Here's a link to my PhD text for queers into sex, art, and cruising : doras.dcu.ie/31497/1/Fina...

Dublin City University and the Irish Refugee Integration Network (IRIN) are offering a free programme addressing the social and health needs of LGBTQIA+ Asylum seekers and refugees. For registration, or any information on the course, applicants can contact me at [email protected].

Just horrific and enraging www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/w...

Horrific www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

Fuck the Oscars.

Israel killed 412 Palestinians in 12 hours. If this isn’t genocide, then genocide as a concept doesn’t exist

Bathers at the Pond (1920-1921) by Duncan Grant

"Cinema style porno videos" implies artistry, scale and characterisation. A true auteur.

One last walk through the Leigh Bowery show at the Tate Modern. Feeling this season so much 💖💖💖💖

Elon Musk claims he mistakenly fired Ebola prevention workers, then quickly fixed the error. But Ebola programs are still in tatters, along with other livesaving efforts like AIDS treatments for children.

Image from Thomas Roma’s photobook, In the Vale of Cashmere; a cruising ground in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park mainly frequented by Black and Latino men. G. Winston James wrote that for many men, the park was “a final destination” not “a way station to the greater gay world”.

Lest We Forget (1998) by Glenn Ligon. Series including cast aluminium or bronze plaques.

Delighted to see this piece based on our World AIDS Day expert roundtable published! Great to work with @jgarciaiglesias.bsky.social @benvyle.bsky.social @edftmxxx.bsky.social & colleagues DoxyPEP: thinking towards implementation - The Lancet Infectious Diseases www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

I love this quote from Anohni. atmos.earth/anohni-queer...

Good morning to this man, and this man only #bbcqt

JGP has a great chapter here about the purging of street queens and radicals from the queer movement in the 1970s. While it was certainly a campaign of trans misogyny waged by gay men, it was first and foremost a campaign waged against working class radicals and leftist priorities

Miss Major Griffin-Gacy, one of the Black trans women who was at Stonewall on the night of the first riot - she fought back, got knocked out and spent the rest of the night in the Tombs - is still fighting for trans rights. She spoke with @samtlevin.bsky.social in 2023.

The Stonewall Memorial website has removed mention of trans people www.nps.gov/ston/index.htm

Numbers 1 (2015) by Dean Sameshima. Acrylic on canvas.

Adorno: "Lies have long legs, they are ahead of their time. The conversion of all questions of truth into questions of power not only suppresses truth...but has attacked the very heart of the distinction between true and false..."

Irish people: see you at the US embassy on Tuesday for the protest!

The latest clarification on how PEPFAR funds may be used, issued today limits PrEP only for pregnant women and breastfeeding women. Women in Africa participated in research studies that allowed us to understand how these medications work many did so with the promise of continued access post study.

My favourite lecture to give each year

🎓 Three fully-funded PhD positions for a project on "Visual Cultures of Fascism" - as timely as it can be in this age of anxiety. @liverpooluni.bsky.social #FascismStudies #Fascism #AcademicSky www.liverpool.ac.uk/study/postgr...

See you behind the bike-shed, bender. Page from an 80s cruising magazine in Bishopsgate archive.

Self-Portrait, Cat Walk, Pier 46 (1979) by Leonard Fink

'A F*ggot's Destiny', 2019 #HELIASDOULIS

'These are the type of politics you’d expect of the British empire in the 19th century,' says Eyal Weizman on Trump’s colonial plans for Gaza. 'To simply erase Gaza and turn it into a riviera is a way to continue the work of destruction by construction': www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

Matthew Leifheit spent five years on Fire Island capturing the beautiful images that make up his photobook To Die Alive. Mike (2019)

NEW INVESTIGATION: Israeli forces repeatedly attacked Gaza’s main port in the week following 7 Oct 2023. By Jan 2024, after months of continued attacks, all docked vessels had been rendered non-operational, devastating Gaza’s fishing industry and increasing Palestinian dependence on foreign aid.

It's not a demolition site it's a mass grave. It's not a demolition site it's a crime scene. It's not a demolition site its a homeland. It's not a demolition site it's Palestine. It's not a demolition site it's a genocide.

No mention of why he was forced into exile?

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So proud to be launching this programme, now. Climate justice, feminist and queer, housing and economic justice, theology, spirituality, mysticism, politics and empowerment. www.tcd.ie/religion/new...

Sunbathing on the Edge, Pier 52 (Matta-Clark’s Day’s End) by Shelley Seccombe, ca. 1977. Contemporary archival digital print.

Crypto Party! homobilia.com/collections/... Decades before "Crypto" became a currency, two guys who can't stand still for their photo are having a "Crypto Party." Smokin', drinkin', huggin' #homobilia #gay #vintagegay #vintagephoto #vintagemen #queer #malenude #beefcake #malefigure #gayphoto

Advice pamphlet for cruisers facing arrest. From @bishopsgateinst.bsky.social queer archive.

We're suing President Trump to protect gender-affirming care access for trans people nationwide. President Trump, see you in court.

A still from Annette Kennerley's short film SEX LIES RELIGION (1993). It explores lesbian cruising in Abney Park cemetery, and features the filmmaker and a woman she met the night in the Clit Club.

Book launch: 'Wrong Women: Selling Sex in Monto, Dublin's Forgotten Red Light District', by Dr. Caroline West, former MASS postgraduate and SALIS Sexuality Studies PhD. Chapters Bookstore, Parnell Street Rotunda, Dublin 1, D01 P8C2. Thursday, February 20th, 18:30. www.dubraybooks.ie/product/wron...

Guillaume Dustan is probably my favourite cruisy sex writer. @daveydavis.bsky.social did a great piece on this trio of books here: idamage.substack.com/p/its-cruisi...

Somewhere in New York, 2024

Photograph from Marc Martin's Cabine avec vue (Cabin with a view) colour photographic series. Pigment inkjet print on baryta paper.

We worked for months with USAID to build an $85,000,000 project to end TB in two regions of the Philippines. The project is funded by private money, the Philippine government, and matching USAID funds. It could provide a blueprint for eliminating TB worldwide--except it's...not happening.

NEW: Trump says he's letting "lifesaving" foreign aid continue, but sources tell WIRED that DOGE is still blocking HIV/AIDS relief. Musk brags he's "feeding USAID into the wood chipper." A USAID worker tell us: “At a minimum, 300 babies that wouldn’t have had HIV now do." By @knibbs.bsky.social

Unearthing the Public Restrooms by Tom Burr (1994) Eight silver gelatin prints

Perfect time for somewhere to show (and acquire) PISSED (2017) by trans artist CASSILS The acrylic structure stored 200 gallons of the artist’s own urine collected since Trump’s rescission of an executive order allowing transgender students to use the bathroom matching their gender identities.

Painting from Irish artist John Anthony Murphy's 2023 MFA show