Piers Morgan and ‘praying the gay away’
The fact that Piers Morgan is on television, let alone while people eat a fraught, austerity breakfast, is enough to incite a riot in this careworn queen. The living, huffing…
Opinion
NYC Downlow
Created to highlight excellence in homocentric dance music – vintage house, disco, soul and funk – the NYC Downlow was born at Glastonbury Festival in 2007. It’s a temporary, counter-cultural,…
Bravado by Scottee
Bravado is a show by the artist Scottee. It’s a memoir of working class masculinity from 1991 to 1999. I’ve known Scottee since he was a teenager, when he hit the…
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,…
Set me Free from GHB
GHB, GBL or G is an industrial solvent that’s often used as a party drug. The gays love it, it’s very unpredictable and it can kill. Despite the downsides, it…
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…
Oh, the Horror
Hammer films, Fangoria magazine and the books of Stephen King proved a bloody education in thrills, special effects and adult themes. However, the grim reality of adult life proved more…
Lee Anderson
It was the early ‘90s when our paths first crossed. Lee was already an established legend when I started work at Trade. He’d be outside, working the guest list. I…
Athens
Greece may be going through some economic turmoil, but Athens remains a dazzling city that boasts the historic beauty of The Acropolis and wild nightlife for LGBT party animals, says…
Shopping and Fucking
Mark Ravenhill’s Shopping and Fucking hit British theatre like a punch from an angry junkie. Twenty years later it’s been revived at the Hammersmith Lyric. Can it still pack a…