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Buff – part of Vault Festival 2023 – tells the story of Nicky, a 35-year-old plus sized gay primary school teacher who finds himself recently single and navigating dating apps, whilst coping with the grieving process that comes from the bad break-up of a six year relationship.

What a year it has been! Full freedom and Covid a distance memory, at least that is how it felt for many. The year 2022 has been one to remember and as we can’t summarise the whole year here, we will focus on Poppers UK. Yep, the stuff for good times. We will discuss the bestsellers, new arrivals, what makes them last longer and a manor of other things that you might find interesting. Again, the bestseller remains Berlin XXX, for some reason this brand keeps capturing the imagination of the nation.

It’s PrEP Awareness Week: the annual campaign to spread the message that Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) prevents HIV transmission. Dr Alan McOwan, consultant at sexual health clinic 56 Dean Street, discusses why PrEP is the best weapon we have against HIV and asks Boyz readers to take action.

Mike Arlen, the legendary male nudes photographer and gay pornography publisher, died earlier this month. Long term friend, ‘Mike Arlen guy’, writer, performer – and naked yoga teacher – Adam Clifford remembers one of gay London’s most flamboyant characters and a pioneer of gay male erotica. Mike Arlen was a legendary photographer and pornographer.

Oliver and Brian had never met before, but one night they found themselves dancing in the same sweaty nightclub in London. It was a club where wearing as little as possible was often encouraged, and Brian, who wasn’t particularly confident, was dancing like there was no tomorrow. He really wanted to take off his jeans and dance around in his gay jockstrap, but he was too shy to do so. Then Oliver arrived on the dance-floor, wearing the very same jockstrap that Brian was wearing.

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It’s easy to forget the time when homosexuals were branded ‘faggots’ and children told to stay away from us. This impressive dramatisation of Christopher Isherwood’s novel A Single Man immerses us in California in the early 1960s and we enter a more closeted world where a university professor can’t tell his students he’s gay.

The Bush Theatre has announced that due to popular demand their hit production of The P Word has been extended to Saturday 29th October. Also today a video interview with author and actor Waleed Akhtar talking about the play, with cultural producer Ryan Lanji, has been released. Audiences and critics have acclaimed the play which tells the story of Zafar, played by Esh Alladi, who flees homophobic persecution in Pakistan to seek asylum in the UK.

A new dramatisation of Christopher Isherwood’s novel A Single Man is coming to the Park Theatre this month and Theo Fraser Steele is playing college professor George, the grief-stricken lead character, in this powerful but sexy gay story set in California in 1982. George is grieving the death of his long-term partner Jim and as a middle-aged gay Englishman living in the Los Angeles suburbs, he is an outsider in every way – but then one day changes everything.

We are deeply sorry to report that Stephen Vowles, the Boyz advertising sales manager and our Boyz theatre critic, passed away yesterday at home after a long battle with cancer. Stephen’s family was with him at his bedside. Stephen had worked for Boyz selling advertising and writing theatre, film and book reviews for over eight years. Prior to joining Boyz, Stephen ran his own publication called Gay About Town for a year. He was also the advertising sales manager for QX magazine for over a decade.