There’s a naked man standing laughing in your dreams.You know who it is, but you don’t like what it means. A number of people have forwarded Morrissey’s pubes to me. (For which, many thanks.) I thought I could get away with not discussing the Moz minge, but this Red Hot… Read More »Morrissey’s Seven Inch Plastic Strap-On
Mark Simpson ponders the trouble the two Georges, Boy and Michael, have been getting in lately in this month’s Out: What is it about middle-aged queer British pop stars from the ’80s? Why can’t they settle down, keep their noses clean, their peckers zippered, and their faces out of the… Read More »Boy George and George Michael – queer cellmates?
by Mark Simpson (A shorter version originally appeared on Guardian CIF November 2, 2008) “It’s better to marry than burn with passion,” declared St Paul. But now marriage itself seems to have become a burning issue – or at least, gay marriage. The re-banning of gay marriage in California earlier… Read More »Let’s Be Civil: Gay Marriage Isn’t The End of the Rainbow
by Mark Simpson (GT Magazine, November 2008) Why, I wonder, are gays – or at least the busybody, button-holing, milk-monitor ones – so keen on ads being nice to them, and telling the world it’s OK to be homo? Especially when this strategy frequently leaves them with mayo on their… Read More »How Eighties Advertising Made Everyone Gay
Timing is everything for an actor, and Newman’s curtain-call, coming as it does amidst meltdown on Wall Street and panic on Capitol Hill, and at the end of a decade defined by the twin disasters of 9-11 and Iraq, is nothing if not dramatic. The myriad obituaries and tributes to… Read More »Paul Newman the American Dream-Boy is Dead