tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26584718055101767942024-03-06T03:41:18.659+00:00ManhattanchesterManhattanchesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17473000082306220916noreply@blogger.comBlogger344125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2658471805510176794.post-75254362169119023212016-10-11T23:55:00.001+01:002016-10-12T09:44:51.557+01:00Self-care<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
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<span lang="EN-GB">Yesterday I spent World Mental Health Day having a self-care day, which seems
appropriate. In reality you ought to be good to yourself every day of course, but
that’s just not plausible for most of us, so for those who need it, it’s important
to put aside special days – or even just some hours or moments if that’s what
you can spare – to prioritise feeling good and being kind to yourself. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The reason I need self-care days is basically down to anxiety. My
approach to controlling my anxiety these days is preventative, because once it’s
there it’s basically a straitjacket and the more you struggle the tighter it
winds around you. I know the circumstances that set off my anxiety and when I start
to eliminate them – coffee instead of food on an empty stomach, alcohol, being
disorganised, running out of money, lying – my quality of life gets measurably
better. Other anxiety triggers are unavoidable – guilt, emotional friction, fear
of violence, bad health, running out of money – while some episodes have no
tangible origin whatsoever and you just have to have your tactics to hand for
when they arrive. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Two things are definitely true for me: the more I look after my body
– yoga, exercise, sex, good food, less alcohol and caffeine – the less anxiety
I will have to go through; and the more I look after my mind – yoga, reading, learning,
meditation, art, new experience, conversation – the less anxiety I get and the better
able I feel to deal with the way I live and the world I have to live in. Self-care
days help me to sustain all of that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB"><i>What my self-care days are</i><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Necessary.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">All mine.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">An opportunity to think about my mental and physical health. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">An opportunity to learn from people going through similar.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">A chance to think how far I’ve come.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Truly lovely times.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB"><i>What my self-care days are
not</i><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">‘Treat days’. It shouldn’t be a big treat to want to go for a walk for
no reason, or make a 5 hour playlist just for yourself, or make imaginary
AirBnB wish lists. They’re just simple pleasures that I deserve and that harm
nobody. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">‘An excuse to bunk off work’. I’m a freelancer, that means I work
hard and I work long hours, but I work them when I want to. Also there ain’t
nothing wrong with bunking off work anyway.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">A day to get over hangovers. My self-care days are all about
improving on my default condition, not struggling to get back to an emotional ‘norm’
after self-abuse. If you’re only ever recovering, then you’re never improving!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB"><i>Things I like to do on a
self-care day</i><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Ride my bike with no destination and in any weather.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Notice really small things.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Meditate.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Take ages to do things.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Watch, read, listen to bell hooks. She is my intellectual icon, she
theorises love as a survival tactic, she is teachable, she makes me think about
my own political accountability, she loves conversation as a method of teaching.
All this sustains my brain, I am very grateful to her. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Listen to every single version of a single song that I can find.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Watch TED Talks, listen to On Being. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Yoga, either at home or at a class if I feel like facing people.
Classes are great because people pay attention to you in a caring way and
everyone is there to feel good.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Reciting Victoria Wood.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Trying to learn ‘Billy in the Darbies’ off by heart.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Getting in touch with friends I’ve not seen for ages. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Comedy comedy comedy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Long baths.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Give money to charity if I have it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Re-read things I love.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Write fiction.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Make really insanely optimistic plans for the future.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB"><i>Things I don’t do on a
self-care day</i><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Shopping.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Drugs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Check messages if I don’t want to.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Read the news. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Worry about money.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Waste time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">I hope you gave yourself some quality time on World Mental Health
Day. Try a self-care day, they are fun to curate, fun to do, and have seriously
good repercussions. Put one on the calendar, you’re worth it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Manhattanchesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17473000082306220916noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2658471805510176794.post-5439713541579154772016-02-24T06:17:00.000+00:002016-02-24T06:21:59.134+00:0038<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB">Our old dog came to see me in a dream this morning. Maybe he knew it
was my birthday! He was sitting next to me on the couch, growling and whining
because I had gloves and a hat on. He never liked it when you wore them. I took
them off and his eyes were sad and stubborn like they used to be and his snout
was wet. Oisín woke me up because I was ‘beeping’, the anxious sound that I make
when I’m having bad dreams, but actually I was having a bit of a sleep-cry. I got up
to fetch some water and in the kitchen I could hear a single bird from outside having
a riotous sing. He’s still going now. It’s 5.45 am. He has no idea how old he
is, how old the world is, how long birds have been singing, he’s just doing his
thing. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">I’m 38 today, I can hardly believe it. I still wanna throw my bonnet
over the windmill and rush into the sea at midnight (Pat Phoenix). I remember
leaving home at 18 with absolutely no idea how to do anything at all but read
books. Things have gotten much better. I’ve been in Manchester 20 years now, I’m
the IRA bomb generation. I’ll have a big party in September to celebrate my
anniversary I think. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">I spent time with my Mum last week and found out my biological
Dad made a conscious decision not to see me again quite a short time after I
was born. It doesn’t make a big difference, and it started before that
because he never came to get us from the hospital when I was born or anything. I’m
so much older now than he was when he left that it seems churlish to even think
about it but it has hurt me a bit. I’m lucky though because I’ve been so
loved my whole life by lots of people. Even now, on occasional days when I’m
still in my pyjamas and my anxiety is out of hand and I haven’t been able to
pay rent, Oisín will tell me not to worry, I’m a unique handsome genius and Manchester
would fall apart without me and why don’t I become a famous singer or something? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">I never do a jot of work on my birthday, this is the only thing I’ll
write today. Weather permitting, we are getting on our bikes later and cycling
out to look at a 1920s street or something, and then having a massive vegetarian
feast at Lily’s Indian restaurant, then a pint, and then I’m going to read <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Times Square Red, Times Square Blue</i>. There’s
a cake too, I could smell it baking when I got back from DJing last night. Good
morning everyone, happy birthday!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">It’s been a rollercoaster of variety already: funny, serious, questioning,
confrontational… Here’s what I’ve got up to at this year’s Queer Contact so far.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">Life’s A Drag</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> is a piece by artist Jez Dolan looking at Manchester’s drag
history, and present day, and these live performances represent the first
fruits of an ongoing project. Written with playwright Chris Hoyle, Life’s a
Drag is a meta-comedy where we see two drag queens preparing backstage for a
show. While they bitch, kvetch, laugh and take us on a journey back in time via
the make-up box, they teach one another about the relevance of their own particular
school of drag and gayness, from Polari to RuPaul. We encounter legends and
legendary nights out, from Foo Foo Lamaar to the Hulme drag ball, and it’s all done
with such a light touch that it feels like a genuine eavesdrop, even as they
kick down the fourth wall with heels. There’s a superbly moving moment with a
pair of earrings that crystallises what the piece is about for me, plus an
astonishingly good musical medley at the end, sung across the decades, but no spoilers
as to the songs…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">FAdoubleGOT</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The Daily Grind</b> worked well on the same bill. The former is Jamal Gerald’s very personal story,
encompassing bullying, education, a second-generation immigrant experience,
youth, sexuality and life in a Northern town. Using monologue, symbolism, music
and pop culture, it’s performed with a charming combination of earnestness and
sass that perhaps even its very young creator isn’t fully aware of. He’s also a
terrific poet and his verse threads neatly through the piece as he goes. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The Daily Grind</b> is the work of a slightly older, very serious theatre maker, all about life on dating apps. Don’t be surprised
if you feel vulnerable and discomfited as much as moved to laughter. The dissonance of the performance comes from its single performer and writer,
Laurie Brown, flitting between friendly, camp, menacing and monstrous. For
anyone in the know it mirrors convincingly the Jekyll and Hyde nature of online
encounters. The last five minutes of the show were a borderline genius move.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">A personal highlight so far has been <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Outspoken</b>, the poetry and spoken word event. A real triumph of
curating, the breadth of writing styles and extremely high standard of performance,
not to mention the content which ran from surreal to sad to hilarious to
too-damn-true, made for a really inspirational evening. Such a treat to see Jackie Kay
perform, and a first real life encounter too with my online favourite, poet AJ
McKenna. Also introduced me to astonishing work from Paula Varjack and Keith Jarrett
too. Seek them out.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Another personal favourite was <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">STUD</b>,
a bizarre and hilarious journey through masculinity and the world of horses (yes,
horses). Created and performed by a truly confident and accomplished performer,
like no other show on the bill the audience were in this performer’s hands
from the opening seconds. It’s hard to even describe the show or why it works
so well, suffice to say after twenty minutes you stop even noticing the
glorious pubic bush that’s constantly on show. It’s a piece that gently
terrorises gender, with a handsaw, a raw carrot, whatever comes to hand or hoof. Eilidh
McAskill, I salute you. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Still to come for me: <b>Our Lady J,</b> which will be a Valentine musical weekend
sensation, and a religious experience in the shape of <b>Jesus Queen of Heaven</b>, on
a Sunday of course… Full line up is <a href="http://contactmcr.com/whats-on/category/?category=queer-contact-festival">here</a>,
and check out the pics from my own Queer Contact event right <a href="https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1700308200186222.1073741831.1666041666946209&type=3">here</a>.
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 150%;"><br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 150%;">Gender isn’t a exactly new
frontier for queer people, it’s always been a frontier. The law that got to be
too damn much at Stonewall – as we should know by now <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huDiU8R0KhY" target="_blank">but as Laverne reminds us</a> – was that all patrons must wear three items of clothing ‘appropriate to their
gender’ otherwise the police would crack skulls. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 150%;">Gender and its multiple expressions
are deep in the heart of queer history and art. It wasn’t long ago that homosexuality
/ drag / transgenderism were talked about as a continuum of expression. You encounter
it in contemporary accounts of the Stonewall era, right up to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Paris is Burning.</i> The scare queens, butches
and femme queens of yesteryear might not necessarily connote <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">cis</i> or <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">trans</i> precisely the way we think of those terms today<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">. </i>Our connections to one another as
queer people of all genders are deep and abiding and vital. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 150%;">Timely as ever, this year’s
<a href="http://contactmcr.com/whats-on/category/?category=queer-contact-festival">Queer
Contact Festival</a> puts together a broad and exciting programme where gender
is frequently at the artistic frontier. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3502262/?ref_=tt_ov_inf">Transparent</a> </i>has
been one of the most radically queer mainstream shows ever created, winning
dozens of awards as it interrogates ideas about sexuality, history and identity.
