David Shenton’s career as a queer illustrator began with a half-joking challenge to the early gay Press’s perception of gay art. “In Gay News, [paintings] were usually this kind of soft porn – mainly male nudes…” His own exhibition – … Continue reading →
David Shenton‘s cartoon character Stanley (Townsend) first came to our attention as the star of his own weekly cartoon strip in Gay News and, subsequently, Capital Gay. Whilst Stanley the cartoon strip documented a series of vignettes from the life … Continue reading →
Don’t ask me why it started, but by the beginning of the 80’s ‘the clone’ was beginning to become a universal phenomenon (and I don’t mean Dolly the sheep!). Some commentators suggest the first clones appeared in San Francisco’s Castro … Continue reading →