Tag Archives: Bruce Benderson

Gay Marriage On The Rocks: Ain’t No Surprise

The wheels appear to have come off the gay marriage bus in the US and no one seems to know how to put them back on.  Not even the lesbians. And that’s not according to meddlin’ Limey Uncle Tom ‘slut’ me (as I was dubbed by the Voice of Gay America) but according to the gay-marriage-supporting  New …

December 8, 2009 – 1:04 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in commentary, gay marriage | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (63)

Sex and Isolation by Bruce Benderson

A rather delicious, glittering, if sometimes slightly crunchy, collection of essays by the American literary legend Bruce Benderson called ‘Sex and Isolation’ has just been published by University of Wisconsin Press. Mr Benderson, author of cult classics set in the underworld of desire, such as The Romanian, User and Pretending to Say No, winner of …

January 9, 2008 – 6:48 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in commentary | Tagged , | Comments (3)

On The Town: with Glenn/Glennda, Two Bruces & Two Old Musicals

by Mark Simpson (First appeared in Attitude, July 1998) ‘Yoo can’t stop the moo-zik/No-body can stop the moo-zik/Take the cold from snow/Tell the trees “don’t grow?/Tell the wind “don’t Blow?/’coz  it’s ee-zee-er to doo!’ I’m singing a cappella, out of tune and fighting against a Pet Shop Boys ditty whining and clattering on the PA in this …

March 3, 2007 – 1:25 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in article, journalism, music | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (1)