Writing

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.…

What was happening in London in the mid to late seventies, is that spaces and places were becoming more identifiably marked out as gay and, to some extent, lesbian spaces.…

Although I was living in outer London (as I said, in glamorous Teddington to be precise), it didn't initially occur to me to try and meet people on the pub…

Someday,  Somewhere, We'll find a new way of living We'll find a way of forgiving Somewhere There's a place for us Somewhere a place for us Peace and quiet and open air Wait for us somewhere…