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Polymorphous Perversity & One Direction Fandom 23 Aug 2013 | 06:03 pm
Fame, fame, fatal fame. It can play hideous tricks on the brain. Last week C4 aired Crazy About One Direction a documentary about ‘Directioners’, febrile fans of the globally – some would say crimina...
Why Men Love Shoes 16 Aug 2013 | 06:28 pm
‘Metrosexual goes mainstream as men outspend women on footwear’ announced a headline in the Daily Telegraph last week, dealing a death blow to yet another stand-up comedian gendered generalisation sta...
God Save The Sea Queen 9 Aug 2013 | 02:45 pm
An excerpt from Mark Simpson’s Sex Terror: Erotic Misadventures in Pop Culture’, now available on Kindle Gibraltar, otherwise known as ‘The Rock’, is the full stop to the sentence of Europe. It has b...
‘Youth! Youth! There is absolutely nothing in the world but youth!’ 5 Aug 2013 | 10:40 pm
So said an ageing Lord Henry Wotton to the golden (and soon to be) ageless Dorian Gray.
‘End of Gays?’ — now a Kindle Single 25 Jul 2013 | 06:16 pm
End of Gays? is now a Kindle Single - with an even more apocalyptic cover.
Alain Delon’s Slaughtering Looks 19 Jul 2013 | 07:32 pm
Perhaps it’s Madge overload, but I completely missed this rather catching ‘Beautiful Killer’ tribute to the very fetching Swiss-French actor Alain Delon that she included on her 2012 MDNA album. This...
Does art imitate life, or does life irritate art? 3 Jul 2013 | 05:05 pm
There is much to consider in this montage of Ken Doll’s evolution over the last half century. Transformation, even. But perhaps the most striking thing about Barbie’s playmate through the ages is the...
Do You Shave Your Chest? 13 Jun 2013 | 08:17 pm
When I joined the British TA infantry back in the late 90s (bit of a long story) and had my medical the (woman) doctor asked a topless me: ‘Do you shave your chest?’ It was still verboten back then to...
‘End of Gays?’ — Kindle essay 9 Jun 2013 | 03:11 pm
Back in the 1980s, when the Conservative Government of Margaret Thatcher banned the ‘promotion’ of homosexuality, gays were still semi-criminal – as well as immoral, ridiculous, disgusting, diseased...
‘End of Gays?’ — Kindle essay 9 Jun 2013 | 03:11 pm
Back in the 1980s, when the Conservative Government of Margaret Thatcher banned the ‘promotion’ of homosexuality, gays were still semi-criminal – as well as immoral, ridiculous, disgusting, diseased...
