The Queen is Dead. Long live the King
Why I loved the Queen and how the Royals have helped us all including the LGBTQ+ Communities. Dave, Founder of
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Entertainment
Top 5 winter Olympics hunks of recent years!
The winter Olympics are in full swing and we are loving it! Not only because of the amazing performances the
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How are you celebrating LGBT History Month?
Brought to you by Gaydar.net In the UK, the month of February is designated as LGBTQ History Month. In the
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Review: La bohème, Royal Opera House
by Adrian Gillan for www.bent.com Impoverished artists find inner riches! Bent’s Adrian Gillan swoons at Puccini’s atmospheric, sonorous and psychologically
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Swiss Ski, Spa… Fish!
by Adrian Gillan for www.bent.com Angling for something a bit different this winter? Adrian Gillan enjoys snowy piste ‘n spa
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Review: Happy 70th Birthday, English National Ballet, London Coliseum
by Adrian Gillan for www.bent.com World-class dance company – with a broad, ever-expanding repertoire; global and home-grown talent; and state-of-the-art
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Review: Le Corsaire, English National Ballet, London Coliseum
by Adrian Gillan for www.bent.com A classic ballet, but where the boys get all the best moves! Bent’s Adrian Gillan
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Review: My Brilliant Friend, Olivier Theatre (National Theatre)
by Adrian Gillan for www.bent.com Poverty v. aspiration; friendship v. rivalry; male chauvinism v. feminism! Bent’s Adrian Gillan gets immersed
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Review: Three Sisters, Lyttleton Theatre (National Theatre)
by Adrian Gillan for www.bent.com The very soul of Chekhov – qua themes, scenes, characters and relations – yet all
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Review: The Boy Friend, Menier Chocolate Factory, London
by Adrian Gillan for www.bent.com Bent’s Adrian Gillan is besotted by classic ‘20s-pastiche gem The Boy Friend, revived at the
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New Queer’s Resolution
by Adrian Gillan for www.bent.com Out with the old, away with the blues: let Bent’s left-field Adrian Gillan help shape
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Review: La traviata, Royal Opera House
by Adrian Gillan for www.bent.com Love attained; lost innocence regained – yet all too late? Bent’s Adrian Gillan salutes 25
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Review: Otello, Royal Opera House
by Adrian Gillan for www.bent.com Jealousy invokes jealousy, then tragedy! Bent’s Adrian Gillan enjoys this simply-staged, powerfully-sung revival of Verdi’s
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Review: Touching the Void, Duke of York’s Theatre, London
by Adrian Gillan for www.bent.com Adventure and survival, on the very edge! Bent’s Adrian Gillan is gripped by a unique,
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Review: A Taste of Honey, Trafalgar Studios, London
by Adrian Gillan for www.bent.com No mere period piece, this! Over 60 years on, after its premiere, Bent’s Adrian Gillan
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A Taste of Honey: Stuart Thompson Q&A!
Fresh out of drama school, young actor Stuart Thompson tells Matthew Amer of the thrill of acting, and his exciting
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Review: Death of a Salesman, Piccadilly Theatre
by Adrian Gillan for www.bent.com Societal expectation and self-delusion! Bent’s Adrian Gillan enjoys this brilliantly acted and designed new production
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Review: The Mikado, English National Opera, London Coliseum
by Adrian Gillan for www.bent.com Bent’s Adrian Gillan falls topsy-turvy in love with the ENO’s latest revival of Jonathan Miller’s
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Review: Orpheus in the Underworld, English National Opera, London Coliseum
by Adrian Gillan for www.bent.com Raucously hellish Can-can operetta rebooted for a #MeToo age! Bent’s Adrian Gillan hails ENO’s fiercely
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Review: A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, Trafalgar Studios
by Adrian Gillan for www.bent.com You can only laugh away so much pain! Bent’s Adrian Gillan is moved by a
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Gay Ghosts
by Adrian Gillan for www.bent.com Holy ghoulies! Halloween (31 Oct) looming, Bent’s Adrian Gillan unearths famous homo haunts! It
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Review: ‘Master Harold’… and the boys, Lyttleton Theatre (National Theatre)
by Adrian Gillan for www.bent.com Insecurity tests dignity, hurting what it loves! Bent’s Adrian Gillan hails the National Theatre’s revival
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Review: Akram Khan’s Giselle, English National Ballet. Sadler’s Wells, London
by Adrian Gillan for www.bent.com Love, betrayal, redemption! Bent’s Adrian Gillan is mesmerised by the English National Ballet’s revival of
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Review: A Doll’s House, Lyric Hammersmith, London
by Adrian Gillan for Bent.com The subjugation of gender – and race! Bent’s Adrian Gillan fetes Tanika Gupta’s enriched-yet-faithful new
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Review: Falsettos, The Other Palace, London
by Adrian Gillan for www.bent.com A man; his wife, son, gay lover and shrink; plus lesbian neighbours! Bent’s Adrian
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