gaydarsDarkroom by Gentle Giant Theatre Company is a strange beast. Brought to see it by a friend, I only knew what I read in the Fringe Festival programme:
DC and Marvel superheroes and supervillains face extinction. The Anarchic Invincibility Deficiency Syndrome unmasks masked idols and Supermen fade to grey. When the world falls darker than Joker’s [...]
Ever since I first discovered the vast nocturnal sexual playground of Hampstead Heath in London about twenty years ago, with the chip van doing a roaring trade outside and cheery volunteers handing out condoms to the cruising hordes, and realised the extent to which we can conspire to give each other pleasure wherever we possibly [...]
I’ve decided to publish my formal complaint to Stephen Rea, editor of the Evening Herald, here, further to this blog post and this article about the story. The offending article, by Cormac Looney, is here.
My email two weeks ago to the Herald, with the subject line “Complaint to the editor about front page story [...]
I read in today’s Evening Herald (not available online) that “sources have revealed” that charges are going to be made against “at least” one man, a married scout leader, for having sex with a 14-year-old in the story that broke four months ago, which I wrote about in the 14-year-old on Gaydar. Despite reports at [...]
It’s not often that you get a guarantee that you will get your money back if you don’t laugh in a show, as John Pickering of the Dublin Gay Theatre Festival promised us, when he introduced The Gaydar Diaries to a full house on the opening night of the festival last night.The show premiered at [...]
I’m looking forward to being in Dublin in May for the first time since the annual International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival started in 2004. There are some plays in the programme I have high hopes for.
Of particular interest to me will be Jack, The Lad, a rent boy’s journey of self-discovery, Dream Man which is [...]
A poem written and performed for “Love Poetry Hate Racism” at Crawdaddy Dublin on 22nd April 2007. I had a cold so it sounds a bit gravelly but it kinda suits it.
Listen:
(Not to mislead anyone: this isn’t a poem about racism, it’s an explicit, robust, no-holds-barred 8-minute long queer performance piece.)
I’m taking a plunge and reading a poem of mine, “The Soft Dick and the Gaydar Profile” next Sunday at Crawdaddy at the “Love Poetry Hate Racism” gig. 8pm. Be there or be square.
Trying to piece together what really happened in the case of the 14 year old who had sex with men he met from the internet is an impossible task at the moment, and the full story will only become clear when the case goes to trial. Media reports have been wildly conflicting and sensationalised. At [...]
A lot of people search the web for information about Roger Casement, and some of them end up here on my blog to read about my finding a 1993 BBC Radio 4 documentary on him, to listen to it, and to read the Bootboy article I wrote about hearing it. So I thought I’d add [...]
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