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It’s been a manic time agin this month at Glypta Towers. As well as the new show at The Viaduct Showbar and the preparations for the various Pride events I’m performing or hosting or just attending there’s also been a trip back home to see the real queen in our family: my mum.
I always find it strange when I go back down south, (the beer prices alone make me wanna jump on the next flight back to Leeds) especially when I get recognised as Glypta! That’s odd. I’ve not worked in my home town for over 12 years but the last time I was back home sitting in a gay pub having a little afternoon aperitif and a total stranger asked if I was Anna Glypta. I almost died! It turns out he was a fellow drag queen and had seen my website and Facebook. The strangest thing about going home is that I turn back into a teenage boy around my mum. I sit up straight, I eat my greens and most bizarrely of all I actually don’t swear... I know! I did slip up one visit when a friend rang with some Leeds gay-gossip and I forgot she could still hear me in the other room. It was good goss and I was calling the subject a bitch, a stupid f*cking dick and of course a c**t! Whoops. Luckily mum just found the whole thing amusing and wanted to know the back story to the gossip!
I have a confession to make. I have also found my time being used up watching Dante’s Cove on DVD. For those of you not in the know Dante’s Cove is an American series set in a small town filled with witches and magick and more hot naked gays and lesbians than anywhere else on the planet. Every 7-8 minutes there is a hot sex scene and you do see willies and you do see boobies! Obviously that’s not why I watch it... Obviously. The story actually revolves around some pretty solid gay and lesbian relationships and this in itself draws you in. Yeah the eye candy’s nice but it’s nicer to be watching something where the gayness isn’t a story point (except with one of the lead characters coming out to his folks - but even this isn’t the usual melodramatic bollocks). It’s camper than Julian Clary sharing a tent with Graham Norton and is very much in the same line as the legend that was Sunset Beach. The interesting thing is that 90% of the actors in it are openly out actors. Unlike other programmes like Queer as Folk (UK and US versions) where the majority of the lgbt characters are played by straight actors, Dante’s Cove is legitimately gay. OK so I’ll admit the acting’s a bit ropey in places and more hammy than the deli counter at Sainsbury’s but as guilty pleasure TV it’s unbeatable. Some of the cast have gone on to bigger roles on network tv too. Maybe it’s a small sign that being openly gay isn’t seen as such an issue in TV land anymore. Let’s hope the same thing starts to happen in Hollywood where even today the ‘gay’ label seems to equate to box office suicide and limit your roles to ‘gay best friend’ in chick flicks!
Well, I’m off to check the Dante’s Cove Facebook pages for more gossip on series four. Enjoy the Pride events throughout our region this month, I’ll be at as many as possible so I hope to see you out and about! Till next month...
Anna Glypta
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