homotopia: 2005 summary

FILM: Victim
Director: Basil Dearden
Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Sylvia Sims, Dennis Price

Dirk Bogarde is Melvin Farr, a married, successful, closeted gay lawyer blackmailed and tormented in this classic film.

Rukus Federation Presents The Queens Jewels

In partnership with Black History Month, Homotopia presents the Queens Jewels a personal history of Black British Gay experience.

Nathan Edwards: Rather Be Dead Than Gay

Nathan Edwards takes an ironic look at gay culture reflecting on his own sexual and romantic disasters, with pyrotechnics, pop music, puppetry, striptease.

Chloe Poems: “From Scottie Road To Harvard”

Liverpool’s own socialist gingham diva poet Chloe Poems returns to Unity to present a special One Woman Show based on her extraordinary experiences and incredible journey from Scottie Road to Harvard.

FILM: Bear Cub
Director Miguel Albaladejo
Starring Jose Luis Garcia Perez, David Castillo, Ampar Ferrer, Diana Carez.

A suprising and moving 'serious comedy'.
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Colin Holme: Cruz Vestido

A seven foot burlesque crucifix shrine, housing 50 flamenco dolls of varying creeds, colours and sizes.

Trademark: Fly

"Fly" is a retrospective exhibition celebrating two decades of extraordinary work by the disco revolutionary Trademark.

www.trademarkart.com

Tim Miller: Us

Fast, funny, furious, Tim Miller’s new show ricochets between his love affair with Broadway musicals, to an exploration of gay marriage, exile and the injustices lesbian and gay people face in the good ol’ USA.

FILM: The Nature of Nicholas
Director: Jeff Orbach
Star.: Jeff Sutton, David Turnball, Ardith Boxall, Tom McCamus

A strange, beautiful, 'unclassifyable' Zombie movie set in 1950s Canada. www.thenatureofnicholas.com

Tales from Yester-Queer

Tales from Yester-Queer is an exhibition that seeks to catalogue and record our gay histories. Where did you meet your boyfriend/girlfriend? Do you remember The Pagoda, Sadie's, McMillans and The Bear's Paw? Contact us at:
talesofyesterqueer@yahoo.co.uk

Peter Tatchell: Queer Conversations

Peter Tatchell in conversation with Angela Heslop of BBC Radio Merseyside. Peter, leading gay and human rights campaigner, talks about his extraordinary life campaigning against intolerance, homophobia and discrimination in the UK and beyond. petertatchell.net

FILM: Prey For Rock & Roll
Director Alex Steyermark
Star.: Gina Gershon, Lori Petty, Drea de Matteo, Shelly Cole

Dyke icon Gina Gershon (Bound) stars in this dark, sexy and violent portrait of life on the LA music scene, based on the autobiographical musical by Cheri Lovedog.

Hope Theatre Company: The Laramie Project

After a sell out run at Manchester’s QUEER UP NORTH festival, HOPE Theatre Company present the Liverpool premiere of the acclaimed ‘The Laramie Project’ by Moises Kaufman and members of the Techtonic Theatre Project. The play tells the true story of Matthew Shepard’s murder.

Ben Zuhlcke: Wildelife

A series of photographic potraits giving visibility to the diverse lives and backgrounds of gay and bisexual people in Liverpool.

FILM: What Ever Happened To Baby Jane ?
Director Robert Aldrich
Star.: Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono, Anna Lee

Robert Aldrich’s terrifying camp classic. Bette Davis is Baby Jane, the grotesque former child star reduced to caring for, sister Blanche (Joan Crawford).

Cath Nichols & Helen Maher: Tales of Boy Nancy

Are we always running away from home? Or running towards the sea? Tales of Boy Nancy tells the stories of those who are born in-between.

Queer Notions Presents: Big Bang!

Queer Notions, promoters of positive mental health and well-being host this event with stalls from News From Nowhere, Comedy sketches with an extreme drag make over and a karaoke coming out party.

