Which merit badges have you earned?
The countdown to this weekend's Gay Pride/Gay Xmas continues - and tonight, I am off to a panel discussion event all about the state of play where that is concerned, in the UK and the world at large, with participants Our Hero Peter Tatchell, lesbian Labour MP Angela Eagle, trans activist and Britain's first Muslim drag queen Asifa Lahore, and Tory MP Crispin Blunt. Should be interesting - in particular since I and my sister have been battling the organisers of Pride in London for years to get them to understand how it is not, and cannot be, right to cut down (and restrict with tickets/wristbands/barriers) the number of individual members of the public who want to take part in the march, in favour of massively-funded floats and walking groups organised by corporate bodies and groups whose actual real-life involvement in/understanding of gay lives and gay rights issues is nominal (to say the least).
I'm sure I'll have plenty to say :-)
Meanwhile, on with the campery!
How about a technicolour nod to our favourite decade the 80s, as interpolated by a "band" that was very much of the 90s? That fits the bill nicely...
NB the man behind the make-up is none other than Stuart Price - the genius behind Confessions on a Dance Floor for Queen Madge, as well as producer/remixer for The Killers, Pet Shop Boys, Scissor Sisters, Kylie and Take That, among many others.
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