Mark Simpson on lavender marriage – between the closeted star & the public. (Independent on Sunday, August 1995) [One from the vaults for LBGTQIA++ Pride. Probably because it came on the cowboy heels of Male Impersonators (1994), it’s rather more pretentious – and with fewer gags – than later work.… Read More »Purple Passions
by Mark Simpson (Guardian CIF, 25 March 2010) Whatever happened to the Tory party of the 1980s that refused to use taxpayers’ money to prop up failing industries making things people didn’t want? That told us sternly, usually in a helmet of hair-lacquer, “the market must decide”? It turns out… Read More »The Tories’ New Section 28
Mark Simpson argues in today’s London Times that heterosexuals should be allowed to have civil partnerships
Interesting piece by Scott James in today’s New York Times: New research at San Francisco State University reveals just how common open relationships are among gay men and lesbians in the Bay Area. The Gay Couples Study has followed 556 male couples for three years — about 50 percent of… Read More »Not in Front of the Goyim: Gays and Not-So-Open Relationships
The wheels appear to have come off the gay marriage bus in the US and no one seems to know how to put them back on. Not even the lesbians. And that’s not according to meddlin’ Limey Uncle Tom ‘slut’ me (as I was dubbed by the Voice of Gay America) but… Read More »Gay Marriage On The Rocks: Ain’t No Surprise