On election night, I’d managed to win two free tickets to PN’s Centrepoint Theatre, and its side-splittingly funny production, The Mystery of Irma Vep. I haven’t laughed so hard in ages…
Poor Lady Enid Hillcrest is in a pretty pickle. It’s not just her servants, the scrofulous stableboy Nicodemus, or the sniffy ladies maid, Jane Twisen. […]

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I thought things were getting too heavy on the blogsite, so I decided to head off into the future of my XLGBT short story once more. In CE 2209, the Oortwomen are holding a referendum about whether or not to allow vanilla females into their leathery domain…
Report: Vanilla on Ice: The Oortwomen Citizenship Referenda, CE […]

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After the failure of Shock Treatment (1981), The Rocky Horror Picture Show’s only filmed sequel to date, there seemed no point in making the final film in what would have been  a projected trilogy of films.
For those who haven’t seen Shock Treatment, here’s a recap of what went on. Most of the movie occurs in […]

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No! Oh, The Gay Bed and Breakfast of Terror is just tooooooooo horrible!
You see, Helen (Mari Marks) and Luella (Georgia Jean) are just another badly dressed fundamentalist mother and daughter duo who happen to bake suspiciously pork-flavoured (…) Mincemeat muffins and run a slightly Bates Motelesque Bed and Breakfast Inn, the Sahara Salvation Inn. Or are they?
Slightly before the […]

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It’s odd that Australia and New Zealand express their relative social liberalism in such different ways. In Australia’s State of Victoria, its State Parliament has just decriminalised abortion altogether- whereas here, it’s LGBT reform that has been ascendant. So, why are our respective countries different?
In Australia, there is no federal constraint on abortion access. Most […]

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In this month’s UK Gay Times, Tim Teeman has an amusing piece on the ’self-help’ industry, that form of personalised psychotherapy that tries to teach you to assert yourself in order to become healthy, wealthy, better educated and in possession of better social skills.
Teeman argues that all this relentless self-improvement is not good for broader […]

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I suspect that this is going to be the last evening off that I have this side of election eve, so I thought I’d contribute something a little more light-hearted- namely, a tribute to kitsch film director Larry Buchanan.
Fortuitously enough, I was lucky to find a filmography of this lost cinematic figure, written by US […]

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Joanne Passett: Sex Variant Woman: The Life of Jeanette Foster Howard: Philadelphia: Da Capo Press: 2008.
Jeanette Foster Howard (1895-1981) was one of the foremothers of twentieth century lesbian-feminism, effectively bridging the era of women’s suffrage with second-wave feminism and the emergence of lesbian and gay rights politics.
In this book, biographer Passett tells us about the […]

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One of the most loathsome things about Star Wars: The Phantom Menace was the intensely irritating Jar Jar Binks, the badly dressed stupid alien who seems to have only been put there for fundamentalist Christians to have someone to identify with.
Something similar may well have happened in the latest installment of the series, Star Wars: […]

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 Dale Lazarov and Amy Colburn: Manly: Berlin: Bruno Guemunder: 2008:
What’s French for yum, yum, I want one? Bruno Guemunder is noted for its lavish high-quality, expensive homoerotica, and Dale Lazarov and Amy Colburn have excelled themselves with the tantalising Manly.  According to the preview below, it’s about to materialise on Amazon, and the sample art […]

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