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Rhapsody in Blue

7 April 2014 London Passionate, heart-breaking and occasionally ridiculous, Abdellatif Kechiche’s wonderful film Blue Is the Warmest Colour explodes onto … More

Abdellatif Kechiche, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Blue is the Warmest Colour, Cannes, coming out, homophobia, La Vie d'Adele, Léa Seydoux, Lesbians, London Film Festival, Sex

The Long Walk to the Altar

30 March 2014 London As same-sex marriage becomes legal in the United Kingdom, is it time for LGBT people to stop thinking … More

Gay marriage, Gayle Rubin, homophobia, Ian McKellen, Jesse Bering, Mark Simpson, Metrosexual, Sex

The Importance of Being Earnest

5 March 2014 London My latest post for the Huffington Post – a meditation on the significance of coming out, … More

coming out, homophobia, Huffington Post

Bayard Rustin: My Hero

20 January 2014 London Remembering Bayard Rustin, Dr King’s openly gay right hand man in the fight for racial equality … More

Bayard Rustin, Brother Outsider, Civil Rights, homophobia, Martin Luther King

We Need To Talk About Tom Daley

2 December 2013 London The media response to British sportsman Tom Daley announcing today that he was in a relationship with … More

Bisexuality, coming out, homophobia, Mark Simpson, Tom Daley

Till Death Do Us Part

4 November 2013 London Two plays on the London stage – Joanna Murray-Smith’s Scenes From A Marriage and Alexi Kaye-Campbell’s The Pride – put … More

Alexi Kaye-Campbell, coming out, homophobia, Joanna Murray-Smith, Marriage, Scenes From A Marriage, The Pride, West End

Inside the Sequinned Closet

10 June 2013 London Steven Soderbergh’s fantastic Liberace biopic, Behind the Candelabra, provides a definitive glimpse of the aesthetics of life … More

AIDS, Behind the Candelabra, coming out, homophobia, Liberace, Matt Damon, Michael Douglas, Steven Soderbergh

It’s Been So Long, Marianne

7 June 2013 London The return of the great British actor Marianne Jean-Baptiste in a fine revival of James Baldwin’s play … More

Amen Corner, James Baldwin, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, racism, Royal National Theatre

GayBros: Friends or Foes?

3 April 2013 London Gaybros, a new online gay community group for gays who like “guy stuff”, has raised eyebrows … More

Alan Downs, Alex DeLuca, coming out, GayBros, homophobia, The Velvet Rage

That Jodie Foster Speech

16 January 2013 London I add my two cents worth to Jodie Foster’s not-quite-a-coming-out speech at the Golden Globes. Sunday … More

Andrew Sullivan, coming out, feminism, Film, Gareth Thomas, Golden Globes, homophobia, J Bryan Lowder, Jodie Foster, Michelangelo Signorile, Ricky Martin

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