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The Manhattan Club
In the early 1990s I had just emerged from a long-term relationship (my first as, and with, a young gay man) that ended with more of a...
John RC Potter
Dec 22, 20237 min read
My Mother’s Mink Coat and the Afterlife of Things
The eminent art writer, critic, and political commentator Lucy Lippard, exploits the detritus of her life, the inconsequential things...
Cynthia Close
Nov 18, 20238 min read
Bloodbath
The bath is a good temperature today—the blood steamy but not cooked. Also, the color is a rich dark red. To keep in the heat, he closes...
Lorna Wood
Nov 18, 20234 min read
WAR. LOVE. ME
TW: Violence War There is no concept of "war". This word was invented to hide behind, like behind a blanket, to wipe the tears of mothers...
Anna Yovka
Nov 13, 20233 min read
Queeriosities Fair is Back this Winter
Haggerston's Museum of the Home will host the Winter edition of curator Davy Pittoors’s Queeriosities fair on Saturday 2nd and Sunday 3rd...
Finn / Amelia Brown
Nov 7, 20232 min read
Queering Nature at Kew Gardens
Last weekend I visited Kew Gardens’s ‘Queer Nature’ exhibition. In their famous Temperate House, Kew scientists have added to their usual...
Finn / Amelia Brown
Oct 27, 20232 min read
Queering Hedonism
One of Gerardo Vizmanos' photographs In a club in Brixton, a bedroom has been deconstructed. Art is balanced on chests of drawers, and a...
Finn / Amelia Brown
Oct 17, 20232 min read
An Interview with Yuko Kyutoku
Yuko Kyutoku was born in Aichi in Japan, next to mountains and rivers that still influence her work. She has always been fascinated by...
Finn / Amelia Brown
Oct 6, 20233 min read
An Interview with Troy Cabida
Troy Cabida (he/him) is a Filipino poet, producer, and librarian from south-west London. His recent poems appear in fourteen poems, bath...
Finn / Amelia Brown
Sep 30, 20234 min read
Stoggaf explores QUEER HEDONISM in London art exhibition
Artwork by Felix Chesher Award winning gay and queer visual artists from London, Berlin and further afield are coming to The Bureau of...
Finn / Amelia Brown
Sep 29, 20231 min read
Fun Palaces
The accidental idea that’s since engaged 800,000 people! When LGBTQ+ writer, activist, theatre maker (and now existential...
Amie Taylor
Sep 22, 20234 min read
The Not-Dream
It all came to me while I slept. One of those deep sleeps, where you wake up all refreshed and feeling yourself. Your true self, the self...
Daniel S Martin
Sep 10, 20236 min read
Carnival Costume-Making Workshop: An Interview
This Saturday 26th August, 11:30-5pm, Blemme Fatale Productions are running a costume making and Caribbean diasporic history workshop for...
Finn / Amelia Brown
Aug 25, 20232 min read
With graffiti, painting becomes an adventure
In conversation with the artist, Kid30 who made Nottingham City his canvas For artist Nathan Bainbridge, 47, who also goes by the name...
Akhila Thomas
Aug 22, 20234 min read
Endlessly Queer: Truth & Dare
Truth & Dare is the latest book published by queer publishers Cipher Press, and the debut fiction collection of essayist and writer So...
Finn / Amelia Brown
Aug 4, 20232 min read
Interview with Tamara Al-Mashouk: I’d search forever, I want to remember
I’d search forever, I want to remember is a multidisciplinary work created by artist Tamara Al-Mashouk that centres on memory, matter and...
Finn / Amelia Brown
Jul 18, 20234 min read
Hay Festival: A Weekend Amongst Words
Hay Festival brings together writers, illustrators and thinkers in the beautiful town of Hay-on-Wye. Hay-on-Wye is filled with bookshops...
Finn / Amelia Brown
Jun 9, 20235 min read
Music, art & queerness at Brixton's new HEDONIST Festival
Next week London's newest music festival is taking over Brixton. It's going to be visual, it's going to be queer and it's going to be...
Finn / Amelia Brown
Jun 4, 20234 min read
Queeriosities: Meet the Curator, Davy Pittoors
Queeriosities is an LGBTQ+ fair of over 40 artists, makers and creative businesses who will be exhibiting and selling their work at...
Finn / Amelia Brown
May 13, 20238 min read
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