Rainbow-Coloured Obama?

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/tearful-andrew-sullivan-praises-obama-father-figure-saying-im-fully-a-part-of-this-family/ You can’t have failed to have heard the news. Obama, who originally took a firm stance against gay marriage, preferring the traditional view that marriage is between a man and a woman, has done a U-turn. His recent statement in favour of equal marriage has sent teh gayz into spasms of emotion similar to [...]

Letter From An Alien: It’s Over, Roland

http://www.towleroad.com/2012/02/a-marine-comes-home.html This photo has gone viral recently. It was first posted on a ‘Gay Marines’ FB page and has since been sent round the internet, with the tagline ‘Gay Marine Comes Home’. You know me. I am an out and proud ‘homophile’. I am bordering on being a homo myself.  My blog archives are full [...]

Revenge Of Teh Menz

This week so far has been all about the men. For once. So I thought I’d share some links to recent articles that examine men and masculinity, not only through the judgemental lens of feminism. I was delighted to see my favourite writer on men, Mark Simpson, had an article in this week’s Guardian (UK newspaper). [...]

Oh, Cynthia!

http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2012/01/30/Cynthia_Nixon_Being_Bisexual_Is_Not_a_Choice/ Cynthia Nixon, who I last week defended for stating her sexuality is her ‘choice’, has gone back on her word. After a huge amount of hostility and pressure from gay activists and gay media outlets I might add. Her revised statement reads as follows:   “My recent comments in The New York Times were about me and my [...]

Football Goes Gay: Again!

‘Interest in men is permitted, indeed encouraged, but must always be expressed through the game’.  (Simpson, 1994:72) The Guardian has reported  the outpouring of love for the lovely Thierry Henri, on his triumphant return to Arsenal. Fans have described their ardour as ‘going gay for Henri’. The author, Paul Flynn, writes: ‘Maybe I was taking it too literally [...]

Stonewall Is Gay

This week is ‘anti-homophobic bullying week’, according to everyone’s favourite Gay charity, Stonewall. Just as the feminists have been focusing on ‘woman-hating’ language lately, so the Gay activists are telling everyone to stop using nasty words against gays. The suggestions for the week from Stonewall include: —————————- Schools: Make a personal pledge not to use [...]

Blood Brothers?

Talking of bisexual men, and their erasure in our culture, which we were, here we go again. http://lawandsexuality.blogspot.com/2011/09/gay-blood-ban-to-be-further-repealed.html Law and Sexuality is a brilliant blog by Chris, who writes on a wide range of subjects around sexuality, society and the law. I have an enormous amount of respect for him. But sometimes I pull him [...]

Peter Tatchell’s Big Gay Mission

I received a group email from Peter Tatchell today. This is what it said: London – 22 August 2010 Dear Pride London, East London LGBT Pride – Saturday 1 October 2011 Earlier this year stickers were plastered around East London declaring it a ‘Gay Free Zone’, warning that Allah’s punishment for homosexuality is severe. Previously, [...]

Raw Sex

One reason I don’t get as wound up about the ‘lack’ of decent pornography that features men’s bodies, as Some People, is that I find plenty of very hot images in realms that are not officially classed as ‘porn’. AND they are free or cheaper than the vast majority of porn. How many M/M/m S [...]

I would come out tonight…

Ah, Barry Manilow, he of the famous nose and the camp jumpsuits and the big songs that are probably being played at someone’s wedding, somewhere, as I type. People may claim to hate him but nobody does. He’s a legend. But Patrick Strudwick, the Gay of the year in some circles, well Gay journalist of the [...]