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A Taste of Honey: Still Sweet Half a Century On

November 1, 2011December 23, 2020

Hard to believe, but this year Tony Richardson’s wide-eyed 1961 ‘neo-realist’ masterpiece A Taste of Honey, based on a play by Salford playwright prodigy Shelagh Delaney is half a century old. Filmed on location in lyrical black and white when… Read More »A Taste of Honey: Still Sweet Half a Century On

From Finland With Lust – How Tom Re-Designed the Male Body For Pleasure

November 4, 2008December 18, 2020

The teenage Tom of Finland’s gay fantasies from the 1940s of muscular men have come to define a mainstream view of masculinity, says Mark Simpson The first time I saw a Tom of Finland drawing was in a well-thumbed, seventh-hand… Read More »From Finland With Lust – How Tom Re-Designed the Male Body For Pleasure