Thought For The Day: Lana Pillay

In a weird, warped way, I suppose you end up thanking all your adversaries, for teaching you how to be a twat back! They teach you how to defend yourself, how to understand the cognitive deficiency that motivates people to use others as a punch-bag for their own neurosis and insecurities. 

Lana Pillay, from an essay - part memoir, part queer polemic - for OuThere magazine.

Any friend of the late Leigh Bowery and Mark E Smith is a friend of mine... x

Lucian Freud: 1922-2011

"I'm drawn to women by nature and queers because of their courage."

Leigh Bowery: Automatically Sunshine

It would have been Leigh Bowery's 50th birthday on March 26th.
On Friday April 1st, his friend and biographer, Sue Tilley, has organised Sunshine Night Time: a one day tribute to Leigh at the ICA, London.
With a wonderful irony, Leigh was apparently barred for life from The ICA - perhaps because Mr Bowery had a far better claim to be an institute of contemporary art?

• Sue Tilley remembers Leigh Bowery in the Independent.