What a sensational 1987 raid on the RVT reveals about the limits of 1967 reform and the ongoing fight for queer equality. Part two of three.
Don’t let the RVT’s owners close it and blame the community!
The property developers who own the iconic London LGBTQ venue are trying to pin its possible closure on the campaigners fighting to save it
Musical about Princess Di and Freddie Mercury’s night at the RVT comes to… the RVT
Once upon a time, Freddie Mercury and Kenny Everett put Princess Diana in drag and took her to Royal Vauxhall Tavern. Now a musical based on the event debuts at the Tavern’s weekly Bar Wotever night.
Pride review for Sight & Sound
This review of Pride, released today in the UK, appears in the October 2014 issue of Sight & Sound. I recently argued in the Guardian that LGBT cinema is currently undergoing something of a ‘backward turn’: an increasingly sizeable body of work has emerged over recent years comprising films that could be considered retrospective in […]
Guardian feature on the backward turn in LGBT cinema
I wrote a piece for the Guardian last week setting out a few of the ideas about recent LGBT cinema that I’ve been thinking about since BFI Flare earlier in the year – namely the idea of a ‘backward turn’ in which three types of film are increasingly prevalent: features with period settings; documentaries about […]
Pride in London round-up for Evening Standard
Today is Pride in London and I did a round-up of events in the capital for yesterday’s Evening Standard. I like how open the Standard is these days to LGBT and even occasionally queer content. For this round-up (which also includes a few entries written by the features desk and included under my byline), I […]
