Columbo meets an early pro-sporno Having given up on Netflix and the 21st Century, I’ve been watching Columbo – Amazon Prime Video have the first seven seasons (1971-8), gloriously restored, and digitally remastered in HD. Always a high-production value show, it can now be… Read More »The Curious Case of the Killer Buttocks
My (highly attenuated) attention was recently directed to an LWT doc from 1981 available on YouTube . It compares the pre-war, pre-gay world of ‘sisters’ (‘musical’ friends you didn’t want to fuck) and ‘trade’ (‘normal’ working class ‘real’ men you… Read More »Back to the Future: Escaping Sexology
A lively tale of a charming bandit and proto-terrorist prompts Mark Simpson to wonder why we’re still thrilled by ruffians. (Independent on Sunday, 5/1/2003) Why, after so many years, are we still so hot for outlaws? As popular culture and… Read More »Chivalry & Bloody Showbiz – The Jesse James Story
A heart-warming clip of US Marines entertaining themselves aboard ship with a lucky pink jelly dildo has been doing the rounds on social media. It appears to depict a deepthroating competition. One won, judging by the ecstatic response of his… Read More »Marine Breathing Exercises
Mark Simpson bravely gets to the bottom of the US Army’s gay porn scandal (Uncircumcised, uncensored version of exclusive which appeared in Details, April 2006 ) “Is this your first time with a guy?” asks Jason solicitously in his Tennessee… Read More »Passive Duty: Gay 4 Pay Paratroopers Probed
Tonight the BBC screens Steve Coogan and John Reilly’s well-received 2019 film ‘Stan & Ollie’, about the most famous comedy duo’s disastrous, almost-posthumous 1953 tour of Britain – and also their love for one another. Or at least, our investment… Read More »Funny-Peculiar Men: Laurel & Hardy