Tag Archives: homoerotics

Long Hot Punter: Paul Weller’s Topless Video Revisited

Scourge of The Eton Rifles Paul Weller was sending out quite a statement to his die hard Jam fans in this video for his 1983 Style Council single ‘Long Hot Summer’, shot on the River Cam in Cambridge. Acting the big posh pooftah in a punt. Like almost everyone in the UK in the early 80s …

May 14, 2012 – 12:39 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in commentary, music | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (8)

Really Rucking Funny: Best Manlove Video of 2011 (SFW)

This clip by Irish comedy outfit Dead Cat Bounce called ‘Rugby’ has to be my favourite video of 2011. Even if it strongly suggests that, in Ireland at least, my work here is done and it’s well past time to retire to the touch-lines. There’s much to admire here: the lightness of touch, the hilarious …

December 21, 2011 – 2:06 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in commentary, Rugby, sport | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off

The Gayness of Top Gun: Feel The Need

Frankly, we could watch a few more hours of Baldwin chewing the scenery as Pacino and Hader flabbergasted that the producers don’t understand how “gay” their script is: “I say, ‘Ice Man’s on my tail, he’s coming hard.’ I literally said that to a bathroom attendant last night.” (I’d like to embed here a clip of …

September 27, 2011 – 11:52 am | By Mark Simpson | Posted in commentary, film | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (3)

Assume the Position: a queer defence of hazing

Mark Simpson wants to be be soundly smacked with a paddle (Out magazine, 2006) When I joined my local rugby team, I was made to do terrible, awful things. Even now, all these years later, I feel distressed and choked up recounting what happened. I had to stand on a chair as a full pint …

April 28, 2011 – 12:20 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in article, commentary, journalism, masculinity | Tagged , , , , | Comments (11)

Public Information Film Warns Men’s Health Mag & Disco Blurs Desire & Envy, Making Men Dizzy

  Tip: Andre Murracas

April 10, 2011 – 3:56 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in advertising, metrosexual, music | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (12)

Why Straight Soldiers Can’t Stop Acting Gay on Video

Way back in the last century, before the Interweb swallowed everything, my friend and accomplice in literary crime Steve Zeeland were visiting, as you do, Camp Pendleton, the giant US Marine Corps base in Southern California with some jarhead friends. We spent the afternoon watching the Marine Rodeo — scores of grinning fit Texan boys …

May 14, 2010 – 2:56 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in commentary, gay, masculinity, metrosexual, porn | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (2)

Homoerotic Horseplay — Not Gay Just Guy

A column of mine on Out.com, ‘Men At Play in Afgrabistan’, gallantly defends the freedom of the derided (and now dismissed) security guards at the US embassy to get naked with one another and eat potato chips from each other’s butts in their spare time — even if they’re out of shape.  I also point …

September 17, 2009 – 3:05 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in article, commentary, journalism | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments (36)

Melts in Your Mouth: Eminem’s Shady Sexuality

By Mark Simpson (Nerve.com, February 22, 2001) Eminem, aka Marshall Mathers, may have won only a few consolation prizes at the Grammys yesterday [2001], but clearly the white rapper behind “The Marshall Mathers LP” has created the Album of the Year in every other sense. Em is the hottest property not just in the music business, but …

January 11, 2008 – 9:28 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in celebrity, commentary, masculinity, music | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (26)

Rugger Buggers and Swinging Dicks

In the Middle Ages, sodomy was thought to be caused not by hair whorls, but by drunkeness. As this spornographic clip shows, they were absolutely right. The post-match beery bonding of the lovely lads of Sandbach RUFC — which, be warned, includes very male nudity, heavy petting and male-on-male snogging — made me feel faint …

July 18, 2007 – 3:46 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in commentary, masculinity, Phalliban, sporno, sport | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments (26)