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  • Joe McElderry Suffers Homophobic Abuse

    Xfactor Alumni and winner Joe McElderry has become another victim of homophobic abuse on Twitter, the 140 characters, mini social networking site.


    A user of the site ‘Bryden Morgan’ of Inverness, Scotland tweeted the star:

    “ahahaha nice success you’ve had after x-factor you gay c*nt!!”.

    Joe who won Popstar to Operastar last year tweeted back: “and judging by your profile pic you’ve clearly had a lot of success”.

    Morgan at first seemed remorseful of the comment made to the singer tweeting:

    “ok I apologize (sic) for the gay part it was mainly to insult him about x-factor”.

    However, he then tweeted that he had “a gang of gay rights activists” attacking him and that Joe’s fans had no right to get their “knickers in a twist” over it.

    The abuse continued into the early hours of this morning when Morgan tweeted:

    “#TeamBryden RT if you also think joe mcelderry is s**t and is being a little bitch #GetOverIt”

    There have been recent cases of arrests in connection to homophobic abuse and sending abusive messages to celebrities.

    TheGayUK has also contacted Twitter directly for comment on what Twitter will do to protect minorities and LGBT users on the site. So far Twitter has declined to comment.

    A spokesperson for Northumbria Police said: “Police received reports yesterday from a member of the public with concerns of comments made on Twitter.

    “Enquiries were carried out and no complaints have been made.”

  • FILM REVIEW | The Mudge Boy; Dark, Cruel and Unfinished

    A dark, cruel story of fourteen-year-old Duncan Mudge.

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  • Boy George Quits Twitter

    It was reported that UK singer and DJ Boy George had quit Twitter after the service reportedly failed to help the star after a string of homophobic attacks on the microblogging site on the 23rd April.

    Twitter has yet to respond to the matter, however, we can confirm that THEGAYUK has put in a formal request for comment on homophobic abuse on the site.

    In a tweet the Culture Club singer and DJ said:

    “I’ve taken my homophobic spam issue to my lawyers and the police now!! Someone is going to get done!! Don’t let it be you!!”

    Boy George has over 200,000 followers on the service.

  • Big numbers for ‘I Woke Up Gay’

    BBC3 documentary I Woke Up Gay – about a straight rugby player from Wales who awoke gay after a stroke attracted nearly half a million viewers.

    Chris Birch, attracted huge media attention after he claimed he woke up gay from a stoke, which was induced after rolling down a hill with his friends.

    The documentary was aired on the 17th April 2012 and can be watched on the BBC iPlayer service – click here

  • FILM REVIEW | Weekend; Quiet, unhurried and self assured

    FILM REVIEW | Weekend; Quiet, unhurried and self assured

    It’s the kind of movie that Hollywood would run a mile from, and that’s a good thing.

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  • Adele – The Icon

    Stealing the crown from Kylie Minogue, Adele has been crowned the ‘new gay icon’ by GayDarRadio listeners here in the UK.

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  • Why Are Boy Bands So Gay?

    Why Are Boy Bands So Gay?

    So the thought of 3, 4 or 5 exuberant lads together making sweet music is one undeniably interesting prospect. One, I imagine causing many a nightly stirring whilst staring at your latest pinup poster of One Direction from Smash Hits. Hang on does Smash Hits still exist? Yes, apparently it does. Jolly good. It gets the mind-boggling, doesn’t it? How on earth do 5 guys share a tour bus, hotel, swanky lads pad in North London without straying to the gay side?

    Putting aside the cluster f**k images I wonder why on earth boybands are so gay. And I don’t even mean in a ‘that’s so gay’ way. It’s like everything they’ve been marketed to be is actually Gay with a capital G. “Researching” for this article I stumbled upon The Wanted’s homepage and delved into their personal info. Every member had an innocuous homo whispering (from favourite colour pink) to the to the blatant holla (favourite movie Brokeback Mountain and loving Gok Wan.) Now I’m not saying a HetroBoy shouldn’t like cowboy cock films, but it does seem a bit odd. Doesn’t it?

    THE OVERTONES

    3 out of 5 men prefer lads… These stats speak for themselves and we salute you for coming out so early in your careers. Plus these pretty boys look like they’re fresh out of a D&G advert so we’re pleased that the window shopping could possibly turn into purchases!

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    WESTLIFE

    There’s only so much pastel wearing and bleaching of hair a boy can get away with before the gay police come knocking. There’s something about the way those boys hopped off their bar stools at the key-change that reminds me of my youth – when a Britney tune came on. Plus one of the lads is a fully fledged ‘one of the boys’ – so they all gotta be – it’s gay science.

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    THE WANTED
    Five lads that between them enjoy Sex And The City, Brokeback Mountain, the colour pink, Steps, Michael Barrymore, America’s Next Top Model and Gok Wan. Don’t know about you but my Gaydar has just burst into flames. Now I’m not making assumptions and I’m not someone to point my gay finger at anyone, nor cast dispersions on anyone’s sexuality – but as Mr Clary would say it’s Uncanny and Unnatural. The only heterosexual lighthouse in the midst of all this Gay is the song ‘Glad You Came’ which I know is a common relief that a lot of straight men crave.

