Porn stars and Prozac
As the pandemic death toll rises, jobs crumble and confusion reigns, we’re spinning deeper into a mental health crisis. Lockdown experiences are having psychological consequences – including restrictions on funerals…
Opinion
Wasteland Experience: Viral Pandemic
In June 2016, I threw myself into an immersive theatre piece staged in an abandoned shopping mall in Reading. The theme? Contagious killers, zombies and savage bandits roam a dystopia…
The Masculine Prison
Society expects strict behavioural patterns from both men and women, but gender isn’t strictly binary and on that sliding scale of biology and nurture exists a lesson for us all,…
Piers Morgan
Some are singing the praises of Piers Morgan, because he’s shouty and furious with the Government. I have a longer memory. He might be seen as a ‘key worker’, but…
Set me Free from GHB
GHB, GBL or G is an industrial solvent that’s often used as a party drug. It is highly likely that Reynhard Sinaga used the drug to spike and then rape,…
George Michael
George Michael would have been 57 today. He was a uniquely talented singer and songwriter. He was a global pin-up, cultural icon and a spliff totin’ pop queen. I still…
The Acropolis Museum
As we bluster towards post-Brexit trade bants with the EU, the Parthenon Marbles have rolled into view due to a potential clause which calls for “return or restitution of unlawfully…
Turnmills and Trade Wave Goodbye to The Rave
Trade spawned the move to all night clubbing in the 1990s and was the first queer after hours club in Britain. Trade’s home was Turnmills, which closed in March 2008. Turnmills…
Judy
Renée Zellweger plays Judy Garland in Rupert Goold’s biopic. If you are a gay man of a certain age, her impact and relevance is almost inescapable. Like most kids who…
LGBT party at 10 Downing Street
David Cameron held the first LGBT reception at a Tory 10 Downing Street June 2010. The event sent Daily Mail readers into frothing fury, and neglected to invite Peter…