We’ve just missed celebrating National Redhead Day which may mean that this year we will lose our ‘rutiluphilia‘ memberships. (To save you from reaching for your Merriam-Webster, we can share that this is the description of someone who has a fetish of redheads.) But we are now celebrating the return of the … Continue reading
David Pevsner’s book Damn Shame – A Memoir of Desire, Defiance and Show Tunes is exactly that. We join him on a conversational romp through New York and LA’s theatrical, gay sex and activism worlds from the 1980s to the present day. Born in 1958 into a middle-class Jewish family in suburban Chicago, Pevsner grew … Continue reading
What is Kanamara Matsuri – commonly referred to as the “Steel Penis Festival”? (REPRINTED FROM EURONEWS) Every spring, thousands of tourists flock to Kawasaki, Japan, to celebrate one thing – the penis. Yes, blessed is the male member during Kanamara Matsuri – commonly referred to as the “Steel Penis Festival” – which is an annual … Continue reading
A Hard Man Is Good To Find! is a great new exhibition on at The Photographers Gallery, London, documenting queer male photography in London during the twentieth century. Such photography doesn’t actually exist in the public realm in great quantities, partly because it was illegal under the Obscene Publications Act 1857, and … Continue reading
The day after Thanksgiving when most of the USA are cursing themselves for overeating an excessive turkey dinner and being quite a pig, it takes on a whole different meaning in Fort Lauderdale. For this is the day the Annual Pig Week starts in earnest, for which gay men who enjoy a bit of … Continue reading