Lost Spaces
lost queer spaces
Joseph Segaran is a British Artist living and working in Amsterdam, and whose art is inspired by the architecture of the city… and you really have to check it out – black and white ink drawings which are drawn freehand using a very fine Japanese ink pen and also papercuts which are cut using a […]
Ok, ok, a bit of a sensationalist headline…. But, what do you do when you don’t quite fit in with the commercial queer scene, and how do you find your scene? This week I’m joined by writer, director and filmmaker Joseph Amenta to talk all about The Henhouse, a small, queer dive bar in Toronto’s […]
John Lee Bird is an artist/designer/musician and all around glorious human being. He is also one of the last people that I had imagined would have fond memories of Crash, a dance party held in South London from the 90s-00s (being a self-described ‘pale awkward goth’ type)! I really enjoyed this interview, where John told […]
We are back to London this week, and visiting another venue that fell victim to the Crossrail development (a large scale construction project which saw a good chunk of central London demolished to make way for a high speed train line). I had the delight of talking to Ali Brumfitt, a performance poet and all […]
I had never heard of ‘Kudos’, which was an out-of-the-way pub in Charing Cross, London, but I loved hearing from sculptor Wilfrid Wood about his experiences there, and what the place meant to him whilst he was figuring out who he was and what he wanted from life. What I loved most about this conversation […]
Who hasn’t spent an evening stumbling out of The Joiners’ Arms, which was once described as ‘Britain’s trendiest gay dive’? Due to its late night opening the bar had a reputation as a ‘last chance saloon’, and was often where people would head to instead of home when everything else had closed. I spoke to […]