Christopher likes Morrissey, cats, eating chips and banging the drums (insert rim-shot joke here). He makes more money by rooting around down the back of the settee than he does from writing, but lives in hope

THE LEATHER BOYS: SMOKE AND LEATHERS

How many of you old and young-timers have heard of The Leather Boys? It’s got nothing to do with Warhol or Kenneth Anger, despite the imagery it conjures up (anyway, it’s far too playful a title for Anger) and nor is there any debt to Tom of Finland. No, The Leather Boys is a 1961 British pulp novel...

December 7th, 2009 | Comment, Theatre | Read More

ANTI-GAY BILL PUT TO UGANDAN PARLIAMENT

An anti-homosexuality draft bill is being put to the Ugandan parliament. This proposed law targets not only LGBT people but also human rights and AIDS prevention activists. Seventeen local and international human rights groups have condemnded the proposed bill. Scott Long of Human Rights Watch said,...

October 30th, 2009 | News | Read More

MAN PLEADS GUILTY TO GAY BLACKMAIL

A 26-year-old-man from Portsmouth has pleaded guilty to posing as a police officer in order to blackmail men meeting for clandestine gay sex. According to the Portsmouth News, Lee Creamer confessed to extorting hundreds of pounds from three men who were concerned their families would be informed of...

October 30th, 2009 | News | Read More

KENYAN GAY CENSUS TO BE UNDERTAKEN

In an attempt to stem the virulent spread of HIV, Kenya is to conduct a census of its gay population. The survey will be carried out by the National AIDS/STD Control Programme (NASCOP) at the beginning of 2010. The census will be anonymous. It will be distributed through the channels of gay networks...

October 30th, 2009 | News | Read More

HOMO IS AS HOMO DOES

Robert Mormando, a former mafia hitman, came out at his trial as a big old gay. Mormando had grown up in Brooklyn and looked up to mob boss John Gotti as a God. He joined up and was ordered to take out a bagel shop owner suspected of bunking up with the wife of Vincent Gotti, John’s bro. Mormando botched...

October 29th, 2009 | Comment | Read More

PRESIDENT OBAMA SIGNS MATTHEW SHEPARD HATE CRIMES BILL

US President Barack Obama has signed a bill giving gay people fresh protections from hate crime. Nicknamed the Matthew Shepard Bill after the Wyoming teenager who was murdered in 1998, it was passed by the Senate at 68 to 29 votes last week. The bill is attached to the Department of Defence reauthorisation...

October 29th, 2009 | News | Read More

FORMER HEAD OF GAY SCOTS CHARITY JAILED FOR PAEDOPHILE OFFENCES

James Rennie, the former head of a Scottish LGBT youth charity, has been jailed today for 13 years for his involvement in Scotland’s biggest-known paedophile ring, which operated between 2004 and 2008 in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dundee and East Lothian. Rennie, 38, was convicted back in May of sexually...

October 29th, 2009 | News | Read More

PUBLIC MEETING ON GAY BLOOD BAN

The ban on gay men giving blood will be reviewed today in a public meeting. The previous review in January 2007 decided in favour of keeping the ban, which says that any man who has ever had sex with another man is banned from giving blood for life, alongside any women who have has sex with them. Others...

October 27th, 2009 | News | Read More