Help raise money to erect a statue of legendary playwright Joe Orton in his hometown of Leicester and ensure that this inspirational literary genius is remembered for generations to come.
I realize I didn’t reblog this here - this is the other side of my career - but it occurs to me that some of you might be willing to donate toward putting up a statue of gay, working class playwright Joe Orton. Orton’s career is a mess of defiance and criminality and fuck-the-system bravado and problematic sexual tourism and sparkling wit, but he was defiant and unashamed at a moment when that was a damn near impossible thing to be. They didn’t call him the Oscar Wilde of Welfare State Gentility for nothing, and Wilde’s got a statue! Plus Ian McKellen is on the team, as is Stephen Fry and Kenneth Cranham and Alec Baldwin and a lot of other fan favorites who have played Orton roles over the years (including David Tennant, who played Nick in What the Butler Saw.)