Archive for category: LGBT History Month

LGBT History Month : Leee John and Black British Music

Just Imagine.

Leee John talks about his documentary on Black British Music, Flashback, and recalls the heydays of Imagination.

Heavenly Creatures: An Interview with Intimatchine

I’ll Eat You Last.

Intimatchine talk to Andrew Darley about how they want their music to make listeners somewhat uncomfortable, and their EP I’ll Eat You Last.

“We are particularly interested in themes of androgyny, pandrogyny, and cross-gender identity as part of our creative content and process. There is an aesthetic and feeling that go with tapping into one another’s social construct.”

Exclusive: Intimatchine ‘Are You Rich’

Celebrating LGBT History Month 2014 with an exclusive Intimatchine preview.

Intimatchine preview their video ‘Are You Rich’ in a Polari Magazine exclusive.

Exclusive: Ryan MacGrath, ‘Kiss Me Tonight’ Chandelier remix

Celebrating LGBT History Month 2014 with an exclusive Ryan MacGrath track.

Ryan MacGrath celebrates LGBT History Month with Polari by debuting a remix of ‘Kiss Me Tonight’ from his 2013 EP The Pink Lark.

Ryan MacGrath, ‘Still Twirling’

Who Needs Love (Like That)?

Ryan MacGrath writes about his experience of growing up gay and becoming an artist. And twirling in his sister’s prom dress.

“As soon as this happened, I immediately knew what I had been missing with the girls I’d been kissing. I wasn’t sure exactly how to come out, but I knew that I needed to start the process.”

LGBT History Month: Stokeley Interview

Pictures from the Sky.

Stokeley talks about his musical influences, his record label and being an out musician.

“Aspects of my sexuality certainly have motivating affects on me, but whether you could call it influence I’m not sure – thus far, at least. It definitely informs what I do, and how and why I do it that way.”

Forman Brown, Elsa Lanchester, and The Turnabout Theatre

A Better Angel.

Turnabout Theatre was a Hollywood hot spot of great importance to queer history. A. Loudermilk celebrates its founders, and its greatest star, Elsa Lanchester.

New Yorker described her as ‘a specialists’ specialist in the mischievous art of seemingly inadvertent comedy,” praising her for “taking her listeners out of a close, tidy world and into a disquieting place filled with sharp winds and unsteady laughter.'”

‘Bisi Alimi, You Inspire Me’ : Teri Gender Bender

Bisi Alimi, You Inspire Me

Teri Gender Bender from Le Butcherettes writes about how Nigerian activist Bisi Alimi has been an inspiration to her mission to change the world.

“In Mexico, taxes don’t go to where they should go. They go into the pockets of the corrupt, therefore the country is surrounded in beautiful filth. It is a homophobic country where friends of mine had to hide their sexuality with the fear that they would be disowned by their family and fired from their jobs.”

Marcus Reeves: My LGBT Icons of Music

Gender Benders.

Marcus Reeves calls his roll of icons for LGBT History Month’s theme for 2014, Music.

Maggie & Martin: You Only Tell Me You Love Me When You’re Drunk

You Only Tell Me You Love Me When You’re Drunk.

Maggie & Martin celebrate LGBT History Month with Polari by sharing an exclusive cover version.