Gay, as in happy

IT’S ONE THING for two guys to click in bed. Quite another to make it on the road. For six weeks I’d been sharing a single bed with a hot scientist in the middle of England. Was it too soon for Paris?

Smiling at the shop assistant as she folded a stunning blue dress into a bag, I was aware that – with my wedding ring as a clue – she probably assumed I was a loving husband buying a present for my lu

I grew up in Broken Hill, a tiny mining town in outback New South Wales, Australia. People think it’s progressive because of the Broken Heel Festival and Priscilla, Queen of the Desert being filmed th

a straight guy said to me on a recent (bad) date, neatly summing up the gendered differences with biphobia today. For bi women like me, our over-sexualisation by the male gaze grants us a mainstream c

I’m not sure what woke me up so early – excitement or the desperate need for a wee. These days, my alarm is my bladder. I pull on a loose, comfortable dress and shuffle down the corridor of our holida

AJ West has had a varied career. He started out as a journalist before appearing on TV in the Big Brother house. Now he’s an author whose historical novels have won plaudits. His first book, The Spiri