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  • COMMENT | Honour Each Day

    An optimistic approach to the challenging times ahead.

    January is always a good month for evaluating; embracing the possibilities of what is to come. Usually, I write a list of achievements from the previous year, and think about what I would like to achieve in the year ahead.

    2012 was a good year for the most part. For the UK it saw a whole multitude of events which made me feel extremely proud to be British. But on a personal level, I graduated from Architecture, my second degree, putting the 100-hour working weeks behind me. Unfortunately, the latter half of 2012 has been much of a drag, which has come as an anti-climax. Endlessly applying for architecture jobs, 400 in total, and being told I have little experience to be employed in an entry-level position is beyond bizarre. Indeed a period of unemployment really makes one feel worthless. Alas, the challenging search continues.

    In all honesty, it could have been a tougher time if it hadn’t been for a bucket load of optimism, and a continual list of goals; making this period slightly more tolerable. So in 2013, I have said goodbye to any hint of pessimism and embraced the challenging times ahead.

    Much like Chris Jones’ article on ‘Money Worries‘, I have been exploring a range of online shops to promote and sell a new range of artwork and prints. Although it will be a long road ahead, breaking the end goal down into manageable chunks makes things seem a little clearer; a kind of financial plan for a creative business. Thankfully I have secured a couple of exhibitions in Leeds during February, and the selling of work is increasing slowly. All in good time.

    The lowest point of the year so far has been declining an interview for a phenomenal architecture practice in Switzerland, as the cost of travelling over was too high to justify. Nevertheless, I am a big believer that every choice has its benefits, so by not going, a new set of options will inevitably open.

    So a piece of advice for those are finding their current employment situation challenging, follow your instinct and honour each day.

     

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  • Artist Luiz Penze Releases Free Book

    Artist Luiz Penze Releases Free Book

    Popular London based gay artist Luiz Penze has released his debut book Dolls Gone Wild, which features Barbie and Ken in compromising positions. (more…)

  • Two Men Arrested Over Harassment Of “Gay Looking” Man In East London

    Two Men Arrested Over Harassment Of “Gay Looking” Man In East London

    Officers investigating a series of incidents that took place over the course of the weekend of 12/13 January in east London, whereby a small group of individuals were seen to approach and harass members of the public at various locations, have arrested two men.

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  • COLUMN | Homophobia In Hollywood?

    It’s the age old question.

    So the at the Globes last week, Jodie Foster “came out”… Can’t say I, or indeed anybody was surprised. In fact, I’d have been more surprised if she had arrived with a man.

    Don’t get me wrong, it WAS very brave. I wouldn’t come out with Tommy Lee Jones in the front, giving me the critical burning gaze that he gave everybody that night. Now… don’t turn on me here, but I found her coming out really uncomfortable. She won the Cecil B De Mille award and she certainly deserved it more than anybody else that night, but was there any need for her to do it? Saying it in perhaps a magazine interview or on Ellen or something would have been great! The perfect platform to confirm everybody’s suspicions!

    Yet at the same time it was undeniably genius, she didn’t quite SAY it, but she couldn’t have implied it any heavier if she had walked on stage with a strap-on wildly flailing around beneath her stunning gown. She did have this incredibly blunt yet delicate way of putting it across, which I admire her for no end I just feel it could have been better suited elsewhere. Maybe it’s just me, perhaps Foster used to spotlight to get an important message across, I just never really got it.

    Recently Rupert Everett advised gay actors to stay in the closet. Personally I’m not a fan of Rupert Everett; I think he tries too hard. Everett, instead of encouraging young Hollywood to stay in hiding, should have encouraged them to be open about their sexuality, instead of putting them off. Everett said this because “Gay men aren’t being cast in straight roles”. Yes they are Rupert; you’re not because you’ve been creating negative press like this for a while. Other actors are getting the roles you want, not because they are straight, but because they are better actors than you. Sorry, you probably prefer to be called a “Thespian” or something equally as pretentious.

    On the other hand, Hollywood is homophobic. In the sense that if you have made a career from portraying drag queens in movies or flaming homosexuals you’re not going to be the first choice for the next Die Hard movie. It makes sense. There are plenty of roles in Hollywood movies for gay men, not necessarily the macho roles, but there ARE opportunities out there. Hollywood is brimming with gay actors playing a varied mix of characters, for example Neil Patrick Harris, Ian McKellen, Denis O’Hare, Victor Garber and Zachery Quinto, all of which are well known, in the public eye, OUT and all have played undeniably straight roles in popular films and shows.

    So is Hollywood homophobic?

    Only to the moaning and bitter. I’m looking at you Rupert.

     

  • Shocking Video Surfaces Of A Man Harassed By Group Calling Themselves The “Muslim London Patrol”

    Shocking Video Surfaces Of A Man Harassed By Group Calling Themselves The “Muslim London Patrol”

    Video shows suspected gay man openly harassed by two men, who repeatedly call him a ‘fag’, ‘dirty’ and leave the ‘Muslim area.’

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  • COLUMN | Hush Now

    This month’s edition is all about ‘Challenging Times’. I’ve been through a few challenging times myself and I must admit that I find the human race a bit challenging at times also. I do, however, feel that rather than being challenged by others and the times we live in, maybe we should be doing the challenging. We gays are after all, arbiters of good taste and decorum. We’ve a duty to pass it on to others.

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  • COLUMN | Hush Now

    This month’s edition is all about ‘Challenging Times’. I’ve been through a few challenging times myself and I must admit that I find the human race a bit challenging at times also.

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  • First Look At James Franco’s Kink

    Produced by Milk star James Franco and directed by Christina Voros, new documentary film, Kink, explores the world of photographers whose 9 to 5 job is photographing Kink.

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  • FASHION | John Galliano Attempts A Reputation Rebuild

    Disgraced gay fashion designer John Galliano is returning to the fashion industry with nonpermanent role at Oscar de la Renta’s New York studio.

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  • French ELLE Magazine: Marriage For All

    In stark contrast to events that filled Parisan streets last week, French Elle Magazine to publish ‘Marriage For All” issue.

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  • Rylan Clark “I’d Rather Have A Straight Child”

    Rylan Clark “I’d Rather Have A Straight Child”

    Reality star Rylan Clark tells Ryan Moloney that he’d like to be a father, but for the child to be heterosexual, during a intimate moment in the Celebrity Big Brother House.

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