Despite the 45-year US economic blockade designed to make life on the island as comfortless as possible – and despite the fiercely Marxist-Leninist leadership of its famously hirsute, cigar-chomping, khaki-wearing, gay-hating, fashion-spurning legendary leader – Cuba’s younger macho men are apparently also succumbing to the unstoppable world-wide metrosexual revolution. ‘Metrosexuals… Read More »Cuba’s Metrosexual Revolution
Why Elvis the ‘virile degenerate’ refuses to let us rest in peace by Mark Simpson (Independent on Sunday, April 2000) Elvis didn’t want to be black, he wanted to be Tony Curtis. A natural blond, Memphis’ belle boy dyed his hair in imitation of his fifties idol’s shiny black… Read More »Elvis Hasn’t Left the Building
(The Guardian, 13 July, 2007) America, meet David Beckham. America, meet The Metrosexual. You’re going to be seeing even more of both. As most of the world already knows, today Becks is proudly ‘unveiled’ by LA Galaxy on their home turf. Brand Becks, the ultimate metrosexual who transformed himself from… Read More »America – Meet David Beckham
Mark Simpson probes Men’s Health – and finds it in painful denial Isn’t it about time Men’s Health, the world’s biggest-selling ‘men’s lifestyle’ magazine, came out to itself? I couldn’t get to sleep the other night and so resorted to flicking through last month’s UK issue: I find the pictures of semi-naked men’s perfect,… Read More »Mens Health Magazine – How Gay is It?
Poor Mark Latham, the former leader of the Australian Labour Party, isn’t happy with the state of Australian manhood. Like so many things, it isn’t as good or as big or as satisfying as it used to be. In his new book (curiously titled ’A Conga Line of Suckholes’) he… Read More »‘Metrosexual Knobs’ – Can They Satisfy?