Category Archives: gay

Life saver

Posted on March 5, 2008 by Charles Lambert

This lifebelt was spotted in a shop window in Sausalito. It’s hard to imagine a ship called Nellie, though less hard to imagine those who sail on her referring to one another with the term, which I’d previously assumed was … Continue reading →

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Great shoes

Posted on January 4, 2008 by Charles Lambert

http://cdn.channel.aol.com/aolexd_widgets/widget.swf This comes from This Just In, via Monkey Magazine

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A creative spring

Posted on December 31, 2007 by Charles Lambert

In his Terminal note to Maurice, EM Forster writes that the novel was the direct result of a visit in 1913 to the ‘socialist and Whitmannic poet’ Edward Carpenter at Millthorpe. Forster comments: It must have been on my second … Continue reading →

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Words are also actions

Posted on December 30, 2007 by Charles Lambert

I saw two films on TV over Christmas that touched me deeply, in different ways. The first was The Motorcycle Diaries by Walter Salles, based on the journals kept by Che Guevara and his friend Alberto Granado during a life-changing … Continue reading →

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More of the same old religious shite

Posted on December 18, 2007 by Charles Lambert

It’s barely worth commenting on the fact that the centre-left majority on Rome was yesterday unable to approve either of two motions to grant some sort of legitimacy to civil unions. Neither would have made any difference but, given that … Continue reading →

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Hate (crimes)

Posted on December 9, 2007 by Charles Lambert

The Italian government is in one of its periodic kerfuffles about gay rights and the lack of them. A clause introduced into the long-suffering security bill currently passing through parliament aims to impose sentences for acts of violence or discrimination … Continue reading →

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Bored Sea Captain Secretly Marries….

Posted on November 22, 2007 by Charles Lambert

For the full story, click here. My thanks, as ever, to the Onion (and Pierre et Gilles).

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Warwick Collins: Gents

Posted on November 15, 2007 by Charles Lambert

Cottaging – the use of public lavatories for fugitive sexual encounters – can be thrilling, titillating, dangerous, delusory, exquisite, sordid, debasing, indescribably erotic, and all these things at once. I should know. I spent a brief summer over thirty years … Continue reading →

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Good news

Posted on November 5, 2007 by Charles Lambert

The website God Hates Fags has been down for the past few days. Let’s do all we can to keep it that way. In the meantime, read this interview with ‘pro-lifer’ Neal Horsley, who may not like abortions but isn’t … Continue reading →

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Keith Banner: The Smallest People Alive

Posted on November 1, 2007 by Charles Lambert

This is an extraordinary book that finds its truths and lyricism in lives that seem to offer almost nothing. The stories are peopled by the clinically obese, retards, workers in dead-end jobs, the lonely, the handicapped: the smallest people alive. … Continue reading →

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