Tom Daley and the bisexual question

Tom Daley and the bisexual question There are (hardly ever just) two sides to every story. So here are some Continue reading →

Why Tom Daley’s sexuality is still important, even if it shouldn’t be.

Here’s a quick quiz: Which of the following responses to someone coming out as queer [gay/lesbian/bi/trans] is homo/bi/trans/phobic? Ok, but Continue reading →

“I’m (not) sorry for hating you.” On Homophobia and Bigotry.

A few days ago Alan Chambers, of the now defunct Exodus International [an organisation which claimed to help ‘cure’ people Continue reading →

The Right to be confused.

At twenty-five, I moved back to England from France to finish my PhD. Simultaneously, I decided that I would no Continue reading →

Part 4: The Pathologization of Homosexuality, and a little bit of Kinsey.

Part 4: The Pathologization of Homosexuality, and a little bit of Kinsey.   When Angelides writes, at the beginning of Continue reading →

Part 3: The return of the repressed: Freud, psychoanalysis and bisexuality.

The return of the repressed: Freud, psychoanalysis and bisexuality.  Freud is probably one of the most well known theorists on Continue reading →

Why I am writing this blog

Over the last year or so I’ve been working through various issues in my life. In short these have been Continue reading →

Part 2: Race, Gender, Sexuality: Science and the Invention of (Bi)sexuality

Again, this chapter beings with Sedgewick and the crisis of masculine identity, i.e. how thought, society and sexuality have been Continue reading →