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Although consensual sex between men had been partially decriminalised for males (with caveats: in private, over 21, England and Wales only, (presumably Scottish men in Gretna Green could nip over…

The Gilded Boys The gilded boys are dancing with their lovers brothers lover. Those golden lads are having one fine time. Swaying rather wildly to the ever present bass hum…

I have already mentioned that the British Film Institute (the BFI) became a beacon for me in the mid seventies , offering a way of escape into the fantasy of…

One could write a book about the ways gay men & lesbians have created in order to live (and love) together in the last century and a half and indeed…

In the early eighties the counselling group that I've mentioned before, 'Icebreakers' was also to play a significant role in my life. The GLF and later Icebreakers had run a…

Another key group that developed in the early to mid 1970s in London was 'The Counter-Psychiatry Group', led by a sociologist called Michael (Micky) Burbidge. The group took its raison…

It is hard to remember now, that 'safer sex' literature had to be invented. Having lived with it for so long now, its messages, modes and constructs are ingrained into most…

It is hard to remember now, that 'safer sex' literature had to be invented. Having lived with it for so long now, its messages, modes and constructs are ingrained into most…

After the THT video Gearing Up... had been out and about for a while we had the idea of adding a bit more to the basic 'protective gear' message The idea…

I was up on the Heath, Hampstead Heath, one early February.  It was a few years after the infamous 'Great Storm' of 1987 but the Heath still bore its scars.…