Is the husband of the world’s most famous ‘gay man trapped in a woman’s body’ a homophobe? Or a conflicted homophile? Or both? Promoting his new book, Madonna’s brother Christopher Ciccone has been claiming that absurdly straight acting Guy Ritchie’s homophobia is one of the reasons why he and his slightly… Read More »Guy Ritchie: How Gay is He?
Britain’s best-selling newspaper The Sun has been working itself into a confused lather about our metrosexual footballers, again. Like me, it just can’t leave them alone. In a long, hand-wringing – and graphically illustrated – article spread over the centre pages last Friday headlined ‘Preen Team’ they ask ‘What the… Read More »Why The Sun Can’t Leave Ronaldo’s Legs Alone
This month’s Out magazine includes a feature by yours truly on my visit to Montreal in April to see the biggest, baddest, ballsiest Ultimate Fighting Championship event ever. UFC, for those who aren’t in the know, or unaccountably uninterested in seeing fit, near-naked men grappling and grunting, is the cage-fighting… Read More »Ultimate Pillowbiting – How Gay is MMA?
Ever with its middle finger on the cultural pulse, this year, Gay Shame, the Duckie collective’s artsy alternative to the pink poppered-up roller-skating jollity of Gay Pride, has this year decided to go retrosexual. But unlike the mainstream appropriation of retrosexuality – e.g. those tiresome cloney beards all men, straight… Read More »Duckie Goes Retrosexual
According to yesterday’s The Sunday Times, the so-called ‘laddish’ culture promoted by men’s magazines has spawned a new medical condition: ‘athletica nervosa’, or an obsession with exercise: New research shows that the magazines, whose titillating displays of female flesh were meant to liberate their readers from political correctness, may be… Read More »Shock News: Mens Glossies Promote Metrosexuality