Parties & PeopleDuckie – Gay Shame & Lesbian Weakness

Duckie – Gay Shame & Lesbian Weakness

28/06/14: As the rest of London partied to Gay Pride, Duckie swept triumphantly into the heart of Brixton town for their annual Gay Shame & Lesbian Weakness celebration.

Duckie has built up a reputation as one of the most pioneering and intensely successful queer performance nights in town, and this is due in large part to their provocative nature, not accepting the commercial gay scene as it is nor enforced convention.

We walked into a host of naked, exotic dancers cavorting across the stage of the vast Electric Brixton venue, and as we danced and dizzied our way through the sideshow rooms where we made glitter masks and a spot-lit balcony devoted to our secrets, the dance floor was filled to bursting point. Amy Lamé was giving us stirring speeches, The Readers Wifes were busting out the best tunes throughout the decades, and at 12.45am something very filthy, very crazy and all-round fabulous crept onto the stage with a leering moan: Christeene.

Texas’s most unconventional export, Christeene began by pulling a feathered whatever-the-hell-it-was out of an orifice and whirling it into the crowd, before launching into her unstoppably high-energy, awe-inspiring industrial rock-raps, flanked by her two petrol-attendant dancers, who swiftly stripped off their uniforms. Filth-ridden, a pissoir throughout the ages, Christeene’s razor-sharp wit gave us all a night of shame that we could love…

Christeene returns to the Soho Theatre (21 Dean Street, W1D 3NE),
Wednesday 23rd to Saturday 26th July.
Duckie is every Saturday at the RVT (372 Kennington Lane, SE11 5HY). 

Electric Brixton, Town Hall Parade, SW2 1RJ
Words by Pat Cash
Photos by Holly Revell

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