Come join us at our Circa-Club monthly events including Drinks Parties & Art Exhibitions. Social Events for 200+ gay professional men and their friends in central London. Complimentary Glass of Wine on arrival. Click for more details
In the early 1940s Noel Coward wrote BRIEF ENCOUNTER, the celebrated celluloid weepy in which characters played by Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard, contemplate an affair in a suffocating suburban world where it will mean disgrace and ruin. Noel Coward was gay and many commentators believe the hit film reflects his own frustrations at a time when homosexuality was illegal and it was impossible for one man to openly love another, or to represent this on stage or screen. Multi-award winning writer/director Phil Willmott takes the world of BRIEF ENCOUNTER as a setting for a completely new play imagining the kind of gay romance Noel Coward and his contemporaries were forbidden to write. A chance encounter at a railway station in 1945 leads two men to consider how much they must sacrifice in order to be together. This evocative, heartbreaking production invites us to consider how far weve come and how much weve still in common with our grandfathers generation.
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- 01 Aug – Yves Saint Laurent (1936–2008), French fashion designer
- 01 Aug – Lionel Bart (1930–1999), British writer & composer of pop music/musicals including Oliver
- 02 Aug – James Baldwin (1924–1987), American novelist
- 04 Aug – Walter Pater (1839–1894), English essayist & art critic
- 04 Aug – Marcus Urban (1971–), German footballer & diversity adviser
- 04 Aug – Rudi van Dantzig (1933–2012), Dutch choreographer, ballet dancer & writer
- 05 Aug – Heward Grafftey (1928–2010), Canadian politician & business executive
- 06 Aug – Jim McGreevey (1957–), American seminarian & politician, former Gov of New Jersey
- 06 Aug – Andy Warhol (1928–1987), American painter, printmaker & filmmaker
- 08 Aug – Michael Urie (1980–), American actor, television producer & director
- 09 Aug – Michael Kors (1959–), American fashion designer
- 10 Aug – Andrew Sullivan (1963–), English author & political commentator
- 11 Aug – Angus Wilson (1913–1991), English novelist & short story writer
- 13 Aug – Herb Ritts (1952–2002), American fashion photographer
- 13 Aug – Domenico Dolce (1958–), Italian fashion designer (Dolce & Gabbana)
- 13 Aug – Sam Champion (1961–), American TV personality & weather anchor
- 14 Aug – Horst P. Horst (1906–1999), German-American fashion photographer
- 14 Aug – Nick Grimshaw (1984–), English radio/TV presenter
- 14 Aug – Mark Pocan (1964–), American Democratic congressman (Wisconsin)
- 18 Aug – Marcel Carné (1906–1996), French film director
- 19 Aug – Malcolm Forbes (1919–1990), American magazine publisher
- 21 Aug – Miguel Vale de Almeida (1960–), Portuguese anthropologist, LGBT activist, professor & politician
- 24 Aug – Stephen Fry (1957–), English actor, screenwriter, comedian & television presenter
- 24 Aug – Marsha P. Johnson (1945–1992), Gay Liberation Activist
- 25 Aug – Ludwig II of Bavaria (1845–1886), King of Bavaria
- 25 Aug – Leonard Bernstein (1918–1990), American conductor, composer, music lecturer & pianist
- 25 Aug – Rob Halford (1951–), English singer & songwriter, lead vocalist of Judas Priest
- 26 Aug – Christopher Isherwood (1904–1986), English novelist
- 27 Aug – Tom Ford (1961–), American fashion designer & film director
- 29 Aug – Jean Lorrain (1855–1906), French poet, novelist & dandy
- 30 Aug – Ben Bradshaw (1960–), British politician, former Secretary of State for Culture, Media & Sport (2009–2010), MP for Exeter since 1997
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