I’ve snobbishly held out against the sun-damaged charms of ITV’s package holiday sitcom Benidorm, set in the ‘all inclusive’ Hotel Solana, for several series. But the sixth one – which sadly this week pours the sand out of its shoes and packs its bags for another year – had me… Read More »“You’re As Camp as a Brighton Bus Queue!” – The Bon Mots of Benidorm
SEX TERROR Erotic Misadventures in Pop Culture Mark Simpson This book will change the way you think about sex. It may even put you off it altogether. NOW AVAILABLE ON KINDLE Amazon.com * Amazon.co.uk * Amazon.de * Amazon.fr * Amazon.es * Amazon.it * Amazon.co.jp * Amazon.com.br * Amazon.ca * Amazon.in * Amazon.com.au In his full-frontal follow-up to his widely acclaimed It’s a Queer World, Mark Simpson dispenses with the monkey business… Read More »‘Sex Terror’ Now Available on Kindle – Sweet Dreams.
Mark Simpson pays tribute to Lewis & Martin, ‘the hottest male comedy double-act of all time’ (Originally appeared in Out, May 2009) Forget hair whorls, genomes, amniotic fluid, older brothers, domineering mothers or disco. I can reveal with absolute, religio-scientific certainty that the cause of my homosexuality was just two… Read More »Jerry Lewis & Dean Martin’s 50s Love Makes Today’s Bromance Look Like Bromide
This month’s Outfeatures a column by yours truly, called ‘In Defense of Jerry Lewis‘, explaining how my childhood love for early Lewis made me the man I am today — and why his anarchic comedy partnership with Dean Martin in the ‘repressed’ 1950s was a kind of queer punk rock… Read More »Lewis & Martin’s 50’s Love Makes Today’s Bromance Look Like Bromide
By Mark Simpson (Guardian, 20 October, 2008) ‘What other culture could have produced someone like Ernest Hemingway,’ waspish bisexual American exile Gore Vidal once asked of America’s favourite so-butch-he’s-camp writer, ‘and not seen the joke?’. The answer, was, of course, that only a culture that couldn’t see the joke could… Read More »Little Britain Touches Up Uncle Sam