His face slipped sideways across Nick’s as he breathed the word, the unguessed softness of his lips touched his cheeks and neck, while Nick sighed violently and ran his hand up and down on Leo’s back. He pushed his mouth towards Leo’s, and they met, and hurried into a kiss. To Nick it felt […]
Categories: book,gay,imagined histories,photography,word
Tagged: Alan Hollinghurst, New York, The Line of Beauty, vintag, vintage gay photo, vintage male, vintage male affection
A Single Man, the classic gay novel by Christopher Isherwood, is going from page to screen in a project directed by fashion god Tom Ford and starring Colin Firth and Julianne Moore. This is terrifically exciting and long overdue. The movie had its world premiere last week at the Venice Film Festival and all reports […]
Categories: book,film,gay,video
Tagged: A Single Man, Christopher Isherwood, Colin Firth, David Scearce, gay, Julianne Moore, Matthew Goode, Nicholas Hoult, Tom Ford, Toronto Film Festival, Venice Film Festival
The recent death of Ted Kennedy prompted me to pick up some of the Kennedy books I have lying around the house and I have just re-read a book about JFK that shook my world a couple of years ago. It illuminates a story about a beloved president that was never told prior to this […]
Categories: book,gay,Uncategorized
Tagged: biography, David Pitts, Edward Kennedy, Eunice Kennedy, gay, Jack and Lem, Jackie Kennedy, John F. Kennedy
Many people have a list of books they read every year: Jane Austen’s Emma, Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway. Classics. Sometimes, if a reader is lucky, a contemporary work will earn a place on the list. Mother of Sorrows by Richard McCann is such a book. Published in 2005 to critical […]
Categories: book,for the life of me,gay
Tagged: Mother of Sorrows, Richard McCann
Nostalgia is a curious, dark beast. It imbues virtually everything we taste, hear, see, discuss, recall, cherish and too often despise also. Even the stoniest of hearts must endeavour hard to deny it’s foundation in our collective psyches. One of many reasons that makes Richard Avedon’s brutal, solemn In The American West such a bold, […]
Categories: book,photography
Tagged: Amon Archives, Amon Carter Museum - Fort Worth - Texas, Dom Agius, In The American West, Mitchell. A. Wilder, Richard Avedon
Apple’s iTunes is getting its gay on right now with a virtual pride parade in honor of Gay Pride Month. A rainbow-flag banner is featured prominently on the front page of iTunes on both the U.S. and Canada versions of the service. Users who click on the banner are served up a curated collection of […]
‘Je crois qu’il profita, pour son évasion, d’une migration d’oiseaux sauvages.’ Text: Le Petit Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Photo: Cole Rise
Categories: book,photography,word
Tagged: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, cole rise, Le Petit Prince, things i love
