By @edent · Book Review LGBT · 1 comment · 500 words
It occurs to me that I mostly read modern books. But sometimes I dip into the classics to see what modern literature is built upon. Quentin Crisp was - depending on how you read his0 autobiography - famous for being infamous, notorious for being Proud before Pride, or an uncompromising icon of studied awfulness. The […]
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This is pitched as the first gay love story from a major Hollywood studio. I don't know how true that claim is - but I do know this is a funny and sweet movie. When I was at University at the turn of the century, there was a guy in our halls named "Big Gay […]
Continue reading →By @edent · LGBT · 4 comments · 500 words · read ~326 times.
The scene: post-conference, sat in an airport, one dark winter's morning. I'm casually chatting to one of the other speakers about our mutual hate of being sat in an airport this early. His phone rings and he excuses himself to answer it. My German is pretty rusty, but good enough to understand "...Yes, I am […]
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