It’s something of a coup that one of the writers and series advisors, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Lady_J">Our Lady J</a>, is appearing at
Queer Contact 2016. Her original musical show ‘<a href="http://contactmcr.com/whats-on/46300-qc16-our-lady-j-for-the-love-of-gospel/">For
the Love of Gospel’</a> will help demonstrate why she has worked with everyone from Sia to Debbie Harry, via Antony Hegarty, Lady Gaga, Cyndi Lauper and Scissor Sisters.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 150%;">Next, from high-femme to bold
and butch, Eilidh Macaskill’s ‘<a href="http://contactmcr.com/whats-on/46294-qc16-eilidh-macaskill-stud/">STUD’</a>
puts a queer woman’s perspective on the traditional gender binary as she performs
a series of hyper-masculine tropes, exercising her ‘penis envy’ with full
comedy intact.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 150%;">For a more local
perspective on the performance of gender, Jez Dolan and Chris Hoyle’s ‘<a href="http://contactmcr.com/whats-on/46292-qc16-life-is-a-drag/">Life’s A Drag’</a>
is the beginning of a year-long project that celebrates Manchester’s drag culture
and its deep roots with performance, oral history and maybe even some
participation, so get your foundation right.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 150%;">If the Pet Shop Boys are ‘The Smiths you can dance to’, Erasure
are the Pet Shop Boys you can really camp it up to. Singer Andy Bell’s Contact show
will take him on a somewhat different route as he explores the vexed polysexual
character of ‘<a href="http://contactmcr.com/whats-on/46293-qc16-andy-bell-is-saint-torsten/">Saint
Torsten’</a> through a song-cycle written especially for him and lately performed
at Edinburgh Fringe. It’s a chance to see and hear a legendary gay pop voice as
never before. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 150%;">Another Queer Contact highlight
is the return of Debs Gatenby, star of the much-loved <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="http://www.homotopia.net/festival-item/debs-gatenby-presents-hi-anxiety/#.Vq33X1OLTBI">Hi,
Anxiety</a></i>, whose new solo show looks at those journeys, inside and out,
in search of ‘<a href="http://contactmcr.com/whats-on/46694-qc16-debs-gatenby-a-place-called-happiness/">A
Place Called Happiness’</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 150%;">A dose of raw comedy can
be had in the <a href="http://contactmcr.com/whats-on/46494-qc16-comedy-playground/">Comedy Playground</a>
where seven stand-ups battle it out for your love and lolz, including Bethany
Black of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Cucumber/Banana</i> fame, Suzi
Ruffell from telly and a familiar flamboyant host...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 150%;">As for me, I’ll be
throwing a Queer Contact launch party in the shape of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1683593358547655/">A Queer Revue! at Band
on the Wall</a>, featuring international and local trans, gay, lesbian and queer
talent, including contemporary dance, singing drag queens, Kate Bush and Bowie
tributes, poetry, pop videos, comedy and a big old party afterwards.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 150%;">As for the rest of the
programme, you can tuck into the <a href="http://contactmcr.com/whats-on/category/?category=queer-contact-festival">full
listings here</a>, or use my handy taster guide below…!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 150%;"><a href="http://contactmcr.com/whats-on/exhibition/27-qc2016-ajamu-and-khalil-west-i-am-for-you-can-enjoy/">For
the vivid voices of Black sex workers…<o:p></o:p></a></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 150%;"><a href="http://contactmcr.com/whats-on/46696-qc16-the-gospel-according-to-jesus-queen-of-heaven/">For the ultimate queen of heaven…</a></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 150%;"><a href="http://contactmcr.com/whats-on/48292-qc16-the-library-for-the-love-of-drag/">For
getting read to filth and back…<o:p></o:p></a></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 150%;"><a href="http://contactmcr.com/whats-on/46295-qc16-kate-bornstein-on-men-women-and-the-rest-of-us/">For
the godparent of gender outlaws… <o:p></o:p></a></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 150%;"><a href="http://contactmcr.com/whats-on/46296-qc16-lgbt-question-time/">For
getting your voice heard…<o:p></o:p></a></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 150%;"><a href="http://contactmcr.com/whats-on/46495-qc16-jamal-gerald-fadoublegot/">For
a frank voice on Black LGBT lives…<o:p></o:p></a></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 150%;"><a href="http://contactmcr.com/whats-on/46692-qc16-outspoken/">For an uplifting
night of LGBT spoken word and writing</a>…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 150%;"><a href="http://contactmcr.com/whats-on/46693-qc16-laurie-brown-the-daily-grind/">For
the highs and lows of internet cruising…<o:p></o:p></a></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 150%;"><a href="http://contactmcr.com/whats-on/46298-qc16-jamie-fletcher-company-dancing-bear/">For
religion and sexuality explored…<o:p></o:p></a></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 150%;"><a href="http://contactmcr.com/whats-on/46299-qc16-mothers-ruin-loved-up/">For the
undisputed Mother of queer cabaret…<o:p></o:p></a></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 150%;"><a href="http://contactmcr.com/whats-on/46695-qc16-queer-youth-debate/">For our
young voices…<o:p></o:p></a></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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Manhattanchesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17473000082306220916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2658471805510176794.post-5598713419844951122016-01-31T12:14:00.001+00:002016-01-31T13:23:16.453+00:00Stonewall, and Stonewall by Roland Emmerich<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
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<span lang="EN-GB">To be honest I could barely get to the end
of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNXkJMXPBGc">the trailer</a><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">for</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> Stonewall</i> by Roland Emmerich. Instead, I’d encourage everyone
to watch the Marsha P. Johnson documentary, ‘<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjN9W2KstqE">Pay It No Mind’</a>, and <a href="https://vimeo.com/45479858">Sylvia Rivera’s 1973 speech</a> at Washington
Square before you see <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Stonewall</i> (or
instead of). The Stonewall rebellion was so much by and about queer and gender
non-conforming people of colour that to fictionalise a white male lead in a
film about it seems like it can only possibly have been done at their expense.
Why? Presumably to make the story more ‘palatable’ – and by palatable we mean
suitable for Hollywood, and quite possibly the Oscars. Well, screw being
palatable. Stonewall has been co-opted and whitewashed enough. Example: the
Stonewall charity was founded in 1989 and only this year officially put trans
rights on its agenda. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Enough.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">As a secondary point, it’s interesting (as
a long-time Stonewall student) reading the think-pieces that have accompanied
the kickback against the film. Various critics attempt to present as hard fact
what cannot actually be proven about the Stonewall uprising, thus offering their
own kind of historical re-write with a well-intentioned agenda. Sylvia Rivera moves to the forefront of the newest
Stonewall narrative while the film itself apparently chooses to focus on Raymond
Castro with a cameo possibly from a Marsha P. Johnson-esque character, while names
like Marilyn Fowler, Jackie Hormona, Zazu Nova, Wolfgang Podoloski, Stormé
Delarverie and Tammy Novak begin to fade away from the narrative – and as for
the butch dyke (or possibly trans man) who was the first to escape arrest, she’s
in the film, but people still wonder if she existed at all. This is the nature
of Stonewall.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Most Stonewall historians have at some point
had to disavow to some degree their principal sources of evidence. Everybody wants
to have been there, thrown the first bottle or punch, and who wouldn’t? People
fought hard, but not necessarily in the order we might think. I feel strongly
in my heart that of all people, Marsha P. Johnson never spoke a dishonest word
about anyone and that nobody had reason to speak one about her. Marsha was at
Stonewall the first night (though if it was for her birthday she was
celebrating early; she was born August not June), but how grieved might
everyone be if it were more widely known that Marsha had described how, on the
first night of fighting, she had frantically searched for her friend Sylvia
Rivera, knowing that Sylvia would want to be involved, and had apparently found
her asleep in Bryant Park, possibly homeless and perhaps using heroin. Sylvia
couldn’t have thrown the first bottle from there, of course. Sylvia was with
Marsha the second night of the fighting, with courage blazing, and subsequently
devoted her life, her energy, her health to a movement for equality, or ‘power’
as she always called it, often living homeless and struggling with drink,
always helping others, much the same as Marsha who would famously give you her
last dollar – and it really would be her last. How are saints like this not fit
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 150%;">It’s been several years coming
but Manchester finally got a taste of </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/legateauchoc" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 150%;">Le Gateau Chocolat’s</a><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 150%;"> sweet sweet
award-winning talent at Contact last night. Forget lip-syncing for your life, the
big, bearded and beautiful </span><a href="http://legateauchocolat.com/" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 150%;">Le Gateau
Chocolat</a><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 150%;"> is first and foremost a vocalist of genuine power, and while she
might like to cheekily introduce herself as a ‘complete asshole’, her stage
persona is life-giving and full of heart – but let’s talk about that voice… Baritone,
velvet, dextrous, LOUD – you have never heard the Great American Songbook
performed like this. Breakneck trips through the best of the musicals are
punctuated with heart-breaking interludes where wigs and music are stripped
back for moments of real tenderness. At one point a delicate ‘Hoppipolla’-style
piano scale underpins the most touching Whitney Houston interpretation you
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The best drag performers have
comedy and tragedy at the tips of their gloves, and the music of Ms Chocolat
moves deftly between the two. The potted version of <i>Les Miserables </i>will make you want to fast forward through every
musical film ever with Gateau on the couch bedside you – hilarious. It’s offset
emotionally with moments such as an astonishing tribute to Paul Robeson, where
Gateau brings her basso profundo to the painful, beautiful, dignified slave narrative
of Robeson’s ‘Old Man River’. It’s a very moving and special moment to see a
large, powerful and adored black queer body and voice in all their power. Queer culture should always be about
celebrating that which the mainstream designates as ‘odd’ and ‘other’. Le Gateau
Chocolat celebrates herself, and the audience follows lovingly. ‘I have a law
degree you know,’ she says, as she switches from one dazzling lycra creation to
the next. Defying expectations is where great art begins, of course.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Manhattanchesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17473000082306220916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2658471805510176794.post-44459278571037997492015-09-29T12:06:00.000+01:002015-09-29T12:09:28.945+01:00A Queer Revue!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><br />Here's a cool press release about my new night happening this Friday...<br /><br /><br /><br />The
demolition of Legends is still mourned by Manchester’s LGBT community, the closing of
Essential marked the last gay superclub in the city, and Kraak, home to a host
of LGBT nights, has shut up shop. But sometimes in Manchester the answer as to
where to put on a party can be right under your nose.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;">A Queer
Revue! is an experimental venture mixing club DJs with a range of cabaret style
performances that will take place on October 2<span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">nd</span> at Band On The
Wall. Over two centuries old, Band On The Wall began life as The George &
Dragon Pub before becoming a renowned music venue in the 1930s and undergoing
the change that made its Mancunian nickname official.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1706582806231628/"><span style="line-height: 150%; text-decoration: none;">A Queer Revue!</span></a><span style="line-height: 150%;">
is the newest night to make a home there, brainchild of DJ, promoter and creative,
Greg Thorpe, co-founder of </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/drunkatvogue?fref=ts"><span style="line-height: 150%; text-decoration: none;">Drunk At
Vogue</span></a><span style="line-height: 150%;"> (you may have
seen them launch the last two Manchester International Festivals) and resident/promoter
at Off The Hook (City Life’s ‘Best Gay Night’ 2013).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;">‘I’ve always
admired how the Vauxhall Tavern in London is integral to the identity of Duckie.
