Former NBA star John Amaechi’s coming out continues to blow the ‘gay’ lid on American professional sports (see ESPN extract left). Not by ‘naming names’, but simply outing from inside the locker room itself the homoerotic metrosexuality of hetero athletes. Perhaps this is the real ‘problem’ with homos in the… Read More »‘A Men’s Man’ – More Spornographic Revelations from John Amaechi
During a long car journey with an older gay friend, I suggested he put on one of his CDs. I said this knowing full well that he liked show tunes. Sorry, LOVED!! show tunes. It was a warm sunny day, the top was down, and I was feeling reckless. “I… Read More »How Do You Solve a Problem Like Musicals?
How Jean Genet invented the internet (Independent on Sunday, June 2003) `I had already wondered what would become of the meeting of a handsome young guard and a handsome young criminal,’ wrote Jean Genet in his 1943 debut prison novel, Our Lady of the Flowers, penned while he was himself… Read More »Toughs, Low-Life, Drag Queens – Genet Was The Daddy of Them All
Mark Simpson undresses the tortured relationship between American men and their swimsuits PROHIBITED… THE WEARING OF SKIN-TIGHT FORM-FITTING OR BIKINI TYPE APPAREL OR BATHING SUITS BY MALES OVER 12 YRS. AGE If the stern, killjoy rubric of this warning sign, erected in the 1960s by the good people of Cape… Read More »Speedophobia: America’s Fear & Loathing of Budgie Smuggling
Mark Simpson on the love that dare not draw the curtains Relationships are difficult things to maintain in this day and age. Especially in the metropolis, where everyone’s too busy with their own life to find the time to share it with someone else. But not for me. I’ve been… Read More »Love Thy Neighbour