SYMPHONIC VARIATIONS ON A GRUMPY THEME.
Out-take from upstart Vol. 9 No. 4 (1997) Agitato con fuoco The Daily Torygraph … [Read More...]
GIFTED BY OTHERNESS?
Disclosures (Ed.) Michael Ford DartonLongman+Todd ISBN 0-232-52561-7 This is a series … [Read More...]
Gay Times 250
Out-take upstart March 2000 Gay Times 250 One of the positive things about this … [Read More...]
MILD BOYS IN MITTELEUROPA
Private Moments Bel Ami by Howard Roffman Bruno Gmünder ISBN 9 783867 870375 This is what used to be called a 'coffee table' book - they tend to be 'art' books or big fat books about graphics, dance, the cinema and such like. This one contains a couple of hundred pages of photographs … [Read More...]
NAKED BOY CHRISTIANS IN CALIFORNIA
Rock Haven Morning View Films David Lewis (Director) This video is quite long, but could have been much shorter. This is not a sneer, the story is simple, boy meets boy, boy falls in love with boy. Brady (Sean Hoagland) is a Christian. The chapel he attends looks like a fundamentalist … [Read More...]
War and the pity of wa
In 'War and the pity of war' (Gdn., film&music, Fri., 23.09.11) Ian Bostridge makes two implicitly political points in his article on Britten's War Requiem. One is to the effect that Benjamin Britten's visit to Bergen-Belsen in 1945 called into question his pacifism. "How could...[he] … [Read More...]
GoD
God wish were I a poet Then would I sing the stars My every thought formed golden My farts canned dear in jars I'd be pompous I'd be stuffy I'd bask aglow in my littered lane I'd be wicked on how I'd suffer I'd sigh whisper curse and blame Locked doors my way would open Charms my way befall My … [Read More...]
THE BILL: One of Them
(Broadcast on ITV network on 16 March 1994 8.00-8.30 pm) I was lucky to see this episode of The Bill on its original televising - and I have to admit that it was very thought provoking. Provoking enough for me to ask Thames Television for a viewing copy... The second viewing enabled me to put my … [Read More...]
Gay Times 250
Out-take upstart March 2000 Gay Times 250 One of the positive things about this exercise in masturbatory self-reference were the articles by / about other 25 year olds. The most vigorous and up-beat being that on Mervyn Boyd from mid-Antrim. It was interestingly off-centre to … [Read More...]
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It’s Time
A pro-marriage equality video by Australian action group GetUp has become a Youtube sensation since its release before the weekend, racking up 1.6 million views over four days. The film, entitled It’s Time, charts a relationship from first meeting to engagement, and is shot from the point of view of one character, who strikes up conversation with a man called Paul. After the short follows the characters through first meetings with … [Read More...]
War and the pity of wa
In 'War and the pity of war' (Gdn., film&music, Fri., 23.09.11) Ian Bostridge makes two implicitly political points in his article on Britten's War Requiem. One is to the effect that Benjamin Britten's visit to Bergen-Belsen in 1945 called into question his pacifism. "How could...[he] not experience doubt in the face of his own abdication from the great tragedy and endeavour of the age?" This appears to imply that the WW2 was … [Read More...]
A Vision in Kensington
AISLING London Irish Symphony Orchestra Seán Ó Riada (et alia) £10.00* AISLING ON THIS CD is extremely short (2' 12.31"). It is Nino Rota[ish] in sound and very tuneful. Aisling means (more or less) 'vision'. It was the opening word of many Jacobite (Stuart-loyalist) verses in … [Read More...]
MILD BOYS IN MITTELEUROPA
Private Moments Bel Ami by Howard Roffman Bruno Gmünder ISBN 9 783867 870375 This is what used to be called a 'coffee table' book - they tend to be 'art' books or big fat books about graphics, dance, the cinema and such like. This one contains a couple of hundred pages of photographs of young men (mostly, probably, in their teens) naked. Or at least not overdressed. The 'private moments' include doubles, trebles and … [Read More...]
PALE PINK PERSONALITY CULT
QUEER Simon Gage Lisa Richards Howard Wilmot Thunder's Mouth Press distributed by Publishing Group West ISBN 1-56025-377-0 This big chunky 'coffee table' book is authored by three Brits, and published in the US of A. That's about as cosmopolitan as it gets. It is very colourful, but reads more like a collection of articles from the airhead end of queer journalism. Gay News is described as "hokey and… worthy" which is … [Read More...]