On trying to love the flashy, gnashy, piano basher This will shock you, but Liberace was not my cup of peculiar. Frankly, I found his persona slightly repellent as a kid in the 1970s. Maybe it was just rejection of my inner fabulousness, but he reminded me of a sexless,… Read More »Even Liberace’s Smile
Last month, a profile of yours truly was published in the Spanish national El Pais, (words: Rafa de Miguel; photos: Manuel Vazquez). You can see my full ‘spread’ here. I think they’ve been very kind to an ageing Metrodaddy. I was asked to suggest a suitable location in Manchester. I… Read More »El Pais Profile of Mark Simpson
The ticklish, sexy wickedness of ‘Saltburn’ Not many films manage to reinvent sex, or even just find fresh, powerful ways of representing it, especially in our jaded, online, perma-gaped age. (Or is that just me?) And if you’d told me last year that it would be a British film – one set… Read More »Between Laughter & Shudder
Genetics, same-sexing and the macho appeal of risk-taking Is male bisexuality related to a taste for risk-taking? A recent genetic study suggests that it may be, in part. Using the UK’s Biobank DNA database of half a million people, a research team published a paper which claimed genes that are implicated in… Read More »The Butchness of Bitchness
A forensic examination of the current state of male objectification I’ve not watched The Bear. Or the US version of Shameless. Hence, I’ve been semi-bemused for some time by social media pushing semi-naked photos of the Brooklyn born actor Jeremy Allen White, 32, down my throat. I don’t know anything about his… Read More »Jeremy Allen Tighty-Whities