the homosexual is 140

Back to the Future: Escaping Sexology

by Mark Simpson
March 10, 2021February 17, 2023

My (highly attenuated) attention was recently directed to an LWT doc from 1981 available on YouTube . It compares the pre-war, pre-gay world of ‘sisters’ (‘musical’ friends you didn’t want to fuck) and ‘trade’ (‘normal’ working class ‘real’ men you really did), with the post-Stonewall, butched-up, Marlborough Man world of… Read More »Back to the Future: Escaping Sexology

The Homosexual is 140 – And Showing His Age

by Mark Simpson
September 27, 2009March 10, 2021

The father of the metrosexual on the father of the homosexual, and the birth of the ‘-sexual’ era (Out, September 2009) As you may have noticed, the out-and-proud modern gay, born amidst protest, shouting and flying bottles outside the Stonewall Inn in 1969, is now forty years old. But you may… Read More »The Homosexual is 140 – And Showing His Age

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