Gay Spies: The Good Old Days

In 1963 the Sunday Mirror offered its assistance to the Security Service.

"How to spot a possible homo," ran a headline in the paper. Below this, for MI5's benefit, was a list of supposed signifiers of male homosexuality ("a gay little wiggle", "his tie has the latest knot", "an unnaturally strong affection for his mother").

The pretext for this unsolicited advice - which now seems clearly offensive - was the case of John Vassall, a gay civil servant who spied for the Soviets under threat of blackmail. A gay man, the paper's reporter said, was a de facto security risk: "I wouldn't trust him with my secrets." ...

A great article on BBC News Magazine by Jon Kelly - in response to MI5 being named Stonewall's most gay-friendly employer.

From the Cambridge Spies to London Spy, all the old gang are here.

Fagburn: Back

Sorry, been away as not happy about... stuff.

Been posting tings under relevant dates below..

Thanks to all who asked how I is.

If they could get through the seige of Leningrad, I can get through these trifles.

x

Pride London: Ban This Filth!

Pink News.

Why ban anyone else when Pride London is now run by gay tories?

Pink News also has an obsession with Ukip, maybe to pretend they're not that right-wing.

Demonise the extremes, to butress the centre-right staus quo...

Queerty: Writing Rubbish For a Living

Straight guys, finding a bro-job has never been easier thanks to BRO, a social networking app that caters to heteroflexible dudes seeking bromances… and other things.

“BRO goes beyond using labels, and is for men that are interested in meeting other men,” the description reads. “It’s as simple as that. Just sign up, and start looking for new bros!”

The app allows users to search for potential bros, chat, mark their favorites, and even “Fistbump” one another...

Jane Ward, whose bestselling [sic!] book Not Gay: Sex Between Straight White Men caused a media frenzy [sic!!] last summer, says BRO further supports her theory that straight-identifying men engage in homosexual behaviors a lot more often than people might think...

Aww, Queerty got another press release from someone trying to sell a nonsensical book!*

Jane Ward is a complete fucking fraud.

But yeah, that's right boys, all straight men are really secretly gagging for it.

Why let dull old facts get in the way of your fantasy?

(Wonder if this will last as long as the Every Girl Needs A Gay app)

PS When Fagburn started it was partly inspired by the way Queerty could talk about (gay) politics in a funny, non-boring way, now it's just too crass for words.

* She did email the US gay media about this, offering interviews to push her silly book!

Poppers: Blunt

Conservative MP Crispin Blunt, a former prisons minister, says he is a user of the popper recreational drug and that a proposed ban on its supply would be "fantastically stupid".
 

Respect for the law among users would "go out of the window" if there was a ban, he told MPs during a debate on the government's Psychoactive Substances Bill.

BBC News.

Legalise all drugs, not just the ones that help old gay Tories get bumfucked.

Everyone should be soveriegn over their own body!

But how refreshing for a Tory politician to be candid about liking sex and drugs.

PS Will Attitude be publishing a multi-page exposé of this chemsex menace????

Will Smith: "Is Gay"

The Voice.

LOL!

Tom Daley: Yeah, Whatever

Won't last.

Brighton College: School Polyform

 

A top independent school has scrapped its uniform code in order to accommodate boys who identify as girls outside school and vice versa, breaking with hundreds of years of tradition.

Brighton College said it was “reacting to a changing society which recognises that some children have gender dysphoria and do not wish to lose their emotional gender identities at school”.

“Public schools are usually seen as bastions of conservatism but Brighton College feels it is time to break ranks,” the school said.

Richard Cairns, the headmaster, told students this week that uniform codes going back 170 years will be replaced by a “trouser uniform” and a “skirt uniform” for all pupils up to the age of 16.

The Daily Telegraph.

LOL!

Now scrap school uniforms... and public schools!

PS Richard Cairns is great at these publicity stunts, my fave was him saying Tom Daley could have a free scholarship.

Gay Star Loves: Vaginas

Gay Star News.

Odd that it's only the gay media and the trashiest of tabloids that think these homophobic and misogynist videos are in any way funny.

Here's the Daily Star, the Daily Mail and The Sun.

Ben Cohen: Where's Ben?

Probably counting all the money he's made from the Ben Cohen Foundation and having a wank.

David Litvinoff: Between Scenes

Sometime in the early 1960s, a man called David Litvinoff awoke to find himself bloody and bruised, his head shaved, tied tightly to a chair that was hanging from the railings of his balcony high above Kensington High Street in west London. He had been knocked out and then hung out to dry, high above the Aldermaston marchers passing obliviously below on the way to Jerusalem. It was a punishment carried out by experts in violence, and it had been ordered by someone he knew.

David Litvinoff was, by nature and temperament, a wanderer between worlds: between the Chelsea set and hardcore criminals, between Soho and the East End, between the Scene and Esmeralda’s Barn, between Lucian Freud, George Melly, Peter Rachman, the Krays, John Bindon, Eric Clapton and Mick Jagger. He was a shape-shifter whose story – painstakingly unearthed in a new book by Keiron Pim – offers a window into a secret side of the 60s.

