#queer-culture

#queer-culture

"The Monday night Vogue Femme class at Vitalidad Movement Arts Center (VMAC) is an intro course, laying out the five elements of voguing for total beginners."

Many could, and have, argued the once rainbow-clad section of the UK's capital has had its wings clipped through years of gentrification, but there are still corners of Dalston, Hackney, Bethnal Green, and surrounding areas that continue to light the fire of queer liberation.

The stickers that partly cover it are a visual decision that crosses issues - inspired by club stickers used to cover phone cameras at queer parties to 'encourage presence and protect privacy'.

Let me tell you something about house music. If you've ever partied in a queer club, or a Black club, you've probably heard this voice. Hell, if you've ever danced to house music anywhere, for almost any length of time, anywhere in the world, you've heard its flamboyant, authoritative glory.

Are representation and resemblance their own mandate of heaven? Or, as Jordan Tannahill's Prince Faggot puts it, what would happen if, just a few steps down the line of inheritance, there were a guy who loved being a little bitch in bed?

It's exciting, especially in our current climate, that I just played a man named Henry who's an Italian tour guide.

Back in '05, Roger Ebert wrote, "At some point during the pitch meetings for D.E.B.S. someone must certainly have used the words Charlie's Lesbians," as if that's supposed to be a bad thing.

It's always somebody stereotypically gorgeous. So Saint Sebastian appears in a lot of queer culture.