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  • A black and white image of a LGBT Rights demonstration from the 1970s. One of the placards held by the five people pictured has been altered to say

Reparation!

22 Jan 2014 / Comments Off / in Features/by

Sins Against Gay Men.

Have you been sinned against by a vicious, homophobic state? Take heart as Dame Effie proposes an election year reparation plan.

  • A black and white photograph of a young Alan Turing with 5 of his peers. He is sat with his friends on a wooden dock in the sunshine, his sleeves on his shirt are rolled up and he wears shorts. In the background there is a collection of wooden boats moored at the dockside and some ashore.

Polari Magazine’s News Stories of 2013

31 Dec 2013 / Comments Off / in Features/by

2013 News Stories.

From the pardon of Alan Turing to the death of Margaret Thatcher in the UK, to Trans* Rights and Employment Non-Discrimination in the US, this is a list of Polari Magazine’s Top News Stories from 2013.

Children of Fate

22 Oct 2013 / Comments Off / in Interviews/by

In The Shadow of Pinochet.

Andrew Darley talks to Julia Tarnoky about playing gender neutral in Juan Radrigán’s play Children of Fate.

“It is certainly exciting and part of the challenge is to realize and portray an unconventional character’s traits and aspects conventionally so that they can be translated to a live audience, and vice versa to realize a conventional character. It is about making the ordinary, extraordinary and the extraordinary, ordinary.”

Derek Jarman’s The Garden at the Barbican

19 Apr 2013 / Comments Off / in Bulletin Board/by

The Garden.

Derek Jarman’s landmark film The Garden is playing at the Barbican, Sunday April 21, 2013.

25th anniversary of the raid on Gay’s the Word

15 Aug 2009 / Comments Off / in Features/by

The 1980s backlash: the 25th anniversary of the raid on Gay’s the Word bookshop

On April 10, 1984, ‘Operation Tiger’ went into effect. Customs and Excise officers walked into Gay’s the Word bookshop in London, told its customers to leave, and seized all imported titles.

At that time, Gay’s the Word was the only bookshop in the UK in which one could buy Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City series. Maupin’s books were amongst those seized, as were titles by Gore Vidal and Tennessee Williams.