Right, I decided that the blog was getting far too serious and heavy, so I’ve decided to write something cheerier instead, like yet another article on gay zombies.
In the UK Gay Times, there’s an interview with Canadian gay film-maker Bruce La Bruce, maker of naughty arthouse/erotic film hybrids, and currently involved with making his latest, […]

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Given that Pakistan is a conservative Islamist state, it may seem a misnomer to discuss the existence of LGBT Pakistanis, but their history can best be understood through reminding oneself of the sad plight of their tragic homeland.
 Like much else in the battered nation, it is affected by Pakistan’s raison d’etre as an explicitly Islamic […]

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It’s often a staple of New Zealand constitutional law text that we should be concerned at just how fragile our human rights and civil liberties are, and what might happen to them if there were ever a government determined to suppress them. UK Gay Times gave me this idea about one disturbing possible political future […]

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According to Patrick Strudwick in Arena, a UK ladsmag, the metrosexual has vanished, long live the SMEG!
What are SMEGS? They’re straight men who envy what gay men used to be before we started envying straight male access to spousal and family rights and responsibilities, and one  suspects it to be the flipside of our movement toward […]

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For a change, I thought I’d review a conservative Catholic diatribe against same-sex marriage instead of a fundamentalist Protestant one. Dale O’Leary is one of those conservative Catholic opponents of feminism and LGBT rights that one tends to find in the United States.
I can’t envisage it getting much distribution within New Zealand, due to the […]

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Welcome back to the future fictional world of the Decima Plague, where only possession of gay gene immunity led to one’s survival.
—————————————————————————————–Why are the streetlights still on? Why are there still ambulances taking the dead and dying away, unless. No. Oh, no, it’s the Conspiracy! It must be. Some New World Order mandarin has given […]

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Japan has a rich and flourishing history of male homoerotic art and literature, albeit a currently neglected one. Catholic Jesuit homophobia offended many daimyo (members of the nobility) and samurai when the former Christian missionaries first made contact in the sixteenth century, which contributed to the Shogunate military viceroyalty’s decision to outlaw such religious proselytisation […]

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British Christian Right activist Stephen Green is in the news again. Not content with haranguing the BBC over its broadcast of Jerry Springer- The Opera, Green has compared former UK Steps pop star Ian H Watkins to the serial killer, Jeffrey Dahmer.
Green believes that Watkins’ gay sexuality made him no better than the aforementioned psychopath […]

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We usually view the Italian Renaissance as a period of humanist scholarship, artistic achievement and scientific advance. So why were so many gay Venetian men burnt at the stake during this period?
 During the fourteenth century, Venice appointed the Signiori di Notte (Lords of the Night) to have jurisdiction over ’sodomy,’ and fourteen men were burnt […]

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In New South Wales and Queensland, the defeated Liberal and National coalition parties face major reconstruction obstacles as they try to rebuild and take power back from a resurgent Australian Labor Party, now in control of all Australian federal and state governments, as well as municipal controls of large Australian cities, save for Brisbane.
In the […]

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