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• Let Me Get a Selfie

  

  When was the last time you took a selfie? How often do you taken them? Do you share them? If you do, how many shots does it take before you settle on the perfec... Read more

  Posted on 19 September 2016 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX

• Guardian Blind Date Review: Emma and Jack

  Click through to read my review of this week’s Guardian Blind Date. There are awkward silences, veiled insults, sick burns and scores so low you couldn’t limbo... Read more

  Posted on 17 September 2016 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX

• How to Deal with Rejection Like a Gentleman

  My latest piece for GQ talks about how to handle rejection without being a massive douche, be it on a dating app, at work, or on a date. Includes a must-read... Read more

  Posted on 14 September 2016 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX

• Guardian Blind Date Review: Andre and Dan

  Click through to read my review of this week’s Blind Date column in the Guardian. We’re lucky enough to have gay men this week, with the perfect names for a... Read more

  Posted on 10 September 2016 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX

• Which Twitter A-levels Pundit Should You Aspire to Date?

  It’s A-level results day on 18 August, which means a lot of people who maybe once years ago sat some exam have a great deal of opinions, bons mots and tales of... Read more

  Posted on 17 August 2016 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX

• Happy Birthday Madonna: Please Never, Ever Give in Or “put It Away”

  Another year, another set of birthday candles for Madonna. She turns 58 today. For the 30 or so years Madonna has been putting the cat among the pigeons in the... Read more

  Posted on 16 August 2016 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX

• Time to Cage the Daily Beast Within

  Have you noticed how obsessed with gay sex straight people are? First they’re telling us Aids is a “gay disease”, then trying to tell us we shouldn’t be... Read more

  Posted on 11 August 2016 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX

• Guardian Blind Date Review: Rodney and Rosie

  Click through to read my review of this week’s Guardian Blind Date, which is zesty and talkative and the first date ever for one of them. Spoiler: Read more

  Posted on 06 August 2016 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX

• Student Grants and the Luxury of Freedom

  I remember summer 1994.Wet Wet Wet were no.1 in the charts for what felt like for ever, the weather was predictably unpredictable and my wardrobe was in... Read more

  Posted on 01 August 2016 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX

• Guardian Blind Date Review: Lucy and Vik

  In the Guardian Blind Date this week, we get Paul Newman, our very first mention of Pokémon Go, some horrendous food-sharing and a score that says what a... Read more

  Posted on 30 July 2016 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX

• The Beauty in Goodbye

  I have long been obsessed with finding something beautiful and romantic about an ending. I’ve never warmed to nostalgia or what-ifs, but to be somewhere and kno... Read more

  Posted on 26 July 2016 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX

• Guardian Blind Date Review: Lou and George

  Yes, I’m back!In this week’s Guardian Blind Date, a young Frank Sinatra, the joys of being northern, burger banter and that mythical spark – can it turn to fire... Read more

  Posted on 23 July 2016 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX

• Guardian Blind Date Review: Alastair and Charlotte

  It’s been another depressing week, hasn’t, with no glimmer of anything at the end of the tunnel but an oncoming train driven by a sociopathic Brexiteer with a... Read more

  Posted on 09 July 2016 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX

• Guardian Blind Date Review: Jon and Karen

  If you think this week’s Guardian Blind Date can’t get any worse than “I like Katie Hopkins – she tells it like it is”, you are very, very wrong. Click through... Read more

  Posted on 02 July 2016 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX

• The Last First Date

  It isn’t a date. Definitely not.We are not meeting with a view to anything other than having a few drinks and, at my request, ten-pin bowling. It’s all perfectl... Read more

  Posted on 30 June 2016 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX

• Did We Meme Our Way to Brexit?

  Brexit. Can there be anything left to say? Trade agreements, negotiations, Norway, £350 million, Farage? No, probably not. However, once the result came in, I... Read more

  Posted on 29 June 2016 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX

• Guardian Blind Date Review: Simon and Caz

  Buckle up and click on through for my review of the latest Guardian Blind Date, which features some Brexit-style bantz, breakneck friendzoning and… an old... Read more

  Posted on 25 June 2016 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX

• Guardian Blind Date Review: Aidan and Padraig

  Click on through for this week’s Guardian Blind Date review. They’ve managed to hook up two of those rarest of beasts – Irish gay guys living in London (well on... Read more

  Posted on 18 June 2016 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX

• The Day Homophobia Died

  I will never forget that day. How much we sang, how we danced. Once the clouds had cleared, the sky seemed to be the brightest it had ever been, and bluer than... Read more

  Posted on 13 June 2016 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX

• Guardian Blind Date Review: Michael and Laura

  Click through to read this week’s Guardian Blind Date review, which has the bitter sting of rejection, musings on why everyone is so massively entitled and the... Read more

  Posted on 11 June 2016 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX