Mother’s Ruin: a Hit!

The verdict on Mother’s Ruin, in which the wonderful Clementine, the Living Fashion Doll, featured.

I bow to you, Clementine, you are loved by all in the Commonwealth of Polari.

Lady Warsi gets a state-funded holiday to the Vatican

Lady Warsi talks nonsense about Christianity and tries to divert attention from the dismantling of the NHS

The tactic of the current Christian Right is to cry victim, but what they really want is the right to persecute others using whatever biblical statute will do the job. And so Lady Warsi launches her attack on the secular mind.

Ian McKellen

Bryon Fear selects Ian McKellen for Polari Magazine’s list of LGBT Heroes. For UK LGBT History Month 2012.

Since his public self-outing he has consistently fought for LGBT rights. He co-founded the LGBT rights lobby group Stonewall, is a patron of the Albert Kennedy Trust and has also been a patron of LGBT History Month since speaking at the launch of its inception.

Queen, Killer Queen

The Readers Wifes fourteenth choice of song with LGBT significance: Queen, Killer Queen. For 2012 LGBT History Month.

It’s a measure of just how estranged gay and straight people were from one another back then that Queen Freddie could preen his way through the 1970s in black nail varnish and white satin looking like a chiaroscuro Zandra Rhodes and yet… nobody knew.

The Trouble with Coming Out.

Paul Baker writes about the challenges that students face when they come out at university.

If you’re a straight teenager, in these godless ‘end times’, you’ve probably got a head-start on emotional growing up. You’ve probably fancied members of the opposite sex (and nobody’s bullied you because of it), you’ve probably had a boyfriend or girlfriend.

Sue Sanders

David Watters selects Sue Sanders for Polari Magazine’s list of LGBT Heroes. For UK LGBT History Month 2012.

Sue Sanders is a leading LGBT rights activist, and one of the founders of UK LGBT History Month.

The Hidden Cameras, Ban Marriage

The Readers Wifes thirteenth choice of song with LGBT significance. For 2012 LGBT History Month.

Joel Gibbs’ finest moment remains this chaotic, crazy story about a heterosexual union that comes off the rails at the alter. And does he really sing “There is splendour in the harshness of bum”?

Quentin Crisp

Clayton Littlewood selects Quentin Crisp for Polari Magazine’s list of LGBT Heroes. For UK LGBT History Month 2012.

In this ‘bear age’ of gay male culture that we now seem to be sheltering in, it’s the individuals that choose not to follow the herd, individuals that take a different path that I find the most interesting. And no one took a more different path than St Quentin.

k.d. lang, Miss Chatelaine

The Readers Wifes twelfth choice of song with LGBT significance. For 2012 LGBT History Month.

A woman dressed as a man dressed as a woman, living out hyperreal femme fantasies, tongue firmly cleaved to one powdered cheek.

Adèle Anderson

David Watters selects Adèle Anderson for Polari Magazine’s list of LGBT Heroes. For UK LGBT History Month 2012.

Adèle Anderson is an Olivier Award-nominated singer and actress, a distinguished supporter of the British Humanist Association, and one third of the internationally acclaimed and terribly British satirical singing cabaret act, Fascinating Aida.