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    Who the hell (day) cares?

    I traverse the city to work each morning, dodging wildly pushed prams by ballet slippered mums and suited dads with curly haired half pyjamas half jump-suited toddlers waiting impatiently in the cold to cross the road to...

    • Posted 4 days ago
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    Men for Dummies

    I hazard to say that men are universally the same, no matter their persuasion.  I am trying to teach a straight girlfriend the rules on dating men.  She’s not coping with the situation and come to think...

    • Posted 10 days ago
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    Cul de sac

    No this column isn’t about a new back, sack and crack method. I have been having a reoccurring dream. Every time I dream about it, I feel like I’m on the same corner of the road –...

    • Posted 17 days ago
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    Collins and Roberts: willing and unknowing pioneers

    This week we saw Jason Collins become the first gay male professional athlete in a major US team sport.  Yes, that was a lot of criteria to jump through, but hey, it’s Americriterian. We’ve had a few already....

    • Posted 23 days ago
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    The mathematician, the sport nut and the gay

    I love autumn in Sydney.  You get the European summer – the warm days, cool nights.  Gelato sticky webbed fingers,  twenty three degree sea water in Coogee and third degree burns from the midget interrogators in the...

    • Posted 28 days ago
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    With courage, let us all combine.

    My very dear and very German mate Claus became an Aussie last Friday afternoon.  It was a warm autumn afternoon standing outside waiting at the Town Hall.  I couldn’t believe how many gays were converting. I sat...

    • Posted 38 days ago
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    Coal with a diamond covering

    I’m angling for forgiveness after this tirade, certainly not permission to have it.  Guilty or not, I don’t care.  I am furious that people can continue to live solely within their ego.  I’ll use the words ‘suspected...

    • Posted 46 days ago
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    Mr Chicky, Governor of RBA

    I forgot it was parent/teacher night until I was dragged kicking and screaming up to the school the other night. Dawn was gossiping with the other parents and I was standing off to the side, arms folded...

    • Posted 51 days ago
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    Put your hand on your heart and tell me

    The slightest interest can be futile.  It can uncork you and make you feel empty.  Depleted.  His text, a smile – his arm around your shoulder.  You turn up to meet him, and he has others with...

    • Posted 54 days ago
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    Between midnight and twilight

    I arrived in the darkest hour of the night.  The streets were silent but for the swaying silhouette branches – it took me a moment to realise there was a blackout in the streets.  It was midnight...

    • Posted 67 days ago
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