from 2008 that marks the end of the Bush era.

To understand what America has become, what it can become, and why Obama is the ideal candidate to bring about change, this is essential reading.

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208 pages • Reilly & Britton • 1904

The remarkably subversive sequel to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz established the world of Oz, and does not feature Judy … I mean, Dorothy.

Lovely Her: A Portrait of Jacqueline Susann

Christopher Brocklebank looks back on the life of Jacqueline Susann, the author of Valley of the Dolls who would have turned 90 this year.

Valley of the Dolls spent so long on the bestseller lists that it was eventually credited by the Guinness Book of Records as the best-selling novel of all time. Hollywood quickly picked up the option, and produced a ludicrously high-camp adaptation in 1967.

The work of AKT

Help, advice, support and housing from the Albert Kennedy Trust.

The charity is named after Albert Kennedy, who fell to his death from the top of a car park in Manchester in 1989 whilst trying to escape a gang of ‘queerbashers’.

A personal take on civil partnerships

It is not in the end about weddings but about the right to have one.

Even at my best friend’s wedding I had to ward off the evil-eye of the mother-in-law, who thought of me as a second-class citizen as well as other things I will not commit to this page. The Daily Mail had done its work on her.

The American Family Association gets in a tizzy about the so-called “culture wars”.

Another home-grown Church-Movement gets out of hand. The American Family Association are now after Pepsi, following its attacks on Ikea, Heinz, and McDonald’s, for “promoting homosexuality”. Whatever that may mean.

There are, according to this document, a lot of scary things these highly organized homos and their dread “agenda” advocate. They want “access to all programs of the Boy Scouts of America”!

Clementine shivers, and looks for warmth, maybe with the help of a dutch oven.

Clementine introduces this month’s interviewee Darren Hayes … Once she finds out who he is.

I’m thrilled to report we’re finally interviewing a Real Celebrity in Polari! It’s the gorgeous Australian heart throb Jason Dono- … Darren Hayes? Never heard of him.