“If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door in the country.” Harvey Milk was assassinated on November 27th, 1978. “The other aspect of this tape is the business of what should happen if there … Continue reading →
Question: How do you get off a charge of premeditated double murder? Answer: Make sure one of your victims is homosexual then claim to have eaten a lot of junk food before you committed the crime. And so it was … Continue reading →
Westler is a movie about the growing relationship between two gay men in Berlin. But, despite living in the same city, they each inhabit different worlds, for these are the days when the infamous Wall divided the city. And Felix … Continue reading →
According to the tabloid media of the time, the women of Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp were all ‘Leftie lesbians’. Apparently they meant this as a bad thing. Unsurprisingly, this was not entirely true: heterosexual women and those of a … Continue reading →
When Gunter Kiessling died in 2009, obituaries repeatedly referred to him as being the cause of a ‘sex scandal’ in NATO in 1983. Call me naive, but I always thought the defining element of a sex scandal would be sex. … Continue reading →