Simon Says
Dear Simon
I have fairly recently come out of my third violent relationship. I am fine and it’s been a few months and so everything physical and mental has healed and I am now ready to meet someone else. The thing is, after meeting so many bad men I am worried I can’t find a good [...]
Queen of Clubs
A friend of mine recently told me how a gay bar he’d once worked at was turned into a straight bar by the brewery for financial reasons. It wasn’t necessarily a problem with falling sales, but rather an inability to meet the growth of straight venues also owned by the brewery. Gay venues, it seems, [...]
Fitness with Jarrett James
What burns more fat – high intensity or low intensity exercises?
High intensity is the answer!!
High intensity exercise will bring your metabolism to the max levels.
Your metabolism will be elevated, you will be burning more calories. Your metabolism will stay elevated for hours after you stop exercising.
High-intensity training will add more muscle to your body, because [...]
The disgrace of Uganda’s anti-gay Bill
Peter Tatchell is running a campaign to bring to the attention of UK citizens the horror that is taking place in Uganda. He writes: “I am very grateful to Rob Tisinai for making a masterclass YouTube video that explains the full horrors of the Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Bill. It shows that this Bill is far more [...]
The Albert Kennedy Trust fundraiser
Last month saw London’s top nightspot No5 Cavendish Square host the fabulous ‘Winter Carnival’. The event was in aid of the Albert Kennedy Trust and included a champagne reception, a delicious three course meal, an auction plus live entertainment. Celebrity guests included amongst others; Patron of AKT, Sir Ian McKellen, Sandi Toksvig, Kristian Digby, Jodie [...]
Advice – Are you a sex clinic virgin?
For lots of men, a trip to the GUM clinic can seem daunting, so they delay it or avoid it all together. That’s what happened to Mike Robinson, gay man and sex clinic virgin. In the latest issue of FS magazine from GMFA, the gay men’s health charity, he reveals how, after a long time [...]
Advice – Children and splitting up
After 4 years in a civil partnership, my partner and I have decided to go our separate ways and have filed for a divorce. We are adamant that the lives of our adopted children should change as little as possible- is it possible to get shared custody from the courts?
A: When a relationship ends everyone’s primary [...]
The FA takes its eye of the ball
The Football Association has cancelled the launch of its long awaited anti-homophobia video, pleading that it needs to review its strategy on tackling anti-gay prejudice and how the video fits into its overall campaign.
The cancellation coincides with criticism and unease over the video’s use of stridently homophobic language in a bid to expose and shame [...]
Editor’s words – March
Would you kill your partner if you thought you were being merciful?
With the recent news that Ray Gosling, the veteran BBC presenter who admitted killing a former lover who was dying of AIDS, had been arrested… what do Bent readers feel about mercy killings?
Mr Gosling, 70, made the confession on a BBC programme in which [...]
Editor’s Words Equality: the state of being equal
Equality seems a strange concept for an awful lot of people to comprehend yet the precept is very simple – We are all Equal.
Of course in George Orwell’s literary classic ‘Animal Farm’ we know that once some achieve power the adage that ‘we are all equal… just some are more equal than others’ comes into [...]
