Evan Davis: On Drugs

The Independent.

“The gay community has less discipline because it doesn’t have kids to go home to, and slightly more disposable income, and then add to that that when these things catch on they tend to have a momentum.”

“Once gay people start taking drugs, they’ll take more drugs because it’s socially infectious and one person will take them, then another. I just think it’s something gay people have to watch out for.”

Further proof that drugs can do terrible things to the brain - mainly to people who don't take them.

The quotes come from an interview in the current issue of Attitude.

Attitude: Sex

Fagburn sees the new SEX issue of Attitude also features lots of naked dudes in a badly photoshopped STRETCHED nightmare, inc. Chris Mears in his pants. 

One may presume the usually obligatory 'TOWIE hunk Dan Osborne!' was busy.

And 'SEXY Ben Cohen!' was busy counting his money.

Alan Turing: Cryptanalyst With Attitude

One of six Attitude Awards edition covers.
Shame they couldn't find a shirtless pic.
And as David Jørgensen has pointed out, it seems odd Alan Turing is an "icon", while Cher is a "legend".

There's a habit to fetishise and mythologise Turing as the great gay martyr (he may not have committed suicide, and if he did there's no clear link between it and his arrest and treatment, and he was just one of over 16,000 British men convicted for now legal homosexual acts), who broke the Enigma Code (he didn't), single-handedly won the Second World War, and invented the computer (he didn't), but I must confess I like this cover and - oh dear - actually find it rather moving in its understatement. 

I'm sure Alan would have found it all a bit embarrassing though.

PS "First look at Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan Turing in The Imitation Game'!

Update: Hilariously, The Sun covered the Attitude Awards by running photos of some of the famous sexy ladies who turned up.