🏳️🌈 QUEER LONDON is published TODAY. 🏳️🌈
it is a guide to london's LGBTQ+ past and present. think of it as a compendium or an a-z.
it features amazing photographs from
@timjboddy
.
you can order it online OR go into a bookstore (!) to buy it.
imagine hating people who are different to you so much that you’d sacrifice the economy and the nhs and the welfare of those in society. brexit has made people show their true colours.
eddie redmayne should be ashamed of himself. profiting off the trans community as he has, he could, AND SHOULD, have taken a stance against the harm that rowling is causing trans people every day. what a spineless little man.
🚨PERSONAL ANNOUNCEMENT🚨
i have written a book (!!!!!!!)
it’s called “queer london” and it’s an a-z of lgbtq+ london past and present. it’s being published in march 2021 and features incredible, original photography by
@timjboddy
the way that kylie minogue, an icon who is 55 and simply doesn't need to work this hard, is still showing up to gay clubs to perform padam padam and appearing on american morning shows and capital summer time ball and generally working her arse off. a true legend
during this global pandemic, celebrities have shown themselves to be absolute arses. only one celeb has proven herself worthy (and pure):
@britneyspears
. i wrote about why
dear sexy fish london i turned up to ur restaurant looking like this and u looked me and my friend up and down and said no u can’t come in and ur restaurant was EMPTY
the work of
@britneyspears
has always been overshadowed by controversy, gossip and unfair judgement, and this year it's no different. yet, she's the princess of pop for a reason. i wrote about britney spears the artist, the grifter and her genius for
@i_D
for the
@guardian
i wrote about
@britneyspears
, the incredible people that i've made friends with because of our shared love for her and how all of that basically saved my life after a really dark time in my life.
remember when the bbc said that naga munchetty broke the impartiality rules with her comments about trump? why has the same not been done for laura kuenssberg, who clearly has a tory bias and repeatedly spreads disinformation + conservative propganda.
so for clarification: jamie spears has *not* stepped down as conservator of britney spears. he has said he is willing to step down but only after certain things are settled and has not given a time frame for this.
want to know where all the lgbtq bookshops are in the uk? for
@Dazed
i put together (what i hope is an exhaustive) list of all the queer bookshops in the country
"be wary of others, the ones closest to you..."
for
@dazed
i went deep on
@britneyspears
, conspiracy and the myth of "rebellion", a rare unreleased britney song about paranoia, control and freedom that is her fans' biggest white whale.
#freebritney
last week, i got to speak to pop music icon and living legend
@kylieminogue
(!!!!) for an exclusive interview for
@i_D
. we talked about her new album "disco", making a record in quarantine and what she wants her career to mean post glastonbury
when there is an inevitable spike in cases of covid in the next week or so, we CANNOT let the government use the black lives matter protests as a scapegoat, which knowing the tories and especially this government, they will do.
loud was such an iconic album that five weeks after it was released it's sales actually INCREASED, and it sold over 300,000 copies in just seven days. it later went on to sell 1.8m copies (as of 2015), making it one of the top 50 best selling albums of the millennium in the uk.
10 years ago today:
@rihanna
’s
#OnlyGirlInTheWorld
was released as the 1st single from her 5th album ”LOUD” 🎶
It reached
#1
in 17 countries including the US & UK, is RIAA-certified 6x Platinum, sold over 14 million units WW, and won Best Dance Recording at the 53rd GRAMMYs.
the tories are disgusting. there should be protests and demonstrations about the health inequalities, which are part of society’s systemic racism, that affect Black and asian and other minority groups.
i love a ridiculous pop song x video combo and this new
@samsmith
x demi song is exactly that. got emotional seeing all those queer, trans and non-binary folk running together
this is so dumb. the messaging is all vague and confusing, and people will misinterpret it to think that actually a house party with under 15 people is fine. another mess.
Just announced:
We're introducing a new £800 fine for those attending 𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬.
This will double for each repeat offence up to a maximum of £6,400.
At this crucial time, please stay home.
Protect the NHS. Save lives.
i interviewed the queen of British television
@AlisonHammond
about her new itv show, growing up in a national front heartland and whether she actually interviewed a tree.
i had a really long chat with the fabulous
@rinasawayama
and then basically wrote a small (4000 word) biography about her life, her art and the creation of the brilliant SAWAYAMA
In his first interview since finishing
#StarWars
and that unguarded address from a Hyde Park stage, our October cover star,
@JohnBoyega
explains how both platforms inspired him to make a stand, but for very different reasons:
FOR CRYING OUT LOUD PEOPLE -- GET MARRIED!!! You're missing out on the best thing in life! Pick a good spouse and all that but mostly just get going on nuptial life!
ive done a longread (3500w) on the
#freebritney
movement, talking to britney experts, podcast hosts and fans to try and clear up mis-reporting, celeb click-bait & conjecture & put focus back on the actual human being at the heart of this: britney spears.