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
When I peruse the conquer’d fame of heroes and the victories of mighty generals, I do not envy the generals,Nor the President in his Presidency, nor the rich in his great house,But when I hear of the brotherhood of lovers, how it was with them,How together through life, through dangers, odium,… Read More »Steven Zeeland’s All Night War Film
Mark Simpson probes Men’s Health – and finds it in painful denial Isn’t it about time Men’s Health, the world’s biggest-selling ‘men’s lifestyle’ magazine, came out to itself? I couldn’t get to sleep the other night and so resorted to flicking through last month’s UK issue: I find the pictures of semi-naked men’s perfect,… Read More »Mens Health Magazine – How Gay is It?
‘Most Britons are unhappy with their sex lives’, according to a recent sex survey. Apparently they don’t enjoy it very much (nearly half don’t orgasm every time – and their partners don’t even notice). Most of all, they complain that their ‘busy lifestyles’ mean they don’t have enough time to… Read More »The Crapsex Guide