To coincide with the epic BFI season on Joan Crawford, Loverboy contributor and Joan aficionado Matt Harris asks the question, was she an actress or just a camp icon? Joan Crawford started her career as a body double for Norma Shearer in 1925, and within three years had become the archetypal flapper of the late […]
Fame! Oh, that theme tune, that star-jump cry from my youth. When I was ten years old the TV show of Fame won my heart. It won my soul. I waited avidly for every episode and sat rapt in front of the telly. I wanted to go to that goddamn School of Performing Arts so […]
Yesterday, 17th May, was International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia. To mark it the BFI, London screened the 2014 documentary Matt Shepard Is A Friend Of Mine. Loverboy’s Fallon Gold went along and explains why it is so vitally important that this life-affecting film be shown. In 1998 Matt Shepard was taken by two […]
BFI Flare is 30 years old; Fallon Gold goes along to find out what birthday delights we have in store For queer film lovers, BFI Flare is like Christmas. For a week and a half. As we take over the Southbank (is the collective noun a camp of queers?), unwrapping the cinematic goodies with our […]
