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In a new commission by BBC Radio 2 for BBC Sounds, The Showstopper will be available from 19 March featuring Bridgerton’s Jonathan Bailey.
40 years ago the HIV virus, and the resulting disease AIDS, were named. It devastated people’s lives all over the world, including bringing immeasurable heartbreak to the theatre community of Broadway and the West End.
Theatre, however, became a voice of awareness, rebelling against the stigma present at the time. There were plays, one-man performances and musicals highlighting the disease and its effect on people, spreading messages of hope and support and helping to quash hurtful and misleading information.
In this programme, actor Jonathan Bailey, who performed as a child in Les Miserables in the West End at the time, tells the story of HIV/AIDS impact on the theatre community, and tells how this community supported those affected. This documentary includes powerful stories from those at the heart of the theatre community at the time, including producers Cameron Mackintosh and Nick Allott, lyricist Tim Rice and Musical Director Jae Alexander, alongside performers such as actor and activist Jill Nalder (Les Miserables, Oliver!), Claire Moore (The Phantom of the Opera), Craig Revel Horwood, Stifyn Parri (Les Miserables, Brookside), and Make A Difference charity’s Melanie Tranter.
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The Mid-Year Book Freakout Tag 2023
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Polari Prize 2023 shortlists
In the UK, the shortlists for the 2023 Polari Prizes for LGBTQ+ literature have been announced.
The titles shortlisted for the £2000 (A$3820) Polari Prize, which awards an overall book of the year, excluding debuts, are:
Our Wives Under the Sea (Julia Armfield, Picador)
All Down Darkness Wide (Seán Hewitt, Jonathan Cape)
Here Again Now (Okechukwu Nzelu, Dialogue)
Fire Island: A queer history (Jack Parlett, Granta)
Young Mungo (Douglas Stuart, Picador)
The Schoolhouse (Sophie Ward, Corsair).
The works shortlisted for the £1000 (A$1910) Polari First Book Prize are:
None of the Above: Reflections on life beyond the binary (Travis Alabanza, Canongate)
Rising of the Black Sheep (Livia Kojo Alour, Polari Press)
The New Life (Tom Crewe, Chatto & Windus)
A Visible Man (Edward Enninful, Bloomsbury)
Love from the Pink Palace: Memories of love, loss, and cabaret through the AIDS crisis (Jill Nalder, Wildfire)
The Whale Tattoo (Jon Ransom, Muswell Press).
Prize founder Paul Burston said: ‘The quality of longlisted titles this year was so exceptionally high, a number of much-loved titles didn’t make the shortlists.’
‘Taken together, this year’s shortlists are a powerful testament to the quality and diversity of LGBTQ+ writing in the UK and Ireland today,’ Burston said. ‘From dazzling debuts to writers delivering on their earlier promise and really upping their game, these are books to entertain, enrich and inspire.’
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[PDF/ePub] Love from the Pink Palace: Memories of Love, Loss and Cabaret through the AIDS Crisis - Jill Nalder
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'I read the book in one go. I laughed and cried like a baby, and was transported back to a time of innocence, clouded by the enormity of the harsh reality . . . A book that is just amazing' CATHERINE ZETA JONES'As it happens, I was also a Jill in the eighties - but not half as good a Jill as real Jill' DAWN FRENCH'Jill met the crisis head on . . . She held the hands of so many men. She lost them, and remembered them, and somehow kept going' RUSSELL T DAVIESWhen Jill Nalder arrived at drama school in London in the early 1980s, she was ready for her life to begin. With her band of best friends - of which many were young, talented gay men with big dreams of their own - she grabbed London by the horns: partying with drag queens at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern, hosting cabarets at her glamorous flat, flitting across town to any jobs she could get.But soon rumours were spreading from America about a frightening illness being dubbed the 'gay flu', and Jill and her friends now found their
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Russell’s friend Jill Nalder, whom your character is based upon or inspired by, appears on screen playing fictional Jill’s mum. What did you take away from spending time with her and did you get a sense of how she reflects upon that period now?
