What better thing to do in the gay community than remind it of its history and honour its actors: What counts as daring in the face of being true to love! Stefan Haupt’s 2014 film The Circle and the dilemma of postwar 20th century queer representations of love between men in Europe. Left to right: … More What better thing to do in the gay community than remind it of its history and honour its actors: What counts as daring in the face of being true to love! Stefan Haupt’s 2014 film ‘The Circle’ and the dilemma of postwar 20th century queer representations of love between men in Europe.

Directing a man’s future being, or, Trans-ing Eugene Onegin Let’s divert the question a moment, because I am preparing myself to see Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin streamed (the second time for the opera but then I only saw a live student production: see this blog) from the Metropolitan Opera, and in the middle of re-reading the … More Directing a man’s future being, or, Trans-ing Eugene Onegin

The lines that hold the sails in tension now fret, or so the sounds they fake suggests, a keen low scream that might be just the gale that’s set to lengthen distance to safe harbour, seen Through gaps between each white wave peak as if security were not what vessels seek. A night at sea … More ‘Sleep’s a trouble, dreams pitch too persistent / the stresses of the day before that dawn / when truly come, promises that it’s sent /to build our worn self up, just less forlorn’. Verse written on assessing the aftermath of a day that’s made too many demands upon you!