On tour, Phil Scott feels like the only gay in the village.

I’ve been abroad, touring the latest Wharf Revue to Wollongong, Gosford and Newcastle. Also Penrith, which is so far away I should have thrown a farewell party. Before leaving, I Googled the names of these satellite cities plus ‘gay’ to see what would come up...

The ‘F’ word is tossed about so cavalierly these days, writes Phil Scott.

This week I’ve been thinking about kids. Poor little darlings. So innocent – except in Hollywood feelgood movies where they have mouths beyond their years – and so easily confused by the big baffling world...

BASHERS FIRST

We’re really between a rock and a hard place with the folk at Family First. According to FF Leichhardt candidate, Ben Jacobsen, ‘voters may not give a rats if a candidate is gay…but they have a right to know who you’ll bat for’...

NIGHTLIFE SUPPORT

I first got a message from Amelia. She gave me the heads-up on their new show. There have been shows that have only lasted a few weeks but this was the first show to open and close on the same night. Over the next couple of hours, my fingers started to cramp from sms-rsi-arthritis...

CRAZY LAWS

Why bother with laws? No really. What’s the point if most of the time they’re either ridiculous or the sentences imposed on those who break them are so incongruent to the crime that it makes you want to spit? I refer to the story in Monday’s Sydney Morning Herald titled ‘Satanic goat killer to say sorry’...