May 20, 2013

Not Hot Enough For Miami: Body Issues

I’m sat on a hostel bed right now, having quickly just shoved my laptop off my legs so as not to add any more pain to my already sunburned thighs. Sunburn thanks to wearing a pair of fairly small dark red swimming shorts that show more leg than the shorts I usually wear, which only resulted in my calves turning a shade reminiscent of radioactive lobster.   A few weeks ago, when I was in Miami, these shorts wouldn’t fit…

February 4, 2013

4 Fabulous Gay Travel Resources

As I’ve written before, it’s not easy to define… the gay traveller. When people mention gay travel, they’re usually talking about oiled-up Muscle Marys in tiny speedos strutting around like peacocks on any available strip of sand whilst staying in some kind of luxury resort sipping on cocktails and generally being all kinds of fabulous.   The truth is that travellers are a varied bunch, ranging from folks who prefer to stay in exclusively gay resorts, to those who like

January 28, 2013

Why I Won’t Dump My Boyfriend To Travel

I think anyone who comes here regularly will know the following two facts about me: I’m starting a round the world trip in March, and I have a partner, Gil Dong. In fact, Gil Dong and I celebrated our two-year anniversary at the weekend with a trip to an absolutely stunning part of Korea (more on that later) and some all-you-can eat sushi in Daegu. Yeap, I’m definitely keeping the resolution that I made to myself… about making the most

January 16, 2013

Travelling As A Gay Couple

For those of you who don’t know, I’m kinda gay. Well, not kinda gay. I’m extremely homosexual. Maybe not as homosexual as this guy, but I have a male partner, wear Aussiebum underwear, and I’m addicted to RuPaul’s Drag Race. My commute to work the other day featured a soundtrack of Donna Summer and Kylie Minogue.   I’ve written before about being gay in Korea…, but one thing I’ve yet to write about is travelling as

November 28, 2012

5 Ideas For Gay London

I have a confession. I don’t really know London very well. My trips there have always either been family related or visa related, and I’ve never experienced gay London. Well, I went to the famous GAY bar once at about 6pm with a friend whilst waiting for an Emiliana Torrini concert to begin.   We ended up scouting through the bins in Soho as he’d accidentally thrown out the tickets along with a load of junk mail that, for some…

July 11, 2012

Why You Can’t Bulletpoint Gay Travel

This post has been on my mind for a little while now. It’s been slowly brewing away whilst I’ve been trying to think of the best way to approach it without going on a total rant or being patronising or sounding bitter. Allow me to explain. A while ago, I was reading a post on a popular travel site (which shall remain nameless) asking for contributors. Among the topics was “Gay & Lesbian Travel.” Being a homosexual myself, I e-mailed…

May 9, 2012

North Carolina Sucks

If you’ve been keeping up with the news lately, or have a Facebook, Twitter or other social network account with American friends on it, you’ve probably noticed quite a disturbing piece of news that has come out of North Carolina.   The majority of voters in the southern state decided that same-sex marriage is unconstitutional, and chose to ban it.   Fine, North Carolina. Do as you will. I mean, there are plenty of places in the world that ban…

March 22, 2012

Hiding in Korea

I’m a bit hesitant about writing this post, because I’m not really sure what I want to say. Nevertheless, I’m sure ideas will come to me as I keep click clacking away on the keyboard. It’s strange that I’m not too sure what to write, as the subject I’m debating about is something so inherent to who I am. It’s a part of me, and something I’m stuck with for the rest of my life. I’m referring to my sexuality.…

January 11, 2012

Gil Dong Speaks Out

Hello ladies and gents! How are you all doing? I haven’t featured an interview on my blog for a few months now…, not since chatting with the lovely Spencer and Maggie a few months ago. This interview shall be a lot closer to home – literally! The interviewee is sitting next to me right now, and is none other than my lovely partner.Those of you who are my friends on Facebook know his real identity, however in the interests

May 16, 2011

How I Sort-of Learned Korean

DISCLAIMER I am not, by any stretch of the imagination, fluent in Korean. However, some people have been asking me how I learned the lingo – so here is my slightly mundane yet hopefully sort-of-sweet story of how I can now make comprehensible sentences in Korean… June 2009 and due to depart north-east England for South Korea, an excited me couldn’t wait to break out of the confines of what had become my glass prison since a company takeover by …