High Stitching
On watching two ‘bio-streams’ about dead gay fashionistas I could have been Lee Alexander McQueen’s husband. Back in the last years of the 20th century, the… Read More »High Stitching
On watching two ‘bio-streams’ about dead gay fashionistas I could have been Lee Alexander McQueen’s husband. Back in the last years of the 20th century, the… Read More »High Stitching
When ageing Smiths fans like me sing along to ‘This Charming Man’, their second, breakthrough 1983 single – and the song that ruined our lives… Read More »This Disarming Man: Morrissey’s Smiths Solo
On the 55th anniversary of the NYC bar riot at which everyone over 75 now claims they threw the first bottle, I thought I would… Read More »1989: The Year the C20th & Gay Bohemianism Ended
How the Austrian Cinders became a Hollywood Prince Two decades ago, during peak metrosexmania in the US, the bodybuilder movie star Arnold Schwarzenegger, never exactly shy about… Read More »Arnold Schmahzenegger
We’re all living in Nick Kamen’s Launderette now Another fondly remembered part of the 1980s finished its last cycle last week. Nick Kamen, real name… Read More »Jeans-Genie – The Lecherous Legacy of Those 80s Levi’s Ads