“The London Boys were Edem Ephraim (lead singer) and Dennis Fuller (backing vocals, choreographer) both from Greenwich, London. Plus “third” London Boy Ralf-René Maué based in Hamburg, Germany who wrote and produced all their material. Selling millions the London Boys reached nearly double platinum status in the UK plus gold/platinum and double platinum in various countries throughout Europe and especially Asia. Sadly Dennis and Edem died in a horrible car crash in 1996. But their music will live on. London Boys 4ever. Enjoy!”
Video editor Tijana Mamula has watched all ten seasons of Friends in search of gay jokes in the show. And she not only gathered 90 minutes of homophobic moments in the sitcom, but also found a lot of other not-so-funny aspects to it: “I noticed all sorts of other problematic content, some of which I found even more upsetting, like the place of women and foreigners… You could do a whole series of videos, like Misogynistic Friends and Xenophobic Friends.” Mamula who works at an Assistant Professor of Communications at the John Cabot university in Rome and got her Ph.D in Film Studies at King’s College, London, in 2010. This is the 50-minutes version of her original 90-minutes video. More about the project on Queerty and Bitch Magazine. There’s also an Italian version of the film on Mamula’s Vimeo account.
The Queer Zine Archive Project, an online archive based in Milwaukee and run by a group of 6 anonymous people since 2003, is collecting queer zines from the last three decades and making them available online for free. I really recommend spending some time over there, since it’s a a really entertaining lesson in queer history full of real treasures such as a all issues of J.D., the legendary queercore zine by G.B. Jones and Bruce LaBruce from the late eightis/early nineties or hilarious zines by Vaginal Davis, such as “Evil Taco” or “Yes, Mrs. Davis”. They also have an “Calls For Submission” section in case you have you’re own zine and still search for contributiors or want to publish your own stuff.
Here are a couple of my favourite covers of zines you can find in the archive, starting with my favourite one, the cover of the 4th issue of the “Queer Fuckers Magazine” from Salt Lake City, Utha, published in 1992. For mor of them click here:
A little journey through last 3 decades of pop culture I just put together for a German music magazine. You can watch all the music videos after the jump, and don’t forget to click away the advertisement in the Dailymotion videos by using the cross in the right corner.
In the documentary “The Legend of Leigh Bowery” from 2002 filmmaker Charles Atlas explores the life of Australian performance artist and fashion designer Leigh Bowery from his early London years to the nineties when he became the muse and subject of British painter Lucian Freud. Bowery died in 1994 from an AIDS-related illness. The video below is just a trailer, the complete version of the movie can be watched here.
There are a whole bunch of classics of the New Queer Cinema that can be watched legally (or at least semi-legally) on YouTube, most of them in a pretty acceptable quality. Since a lot of the ones listed below are already online for a longer time, it seems like their directors and distributors and are tolerating this kind of online broadcasting, which is especially interesting in the case of Todd Haynes’ “Superstar – The Karen Carpenter Story” which has been banned from any kind of broadcasting after Karen’s brother Richard won a lawsuit against Haynes. But you never know – so please write me a message if any of the links doesn’t work properly anymore. So here’s my little video store:
