Monday 24 March 2008

"Exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied"

Ten tantalising minutes of clips from BBC Television's Play of the Month, September 1976: John Osborne's adaptation of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray, with John Gielgud as Lord Henry Wotton, Jeremy Brett as Basil Hallward and Peter Firth (creator of the, as it were, Daniel Radcliffe role in Equus) as Dorian:

Sixty years on


A new edition of the 1948 gay-themed novel An Air That Kills by Francis King. (He's still at work today; I particularly recommend his 1993 autobiography, Yesterday Came Suddenly.)

Well endowed



The Tom of Finland Foundation, that is (NSFW).

The Platonic Blow


A long and explicit poem W H Auden wouldn't admit he wrote.

Saturday 15 March 2008

A minor angel

Two joyous minutes (safe for work) with Canadian dancer and stripper Bobby Brown:

Painful path


Former top cop and now London Mayoral candidate Brian Paddick shares his gay memories.

Hat tip: Towle Road

Less unsung than I thought


In an earlier post I described Antony Grey as "a not-sufficiently-sung hero".

To my great pleasure I find he was last year's Stonewall Hero of the Year. Congratulations, sir.

And he's writing two blogs, anticant's arena and anticant's burrow.

Apologies for the old, creased photo - it comes from my cuttings files (Sunday Telegraph, 1995). Couldn't find a single image of him online.

Our great-great-grandfather


Introducing John Addington Symonds, the first modern historian of (male) homosexuality, and the first advocate of gay liberation in Britain.

Tuesday 11 March 2008

Lost to us


The Adonis of my generation, Jon-Erik Hexum, died tragically in 1984 aged 26, after an accident on the set of his TV series, Cover Up.

These clips (10 minutes) show him in the title role of the 1983 Joan Collins cheesefest Making of a Male Model. Forgive the cheese, and share my awe:

"The last professional beauty"





John Waters celebrates Stephen Tennant, lover of Siegfried Sassoon.

Running himself down



Lynn Barber scratches her head over Matthew Parris in 2002.

Friday 7 March 2008

Life or death


His boyfriend was executed, and nineteen-year-old Mehdi Kazemi fears the same fate if he returns to Iran. But Britain wants to send him back.

Mortal Kombat, Derbyshire style

Syncsta in their gleeful shirtless glory days:

Cute traitor





Alcoholic rentboy, Nazi broadcaster: John Amery finished up on the scaffold. Ronald Harwood tells all.

Taken suddenly


Flamboyant ex-Canon Brian Brindley dropped dead at his birthday banquet.

Wednesday 5 March 2008

Penis deleted

What kind of churl would deprive this man of his manhood?


As you can see, he needs it: