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Gareth Thomas comes out of the closet
One of the most high profile gay sportsman to come out of the closet in recent years is Gareth Thomas, former Wales and Lions captain. News began breaking publicly in the early hours of today. Former Wales and Lions captain Gareth Thomas has broken ...
Peter getting out of Nick’s pool
Peter getting out of Nick’s pool, acrylic on canvas, by David Hockney, 1966 (via Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool) In 1966 Hockney travelled to Los Angeles for the second time. Greatly attracted by the sunny climate and relaxed atmosphere ...
Priscilla
Great evening at the theatre seeing Priscilla: Queen of the Desert. Really good fun. One of the best things I’ve seen at the theatre in a long time. I love the film too, which probably helps. We were two rows from the front which is perhaps ...
They danced all night
I’ve been really enjoying the BBC4 documentary series Golden Age of Glamour which has been airing over the past couple of weeks. It’s my favourite kind of TV. Well researched, very interesting, high quality documentaries and drama on a p...
The lone piper
A lone piper was playing at the station this evening, on my way home. I find bagpipe music haunting. I’m guessing it’s in connection with Remembrance Sunday which is imminent. We wear poppies to remember those who fell in the two Great W...
Phoenix rising
It was a modern miracle, the scene we thought we would never see. The Labour party rose, not just to applaud Peter Mandelson but to cheer him, to whoop at him, to adore him. Tony Blair famously said that his project would not be complete until the p...
Midnight’s children
I’ve stopped the mid-week drinking. I’ve also stopped the pigging out on snack food in the evening. Now, I’m down to a miso soup and a banana of an evening. Realising I was 10-12 lbs heavier than this time last year has given me the...
Mamma Mia, there he goes again
An interesting piece in today’s Independent by columnist Matthew Norman, about Peter Mandelson - a political figure I’ve blogged about before. I remain beguiled because he is, by a country mile, the most high powered political figure we...
Pride not prejudice
Last month something surprising but rather heart-warming happened. An openly gay British solider – Trooper James Wharton - appeared on the front cover of the Army’s own magazine – Soldier. What is amazing and wonderful about our c...
An officer and a gentle woman
I read this article on Times Online today, which I thought was fascinating. He led a life of privilege — game hunter, Guardsman and gentleman farmer. But Rhodri Davies had only one desire: to be a woman. So he changed his gender, lost his family, a...
Adam and Steve through the ages
Close relationships with those of our own sex, regardless of intensity or on which part of the spectrum they exist, are special. I came across these pictures on Flickr which I liked. They are vintage photos, ostensibly of gay couples from the last co...
There’s something about Mandy
The Right Honourable the Lord Mandelson aka Baron Mandelson, of Foy in the County of Herefordshire and of Hartlepool in the County of Durham. I should state, perhaps at the outset, that I have never hidden my admiration for Lord Mandelson (aka ‘...
It must have been love, but it’s over now
It was love. And it is over now. I got there in the end. Whomever said “time is a healer” sure wasn’t lying. Though it took fucking ages. But I actually feel that, finally, I’m over he who is beyond the scope of this blog it. ...
You were young and beautiful once
More here. Posted in photography, remembrances of things past Tagged: celebrity, gay, ian mckellen ...
The cult of David
I’ve already blogged about seeing Michelangelo’s David for the first time and I’ve also mentioned that I bought a book from one of the museums in Florence which came out a couple of years ago to commemorate the 500th anniversary of ...
Date 1 – fail
Date 1 ended in failure. Failure because he stood me up twice in one week. The more I analyse his text messages the more I know intuitively that it was never going to be a match made in heaven. So he was a surfer dude, fine. But he seemed insecure, o...
Date 1 arranged
And there we have it. I don’t even know how long it’s been since I dated. Years. For too long I’ve been distracted by he who is beyond the scope of this blog. So I began online dating. I spent all of about 3 minutes doing my photo a...
Art Deco Playgirl
‘La Belle Rafaelo’ The works of Polish Art Deco painter Tamara de Lempicka have always attracted me. She was a 1920s socialite and the most fashionable portrait painter of her generation. I have always really loved the Art Deco movement ...
Atonement
Reunions; painful after so long. Warmth. Just the two of us. Alcohol. And not in moderation. Touching his beautiful hands. Running my hand across his face and feeling the stubble. We talk. For hours. His eyes. So intent. Almost staring me out. Azure ...