It’s possible this is the first official LGBT party at Band On The Wall, but drag
acts like Diamond Lil and Neville St Claire were regular performers there in
the late 1950s, and that history of showgirls and servicemen, all that rowdy
entertainment fits so nicely into queer history. I like that it’s in the
Northern Quarter, but also on the edge of the city – that’s a very queer thing
too,’ says Greg.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;">‘Once you’ve
played at the MIF Theatre you don’t want to go backwards and at Band On The
Wall we won’t have to. We have a historic venue at our disposal that includes terrific
light, stage and backstage facilities that will give performers chance to shine,
plus the DJs will love the soundsystem.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;">The first line-up
for A Queer Revue! combines three of the city’s favourite LGBT parties from the
</span><b style="line-height: 150%;">Queer Alt Manchester</b><span style="line-height: 150%;"> collective:</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/bolloxclub?fref=ts"><span style="line-height: 150%; text-decoration: none;">Bollox</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="line-height: 150%;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 150%;">has been on the scene for a decade, thriving
on indomitable spirit, loyal punters and eclectic playlists, and they throw in dressing
up boxes, fledgling drag queens, bring-and-buy sales and more into the mix. DJ <b>Rod Connolly</b> and Bollox drag hostess </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/killlill?fref=ts"><span style="line-height: 150%; text-decoration: none;">Lill</span></a><span style="line-height: 150%;"> will both perform at A Queer Revue!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/chachaboudoir?fref=ts"><span style="line-height: 150%; text-decoration: none;">Cha Cha Boudoir</span></a><span style="line-height: 150%;">
is home to drag queen collective, The Family Gorgeous. Once a month at the
Boudoir, Cheddar Gorgeous, Anna Phylactic and their troupe of queens satirise
and pay homage to popular culture with their radical drag competition. <b>DJ Danny Olsson-Lane</b> and artiste </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/anna.phylactic.3?fref=ts"><span style="line-height: 150%; text-decoration: none;">Anna Phylactic</span></a><span style="line-height: 150%;">
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/OffTheHookClub?fref=ts"><span style="line-height: 150%; text-decoration: none;">Off The Hook</span></a><span style="line-height: 150%;">
is the long-running queer party playing hip-hop and RnB to a loyal crowd. At A
Queer Revue! Greg will take the decks, with specially-commissioned dances from gifted
choreographer <b>Joshua Hubbard</b> and the
amazing <b>Yandass</b> from FlexN, who
recently took MIF by storm.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;">Plus, in the
beautiful adjoining <b>Picturehouse Bar</b>,
queer short films will play on the giant screen while writer <b>Adam ‘Beyoncé’ Lowe</b> will be on hand
performing as ‘The Telephone Poet’. A Queer Revue! will be hosted by a
different guest compere each time and for the first party that duty falls to
Salford’s finest drag powerhouse, </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/Joyce-DVision-Joyce-Division-109445745838454/timeline/"><span style="line-height: 150%; text-decoration: none;">Joyce D’Vision</span></a><span style="line-height: 150%;">.</span><i><span style="line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;">Greg says, ‘I
like to think about the word ’Queer’ in both its old and new meanings. I like
the sense of oddity and intrigue it has, and of course it’s a way for people to
identify themselves on the LGBT+ spectrum. It’s a versatile and passionate
word, I want people to be less afraid of it. The word ‘revue’ opens the night
to all kinds of performance. In future I’d like comedy to sit alongside pop,
burlesque with hip-hop, I want to make ‘vaudeville disco’ a thing…’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1706582806231628/"><span style="line-height: 150%; text-decoration: none;">A Queer Revue! at Band On The Wall</span></a><span style="line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;">Friday 2<sup>nd</sup>
October, 10pm till 3am<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;">Tickets £6: </span><a href="http://bandonthewall.org/events/4846/"><span style="line-height: 150%; text-decoration: none;">http://bandonthewall.org/events/4846/</span></a><span style="line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;">25 Swan
Street, Manchester M4 5JZ, Tel: 0161 832 1111 </span><a href="http://www.bandonthewall.org/"><span style="line-height: 150%; text-decoration: none;">www.bandonthewall.org</span></a><span style="line-height: 150%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Manhattanchesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17473000082306220916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2658471805510176794.post-30769169294476888192015-05-13T22:43:00.000+01:002015-05-13T22:45:11.123+01:00Heaven Adores You<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">I watch the Elliott Smith documentary and leave the cinema
feeling crumpled and happysad as expected. Everything seems so long ago now. When
I get out onto the street the light has become incredible. The pavement is full
of people not walking but taking photographs of the tops of the buildings which
are visible in incredible detail in the hour before sunset. I play ‘Needle in
the Hay’ and take the Whitworth Street/Piccadilly/Back Piccadilly route to the
Northern Quarter to fetch my bike which I left there three days ago. My battery
goes and ‘Needle’ cuts out before the chorus. When I get to my bike the removable
squishy seat which I should have removed has been removed and so has the front
wheel. I’m not upset. I found him in the basement of my old building, we’ve had
a good innings, someone might ride him again soon. I take my D-lock at least which is
worth more than the bike and walk to get the tram with my headphones still on, playing nothing. A gorgeous girl in a hijab is taking a ton of selfies at the
stop. Someone Tweets: ‘<i>Please
someone take me for a beer in the sun’</i>. A group of Spanish people are photographing
a lad who is holding onto the back of a tram and being pulled along on his skateboard.
Just before Cornbrook, the saddest place in the world, the astonishing sun rests
in a gas tower on the horizon just for a second. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Manhattanchesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17473000082306220916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2658471805510176794.post-56684203531096665052015-05-02T21:01:00.000+01:002015-05-02T21:01:55.262+01:00‘Manchester: In Residents’ ... #32 John<h3 style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #141823; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">‘I remember my winter, trudging up to
Oldham on two buses, sat in the back room with endless tea and a whole
rotisserie chicken…’</span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #141823; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>What’s your name?</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #141823; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>What do you do? </b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #141823; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I am a writer, predominantly about clubs
and dance music, for several publications including The Guardian, Time Out,
Skiddle and The Skinny, for whom I was Clubs Editor, and from where all of this
stemmed. When I see distant or elderly relatives, I joke that ‘I write in
advance about what most people can’t remember!’ No, they don’t tend to laugh
either. It’s a real struggle. I also work for a research company occasionally,
and still get my head down with the odd bout of office temping. I am trying to
distance myself from the brain prison of data entry.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #141823; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Where do you live? </b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #141823; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">For the past year or so, I’ve lived in
Chorlton, home to the highest proportional home burglary rate in the UK. So you
can assume that if this questionnaire drifts off into the ether before your
mind does, I have simply been robbed of my ability to complete it. I had always
liked Chorlton even when living in the city centre, but the Metrolink made it
much more appealing. Plus there’s cheap swimming and moderately priced ale to
offset the constant climate of fear that you could return home any time to
nothing but a dope stained set of late 70s upholstery.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #141823; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Tell us the story of how you ended up in
Manchester.</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #141823; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">As a teenager in a North Wales village,
in no uncertain terms I wanted to get the fuck out, and fast. I considered
going to university in Kingston Upon Thames, Derby and a few other spots, but
really wanted Manchester (not so) deep down. I just about squeezed in to MMU to
study Film and Media, which I screwed up and dropped out of after two years.
Somehow, with almost no financial means and only temporary jobs flyering
alongside a brief stint as caretaker managing a declining chain of sex shops in
Northern satellite towns, I managed to stick around. Soon to be 27, when life
still feels uncertain, I remember my winter trudging up to Oldham on two buses,
sat in the back room with endless tea and a whole rotisserie chicken, avoiding
eye contact with the endless money shots repeated on a first generation plasma
screen inches from the counter. The only security I had was a hammer stashed in
a small cupboard.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #141823; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I moved to Manchester for ‘the scene’,
although I wasn’t sure what that was at the time. I did stand up for a few
years and ended up working on a few writing projects for television and so on.
I was much better at the latter side of things. Eventually, my interest drifted
more toward music, and dance music especially. I started to DJ (sometimes
badly, dropping random Panorama Bar house in between Foals remixes at Now
Wave), and somehow kept my head above water. Some best of times, most worst of
times.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #141823; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I have lived in town in pokey student
flats with TVs tuned only to Sky Action – on which I watched the finale of
Alien Resurrection on a daily basis – then in Rusholme, where a burglar shat in
my yard and a DNA officer inspecting the scene asked me if I’d ever met Steve
Coogan, ‘and was he a dickhead in reality too?’ I lived above Abduls, on whose
food I briefly subsisted, stealing wi-fi from a Chinese exchange student and
never having to heat the flat, which was so warm in the summer months, I was
physically unable to occupy it most of the time. Eventually I moved to a flat
near Piccadilly, and lived with a rotating cast of characters, starring me as
landlord and handyman. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #141823; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>What’s great about this city? </b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #141823; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It’s a massive cliché, but almost
everyone in Manchester loves music, and many more become readily engrossed in
the culture surrounding it. Perhaps this is true of any large condensed
populace, but the people are largely very funny too. But it’s mainly great for
all the brilliant, life changing experiences and opportunities it has afforded
me over the years. Or, perhaps I have afforded them to myself? Perhaps the real
city, is inside myself…? (It’s not, it’s in Manchester.)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #141823; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>What’s not so great?</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #141823; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I think the city centre as a whole has
declined rapidly, and the atmosphere is markedly sour compared to less than a
decade ago. The cuts to resources for the homeless or those with mental health
or drug problems has disenfranchised people on a huge scale; From a humanitarian
angle, it’s unjustifiable, and from a more cynical tourist board perspective,
it doesn’t present the city in the best light. Obviously the blame here doesn’t
necessarily lie locally, though. I also worry that the city’s small enough to
be almost entirely franchised and operated by half a dozen powerhouses across
retail, clubbing, dining… It’s great that there’s money and ambition available
still, but a streak of independence and even the sort of radicalism that the
city’s cultural heritage often trumpets wouldn’t go amiss, albeit from those
with far more imagination and conviction than most of us, myself included, are
able to offer.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #141823; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Do you have a favourite Manchester
building?</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #141823; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I don’t have much of a taste or sense for
good architecture, although I’d like to. I enjoy the corridor of university and
residential buildings on Whitworth Street, and the general feel and sights of
the Palace/Cornerhouse junction. I seriously hope that the latter building
stays put. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #141823; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Do you have a favourite Mancunian? </b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #141823; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">My favourite living Mancunian is probably
Kosmonaut’s bookings manager and former Piccadilly Records staff member, Pasta
Paul. Not only is he one of my favourite DJs - which is saying something as he
can’t mix for shit - but he loves the city more than anyone I’ve ever met. He’s
still dashing around from gig to gig, opening to opening and record shop to
record shop without a shred of disillusion, or the usual ego and expectations
that consume some ‘local characters’. He has achieved what is surely one of the
UK’s largest network of friends without ever succumbing to Facebook, and has
not but a bad word to say of anyone. He is an immaculately dressed force for
good in what can occasionally feel like a sea of ridiculously attired cynics.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #141823; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Pasta Paul aside, I would have really
loved to have met Tony Wilson, especially as I have a fondness for old Granada
TV idents as much as acid house. Like many, I feel like Manchester’s musical
heritage has occasionally been frequently pillaged for personal gain by many of
those instrumental in it, but in and of itself, Factory is perhaps one of the
most important labels of all time, and yes, Vinni Riley is good music to chill
out to.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #141823; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>What’s your favourite
pub/bar/club/restaurant/park/venue?</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #141823; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I love clubs, and I love them best when
they’re dark, loud, full of smoke and not entirely welcoming at first glance. I
really think Soup Kitchen’s basement is, on a good night, up there with the
best in terms of a space to dance, and definitely one of the few dancefloors I
feel most comfortable playing records to. Dan, who books Soup Kitchen’s club,
has afforded it an amazing reputation in the face of massive competition, never
allowing the listings to go stale, and maintains a wry sense of humour or
perspective when I’d potentially be losing my mind.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #141823; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I really like Albert Hall, which is a
great example of what happens when several ambitious organisations take a risk
on a venue that probably seemed obvious to a knowing few for so long. I love
This and That, which even despite a few dodgy visits of hundreds, will always
remain my personal victor in the endless Northern Quarter Rice and Three war. I
still love Common, whatever’s on the wall there, and whatever they do to make
their fries taste really good.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #141823; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I enjoy strolling through Granby Row,
beneath the railway arches, which feels pleasantly secluded and is as good of a
bench sitting spot as any in the city. As well as the Archimedes statue, I
particularly enjoy the ‘Vimto Bottle’ monument, which I genuinely thought was a
really durable inflatable promoting the drink for far longer than I should
have.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #141823; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>What do you think is missing from
Manchester?</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #141823; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Following on from the above, I’d love to
see more green space, which has always felt exclusive to the greater suburbs. I
hope one of the occasional plans to transform Stevenson Square or the like into
a greener environment comes through. But that it is genuine green space, not a
continuation the council have of adding relatively miniscule patches of grass
amid largely stone or concrete areas. I would rather see relatively miniscule
patches of stone and concrete amid large areas of grass. I know you’re not
supposed to say that sort of thing nowadays, but deal with it, incredibly well
paid town planners!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #141823; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>If I was Mayor for a day I would …</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #141823; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Make sure I went somewhere dead nice to
get a sandwich at lunch, and then keep the receipt, say I was having a meeting,
and claim it back on expenses at a later date.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #141823; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Who else would you like to nominate to
answer this questionnaire?</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #141823; font-family: inherit; line-height: 150%;">Mick Hucknall.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I still listen to new music all the time but I think the period of
my life is over where music has the power to impact on me so hard that it’s
like being in love or becoming politicised or finding out a truth about
yourself. Feelings of that intensity probably won’t happen now just from
hearing an album. It’s a bit sad to think about it that way but I’m fine with
it. I know who I am a bit more these days and there are things in life just as
important as music, <i>and</i> <i>some even more so</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In 1990 that was not true. I was twelve and pin-balling
between two great albums released the year before; ‘3 Feet High and Rising’ by
De La Soul, and ‘The Stone Roses’. I was young with not much frame of reference
but music gave me a sudden and profound understanding that there was a much bigger
and better world out there, with an astounding soundtrack. (I am living in it
now, thank God).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">That young period of my life has expanded in my memory, maybe
because in the ‘90s all I cared about was music and in those days you had to
wait for your music. You waited for Top Of The Pops, you waited for The Chart
Show, you waited till you had enough money to buy a record, you waited for the
record shop to open or you waited for your records to arrive in the post, you
waited for the inky weeklies and the glossy monthlies, you waited for the radio
to play the right song, you waited and waited. Perhaps that’s why it feels as
if I’d already been listening to music for a long time when ‘Teen Spirit’ landed
in September 1991. I was thirteen and a half then and I can’t overstate how
much my sister and I loved that record and how much we loved Kurt on sight. We
should have been afraid or unnerved, at least by the dark gorgeous video that constantly
looped on MTV, but because Kurt looked so frail and indie yet sounded so heavy it
hit you from both sides and never stopped.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Henry Rollins said ‘Nirvana slayed the hair bands’ and whether you agree or not, at the time the heavy guitars we craved seemed like the province
of Guns N Roses (who we loved and then discarded – they seemed ludicrous post-<i>Nevermind</i>) and their sexist West Coast soundalikes.
