{"id":28100,"date":"2018-02-02T18:27:32","date_gmt":"2018-02-02T18:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/?p=28100"},"modified":"2018-02-02T18:27:32","modified_gmt":"2018-02-02T18:27:32","slug":"islington-tribune-toyah-unveils-plaque-to-derek-jarman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/islington-tribune-toyah-unveils-plaque-to-derek-jarman\/","title":{"rendered":"Islington Tribune: Toyah Unveils Plaque to Derek Jarman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/islingtontribune.com\/article\/toyah-unveils-plaque-to-jubilee-film-director-and-lgbt-activist-derek-jarman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"http:\/\/islingtontribune.com\/article\/toyah-unveils-plaque-to-jubilee-film-director-and-lgbt-activist-derek-jarman\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28101 alignleft\" style=\"border: 6px solid white;\" alt=\"isltrib18a\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/isltrib18a.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"260\" \/><\/a><strong>Toyah unveils plaque to \u2018Jubilee\u2019 film director and LGBT activist Derek Jarman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A plaque has been unveiled marking the former residence of the artist, film director and activist Derek Jarman.<\/p>\n<p>An outspoken campaigner for gay rights and HIV\/Aids aware\u00adness, Jarman is renowned for directing films such as Sebastiane in 1976 and Jubilee in 1978, now adapted into a stage play.<\/p>\n<p>Actress and singer Toyah Willcox, who made her screen debut in the original Jubilee film 40 years ago, was given the honours of unveiling the plaque yesterday (Thursday) at 60 Liverpool Road, where Jarman lived from 1967-69.<\/p>\n<p>Toyah told the Tribune: \u201cIn the past 50 years gay politics has come along in leaps and bounds. It has developed into gender fluidity and trans fluidity which weren\u2019t so defined or certainly weren\u2019t public 40 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll of us flourish in good, strong communities and one of the blessings of Derek\u2019s life was he had a good community around him. But, it had to be a secret community because of the restrictions on being openly gay back then. What Jubilee addresses today is Derek\u2019s collage of images, colours and ideas but the politics are brought up to date by young actors who are gender fluid and know what it\u2019s like to live in a straight cis world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Continue reading at the <a href=\"http:\/\/islingtontribune.com\/article\/toyah-unveils-plaque-to-jubilee-film-director-and-lgbt-activist-derek-jarman\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Islington Gazette<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toyah unveils plaque to \u2018Jubilee\u2019 film director and LGBT activist Derek Jarman A plaque has been unveiled marking the former residence of the artist, film director and activist Derek Jarman. An outspoken campaigner for gay rights and HIV\/Aids aware\u00adness, Jarman is renowned for directing films such as Sebastiane in 1976 and Jubilee in 1978, now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,27],"tags":[171,1815],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28100"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28102,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28100\/revisions\/28102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}