When I thought about it, it dawned on me, that everyone was guilty of some offence. If you were driving and in motion, a traffic violation....
Sometimes I imagine my lungs filling up with concrete dust. I imagine the strange taste in my water is concrete. I’m always trying to find my...
The High Court’s decision brought up many emotions for me as a gay man over the age of 50. To be told, officially, by your own...
I greet you in the name of Maya Angelou, Nina Simone, Micere Mugo, Thomas Mapfumo, and Bob Marley. I greet you in the name of dance,...
I hope that soon when I encounter media coverage of LGBTQ issues, it will recognise and acknowledge that there isn’t one single narrative to our ‘gayism’,...
“I realised I loved him. I always loved him. And I told him that I didn’t look at him for who he slept with, but I...
After being pushed and suppressed into the confines of our culture, after being labelled demonic, unnatural, attention-seeking, perverted, and sin, queerness is simply asking to be...
Far beyond the commercial viability of the sector, I believe that fashion remains one of the most complex languages of human expression. With every new project...
That time. That place. We started something together. With him at its heart. With his own big and encompassing heart - he dragged us all in,...
Literary scholars have a way of frowning upon other literary media not in their stable. Poets often assume theirs is the best medium. Those who study...
Through writing, he is getting a second chance at life. Self-motivation. Self-education. This resonates loudly with many of us who have been let down by the...
What a brief wondrous life! What a moving force! What an acceleration! He moved so frantically through life, ideas and spaces that it is difficult to...