OWN SOME GAY CLUBBING HISTORY: DTPM, TRADE, QUEER NATION, FLESH…

Art associated with clubs such as DTPM, Queer Nation, High on Hope, Trade and Flesh (Hacienda) recently featured in a series of exhibitions in London, Tokyo and Shanghai in 2009. The Our History show included photography, film, art, canvases, prints, and original material covering the clubbing from...

December 8th, 2009 | Theatre | Read More

UGANDA: PEPSI SPONSORS CONCERT FEATURING BEENIE MAN

Are Pepsi’s marketing department living on the Moon? Possibly. Why? Because recently the soft drinks company have sponsored a concert in Uganda (a country soon set to pass an anti-gay bill) featuring Beenie Man – the controversial gay hate dancehall artist. According to reports in Uganda’s...

December 7th, 2009 | Interviews, News | Read More

HOMOVISION REHAB with THE SWARMITE: VIRUS LIVING

In the current PC climate of rising HIV infections, when health charities place the sensibilties of poz people above prevention, many say we need to go back to basics. When this gay plague started I was there, being tested at The Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead in 1981. Doctors had flown from America...

December 1st, 2009 | Highlights, News, Rehab | Read More

COMMENT: HIV – 20 YEARS ON

As I come into the year of the 20th anniversary of my HIV positive diagnosis the gap between two observations before me is so vast I am moved to make what I am seeing public, in the hope of sparking more conversation about a subject that is a huge factor in every gay man’s life. Every gay man has to...

December 1st, 2009 | Health, Highlights | Read More

COMMENT: FAME, SCENE CELEBRITIES AND THE FUTURE OF GAY CULTURE

Apparently X Factor 2009 ends on 12th December. I say ‘apparently’ because loathing the superficial trite-fest as I do, I had to Google the date. Personally, I could not care less, yet this auspicious landmark is sure to be engraved on many a London scene queen’s mind. It will represent the end...

November 26th, 2009 | Clubland, Comment, Highlights | Read More

FILM: MR RIGHT

So right. Last week we went to the screening of Mr Right – the new Brit flick based around a gaggle of gaying friends in London’s glitzy (love that word) Soho. There’s Harry who hates his job as a reality TV producer; Lars – a geeee-orgeous “model”, who’s kept...

November 25th, 2009 | Highlights, Theatre | Read More