How queer spaces at festivals went mainstream

[ad_1] If you’ve attended Glastonbury anytime since 2007, you’re probably familiar with the notorious NYC Downlow, the festival’s resident sweaty gay club. Designed to replicate a seedy New York bathhouse-cum-meatpacking warehouse circa 1982, the temporary nightclub has developed such an internationally renowned reputation over the past two decades that it was once described by nightlife…

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Shane Meadows’ folk horror is brilliantly bizarre

[ad_1] Folk horror, black comedy and Ken Loach-style social commentary frolicked together across the West Yorkshire Moors in Shane Meadows’s enjoyably weird The Gallows Pole. With one foot in the supernatural and the other in English historical drama, his retelling of the story of the 18th-century gold counterfeiters who nearly unravelled the economy was a…

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