Gay Rights: Life Under Section 28 – Newsnight, BBC 2
I was very happy to participate in any way, however slight, in Matthew Todd’s Newsnight film about Section 28. He spoke to a few people who’d been adolescents at the time…
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My Private Hell – Attitude Magazine
A year before my Sunday Times Magazine piece, I wrote on the same subject for Attitude magazine. Grateful to Matthew Todd for what was one of my first commissions after…
The ‘Gay Men Are Misogynists’ Movement
Herewith my piece, The ‘Gay Men Are Misogynists’ Movement. In the last two years, I’ve witnessed an exponentional increase in the number of comment pieces about misogyny among gay men. It’s…
When Attitude Met Prince William
I was extremely delighted to take part in a groundbreaking feature for the July 2016 issue of Attitude, in which several LGBT+ representatives held a roundtable discussion with the Duke…
Gay Men and Misogyny
In February, Chas Newkey-Burden wrote a cri de coeur about gay men’s misogyny in the Daily Telegraph. I felt compelled to respond in Attitude. Do I think some gay men…
Roger Scruton’s mealy-mouthed, anti-gay slurs…
Why do I read things that wind me up late at night? First, some Milo Yiannopoulos and then the new Roger Scruton interview in Spiked. The whole thing can be read…