Dear Reader,
In a couple of days before I'll be off on a short holiday to one of the small Danish islands, I send you this newsletter today with my love and summer greetings from Denmark. This year, I am obvioursly not going abroad because of the lockdown which has made the organisers cancel all the 2020 queer tango festivals in Europe, I would have loved to attend... in Spain, France and Germany. But I have used my summer well: I have created a FREE ebook (PDF) together with my co-editor Ray Batchelor.
The Book features six of Ray's conference papers about the vintage queer imagery of The Queer Tango Image Archive which is a part of The Queer Tango Project. I initiated The Queer Tango Project as a one off queer tango book project; now, five years after the first publication, we are ready to launch our third ebook: QUEER TANGO HISTORIES: MAKING A START... by Ray Batchelor, London, UK.
Earlier this month lesbian painter Lupe Ficara shared the video below with me, (thanks, Lupe).
Lupe Ficare, originally from Italy, is living and working in the south of France. She says, 'over the years, I have been working, researching, coping with the social rules that today connect or destroy the relationship between the painter and the audience. I finally ended up with a fundamental question: does painting still make any sense?' — Watch the video below and learn more about her creative practice.
