The Extraordinary Happens Every Day.

Patrick Ness talks about his new novel The Crane Wife and how there’s a danger that social media can silence all but the loud voices.

“I’d just hate for the only people to speak to be the ones who are unafraid to be the loudest. The loudest are only part of society, and often not always the part that you want to hear.”

The Young Men Who Shocked Victoria England.

Neil McKenna talks about the case of Fanny and Stella, which revealed a hidden underworld of female impersonators and male prostitutes.

” It is significant that the Fanny and Stella trial was in 1870. It is significant that the police and the state cracked down on sexual identity. It was the manifestation of Fanny and Stella’s identity that was the problem as well as their behaviour.”

Time for an other view.

Scott de Buitléir talks about the new online magazine Eile, a new voice in Irish media.

“In Irish ‘an pobal eile’ means the other people, the other community, and that suits the idea perfectly. It’s not the mainstream.”

LLGFF 2013 Gala Film.

Christopher Bryant talks to Jeffrey Schwarz about his documentaries Vito and I Am Divine, which launched the 2013 London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival.

“Divine became a star through word of mouth, with the right people in the big cities saying, ‘have you heard about this movie where this queen eats dog shit, you have to go and see it.”

Search terms that have led readers to Polari.

It’s madness, and part of Polari’s WTF Friday features. Ancient Photography, Madonna vs The Beatles and Gay Cafés.

“Either biology lessons are failing our kids, or they’re on google early in their little lives.”

How To Create An LGBT Friendly World.

“Every subject can be completely open, that’s the goal, to make all workplaces and all schools LGBT friendly.”

Hans & Sophie Scholl, by Christopher Bryant.

To celebrate LGBT History Month, 2013, Polari is publishing a daily series of LGBT Heroes, selected by the magazine’s team of writers and special contributors.

“Hans was arrested in November 1937, and in June 1938 tried under under section 175a of the German Criminal Code. Hans faced expulsion from the Army, and banishment to a concentration camp to wear a pink triangle.”

Emperor Ai, by Christopher Bryant.

To celebrate LGBT History Month, 2013, Polari is publishing a daily series of LGBT Heroes, selected by the magazine’s team of writers and special contributors.

“Emperor Ai reinforced the idea of respect and consideration in an act that would reverberate throughout the history of Imperial China.”

Kate Hutton, by Christopher Bryant.

To celebrate LGBT History Month, 2013, Polari is publishing a daily series of LGBT Heroes, selected by the magazine’s team of writers and special contributors.

“In 1984, Hutton gave a tour of the seismology lab to the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Scientists, and that is when she came out both personally and professionally.”

Sisters Fay Tality and CC TV.

Media Ted was a comic strip that ran in the early days of Polari. Here we look back at the short life of the little champ.

Ted and Marcie are on the trail of the cross-dressing nuns. They meet Sisters Fay Tality and CC TV, and witness the Sisters’ first online gay wedding blessing.