Whitney Houston's Greatest Hits is an over-the-top double-CD compilation with almost two decades of music. On the first CD, she is young and innocent, on the second CD, she is slightly older and sizzling.
Thebe Mabanga reviews.
Lube job
In olden days they used Vaseline, then came KY, and then came safer sex and a whole new science of lubrication.
Simon Sheppard says no to oil
After action satisfaction
Smoking may be glamorous and even a legal drug, but it does mean working out harder at the gym than anybody else because the chemicals reduce oxygen and nutritional absorption.
Johan Du Toit explains
The other side of sadism is masochism
Why is it that we hardly ever fanaticise about "vanilla" sex? Simon Sheppard investigates the masochistic side of sadism
She wasn't "white" or even "female"
The documentary on one of Johannesburg's most famous drag queens looks at a remarkable queer who challenged apartheid's rules on gender, race and sexual orientation. Andrew Worsdale marvels at The remarkable life of Granny Lee>
Do gay men deserve to die?
Gay and bisexual South African men continue to have unsafe sex in public places and sex bars in spite of the availability of condoms and information on HIV/Aids. Is the risk-taking behaviour related to anonnymous sex? Evert Knoessen wonders.
Rhona the Brit version of Ellen
The Beeb is to air Rhona, the first lesbian sitcom outside the US, starring the irrepressible Scottish comedian Rhona Cameron. Anita Chaudhuri writes how it has taken the Brit public broadcaster four years to build up the nerve.
Great pecs, but no sex
Gay characters are finally muscling their way to leading man roles, but Hollywood and the TV networks in the US don't generally like to admit that gay men do have sex, unlike gay characters in the UK who are in your face all the time. James Collard thinks America needs to wake up and smell the poppers.
Very happy in Texas
They needs pros, but they're getting cons, they need two queens to run an amateur beauty pageant, but they're getting two straight and very rough men who are about to also fall for all the lovely mommies... find out what convicts and gay men have in common in Happy, Texas.
Jackie, oh!
"Before Jacqueline Susann, the only place you could find any decent stuff about lesbians was in the Bible. She took the vice to a more sophisticated level" - Stephanie Theobald on the woman who could turn out to be the muse for a whole new generation of literary swingers.
Sex and the suffragettes
Diary entries of a suffragette have revealed the lesbian
love trysts of leaders of the women's movement. Vanessa Thorpe and Alec Marsh [19/06/00]
Let's hear it for lesbian hedonism!
The good thing about the ongoing lesbian revolution is that everything new that happens can be deemed culturally and politically significant. Stephanie Theobald in Body Language [20/06/00]
If I'm the bottom, you're the top!
Cole Porter wrote more than 800 songs, but many of Porter's fans still don't know that the composer was a closeted gay man who wrote romantic classics such as "You'd Be So Nice to Come Home to" and "In the Still of the Night" for his male lovers. David Bianco [25/05/00]
Bear neccesities
They usually wear blue jeans and plad shirts, almost always have beards and moustaches and mostly look like lumberjacks. They are called Bears explains Simon Shepard [28/06/00]
Are men waxing to attract partners?
Hair removal ads have slowly been creeping into men's magazines promising permanent removal of unwanted hair. The obsession is becoming as strong as the that of replacing scalpal hair. [24/05/00]
Winter bluking
Cut muscles in spring means doing some bulking in winter. Johan du Toit shows you how to gain the extra mass. [05/06/00]
Gaydar: the art of spotting other queers
Many gay men think they can tell, often even before words are spoken, who's "family." It may not be infallible, they say, but it seems to work, says Simon Sheppard [08/06/00]
Lady be good
Leo Isaacs is the man pretending to be the Leoness von Cleefe pretending to be Shirley Bassey in "A Lady With a Song" at Jargonelle's in Brixton. Will Trueman was there to see what true drag cabaret is all about [19/06/00]
Betty Ford open house party a blast
Therapy does the unthinkable by offering cognitive intervention for those suffering from sensory depravation and commercial-itis. Will Trueman got some therapy[26/05/00]
