Saturday 18 September 2021

Helenism

I'm off out tonight to a celebration of the life of a faboo lady.

Helen Pike (for it is she) was the ebullient hostess-with-the-mostest at many an event - LGBT History Month or otherwise - at our fave, the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology.

Always the first to find an excuse for a "dressing-up occasion", she and "emcee" John J. Johnston formed an enduring "double-act" that kept us coming back time and again to any event she organised.

She is indeed a huge loss to The Petrie, and to its parent body University College London. I miss her, and look forward to raising a "glass of" in her memory tonight. RIP.

Read a very lovely tribute to Helen by her colleagues at UCL.

[Click the "Petrie Museum" tag below for more about events she organised - and click here for even more in my other blog the Dolores Delargo Towers Museum of Camp.]

8 comments:

  1. Anyone who wears feathered head pieces, and drape tassel tie-backs is ok in my book, as your aware.

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    1. I imagine you two would have got on like a house on fire. Jx

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  2. That's a beautiful tribute at UCL; I hope you gave Helen a good send off last night - she sounds like some who was worth knowing.
    Sx

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    1. It was a splendid "do"; very well-attended (in person, and via Zoom) - and emotional and joyous in turn. Everyone loved Helen. Jx

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  3. What a lovely lady. Enjoy those red poms and her sense of style. Very organic. A pity we ever have to lose our muses.

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    1. At the event, there was a slideshow of photos from various stages in her history - and inevitably, no end of outlandish costumes (her own, and those she had cajoled others to wear)!

      Muse is the word. Jx

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  4. A wonderful woman. She will be greatly missed.

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    1. Shame you couldn't make it. It was a superb tribute. Jx

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