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For the first and possibly last time in my life, I bought a copy of Rooi Rose (for any non South African readers, it’s an Afrikaans women’s magazine and although it’s come a long way since apartheid days, it’s still one of those magazines that one thinks of as safely mainstream i.e. hardly relevant to me, as part of the LGBTQI spectrum).  I bought it for the story about Robert Hamblin, the artist formerly known as Adele Hamblin; photographer extraordinaire.

Robert’s physical transiti...

I was sitting on the beach yesterday talking to one of my favourite straight women about sexuality.  We both agreed that things would be better if everybody on earth thought they were bisexual and then just did whatever and whoever they wanted from that point.  She was astonished when I told her how prejudiced the gay (not queer!) community is towards bisexuals.  Now, I don't conside myself bisexual at all.  I tried a few times, to have sex with men who I loved so much that really, all that w...

But why do gay people have to go on about it so much?

People say that so rationally, so calmly that it almost seems reasonable to me too.  And then I think.  I think about pink triangles and black ones in concentration camps and Michael Causer and Matthew Shepherd and the two murdered Soweto lesbians and all the victims we'll never even hear about.  That's why – that's it.  The rest of us cannot shut up until those people are safe, until kids aren't getting bullied for it in schools, until l...