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    TAKE THAT
    These men just get a little sexier every time I see them. At first, it was all bondage and lighting fires with Lulu but now it’s a stronger bond. 20 years on, a little more rugged, fathers, old mates, comrades of the pop machine – hanging around a campfire remembering the good ole days when they could wear jockstraps and cream themselves in music videos… Gay right?

    O-TOWN
    Christ the first single was called Liquid Dreams. Enuff said.

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  • FILM REVIEW | Shortbus

    ★★★★★ | Shortbus

    You’ll never look at a splatter painting in the way away again.

    If you’ve ever wondered what it would feel like to have you face stuffed into a film’s never regions, then Shortbus is the film for you to see. Stat.

    Director John Cameron Mitchell (Hedwig And The Angry Inch) bravely circumnavigates the world of sexuality in this stylist, almost uncomplicated observation of sexual dysfunction.

    Shortbus is a New York club where the focus is sexual liberation with a heady blend of punters. Transgenders, aging homosexuals, hot young boys, a straight female sex therapist all looking to get their rocks off – a bit like Piccadilly on a Thursday night but more scintillating.

    The creators and actors of Shortbus have genuinely created and sustained characters the viewer can befriend and have some feeling for. It’s almost as though you can see that the actual actors forged a real relationship with each other, which gathering from the DVD’s ‘extras’ they had to, as part of the film development process was having sexual relations with each other.

    Shortbus did give me a tingling sensation. Not just because you get to see: self sucking, a blinding rim job, a 3 way, the national anthem sung into a sizable cock and Mr Cameron-Mitchell himself being sucked off by an extra (no really) but it caused me to think of my own sexuality and my relationship to it. If you’ve ever wondered how the standard British sexual sensibility is compared to an American one – go to New York, hook up with a bar tender and you might understand the discomfort that this film might create. Sex is ‘in your face.’ It is about sexual roles. It’s about ‘this moment, now’ Being British and naturally reserved such talk and this movie is better left after 2 bottles of Chablis and a handful of bar nuts.

    Some fantastic performances and an introduction to one Jay Brannan – who I suggest you get yourself into – socially so to speak. He has a Facebook, twitter, albums and tours his music about regularly.

    If you’re sexually revolutionize you might watch this and think, whats all the fuss about, but worth a punt anyway. You can pass it of as porn with a story line and real actors. No mention of rusty pipes than need a lube down.

    If you’re a fan of the slightly psychedelic, smash colour, animatic world of John Cameron Mitchell you’ll like this movie. It isn’t one however to watch with your Mother. You get to see quite a bit of peen!

    Available to buy / view on: Amazon

  • FILM REVIEW | Brokeback Mountain

    As a poignant and touching love story, Brokeback Mountain deserves to help revive an ailing genre..

    After a short stint trying to re-craft the comic book blockbuster in his own image, Ang Lee returns, gloriously, to more familiar ground. Based on Annie Proulx’s celebrated short story, Brokeback Mountain is a grand epic, a heartbreaking love story of two Wyoming ranch hands who fall for each other.

    It’s remarkable to see a movie about a gay romance told in such a determinedly straight fashion. In fact where most contemporary rom-coms perform all sorts of contrived narrative somersaults to keep its lovers apart, in Brokeback Mountain, the circumstances of a hostile society that conspire to separate Jake Gyllenhaal’s Jack Twist and Heath Ledger’s Ennis Del Mar are utterly believable and genuinely painful.

    But it’s not just the boys you end up rooting for. One of the reasons that Ang Lee’s film come across as so incredibly human is his reluctance to introduce a villain into the piece. The female leads could easily have been two-dimensional obstacles to true love. Instead, they’re almost as tragic as the men; it is not, after all, their fault that they unwittingly married blokes who were secretly spoken for.

    It will be interesting to see how these themes will play in the queer-fear conservative heartlands of America. There’s a very real possibility that the idea of gay cowboys will threaten the middle class majority; those who are more comfortable when gay people are safely stereotyped as queeny LA fashionistas.

    As a poignant and touching love story, Brokeback Mountain deserves to help revive an ailing genre: studio wisdom has it that sweeping romances spanning 20 years are a dead idea. On this evidence, they really should think about doing it more often.

    Anticipation: Some kind of Priscilla, Queen of the Ranch, right?

    Enjoyment: By the end you’d sell your own grandmother if it would help make things alright for them.

    In Retrospect: As soon as it ends you’ll want to watch it again. Even if it meant putting yourself once more through the emotional wringer.

    Available to buy / view on: Amazon

    Brokeback Mountain (text) by Catherine Wray is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

  • GARDENING: New Year New Garden

    Yes yes we’ve all heard the hilarious jokes about up hill gardening and friends dreadful impersonations of Kenneth Williams asking ‘Would you like a good fork?’ snigger snigger.

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  • FILM REVIEW | Dream Boy

    Nathan is a quiet but different boy, who lives in a very quiet town in the USA.

    Nathan falls for the boy next door, Roy – and their relationship blossoms into a gay adolescent love affair with an unhappy ending.

    The story is based on a novel by Jim Grimsley and delves into a world of child abuse, rape and the coming of age. It’s a very slow paced movie – think Brokeback Mountain and then slow it down some.

    Unfortunately for this film it lacks any of that Brokeback Hollywood treatment. No breath taking vistas, no Jake Gynenhall. Un-hyped and grassroots look at gay life for a teenager in Louisiana.

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