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Is every UK LGBTQ organisation — except one — homophobic?

In the twisted world of the Gender Critical movement, one of the more bizarre claims I’ve seen is that organisations like Stonewall — and…

Oct 15, 2021

Oct 15, 2021

It couldn’t happen here. Could it?

Things happen slowly. Sometimes, like the proverbial frog, you don’t realise until it’s too late, and the water is already boiling.

Dec 24, 2020

Dec 24, 2020

A never ending journey

I grew up comfortably middle class. The ‘merchant class,’ I suppose you could call it, in that parts of my family were the sort of people…

Jun 7, 2020

Jun 7, 2020

Flying a kite with the RNLI

In a way, I suppose the attack by two newspapers on the RNLI this weekend is not that surprising. For some years now, those on the right…

Sep 16, 2019

Sep 16, 2019

On Tales of The City

As a baby queer in the late 80s, early 90s, I (and many others) devoured those books. Our bars in London weren’t that special, and the…

Jul 17, 2019

Jul 17, 2019

LGBT people aren’t accessories for your racist conspiracies

If there is one fairly positive thing to have come out of the horrific attack on two women, Melania and Chris, on a London bus, it’s the…

Jun 8, 2019

Jun 8, 2019

Dear Samuel

A letter to a casualty of the Great War

Nov 9, 2018

Dear Samuel

Nov 9, 2018

Oprah 2020?

A lot of people I know have been talking about Oprah after her speech at the Golden Globes, and what a great idea it might be for her to…

Jan 10, 2018

Jan 10, 2018

It’ll take more than clicking to stop Tory plans for internet regulation

Buried in the Conservative Party Manifesto is a little paragraph announcing plans to make Britain a world leader in one little bit of the…

May 22, 2017

May 22, 2017

Voter ID is coming. But is it part of the Brexit puzzle too?

One of the things that’s included in the Tory manifesto is the proposal to require ID when people vote. On the face of it, this is not…

May 18, 2017

May 18, 2017

Nigel Whitfield

Nigel Whitfield

Will write for money, shag for beer. Have been doing queer stuff online for over 30 years. Presently run a leather club.

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