It’s possible I heard the Pixies’ <i>Surfer
Rosa</i> the week before ‘Teen Spirit’, or at the latest immediately after, and
I got <i>Trompe Le Monde</i> on release in ‘91,
so I was at least moving in the right direction, but Nirvana blew everything up
in minutes. Even now I find it hard to credit that a band whose impression on
me was so overwhelming and has been so enduring were only around for two years
in total from ‘Teen Spirit’ to the final double A-side of (the overrated) ‘All
Apologies’ and the poignant, brilliant, bookend re-imaging of ‘Teen Spirit’
that was ‘Rape Me’. Kurt was gone four months later.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">When you walk into a film like Brett Morgen’s <i>Montage Of Heck</i> you are sad already because
there’s no getting away from the ending you already know, but Morgen has offset
that anxious anticipation of loss with such weird artistry and lingering
intimacy, moments of absolute comedy, and such a brilliant devoted use of
Nirvana’s music, re-imagined, stripped down or slowed down, orchestrated or
left raw, that you are in Kurt’s grubby and funny and hurt world for longer
than one album ever allowed, and it’s overwhelming and addictive – two
adjectives which were pretty much the blessing and curse of Nirvana and Kurt. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Montage Of Heck</i> is
a film about Kurt and watches its subject in as isolated a way as it’s possible
to do in film without making something abstract. There are no discussions, per se, not about the legacy, nothing about the Seattle scene, the word grunge is never mentioned, Dave Grohl is not included, Courtney only speaks a few times (and
for one of the world’s greatest music interviewees makes a bland showing) –
this is all about Kurt from birth to death and sets his life and writing and
personality against fame and pain and the power of his songs. When ‘Territorial
Pissings’ hits the speakers it is such a spectacular kick in the guts that it’s
hard to sit still. I thought people might stand up. I wanted to. Conversely,
the arrival of ‘Teen Spirit’ is handled with a genius understated stroke (but
stay for the very very end of the credits for some emotional comeback). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Among the stories about Kurt you might never have heard,
and certainly the footage you won’t have seen of tiny Kurt becoming the kind of
messy movie-star-handsome man you want to instantly be friends with, there are
two moments that left me heartsick. One is the cut between footage of baby Kurt
and baby Frances, who could be twins. The second is a grown up Kurt visibly
nodding out with Frances in his lap and a drawling Courtney trying to cut the
baby’s hair. It’s truly pitiful, and whatever Kurt went through as a child, at least nobody did that
to him. Frances co-produced the movie and I wonder what it was like to see that
footage for the first time. It’s almost certainly heroin and it’s very hard to watch.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Where footage and photos run dry, animations take over and I
understand that some people won’t be into that aspect but the aesthetic of it seems so
right for the time, referencing the zine/poster look from the ‘alternative’
world of that period, and it never turns Kurt into something you feel he’s not.
It feels authentic. In addition, the continuous animation of his notebook lyrics and artwork
is probably my favourite aspect, aside from the music. The feeling of an
invisible hand and a blank page coming alive with the non-stop weirdness that
would eventually become known world-wide is a powerful tribute to Kurt as a writer.
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">If you’ve read other reviews it’s no spoiler that the film
doesn’t focus on the method or circumstances of Kurt’s death, and certainly not on any conspiracies around it, though it does seem to accept the Rohypnol near-miss in
Rome as a suicide attempt so is not entirely a fence-sitting piece. At two and
quarter hours it might be the longest amount of time you’ve spent in Nirvana’s
company for a while so prepare to feel it all again. You’ll be glad to recall there
were so many highs and only one big low that I guess we’re all still going
through. I had a ticket to see Nirvana play at the Manchester G-MEX in March 1994. I'd just turned sixteen. After the
Rome incident they re-scheduled the gig for April but by the time the re-scheduled
date came around Kurt had already been dead for a week. I came that close to seeing them.
I have my unused ticket still. When they cremate me or turn me into an apple
tree or whatever, it will probably be in my pocket. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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During my work as researcher and
music producer of ‘<a href="http://www.cornerhouse.org/art/art-events/performance-the-storming-part-1">The
Storming’</a> – the <a href="http://www.cornerhouse.org/art/art-events/event-the-storming-part-2-%E2%80%93-closing-party">final
installation</a> that takes place at Cornerhouse on April 4<sup>th</sup> – I
have, like an accidental snowball, been gathering up stories, memories and
assorted ephemera relating to our unique Manchester arts institution.<o:p></o:p></div>
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As we count down the days to the
closing of Cornerhouse – towards the FIN of the film of Cornerhouse’s life – I
will be using the Cornerhouse Twitter account to send into the world a
selection of images, historical detail, videos, anecdotes and memories relating
to Cornerhouse.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Mimicking human memory, my
timeline will be un-chronological, the posts gleefully abstract and enticing,
but the stories and feelings they communicate will all be genuine. They will
hopefully reach out to all those who have loved Cornerhouse.<o:p></o:p></div>
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My previous Twitter intervention
for Manchester Central Library can be seen <a href="http://www.gregthorpe.eu/">here</a>.
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Watch out for the hashtag <b>#30DaysofFIN</b> from the Cornerhouse
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be sent live from The Storming.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Victoria Baths, and Ancoats, and now Number One First
Street… The soft launch of <a href="http://homemcr.org/" target="_blank">HOME </a>is bringing us ever-closer to HOME itself and
it’s a genuinely exciting feeling. From the makeshift theatre foyer on the second
floor of this smart office building, serenaded by a live guitar player, and
with a lovely craft beer in hand, you can look out (through snowflakes in my
case) and see the new building emerging over the way.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">On Tuesday, fittingly, I saw ‘<a href="http://homemcr.org/production/tuesday-tescos/">Tuesdays at Tescos</a>’ inside
the pleasant temporary performance space. You might have seen me Facebooking
about how good it was. The final performance is tonight, and you should treat
yourself. You can even get half-price ticket deals on the HOME website. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The play is a one-hour monologue spoken by Pauline,
a trans woman renegotiating her relationship with her ageing father now that
she has been able to reveal her true self, or, ‘Me. As I am. Now.’, as she
says, softly and repeatedly like a mantra. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I came
away feeling very moved by Scott Kentell’s performance. He brought a
gentle sincerity to a very good script. His performance was assured and insightful
(I can’t imagine Simon Callow’s was a better, and I’m a fan). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The director Sue Womersely and performer Scott Kentall are interviewed here:<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">‘Tuesdays…’ is part of the 2015 <a href="http://homemcr.org/event/replay-2015/">Re:Play Festival</a>, an annual
selection of theatre that gives audiences a second chance to see the best work
from the previous twelve months. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">On Friday night I’ll be looking back at a year of
comedy with the <a href="http://homemcr.org/event/replay-breakthrough-comedian-year/">Re:Play
Breakthrough Comedian of the Year</a> competition. I need all the inspiration I
can get for <a href="http://manhattanchester.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/the-projects.html">my own
foray into stand up this year</a>, of course…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Thursday, Friday and Saturday gives you another
chance to catch Jenny May Morgan’s portrayal of a questionably-talented author of
women’s erotica pushing her latest work, complete with mucky novel extracts… <i><a href="http://homemcr.org/production/an-evening-of-filth-and-despair/">An
Evening of Filth and Despair</a></i> promises to reach into dark and delicious Julia
Davis comedy territory.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">On Saturday night, Chris Hoyle’s play <i><a href="http://homemcr.org/event/two-spirits/">Two Spirits</a> </i>dramatises the
story of the three Sioux Warriors who came to Salford in the late
nineteenth-century as part of Buffalo Bill’s <i>Wild West </i>touring show. This coming together of disparate cultures
was researched heavily by the playwright during time spent in Dakota and a
documentary about his time there will screen after the play. Theatre and film
for one ticket, not to be missed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Re:Play is not only a great chance to see quality
new work so cheaply but it will also whet your appetite for the big HOME-coming
too…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Manhattanchesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17473000082306220916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2658471805510176794.post-2577480254861120932015-01-20T19:01:00.000+00:002015-01-20T19:01:21.691+00:00Queer Contact, Queer Media, Queer February!<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">In February I am honoured to be speaking at a panel
event which is part of a larger media event which is part of the one of the
most exciting festivals happening in Manchester this year. It’s </span><a href="http://contactmcr.com/whats-on/category/?category=queer-contact" style="font-family: inherit;">Queer
Contact</a><span style="font-family: inherit;">, and the line-up is so good it makes you wish it was actually Pride
and that there was a parade at the start.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">From the 5<sup>th</sup>
to the 15<sup>th</sup> a plethora of queer arts comes to Contact and beyond
with a program of music, theatre, performance, comedy and more.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">National treasure <a href="http://contactmcr.com/whats-on/29292-qc2015-david-mcalmont-guy-davies-fingersnap-live/">David
McAlmont</a> launches proceedings with a live performance on the 5<sup>th</sup>,
alongside the talented Mr Guy Davies, which, from experience, I can promise
will be <a href="http://manhattanchester.blogspot.co.uk/2011/01/words-promises-david-mcalmont-live.html">intimate,
fun and very touching</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Justin Vivian Bond is another sensational name on
the bill and is in town for not one but two performances, including a collaboration
with <a href="http://manhattanchester.blogspot.co.uk/2009/11/gay-icons-part-2.html">our
very own David Hoyle</a>. Bond is a trans icon of cabaret and is here to share
Valentine’s weekend with us, using both original songs and familiar cover versions
to interrogate and celebrate love. Expect to be stimulated and moved. On top of
that there is a related JVB event with <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/891553197529932/?ref_newsfeed_story_type=regular">a
screening of <i>Shortbus</i> and a Q&A
to follow</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The <a href="http://queermedia.org.uk/">Queer Media
Festival</a> is a highlight for me. Almost thirty media professionals (and me!)