A vivid memory to his friends, Litvinoff was one of those people whose performance was their life. His most lasting achievement was the profound influence he had on Performance – the hallucinatory film directed by Nic Roeg and Donald Cammell, and starring Mick Jagger, which captured the London of the late 1960s, merging pop stardom, violent criminality, illegal drugs, gender-blurring, the occult and Jorge Luis Borges...

The great Jon Savage, The Long Read in The Guardian.

Chemsex: It's Back!

Fagburn was worried that chemsex had fallen off the radar this year, so great to see this hysterical gibberish in Gay Star News!

Edit: See also Free syringes dished out to gay men amid concerns about 'sex drug' overdoses, by some nun in the Evening Standard, who didn't know anyone can get free syringes DISHED OUT (and fucking no-one injects GHB).

MI5: Simply The Best!

The Guardian.

Sake.

I blame London Spy and Gareth Williams.

PS These things could be determined by how much money you give to Stonewall, hard to say...

Edit: Williams was MI6, soz.

The Pusher: Questions To Which The Answer Is No

Mirror.

Almost certainly not, the numbers are not unusual - there are 25 canals in Greater Manchester, the Manchester Ship Canal alone is 56 miles long - most probably fell in pissed, and were nowhere near Canal Street.

This modern age Spring-Heeled Jack story was dismissed a year ago. 

But thanks for asking.

Thought For The Day: Russell T Davies

“The assumption is that teenage gay men now are guilt-free hedonists, while men of my generation were closeted, ashamed and struggling with their sexuality. But teenagers are never happy. Not now and certainly not when I was a teenager.”

The Guardian.

Love Russell, but for misery wait til you get to an adult!

Russia: Homosexuality Not To Be Banned Shock

Pink News.

LOL!

I think it's only the lunatic hegemonic hysterics on the gay press that thought this had any hope of becoming law.

Update: Oh and the silly posh interns that write for The Independent, obvs.

Radio: Three Score Years And Ten

Bishop Richard Holloway, with the aid of great poets and writers, looks back on his life now that he has passed his allotted three score years and ten and wonders what his decreasing future holds and how best to cope with it.

What happens after death is the great unknown. But Richard argues that death itself is our friend and we should reach out our hand to it because, whatever we believe or do not believe about what happens to us after death, most of us will need courage to face it at the end.

Courage is not being unafraid. It is to be very afraid, yet to overcome our fear and refuse to flinch. It is the best lesson life teaches us.

He suggests that, while Death is a necessity if we want to keep the earth habitable, this necessity is spiritual as well as physical. Apart from the boredom of living forever, without the prospect of death there would be little to spur human achievement, because there would always be time to get round to it later.

He concludes, "Maybe that's why Jesus told us to work while it was yet day, for the night was coming when no one could work. Death is the friend who prods us to do something with the one life while we have it and not waste it hanging around."

BBC iPlayer (and part two).

The best thing I've heard on the wireless all year.

I like his idea we should live life in reverse; get the dying over with and progress to the orgasm.

Creepy Tweet Of The Day: Peter Tatchell

MT @alextomo: At Canterbury @PeterTatchell with African LGBTIs outside #Anglican Primates news conference pic.twitter.com/Xlbi4iu3zI @LGCM @hrw

— Peter Tatchell (@PeterTatchell) January 17, 2016

It's Saint Peter's 64th birthday next week.

So not long til this self-serving loon retires.

James MIddleton Watch: Something To Tell You

Umm...

Church Of England: And Not One Fuck Was Given

The Guardian.

Daily Star: Poll!

Only the Star.

Quite why the UK media has landed on this story from Colombia is beyond me....

Church Of England: So Sorry

Stephen Port: Court

An alleged serial killer accused of drugging and murdering four men he met on gay websites has appeared in court via video link.
Stephen Port, 40, appeared from custody at Kingston Crown Court charged with four counts of murder and four counts of administering a poison with intent to endanger life or inflict grievous bodily harm.
He was due to enter pleas but due to the "large amount of outstanding work" the hearing was adjourned until April.
A provisional trial date was fixed for October 4...

Mirror.

Good luck mate.

The 'Gaytrification' Effect: I Literally Have No Idea What This Means

Guardian online.

Comes: Who?

David Mundell, the Scottish Secretary, became the Conservatives’ first ever openly gay Cabinet minister today after admitting that the only way he could be “truly happy” was by coming out.
 
In a candid statement issued on his website blog that won cross-party praise, the father-of-three described the “conflicting emotions” and angst he experienced as he came to terms with his sexuality... 

Daily Telegraph.

Hard to describe my excitement about this...

PS Do people still need to come ou?, BBC News magazine. 'Why is this even news?' etc etc.