Alp Haydar’s Dirty Demographic

Alp Haydar returns to the RVT with his most ambitious show to date: Dirty Demographic, Thursday April 25, 2013.

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.”

2012 Retrospective

The Editor looks back at the year 2012 in Polari and how it has explored the LGBT subculture. Part 1: Arts and Culture.

Alp Haydar reveals the life of his mother, Sharia Law!

The (remastered) back story of Sharia Law, who meets her match in the BNP member Sandra.

Matt Fennemore talks David Wojnarowic.

Michael Langan talks to performance artist Matt Fennemore about the queer arts pioneer David Wojnarowicz, whose work has inspired his new piece, You Killed Me First!

“Film-maker, performer, photographer, iconoclast, AIDS campaigner and all-round agent provocateur, Wojnarowicz belonged to an age when to be gay, queer, or whatever you want to call it, was to be fighting a constant battle against prejudice, bigotry and, as a matter of life and death, striving for human rights.”

Power to the People!

Wotever World’s Hot August Fringe evening of Gender, Identity, Sexuality, Cultural and Class Politics.

Alp Haydar reveals the life of his mother, Sharia Law!

The back story of Sharia Law, who meets her match in the BNP member Sandra.

Alp Haydar is back and he’s after a new vagina!

Alp Haydar undergoes gender reassignment to foil his mother Sharia Law and to win back his love, Mohammed.

Clementine the Living Fashion Doll appears at this years BURN @ Mimetic.

Clementine appears alongside cabaret favourites at BURN on Tuesday June 19.

Are we living the dream or the nightmare?

Performer and cabaret artist Alp Haydar asks if there’s an epidemic of hate in our society. To celebrate the International Day Against Homophobia/Biphobia and Transphobia Polari Magazine is publishing a series of stories from its writers about homophobic, transphobic and biphobic incidents.

“In a city that Boris Johnson claims prides itself on it’s open-mindedness, anti-gay hate incidents have risen by 28 percent in the last four years and continue to do so.”