FILM: Show Me Love
Director: Lukas Moodysson
Starring: Alexandra Dahlstrom, Rebecca Liljeberg, Mathias Rust, Erica Carlson

It’s a masterwork of European Art-house cinema, according to Ingmar Bergman.

David Hoyle: The Alternative Sunday School

The artist formerly known as The Divine David hosts a fun filled afternoon with homemade art, photographic representations and the fine.. nay traditional art of English afternoon tea.
"There's not a lot of calories in a cucumber" David Hoyle.

FILM: Sugar
Director John Palmer
Star.: Brendan Fehr, Andre Noble, Maury Chaykin

A suburban boy, Cliff (Noble), goes out on his 18th birthday armed only with a skateboard, a subway pass and a joint. Part of Bruce La Bruce's autobiographical work.

FILM: Suddenly
Director: Diego Lerman
Star.: Tatiana Saphir, Carla Crespo, Veronica Hassan, Beatriz Thibaudiin

Buenos Aries, Argentina. A lonely, overweight lingerie salesperson, is kidnapped by two lesbian punks.

Tales From Yester-Queer presents:
Call My Puff: Lost Language Of Queerdom-Polari

In a specially created spin off of Call My Bluff we unearth the hidden language of Queerdom... Polari. An audience with Maisie Trollette, (Britains oldest Drag Queen) Maisie is accompanied by Phil Starr & Kitty Litter.

Amazonia Theatre present: Entartete Muzik: Degenerate Music silenced by Hitler

An all female cast present this evening of cabaret and song.
Devised and directed by Jude Alderson, Entartete Muzik celebrates performers and composers who struggled under the shadow of the Third Reich.

FILM: The Man Who Drove With Mandela
Director: Greta Schiller
Star.: Corin Redgrave, Walter Sisulu, Joseph Bale

Award-winning documentary The Man Who Drove with Mandela tells Cecil William's story - and the story of what it was like to be gay, black or white, under Apartheid.

FILM: Heroes And Gay Nazis – UK PREMIERE
Director Rosa von Praunheim

A historical and contemporary portrait of a number of gay fascists.

www.rosavonpraunheim.de

Bridge Markland: Bridgeland Zwei

Bridge Markland changes her identities like underwear, working with comedy, grotesque and new-dance, physical and mimical expression, acting, playback-/lipsinking-parts.

David Benson:
Bona Cornucopia: Kenneth Williams TV rarities

Famous for his legendary solo show, Think No Evil Of Us-My Life With Kenneth Williams, David Benson presents his scrupulously-researched collection of Kennethês televison performances.

FILM: Straight Jacket - UK PREMIERE
Director: Richard Day
Star.: Matt Letscher, Carrie Preston, Veronica Cartwright

Hollywood in the 1950s and gay movie star Guy Stone (Letscher) has just been caught in the act in a ‘homo vice den’. Worse, the press have got hold of the story.

Claire: Claire Summerskill Acts Her Age

Claire Summerskil Acts Her Age is the tale of a forty year old lesbian who finds her long term relationship coming to an unexpected end. Her knee-jerk reaction is to write the definitive ‘revenge song’ and sing it to thousands of lesbians around the country, thus naming and shaming her ex.

Earthfall: At Swim Two Boys

Inspired by Jamie O’Neil’s novel of the same name, At Swim Two Boys is set in Ireland in 1916 and juxtaposes the developing love affair between tow young men with political turmoil in Ireland and the slaughter on the Western Front.

The Lavender Club

An exciting and colourful 2 nights of cabaret, comedy, music and poetry. Featuring: Jonathon Meyor, Dyke Marylyn, Kandi Kane, La Quisha Jonz, Gary Le Strange , Nina Benjamin (BBCês Three Non Blondes) and more.

Homotopia Closing Party

Featuring: David McAlmont, Jennifer John, Tom Lang. Hosted by Rosie Lugosie, Jonathan Meyor and Chloe Poems feat DJ Claude Cunningham and Cashmere Romeo.

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