“I’ve spoken to Jill so many times, especially since the show in interviews, and she is so humble. She says things like, ‘I don’t want to be seen as Mother Teresa’ and ‘I didn’t do as much as other people did’. She has such a humility and it’s so gorgeous to see. It’s who Jill is as a character in the series too. She isn’t motivated by anything but love and she gives so much to her friends and she doesn’t want a round of applause. She’s a true hero. To be in Jill Nalder’s presence and to understand her aura and the way she is and the times that she went through was extraordinary. She lived in The Pink Palace, had all the parties, went to all the marches, and did all this charity work with her theatre company and on the West End in the shows, so to hear about that was fascinating and I loved listening to her anecdotes and hearing about these gorgeous friends that she sadly lost. To have someone on set like that was amazing in itself, but then to have her play my mum was double amazing. To realise that she’s one of Russell’s closest friends, and that I had been entrusted with this part was incredible. I appreciated every moment of it and I was so grateful to be able to draw on her for massive inspiration.”
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Portrait of Jill Nalder
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Jill Nalder: A poderosa mulher que inspirou 'It's A Sin'
Jill Nalder perdeu três amigos durante a pandemia do VIH/SIDA na década de 1980. Nunca os abandonou e recorda hoje como os jovens que contraíram o vírus na época "desapareciam".
Jill Nalder: A poderosa mulher que inspirou 'It's A Sin'
Jill Nalder, que perdeu três amigos durante a pandemia do VIH/SIDA na década de 1980, inspirou uma das personagens da popular série It’s A Sin. Em entrevista à BBC ela recorda como os jovens que contraíram o vírus na época “desapareciam“.
Na década de 1980, quando Jill Nalder estudava em Londres, notou que os jovens colegas saíam e não voltavam. Iam para casa e, de certa forma, “desapareceriam“.…
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It’s a Sin Review: Russell T Davies AIDS Drama is a Soaring Tribute
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Here’s a rule you can’t go wrong with: when Russell T Davies writes a TV show, watch it. His dramas are full-size orchestras of the heart. They do everything: joy, agony, love, sex, sorrow, laughter, and increasingly, righteous anger. In state-of-the-nation BBC drama Years and Years, the Queer as Folk creator looked ahead to the nightmarish world of the near future. In Channel 4’s It’s a Sin, he looks back to the 1980s and the pall cast over gay male lives by the AIDS epidemic.
With an impeccable cast led by the luminous Olly Alexander, It’s a Sin is Davies’ best yet; a joyful tribute to lost lives that delivers a seething verdict on ignorance and cruelty. Over five one-hour episodes starting in 1981 and going through the decade, we meet a group of 18-year-old gay men who’ve escaped parochial hometowns to come to London and start their real lives.
There’s Richie Tozer (Alexander), a closeted law student from the Isle of Wight; Roscoe Babatunde (Omari Douglas), the out, gay British son of Nigerian parents; Welsh ingénue Colin Morris-Jones (Callum Scott-Howells) and undergrad Ash Mukherjee (Nathaniel Curtis). The cast is filled with new discoveries joined by established names Keeley Hawes, Shaun Dooley, Tracy-Ann Oberman, Stephen Fry and Neil Patrick Harris.
With drama student Jill (Lydia West), the youngsters quickly form a gang, rent a scruffy flat they christen ‘The Pink Palace’ and dive headfirst into the the hedonistic joys London has to offer.
The joys, and the boys, are plentiful. The early episodes are a riot of sex, celebration and youthful ambition. You’d call the buzz of it all infectious, if the phrase didn’t create a horrible irony in this context. Because creeping in around the edge of the fun comes this mystery disease, word of which is trickling over from America. To begin with, nobody knows what it is, what it’s caused by and whether it’s even real. People trying to raise warning flags are batted away away, dismissed as paranoid conspiracy theorists. A virus that seems to infect only gay men? Ludicrous.
Like any virus thriller, in the first act, people start disappearing. Around the margins, men exit the lives they’ve built, retreating from friends, fired from jobs, wheeled to lonely hospitals or reabsorbed into the families that drove them away in the first place. Hidden away, they die secretive deaths, their lives uncelebrated, buried by people frozen with shame. Cruelty is heaped upon cruelty, all of it documented here with an eye that misses nothing.
