Pagan Kennedy: The First Man-Made Man: New York: Bloomsbury: 2008.
As I’ve earlier provided a capsule biography of Michael Dillon, the first recorded female to male transsexual, I thought I’d focus on some more particular details involved in this biography of the world’s first transman.
Michael lived an austere professional life, whether as a mechanic, or after […]

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May 15, Year of Our Lord 2196:
Saint: Anthony Dahl Personal Log:
At long last, our Theocracy of Redeemed America starship  Crusader is drawing closer to our new home, which Saint: Doctor Carlos has christened Oceania. Its primary, AUCHE- 03116BV, is almost an exact duplicate of our own Sun, and Oceania itself has landmasses in roughly the […]

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Thanks to a copy of the 37th Wellington International Film Festival programme, I can report that there are two excellent gay-themed documentaries available on two pioneering gay male figures in the creative arts screening this year.
Celebrated Black British independent film-maker Isaac Julien has produced Derek, a beautiful and lyrical homage to the late Derek Jarman, […]

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Some time ago, I wrote a blog about John Heard, an Australian gay conservative Catholic opposed to civil unions and same-sex marriage, who believes that gay sexual orientation is “objectively disordered” due to his subscription to Catholic Church dogma about its ‘aberrant’ nature. He’s not alone.
John McKellar is a Canadian, who runs an organisation entitled […]

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Why is it that lesbians tend to be much better writers than gay men, with the exception of our own much-beloved Peter Wells and Witi Ihamaera? Case in point: these two spellbinding pieces of work from old and new talents.
Pam Harrison’s House of the Muses: The Latter Days of Sappho of Lesbos (Labyris and Sword […]

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Benzodiazepines are prescription drugs which may have useful effects in dealing with anxiety prevention, treating epileptic seizures, muscle spasms, alcohol withdrawal and insomnia. However, there’s a sting in this tale. Prolonged use can be addictive.
 Librium (the first benzo) was discovered by accident in 1954, and then deliberately again in 1957, when Austrian scientist Leo Sternbach […]

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Armin Meiwes is probably well-known for his infamous cannibalistic consumption of a willing partner, but where did he come from before that?
As Harpers magazine recounted,  Meiwes past doesn’t give away any clues to his later atrocious behaviour.  Unlike gay serial killers Jeffrey Dahmer or Dennis Nilsen, there is no thorough account of his childhood available which […]

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I’m neither HIV+, nor do I particularly like cancer sticks. For one thing, I’ve had a history of respiratory illness myself, and couldn’t go to gay pubs because of the large number of lesbians and gay men doing chimney impersonations. Happily, along came the Clark administration and its anti-smoking legislation, which was intended to protect […]

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When the great movie ‘recasting’ craze hit the Terran Federation’s colonised worlds in 2139-2140, many new cinematic masterpieces were created. Whether Planet of the Homo-Nids classifies as one depends on what your definition of masterpiece is, and in which genre. Historians of erotic entertainment media say that it is, but they keep getting into fights […]

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 On 23rd Century Ganymede, a ’samesexer’ historian reminisces about a sobering incident in his world’s cultural past…
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During the 2130s, the Terran Federation was swept by a series of high-resolution CGI ‘recasts,’ in which one fed a past media product into a large capacity narrative augementation artificial-intelligence, leading to several consequences.
Some of the results were works […]

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