John Barrowman: No Camp!

Sadly this is a story about Scottish independence.

Russell Tovey: Terrifying Thought For The Day

“In Looking there’s no massive campery, there’s no one dying of Aids, it’s all very normal which is automatically fascinating because in art the gay guy is always the funny loner… or a murderer. At this period in history in Western civilisation we gays are allowed to get married, allowed to have kids… we’ve never had to grow up before, but now you can.”

Russell Tovey interviewed in The Independent On Sunday.

GT: Let's Get Nekkid Again!

Oh wow, you've done another NAKED issue!
Well, it's been literally weeks since the last one...

PS No real person has used the word 'hunk' since 1957.

Update: The next Attitude is also a Naked Issue featuring hunky TOWIE star Dan Osborne!
Decisions, decisions...

This is his moment...

Russia: Take That Putin!

The over-educated idiots have won!

This is what now passes for political debate...

Well done, students!

Queer Nation NY: USA! USA! USA!

The gay right wants big business to play nice.
Uh-huh.
Because capital is all and your only power is as a consumer.
Richard Fairbrass and Peter Tatchell were flown out to that "protest" by noted right-wing anti-semite Nikolay Alexeyev - all expenses paid by his super rich boyfriend.
He knew what would happen, and they were just useful idiots.
That okay with you?

Funny how Queer Nation NY don't give a fuck about anything bad happening in their own queer nation or New York.

And James Kirchick.
Michael Lucas.
Gaypatriot.
Americablog.

Right-wing gay cunts.

Maybe there's another rather sinister political agenda going on here...

Tom Daley: Just Because

Dustin, he's just not that into you.
*sadface*

Thanks to Poofnose From Essex. x

More Gifs from the Tom and Dan Splash! show!

Boy George: Thought For The Day

"The Who did a massive concert at Charlton football ground with 73,000 people in 1974, and Lou Reed was on the bill. I was 12 and was told emphatically [by my parents]: "You must not go." I went, obviously, and arrived as Lou Reed was about to come on stage. I was just amazed. After hearing Transformer, I went back to listen to the Velvet Underground and became a fan of everything Lou Reed had done. 
But Transformer was a great record. If you think about the music of the time, it was completely out of sync with everything else. It was vaudevillian, with songs like New York Telephone Conversation and Make Up – very much later on I discovered Tom Waits and all of that sound – but it was a sort of weird, druggy, theatrical, marching-bands-on-valium sound. I've also chosen it because of the lyrics – particularly Walk on the Wild Side, it has such a great narrative. 
When you're a kid and you know you're gay, and you hear Bowie singing "a cop knelt and kissed the feet of a priest, and a queer threw up at the sight of that", and then you hear Walk on the Wild Side, you know there's hope – you know you're not the only one that has these weird thoughts."

The Observer - Soundtrack of my life

Wonderful!

The Independent: Beyond A Joke...

The Independent On Sunday.

So you got a press release from some corporate "feel good" crooks and asked well-known fresh handmade cosmetics expert Peter Tatchell what he thought...

How very interesting!

Can you not tell the difference between protest and PR?

My brain is hanging upside down.

Dylan & Jack: The New Julian & Sandy

London-based twenty-something journalists Dylan B Jones and Jack Cullen launch the pilot of their podcast 'Dylan & Jack', discussing the ins and outs of London's gay scene, the media circuit, Soho's underworld and other LGBT and urbane issues.

Follow the pair on Twitter: @DylanBJones / @JackCullenUK

In this episode: "Who To Have On The Show?", "Who Are We?", "Hollister", "Heaven on a Monday", "The Daily Mail and Kate Moss", "Ru Paul's Drag Race".

Plus each episode's regular haunts: Dispositions, competitions, questionable advice, interrogative chit chat and state of the art bitching.

Please listen. 

Hilarious.

Queens rool!

Peter Tatchell: Attention Journalists!

Remember, if you are writing an article about The Gays you must include a quote from Saint Peter.
Remember Peter is an expert on...

Iran - no lies there.
Hip-Hop.
Sport.
Toilets.
Islam.
Gay life in Africa.
Russia.
Classical music conductors who aren't homophobic.
Anything in the entire world.
Even something he actually knows bum all about.
Peter Tatchell.
Peter Tatchell.
Peter Tatchell.

• Because being Peter Tatchell means never having to say to a journalist; "You know there are other gay people far better qualified to comment on this..."

Pink News: The Gay Cake-Toppers Rise Again

You do know photos of actual gay couples exist?

PS Edit your stories. We don't need the re-cap of everything that ever happened at the end.

John Cooper Clarke: Happy Birthday!

