An Interview with Stonewall’s External Affairs Officer.

An interview with Richard Lane, the External Affairs Officer at Stonewall, about the Protection of Freedoms Act, 2012. Men who have convictions for sexual activities that are now legal can apply to have them erased.

“There are cases of people in their 30s and early 40s who have convictions on the records. It’s stopping them applying for jobs, and in later life stopping them applying to help out with charities and voluntary groups.”

Emma Adams, Brian Mullin and Nick Field.

Interview with Emma Adams, Brian Mullin and Nick Field about Mauve New World, work in development by queer writers and performers, at Ovalhouse Theatre, London.

“Mauve New World explores the possibilities of queer futures, merging sci-fi and the speculative with theatre practices to create new stories and new ways of telling them.”

Talking About Realistic Expectations.

An interview with Phil Evelyn from Quality Life Fitness about taking an approach to fitness that results in tangible and sustainable benefits.

“Maybe you can’t live without cup cakes so change something else to compensate, run longer, do an extra set when you workout. This is about people’s happiness not just about their fitness, although hopefully the latter helps with the former.”

Interview with director and writer Travis Mathews

In a revealing interview, Mathews talks about gay sex and intimacy in his new film, I Want Your Love, and his series of shorts, In Their Room.

“I wanted to show gay men’s sexual relationships in ways that aren’t really being depicted in mainstream gay porn. There’s so many different reasons why people have sex and I wanted to create stories and characters that explore that.”

Goodbye to Soho

Author, diarist and playwright Clayton Littlewood talks about his latest book, Goodbye to Soho, and telling X-rated stories for the National Trust app on Soho.

“I had all this material waiting. And I wanted to do justice to all the characters in the first book and say goodbye to them properly.”

WHOF rebrands for its birthday.

An interview with Kevin O’Neil on the second birthday of Wipe Out Homophobia.

“To mark the two year anniversary the logo has been updated, a new banner of members’ wedding pics has been added, the name has been changed and the website www.whof.net has had 20 new info pages added, including pages about what happened to homosexuals during the holocaust, and pages featuring other LGBT groups who actively fight homophobia.”

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.”

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.”

The author of We The Animals talks about his debut novel

In a fascinating and insightful interview, Justin Torres talks about writing an alternative coming of age story, and how becoming an individual is sometimes a loss.

“I was ‘working on the fringes of society’, as I like to say, and the writing teacher said, ‘you’re not going to be cute forever, what are you going to do?’ It was what I needed to hear.”

The Perfect Interview

In an informative and laid back interview, Polari‘s editor talks to the team behind the comedy The Perfect Family about the script, the spectacular cast, and the importance of independent films.

“The Perfect Family is a funny and heartfelt exploration of the importance of family, and what it means when our beliefs come into conflict with our emotions.”