Cartoon Strips of David Shenton.

This gallery celebrates 35 years of David Shenton’s cartoon strips, which tell a snap-shot story of gay life in the ’80s, ’90s, and ’00s.

2012 Retrospective

The Editor looks back at the year 2012 in Polari and how it has explored the LGBT subculture. Part 5: Credo.

Reinvention.

Polari turns 4 today. It’s about to turn yet another corner, writes the editor, and reinvent its mission to explore the LGBT subculture.

“For the last 4 years, Polari has been run as a voluntary community project built from love and a lot of hard work. We are now a Community Interest Company.”

An interview with Kate Smith and Babs Guthrie

Polari talks to the founders of the LGBT history project Write Queer London.

I think gay people are also a bit scared to own history when looking back beyond a certain time, there’s a feeling that we don’t know anything at all, which isn’t true.