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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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Alex and Charlotte
You know when you wake up and it's one of those blank days? One you know you won't remember? A day without weather. Your shower not too hot, not too cold, but... Read more
Posted on 18 January 2020 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX -
Maria and Jacob
Still January, then. Great. Nothing more to say on that, really. This week's hopefuls are Maria, a 24-year-old fashion PR, and Jacob, 27, a charity fundraiser.... Read more
Posted on 11 January 2020 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX -
Gavin and Rob
January. Party's over, clear away the gin, banish meat from your life, eschew dairy, sail oblivious past the chocolate aisle in Tesco like you're the Demeter... Read more
Posted on 04 January 2020 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX -
Jonathan and Matt
Do you remember, back at the top of the year, when our January blues were all but obliterated thanks to two women? Much has been made of the legend of Joanne an... Read more
Posted on 21 December 2019 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX -
Lizzie and Tomas Revisited
Saturday 27 May 2017 came at the end of a bad week. Just a few days earlier, there had been a terrorist attack on the Manchester Arena in which 23 people died.... Read more
Posted on 07 December 2019 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX -
Gently
I am trying something new. It is not a fad diet, although I could do with one - after twenty minutes in the gym, I look more flustered and out of breath than... Read more
Posted on 03 December 2019 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX -
Jen and Anna
This morning I received an email - at 6:15, no less; don't people actually sleep - from someone who said they'd had a conversation about the Guardian Blind... Read more
Posted on 23 November 2019 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX -
Just
I went to Bath. I hadn't been there in twenty years. Last time I visited, I was working at a language school for the summer, shepherding uninterested non-Englis... Read more
Posted on 21 November 2019 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX -
Fiye and Shaun
Two men! What a treat for a very cold Saturday morning. But here I am in my Bugs Bunny onesie - mock all you want, haterz, but it's very warm and my central... Read more
Posted on 09 November 2019 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX -
Allegra and Charlie
As Dorothy said to her little dog Toto, we're not in Kansas anymore. We are, in fact, in Bristol. Yes, we have finally managed to break free of London's... Read more
Posted on 02 November 2019 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX -
Ashleigh and Mike
As Céline Dion once epically sang: "There were moments of gold, and there were flashes of light". And that's the very least we should expect from the Blind... Read more
Posted on 12 October 2019 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX -
National Coming Out Day is All Yours – Make It Count
It's National Coming Out Day, the day when the collective force of a zillion closet doors being thrust open is enough to knock you off your feet. Coming out is ... Read more
Posted on 11 October 2019 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX -
Patrick and Olivia
This week, we have 35-year-old estate agent Patrick and Olivia, 26, who is a buying assistant. Let's see those "posing like you're in an awkward candid snap at ... Read more
Posted on 05 October 2019 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX -
David and Ollie
I'm unwell so let's crack open yet another blister-pack of generic cold and flu medication and plough straight into what, at first glance, looks like the queue... Read more
Posted on 28 September 2019 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX -
The Art of Ingymidation
I have been going to the gym on and off - more on, I have to say - for the last 15 years or so. I remember summer 2004, at the age of 28, contracting chicken po... Read more
Posted on 24 September 2019 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX -
Helena and Greg
Saturday comes, as it always must, and we're now very much at the fag-end of the bright mornings and sunny days. The evenings are "drawing in", and the air has ... Read more
Posted on 14 September 2019 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX -
The Magnificent Sons
Good heavens! I have another novel coming out. This one is called THE MAGNIFICENT SONS and here is the official blurb: "Two brothers. Two different journeys. Th... Read more
Posted on 10 September 2019 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX -
How to Start Again
When somebody dies, they take on a kind of mythical quality. Did they ever exist at all? Yes, you have your memories and, for a while until you can no longer... Read more
Posted on 08 September 2019 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX -
Rachel and Georgia
In the Guardian's celebration of 10 years of the Weekend Blind Date column last week, it was revealed there had been just 15 women-only dates, which was quite... Read more
Posted on 07 September 2019 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX -
Peter and Hannah
This week we have the ultimate crossover, almost as mind-blowing as when Dynasty's Fallon turned up in The Colbys with a new head, or Footballers' Wives' Tanya... Read more
Posted on 31 August 2019 DATING, LGBTQ, LOVE & SEX