I am not sure who this guy is other than just some bloke who writes a blog. (On a topic of people not particularly relevant-check out my blog). His posting on Manscaping is interesting.

If you read on, Mark writes "It’s a heroic refusal that, as far as I’m aware, he continues to make." Let's hope this post doesn't bring out the homophobes.

is mark simpson trying to be michael cunnigham???
  dayum!

-frosty

This is crap.
He's neither in or out. He just is. Leave it alone.
Maybe if people stopped obessing about it Morrissey will let us know at his own convience.
I don't care either way.

If he's straight..cool I can indulge my fantasy of marrying him..
If he's gay cool..no other woman can have it.
It works for me either way.

In Mark Simpson speak, all this means, once again, is "Wishful thinking."

Of what, his front door?

I doubt we'll ever get the definitive word, so long may the debate continue, and long may every sex and sexuality continue to fancy the low slung pants off him.

On a less relevant note I suspect Mark Simpson has been hanging around with one of my gay male friends, for whom the phrase 'a big gayer' is a favourite. Well, it makes me smile.

What the hell? Lets start a new thread here and talk about split pea soup.

...to be throwing some of your horrified opprobrium in the direction of Pat Reid and his publishers. Throw your arms up in horror, as you realise that on the inside back page of his book "Morrissey" (well, at least in my copy) it says this:

OUTLINES - chronicling the lives of some of the most exceptional gay and lesbian artists of the last century:

DAVID HOCKNEY by Peter Adam
BESSIE SMITH by Jackie Kay
BENJAMIN BRITTEN by Michael Wilcox
ARTHUR RIMBAUD by Benjamin Ivry
FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA by David Johnston
K.D. LANG by Rose Collis
ARMISTEAD MAUPIN by Patrick Gale
TALLULAH BANKHEAD by Bryony Lavery
WE ARE MICHAEL FIELD by Emma Donoghue
QUENTIN CRISP by Tim Fountain
FRANCIS POULENC by Richard D.E. Burton
MORRISSEY by Pat Reid
PEDRO ALMODOVAR by David Johnston
MONTGOMERY CLIFT by David Lancaster

Peter

It seems as if there is a general disdain for Mark Simpson on this site, but I have to say that I really enjoyed his book "Saint Morrissey." Apparently he's written vastly on Moz and the Smiths but that's the only one I've read.

The only people who actually believe that Morrissey isn't a confirmed homosexual are naive, female Morrissey fans who fall in love with homosexuals, and homophobic, male Morrissey fans who think that they will be deemed gay if it ever officially comes over the news wire.

Both are a Morrissey fan versions of the flat earth society. More importantly, if you don't think that understanding a person's sexuality is important in understanding the person in general, then you might need to go take an introductory Pyschology course. It reminds of when feminists tried to claim that gender is formed solely by the environment.

Moz has been hinting at his homosexuality since the band formed. It's blindingly obvious.

The whole "I'm bisexual" stance is usually the last stage that a homosexual goes through when accepting that they are homosexual. Besides, just because someone refuses to claim the title of "homosexual" doesn't mean that they're denying their devotion to it. In Morrissey's case, he's likely denying any label period, for the sake of his mythological persona.

Where did Simpson claim that Moz came out?

Did anyone even read the entire piece?

Get out!

"His lyrics and his album sleeves and his sensibility were, from the very beginning, outrageously, molestingly direct."

Morrissey has always been the very opposite of direct- not juste about his sexuality, but on all manner of subjects save perhaps vegetarianism and animal rights. he has always been, quite consciously, ambiguous, vague, misleading and coy in his art.

now, of course, it should be plain for anyone to see that Morrissey is not the straightest of arrows, but to suggest that this is made direct or clear in his art, while posing as some kind of an aficionado no less, is rather to make clear that you understand very little.

what!!!! nobody told me aha
lol no shit he's a fudgepacker-i kinda like it ahahaha

the truth via Markfromscatter, Swallowneck must
know the dirt

or the oranges are out of store and he's suffering cold turkey from oranges

really... bore me with something else.

The only reason people would say he's gay now is because of his songs and cover art. But why is it so hard to imagine a hetrosexual man being interested in homosexual culture and using it in their art. I am a hetrosexual man but i find the whole palare type culture interesting. When youre from a working class background where everyone gets a job, gets married has kids and then retires and dies alternative lifestyles sound very appealing. Lots of the glamrock stars of the early 70s morrissey grew up with did the same thing and became the first "metrosexuals". None of the new york dolls were gay. And anyway morrissey used to fancy sandi shaw, linder sterling and that girl from brookside who he was flirting with on tv in the late 80s.

His 'journalism' leaves a lot to be desired.

Mark Simpson's writing style is hostile, aggressive, confrontational, inflammatory, and acerbic.

He made headlines years ago for coining the term "metrosexual." Mark needs to focus on other matters rather than killing everyone with the gay issue. It is 2007, and most average, everyday types could care less about sexual prefixes.

oh come on the lot of you. he's as gay as a lorry!!

The point is that it does not and should not matter didnt moz say "people are just sexual, the prefix is immaterial."