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It’s painful to watch, as it should be, but not suffocating. That’s because, like the old Mr Rogers quote about coping with scary things on the news by looking for the helpers because there will always be people helping, It’s a Sin is also about the helpers. There’s Jill, based on Davies’ childhood friend and actor Jill Nalder, who really did live in a Pink Palace in 1980s London and, in a satisfying closed loop, here plays the fictional Jill’s mum. There are the volunteers, the people who staff the helplines and march in the streets. There’s the lawyer who frees an AIDS patient unlawfully imprisoned in a hospital ward. Later, there are the nurses and doctors who care for the dying, and there are the mothers.
It’s a Sin has some wonderful mothers, women who love their sons like butter loves bread. They love them unstoppably, facing off ignorance and malice to keep on loving them until the end and beyond. There are other kinds of mothers too, the terrified and the ignorant who raised their sons without once – to paraphrase two of the drama’s powerful speeches – looking to see who they really were, yet still managing to fill them with shame about it.
Because as well as being a record of these men’s lives told through a prism of love and bravery, It’s a Sin is a polemic. Entwined with the laughter and colour, it’s white with rage. The hypocrisy of the establishment is jabbed throughout, pithily in one scene set in the Members’ Dining Room at the House of Commons, where a group of gouty, married MPs who would doubtless go on to support Section 28 are accompanied by their beautiful young, male lovers. Brutish and insidious homophobia is scattered across the episodes, present without ever becoming the main story.
There are unforgettable set pieces staged cleverly by director Peter Hoar to fit inside the flow of the drama. One is a brilliant rush of a monologue on the paucity of gay representation in the literary canon. Another is a to-camera monologue denying the existence of the virus, which couldn’t feel more apt in 2021. There’s a silent ballet exercise lit by car headlights, and a sequence filmed in one long, continuous shot as a mother and father learn of their son’s diagnosis. Each could be a distinct performance piece on stage or in a gallery installation, but instead they’re here, on Channel 4, for everybody.
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In another poignant speech, a character beams about his life before the virus, worrying that its vitality will be eclipsed by the shadow of illness. He grieves that only the deaths will be remembered, the beauty and the joy and the fun forgotten. Not now it won’t be. Not any more.
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Whale continues to star in Wellington, but won't get to see Matariki fireworks
Amber-Leigh Woolf - July 6, 2018
Wellington's Matariki fireworks display has been postponed for a week because of the whale in the harbour that has been charming locals and occupying the Interislander ferry's parking spot. Acting Wellington Mayor Jill Day said the call to postpone the fireworks was made on Friday afternoon after taking advice from the Department of Conservation (DOC) and mana whenua.
"The advice we've received is that the noise from the fireworks is unlikely to cause harm to the whale but that it could cause it to act unpredictably if it is in the vicinity," Day said.
"We don't want anyone in boats or kayaks on the water, in the dark, to come off second-best if the whale breaches among them. We also don't want the whale to be injured in any contact with a vessel."
Day said there had been strong iwi and public sentiment in favour of a postponement.
"Wellingtonians have fallen in love with this whale – this taonga - and they've been telling us they don't want anything untoward to happen to it. The whale's presence is a true blessing for Matariki."
The council would continue to speak with interested parties – including the Harbourmaster, iwi and police – about how to deal with the situation if the rare southern rite whale was still in the harbour next weekend, she said.
"We think we can find a solution that enables us to celebrate our harbour visitor and watch a stunning fireworks display."
BIGGER DANGER WAS TO HUMANS
Department of Conservation marine species threats manager Ian Angus said its experts consulted with the University of Auckland to determine the risks to the whale during a fireworks display.
"Our primary concern is increased vessel traffic, including risk of vessel strike and increased underwater noise from vessels," he said.
"Our experts' opinion is that the noise of the actual fireworks will be significantly muted underwater and is unlikely to harm the whale."
SPCA chief executive Andrea Midgen said the organisation had urged the council to delay the fireworks.
