David Beckham and rise of the female voyeur

Male bodies are under scrutiny and put up for spectacle for the ‘female gaze’ viewers. Is this because of new female economic power or actually a twist to the male gaze - the gay male gaze.

Big Brother - Alexandra has been removed!

Looks like Big Brother has some integrity after all as Alexandra has been removed from the Big Brother house. Good!
She has been the most unpopular contestant in the show.
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Big Brother - double standards?

When Emily Parr was evicted last year for using the word nigger it was only right that it was done considering the racial issues in the Celebrity Big Brother house previously.

History of Hijras

Wikipedia has the best starting point to find out about hijras. It gives information about their history and politics. What is also interesting is that hijras can be biomales or biofemales who are transgendered.

Rupert Everett queers the travelogue programme

Rupert Everett and hijras copyright BBC 2008

It was very interesting to me to see Rupert Everett do the programme about Richard Burton (Victorian Passions - Victorian Sex Explorer). I must confess I didn’t know much about Richard Burton apart from the Kama Sutra story and rumours of his being ‘gay’.
I loved this programme precisely because […]

Kara Walker video interview

Here is an interesting interviiew from Kara Walker in which she talks about her work and the act of looking/not looking. She puts herself into the work and talks about the challenges of imagining the past from the living in the present. Can we really know what it was like?