Tag: It’s a Sin
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Disney and Don’t Say Gay
I’ve been watching several of these videos and they sum up not just what’s wrong in Florida and Disney with the Don’t Say Gay bill they helped fund (as did many other corporations including the new owners of Sky and Dreamworks) but also wider problems – with class, representation, and exploitation. The latter point is…
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RC 345: How To Survive A Plague Part 2: We Will Survive
Second part of How To Survive A Plague, and we cover the period 1989-2000 and beyond as the fight for drugs, money and action for the AIDS crisis comes to a crunch, and as Hollywood starts to pay attention (although no straight Oscar-baiting tragic gay tropes here – Peter’s Friends/Philadelphia *cough*). It’s not all doom…
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RC 341: How To Survive A Plague Part 1: It Couldn’t Happen Here
February is LGBTQ* History month in the UK, and with the recent TV series ‘It’s A Sin’ it seemed time to post this musical podcast series about the last pandemic, the HIV/AIDS ‘plague’. I started this last April during the first lockdown as I could see parallels between what I lived through in the ’80s…
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RC 306: The First Pride Was a Riot And Other Stories
Just over a week ago was the 50th anniversary of the riot at Stonewall Inn, and today is London Pride, so the first half is a queer collection of revolutionary songs, from trans hardcore punk to dragapella, werk a pose to some acid banji realness and pansexual pop, and some folk tunes from the fabulous…
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RC 290: Well Tempered
A listener once said they knew if it was a good podcast if I sounded pissed off at the start. Well, welcome to an extremely good episode then! A well tempered Clash, forged in the heat of online battle, which raises the question, where’s the real one? (oh it’s an old joke, and not even…
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RC 159: Parkade Shop Boys – the PSB mix
Last Thursday we did a special themed gig at the Parkade in Second Life around the music of the Pet Shop Boys. I DJ’d first for 2 hours, then Amanda Shinji aka Ms Cyberpink DJ’d for 2 hours – you can hear her mix here. My set included a real mixture of originals, covers, remixes,…