Romantic novelist. Author of LOVE & OTHER SCAMS (2023), WE COULD BE HEROES (June 2024). Sex & Relationships Editor
@MensHealthMag
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@florencerees93
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Superhero movie star meets small-town drag queen. It's a tale as old as time.
My big gay romcom WE COULD BE HEROES is released on June 4 in the US with
@PutnamBooks
and June 6 in the UK with
@HarperNorthUK
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Imagine single-handedly fending off a Nazi invasion using witchcraft and that not even being your most iconic or best remembered role. Angela Lansbury had the range.
“I was a bald binge drinker and Natalie Portman was a beautiful movie star. But here she was in my dressing room, flirting with me. I was 33 and she was 20 but this was her world.” It's gross how Moby thinks he can frame an 18 year old girl (NOT 20) as the one with all the power.
I wish we could just ignore JK Rowling but every time she says literally anything it endangers vulnerable young people, so I'm sorry gang but here we go again:
Comparing transitioning to conversion therapy is transphobic, homophobic, intellectually bankrupt and dangerous.
Saying that Palestine has a poor track record when it comes to LGBTQ rights isn’t the home run you think it is. So does Arizona, but I wouldn’t want to see children getting bombed there either.
Paul O' Grady, RIP. Epitomised what I have always said. He felt no need to wear his sexuality on his sleeve, when his act was Lily Savage he was an artist not cavorting around in skin tight shorts like Sam Smith, he entertained adults & kids tastefully.A funny guy a true artist
Saltburn has been on streaming for less than two days and tiktok is full of people thinking they’ve found “Easter eggs” when they’re actually just… following the plot
Amber Heard came forward with allegations of domestic abuse and was bullied into dropping the charges. Johnny Depp, meanwhile, is the titular character in the next big Potter blockbuster and on the cover of GQ. Tell me again how these accusations ruin men's careers?
The replies on this thread have been cracking me up, you’re all great, je ne regrette fuck all.
I have nothing to plug, but please think about donating to
@Mermaids_Gender
as trans and nonbinary kids are the ones who are perpetually the most vulnerable members of our community x
The people calling this content “relatable” and “an attack” need to learn to be embarrassed. If an experience like this had happened to me I would take it to my grave.
Some of the replies to this are radioactive. Rather than respond to claims that I’m a “rapist” or an “advert for the fourth reich” I’m going to say CHEERS.
Happy one week anniversary to the guy who said all this on our first and only date:
“I don’t like gay bars, I went to my first one last week.”
“I just found Black Panther too political, you know?”
“I’m newly single and still live with my ex.”
“I really like The Big Bang Theory.”
Queer people's sex lives are so often treated as a public debate that it's easy to forget what we do in bed is nobody else's fucking business. Here's why
@troyesivan
was right to shut down that reporter.
Love, Death & Robots on Netflix is a fucking brilliant anthology of animated sci-fi. A really exciting mix of genres and styles with stunning visuals (if a little liberal with the boobs). Some personal faves: Sonnie’s Edge, The Witness, Good Hunting, Fish Night.
I have dated no fewer than three men who made plain salmon and boiled new potatoes (unbuttered) as the first meal when I went over to their place. On each occasion, they presented it as if they were competing on Masterchef. What did I do in a past life to deserve that? Tell me!
Happy Endings and Don't Trust The Bitch In Apartment 23 were very Obama-era sitcoms but you could easily update the storylines. Penny would be a wannabe influencer, Jane would be feuding with Marie Kondo and Chloe would be blackmailing half of the Supreme Court.
Got another rejection email, but it was the kindest, most encouraging one yet. Tweeting this because I think it’s important to share your failures and almost-wins, as well as your successes.
Today I matched with a handsome man on Tinder who had the most beautiful Labrador, but upon scrolling 28 weeks back through his Instagram I learned that he is a member of the Brexit party. This is why you do your due diligence. Imaging finding that out on your wedding night.
"Actually, throughout my life, my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart." - The President of the United States and also me on Tinder.
Lady Gaga following up the R. Kelly version of Do What U Want with the far superior Christina Aguilera duet felt like a tacit acknowledgment that she'd misstepped but I'm glad she's out-and-out stated it. Now let's all stop focusing on women when a man is accused of a sex crime.
I will be thinking about this poem by
@JayHulmePoet
for a long time. A god with sore feet and sweat patches and glitter on his face, loving without reserve or condition.
William being a big old bottom is the most interesting thing about him but as any queer person will tell you that’s still pretty boring.
#PrinceOfPegging
Queer Eye but instead of five gay guys it’s ten gay guys and they’re just like fanning me with giant palm leaves and feeding me grapes and telling me they loved my latest story.
In his memoir ‘Spare,’ Prince Harry reveals that his favourite character in Buffy the Vampire Slayer was Faith.
“Buffy came from a life of affluent privilege, which I related to, but Faith was a working class bad girl. She upended social norms and expectations. She inspired me.”
As we head into Pride month I implore every white gay on here to remember that we are standing on the shoulders of black and brown trans women whose righteous fury in a riot similar to the ones we’re seeing on TV right now paved the way for genuine change. They were not “civil.”
Some pointers for journalists and producers, seeing as how some of you don't know how to behave:
- Millennials are old now
- LGBT rights aren't a "debate"
- The earth is slowly boiling
- No, bootcut jeans are not coming back
A quarter of the UK's homeless youth population are LGBTQ, but they won't be represented in the London Pride march because... *checks notes* their bus isn't pretty enough? If
@PrideInLondon
isn't inclusive of the most vulnerable members of the community then what is it even for?
“We don’t have enough money to spray paint the bus in a rainbow”
Harry Gay from
@LGBTIQoutside
wanted to take the homeless shelter’s bus on the Pride parade
He says they were told to make it “visibly nice” by organisers
#VictoriaLIVE
I have watched this a dozen times and now I want to write a novel about a group of girls who practice witchcraft together as teens and then reconnect in later life and reform the coven to enact supernatural revenge on their shitty ex-husbands.
An Ode to Stanley Tucci's Forearms
When Stanley's cooking dinner
his sleeves get in the way.
But when he rolls them up
it makes us feel some kind of way.
It's not just that they're hairy,
or muscular, or tan.
It's all these things and more
that give us no choice but to stan.
Never mind Mad Men or Breaking Bad, the real golden age of television was the era when every show was promoted with a photo of the entire cast in a giant bed
This is slut-shaming nonsense. If you want some genuinely useful “rules” for sex, how about: understand the importance of enthusiastic consent, know your status, get tested regularly, and be safe.