HOMOVISION REHAB with THE SWARMITE: AGEING (Part 2)

In her book “How to Grow Old Disgracefully”, the actress Hermione Gingold remarked: “There’s nothing so ageing as the past – especially when it catches up with you. I like to live in the present”. How gay was Hermione? Well for starters her sister Angela Baddeley played iconic...

January 19th, 2010 | Highlights, Rehab | Read More

HOMOVISION REHAB with THE SWARMITE: XMAS BOOZE CHECK

We know that Alcohol can make gayers do mad things but no one is mental enough to give up Booze before Christmas. Right? “It’s only another month before the New Year and I can get it sorted then” is the annual December mantra of hope. The page BOOZE CHECK on my own website is number...

December 7th, 2009 | Highlights, Rehab | Read More

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

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

GORDON BROWN: “HAPPY AIDS DAY!”

Well. Not quite. But Prime Minster Gordon Brown has just released a message sending his support for World AIDS Day. In the video, broadcast on No.10’s Youtube channel, Brown sends his support to activists around the world who refuse to give up in the face of HIV and AIDS. He adds: “In the...

November 19th, 2009 | Latest videos, News | Read More

HOMOVISION REHAB with THE SWARMITE: SUCCESS!

Success – like poverty – is relative. In 1994 after living in Spain I returned to the UK, ill once again and found myself in a homeless hostel. Someone sent me a postcard that said POVERTY IS RELATIVE with a cartoon sketch of a woman screaming aloud that she was so broke “she couldn’t...

October 27th, 2009 | Highlights, News, Rehab | Read More

JAN MOIR – ARE WE GOING TOO FAR?

Ban her, sack her, kill her. Since Friday the twitterverse has been buzzing with people commenting on the Jan Moir Stephen Gately Gate. You can sign up for petitions demanding she’s sacked and burnt at the stake. “She’s a cunt”, “she’s a horror”, “a fucking...

October 19th, 2009 | News | Read More

HOMOVISION REHAB with THE SWARMITE: BOUNDARIES

Compulsive behaviour is not only about sex, chems and the internet, it’s also about losing yourself obsessively in another person, a relationship or the workplace. “Gayers do it straight away” should be a bumper sticker, as two weeks after the first shag many move in ready for IKEA....

September 8th, 2009 | Highlights, News, Rehab | Read More

MADONNA BOOED FOR SUPPORTING GYPSIES AND GAYS

The Romanian Times reports today that supercheeks Madonna was booed at her recent Sticky & Sweet tour in Bucharest. Just before performing La Isla Bonita she said the following: ‘I’ve never been to Romania before and I am happy to be here. But I found out that there is a lot of discrimination...

August 27th, 2009 | Music, News | Read More

YOURS TRULY, HELEN DOODY

Helen Doody is the mother of Declan Doody – an Irish guy who wrote to Dermot Ahern, Irish Justice Minister – about the inequality of Civil Partnerships. The letter has gone global, inspiring a protest outside the Irish Parliament building today against the inequality of Civil Partnerships. Here...

July 9th, 2009 | News | Read More