bootboysThis was published in Hot Press in November 2009. David Norris was kind enough to quote from it on RTÉ’s The View recently.
There is a paradox about the creative process that I’m wrestling with now. Well, now more than ever. Mid-life, adolescence, it’s all the same really. What am I here for/What’s the point? You [...]
This was written for Hot Press 19th September 2009. Before the reality of a successful long-term loving relationship between two men hit the headlines in the saddest way possible, when Stephen Gately died.
In the push for equality, as epitomized by the campaign for civil marriage for lesbian and gay people, I have been unequivocal [...]
There’s an important play in the Dublin Theatre Festival, Gina Moxley’s The Crumb Trail, by Pan Pan Theatre Company. I hope you get to see it. I’m such a fan of the company that I was asked to write the programme note, which was a pleasure. While writing it, I had to reflect on the [...]
I’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 [...]
I’ve been sitting all day at this bloody computer screen thinking of something new to say in this Valentine’s day issue of Hot Press, and all I can hear is the sound of my brain cells collectively refusing to consider the topic, putting their fingers in their ears and going “ner ner ner” loudly. I’ve [...]
Did you hear about the man with AIDS, who then got leukemia? You’d think it would be curtains for him. The end of the road, the final twist of the knife, death coming a’knocking. Enough torment already, thanks very much, the trials of Job are nothing compared to the final straw on that spancelled camel’s [...]
Time to celebrate two peerless books that have been published recently, instant classics both. They mark a coming of age of Irish gay identity in two very important, but different respects.
Homosexuality in Irish History: Terrible Queer Creatures by Brian Lacey is that rare beast: an instantly indispensable tome. A simply written, thorough and thoughtful book, [...]
The recent Irish Times/Behaviour Attitudes Men Today poll* makes for interesting reading. 30% of us are single, it appears, about half a million of us. 12% of us who are married or in long-term relationships have admitted to having had extra-curricular affairs, (nearly one in five of those under 25) and I imagine that the [...]
I’m easy to please. Put me in a few fields with over 30,000 happy people and I soak up the atmosphere until I’m giddy. A pill-less e-zone. Put a camera in my hands, however, and I’m lethal. The act of observation changes that which is being observed; but it also changes this observer.
There is an [...]
Interesting
