Bad Science: A Review of The Sex Myth By Brooke Magnanti

The Sex Myth begins with an anecdote. Dr Brooke Magnanti (aka Belle de Jour) describes a phase in her childhood when she and her friends were in competition to discover the ‘truth’ about the naked body of the opposite sex. The girls were particularly inventive, and would look under cubicle doors in the boys’ toilets, [...]

I Don’t Think Your Dad’s Ready (for the homoerotics of Arnie)

Someone on twitter this week was talking about how she tried to explain to her Dad the ‘homoerotic subtexts’ in the 1980s Hollywood film, The Lost Boys. But he couldn’t (or wouldn’t) see it, and thought it was just a movie about vampires. This led me to introduce her to the work of Mark MetroDad Simpson. [...]

The Possibility Of Independent Thinking

‘The entire gay male community seems at times to be colluding against the possibility of independent thinking. The gay rights movement, too often, is focused on theatrics rather than on discourse; we want to be entertained and flattered, not criticised’. – John Weir in Anti Gay (1996 ed. Mark Simpson). I was delighted to have [...]

A Big Fan Of Pansies – QRG Gets The Madame Arcati Treatment

I am utterly honoured to have been interviewed by the inimitable Madame Arcati this week. Not unlike me, she is a bit of a trouble-maker, a character and a lover of the literary arts. Arcati asked me about my recent ‘outing’ by Paul Burston and Julie Bindel, a voodoo spell they arranged for me, and my interest [...]

In Defence Of… Uncle Toms

Also delighted to see she was fervently devoted to noted Uncle Tom and all-round public-school twat @marksimpsonist. Well done, fuck off.— Callum Hamilton (@Callum_TH) March 09, 2012 I was slightly shocked to see the above tweet very recently, accusing Mark Simpson, author of Anti Gay of being a gay ‘uncle Tom’.  I was partly surprised, [...]

Letter From An Alien: Nothing But Trouble

That’s another fine mess you got me into, Stanley! But it was worth it. Because: Male Impersonators,  Metrosexy and Anti Gay. ‘If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.’  -  Oscar Wilde

A Note About Metrosexy, @marksimpsonist ‘s Tour de Force

Any of you who have been reading QRG for any length of time, will know that I helped and supported Mark Simpson publish his 2011 Book, Metrosexy. And that I continue to refer to it, review it and promote it to this day. Why wouldn’t I? It is bloody marvellous. But Simpson has removed some of [...]

Metrosexy Hegemony

I have critiqued the feminist concept of hegemonic masculinity before. The idea that there is a ‘masculine ideal’ that some men achieve and exploit, and others are oppressed by does not work for me. Also if there is a ‘hegemonic masculinity’ why is there not a ‘hegemonic femininity’. The concept relies on the idea that patriarchy exists, [...]

To Foucault, A Daughter: Review By Mark Simpson

This is a review by Mark Simpson of my novella Scribbling On Foucault’s Walls. He took it down from his blog in a fit of pique so I am putting it here for safekeeping. And because, neither Metrodaddy nor anyone else, can erase the past. ——————————————— Reg­u­lar vis­i­tors to this blog will be famil­iar with [...]

The Naked Muse

Coming up in London this week is an exhibition called The Naked Muse.  Pictures of naked men are usually of interest to me, so I thought I’d find out a bit more about it. Full details of the exhibition, featuring black and white photos of men poets in the nuddy, and the calendar to go [...]