Simon Doonan at the NY Obsever notices that metrosexuality isn’t dead after all and is busily getting straight men’s legs in the air: Straight guys need to ditch their new aesthetic preoccupations, stop trying to turn themselves into sleazy porn studs, and go back to being drones and breadwinners. You… Read More »Manscaping Manhattan’s Manbits
The world of straight trade may have long since disappeared from the streets of London but if you still hanker after that lost economy of boisterousness, straight nightclub toilets might be a fruitful place to loiter. Preferably with a line or two of coke (Colombia’s own version of the Gay Bomb).… Read More »Bummed Up The Arse & Overheard At Dinner
Once upon a time the streets of the capital heaved with jolly sailors and guardsmen looking for gentlemen to have fun with. Then gay liberation came along and ruined it for everyone (Independent on Sunday, 11 September 2005) I consider myself something of a traditionalist. I enjoy traditional activities, such… Read More »Trading in the Past: Queer London
Mark Simpson on America’s weapons of mass sexual confusion (Guardian & Out magazine June 13, 2007) Look out! Take cover! Backs to the walls, boys! It’s the Gay Bomb! No, not a bomb with fashionably styled fins or one that can’t whistle, but rather a proposed “non-lethal” chemical bomb containing “strong… Read More »Armed & Amorous – America’s ‘Gay Bomb’
by Mark Simpson (Originally appeared on Salon.com, April 23, 2004 as ‘Who’s the hunted now?’) In the seven years since she died in a high-speed car crash in a tunnel in Paris, the pictures of the bafflingly mangled black Mercedes that ferried Diana to her death have become almost as famous… Read More »In a Darkened Underpass