1: ‘I Am Furious’

I am furious but I am also trapped here in the car with him as we begin the climb up the Bridge from Curran Street. He is driving. It is a summer afternoon. I am wearing sunglasses. I will not look at him now. I refuse. It is the only act […]

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In the On-Off, Top-Bottom world of the sometimes too-linear gay male psyche, I have always been rather interested in the somewhat anomalous concept of the ‘Power-Bottom’.
But then a number of encounters over the years with Power-Bottoms in positions of influence in our society gradually narrowed my curiosity into suspicion and then, ultimately, hardened it into […]

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My job has been hard of late and so I have been doing serious aromatherapy - at the luxury end of the market.
I have found it quite fascinating how over the last ten years my sense of smell has become important to me. I mean I always knew that I was sensitive to fragrances and […]

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Andy Warhol’s 1964 movie Empire consists of one stationary shot of the Empire State Building taken from the forty-fourth floor of the Time-Life Building. The shot was filmed from 8:06 p.m. to 2:42 a.m. on July 25-26, 1964. The passage from daylight to darkness becomes the film’s narrative, while the protagonist is the iconic building […]

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