Last night, some friends took me to Cine Vivo, a movie night in a cute room in the centre of Perth. The main feature was the documentary Chavela. All I’d heard before I entered the room was that she was a Costa-Rican born Mexican lesbian who smoked cigars. But the documentary showed her to be…
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Sep
Australia is currently playing the fourth cricket test against England at Old Trafford in Manchester. They’ve spruced up the ground since my friends Rory and I popped in when we were touring the north of England and Scotland in December 1991. They’ve probably spruced up the security as well. Although it was the off-season, it…
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Sep
The second series of a TV show can be the most enjoyable to watch. Things are still fresh, but now we understand the setting, premise and characters and can concentrate on having fun with them. Last week, I wrote about the original Tales of the City series. Since then, I’ve re-watched the second series on…
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Sep
The 1994 Queer Film Festival in Perth was the first time I went to the cinema with other gay men to watch gay productions. I say ‘productions’ rather than ‘movies’ because the centrepiece of that festival was the 1993 TV adaptation of Tales of the City, which they played on the big screen. It centred…
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Aug
… the 24/7 KMart at Eaton Fair, just outside Bunbury, Western Australia. But now I have at least been outside. Like Moses, I have seen the promised land, but not entered it. And yes, I have literally been to paradise, namely Paradise Harbor in Antarctica:
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Aug
… this platter from the Norfolk Hotel may help change that.
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Aug
Queen Elizabeth I said that the word ‘must’ is not used to sovereign princes, even though, in reality, she did a lot of things she didn’t really want to do, like sign the death warrant of Mary, Queen of Scots and submit to medical examinations to see whether she could bear children. In my view,…
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Aug
I’ve been copping a lot of flak because in my eleven visits to Far North Queensland, I’ve never been to the Great Barrier Reef, though twice I’ve made it to Cairns Central shopping centre. One problem is that practically everyone else has been (to the reef that is, not the shopping centre) and I don’t…
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Jul
