HOMO REHAB with THE SWARMITE: FOOD DISORDERS (Part 1)

Food Glorious FOOD . . . is not limited to Lionel Bart’s OLIVER or a telly M&S sexy food campaign, unfortunately it’s also become connected to the other love that dare not speak it’s name: Bulimia. Shrouded in secret habits, eating disorders are expressions of low esteem and a...

February 23rd, 2010 | Highlights, Rehab | Read More

NEW! RELATIONSHIP REHAB: LOVING AND LEAVING

Welcome to a new strand of HOMO REHAB – every other week the focus will be on RELATIONSHIPS, CODEPENDENCY & EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE. Walk into any Waterstones and you will find a pile of books, mostly American, on how to attract a lover, a lifetime partner or soul mate, bought by people as...

February 16th, 2010 | Highlights, Relationship Rehab | Read More

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: AGEING

They used to sing ” Nobody loves a Fairy when she’s Forty ” back in the days of homo criminalisation but now the internet is awash with Daddies, Bears and Spanking GrandDads – thankfully nobody needs to look like Cher anymore to still be in the game. Can you imagine being rejected...

January 12th, 2010 | Health, News, Rehab | Read More

HOMOVISION REHAB with THE SWARMITE: EXPECTATIONS

Setting expectations too high is societies curse, which is why government and partners fail us and media is flooded at this time of year with detox trivia, diet plans and resolutions. Don’t encourage them, be stylish – wait till February or when you feel you want to, rather than need to...

January 5th, 2010 | 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

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

HOMOVISION REHAB with THE SWARMITE: HOPE

As we approach World AIDS Day, many gay men in their forties can’t believe they are still alive. They made it. They survived the collective grief of a virus halted in it’s tracks by combos. Gay Men lost their identity and faith to AIDS and didn’t know how to relate to a possible cure...

November 24th, 2009 | Highlights, Rehab | Read More