Mark Simpson in today’s Daily Telegraph on the irresistible rise of the male glamour model. (23 March, 2015) You may have noticed that male bosoms appear to have supplanted the female variety lately. Whether it’s a ‘hench’ Cristiano Ronaldo stripping for Armani, a ‘ripped’ Justin Bieber for Calvin Klein, a sensually beefy… Read More »Why Busty Male Bosoms Follow You Around Everywhere & Rub Themselves In Your Face
Mark Simpson on the (self) sexualisation of the male body Male self-objectification is, as they like to say on social media, a “thing.” There’s been a rash lately of so-called “gender flip” memes, in which people pretend to be impressed by male hipsters pretending to subvert sexism by ironically adopting… Read More »Objectify Yourself: Why Straight Young Men Crave Gay Adulation
Morrissey is always going to disappoint those who want him to be some kind of ‘singing Stephen Fry with a quiff’, argues Mark Simpson Originally appeared on The Spectator Arts Blog Because the 80s is the decade that actually ended the 20th Century – the 90s was just an after-party clean-up operation… Read More »Morrissey Hasn’t Changed – We Have
Mark Simpson pays tribute to Lewis & Martin, ‘the hottest male comedy double-act of all time’ (Originally appeared in Out, May 2009) Forget hair whorls, genomes, amniotic fluid, older brothers, domineering mothers or disco. I can reveal with absolute, religio-scientific certainty that the cause of my homosexuality was just two… Read More »Jerry Lewis & Dean Martin’s 50s Love Makes Today’s Bromance Look Like Bromide
Mark Simpson wants to be be soundly smacked with a paddle (Out magazine, 2006) When I joined my local rugby team, I was made to do terrible, awful things. Even now, all these years later, I feel distressed and choked up recounting what happened. I had to stand on a… Read More »Assume the Position: A Queer Defence of Hazing