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The Guyliner
http://www.theguyliner.com/
The definitive, yet disaster-laden, gay dating blog. The perils and pitfalls of internet dating as told by M, 36, 5'9", brown/blue, Yorkshire
LATEST ARTICLES ( 465 )
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The Magnificent Sons: Prologue
Hello! Am delighted to be sharing with you an extract from my second novel THE MAGNIFICENT SONS, which is out on hardback August 6 2020. You can find links to... Read more
Posted on 20 June 2020 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX -
Ben and James
Age is "just a number" until it isn't, have you noticed? People are keen to tell you life begins at 40, that you're only as young as you feel, and that you're... Read more
Posted on 23 May 2020 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX -
Five Things: Lockdown
How is it for you? The lockdown? Yeah, I know. One thing I've been enjoying is reading numerous celebrity profiles where they tell us about their quarantine... Read more
Posted on 22 May 2020 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX -
Harry and Jayson
We're still virtual, for obvious reasons, and this week the Guardian takes advantage of that fact by going truly global, with Harry, a 32-year-old TV producer... Read more
Posted on 09 May 2020 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX -
I Went Looking for Something
I went looking for something. Perhaps that was a mistake. On top of my wardrobe there are three white boxes, filled with fragments of our lives. A box of... Read more
Posted on 30 April 2020 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX -
Kayleigh and Josh
I look terrible. My hair is a disaster, and so tall, should planes ever fly again they would have to swerve it. My skin has all but given up and is having a muc... Read more
Posted on 25 April 2020 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX -
Jem and Ria
For almost six years, I have got up nearly every Saturday morning, made myself a cup of tea - in a mug with my initial on that I use only on Saturdays - and hav... Read more
Posted on 11 April 2020 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX -
Calum and Laurence
It's the end of the world as we know it - how are you feeling? Oh I don't mean our impending doom from the coronavirus, as frightening as it is. While my... Read more
Posted on 04 April 2020 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX -
Wooden Spoon
It tells you almost everything you need to know about Wetherspoons that it was named out of spite - a tribute by its owner, Tim Martin, to the schoolteacher... Read more
Posted on 04 April 2020 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX -
Lucjan and Laura
Life through the looking-glass is not as we expected, is it? Our lives are a series of scenes and only occasionally written by ourselves. Presently, the... Read more
Posted on 29 March 2020 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX -
Unskilled
We have some unshakeable ideas about what our job says about us, and its place in society, don't we? And we have even more these ideas about how other people... Read more
Posted on 23 March 2020 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX -
Fiona and Jack
What could I possibly say that's not been said already? What could I add to the noise, the incessant takes swirling, the good, the bad, and the dangerous.... Read more
Posted on 21 March 2020 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX -
Gustavo and Bryan
Everything is burning. Let's fiddle. This week, we have a 31-year-old nurse practitioner called Gustavo and Bryan, 34, who is a head of sales. Selling what we... Read more
Posted on 14 March 2020 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX -
Try Not to Touch Your Own Face While You Read This
Isn't it always the way that as soon as we're told we shouldn't do something, we want to do it all the more? How inevitable of us. How pathetic, and predictable... Read more
Posted on 29 February 2020 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX -
The Magnificent Sons
Good heavens! I have another novel coming out. This one is called THE MAGNIFICENT SONS. It is very good. As for getting your hands on it, you can already... Read more
Posted on 26 February 2020 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX -
Henry and Chloe
According to a long-forgotten duet between Ricky Martin and Christina Aguilera, 'nobody wants to be lonely'. I dare say Ricky and Christina may not have been... Read more
Posted on 22 February 2020 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX -
You Are Not, and Will Never Be, Anna from ‘This Life’
We all have our own Manderley, don't we? That place we return to in our dreams, over and over, like the second Mrs de Winter in Rebecca? For some, it's childhoo... Read more
Posted on 13 February 2020 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX -
Elle and Ben
Do you ever meet those people who manage to bring every conversation back round to them? Of course you do, we all do - perhaps some of us are those people. You... Read more
Posted on 08 February 2020 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX -
Five Things: Valentine’s Day
It's Valentine's Day soon - February 14th, as always - and as I have, in the past, written stuff about it for various publications, I get asked semi-regularly... Read more
Posted on 29 January 2020 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX -
Jess and Josh
Shall we crack on? I've got some eggs I want to scramble within the hour. Today, our hapless romantics - or people who want to be in a national newspaper but... Read more
Posted on 25 January 2020 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX