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Sodom & Gomorrah, Srebrenica and The Gay Bomb

The wonderful thing about American generals is that they come with their own free tickle stick included — they don’t need Peter Sellers to send them up. Former Supreme Commander of NATO, General John Sheehan this week argued, with an impressively straight if possibly half-paralysed face, at hearings in Washington DC examing the Pengatgon’s ‘Don’t Ask, …

March 20, 2010 – 12:22 am | By Mark Simpson | Posted in commentary | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (10)

The Gay Bomb covers the US Air Force in glory

The USAF’s infamous ‘Gay Bomb’ has won an illustrious gong at this year’s prestigious Ig Nobel Awards. Here’s the piece I wrote about it for the Guardian earlier this year: Armed and Amorous by Mark Simpson (Guardian, June 13 2007) Look out! Take cover! Backs to the walls, boys! It’s the Gay Bomb! No, not a bomb with …

October 6, 2007 – 12:28 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in article, gay, journalism | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (3)

The Gay Bomb

Mark Simpson drops the Gay Bomb (Guardian & Out magazine June 13, 2007) Look out! Take cover! Backs to the walls, boys! It’s the Gay Bomb! No, not a bomb with fashionably styled fins or one that can’t whistle, but rather a proposed “non-lethal” chemical bomb containing “strong aphrodisiacs” that would cause “homosexual behavior” among soldiers. Since …

June 15, 2007 – 3:37 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in article, gay, journalism, metrosexual | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (2)