How The Equality Act Is Costing Gay Couples Billions And Refusing Pension Rights
News that the Court of Appeal has refused the application of a gay man for his husband to be treated in the same manner upon his death as a surviving […]
COLUMN: Why I Am Outraged by LGBT People’s Outrage
If there’s one thing that really annoys me these days, it’s people being ‘outraged’ over things that do not require any amount of outrage. Particularly with social networking sites being […]
COLUMN: Can Gay Relationships Ever Be Honest and Open?
Is there such a thing as a healthy open relationship? I can only go on my own experiences, which were mixed. I met Adam in the early 2000s. He was […]
COMMENT: Steve Strange The New Romantic Prince Charming
Steve Strange – fascinatrix, Bowie buddy, lead singer of Visage and Blitz Club doyen – was the pop-art Diaghilev of his generation, the New Romantic Prince Charming par excellence. Often […]
COMMENT | Gay Rape. It exists and we need to talk about it
Rape is a most detestable crime. It is a crime that involves sex but also violence, deceit, power and in some instances romance. As a society, we have come to […]
JOURNEY TO FATHERHOOD 2 | The Money
The second instalment of Simon Hill’s journey to becoming a father. It’s about the money… A man once told me a story about money, it went like this: The board […]
COMMENT | Just What Is Happening To Gay Soho?
Is extremity passé? Pre-Crossrail Soho thinks so. F**k nurturing nonconformity – now, it’s virtually a shoot-on-sight thought crime. Don’t believe it? Think again; clubs, landlords and speculator scumbags w**k themselves […]
COMMENT | What Jeremy Corbyn Has Already Done For The Gay Community
Many of my gay chums often tell me they are not “into politics”. Personally, I’ve always often thought this was a bit odd because I’ve always thought of being gay […]
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR: More than the sum of our parts
This month, I happened to be invited to a sit down pasta/policy night with a well-known community leader. Around the table I was joined by five colleagues from the LGBT […]
COMMENT | Manchester Pride & Me: A time for community
I recently attended one of the best pride events I have been to in a long time. For me, Manchester pride is a shining example of how a pride should […]
COMMENT | Aylan Kurdi must not be this week’s hot news story
It’s been a big week for armchair activism. We all saw the picture a few days ago of the drowned body of three year old Aylan Kurdi on a Turkish […]