People around here don’t generally fancy men like me. They have a hard time understanding my attire, and I suppose it’s usual for folks not to know what to make of someone male who prefers a wardrobe normally assigned to the fairer sex. I always saw myself as fairer. I still do. When I was [...]
Categories: gay,imagined histories,music,photography,word
Tagged: crossdressing, gay, imagined history, vintage male affection, wax cylinder
Click to Play: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] There was only ever one reason I agreed to go out with Lillian, which was so that I could go out with Christopher. On double dates, you see. A cruel thing to do to her, yes, but Chris stopped “us”– him and I being together, [...]
Categories: gay,imagined histories,music,photography,word
Tagged: gay, vintage male affection
A gem from the San Francisco cabaret scene will make its London debut next week as part of the Hot August Fringe Festival hosted by the Royal Vauxhall Tavern. The Party’s Just Beginning is a musical revue looking at the LGBT community — our ups, our downs, our highs, our lows, all told with heart [...]
Categories: cabaret,event,gay,music
Tagged: cabaret, gay, GLBT, Harvey Milk, Hot August Fringe, LGBT, musical, Royal Vauxhall Tavern, The Party's Just Beginning, things i love
Barbra Streisand is treating 100 lucky fans to free tickets in a sweepstakes drawing to attend an intimate live performance at the Village Vanguard in New York on Saturday, September 26. The one-night-only show is a kick-off for the release of Streisand’s new album of jazz standards and classics, Love Is The Answer. The Village [...]
Categories: music
Tagged: Barbra Streisand, Diana Krall, Love Is the Answer, things i love, Village Vanguard
Whitney Houston will release I Look To You on August 31, her first studio album in seven years. Can the absent diva who launched a thousand “crack is whack” jokes win our hearts again? It remains to be seen. Even if our hearts are willing, it takes more than just showing up to claim a [...]
Tagged: I Look To You, Michael Jackson, things i love, Whitney Houston
A master composer of our time will celebrate his 78th birthday this week. He is a man who has been nominated for five Tony awards, won two, and was just presented with a special Tony for Lifetime Achievement in the Theater last month. One Broadway song he wrote was recorded by Louis Armstrong in 1964 [...]
Categories: cabaret,for the life of me,music,stage,theatre
Tagged: Hello Dolly!, Henley Fringe Festival, Jerry Herman, La Cage Aux Folles, Leanne Masterton, Mame
Apple’s iTunes is getting its gay on right now with a virtual pride parade in honor of Gay Pride Month. A rainbow-flag banner is featured prominently on the front page of iTunes on both the U.S. and Canada versions of the service. Users who click on the banner are served up a curated collection of [...]
‘June Is Bustin’ Out All Over’ from the film version of ‘Carousel’ (1956) Directed by Henry King Music by Richard Rodgers Book & lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein Starring Gordon MacRae and Shirley Jones Based on Ferenc Molnár’s play ‘Liliom’ (1909)
Categories: choreography,film,music,video
Tagged: Carousel, Ferenc Molnár, Gordon MacRae, Henry King, Liliom, Rogers and Hammerstein, Shirley Jones, things i love
the Constant furiku i redheart you colour of my blood rushing to my head i redheart you i redheart you thinking all about you what’s a boy gotta do? i redheart you if my blood is all i have in each & every instant my love for you & my heartbeat are the only constant [...]
Tagged: Aruan Duval, Bladerunner, Dom Agius, Furiku, Mick Guihen, The Constant, Torch Song
