My Dying Scream For Orlando

If, as a 22 year old gay writer, I'm supposed to be some kind of representative for my generation, then this is the first time I might be fulfilling this role. I am a shell of a human. The last few years have numbed me, and now I feel my stone heart begin to crack finally. What follows is my dying scream, because at last you've all come for me now.

Sad Dance Songs Are My Favourite Songs

If lightning strikes me (or I fall into nuclear waste) and gives me the musical talent I've always wanted but never possessed; I would make sad songs. For a number of reasons, I am not a normal functioning member of society. Perhaps no-one is. Perhaps society itself is only a construct that people only pretend to be part of, or perhaps as human contact becomes fleeting due to a combination of bureaucracy and technology then we're losing our normality.

My Experience As A School Network Monitor

"If you have nothing to fear, you have nothing to hide."

Joseph Goebbels

I've already written about this, but for two months last year I worked in a secondary school as an IT technician. It was just a work experience role, so my responsibilities were limited. Sometimes I was able to fix a problem, most of the time I would just gather as much info as I could before passing it onto a colleague. Often I was given the menial jobs, or 'side-quests' as I liked to call them. I would patrol after-school, change print toners, fill in data entry. Easy stuff for a luddite such as myself.

Racism Is OUR Fault

As I keep saying, the UK government continues to deal with British extremism by doing everything wrong. But with the new sort-of-well-intentioned-but-actually-racist-when-you-think-about-it proposal that female Muslims (screw males) will be given English lessons, I noticed a recurring pattern.

My Experience As A Film Critic

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On LGBT Porn

OK, the title is perhaps misleading. I'm specifically discussing the impact of pornography on LGBT perceptions and mainstream culture. You see, porn is like going to the toilet: only scientists or weird people discuss it, yet we all do it. I guarantee everyone reading this has at least a passing knowledge of it. (Also, I assure you this article is perfectly safe for work.)

'The Danish Girl'

So it's January. That means all the films trying to win Oscars are all coming out in a shameless attempt to stick out in the Academy's minds come vote-time. God, I hate the Oscars...