Tag Archives: Salon.com

Retrosexuality isn’t what it used to be

My attention was recently drawn by a concerned member of the browsing public to a piece on Salon.com, ‘Retrosexuals: The latest lame macho catchphrase’ by Aaron Traister, entertainingly lambasting the ‘new’ retrosexual trend: I woke up this morning to discover my local paper, the Philadelphia Inquirer, peddling a story about America’s new favorite model of …

April 10, 2010 – 11:41 am | By Mark Simpson | Posted in commentary, metrosexual, retrosexual | Tagged , , , | Comments (15)

Beckham the virus goes to Hollywood

So Beckham, the uber-metrosexual, the photogenic English athlete who transfigured himself from mere professional soccer player into global me-dia, is leaving Real Madrid Football Club, his home for the past three years, and is now heading for the City of Signs. Beckham became a Hollywood footballer years ago (around about the time of ‘Beckham the virus’, posted below).  Certainly …

January 12, 2007 – 2:54 am | By Mark Simpson | Posted in commentary, masculinity, metrosexual, sporno, sport | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments (3)

Sexual Outlaws: ‘Gay For Pay’ Paratroopers

This month’s Details magazine carries a letter (which Details strangely neglected to show to me) by veteran gay writer John Rechy, author of the cult 60s hustler novels ‘City of Night’ and ‘Numbers’, and the 70s plea for homo tolerance ‘The Sexual Outlaw’ (books I enjoyed as teenager in the 80s). He takes issue with …

August 25, 2006 – 4:47 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in bisexuality, commentary, gay, masculinity, porn, sex | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments (61)