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

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

I Love My Gay Red Top

20 November 2012 London Prime Minister John Key’s thoughtless “gay red top” gaffe demonstrates the persistence of homophobia in New Zealand’s … More

The Return of the Evil Queen

16 October 2012 London The BBC’s surprise TV hit of the summer, The Great British Bake Off, has rebirthed one of … More

Gore Vidal Has Left The Building

1 August 2012 London My tribute to the giant of American letters, stately homo and provocateur Gore Vidal, who died this week. … More

The Riches of Adrienne

29 March 2012 London My tribute to the great American poet and feminist Adrienne Rich, who died this week. Amid … More

Queer Eye for the Rugby Guy

23 October 2011 London Rugby, the game that personifies New Zealand’s macho homophobic culture, is now a thing of homoerotic fantasy – … More