Teddy Bears
By Gordon Hopps It was Pride and I was sitting in a bar with a large group of friends
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Eurovision 2015
By Gordon Hopps It’s been called the greatest entertainment show in the world, and with viewing figures approaching 200 million,
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Edward Scissorhands – Shear Magic
By Gordon Hopps If truth be told, I was in two minds about going to see this production. I
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“Power in the Darkness” – Tom Robinson by Gordon Hopps
I will always be grateful to Tom Robinson for writing ‘Glad to be Gay’. In the 1970s, at a
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Review – Derren Brown – Infamous Tour by Gordon Hopps
I have to own up… I am besotted with Derren Brown! When I discovered he was gay, it made me
Read MoreGay Marriage By Gordon Hopps
Well, I don’t know about you but those two words don’t scare me at all. Alas, for some people
Read MoreTrespass at your peril by Gordon Hopps
Adam Mitchell Lambert is a bit of a phenomenon. For those here in the UK who plugged into what could
Read MoreEncountering Julian Briefly By Gordon Hopps
We love Julian. We love him for being Julian. We love the way he can insinuate and double entre and
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The voice of an Angelo
By Gordon Hopps Angelo represents a new direction for pop music. Taking lyrical inspiration from ancient mythology and transforming it
Read MoreStuart Andrew: An MP… who happens to be gay.
By Gordon Hopps There are definitely more and more high profile gay MPs in Parliament these days. One of the
Read MoreThe Great Campaigner
Peter Tatchell The New Year brings with it a rather important anniversary for gay rights. Peter Tatchell, a man who
Read MoreEditor’s Words: June 2011
‘FIRST MAN CURED OF HIV’ – such a headline of course caught my eye as I perused the various websites
Read MoreEditor’s Words: May 2011
Death. Death isn’t something most people want to dwell upon but when it strikes close to home suddenly all manner
Read MoreEditors Words: April 2011
With the world in disarray; what with earthquakes, tsunamis, people uprising against autonomous self-serving oligarchs and the continued tension throughout
Read MoreEditors Words: March 2011
My partner and I have just celebrated our 34th anniversary together and we’ve been ‘married’ for five years. The news
Read MoreFebruary 2011: Editor’s Words
Now that we are well into 2011 many of us will be turning our thoughts to the warmer weather and
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I know I should be angry with the Pope’s right hand ‘hench’man Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, claiming that the Catholic Church’s
Read MoreEditor’s Words – April
With a General Election called for next month… will readers of Bent be bothered to vote? According to the two
Read MoreEditor’s words – March
Would you kill your partner if you thought you were being merciful? With the recent news that Ray Gosling, the
Read MoreEditor’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 –
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