will gather to talk about storytelling, their work, their identities and career
paths. There will be films screened, performances, a news broadcast, and a gathering
of like-minded but diverse creative individuals under one roof. The event is promising
to be a great opportunity for students, for peer-learning and networking, for
idea generating, for meeting and greeting, and for exposure to new ways of
thinking. Speakers include V-Squared aka Vinny and Luke (YouTube stars), John
Bird Media (blogger), Tim Macavoy (Director at InterTech Diversity Forum), Anna
McNay (arts editor, DIVA), Paul Brand (Northern Political Correspondent, ITV)
and Addie Orfila (producer, Hollyoaks). <a href="https://contactmcr.com/whats-on/29493-qc2015-queer-media-festival/booking/">Tickets
here.</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Queer Contact has comedy covered with a six-comic
line-up for the <a href="http://contactmcr.com/whats-on/29693-qc2015-comedy-playground/">Comedy
Playground</a>, while word nerds will thrill at the selection of poets,
novelists and playwrights sharing their practices at Paul Burston’s <a href="http://contactmcr.com/whats-on/29694-qc2015-polari/">Polari</a> on the 10<sup>th</sup>.
<a href="http://contactmcr.com/whats-on/29695-qc2015-kate-odonnell-big-girls-blouse/">Kate
O’Donnell</a> explores trans identity with humour and music, while site
specific drama takes <a href="http://contactmcr.com/whats-on/29295-qc2015-pagelight-productions-a-very-victorian-scandal/">a
police raid on a Victorian drag ball</a> as its thrilling subject. <a href="http://contactmcr.com/whats-on/29494-qc2015-the-house-of-suarez-vogue-ball/">The
Vogue Ball at Gorilla</a> sees competing Houses dance to victory, or defeat,
while <a href="http://contactmcr.com/whats-on/29296-qc2015-mothers-ruin-mother-lovin/">Mother’s
Ruin</a> host one of their far-from-usual cabaret spectaculars. The closing
party, <a href="http://contactmcr.com/whats-on/29298-qc2015-love-art/">Love Art</a>,
is in the hands of the creators of Cha Cha Boudoir so couldn’t be in better
hands.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Explore the full line-up for yourself <a href="http://contactmcr.com/whats-on/category/?category=queer-contact">right here</a>
and treat yourself to something new and challenging. There will be queer
bohemia aplenty at Contact, but all across the city February is turning into a
high point in the cultural calendar – <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Seeing-Queerly-Film-Programme/1583633755190972?fref=ts">Seeing
Queerly</a> has a terrific line up, while the first Manchester-based <a href="http://lgbthistoryfestival.org/">LGBT History Festival</a> provides the context
for how far LGBT people have come. February is a chance to learn and connect,
network and create, and be touched by art and performance. Please be a part of
it. The rest of 2015 has a lot to live up to…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Cade</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user11438590">Rosana
Cade</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.<br />
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Manhattanchesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17473000082306220916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2658471805510176794.post-80001486515509637672015-01-15T11:46:00.002+00:002015-01-15T11:46:56.809+00:00This video is quintessential Manhattanchester<i>'Ask me no questions, I'll tell you no lies</i><br />
<i>The past is your present, the future is mine...'</i><br />
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A girl racing home from her job in a pizza parlour to get ready for a night at the Funhouse in New York City, Barny Sumner and Gillian Gilbert turning up to the club in shorts, that quotation above... this 1983 video couldn't be more <i>Manhattanchester </i>if it tried... </div>
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<b>'Confusion' - New Order (1983)</b><br />
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<br />Manhattanchesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17473000082306220916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2658471805510176794.post-38836536654029097052015-01-14T15:06:00.003+00:002015-01-15T13:22:28.460+00:00The Projects<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">You can probably tell from my output that my
pursuits are pretty varied – this blog, <a href="http://theshakespearegirlnovel.tumblr.com/">that blog</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/OffTheHookClub">Off The Hook</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/drunkatvogue">Drunk At Vogue</a>, <a href="https://vimeo.com/channels/thequeerforum">The Queer Forum</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/profile/public-profile-settings?trk=prof-edit-edit-public_profile">writing</a>,
and the rest of my <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/profile/public-profile-settings?trk=prof-edit-edit-public_profile">freelance
work</a> which I love and which pays the rent. The number of things I have on the
go at any one time is a bit dizzying, and there are a few reasons for that: I’m interested in
lots of things. Too many things really. I’m trying to find out what I’m good at
and I want to be good at everything. I don’t want to miss out on anything. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">When I turned 30 I’d been working in an office
for eight years, in a profession I enjoyed but which I knew by that point didn’t
entirely suit me. I applied for lots of jobs in London that I didn’t get, and I
started to panic a bit. I decided if I was going to stay in my job then I
needed something outside of it to keep me going, so I set myself little tasks,
the first of which was to start a blog, this blog, </span></span><a href="http://manhattanchester.blogspot.co.uk/2008/04/day-first.html" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 150%;">which I
started in April 2008</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">. I had no readers of course, and not </span></span><span style="line-height: 24px;">always</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"> much of an idea what to write
about but I immediately felt better about things. Later that year I was invited to play </span></span><a href="http://manhattanchester.blogspot.co.uk/2008/10/john-peel-night.html" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 150%;">my
first DJ gig</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">, and so that became the second thing on my informal list of 'things to try'. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">As time went on I added things to the list in
order to push myself, to stay inspired, to find my limits and to fight
complacency and boredom. I’ve done some big things that were never on the
list, like becoming a freelancer, which brings ambitions and aims all of its
own. <a href="http://manhattanchester.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/dont-miss-your-moment.html">After
six months of freelancing I felt great</a>, even if money was difficult in my tricky
start-up year. Soon after that I reached my half-life anniversary in Manchester
and took the opportunity to <a href="http://manhattanchester.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/manchester-coming-of-age.html">take
stock</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I’ve been freelancing for a year now and it’s
been a challenge and an adventure, but the list of ‘things to try’ still exists,
needling me to <i>get on with it</i>. That’s
what I’m going to do. I have formalised the list as ‘The Projects’, and as with my <a href="http://manhattanchester.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/new-years-resolutions-2015.html">New
Year’s Resolutions</a>, if I go public with something I feel twice as motivated to
get it done. </span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Here are all eleven of ‘The Projects’ as they currently stand, with little summaries for the ones I have achieved. I am genuinely
holding myself to these and I am not adding anything new until this lot is
done, or at least attempted. Something amazing might come out of this, or nothing at all, but the
feeling of having tried is really the <i>best
feeling</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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blog<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Blogs were everywhere in 2008 but were becoming
a bit passé so I didn’t think I would stick with this thing for long, but seven
years later, here we are. I’ve met some of <a href="http://manhattanchester.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/In%20Residents">Manchester’s
finest people</a> through writing this blog, people who I would otherwise have
no reason or nerve to talk to. I’ve had 270,000 page visits to date, messages
from around the world, a few hundred quid made, free tickets for wonderful
events when I couldn’t afford them myself, but mainly a bit of dialogue with
the world, which is what I have always wanted.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Being a DJ was somebody else’s idea for me to begin
with but once I start something <a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/greg-thorpe/">I
have to see it through</a>, and DJing proved to be the perfect activity for
someone like me, who likes a party but is also shy. I love it. DJ culture I can do
without and I’m not really a part of that. It’s a bit macho and competitive for
me. People will always use music to be cool, no matter what age they are. I
think people are sometimes surprised that <a href="https://soundcloud.com/gregster1978">I’m a DJ</a> because of how uncool I
am and I’m glad! I wanted to be good at it though and I’ve really tried. I’ve
been profiled in the Manchester Evening News and Attitude, I’ve played at Festival
No. 6, Manchester International Festival, HomoElectric, GAZE Film Festival, Northern
Quarter Festival, Homotopia, Vogue Fabrics, Islington Mill, Clique, Bollox and
more. I’ve never played a recorded set in my life and I never would. Club promotion
itself I can do without, and if it wasn’t for the chore of that I would be
DJing much more often. I’ve had so many special moments DJing that I think only
other DJs would understand. Even if I stopped tomorrow, those would be the
moments that made me feel like I really did it.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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clubnight<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://manhattanchester.blogspot.co.uk/2010/08/off-hook.html">The first Off
The Hook at Kitsch</a> was one of my favourite ever nights out in Manchester, and
the only Off The Hook that I didn’t DJ at. I was a resident from the second
party onwards and I took over the night when the original promoters had shelved
it. I gave it a re-brand and a new venue and a year later it won the City Life
award for ‘Best Gay Night’. If I’d been kind to myself I could’ve ticked this
one off the list then and there but I wanted my very own baby. Enter Drunk At Vogue. <a href="http://manhattanchester.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/drunk-at-vogue-we-are-unified-we-are.html">I’d
daydreamed about the night for a couple of years</a>, had even pitched it
somewhere and had it knocked back, and then shelved it. It eventually came to
life as the collaboration <a href="https://www.facebook.com/drunkatvogue">you
see today</a>. I have learned a lot from collaborating, that it’s very hard to
do, but that it has loads of benefits, that your baby will never ever turn out
like you think, but that you’ll love it anyway. <a href="http://manhattanchester.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/drunk-at-vogue-we-are-unified-we-are.html">Drunk
At Vogue</a> started in November 2011. Then we had our first birthday, then a
few months later we threw the launch party for the Manchester International
Festival. I am very glad I didn’t tick number 2 off the list too soon.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I wasn’t done studying, I wanted to read more
books, I wanted to finish writing a novel, a proper one this time, with
supervision and a deadline, and I wanted to do something subversive and uncool
with the money I was making from DJing. So I did an MA. It had been on my list
way before these set of circumstances arrived, and to be honest I thought that
I would go and study Shakespeare at Masters Level. I had ducked out of that
very option when I was 21, despite getting my place at Manchester and my
funding from the Academy. Instead I went to the Writing School at MMU when I
was in my thirties and wrote a novel about Shakespearean culture. I got a Distinction
for it. I had my graduation party with my family and friends in the baking
sunshine on Albert Square at the MIF Pavilion. I was so happy. I learned a lot.
