A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away… Actually, some time in the 1980s in a flat in Wimbledon, south west London, my Dad got really excited because the first Star Wars film was on the telly. Having taken my older brother to see all three films in the original trilogy at the ...
Thousands of same-sex couples who married in Canada are in doubt over the legality of their marriage, after an abrupt announcement by the Harper Government. A Department of Justice lawyer said that an Anglo-American lesbian couple who married in Canada in 2005, now seeking divorce, were not legally married because same-sex marriage is not legal ...
What do you know, treating people like human beings with equal rights makes them happier and healthier. No, it’s not liberal hippy nonsense. There is now a study to back it up. In states where same-sex marriage is legal, gay and bisexual men go to the doctor less often. Their health costs also go down ...
David Kato was murdered in January this year in what was a controversial case. He was an active gay rights activist in Uganda, a country where homosexuality is illegal and where a bill is waiting to be decided on that will give the death penalty for being gay or for having HIV. Other activists claimed ...
I am a Little Monster. And Lady Gaga is my mama. I was so excited to see news reports last week of Lady Gaga’s new non-profit foundation for youth, the Born This Way Foundation (BTWF). But wait a second. Don’t the words “Born This Way” allude to the existence of a “gay gene?” That our sexual ...
There was no shortage of debate in the latter half of the 20th century over the relevance of marriage. The freedoms women campaigned for — wage equality, childcare — were based on the idea of autonomy. The right not to marry was a key freedom. Thanks to previous generations, I’m not required to define myself ...
Gay tourism in Vancouver has been banned for Chinese marketing campaigns. An agreement between the Chinese and British Columbia authorities was apparently made last year but details were only released before a recent trade envoy trip to China and were hidden away within a 60 page document. The document stipulated that, along with gambling, gay ...
Same-sex civil partnership ceremonies will be now be allowed to take place in any church in England and Wales, so long as the church agrees and is happy to do it. Gay marriage is still illegal in the UK, and until now same-sex partnership ceremonies have been purely secular, civil occasions. Whilst it seems very ...
It’s Spirit Day today, a day to show support for LGBT young people by wearing purple and speaking out against bullying. We may think that the fight has been won, with so many stories about legalizing gay marriage and gay rights in the news, but as recently as this past weekend yet another gay teenager ...
“If this backward law passes, I’m moving to Canada!” “This backward law” could refer to abortion, gay rights, health and education cuts, or countless others; you name it, if it’s going down the gurgler in your own country, chances are you can slap a big Canadian band-aid on it and all will be well. But ...
The latest film in the American Pie series, American Reunion, contains a shocking scene – male full-frontal nudity including...
Dear Madame X, I have just started seeing this girl. She seems great, but she recently told me she...
Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved arrived in my hands via a public library, when I was a broke teenager with...
My attention was drawn this week to an article about the reaction at a Canadian university to proposals to...
Airport security. Bloody nuisance. Also a conspiracy designed to subjugate women. Allow me to elaborate. Despite flying quite a...
The Cannes film festival has kicked off this week with controversy over the lack of films made by women...
Dear Madame X, I seem to be only attracted to men who are macho assholes. I like them at...
When A Clockwork Orange was published in 1962, the term sexualized violence wasn’t in use. The distinction between sexualized...
