It’s LGBT History Month. So I thought I would share with you my hitherto hidden love for my favourite ‘gay’ novel. The Heart In Exile, published in the UK in 1953, by Rodney Garland – real name Adam Martin De Hegedus, an Hungarian émigré. Though as the date and morose… Read More »The Heart in Exile – The Strange Case of the Peculiarly Prescient Pre-Gay Novel
Mark Simpson gets mixed messages on the High Street (Another ‘lost’ Attitude column – this one from 1999) It was one of those indecently mild winter days. The sort that makes everyone feel a little bit naughty. As if you’re bunking off school or cheating on your partner. Walking… Read More »Cruising the Streets
Mark Simpson meets Mr Devo turned Mutato (Details magazine, 1998) Before the First World War, a bunch of Italian avant-gardistes called the Futurists, who didn’t get out much and got turned on by steam trains, thought technology offered the possibility of a revolution in human consciousness and believed that artists… Read More »Mark Mothersbaugh’s Mutation
Rummaging around in an old hard drive one lockdown, I found this review (for Details ) of the Sex Pistols’ Finsbury Park reunion gig – a quarter of a century ago. Ah! The summer of ’96! When they were so young! And when gigs – and life – still existed….… Read More »Sex in the Park
Mark Simpson recalls meeting Cornelius and his ‘hungry eyes’ Grief these days comes easier when attached to the death of celebrities. Especially when seen as the end of not just a media relationship but an age of innocence. For some it was the death of Diana, Kennedy, Lennon, or Martin… Read More »Monkey Business: Roddy McDowall & Me