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...Romano ends smartly with Wayne Barrett, the investigative journalist who spent decades pursuing Donald Trump....
...The rapper Lil Nas X also covered “Jolene”, and as a gay man singing to a woman teased a new level of complexity from it....
...Emblematic is Osmond Watson’s expressive portrait of a Jamaican boy with piercing eyes and languid air, “Johnny Cool” (1967)....
...One reason was that he was gay, which some disapproved of and others simply considered a political liability....
...Cooper’s isn’t the first film to capitalise on the clamour surrounding the case: the Discovery Plus network was quick off the draw with last year’s Johnny vs Amber: The US Trial, a sequel of sorts to Johnny...
...It’s a bit of a Johnny-come-lately. It was never a Roman town and only put on weight in early modern times....
...When so many were involved, what justice was possible for the victims of Nazi murderers: Jews, Sinti, gay people and others?...
...Last week I went to see Woolf Works, choreographer Wayne McGregor’s interpretation of three books by Virginia Woolf....
...Anthony Walgate, a 23-year-old gay man, is murdered. The initial police investigation is bungled, and his killer, Stephen Port goes on to kill again. And again. And again....
...She makes an analogy with gay rights. In 2012, Sex and the City actor Cynthia Nixon was criticised for saying that being gay was a choice....
...Bigotry, racism, grotesque messages shared on WhatsApp, a bungled investigation into the killings of four gay men, and the murder of Sarah Everard by PC Wayne Couzens, who Scotland Yard admits it would have...
...Nightclubs and wine bars in mid-1970s London and New York often rang out with the Slickers’ “Johnny Too Bad”, Desmond Dekker’s “007 (Shanty Town)” and other numbers from the film....
...Dick was the first female commissioner of the Met and also the first openly gay one....
...The inquiry is the latest blow to the reputation of the Met following a series of revelations about problems within police culture after the rape and murder of Sarah Everard in 2021 by a serving officer, Wayne...
...The fair will keep its brand, while founder-director Gay Hutson stays on....
...My recollection of what I was told about real men, in the days they used to exist, or when John Wayne was playing them, is they didn’t give too much thought to grooming....
...Port’s victims were all gay men lured to his flat for sex and poisoned with GHB, a date-rape drug....
...The new commissioner will take on a service that has been engulfed in scandals involving racism, sexism, misogyny and homophobia that have emerged since Wayne Couzens, then a serving Met officer, abducted...
...Ball’s appearance came two months after Met commissioner Cressida Dick offered a similar apology outside London’s Old Bailey after the trial of Wayne Couzens, a former Met officer....
...Cooper tells me that Johnny Depp, with whom he performs in a cultish side project called Hollywood Vampires (its third member is Aerosmith’s Joe Perry), has volunteered to come in and teach....
...At 13 she secured a slot at a country music institution, the Grand Ole Opry, introduced on stage by Johnny Cash. Decades of hit songs and movies followed....
...In early lockdown, four kids from Toronto’s underground gay club scene were distraught. The nightlife they depended on — “safe spaces, where we get to exist freely” — had vanished....
...This time De Niro steps the other side of the idol/idolator mirror to become Jerry Lewis — or more exactly Johnny Carson shading into Jay Leno — to his volatile younger fan....
...His elegant moves hark back to the disco era when the dance floor was “a safe place” for black and Latino gay men....
...Wayne Youngquist, a Wisconsin political analyst and retired pollster, says a big reason Trump won there in 2016 was because many Midwesterners are “culturally non-coastal”....
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