1989: The Year the C20th & Gay Bohemianism Ended
On the 55th anniversary of the NYC bar riot at which everyone over 75 now claims they threw the first bottle, I thought I would… Read More »1989: The Year the C20th & Gay Bohemianism Ended
On the 55th anniversary of the NYC bar riot at which everyone over 75 now claims they threw the first bottle, I thought I would… Read More »1989: The Year the C20th & Gay Bohemianism Ended
Mark Simpson gets mixed messages on the High Street (Another ‘lost’ Attitude column – this one from 1999) It was one of those indecently… Read More »Cruising the Streets
Mark Simpson tests Essex’s coastal defences against gentrification (The Times Magazine, 2001) Whitstable, Broadstairs, Brighton and most of Suffolk have gone already. Swept away forever… Read More »Fight Them On The Beaches
by Steven Zeeland I wouldn’t normally do this kind of thing, but Mark Simpson made me. Write a preface, that is – for the following… Read More »Killer Queen: Andrew Cunanan, My Love Rival
The famously homoerotic ’80s fly-boy flick used to be totally no-homo (Originally published in the Daily Telegraph May 12, 2016) Thirty years ago today, the stars of… Read More »How Did Top Gun Get So Gay?