And here’s yet another short story from my Decima series, set in a near futureworld where the world’s human population has been killed off by a devastating plague- to which only the gay gene confers immunity…
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Den Richardson doubled over as the next spasm hit him. He gritted his teeth as the wave of pain coursed […]

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Gypsy Rose Lee: The G-String Murders: New York: Feminist Press; 2003.
Robert Kirby and David Kelly: The Book of Boy Trouble: San Francisco: Green Candy Press: 2005.
This time, I have two reviews apiece, one for each gender.
In 1995, two young alternative gay men stapled together a zine called Boy Trouble,  intended to deal with the lives […]

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I realise that there was an apparent omission from my earlier descriptions of LGBT fare at the latest Wellington International Film Festival, although I think this one is so fabulous that it deserves a seperate entry of its own, in any case.
Warwick Broadhead is a performance artist, currently settled on Waiheke Island, and noted for […]

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 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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