Guess who’s back…

Hiya… well hasn’t it been a long time….sorry for the break in communications, life threw some shite at me and well I had to clear it up which took a while but then I took an extra few weeks for myself too, mental health restore and all that..

Important to take a break when one’s mental health demands it plus it is so difficult to write happy and joyfully when the insides feel like the darkness have taken over, especially when that action doesn’t pay the bills…although I think I’m now back with some new thoughts on what sbh is and what it does…As you’ll know I’m almost certainly retired from club photography but that doesn’t mean that I’m retired form photography so am making new stuff it’s just not stuff that fits here but when something does then I’ll share it on the gram.

I will be continuing archiving and showing stuff from that with suitable anonymity edits to protect the innocence and the not so’s. I’m still having an internal (soon to be external) debate around the photography I made from the 90’s to now, some say share and see what happens, others say no way, no share that and then a third way that presents itself would be to show the people involved, get their opinion and go from there. But what is the best way?

Another outlet I may use this space for is my increasing rants against the way the world is, as my age is getting boigger then so is my ®(r)age… As yet another year round the sun passes I’m seemingly getting more…really not sure what word to use here…bitchy…cantankerous…snide…nasty…distasteful…I think I may start to air these rants as a cathartic method of release…now that’s a chat up line!! I fear some of this may be distasteful to the current male toxicity overload I’m seeing more and more of but so be it, I ain’t one of you and you’ve shown that you ain’t one of me either.

So what else been happening while I’ve been away, well quite a lot it seems and yet it’s all quite the same no?

I see yet another club promoter’s dodgy side gets exposed after people ignored the told you so’s…And yet another heteronormative performer, who’s happy to take the gay pound comes out with a statement that shows they have no concern for the actual lived experience of said people…yet another misogynist ruins a women’s moment of victory by his actions…the world keep burning and nobody in power seems to care…labour sadly shifts more over to the right…and we’ve lost too many good un’s to count… Sinéad…Tina…Jane…Andy…Paul…Tony…Jim…Harry…to name too many, may they all rest peacefully.

Sad times we live in.

Anyways I’m needing to end on a brighter note I’ll get some pictures.

Thought I’d share some pictures from Pride long gone as I’ve just missed this years Pride, although in contradiction to that there is a brief update of this year’s sbh attendance on the gram,

This I’d share one from the days gone past, this is film based and I have a date of about 2001 in my head as this one was called Gayfest and you may recognise this chap performing, believe he was a good Neighbour…That’s correct it’s Guy…nope sorry it’s Jason Donovan…

Jason Donovan appears in Manchester for Gayfest 2001.

BUT a quick internet search suggest that this was 2007, now this cannot be, I went digital in 2002, so if this was 2007 it wouldn’t be on film if it was….a quick pointer to the upodates from the local paper rag suggests that they updated the site (not even sure there was a site back then btw) shows the update as 2007 even though the text clearly says 2001, then a couple of other sites share this and Robert is your mothers brother (a saying for the gammons there!) and their one goes you get the search throwing the date as 2007 into the mix…sad how the internet content merchants runs with a fact that isn’t a fact and it slips in whereas someone with lived knowledge knows this not to be the case…

Thanks for the readings.

CiaoBella…