Bev Ditsie was 17 when she first met Simon Nkoli, founder of South Africa’s first gay and lesbian organization: GLOW. Simon became her mentor, her role model and, most of […]
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David Swatling meets American writer Edmund White, who spent 16 years living in Paris, roaming its streets and neighbourhoods and basking in its rich cultural life. His observations are recorded […]
David Swatling meets American gay writers Edmund White and David Leavitt and discusses with them, among other things, the concept of “auto-fiction”, which takes as its premise (French, of course) […]
Anne Blair Gould meets American journalist and author Randy Shilts. He covered the onset (early 1980s) and of the AIDS epidemic for the San Francisco Chronicle. As he found out […]
David Swatling presents a portrait of British film-maker Derek Jarman (1942-1994). His first film was “Sebastian”, spoken in Latin. Others include “Caravaggio”, “The Last of England”, “Edward II” and “The […]
Rembrandt Express was a weekly magazine show about the Netherlands, hosted by Pete Myers. In the late 1980’s, he introduced the Gay Front, a monthly column about gay social issues. […]