I made an affirmation at the end of my last blog that I wasn’t going to enter any more drag competitions. Contrary to that I actually...

When I first came to London as a 19-year-old art student my favourite thing to do was get so drunk that I would get thrown out of...

When I arrived in Pune, India I decided I was going to embrace any new deity or guru that I came across with a deep religious fervor. I...

Two nights before new year I put on a cabaret night called Astro's Nativity New Year Apocalypse at The Glory in London. I sang Auld Lang...

I’ve never actually tried to work out before how long I spent writing 'The Space Between Galaxies.' Sometimes I say five years, sometimes...

I just queued for 14 hours to go and see the queen’s coffin and it was one of the most bizarre intense ritual experiences. I’m not a...

Are erotic gay romances written by women for women ruining the market for gay authors? I recently wrote a blog about the phenomena of mm...

I’ve seen a discussion going on amongst young book reviewers that makes me want to roll my eyes so hard that they fall out of my head....

I used to ramble in an all-knowing Oscar Wilde tone of voice, that there are about three categories of gay novel and they are all...

Step 1) Lose your job, your visa and your house Before the pandemic I was living in Switzerland with my boyfriend Chachi. I was teaching...

Since I was about ten, I dreamed of being a pop-star. I used to cycle home from school singing loudly to myself, hoping a record exec...

It must be twelve years ago that I started going out with Percy Tankengine, who introduced me to Rupaul’s Drag Race. He’d changed his...

I remember as a kid having some vague notion of pride in being British. Without being told explicitly I got this sense that my country...

I had a day stopover in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Rather than going and seeing any sights, I decided to just eat durian products. Durian is...

I was living in Cologne with an English person called Zack who claimed he was German. Zack would often rhapsodise about how we were going...

Straight away when we arrived in Nice, Pete started asking people for cigarettes and lighters in made up French: ‘Avez vouz un leet,’ he...

At the start of 2016 I flew to Las Vegas for £95 in the hope of staying at the “Lil’ Ale Inn” the last point of habitation before Area...

So our plastic boat was sinking in middle of the canal and the engine had ceased working. I told my boyfriend Wolverine that we should...

A few years ago in November I bought a boat off Ebay for £2500 from a couple called Esmeralda and Keith. I've changed their names because...

There’s something about the good old English approach to drag queens that really warms my heart. The way a gay bar in a principality...