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: 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

HOMOVISION REHAB with THE SWARMITE: SACRIFICE

Before chems became the main course and not the starter, GAY MEN’S HEALTH was all about catching the lurgee, the gay plague bestowed upon us by an unknown force and according to Donna Summer in the ’80’s, it was the Lord himself shouting down from above – no more bum fun for...

November 10th, 2009 | Clubland, Highlights, Rehab | Read More

HOMOVISION REHAB with THE SWARMITE: FREEDOM

In some quarters to admit “being in therapy” is as shaming as owning membership to the Jan Moir Fan Club, so you may wonder why people seek it, pay for it and continue the process of on-going examination. However, coming out as “being in therapy” is the new celebrity ring-a-ding...

October 20th, 2009 | Health, Highlights, News, Rehab | Read More

COMMENT: EXPECT A MAN TO TELL YOU THAT HE IS HIV POSITIVE? YOU ARE CRAZY

Apparently, the sexual health of the gay community is entirely the responsibility of those relatively few men who know that they are HIV+. Only these people can be “guilty” of infecting their “victim”. Even the law, as it stands in the UK currently, says that you are not culpable...

August 12th, 2009 | Health, News | Read More

HOMOVISION REHAB with THE SWARMITE: EMPOWERMENT

In the ’80’s Empowerment was bigger than big hair and our Joanie as Alexis Carrington led the way. Big hair, big power shoulders and big drama on Dynasty had us hooked and at the same time our m8s were going down like flies to AIDS so the buzz word was EMPOWERMENT. At this time I was undergoing...

August 4th, 2009 | Highlights, Rehab | Read More

THE SWARMITE’S HOMOVISION REHAB: HAPPINESS

“You don’t know the meaning of true happiness until you have heard 30,000 gays recognize the opening bars of Dancing Queen” – so said a straight journalist writing for the London Evening Standard attending The 1st Gay Games opening ceremony in Amsterdam 1998. So this week at HOMOVISION...

June 30th, 2009 | Rehab | Read More

HOMOVISION REHAB: CHAOS LIVING

This week The Swarmite focuses on REHAB for Gayers. What a thought – even though the concept of a GAY REHAB reminds us of the Christian Right demand that back-door boys and diesel-dykes need rehab into hetero life with conversion therapies. Yes we do need rehabilitation and conversion but without...

June 2nd, 2009 | Highlights, News, Rehab | Read More