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Archive for month: July, 2012

45th Anniversary of the Sexual Offences Act 1967

28 Jul 2012 / Comments Off / in Opinion/by Tim Bennett-Goodman

45 Years of Legal Consensual Gay Sex … With A Few Reservations.

What was the 1967 Sexual Offences Act all about, and how effective was it as a piece of social legislation?

“The Act further restricted gay men by only sanctioning sex between two consenting adult males (i.e. over 21) in private. A threesome (or more-some) was a definite no-no, but even sex with non-participant/s present was an offence, as was consensual sex in an hotel or other ‘public’ place.”

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Dexter Clark’s Fabulous Head

28 Jul 2012 / Comments Off / in Events/by Designer

Dexter Clark returns with a new show.

Dexter Clark takes to the London stage to give us Fabulous Head!

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I Am What I Am • George Jones

27 Jul 2012 / Comments Off / in Classics: Music/by Walter Beck

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Released September, 1980

Honest emotion, a distinct sound, this is a classic of real country music.

“This is a dark album, full of heartbreak, copious amounts of whiskey and the best male voice in the genre, George Jones.”

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Middle West • Eli Van Sickel

  • Eli Van Sickel Middle West album cover, Polari Magazine, queer arts and culture, gay
26 Jul 2012 / Comments Off / in Music/by Walter Beck

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Released July 15, 2012
A lo-fi, and throughly real independent release from Eli Van Sickel.

“Eli has delivered one of the best albums of American Midwestern music to come out in a long time. It’s beautiful and brutally honest in its depiction of life for those of us living there. He is a true poet with a guitar.”

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The Trapeze Artist • Will Davis

24 Jul 2012 / Comments Off / in Books/by Tim Bennett-Goodman

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307 pages • Bloomsbury • May 10, 2012 [PB]

An endearing and thought-provoking tale of a forty year old man who joins the circus to become an aerialist.

“This novel moves by turns from the bleak and alienating to the humorous and life-affirming, with its message that, through all life’s adversities, struggle can overcome and bring its own rewards.”

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Get REAL, Project Update

20 Jul 2012 / Comments Off / in Bulletin Board/by Bryon Fear

Against homophobic bullying.

In April the Get Real video against homophobic bullying went viral. This is the follow-up video.

“The video was a letter to their past selves, urging them not to partake in the homophobic bullying that they now as adults regretted.”

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Madonna • MDNA Tour

19 Jul 2012 / Comments Off / in Music/by Nick Smith

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Madonna, July 17, 2012

Madonna’s MDNA tour. A controversial, unpredictable, original and brilliantly executed show.

“The show’s stopper is a thoroughly genuine and passionate reinterpretation of ‘Like A Virgin’, although the dramatic and loaded impact suffers at the hands of the Westminster’s noise abatement legislation. I must admit the show would be far better suited to a more intimate, indoor venue.”

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Alp Haydar’s Sharia Law

19 Jul 2012 / Comments Off / in Events/by Christopher Bryant

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.

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Karmin • Gig

  • Karmin Boderline London review, gay online magazine, gay arts and culture, lgbt, lgbtq, glbt, polarimagazine.com
18 Jul 2012 / Comments Off / in Music/by Little Bastard

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Karmin, July 16, 2012

Karmin: hip hop without the ghetto, white rap without the poverty. The music journalists have this band all wrong..

“Amy raps at high speed and is a powerhouse vocalist and the music has a sense of fun to it that can be missing from pop music – a kookie kitsch-ness, like Daphne And Celeste but with talent, if you will.”

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Test, Orange • Cherry Smyth

17 Jul 2012 / Comments Off / in Books/by Michael Langan

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112 pages • Pindrop Press • May 20, 2012 [PB]

Cherry Smyth’s third collection is proof positive of poetry’s ability to combine the toughness and beauty of language in concentrated form, to expand brief moments and explore their possibilities.

“Smyth’s language is sometimes fibrous and stringy, at other times silky smooth. Her work is by turns deeply personal, overtly political and socially aware, without being polemical or ‘worthy’..”

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