I met great people and read some magnificent books. The course is good, go and
do it. Number 4, you are done. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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paid to write<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">A hundred years ago I filed some album reviews
for </span></span><i style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 150%;">The Big Issue</i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"> the week before they
laid off most of their Northern freelancers and disappeared off down south. The
cheque I got for that work (£36 if I recall) was the most satisfying money I‘d ever
earned. I got the bug but my timing was terrible and it took me a long while to
get back here. Being paid to write, in an era where anyone with a keyboard is a
writer, </span></span><a href="https://gregthorpe.contently.com/?preview=true" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 150%;">is validation,
for better or worse</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">. Writing is a profession that people not only invite
you to do for free, but often expect it, in some cases demand it. I have had dozens
of people over the years discover my blog and approach me to write for them.
Often when I enquire about a fee they become </span></span><span style="line-height: 24px;">unpleasant</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">. Often I am told
that I will be paid in 'exposure' for my blog. ‘But you found </span></span><i style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 150%;">me</i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">,’ I always say to them. ‘I </span></span><i style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 150%;">am</i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"> exposed.’ I never write for those
people. If somebody gives you a fee it is professional, respectful, honest, and
yes, it's validation, and it’s a validation that comes tenfold when it is the thing
you love doing most. Don’t take your writers for granted, and writers:
</span></span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/263804607094399/?ref=ts&fref=ts" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 150%;">try not to work for free</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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novel<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>This is the one</i>... I have written a very short and very bad novella
about a temp who wins the Lottery and goes on an insane odyssey with the girl
who lives downstairs. I have written a longer and slightly better novel about
five gay men whose lives intersect in a weird post-modern way around the lonely
vacuous world of Canal Street and a desolate Manchester city centre. I have written
a longer and much better novel about digging up Shakespeare’s bones and the
effect it has on a world obsessed with him. Trying to write a novel is one of the
great sorrows and frustrations of my life. I can’t explain why I even like it. Every
other activity in the world disrupts and distracts from fiction. So many good
ideas and great lines vanish into the ether if you aren’t able to give them
your full attention. Being a novelist is time-consuming and tiring and
wonderful. It deserves my full attention. My novel needs a damn good third
draft and my intention is to give it my all and let my other ambitions slide by
the wayside until this is done. I want it published. This Project should be
entitled, ‘Publish a novel’. This is the point at which a jack of all trades
has to try and be the master of one. Of all the things on The Projects list, if
I don’t see this novel through I will die disappointed in myself. <i>Do you hear me?<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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stand-up comedy<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This is where it gets scary. And this is as far
as I’ve got with the list. Kind of five-and-a-half down, five-and-a-half to go
I suppose. None of these are pipe dreams though. I have already signed up to workshop some stand-up material this coming Saturday. I have never done anything like this
before. I think I am a bit funny, and I have done lots of public speaking, but
the two have rarely crossed paths. But I love stand up and I am going to try it
for myself. I’m terrified. <i>What am I doing</i>? Stay tuned. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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huh…?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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play<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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an exhibition<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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artist<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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night (Tuesday 13th) at Cornerhouse</a>, there’s an hour-long screening of a compendium of film
work by Margaret Salmon, including both early material and new works in
progress. Salmon’s subject matter is the everyday, her medium is realism and her
forte is detail. Catch a Q&A with the artist after the screening.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Over at the <a href="http://www.cfcca.org.uk/">Centre
for Chinese Contemporary Art</a>, you can watch some excellent video art by
Chris Paul Daniels and Sun Xun. Daniels’ main piece is ‘A Tiger’s Skin’, an
engaging layered video triptych consisting of the artist’s documentary response
to Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1972 film, ‘Chung Kuo, Cina’ which was commissioned
then banned by Mao. Daniels also has three shorter pieces showing, including
one with a snippet of not-to-be-missed Chinese disco music. In the rear
gallery, a selection of Sun Xun’s animations combine unnerving but beautiful
imagery with myth, legend and philosophy. ‘What happened in the year of the
dragon’ is a UK first showing and is genuinely brilliant. There’s also a defiantly
weird and captivating 3D film showing in the dark room, and more besides. It’s
a major solo collection hot on the heels of Sun Xun’s Asia Triennial collection.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of the Future’ exhibition. For this anniversary collection the gallery have
invited friends and past artists to nominate the work of an artist who shows
great promise. The video work on show includes powerful advertising satire from
Thomas Yeomans, queer agit-pop from Evan Ifekoya, and lots lots more over the
two floor space. The whole collection is great, in fact, but the video work
packs a powerful, funny and sad punch, depending where you start. Treat your
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Manhattanchesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17473000082306220916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2658471805510176794.post-18024277450048987092015-01-10T21:22:00.000+00:002015-01-10T21:22:29.430+00:00Queer Narratives<div class="MsoNormal">
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knows I love Larry Kramer</a> but I was underwhelmed by the 2014 adaptation of <i>The Normal Heart</i>, Kramer’s drama about the
formation of Gay Men’s Health Crisis, the first body to attempt to tackle the mysterious
illness we now know as the AIDS pandemic. The play was originally staged in
1985. Kramer then wrote a screen version for direction by Ryan Murphy last year,
in which there was somehow less of a sense that the world didn’t care about a
disease killing New York’s ‘undesirables’, than that the disease itself was actually
only happening to a dozen people in a telephone crisis centre. The world felt
oddly remote, and not for the right reasons. In 1969, Kramer’s sexy screenplay
update of D. H. Lawrence’s <i>Women in Love</i>
won him an Oscar nomination, but time didn’t seem to be working in his favour for
a twenty-first century<i> Normal Heart</i>. There
was something of the clunky and anachronistic exposition we are all supposed to accept
in this post-<i>Downton Abbey</i> world, but
I was oddly unmoved by it, plus I straight up did not rate Jim Parsons. Having
said that, Julia Roberts gave a great turn as the Virginia Woolf-like scientist providing
a lone voice of reason and restraint as the virus gathered pace; Mark Ruffalo I
could happily watch sanding door frames with the sound off; and Joe Mantello’s
manic diatribe as the body count hopelessly increased, was, I think, award-winning
stuff. But the road was full of rocks to get you there.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">If you want a lesson in narrative grace, watch <i><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00NTP05W6?ref_=imdbref_tt_wbr_piv_t1&tag=imdbtag_tt_wbr_piv_t1-21">Transparent</a></i>.
In fact if you want a lesson in most of the important skills of contemporary drama,
<i>Transparent</i> has them – script, pace,
casting, story, you name it. And it doesn’t make things easy on itself. Turning-point
scenes happen off-screen, there are numerous flashbacks, temporal dislocation, narrative
uncertainty. But it’s all water tight, and so consistently and persistently
emotionally fraught that it’s best to sit back and not speak for a while after
each episode. It’s also the most genuinely queer thing I’ve seen in ages. The fluidity
of gender and sexual identity is practically torrential in <i>Transparent</i>. It’s a story that’s as much about navigating human
desire across all manner of boundaries/binaries as it is about a trans woman –
the blindingly talented Jeffrey Tambor as Maura – coming out to her family of
adult children. It’s listed on IMDb under ‘Comedy’ but I can’t think what for –
other than as some kind of categorical titillation to prevent a straighter
audience being deterred. Regardless, it does have plenty of funny moments,
effortlessly and circumstantially funny that is, and therefore real comedy, the
comedy of life rolling on with pitfalls and errors. What I like most about it
though is that it has is no discernible interest in ‘normalising’ trans or
queer experience – doing so would cost the story the uniqueness that convinces you
that you have never seen anything like this before. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Manhattanchesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17473000082306220916noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2658471805510176794.post-20370896141115776642014-12-10T09:24:00.000+00:002014-12-10T09:24:43.364+00:00Manchester Timelapse<span style="font-family: inherit;">Another Manchester movie. Keep 'em coming. The thing I like most about <a href="http://manhattanchester.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/another-gorgeous-northern-quarter-video.html" target="_blank">these </a><a href="http://manhattanchester.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/the-northern-quarter-manchester-is.html" target="_blank">films</a> is that they make Manchester look so <i>clean </i>(no mean feat), plus you can put your own soundtracks on them. Try 'Isjaki' by Sigur Ros for this one ...<br /></span><br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" mozallowfullscreen="" src="//player.vimeo.com/video/72654364" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="500"></iframe> <a href="http://vimeo.com/72654364">Manchester Timelapse - Observingtime</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/agour">Paul Richardson</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.Manhattanchesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17473000082306220916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2658471805510176794.post-71739692295193734402014-12-09T18:10:00.000+00:002016-01-28T12:18:09.822+00:00My talk from The Queer Forum #2 on 7 December 2014<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/tqforum" target="_blank">The Queer Forum</a> is an event that I co-host in Manchester in which people who identify as Queer/LGBT can come and talk to an audience for fifteen minutes or so about anything they like. People have spoken about ACT-UP New York, about their intersectional identity, about life modelling, about dementia, about erotic art and more besides. We also show very short films and we meet new people and we are hoping this event will grow. We are mainly all about the love. At the second Queer Forum event I thought it only right that I give a talk too, rather than just encouraging others to talk, so I wrote this to talk about the very confusing but enlightening year I have had, and some opinions and hopes and some personal anecdotes. I finished by reading an extract from Andrew Holleran's novel <i>Dancer From The Dance </i>which I can't reproduce here but which I recommend everyone reads. Here is my talk:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">My name is Greg. I’ve lived in Manchester for
eighteen years. I came to University here. I used to work in advertising and
publishing. I’m now a freelance writer, a DJ and a club promoter. I’m also an
event organiser. I also copyedit academic books and write fiction and reviews.
I also do research and writing for artists and art institutions, and for the
last six years I’ve written a blog about all of this stuff, and more stuff
besides. I am a bit of a jack of all trades, which has as many drawbacks as
benefits, but for that reason, and because I enjoy analysis more than
conclusion, my talk today, given partly in homage to <a href="http://gaycitynews.nyc/gcn_309/mindexcursionson.html">James McCourt’s
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I am 36 years old. Twelve years I stopped eating
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am from a working class family who are now middle class because they have a car
each, and I am middle class too because I’ve been to University twice and I
work in the arts, even though I sometimes struggle to make the rent. I am, like
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This summer I had a cycling accident. I spent some time
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I could speak Maltese. I had lots of time to think. In the last couple of years,
two amazing people who I was lucky enough to know both died very young. Because
of these experiences I have decided that if something should happen to me, I don’t
ever want to have to say that I regret
not doing x, y and z. So instead I have made a list entitled ‘The
Projects’, describing all the things that I think I might want to accomplish.
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underway, such as creating a club night, becoming a DJ, getting paid to write,
hosting an event like The Queer Forum; some I haven’t tried yet, like stand-up
comedy or staging a play; some might never happen at all, like getting my novel
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">A lot of my work and my life happens online. I am
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when listening to other people’s voices. Here are 5 things I am learning online
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and we can adopt children, and we have equal everything else, we promise will
make sure that everyone gets the same rights and protection too. We will come
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trans women of colour especially. It isn’t going away.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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justice doesn’t mean a thing if there’s no clean air to breathe and your town
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">A year later anyone who mattered in my life knew that
I was gay. My therapist once said to me, ‘<i>As a lesbian, my sexuality is central to who
I am and how I live, and at the same time it’s of absolutely no consequence</i>.’
