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