"We need to protect this southern right whale from fear and distress, something that many animals suffer during firework events."
FERRY CIRCLES WHILE WHALE FROLICS
The whale was spotted breaching again near the Interislander Ferry terminal on Friday morning.
As a result, the Interislander's Kaiarahi ferry could be seen circling the whale, unable to berth because the mammal was in its path.
Interislander general manager Mark Thompson said crew had been sounding the ship's horn to warn off the whale. It waited for more than 30 minutes for the whale to move.
"We regret the inconvenience, but we are sure that our passengers understand, and took advantage of the chance to see our visitor."
THE WHALE IS HERE FOR LOVE
The southern right whale has collected plenty of admirers in the capital, with many people crowding the waterfront – and the water – to get a good look at it.
Nadine Bott, from the Department of Conservation, said the whale could be breaching and slapping its tail to make more noise, to attract other whales or a mate.
She suspected it was a male from its behaviour.
This was the time of year the whale should be breeding, but it could be struggling to find another whale, she said.
"It could be looking for a mate, but there's not many around the mainland."
Bott had also seen signs of aggression from the whale based on pictures and videos – signs the public would not recognise.
Breaching was generally not aggressive unless the whale was getting closer and closer to a boat. But earlier in the week, she saw the whale aggressively "head lunging", or raising its head from the water, to create a wake.
Department of Conservation marine species support officer Hannah Hendriks said DOC had not named the whale. The gender was unknown until biopsy results from Niwa were processed.
It was normal for a whale to stay in one place for so long, and to breach often, she said.
The "acrobatic" whale could be reacting to a range of new experiences in Wellington both positive and negative, she said.
DON'T GET TOO CLOSE
Wellington Harbour Master Grant Nalder said people were complaining on social media about boats getting too close, but photos would make the whale look closer to the boat than it really was.
"I am not aware of any close accidents."
Boats should be approaching the whale from the side, or the back, he said. Kayakers, dingys and paddle boarders needed to take extra care.
"If it comes up beside a kayaker, and flips out a flipper, it could do some real damage."
The Marine Mammals Protection Regulations 1992 says no more than three vessels and/or aircraft should be within 300 metres of any marine mammal, and each vessel needs to be at least 50m away.
The Police Maritime Unit has been in the harbour this week monitoring boats.
Constable Thomas Usher said no one had got too close. "Everyone has been well behaved. They have kept a good distance from the whale."
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“For me as an actor who loves musical theater and was a cast member in the Les Misérables back in the 90s, I am immensely proud of what the theater community did back then. It been a moving experience for me telling this story, there was so much I was unaware of as I was so young at that time but it’s a time of such strength compassion and resilience that we should never ever forget.”
Jonathan Bailey narrating ‘The Showstopper’, a documentary on how HIV/AIDS impacted the theatre community in the 80s, and how this community supported those affected. You can listen to this incredible emotional and powerful documentary for the next 29 days on BBC Sounds.
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Love From The Pink Palace by Jill Nalder
Love From The Pink Palace by Jill Nalder
“They were just men, like any other,”
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Jill Nalder - Portrait Artist of the Week
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The dedicated Jill Nalder, actor, activist, posing for Greg Mason on @skyarts Portrait Artist of the Week. Oil on Canvas. 30x 20cm. @jill.nalder ,@gregorymasonart #mypaotw @artistoftheyear #oilpaint #portrait #journalist #woman #pink #actor #activist #itsasin #thepinkpalace @katebryan_art @taishanschierenberg @kathleen.soriano #jamesmccormackartist #jamesfineart #sketchendeavour #10kartist #10kartists #Pixels100DayChallenge #100DayChallenge #artistasdabelavista https://www.instagram.com/p/CMLZBZwn5Y3/?igshid=1k1u1q04tuc9m
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Portrait of Jill Nalder
Portrait of Jill Nalder
Portrait of Jill Nalder
Happy international women’s day.I painted this Portrait of actor and activist Jill Nalder yesterday along with Portrait artist of the week series. Jill’s real life inspired Russell Davies hit TV drama series “It’s a sin” about HIV and AIDS in the 80s.
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