Hello Dick Day! So straight off the bat, I want to know what made you enter The Gold Rush? Hello! I entered ‘The Gold Rush’ as I needed a boost and a new challenge in my drag journey. I was feeling a bit under motivated with the amount of opportunities I had going for me in Brighton. I figured it was a good move to have a whack at […]
Here at Loverboy we’re big, big fans of camp, catfights and costumes that use every colour on the palette – surprising to hear, we know. 😉 We adore the original 80s soaps like Dynasty, Dallas, The Colbys, Falcon Crest etc. When we heard a couple of years ago that Dynasty was being rebooted we crossed […]
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 […]
Fallon Gold looks beyond the comedy, glitz and tutti frutti hats to reveal why we’ve chosen uber-camp icon Carmen Miranda as July’s Tragic Diva. Most know Carmen Miranda as the over-the-top Latin movie star with a pile of fruit on her head. However, she was no South American caricature, there was a whole 3D […]
Given the subject matter I don’t think Studio 54 could have failed to be a lot of fun, and Matt Tyrnauer’s new documentary doesn’t disappoint. Opening in April 1977, the club was an overnight sensation, attracting a host of New York’s most glamorous celebrities who partied alongside gays and ordinary partygoers. Andy Warhol, Grace Jones, Liza Minnelli, […]
In Loverboy’s new series Tragic Divas, Fallon Gold tells us why opera singer Maria Callas is a diva in every sense of the word. Despite being one of the most famous opera singers there has ever been, in her time Maria Callas was then (and still is?) probably more well known for being a scandalous […]
If you’re even vaguely a fan the iconic Grey Gardens, Göran Hugo Olsson’s new documentary That Summer is essential viewing. If you haven’t seen the Maysles brothers’ masterpiece (why not?) this is probably not for you, but it is, in any case, an absolute gem of 70s archive film. The story starts out with a narrated intro from legendary […]
In the latest in our series focusing on queer artists, Loverboy’s Fallon Gold spoke with Wayne Hollowell. Wayne is a prominent part of the queer art movement and queer celebrity art movement. He also made some early films with a certain Rupaul Charles, one of which you can see with your own eyeballs at the […]
If you’ve paid attention then you know by now that Loverboy adores Jayne Mansfield. Rival blonde bombshell to Marilyn Monroe, the ultimate dumb blonde who had a genius IQ, a muscleman hubby who built her a pink palace, mother of Detective Olivia Benson (no, not Taylor Swift’s cat but rather actress Mariska Hargitay), embraced […]
