End of Year Party
On Thursday, 26 November from 2.00pm to 4.00pm, there will be an End of Year Party in Cross Street Chapel, 29 Cross Street, Manchester M2 1NL.
Great entertainment from Wolf, buffet and raffle with quirky prizes.
Cheddar Gorgeous will be the MC for the day (I can’t imagine what they will be wearing!!), so expect lots of fun with an LGBT+ Quiz Bingo … and basically, expect the unexpected.
RSVP for catering purposes here.
Luchino Visconti
Luchino Visconti (2 November 1906 – 17 March 1976) was an Italian filmmaker, theatre and opera director and screenwriter.
He was one of the fathers of cinematic neorealism but later moved towards luxurious, sweeping epic films, dealing with the themes of beauty, decadence, death, and European history, especially the decay of the nobility and the bourgeoisie.
One of Visconti’s best-known films was Death in Venice (1971) that adapted the novella published in 1912 by Thomas Mann.
In later years, Visconti made no secret of his homosexuality, although he remained a devout Catholic throughout his life. His first 3-year-relationship from 1936 with the photographer Horst P Horst remained discreet because of the prejudices of the time.
He later showed up openly in the company of his lovers, among them the director and producer Franco Zeffirelli, and the actor Udo Kier. His last lover was the Austrian actor Helmut Berger, who played Martin in Visconti’s film The Damned According to Visconti’s autobiography, he and Umberto II of Italy had a romantic relationship during their youth in the 1920s.
K D Lang
Kathryn Dawn Lang (born 2 November 1961), known by her stage name k.d. lang (stylised in all lowercase), is a Canadian pop and country singer-songwriter and occasional actress.
Lang has won Juno Awards and Grammy Awards for her musical performances. Her hits include the songs “Constant Craving” and “Miss Chatelaine“.
Lang, who came out as a lesbian in a June 1992 article of the LGBTQ news magazine The Advocate, has championed gay rights causes.
She has supported many causes over the years, including HIV/AIDS care and research. Her cover of Cole Porter’s “So in Love” (from the Broadway musical, Kiss Me, Kate), appears on the Red Hot + Blue compilation album and video from 1990 (a tribute to Cole Porter to benefit AIDS research and relief).
