Here you’ll find some news and updates about my various projects, plus commentary or thoughts on a range of topics, primarily queer and/or kinky stuff - but not exclusively.
I may also publish old material from some of my other sites, from time to time.
For almost as long as I can remember, people have talked about “Old Guard” and “New Guard” in leather; and for quite some time now, I’ve felt that, frankly, things are a lot more complicated than that.
If there’s a single thing you can call “Leather,” it's got around eighty years of history and li...
On Saturday 17th, I received the Christian Hoffmann Award from London Leathermen. As they describe on their site, it’s for
your unsung heroes, the people who make our London community what it is, to be the recipients of the Christian Hoffman Award – a historic title awarded for exemplary servi...
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This piece was originally published on Medium, in April 2017. At the time, one of the UK’s many Brexit-related elections was happening. One of the notable things about it was that, for perhaps the first time in living memory, all the major UK parties were pretty much in agreement on ma...
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This post is a slight reworking of a 2021 post on Medium.
In the twisted world of the Gender Critical movement, one of the more bizarre claims I’ve seen is that organisations like Stonewall — and, according to some extremists, almost every LGBTQ organisation in the UK — are homop...
One of the most interesting books I’ve read recently, Deviants is a look at queer life in India, in the closing part of the 20th Century and the early years of this one.
It interweaves the stories of three generations of gay men in a single family, telling about their que...
