Leigh Bowery

That Lady Gaga backlash is so tired already

by Mark Simpson
September 28, 2010December 23, 2020

The Gaga backlash, which recently found itself a leader in Camille Paglia, was inevitable. It’s also misguided, argues Mark Simpson (Out Magazine, Sept 24 2010) My bitch is better than your bitch! And she wore that dress before yours did! My bitch would kick your bitch’s ass! This is the… Read More »That Lady Gaga backlash is so tired already

Leigh Bowery: Decadence in the Dole Queue

by Mark Simpson
September 8, 2006February 27, 2022

Thanks largely to a crowd-pleasing musical, the crowd-panicking Mr Bowery’s name is forever linked in the public mind with Taboo, the fin-de-siecle drugs, sex, and dressing-up club in Leicester Square, London, he captained in the 1980s – the decade in which the 20th century and possibly Western civilisation actually ended.… Read More »Leigh Bowery: Decadence in the Dole Queue

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