COLUMN | Sleaze please
Once upon a time in the 1990s when AIDS and HIV were still at their most prevalent and unchecked there was funding for the role of “safer sex fairy!” in […]
COLUMN | Thoughts on and a Christmas message from an old queen
What is it about this time of year? A never-ending procession of lists, the good, the bad, the best, the worse, achievements, failures, the dead! Christmas is a time to […]
COLUMN | When all I needed was a Hand Shandy
Why can’t I concentrate today? My browser crashed and I deleted all of my passwords and all of my history. So much porn lost to posterity. I doubt I have […]
COLUMN | Memories and Music
This afternoon was spent with friends and taking time going through the treasures that are so important in my life. My friends are those who don’t answer back. They are […]
COLUMN | I had to choose: The Internet or The TV
Preconditioning Around 4 years ago, in reduced financial circumstance, I was faced with making a decision. Television licence or Internet and telephone. I elected for the Internet. Ditching the television […]
COLUMN | Don’t we all end up paying for sex?
Recently I read an article about the increasing number of young men who pay for sex. Welcome to the club. In the gay world, middle-aged and older men have had […]
COLUMN | An MP’s Marriage Proposal
I just loved the proposal during the debate about same-sex marriage in Australia. The time and the place. Australian MP Tim Wilson gave an impassioned and emotional speech with his […]
COLUMN | Homophobic banter is still prevalent at work, even in 2017
In the last couple of weeks, I have given up my job. I have arthritis in my feet, ankles and knees – the condition has impacted on my ability to […]
What’s it like to have a doctor check your balls for lumps?
Oh no; not a third bollock! I had found a lump! Nothing significant but it was a lump on my right testicle. I had woken one morning stretching, raking, scratching, […]
COLUMN | The time my friend used his private ambulance as a “cottage”
Got a stiffe? In the 1980s I knew a man who had an entirely respectable occupation in the funeral trade. He was a driver/bearer, drove the hearse and carried the […]
Why do straight guys ask this question when you come out to them?
No… we don’t fancy you At some time many of us will be one of a group of mates, whether at school, college, work, in military service or member of […]