I had no idea what she meant at the time, but now I do. Everyone should get
some therapy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Alan Turing was a bona fide genius with a singular
mind who should have lived a long and productive life, excelling in his many
fields. Instead of being allowed to meet this extraordinary potential, he met a
guy outside The Dancehouse Theatre on Oxford Road in December 1951 and three months
later the two of them were facing prosecution for gross indecency. A little
over two years after that, Alan killed himself. A popular campaign succeeded in
gaining a Royal pardon for Turing one year ago for the crime of gross
indecency. I think this act pardons the State of responsibility for what it did
to Alan Turing, rather than pardoning Turing himself. Alan didn’t need a pardon
because he never did anything wrong in the first place. If he hadn’t been of use
to the State there would have been no petition to start with. The original
petition read, ‘<i>This may act as an
apology to many of the other gay men, not as well-known as Alan Turing, who
were subjected to these laws</i>.’ I strongly disagree. Turing’s usefulness to
the State singles him out from the countless prosecuted and silenced men who
suffered the same fate. I would be so angry to learn that a grandfather of mine
had jumped off a bridge for the same reason but wasn’t deemed fit to be
pardoned. In December 1952 Alan Turing was a criminal, the State should wear
its shame for making him one. If only useful homosexuals get pardoned, I don’t
want to be useful.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In 2011 I saw a movie called <i><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1714210/">Weekend</a>. </i>The set
design and cinematography of the film was based on the work of a pair of
photographers working under the name Quinnford and Scout. Their work set the
visual tone of the film and they were also invited to do the set photography, eventually
resulting in the film poster image which graces the walls of so many gay men’s
bedrooms. The film had a big impact on me, one that I was not ready to deal
with. I had decided at some point to no longer make emotional commitments to
anyone and for the first few weeks of the film’s release, various gay men,
about six of them, with whom I had had some kind of relationship in the
preceding years, each messaged me to find out if I had seen the film, and if
not they urged me to do so right away as there was a lesson in it that I sorely
needed to learn. They were mostly not very kind about it, but I knew exactly
what they meant. So, because of the film, I decided to make a change and open
my mind to at least the possibility of a relationship, maybe some time in the
future. Not long after I made this decision I met a guy named Oisín Share who
was one half of the photography duo Quinnford and Scout who had worked on the
movie. In March we will have been together for three years. There is a strange
synchronicity sometimes to life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I am very attached to the political, social and
cultural history of men who have identified as gay but when I look at anything that
is labelled as gay culture today, I feel alienated. My body is wrong, my
politics are wrong, I can’t afford anything they advertise, I don’t want
anything they advertise, everything is badly designed and nobody wants to talk
about books. Thinking queerly helps me to square all of this. Thinking queerly
is a way to critique not just gay culture, but all culture, society, capitalism.
When I find gay culture threatening or trivial, queer culture says to me to
take what I like, give what I can, be something better. Gay is what I am, but
queer I think is something closer to who I am. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">I recently spent a week </span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">as writer-in-residence at <a href="http://www.librarylive.co.uk/">Manchester Central Library</a> for the
<a href="http://www.everything-everything.co.uk/home">Everything Everything</a>
<a href="http://chaostoorder.co.uk/">Chaos to Order</a> residency.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">I took the opportunity to undertake a modest,
highly enjoyable <a href="http://manhattanchester.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/virtual-books-and-library-twickets.html">digital
art project</a> using the simple tools of library books, iPhone and the <a href="https://twitter.com/MancLibraries">Manchester Central Library Twitter
account.</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">‘In a modern library you’re just as likely to
leave with a laptop full of information as a rucksack full of books. I wanted
to find a way to symbolise the evolution from paper to data that emphasises the
importance of both.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The project
turned into a way to showcase printed treasures from around Central Library; exciting,
mundane, beautiful, forgotten, well-loved. Each book was reduced to a single
image and a piece of quoted text and sent as a Tweet – a digital artefact
if you like – to <a href="https://twitter.com/MancLibraries">Central Library’s
thirteen thousand followers</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the full collection sent over the duration of the residency from start to
finish. Armistice Day fell in the same week so I opened the collection with an
image from the First World War and finished with an entry from a compendium of
Army names from the Second World War, a soldier named G. Thorpe.<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">‘Strange
friend,’ I said, ‘here is no cause to mourn.’
‘None,’ said that other,
‘save the undone years…’ <a href="http://t.co/rCG7C1He2j">pic.twitter.com/rCG7C1He2j</a></span><br />
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Manchester Libraries (@MancLibraries) <a href="https://twitter.com/MancLibraries/status/532491055111753728">November
12, 2014</a></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">‘Stret- relates
to Roman times, and -ford to Saxon.’ <a href="http://t.co/5xeZS7fpWi">pic.twitter.com/5xeZS7fpWi</a></span><br />
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Manchester Libraries (@MancLibraries) <a href="https://twitter.com/MancLibraries/status/532492544957902849">November
12, 2014</a></span></blockquote>
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‘This song proved once again the power a song can have, whether it’s used as a positive tool or a negative one.’ <a href="http://t.co/156f5JXMDw">pic.twitter.com/156f5JXMDw</a><br />
— Manchester Libraries (@MancLibraries) <a href="https://twitter.com/MancLibraries/status/532494075019014144">November 12, 2014</a></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">b4
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atoms
2day today
xxx ‘kisses’
zzz ‘sleeping’ <a href="http://t.co/kF3dfPBmfb">pic.twitter.com/kF3dfPBmfb</a></span><br />
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Manchester Libraries (@MancLibraries) <a href="https://twitter.com/MancLibraries/status/532495548331212801">November
12, 2014</a></span></blockquote>
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‘You don’t WANT to go to Manchester,’ the clerk corrects him gently. ‘You mean you HAVE to go there.’ <a href="http://t.co/uQvazXd1Xx">pic.twitter.com/uQvazXd1Xx</a><br />
— Manchester Libraries (@MancLibraries) <a href="https://twitter.com/MancLibraries/status/532497097367384064">November 12, 2014</a></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">3349 <a href="http://t.co/iQzNWbVMnR">pic.twitter.com/iQzNWbVMnR</a></span><br />
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Manchester Libraries (@MancLibraries) <a href="https://twitter.com/MancLibraries/status/532498586643091456">November
12, 2014</a></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">‘I’ve never
been able to finish a full bag of chips so I gave most of mine to the gulls.’
<a href="http://t.co/IMdhcaC0WV">pic.twitter.com/IMdhcaC0WV</a></span><br />
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Manchester Libraries (@MancLibraries) <a href="https://twitter.com/MancLibraries/status/532500058432761857">November
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">‘MANCHESTER UNDID THEM BOTH’ <a href="http://t.co/tSuQHPUIfm">pic.twitter.com/tSuQHPUIfm</a></span><br />
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Manchester Libraries (@MancLibraries) <a href="https://twitter.com/MancLibraries/status/532501586795188224">November
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">‘I saw
everything’ <a href="http://t.co/ZHdb7HM6ZO">pic.twitter.com/ZHdb7HM6ZO</a></span><br />
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Manchester Libraries (@MancLibraries) <a href="https://twitter.com/MancLibraries/status/532503111940571137">November
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">'at the
end of the streete I took leave, being much afeared I shall not see him here
any more...' <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ChaostoOrder?src=hash">#ChaostoOrder</a>
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Manchester Libraries (@MancLibraries) <a href="https://twitter.com/MancLibraries/status/532902152264777728">November
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">'expanses of raw canvas covered with
row upon row of black numerals...'
<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ChaostoOrder?src=hash">#ChaostoOrder</a>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">* It will be
recalled that summer 1967 was the season of the "flower
children"
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">‘Plato has an epigram: "As wolves love
lambs, so do lovers love their loves”…’
<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ChaostoOrder?src=hash">#ChaostoOrder</a>
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Manchester Libraries (@MancLibraries) <a href="https://twitter.com/MancLibraries/status/532907773827092480">November
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">'In
1958 Mrs K departed from her mother's home and her whereabouts are not
now known…'
<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ChaostoOrder?src=hash">#ChaostoOrder</a>
<a href="http://t.co/1EgK4Gy1cd">pic.twitter.com/1EgK4Gy1cd</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">'There was a room in the house into
which Beryl was not often allowed to go...'
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">BUYING A HOME IN BULGARIA
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Lilith remained
with Adam only a short time because she insisted upon enjoying full equality
with him.
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">(1) Law Rep. 20
Eq. 114
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13, 2014</a></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">The East Village
is a place that stays up late
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Manchester Libraries (@MancLibraries) <a href="https://twitter.com/MancLibraries/status/532918387635003393">November
13, 2014</a></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">‘This is the
story of a city, and the story of a woman…’
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Manchester Libraries (@MancLibraries) <a href="https://twitter.com/MancLibraries/status/533307907673038848">November
14, 2014</a></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">‘Edna found
herself jostling a group of people engaged in the pastime of looking at the
murder house'
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Manchester Libraries (@MancLibraries) <a href="https://twitter.com/MancLibraries/status/533309445531389952">November
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">‘Before the
20th century there was no choice but to note down songs with pencil and
paper...’
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14, 2014</a></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">On 28th
December 1976 Buzzcocks set in motion an event that was to revolutionise the
record industry
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Manchester Libraries (@MancLibraries) <a href="https://twitter.com/MancLibraries/status/533312428218404864">November
14, 2014</a></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">‘The Amazon
Lake Monster that nobody believed was real, including me, until I took this
picture.’
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Manchester Libraries (@MancLibraries) <a href="https://twitter.com/MancLibraries/status/533313981704704000">November
14, 2014</a></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">‘At least one
aspect of Lacan’s analysis of Hamlet certainly does move beyond
Freud.’
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Manchester Libraries (@MancLibraries) <a href="https://twitter.com/MancLibraries/status/533315462923173888">November
14, 2014</a></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">‘The church
then was a ruin, with holes in the floor and models tripping over
floorboards…’
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Manchester Libraries (@MancLibraries) <a href="https://twitter.com/MancLibraries/status/533316960377782273">November
14, 2014</a></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">‘Götterdämmerung’
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Manchester Libraries (@MancLibraries) <a href="https://twitter.com/MancLibraries/status/533318546378342400">November
14, 2014</a></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">‘There was a
partly eaten apple on the table by his bed ... as a rule he used to eat an apple
at night’
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Manchester Libraries (@MancLibraries) <a href="https://twitter.com/MancLibraries/status/533319970638143488">November
14, 2014</a></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">I grow
older
and I live in the ordinary
of more than my own
days.
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Manchester Libraries (@MancLibraries) <a href="https://twitter.com/MancLibraries/status/533649188765302784">November
15, 2014</a></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">The word ‘God’
is a label for something we do not know.
– Herbert McCabe
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Manchester Libraries (@MancLibraries) <a href="https://twitter.com/MancLibraries/status/533650751227052033">November
15, 2014</a></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">‘I do not
understand what is meant by F/6, 8, etc.’
