Tag Archives: gay marriage

Put a Ring On It

My old friend the (gay) human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell, once loathed by the popular press for his ‘radical extremism’, is the biggest, loudest voice in the UK calling for same sex marriage. Or was, until he found himself in bed recently with David Cameron, the Conservative Prime Minister, who stole his thunder somewhat by …

October 18, 2011 – 11:30 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in commentary | Tagged , , , , | Comments (10)

Metrosexual Daddy Mark Simpson interviewed by Elise Moore

English author and journalist Mark Simpson on love-hating the metrosexual, why bromance lacks balls, and why women are strapping on Captain Kirk. By Elise Moore (Suite 101, May 6, 2010) If you could copyright neologisms, Mark Simpson would be a billionaire. Since you can’t, the British gay/gender issues and pop/culture commentator talked to Suite101 about the …

May 6, 2010 – 3:52 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in interview with Mark Simpson, interviews | Tagged , , , , | Comments (3)

Let Hetero Couples Get Civilly Partnered

Mark Simpson argues in today’s London Times that heterosexuals should be allowed to have civil partnerships

February 24, 2010 – 1:12 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in gay marriage | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (4)

Not in Front of the Goyim: Gays and Not-So-Open Relationships

Interesting piece by Scott James in today’s New York Times: New research at San Francisco State University reveals just how common open relationships are among gay men and lesbians in the Bay Area. The Gay Couples Study has followed 556 male couples for three years — about 50 percent of those surveyed have sex outside …

January 29, 2010 – 2:05 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in gay marriage | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (7)

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)

Gore Vidal Takes on The World — Again

God, I can’t help but love the old bastard.  Another tour-de-force from Gore Vidal (interviewed by Tim Teeman) appeared in The London Times last week, in which, as usual, he said so many things, so very loudly that so many people know to be true but daren’t begin to mumble. This frail, crippled, diabetic, alcoholic, …

October 8, 2009 – 5:18 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in commentary | Tagged , , , , | Comments (11)

Respectability is the New Closet

By Mark Simpson (shorter version originally appeared on Guardian CIF) ‘The more things a man is ashamed of’, wrote George Bernard Shaw, ‘the more respectable he is.’ Gays must now be terribly respectable since, forty years on from the Stonewall riots started by drag queens, hustlers and homeless youths high on drugs — outsiders with …

June 9, 2009 – 2:22 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in commentary, gay, gay marriage | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (35)

The Gay Case Against Gay Marriage and Gay Bigotry

By Mark Simpson (Guardian CIF, 30 April 2009) Who would have guessed the dainty opinions of a Miss America candidate would have been taken so seriously by gays and liberals? Miss California, a practising Christian, was last week denounced by Miss America judge Perez Hilton on his blog as ‘a dumb bitch’ and unworthy of the …

May 1, 2009 – 5:33 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in article, Barack Obama, gay marriage, journalism | Tagged , , , | Comments (30)

Gay Civil Unions Replacing Straight Marriage in France

According to the Daily Telegraph, ninety per cent of French “solidarity pacts” a year, some 135,000 of them, are now being made between people of the opposite sex, ‘despite them being designed for homosexuals, who are not formally allowed to marry in France’.  Unlike in the UK, the Civil Solidarity Pacts, or PACS, are open …

March 7, 2009 – 6:52 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in commentary, gay marriage | Tagged , , , , | Comments (8)

Milk Toast: How Van Sant Cut off Harvey’s Balls

By Mark Simpson (Originally appeard on Guardian Unlimited, 28 Jan 2009) ‘If a bullet should enter my brain, let it destroy ever closet door.’ So says Sean Penn as Harvey Milk, the gay activist who became California’s first openly gay public official. Any concern that this may be a slightly melodramatic statement is quelled of course …

February 4, 2009 – 2:50 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in film, gay marriage | Tagged , , , , | Comments (19)