Summary: Ned the gay zombie has a small feline pet. This is his story…
Disclaimer: Toby Whithouse and the BBC own Being Human. I just set quirky nonprofit fanfiction in it. Incidentally, this takes place in a post S2 AU. Ned the gay zombie and the kitten are my own idea…
Rating: PG. After all, it does have  […]

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It may be amusing to the time-polluted earlier millenia of human existence that the denizens of otherwise liberal 51st Century Earth and its colonies passed legislation against “self-marriage.” To examine this, let’s see what was at stake, and what wasn’t.
Neonarcissism wasn’t about simple manual self-pleasure. Nor was it about archaic anti-cloning prejudices, as clones had […]

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Why is there a sudden burst of enthusiasm amongst some straight women for gay male romantic and erotic fiction? And is it all that sudden?
In Out, Cintra Wilson interviewed “Erastes” and Alex Beecroft, two straight thirtysomething and fortysomething straight British women who write M/M erotic and romantic fiction for Philadelphia’s Running Press. Even Harlequin, that […]

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In Prime’s Survivors, Anya Raczynski (Zoe Tapper) is a young lesbian doctor caught in the middle of an unimaginable tragedy- the end of civilisation as we know it. What does she do in this context?
In the seventies, the original series was set in a post-apocalyptic world after a devastating bacteriological warfare experiment went wrong, broke […]

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Whenever the Christian Right, other social conservatives or fellow travellers get upset with social change, out comes the hackneyed catchphrase “politically correct.”
To be blunt, this is yet another example of related Christian Right or social conservative ‘class warfare.’ It is the product of their inability to develop skilled scientific or medical professionals who could make […]

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 Anne Herendeen: Pride/Prejudice: New York: HarperCollins: 2010.
Anne Herendeen has rung in the changes and reimagined Jane Austen’s classic Pride and Prejudice as ’slash’ fiction. For those unfamiliar with popular culture fandom, this is what happens when two (usually male) same-sex characters discover they’re homoerotically attracted and bonk like bunnies. It began with Star Trek (apparently […]

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In analysing the “Cartergate” news firestorm, many straight journalists were too quick to dismiss questions of professional homophobia. Sorry, I beg to differ.
In saying this, let me clarify that Chris Carter should have apologised far sooner than he did for his ancillary ministerial credit card expenses. I don’t think that his demotion was homophobic in itself, […]

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Lesbians and gay men have different community histories when it comes to sporting prowess. It plays different roles for members of each community.
Given the historic New Zealand-Slovakia draw that progressed us further in the FIFA World Cup recently, I decided to reflect on why lesbians and gay men have such dissimilar trajectories when it comes […]

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The possibility of the next incarnation of the Doctor being female has been mooted as far back as the late 1970s, with the producers and directors refusing to rule out the option, even if they do keep selecting men. Even now, forty years after the beginning of the series, no woman has been cast in […]

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Lymphogranuloma venereum is an unpleasant little STI (sexually transmitted infection), particularly if it becomes an opportunistic infection when one is HIV+. It is a chlamydia virus variant, originally discovered in 1833 and 1913. It enters the body through the lymph glands or anal mucus membrane or cervical cells in the case of women. In 2003, […]

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