 Rob - a talented actor and writer - comments on the lives of young gay people today. Living in London and Manchester, two of the more diverse and far ranging cities in the world, you will come across many different kinds of gay people. Indeed it is life in a large city with a cosmopolitan outlook and varied gay community that can be said to inspire Rob's writing on gay youth culture and its place in the future.
You can contact Rob at rad@thegyc.com
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Written by Rob Drummer
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Monday, 20 August 2007 |
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 Homophobia, it is probably safe to say that the word conjures similar images of violence and aggression aimed towards gay and lesbian members of society. If a news report mentions a homophobic crime, without paying too much attention, it is possible to construct a picture of, if not all, some of the details and at the very least the motivations behind such inexcusable hatred. Obviously we are supposed to rest easier with the criminality of such activity and should be strengthened by the wise eye of the law aiming to prosecute the offenders. However, for all of the media attention given to eradicating wider society's prejudices how safe do we feel? How tough is it still to be gay in a small town, or a tough town, how dangerous is it to walk the streets at night after quitting a gay bar, getting on a bus, a train? More interesting, what of the subtle homophobia of parents, friends, the press, media, the "liberal", the "modern", the "disinterested"?
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Written by Rob Drummer
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Tuesday, 17 July 2007 |
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.jpg "Image") An increasing number of gay venues in UK cities are employing a ‘members and regulars’ door policy, meaning potentially that we may have to prove our gayness to step over the threshold into gay clubland. At first glance, a strict gay door policy has its merits, perhaps even its necessity. It is true that increasingly, hen nights pack out the dance floor and by letting all and sundry in to bars and clubs the relative safety of gay venues can be threatened. However, when taking in the wider implications perhaps promoting such strict measures is unfavourable?
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Written by Rob Drummer
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Saturday, 28 April 2007 |
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.jpg "Image") What is it that we come to be defined by? How is it that we are labelled for classification? For the gay community, classification has historically been intrinsically linked to our existence in society; gay men and women have often been grouped, not only by their sexual preference but by their appearance, their politics and their attitudes. Are these labels useful? For some, yes, it is fair to acknowledge that generalised classifications can prove important to self definition. However, should there come a time when to be dominated by these labels is unnecessary and will we as gay men and women enjoy greater equality by evolving these labels?
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Written by Rob Drummer
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Monday, 29 January 2007 |
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 We live in a world where we have come to expect the truth that we are lied to pretty regularly. These lies range from those told in the school playground, or those that get us out of seeing a friend who we really don’t like anymore, all the way up to the lies told in the press and by the world’s governments. However, in such a climate of lies do we accept the truth as something malleable, something to be manipulated in order to make life easier, more bearable? Or rather, are the lies we are told simple tortures to our minds that have to work ever harder to rationalise our lives? Relate this to relationships, whether they are friendships or romances and things get even more volatile, yet we must ask ourselves: in a dishonest world, is honesty the best policy?
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We are constantly chastised for falling too quickly in love, for getting too involved too soon and for expecting more from somebody who we have just met.
