Tag: history
Botticelli in the Fire review – ‘a queered and camp history’
Botticelli in the Fire review. ★★★★☆ by Ifan Llewelyn
Just when you think you’ve seen all that London theatre has to offer, in rolls Botticelli’s...
The Bombing of the Admiral Duncan – 20th Anniversary of the Terror Attack
The London LGBTQ+ community was hit by a devastating blow on 30th April, 1999, as a nail bomb was detonated at the Admiral Duncan...
Buckingham Palace could be standing on a gay brothel
Considering that London has been a metropolitan capital for millennia, there's no end to the history that lies just beneath our feet. For nearly...
Vintage Cocks In Frocks! – Sasha Selavie on the intriguing tale of the birth...
When did drag first begin as public performance art? Arguably, in London 1870, when two very blatant drag queens were arrested in a West...
Comptons of Soho: 30 years at the heart of gay Soho
As we celebrate the Grand Dame of Soho’s 30th birthday as an offical gay venue, we have a chat with some of her nearest...
1994 – 2014: Twenty Years of Gay History.
We look over some of the most significant moments of gay history and LGBT rights to have occurred over a twenty year period 1994...
