gendersI’ve not been posting my Bootboy articles here ever since the Cathal Ó Searcaigh interview. The vitriol I would face if I posted it here put me off. (See here). Then, I got out of the habit.
Here’s one written for Hot Press on 21st August 2009, just after Caster Semenya won her gold medal, and [...]
John Barrowman, the song and dance man who shot to fame as bisexual matinee idol Captain Jack in Doctor Who and Torchwood, took part in a recent BBC documentary The Making of Me, in which he bravely allowed himself to explore the scientific origins of his sexuality. The trouble with research into homosexuality is that [...]
Jay Brannan’s first album “goddamned” is out this week, and is a must-download. He financed it himself – he is one of the growing number of singer/songwriters who are managing to start their careers with money earned from tracks released on iTunes and CDBaby and Napster, and whose reputation spread on MySpace, Facebook and, in [...]
Writer Richard Beard had a friend, Dru, with whom he used to go hill-walking and camping every year: an engineer on a ferry, a motorbiker, a real ale drinker. They did ‘manly’, outdoorsy things together, away from their wives and girlfriends and children. One day in 2001, Dru, then 43 years old, turned up wearing [...]
New Yorker Taylor Mac played on Sunday at the Project, a benefit for Belong2, in a wonderfully life-affirming performance art piece – or, as he would describe it, a play. This was entertainment using play in all its meanings: child’s play, theatrical play, sex play, wordplay. Highly intelligent and fluidly articulate, musically gifted and haunting, [...]
Brian Merriman, artistic director of the Dublin Gay Theatre Festival, introduced Who Does She Think She Is? as one of the most radical productions on offer in the festival: the first transgender musical in Ireland. It was a one-off show, on in the back of the Front Lounge, free to all, and done in the [...]
I went to see Alternative Miss Ireland for the first time, its 20th anniversary, at the Olympia. As it was all for charidee it’s not fair to criticize it, and indeed there’s not much to criticize when the event has no pretensions to quality. But I did laugh a lot, the four hour show was [...]
I hate to break it to you guys, but most of the evidence, historical, anthropological and sexological, suggests that if anything, male ‘bisexuality’ – it’s a terrible word, but it will have to do for now – is much more common than the female variety.
Mark Simpson, on top form, telling it like it is. When [...]
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