Tel Aviv: Memorial for gay victims of the Holocaust unveiled
A memorial honouring gay victims of the Holocaust has been unveiled in Tel Aviv. It features a concrete pink triangle, the same symbol used by the Nazis to mark someone as gay. City councilman and...
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New Auschwitz ‘showers’ cause visitor outrage
Management at the former Nazi concentration camp have caused controversy by installing sprinklers above entrances to the site. When the team in charge of the Auschwitz Memorial installed sprinklers...
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‘Nazi grandma’ jailed for denying the Holocaust ever happened
Fascist Ursula Haverbeck was jailed for ten months. An 87-year-old grandmother has been imprisoned for 10 months after she insisted that Auschwitz was “not historically proven” to be a death camp....
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Rare Alan Turing postcard fetches nearly £30k at auction
A postcard written by World War Two codebreaker Alan Turing has sold for £28,000 at auction. 41 at the time, Turing sent the postcard from Corfu in 1953, a year before he killed himself by taking...
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World War Two gay love letters could get Hollywood adaptation
The lost love letters between two gay world war two soldiers have sparked possible Hollywood interest. Gilbert Bradley and Gordon Bowsher’s romantic letters were written during in the war, where they...
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How underground magazines helped liberate gay men in the Cold War
In an extract from his new book, Lukasz Szulc explores life behind the gay magazines in Communist Poland. Born in 1948 in communist Poland, Andrzej Selerowicz immigrated to Vienna in the late 1970s,...
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Alan Turing’s teachers called his school work ‘weak’ and ‘vague’
Alan Turing is widely considered to be a codebreaking genius who helped win World War Two. But it turns out his own school teachers were less than impressed with some of his work. Newly released school...
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Hitler had ‘homosexual streak’ according to secret CIA files
Adolf Hitler had a “homosexual streak” according to secret CIA files which detail his personality and interests. The 70-page report was compiled in 1942 and was sent from Dr Henry Field, a top aide for...
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13 things you really need to know about the ‘rainbow poppy’
Discourse surrounding the ‘rainbow poppy’ – also known as the LGBT+ poppy – has been dominating Twitter in the last few days, so we thought we’d set the record straight once and for all. 1. OK, first...
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Far-right Polish thugs mark the anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising by burning...
Far-right thugs burned rainbow flags as they marched through Warsaw as they staged a demonstration on Saturday. The march to mark the anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising – resistance against the Nazis...
View ArticlePoland’s hateful crusade against LGBT+ folk compared to dehumanising...
A gay Polish politician and MEP has compared the treatment of LGBT+ people in Poland to the way Jewish people were “dehumanised” before World War Two. Robert Biedron is a gay politician and LGBT+...
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Stolen artefacts belonging to gay World War Two hero Alan Turing to finally...
Stolen items belonging to gay computing genius and codebreaking hero Alan Turing are to be returned to the UK after decades. The haul of 17 items include five rare photographs of the Bletchley Park...
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History made as £50 note featuring gay war hero Alan Turing enters circulation
The Bank of England’s newly-designed £50 note featuring the portrait of Alan Turing, the gay computing pioneer and World War Two code-breaker, has entered circulation. In dropping Wednesday (23 June),...
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Giant rainbow tribute to pioneering gay war hero Alan Turing unveiled at GCHQ
A giant artwork of Alan Turing has been revealed at the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), as he becomes the face of the new £50 note on his birthday (23 June). The 10 by 10 metre rainbow...
View ArticlePot, stock (& two smoking barrels)
One of the (let’s be honest, rather many) obstacles to me becoming a vegetarian – as opposed to a passionate lover of all kinds of veg – would be what do to about stock. I often toy, more than idly,...
View ArticleA Woman of Style, Substance & Hedgehog Slice
I have just heard tonight that Mrs Spain, one of my mother’s dearest friends, died this week. My mum died 15 years ago, and I haven’t kept properly in touch with her friends … so it came as a great...
View ArticleEager for Uighur
This week’s column from the Empress in Good Living is a beauty, and extra fun for us to read because we were crash test dummies for one of these Chinese muslim restaurants with her – the Western Orient...
View ArticleIn celebration of celery
If there’s one vegetable always found in my crisper, it’s the humble bunch of celery – it goes in everything from soups to curries to pasta to tagines to all those good Mediterranean casserolish...
View ArticleSnag a sausage roll
The Empress has come over all flaky in her Good Living 3-of-a-kind column this week – it’s on sausage rolls. I can vouch for the goodness of the Bourke St Bakery pork & fennel version, and the...
View ArticleFine but frugal food – is it possible?
I’ve come to the realisation, rather late in the piece, that the dough has run out. Renovation sure takes it out of a gal, and the latest bit of it – our backyard spritz, even done with volunteer...
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