SmokeKarl didn't want to quit. 18 years ago, the year Windows 95 was released he idly observed, was when he took his first experimental drag. It was nothing special at the time.This was just one of a great list of things his 12 year old self had tried out. Pouring paint thinners on a small pile of rubbish in the back yard at a friend's house. Lighting it. Whilst standing too close. The smell of burnt hair wafted back to him across the years much stronger ...

Last week I suffered the embarrassment of finding myself living in a country that is the butt of a Jimmy Fallon joke. Kuwait and a few other Gulf countries are trying to develop a scientific gaydar. They don't want gays here. This is an interesting development and I have a couple of stories to tell from my outsider's perspective of an expat. When I first arrived in Kuwait I saw lots of local men wearing what are known as dresses where I come from. They c...