Articles tagged Random Thoughts:
My Predictions for 2016 - How Did I Do?
- 24 Dec 2016
In 2015 I got 8 out of my 10 predictions right. Seeing as 2016 turned out to be the year of the unexpected, I don’t think I’ve done quite as well. Here were my predictions for 2016, made on 31 December 2015… The EU Referendum will be held in July. WRONG (but only by 7...
Attitude Column: Why Do Gay People Think That Old Age Is For Other People?
- 22 Dec 2015
I don’t know how many men over the age of seventy read this magazine, but what I do know is that the twenty somethings who read it will have given very little thought to what happens when they get old. In ‘gayworld’, old age is a faraway place which merits very little thought....
Attitude Column: Why Nightclubs Are Closing
- 20 Sep 2015
I’ve never been a great frequenter of bars or nightclubs, gay or otherwise. I don’t know what it is about nightclubs but I can’t actually think of a visit to one I have enjoyed. Don’t get me wrong, I like to strut my funky stuff (oh yeah) with the best of them, but spending an...
Attitude Column: Why Do We Have to Be Labelled?
- 20 Jul 2015
What’s in a name? Who do we all have to have a label? We’re all individuals, aren’t we? I’ve just been reading about the new acronym that is supposed to replace LGBT. Apparently we’re now all supposed to say LGBTIQ, or even – wait for it – LGBTIQQAA. Nope, me neither. For the...
Attitude Column: What If a Footballer Came Out?
- 5 May 2015
He hadn’t told anyone. Not even his agent. It was going to be done on his own terms. Adam Ranger hadn’t told his mother what he was about to do, and he especially hadn’t told his gossipy sister. They would all find out like the rest of the country. Had he told any one of them,...
Attitude Column: What's Wrong With a Bit of Gratuitous Nudity?
- 15 Feb 2015
We British have a very strange attitude to the human body and showing it in public. I’ve never quite understood why. Perhaps it’s an innate puritanism that runs through our society, alongside a rather quaint hankering after Victorian times where a woman exposing a bare ankle w...
Attitude Column: In Praise (And Criticism) Of Peter Tatchell
- 15 Nov 2014
Seeing as this is Attitude’s Awards issue, let me award my very own Lifetime Achievement Award for service to Gays. And the winner is…. Cue drumroll…. Peter Tatchell. That surprised you, didn’t it? I have a tremendous admiration for Peter and all that he has achieved since he...
Attitude Column: Gay Men Have It Easy Compared to Lesbians
- 5 Oct 2014
Even in 2014 gay men in Britain still suffer discrimination and insults. It happens more rarely nowadays but there’s little doubt that there are still people around who believe homosexuals should expect to be treated badly because of our ‘perverted’ lifestyle. But gay men hav...
Attitude Column: What's So Wrong With Porn?
- 2 Jun 2014
Let me pose a question to you. If straight men enjoy watching lesbian porn, is it not reasonable to assume that straight women enjoy watching gay men go at it on their BluRay screens? You’d think so, wouldn’t you? But try as I might among my female friends and workmates I can’...
I Never Thought I Would Be a Second Hand Car Dealer...
- 1 Jun 2014
‘Ere, John, got a new motor? Well, since you ask, I do have one for sale, or rather my partner does. Check out the details on Ebay or Autotrader. It’s a rather magnificent Mercedes ML350 4×4. It’s very competitively priced and available for sale right now. It’s a 2011 model on...