Is Superman gay? This ‘pressing’ question about what the Man of Steel does with his flying package (‘is it a bird? is it a plane?’) when it’s not held in by industrial strength spandex seems to be enormously exercising the media in the run up to Bryan Singer’s Superman Returns. All this shocking speculation… Read More »Superman and his Supersexuality
When, I wonder, am I going to receive my fee for my makeover of the Tory Party? Metrodaddy, alias yours truly, appears to have been cast as the (reluctant) queer eye of the British Tory guy. As yet another sign of the total mainstreaming of male aesthetics, that once reliably… Read More »Queer Eye For the Tory Guy
‘Britain’s New Power Elites’, Hywel Williams (Constable, £12.99) by Mark Simpson (Independent on Sunday, 14 May 2006) ‘Among the most significant achievements of the modern British elite,” argues Hywel Williams, limbering up in the early pages of his polemic against Britain’s rulers in the form of an incompetent executive class,… Read More »Careerists, Capitalists and Creeps
The Times recently ran a feature by Andrew Billen called ‘Metrosexual R.I.P.?’ wondering whether the metrosexual was now dead in the wake of the recent closure of Conde Nast men’s shopping magazine Cargo. The piece below by yours truly ‘This trend’s not dead – just dead common’ ran alongside. I wasn’t shown Billen’s… Read More »The Metrosexual isn’t Dead, He’s Just Power-Napping on the Sunbed
The current (May) issue of the proudly metrosexual Details magazine includes an ‘undercover’ exclusive by yours truly on the globally-reported gay porn scandal involving paratroopers from the elite 82nd Airborne, ‘America’s Honor Guard’. Billed charmingly at the top of the front cover as: ‘INSIDE THE SORDID PORN SCANDAL THAT’S ROCKING… Read More »Mark Simpson’s Inside Story on the US Army’s Gay Porn Scandal