American politics was filled with a sea of heterosexual faces, sometimes fiercely homophobic, but mostly irreverent towards the gay community, that was until Harvey Milk entered the political arena. Embed […]
If a tragically short life is one of the qualifications needed to become a gay icon, then Barbra Streisand fails miserably. 71 this year she has lived, and is still […]
I have an ambivalent relationship with social networking. I love it and hate it in equal parts. Twitter irritates me. It seems to have a huge element of self promotion […]
I initially hesitated in choosing Kim Wilde as my icon as it’s difficult to think of her as ‘vintage’ but my musical love-affair with her started 30 years ago so […]
You can’t beat an old fashioned high camp bitch and Tallulah Bankhead was one of the wildest, most original and best. Embed from Getty Images She’s sadly mostly forgotten nowadays. […]
In my opinion there is one and only one classic icon worth mentioning in Hollywood history. Whether gay, straight, bi or Thai, everyone knows and loves Marilyn Monroe in one […]
I discovered Noël Coward as a teenager and have been besotted ever since. Who could fail to love the poignant ‘Brief Encounter’ or the hilarious ‘Hay Fever’? His songs are […]
There may have been divas before Maria Callas, but there is no doubt that the modern idea of what is a diva owes a great deal to the legendary opera […]
“I’ve only slept with men I’ve been married to. How many women can make that claim?” – Elizabeth Taylor I’m generally not too keen on modern celebrity culture and the […]
Madonna gets a lot of flack these days. Whether it’s for flashing the flesh ‘at her age’ or dressing up as a Boy Scout, there are plenty of people who […]
Openly gay Keith Haring was and still is a legendary artist, his iconic artwork at one time filled empty ad spaces on New York’s subways, his activism and creation was […]
