Blue Is the Warmest Colour: Reviewed
Despite all the hype (both negative and positive) surrounding this year’s Palme D’Or winner Blue is the Warmest Colour, it would be difficult to say the film isn’t incredible.
The performances are stunning, emotionally raw and so utterly believable and the story is touching, involving and relatable (whatever your sexuality)…
“That’s So Gay” Let’s be Honest It’s Probably Not…
For quite some time now I’ve been contemplating the use of terms such as ‘gay’ in its colloquial sense and thinking about the repercussions this has on our community.
I’m always listening out for it in music and film, as I feel it’s a good place to start when considering such language and its place within society.
While this blog has been a long time coming, in-keeping with Stonewall’s campaign this week drawing attention to the use of the term ‘gay’, it seemed the right time to talk about it…
Dykons: Nigella Lawson
The hair, the hands, the face… She’s a woman who does whatever she wants in the kitchen and doesn’t pretend to be perfect.
Watching her plunge her hands into a bowl of sticky pudding mix or suck on an asparagus tip is the closest to porn with food you are going to get.
She is sex on legs, comes equipped with a full larder and, despite her anti-perfection protestations, she is truly a goddess…
Dykon: Anne Hathaway
It’s time to pay homage at the altar of dyke icons. This week it’s the actress who’s gone from being a perky teen star to a force to be reckoned with in Hollywood. Oh, and she only has good things to say about her first lesbian smooch…
Bridegroom: A Tear-Inducing Documentary Of True Love…
Film Review:
His name was Tom, and he was Shane’s life…
They lived the American dream: a home, a business and dog together. However, they were ostracised both legally and by Tom’s family, by whom their partnership was never accepted.
Little did Shane know that his life was about to change, dramatically…
Dykon: Helen Mirren
This week it’s the woman who has played the Queen more than once, come out shouting at party revellers and made it up to them by attending the As One festival. She’s won an Academy Award, four BAFTAs, three Golden Globes, four Emmy’s and two Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Awards – she’s also won our hearts several times over.
She’s a sex symbol, a feminist and acting royalty.
How To: Go out in London
Now I may not have learnt the cockney slang, picked up a posh accent or know how to battle my way through rush hour on the Piccadilly line, but going out in London I’m getting quite good at. Especially since only four months ago I was a country bumpkin finding the tall buildings scary.
If you’re used to other places or have never been out in the capital before, there are rules, things you need to know about and other best bits…
Dykons: Sandra Bullock
This week it’s the woman who’s won an Academy Award, a Razzie and topped a poll asking gay women which Oscar nominee they’d most want to date.
We think she’s adorable, it’s Sandra Bullock…
Dykons: Janelle Monáe
Dykon: Janelle Monáe
We love this tuxedo-wearing, non-conformist new music artist…
Dykon: Jessie J
They made your hands clammy, your knees quiver and sent your hormones spinning when you were a dyke-in-training. It’s time to pay homage at the altar of dyke icons.
It’s sexy pop star whose new album, Alive, will no doubt, be filling up the dance floor at a lesbian club near you.
Rolla Selbak – Kiss Her I’m Famous
Rolla Selbak is an award winning filmmaker and self confessed triple-minority in the film-making world – she’s queer, Arab-American and a woman.
If that’s not enough, she’s also a self taught auteur writing, directing and producing films that matter.
She sat with us to chat about her work, receiving death threats and Oprah (my doing clearly)…
Mae Martin’s Slumber Party
Mae Martin is funny.
Which is handy considering she’s a comedian.
(Boom Tish – is that not the most awkward opening ever?)
To prove just how funny she was, I went on a YouTube quest to ‘research’ (some call it stalking) what Mae Martin was really about.
And bloody hell, she’s talented.
She’s funny, witty, Canadian (you can’t hate a Canadian) and she can also play the guitar and she sings.
Which is more than I can do, I can barely walk and talk… that’s not a meek attempt at humour, that is a fact.
Dykon: Heather Peace
They made your hands clammy, your knees quiver and sent your hormones spinning when you were a dyke-in-training.
It’s time to pay homage at the altar of dyke icons.
The only real life lesbian in the Lip Service cast has dusted off her guitar and will be heading Down Under in 2014, as she was announced as the first international headline act for 2014.
Oh, did we mention? She’s a singer songwriter too…
Introducing Dykons…
We’re paying homage to the ladies who make your hands clammy, your knees quiver and send your hormones spinning… particularly when you were a dyke-in-training.
Each week we’ll be bringing you a Dyke Icon (Dykon) to revisit those old crushes and to make some new ones.
Bec & Sebastian – The Voice Australia
Bec and Sebastian came to our attention with their acoustic rendition of Jessie J’s hit song ‘Price Tag’.
Apart from being ridiculously talented, they’re also super cool – so cool that Ricky Martin picked them to be in his group on The Voice Australia.
More Tea With Billie Myers…
The second part of our interview with Billie Myers, we talk love, dating, bisexualphobia and more…
Tea and Sympathy With Billie Myers
Billie Myers has quite the voice and quite the story…
It was just another day in LA for British native, Billie Myers; trying to jump start a diet, she was lying on a colonic table, when her mobile phone rang. She was informed that Universal Records had dropped her.
This was just the start of a few turbulent years that saw Billie diagnosed with depression.
But she’s back with a new album, a new label and being unapologetically Billie…
10 Things You Can Do If You Want To Do Drag
Recently deciding I wanted to dress in drag, or as a man, I found myself doing a bit of research.
This mainly consisted of perusing the Internet whilst eating too many almonds, and talking to experienced Drag Kings about what it is that they do and how they do it.
I’ve put together a list of pointers and resources for others who might be in the position I was in some time ago.
DJ Becky Perry
We’re in a Brighton Pride mood and we’re chatting to some of the girls who will be making your weekend memorable.
One of those ladies is DJ Becky Perry, we pick her brain about Brighton Pride and more…
DJ Dulcie Danger
You would have seen our Brighton Pride take over on the blog home page and if you haven’t, what on earth are you waiting for?
And because we’re so excited to be a part of it, we rounded up a series of the girls providing the tunes.
Meet Dulcie Danger, who probably has the coolest name around.