Will A Proposed Development End This London Insitution?

Simon Watney writes about the history of The Black Cap, and the cruel face of modern developmental planning.

“The fate of The Black Cap also matters in wider terms, since its history goes back many centuries, like that of The Worlds End on the opposite side of the High Street, which since at least the seventeenth-century had been famous as The Old Mother Red Cap, its name only being changed most regrettably by new owners in the late 1980s.

Book launch, Gay’s The Word, May 24, London.

Author and historian Mark Cornwall reads from his book on Heinz Rutha, the pioneer of a youth movement that emphasized male bonding in its quest to reassert German dominance over Czech space in the 1930s.

“Through a narrative that unravels the threads of Rutha’s own repressed sexuality, Cornwall shows how Czech authorities misinterpreted Rutha’s mission as sexual deviance and in 1937 charged him with corrupting adolescents.”

Getting REAL

An interview with the students from Western University, Ontario who run the remarkable GetREAL project.

” If we could go back, for those of us that did the bullying, we would never have done that.”

17-24-30 Annual Vigil

Remembering the people killed and injured in the nail bombs detonated in Brixton, Brick Lane and Soho in April 1999 by David Copeland.

“The bombs were designed to stir up hatred in the Black, Asian and Gay communities and result in the election of the BNP. They killed three people, including a pregnant woman, and injured one-hundred and twenty-nine others.”

London Mayoral Elections 2012.

Tim Bennett-Goodman looks at the forthcoming London Mayoral and Assembly elections from the LGBT perspective, with a not-entirely impartial eye …

“Of course, most of us cast our vote based on a much wider spectrum of issues than just sexuality (which is doubtless as it should be) but we surely want to support a candidate who will do us the most good, or possibly the least harm. “

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Released April 2, 2012

Debut release from Autralian supergroup Seeker Lover Keeper.

“This collection of songs contains some beautiful, heart wrenching and interesting material.”

A Film of Firsts

In an interview of many laughs with the director, producer and star of North Sea Texas we talked about the difficulties of funding gay films and the creative process behind it.

“It’s a remarkable film made more remarkable by the fact that it was Jelle’s first role as an actor, first feature film for director Bavo, and first feature for Yves as producer.”

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Version: 1.5.14 Released April 18, 2012

OMGPOP’s pictionary style game App is a complete winner.

“Draw Something‘s success must have Angry Bird creators, Rovio spitting digital feathers!”

Challenging homophobia in new ways

Get REAL is a university student-driven initiative aimed at eliminating homophobia in creative and dynamic ways.

“As Edward Everett the 20th US Secretary of State once astutely noted, “Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army”.”

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121 pages • Profile Books • May 3, 2012 [PB]

Tim Bennett-Goodman does not see a knighthood in the offing for the author of this delightfully wicked book.

“Bennett imagines the Palace as peopled by a cast of eccentrics and grotesques, from the prissy private secretary, Sir Kevin Scatchard, to the niffy nonagenarian, Sir Claude Pollington. It is also rife with politicking and camp bitchery.”