Diary of a gay

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When Rachael Mailer posted a clip of their comedy song Is she queer or just a hipster? online, they had no idea it would strike such a chord with the LGBT collective, going viral overnight. Over a year on, they’ve just completed the third run of their entertainment Diary of a Lgbtq+ Disaster, and have plans to release a twelve-track full cast recording soon. We caught up with Rachael to discuss how lesbian culture has evolved in the two years since they started writing the show, why we need more sapphic comedies, and what it’s appreciate to play to an audience with “more mullets than men”.

A comedy penner by training, Rachael came up with the notion for their musical when they identified a “severe lack” of funny media about lesbians. “It had got to a place where a lot of media featuring gay men, for example, is humorous and flamboyant…and stories that centred women and AFAB (Assigned Female at Birth) people seemed to not get as much room for that. I surmise because maybe we’re not expected to be funny?”.

Rachael felt this representation d

Diary of a Gay Disaster

10 Jun

When Ellis moves in with Mia and Finlay – flatmates she initiate on the internet – she finds herself bonding with them a lot faster than she expected when they discover her teenage diary and persist on making a very long (and very gay) night out of reading it.

Exploring the overwhelmingly confusing – and hilarious – experiences that come with navigating queer life as a young adult, Diary of a Gay Disaster is a new musical comedy where three gender non-conforming women get to grips with their gay panic the only way they know how: singing, and a lot of shots.

Tara is a director and theatremaker based in South East London. She spent a year at the Birmingham Hippodrome working with the youth company and assisting on in residence productions such as the new musical To The Streets. As a scholar she worked on shows such as Legally Blonde and A Chorus Line, and then went on to assistant direct POPSTARS! at the Birmingham Hippodrome and the National Youth Music Theatre’s production of Ragtime, as well as Head Over Heels and The Winter’s Tale at Mountview. She has been a youth theatre lecturer and facilitator for various companies for five y
Jeb and Dash: A Diary of Gay Life, 1918-1945
Greg
3 reviews2 followers
April 3, 2018
"Jeb and Dash" should more accurately have been entitled "Jeb versus Dash." After a brief romance in 1927, Dash's ardor waned, while Jeb continued with an obsessive, unreciprocated love for decades. However, and in spite of the acute tension that sometimes existed between them, they remained close friends (though not a couple), apparently for the remainder of their lives. At his death in 1965, Jeb left an immense diary of fifty volumes, covering the period 1912-1964, and containing a detailed account of his life and times. From this archive his niece, Ina Russell, extracted several hundred brief passages, covering the years 1918-1945, and focused mainly on Jeb's gay being in Washington D.C. Jeb is a sensitive, perceptive and intelligent man, with an exceptional gift for writing. His vividly detailed entries describe his family, co-workers, friends, acquaintances. As relatively little documentation survives for the lives of ordinary gay men before the 1970s, Jeb's extensive accounts seem especially valuable. Here we find Jeb and Dash, from their late teens to middle age and beyond, among

A Gay Diary: 1933-1946
Jesse
481 reviews615 followers
February 20, 2018
A extraordinary personal record, but even more crucially, indispensable documentation of the lives of gay men in the pre-Stonewall era. An aspiring playwright and short story writer, Vining's diaries—of which this was the first of five massive volumes that were eventually published—benefit immeasurably from his eye for sharp, vivid details, as well as an almost journalistic style and sensibility (ever a cruel self-critic, in the concise introduction he wrongly dismisses his writing as "often poor"). What a pleasure and privilege to collect such intimate access to a person's life, and especially so when it's as interesting as Vining's. I'm not quite ready to commit to another year-long reading project yet, but I'll definitely be continuing on to the next volume at some point in the future.

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