How to behave when you’ve invited gay friends to your wedding

I knew people – gay and straight – might react badly when I called a Daily Life article I wrote ‘How to behave when you’ve invited gay friends to your wedding’, but I had a point to make, so I went with the clickbaity headline and forged on. The wedding industry is huge and the same […]

5 years of musical mayhem: Gay News Network

I had a chat with Cec Busby of the Gay News Network, about Lady Sings it Better’s show this Saturday night. I am thrilled to say that seated tickets are nearly booked out so we’ve released cheap standing room tickets at $25. Here’s the interview with GNN: While her friends and family are celebrating milestones […]

All hail the Bariloche police force

What a fucking day. That said, all hail the Bariloche police force. Shortly after arriving in Bariloche on a delayed flight, Jane and I left our backpacks in the car for 10 minutes while we ducked into the petrol station to find maps. 10 measly minutes! Alas (and perhaps inevitably), we returned to no backpacks, […]

The Battle for Fun: Queers & Straights

I recently posted this photo to the ‘this is oz’ website, an Australian initiative which basically involves people posting an anti-homophobia message in the form of a photo of themselves with a handwritten sign. The posts vary from playful, to political, to passionate pleas for equality, to more abstract statements. I have received mixed responses […]

I’ve loved him for a long long time…

I’ve loved him for a long long time… …I know this love is real. He walked in to a standing ovation. That says it all really. But, with that much adoration, failure – or at least disappointment – could have been on the cards. To be honest, what I expected from the Leonard Cohen concert […]

‘An Other Tourist’ or ‘The Problem with Straight People’

The other day Kamilla and I were spat at for kissing in the streets of Dubrovnik. Now, I myself have great disdain for overt public displays of affection, but the violent hate on this man’s face told me that it was our gender and not any perceived cutesy romanticism that led him to part with […]

Ice Ice Baby

I arrived at 1am at my couch surfing host’s place in Reykjavik and knocked on the window as instructed. “Am I in the right place?” I asked when the door opened. “I don’t know…Are you?” My host was out at work and his two friends were waiting at his place. They weren’t sure if he […]