Champion of the Bear Subculture.

Polari talks to punk bear Eric Kuhlmann about the bear culture in Australia, the band Armpit Stench, and his upcoming Edith Piaf cabaret.

“I’m working on a new show at the moment which is gonna be Edith Piaf songs, which I’m translating into English. It’s going to be called Edith Woof. It’s going to be a bear character, taking things from Edith Piaf’s life and turning it into a bear story .”

Photographing Men and Architecture.

A candid insight of a photographer at work. A good photograph takes far more than simply an eye for a good-looking man.

“I don’t want them just to be lumps of meat to look at. I’ve already created some kind of trust with these guys so the last thing I want to do is present a set of images that totally objectifies them and turns them into something else.”

Sights and Fragrances!

Polari catches up with Dexter Clark as he winds down his Olympian lecture tour.

“Oscar Pistorius (sporty flick) wanted to come in but unfortunately I had to say no, we’ve just had a new parquet floor fitted and I do hate scratches.”

Nik Kershaw talks about the new album EI8HT, politics, pop lyrics and how 1980s pop stars thought they were saving the world.

“Back in the day a lot of us took ourselves way too seriously. But we were encouraged to. We were saving the planet with Live Aid, weren’t we? We had this ridiculous sense of self-importance, and it was difficult not to take yourself seriously.”

An Interview with Stonewall’s External Affairs Officer.

An interview with Richard Lane, the External Affairs Officer at Stonewall, about the Protection of Freedoms Act, 2012. Men who have convictions for sexual activities that are now legal can apply to have them erased.

“There are cases of people in their 30s and early 40s who have convictions on the records. It’s stopping them applying for jobs, and in later life stopping them applying to help out with charities and voluntary groups.”

Emma Adams, Brian Mullin and Nick Field.

Interview with Emma Adams, Brian Mullin and Nick Field about Mauve New World, work in development by queer writers and performers, at Ovalhouse Theatre, London.

“Mauve New World explores the possibilities of queer futures, merging sci-fi and the speculative with theatre practices to create new stories and new ways of telling them.”

Talking About Realistic Expectations.

An interview with Phil Evelyn from Quality Life Fitness about taking an approach to fitness that results in tangible and sustainable benefits.

“Maybe you can’t live without cup cakes so change something else to compensate, run longer, do an extra set when you workout. This is about people’s happiness not just about their fitness, although hopefully the latter helps with the former.”

Interview with director and writer Travis Mathews

In a revealing interview, Mathews talks about gay sex and intimacy in his new film, I Want Your Love, and his series of shorts, In Their Room.

“I wanted to show gay men’s sexual relationships in ways that aren’t really being depicted in mainstream gay porn. There’s so many different reasons why people have sex and I wanted to create stories and characters that explore that.”

Goodbye to Soho

Author, diarist and playwright Clayton Littlewood talks about his latest book, Goodbye to Soho, and telling X-rated stories for the National Trust app on Soho.

“I had all this material waiting. And I wanted to do justice to all the characters in the first book and say goodbye to them properly.”

WHOF rebrands for its birthday.

An interview with Kevin O’Neil on the second birthday of Wipe Out Homophobia.

“To mark the two year anniversary the logo has been updated, a new banner of members’ wedding pics has been added, the name has been changed and the website www.whof.net has had 20 new info pages added, including pages about what happened to homosexuals during the holocaust, and pages featuring other LGBT groups who actively fight homophobia.”