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Category Archives: gay
THE GREEN PAVILION
I started translating Genet’s poems, in a spirit of wilful inaccuracy, in Cambridge in 1974, and stopped four years later, in the winter of 1978, in a high-rise flat in Portugal. In 1980, I was teaching in northern Italy and … Continue reading
Posted in gay, poetry, translation, Uncategorized
Tagged genet, isherwood, lgbt, poetry, tournier, translation
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Half a loaf
There’s room for both celebration and exasperation in Italy’s new civil unions legislation. Let’s start with the good stuff. It’s been a long time coming and the fact that it’s arrived, albeit limping and mangled, is worth a raised a … Continue reading
Schöneberg, Berlin
Our pocket-sized Lonely Planet guide book says Schöneberg is Berlin’s gay village so we take the S-Bahn from Alexanderplatz and head out there, leaving the train at Nollendorfplatz. This puts us in the middle of the itinerary suggested by the … Continue reading
A seed, a shine, a glow; thoughts on Edwin Morgan
Not so much thoughts, perhaps, as a sort of memory. Edwin Morgan came to read for Blue Room, the poetry society John Wilkinson, Charlie Bulbeck and I ran in Cambridge in the early 1970s. Assiduous readers of this blog will … Continue reading
Posted in cambridge, edwin morgan, gay, john wilkinson, writing
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Top ten books written by women about gay men
Some of the best books to have been written about the male gay experience in the past hundred years have been written by women. Here are ten of my favourites. (And it would be considerably more difficult to find ten … Continue reading
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Foot and mouth disease
I’ve been on the point of writing something about the whole paedophile scandal for a couple of weeks now, but really, why bother? The Vatican is doing such a good job of shooting itself in the foot – yes, that’s … Continue reading
Mud, to be worn with pride
Last Friday, Dino Boffo, the editor of the Catholic newspaper, Avvenire, decided to resign after having been attacked and accused of hypocrisy by one of Berlusconi’s house rags (Il Giornale, owned by his brother). The Vatican accused Il Giornale of … Continue reading
Posted in berlusconi, gay, homophobia, italy
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A crate for fruit
Update: If anyone thinks this is a gratuitous slur on the Pontifex and his sexual preferences and doesn’t speak Italian, the slur is actually worse than they may have thought. The name of the wholesale fruit and veg dealers on … Continue reading
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March for Equality
If you’re on Facebook and think that equality matters (these categories don’t, alas, always coincide), you might like to take part in the Online March for Equality. All you need to do is go to this site and choose an … Continue reading
Posted in equality, gay
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