We have loved John Lee Bird for a very long time. Whether it’s his surrealist mixed media pieces or his pop art documentation of London’s queer icons, John Lee Bird is an essential artist everyone should know about. Fallon Gold spoke with him for the latest in our queer artists series. What inspires you to […]

We love the idea of hunting hairy men in the woods at night…..oh wait, that’s actually a reality. Well here in the world of Massimo Scognamiglio, things are a little different…. ‘Imagine a noble punk, bored. He scales between his apartment in town and the country estate. And the more he gets bored, the more […]

 Jolie Ruin is a queer artist, zinester and zine archivist, collecting and selling classic Riot grrrl zines and new work. Loverboy’s Fallon Gold spoke with her about feminism, creative community and, of course, Mariah Carey. A great deal of your work is about Riot grrrl. When did rg first enter your life and what does […]

Ever since we’ve lived in Spain, there’s been one person we’ve been dying to shoot – Queen of the Ghetto and Queen of our Hearts, Monica Del Raval. But why arrange a shoot with Spain’s #1 whore when Carlos Pareja‘s already done it and created some stunning imagery in the process. So we sat down with the […]

  Taabe Guggenheim-Kennedy, The Most Powerful Lady in Finland, has wowed the world with her Hollywood video series. Now she ventures into the world of sci-fi. Loverboy have been given a sneak peak of the forthcoming Full Time Lady and can share the trailer with our readers. Ahead of the release of the film, Fallon […]

Last year two performances from Nando Messias brought us the character of The Sissy: a feminine queer character who walks through life experiencing aggression and violence. In The Sissy’s Progress, the audience were led from the theatre to the street to parade with The Sissy, culminating in an artistic re-enactment of an actual act of […]

For American artist Joe Sinness, realness is the name of the game. His coloured pencil tableaux of plants, portraits, objects and ‘locked pics’ are so carefully and laboriously rendered you would swear they were photographs (even when standing in front of the drawings themselves). As with queer traditions of realness, however, Sinness often tricks the […]

As part of a year commemorating 50 years since the decriminalization of homosexuality in the UK, Queer Tours Of London are hosting their first Big Bang Bus Tour this Sunday, touring queer bars and clubs from our queer past, including ones that have only recently closed. Fallon Gold spoke with Dan Glass from QTL about […]

Peter Clements and Oliver Dawe have birthed a glorious monster diva in Frau Welt. Patrons of London’s Hackney Showrooms have had the pleasure of seeing her gestation and growth over the past couple of years and next month can experience a full length, one woman show exploring the world of this fictional legend. Fallon Gold […]