COMMENT | Can Anyone Really Be “Mr Perfect”?
Can someone ever have no vices? Be so flawless that they seem perfect? And if so, is perfection what we seek? In this article, I’ll share an experience I had […]
OPINION | Ages of Ignorance
Although the ‘yoots’ of today are feared by much of the majority culture, it is often believed that it is the older generations who hold ‘outdated’ homophobic views. But are […]
SCENE: The Clubs We Have Loved And Lost
You no doubt think I’m a bit old to be going clubbing these days, and you’re probably right (though actually I only hung up my gogo jock last year), but […]
COLUMN | I Told You I Was Ill
My hypochondria is legendary. Actually, I don’t call it hypochondria. I call it being ill but you can make up your own mind on that one. have a different ailment […]
COLUMN | Smoking Is A Problem For Me
I have an addictive personality, and smoking is the “in” thing at the moment. That being said, it’s not something I’m overly keen to stop. Whenever the graphic quit smoking […]
OPINION | Attacked For Being Gay or Attacked For Being There?
In my last article I talked about the rise of online ‘trolls’ but something that has been around for much longer than trolls are perpetrators of hate crimes; either through […]
COMMENT | Is Homophobic Crime On Its Way Out?
I recently read something that informed me there has been a reduction in the reporting of homophobic crime. It would be easy to interpret that as saying there has been […]
OP ED | Vice Of Reason
Vices, innately immoral or simply unaccepted activities, can range greatly from the outright degrading to the purely inconvenient. The difference? How it impacts us personally as well as the perception […]
COLUMN | Meat (and Two Veg) is Murder
The modern world is all about the ‘foodie’. We’re all supposed to be happily salivating over organic cuts of meat, freshly baked soda bread and imported delicacies. I’m a little […]
OP ED | Is Prostitution The Last Taboo?
This month’s issue is the Vice Issue and, if I appear to have been quiet for a while, it’s because I’ve been away indulging my passion for sunbathing in Cape […]
OP ED | When A Vice Becomes Something More Sinister
I imagine that we all have vices. In fact I wouldn’t believe someone if they told me that they didn’t have any. For some people smoking could be a vice. […]