Each drop of blood a rose shall be
all sorrow shall be dust
blown by breezes to the sea
whose fingers thrust
into the corners of restless night
where creatures of the deep
avoid the flashing harbour lights
in search of endless sleep
there were executions
somebody had to pay
apart from the revolution
it's another working day

a million angels sing
peasants eating cake
wedding bells are ringing
the room begins to shake
the children free from measles all
have healthy teeth and gums
they live in the cathedrals
and worship in the slums
poverty and pollution
have all swept away
apart from the revolution
it's another working day.

John Cooper Clarke is 65 today!
A cooler man has never lived.

Here he is... Ten Years In An Open-Necked Shirt!

David Hockney: Your Actual Gay Art

Despite his admiration for Cavafy, Hockney found his poems "slightly old-fashioned. They never describe sex." In his etching to the poem above he removes the shame and depicts the young man lying back contentedly, arms folded behind his head, with his penis (the key body part unmentioned in the poem) frankly exposed. Attitudes had changed in the 40 years since the poem was first published. Even so, had Hockney's etching appeared any earlier, he would have been liable to prosecution: it was only in 1967 that homosexuality in Britain was finally decriminalised.

Blake Morrison on David Hockney about people who write books and that in the Guardian today.
Oh yes!

Brilliantly, The Guardian don't show you the actual etching, In An Old Book, referred to.

Grayson Perry: CBE!

Obviously Fagburn doesn't believe in such pointless baubles, but fuck yeah!

Stonewall: Cheers Ben!

Goodbye and thank you.
A far more radical figure than you may imagine, Ben is one of the good guys.
The House Of Lords awaits?

PS  Will the divine feud between Stonewall and Pink News now end?
Asking for a friend.

As to his potential successor... Anyone but Simon Fanshawe.

Twitter: Jailed!

This country is fucked to buggery.

We must make an example of you, We must make an example of you, we must make an example of you, we must make an example of you, we must make an example of you, we must make an example of you, we must make an example of you...

Gay Star News: Aren't Black People Funny? (Part Of A Series)

Gay Star News.

GSN. You. Are. Beyond. Shit. Please. Close. Down. FORTHWITH!

Christian Jessen: Embarrassing

The ever hopeless Independent.

Klaus Nomi: 70

x

The Guardian: Oh Do Shut Up!

What does "post-gay" even fucking mean?
No more ridiculous articles written by posh straight people telling The Gays how it is, pls.

PS Hilarious piece in The Guardian Guide by Issy Sampson, however. I rocked with mirth.

BBC News: Crap

It started off as a simple trip to the bathroom - but BBC correspondent Steve Rosenberg's photo of two toilets side-by-side at Sochi's Winter Olympics site, has become famous on Twitter in Russia and beyond.

When I went to spend a penny last week in the Caucasus mountains, little did I know that I would learn so much about Russia from one trip to the toilet.

The cubicle in question was inside the Laura Cross Country Skiing and Biathlon Centre - brand new, and built, of course, for next month's Sochi winter games. I tracked down the Gents' and went in. It was pretty much as you'd expect things to be, really, in a little WC. There was a sink, some paper towels, but oddly enough there were two toilets where you'd expect just one - full sized lavatories, they were, side by side - and no partition down the middle...

BBC News.

The inane have conquered the world.

Tom Daley: What's Not Wrong With This Picture?

Evgeny Lebedev: Apologies

I wish to apologise for my previous post which may have suggested Evgeny Lebedev is a big ole gay.
Nothing could be further from my mind.

Daily Mail: Cause The Daily Mail Really Cares About Queers

Well said Sir Elton!

Even if Johann Harris wrote it for you.

Though saying "he said 'some of my best friends are..." is now a bigger Patrick Smugtwit/Owen Jones cliché than saying "some of my best friends are..."

Brighton: Pink Sunshine

Brighton should appear on the shipping forecast every morning thanks to its sunny weather, the Prime Minister has said, as he mocked a Ukip councillor who blamed storms on gay marriage.

David Cameron taunted David Silvester, a Ukip councillor who said Britain had been “beset by storms” since the passing of new laws on gay marriage, saying Brighton, which has a large gay community, has a “superb microclimate”.

Simon Kirby, Conservative MP for Brighton Kemptown, said: "I am incredibly proud to represent a large gay community in my constituency. Would you agree with me that despite the views of some that the weather in Brighton is nearly always very sunny?"

Mr Cameron replied: "You are quite right - Brighton does have this superb microclimate that people should be encouraged to take advantage of.

"You stand up for all your constituents with great vim and vigour and I think in reward it would only be fair if Brighton Kemptown was actually put in place on the shipping forecast somewhere between Dover and Wight. I think we should get a reflection of this every morning."

Telegraph.

Simon Kirby is Fagburn's MP.

Kirby is a former anarchist and now a Tory, I wish him dead - and he never replies to my emails.