Alan Cumming closed an eight-night run in London’s West End last night. I Bought a Blue Car Today, his one-man show of songs and anecdotes, is nothing less than sublime. From the minute the curtain rises and he breaks instantly into an exhilarating version of Shine that rivals Cyndi Lauper’s original, he’s hooked you. Cumming […]
Categories: gay,music,review,stage,theatre
Tagged: Alan Cumming, cabaret, Cyndi Lauper, Dolly parton, gay, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Highline Ballroom, I Bought A Blue Car Today, John Cameron Mitchell, Lance Horne, London, Mika, New York, West End, X-Men
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- September 7, 2009 – 1:55 pm
- Author:
- By Kenneth Hill
It’s been hot, Also very sweet. And I’m not usually indiscreet. But when he sparkles, The earth begins to sway. What more can I say? How can I express How confused am I by our happiness? I can’t eat breakfast, I cannot tie my shoe. What more can I do? If I said I love […]
Categories: gay,imagined histories,photography,Uncategorized,word
Tagged: Falsettoland, gay, vintage male affection, vintage photo, William Finn
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- September 6, 2009 – 11:42 pm
- Author:
- By Kenneth Hill
Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and half-light, I would spread the cloths under your feet. But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you […]
Categories: gay,imagined histories,photography,poem
Tagged: gay, vintage male affection, vintage photo, Yeats
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- September 1, 2009 – 1:35 pm
- Author:
- By Kenneth Hill
You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness. We pardon to the extent that we love. Love is knowing that even when you are alone, you will never be lonely again. And great happiness […]
Categories: gay,imagined histories,photography,word
Tagged: gay, Les Miserables, Victor Hugo, vintage male affection
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- August 30, 2009 – 11:12 pm
- Author:
- By Kenneth Hill
The recent death of Ted Kennedy prompted me to pick up some of the Kennedy books I have lying around the house and I have just re-read a book about JFK that shook my world a couple of years ago. It illuminates a story about a beloved president that was never told prior to this […]
Categories: book,gay,Uncategorized
Tagged: biography, David Pitts, Edward Kennedy, Eunice Kennedy, gay, Jack and Lem, Jackie Kennedy, John F. Kennedy
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- August 30, 2009 – 9:00 pm
- Author:
- By Kenneth Hill
Love is enough: though the World be a-waning, And the woods have no voice but the voice of complaining, Though the sky be too dark for dim eyes to discover The gold-cups and daisies fair blooming thereunder, Though the hills be held shadows, and the sea a dark wonder, And this day draw a veil […]
Categories: gay,imagined histories,photography,poem
Tagged: gay, vintage male affection, William Morris
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- August 30, 2009 – 9:19 am
- Author:
- By Kenneth Hill
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
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- August 18, 2009 – 10:53 am
- Author:
- By Kenneth Hill
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
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- August 17, 2009 – 3:27 pm
- Author:
- By Kenneth Hill
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
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- August 12, 2009 – 1:55 pm
- Author:
- By Kenneth Hill
He said: If I could trace the lines that ran Between your smile and your sleight of hand, I would guess that you put something up my sleeve. Now every time I see your face, the bells ring in a far-off place, We can find each other this way I believe. He said: As my […]
Categories: gay,imagined histories,photography,word
Tagged: gay, Josh Ritter, Judy Collins, vintage male affection
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- July 22, 2009 – 6:36 pm
- Author:
- By Kenneth Hill
