Polari, the award-winning LGBT literary salon, returns with a new prize for 2019 that will recognise both debut authors and established writers whose work explores the LGBT experience. The Polari Prize will be awarded to an overall book of the year, while The Polari First Book Prize will continue to champion […]
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Steven Smith talks LGBTQ music and meets the band that everyone is talking about: The 1975 When you’re thousands of miles away from home in a sleepy Thai mountain village called Somwang, around fifteen miles from the nearest city (Chiang Mai), the first thing that hits you is the peace and […]
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Lots Holloway’s latest single, Be Naked, is a raw and profoundly honest depiction of a relationship break up and its aftermath and is without doubt the Cornish chanteuse’s finest work to date. The multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter has been threatening to break into the big time for a while and, if there’s any […]
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London’s multi award-winning LGBT+ literary salon takes over the main floor at Heaven on 15th May with a special site-specific event to mark 40 years of the legendary club! This forms the centrepiece of the Polari Prize Tour, funded by Arts Council England and taking in 20 destinations across the UK […]
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Bad Girls: The Musical, the all-singing, all-dancing version of the classic ITV prison drama Bad Girls, has landed at the Above the Gatehouse Theatre in swanky north London suburb Highgate, with original cast member Nicole Faraday reprising the lead role of Shell Dockley. The difficulty of striking a balance between gritty […]
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UK tour runs from February to July 2019 Bill Kenwright’s ‘Amazing’, ’Superb’, ‘Wonderful’ and ‘Brilliant’ production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s sparkling family musical embarks on a national tour with a new Joseph, from 20th February at Theatre Royal Windsor. Jaymi Hensley, a member of 2013’s BBC ‘British Breakthrough Band […]
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Our sisters at DIVA add the award-winning author to Festival roster Stella Duffy OBE, author of 16 novels, 60 short stories and 10 plays, is just one of the celebrated writers participating in this year’s DIVA Literary Festival. Taking place at the Hilton Metropole at Birmingham’s NEC over the weekend of […]
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RuPaul’s Drag Race finalist and 2018 Celebrity Big Brother champion Courtney Act today premieres the music video for her brand new single Fight For Love, out now on iTunes and Spotify. Courtney is bidding for this instantly memorable dance-pop smash to be Australia’s entry at the Eurovision Song Contest 2019. She […]
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When your acting CV includes leading roles in shows like Emmerdale, Casualty and Bad Girls, it’s no surprise that Nicole Faraday is an actor in demand. With her latest feature, British comedy Ask The Cheat premiering tonight, and barely time to recover from a sell-out panto run, where she terrified children […]
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Scottish BAFTA winner The Dark Mile is a tense psychological thriller about a couple (who happen to be lesbians) setting out on a boat trip in Scotland to help recover from a recent trauma. Rebecca Calder and Deirdre Mullins shine as the principals: Calder’s Louise the more introverted and ethereal, with […]
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