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Victorian Morality

In January, Dublin City Council unanimously approved the motion “As a gesture to all of those who suffered as a result of clerical abuse, this council agrees to change the name of Archbishop Ryan Park, Merrion Square, and that this be done by inviting Dubliners to submit their ideas on an appropriate name for the [...]

Bootboy: No Romance

Brian Finnegan, editor of Gay Community News, in his March editorial, blasts journalist Dónal Lynch of the Sunday Independent for an article he wrote about gay men who are single. I’ve had my problems with Lynch and the Sindo in the past, but I found myself impressed with his piece, for it was naming [...]

Bootboy: The Economics of Sex

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 [...]

Bootboy: Modesty

The film started with a man with a black beard in a blonde wig, a basque and fishnet tights, lip-syncing onstage to a strangulated falsetto version of The Star Spangled Banner. He slowly bent over, and with a latex-gloved hand, reached inside his butt-crack and gingerly teased out the American flag from his evidently roomy [...]

Simon Fanshawe: Why do so many gay men continue to behave like teenagers?

Simon Fanshawe in today’s Guardian writes about a forthcoming BBC3 documentary he’s made. He talks about the London gay scene, in which I spent 12 long years.
“…we have to grow out of our teenage years of sex and drugs and mocking the old, and embrace a future of fidelity and responsibility.”
I am not convinced that [...]

Re: Aren’t Ex-Gays Really Ex-Sex Addicts?

Fastlad wrote:
In every “ex-gay” thread I’ve read to date the men who become “ex-gays” first live lives of utterly extreme sexual addiction; not to say drug addled erotomania; until eventually they repent of their spectacularly dysfunctional ways and embrace Christ.
Well, if those are your two choices, no wonder, really.
But even then their gay orientation [...]