The Garden.

Derek Jarman’s landmark film The Garden is playing at the Barbican, Sunday April 21, 2013.

Human Rights.

Adam Dawe from ditto writes about this month’s Campfire storytelling night, and its guest speaker, Peter Tatchell.

Picks for this weekend.

Pick of Fringe! Queer Film and Arts Fest 2013: One Zero One, Venus in the Garden, Chuppan Chupai

Picks for 2013.

Pick of Fringe! Queer Film and Arts Fest 2013: Satan’s Angel, deepsouth, Let My People Go!

Sisters Fay Tality and CC TV.

Media Ted was a comic strip that ran in the early days of Polari. Here we look back at the short life of the little champ. Episode 5.

Ted and Marcie are on the trail of the cross-dressing nuns. They meet Sisters Fay Tality and CC TV, and witness the Sisters’ first online gay wedding blessing.

To Be or Not To Be.

Terry Sanderson writes about how a gossip magazine called Confidential outed Marlene Dietrich in 1955.

“It was astonishing that Marlene’s career survived such an ‘outing’ in the buttoned up fifties. She was just in the process of reinventing herself as a successful concert artist when the Confidential article was published.”

The Church of the … what?

Media Ted was a comic strip that ran in the early days of Polari. Here we look back at the short life of the little champ. Episode 4.

Ted and Marcie are about to go to Church, but instead they get a surprise..

Another Reason To Head To The City.

Media Ted was a comic strip that ran in the early days of Polari. Here we look back at the short life of the little champ. Episode 3.

Ted is telling Marcie what Big City Fairy thinks of “the gays in the Midwest”, and does not notice that Marcie is disproving their point.

We Have Ways of Making You Gay.

Media Ted was a comic strip that ran in the early days of Polari. Here we look back at the short life of the little champ. Episode 2.

The plan was that Ted and his friend Marcie – yep, it’s a Peanuts reference – would eventually leave their home somewhere in the MidWest and travel to the Big City, home to Ted’s favourite gay magazine Big City Fairy!, its tagline: “We have ways of making you gay”.

Polari’s Gay Comic Strip.

Media Ted was a comic strip that ran in the early days of Polari. Here we look back at the short life of the little champ. Episode 1.

The plan was that Ted and his friend Marcie – yep, it’s a Peanuts reference – would eventually leave their home somewhere in the MidWest and travel to the Big City, home to Ted’s favourite gay magazine Big City Fairy!, its tagline: “We have ways of making you gay”.