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Manchester Libraries (@MancLibraries) <a href="https://twitter.com/MancLibraries/status/533651941469863936">November
15, 2014</a></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Daisy and the
Trouble with Maggots
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Manchester Libraries (@MancLibraries) <a href="https://twitter.com/MancLibraries/status/533653179188006915">November
15, 2014</a></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">‘I thought
about using the landscape around Balmoral…’
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My friend Siobhan and I have started a venture called <a href="https://www.facebook.com/tqforum" target="_blank">The Queer Forum</a>. Inspired by the <a href="http://www.ted.com/" target="_blank">TED Talks</a>, we are hosting irregular get-togethers in which we invite half a dozen LGBTQI/Queer-identified people to give an informal talk to a friendly audience about something of importance or interest to them, and/or to our community. We might also show some short films, time permitting. It's not-for-profit, community focused and aimed at bringing queer folk together for education and fun.<br />
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We held our first event during Pride weekend and it was a really lovely, warm, eye-opening and well-received event. We learned about the film critic Vito Russo, about being a visiting covert lesbian in Bolivia, about gay erotic art, LGBTQI Muslim life, and more. You can see videos of some of our talks at <a href="https://vimeo.com/channels/815343" target="_blank">our Vimeo channel</a>.<br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1507730632821629/?ref=22" target="_blank">Our next event is on Sunday 7th December</a> at 6pm at Bangkok Restaurant on Princess Street, Manchester.<br />
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If you want more of a taste of what we're about, here's the Introduction I gave to our first event:<br />
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Hello. Thank you to everyone for coming to our first ever Queer Forum event. A special thanks to Rachele and the team here at Bangkok for giving us this lovely space to work in, and for including us in the Queer We Are program of events. Rachele approached myself and Siobhan separately to do an event here and, because great minds think alike, we both came up with the same idea; to do something like the TED talks that was for, by and about LGBTQI people. We both feel strongly that making yourself heard is an important thing for queer people. Stephen Beresford, who wrote the movie Pride, which no doubt you’ll all be going to see next month, said the other day how hard he’d found it as a gay man to make himself heard about anything other than sex; and that’s as a middle class white guy. There are voices everywhere that should be heard and we want The Queer Forum to be one of the places you’ll hear them.<br />
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Of course it’s no good making yourself heard if there’s nobody to listen, so this project is also about bringing people together, for support, for sharing, and to bear witness. We should be able to come together and share ideas in an environment that’s fun and intellectual, and that’s not just about partying while Rome, or indeed Paris, burns. Laverne Cox has said that it’s important to always remain teachable in the face of ignorance; including your own. So let’s all promise ourselves to remain teachable. It takes a lot of courage to talk in front of an audience and I know you’re all going to be supportive and welcoming. I hope you’re inspired by what you hear today; perhaps inspiredenough to come and be one of the speakers at a future event.<br />
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So, I’m going to put my money where my mouth is, andbe today’s warm up act and give you a selection of great quotations from queer people:<br />
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Join us as we explore Manchester’s Gay Village. It’s meaning. What is it saying to us? Is it a powder keg of the avante-garde?<br />
<i>The Divine David Hoyle</i><br />
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Straight people aren’t the enemy. Gay people aren’t the enemy. Ignorance is the enemy.<br />
<i>Anonymous dancer from Flesh at The Hacienda</i><br />
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The only ‘queer’ people are those who don't love <i>anybody</i>.<br />
<i>Rita Mae Brown</i><br />
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It is a rather amazing fact that, of the very many dimensions along which the genital activity of one person can be differentiated from that of another, precisely one, the gender of the object choice, emerged from the turn of the century, and has remained, as THE dimension denoted by the now ubiquitous category of' sexual orientation.<br />
<i>Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick</i><br />
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I think God is a callous bitch not making me a lesbian. I'm deeply disappointed by my sexual interest in men.<br />
<i>Diamanda Galás</i><br />
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My name is Martin Boyce, and in 1969 I was a drag queen known as Miss Martin. I remember on that night, when we saw the riot police, all of us drag queens, we linked arms like the Rockettes and sang this song we used to sing: "<i>We are the Village girls, we wear our hair in curls. We wear our dungarees above our nellie knee</i>s." And the police went crazy hearing that, and they justimmediately rushed us. We gave one kick and fled.<br />
<i>Martin Boyce</i><br />
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We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.<br />
<i>Alan Turing</i><br />
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I remember much of it as if it were yesterday. It is difficult to celebrate when one has such potent, painful tragic memories. We held so many of each other in our arms. One never forgets love like that. Make no mistake, AIDS was and is a terrible tragedy that need not have escalated into a worldwide plague. There were 41 cases when I started. There are 75 million now. It takes a lot of help from a lot of enemies to rack up a tally like that.<br />
<i>Larry Kramer</i><br />
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The dead are still here holding our hands.<br />
<i>Jackie Kay<br /><br /></i>Manhattanchesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17473000082306220916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2658471805510176794.post-16089084946895448002014-11-17T18:54:00.000+00:002014-11-27T17:35:28.193+00:00‘Manchester: In Residents’ ... #31 Oliver<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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sell about as well as that sounds so I’ve also had a long career as a barman in
south and central Manchester – Maine Road Family Stand, Free Trade Hall,
Robinski’s, The Drop Inn, Velvet, Matt & Phred’s – before finishing up with
seven years as a manager down The Temple. I get the odd illustration gig as
well, like <a href="http://www.forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2011/elbow-and-east-again-but-this-time-theyre-animated/">two
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party baby'. My mum was living in an ashram in Withington, next to St Paul’s
Primary (which I later attended) as part of a worldwide cult. Told she couldn’t
have kids, she had one nonetheless. Grew up, just the two of us, in a
Fallowfield flat. School in Withington then Didsbury. The Didsbury school was a
strange mix of working class Burnage and middle class Didsbury. Hated it. Failed
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get the grades. I took ‘Classical Civilisations’ for GSCE three times, getting,
in order, D, D, E – so Indiana Jones was a no go. I wanted to study something though
and so I fell onto an art foundation course. Two and a bit years into an art
degree, I fell for art. Moved out of my Fallowfield home at 18 into a
Fallowfield student house. Standard fare. Then sublet a one bedroom Northern
Quarter apartment whilst courting my future wife and working in Velvet and then
Matt & Phreds. It was an illegal let, which would have been okay, but a
census was done at the time and there’s only so long you can ignore the door to
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and some numpties who would only ‘let’ us in the front room at certain times of
the day. Fucked them off and got our own place, – a flat in Whalley Range. Due
to an accident my girlfriend had enough for a deposit for a house in Old
Trafford. A year later we got married in Las Vegas in a chapel who said, ‘<i>You just tell us, on the day, whether you
want God there or not</i>’. Our son, Hunter, was born five years ago. We were
married nine years. She’s no longer my wife but we’re great mates in a ripe-for-mockery
‘North Chorlton’ co-parenting team. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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different world out there: terrifying but ever so much fun at the same time. I
walk everywhere if I can. It’s cheap therapy. I can be in town in less than an
hour and Chorlton in ten minutes. You can walk across the whole town centre in
less than twenty minutes, with your beer jacket on. Every parent around
treasures the museums. I hope they’re not taken for granted and that everyone
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trams. Packed single ones at rush hour and empty doubles during the day. The
public transport system as a whole is pretty embarrassing when you talk to other
Europeans. ‘<i>What, you mean you can’t use
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centre of town, they’ll have to fill the houses somehow and a once appealing
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roof and their stubborn refusal to sort out a lift for years. The egg and toast
rack in Fallowfield would have to be up there actually. The residential houses
of Whalley Range deserve an illustrator’s attention. I’ll get round to it at
some point. Still some grand houses in Fallowfield if you can see past the
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late nineteenth century. The owner of the zoo travelled to Edinburgh, with Lorenzo,
to buy a load of animals. The plan was to get them back by train to Piccadilly
but the elephant they bought kicked off and smashed his carriage. Lorenzo
offered to walk it back to Manchester, which he did in ten days. But the
elephant was already trained and had been used to carriages for years. Once
Lorenzo had got it on the train that would have been that particular gig over
for him. So, a skilled trainer, he somehow gave the elephant a signal to panic.
Thus blagging himself an extra ten days work. I’m working on a comic book about
the whole thing now.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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was a character, Tony Dean, who used to write poetry for his favourite bar
staff. I’ve still got a load now. He wrote a short story about a beauty spot on
my cheek. He made me a spoken word cassette (both sides) of him reading sonnets
called ‘In Celebration of Oliver’. He was fun.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Temple (of Convenience). It’s a hole, it stinks, the staff are surly, it’s a
nightmare on Saturday nights, but I love it. Having worked there for seven
years, off and on, I’ll always find someone down there with whom to over-share.
That, and its older sister, Big Hands, are the only two real rock and roll bars
in Manchester. Being newly single means I’ve had to broaden my horizons beyond
these two, for it not to get too incestuous with the bar staff.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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sticky fumbles) and the Mersey that runs round to Chorlton and Stretford, via
Northenden, which is good for running. Longford Park as I used to take the boy
there every day, reading a book while I pushed him around. He would make his first steps in the avarium
there.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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phobias about eating, so anywhere where I can order, it comes quickly, and I
can pay and leave while still chewing, works for me. This ‘n’ That, where I go
with the boy before Bolton Wanderers home games is great. The Mexican stand in
the Arndale food market does a massive burrito, a bottle of decent beer and a
shot of tequila, for a tenner. Top way to start off a hung-over Saturday.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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there as one of my favourite gigs. Used to go to Dance Yer Docs off there as
well. It’s a great venue with buckets of sweaty nostalgia. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Manchester. Ask me again when I’ve been single for a year and I’ll know more
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But until I was found out I’d get shot of that Simpson character. The architect
who keeps getting every gig going in Manchester? Yeah, I’d do away with him. I’d
make The Temple and Big Hands rent-free forever more. I’d sort out the road
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Planet International on Oldham Street</i></a><i> but, if you can live with the shame afterwards, they’re </i><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Oliver-East/e/B0034O9X5M/ref=sr_tc_2_0?qid=1415379055&sr=1-2-ent"><i>also available on Amazon</i></a><i>. He also has a </i><a href="http://www.olivereast.com/"><i>website</i></a><i>, a </i><a href="http://olivereast.tumblr.com/"><i>Tumblr</i></a><i> where he posts process pictures and
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a way to symbolise the evolution from paper to data that emphasises the
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of Central Library, unearthing books that appeal to me in some way, and
reducing the physical item of a book down to a single photograph and a single
Tweet. That’s one digital image and 140 characters to capture the essence of a
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are your path will cross with Fiona Ledgard’s sooner or later. A compulsive
gig-goer, champion of new music, radio DJ and more, when I speak to Fiona she’s
just back from seeing Bob Marley's band The Wailers. (‘</span><i style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 10.5pt;">Moving and inspiring</i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 10.5pt;"><i>!</i>’ she enthuses.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">After graduating Manchester University’s ‘Music,
Culture and Society' BA, Fiona made a trip to Berlin, returned to the city,
volunteered at <a href="http://allfm.org/">All FM</a> and has been broadcasting
eclectic quality music to south, east and central Manchester ever since. All FM
is Manchester’s community radio station and has been soundtracking the city for
over a decade now. As well as quality broadcasts, the station offers radio training and other unique opportunities to everyone from the city’s
unemployed, to Mancunians experiencing mental health issues, to students in musical training
programmes. The station’s remit is all about community and diversity, and for
that reason alone it’s a credit to the city.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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her interview a crazy range of people, from punk geniuses The Slits to
queer icon JD Samson, from fellow DJs like Mary Anne Hobbs and Dave Haslam to
radical performance artistes like David Hoyle and Justin Vivian Bond, plus more
bands than you can shake a tambourine at.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">As of this week, Fiona is taking over the coveted
time slot of 5-7pm. That’s’s right, she’s going drive time! Her show will hit
the ground running tonight, including three brand new features: </span></span><i style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 10.5pt;">Is it 'anging or is it banging?, Rappers
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Tune in to find out what exactly they're all about. You're </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">going to hear something that will perfectly kick off another </span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;">tremendous</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"> weekend in Manchester. </span></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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