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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Loverboy loves a biopic. Like, really really. Oh, those big old Hollywood A list star ones are ok. But sit us in front of a made-for-tv-biopic, preferably from the 70s, 80s or 90s and we’re in camp uberheaven, darlings. To celebrate this underrated, most glorious genre, Loverboy’s queen of kitsch Fallon Gold picks some of […]
Today – if she had lived – Judy Garland would have been 94. It’s hard to imagine her surviving this long. But heck – her daughter Liza is 70. Who’d have thought that would happen? (Though obvs thank the goddess she is still here!) Still, cuz she started in show business when she was 3, […]
When Loverboy’s Fallon Gold first heard about queer music night Camposphere, illustrated by Barbarella and winged unicorns, she thought they’d plucked this concept right out of her soul through her brain. A night of LGBTQIA+ music celebrating camp? We’re in. And with the tagline ‘Camp Was Never Over’, we couldn’t agree more with the ethos […]
