by Mark Simpson (Originally appeared in Fall 2018 issue of XY Mag) “WE’RE ON OUR ‘ONEYMOON!” Two teenage working class lads, Matt and Phil, hitching from London to the South Coast, are in the back of a car driven by a middle-aged man with a moustache and a bowtie, who… Read More »‘Oneymoons & Bloody Deviants – How Gay Love Stories Lost Their Way At The Movies
Why the ‘gay cowboy movie’ is more metro than homo (Originally appeared in Black Book magazine, 2005) Is there a support group for people who didn’t like Brokeback Mountain? We must, if the rave reviews and newspaper reports are to be believed, be a very tiny – not to mention… Read More »The Unbearable Boredom of Brokeback Mountain
I’m not much of a Robbie Williams fan. ‘Bromance’ leaves me cold. And I hated Brokeback Mountain. But perhaps I’m a big softy really because I rather like this video for Williams’ single ‘Shame’ which brings all these themes together, adds a hairy Gary Barlow, Robbie’s once-reviled Take That collaborator,… Read More »Shameless Slashiness
Apparently, Brokeback Mountain is now available on DVD. Save yourself some money and watch this clip instead. It’s free, it’s a lot more fun, you get six cowboys instead of two, they don’t age, none of them get tyre-ironed, they have a lot more sexy moments and there’s no mumbling dialogue.… Read More »Brokeback Mountain on Ice