Rupert Smith talks physique culture and his novel Man’s World.

The 1950s was the crucible in which contemporary gay life was formed, says Rupert Smith.

One of the stories is set in the 1950s when the man has just come out of national service and one of them is set today when the man is living the life on the London commercial gay scene.

Dan Matthew’s talks animal rights and his remarkable memoir Committed.

He has been the force behind many of PETA’s controversial campaigns, and has now written a suprisingly funny memoir about his life as an activist.

In a world where a celebrity’s arrest or stint in rehab gets more coverage than the war in Iraq, you have to compete for people’s attention.

Catching up with Clayton Littlewood one year on.

A year after first interviewing Clayton Littlewood, Polari Magazine talks to the writer about the stage play of Dirty White Boy and the possibilities for a sequel.

When all those celebrities got in contact I thought, ‘That’s it. I’ve made it.’ But when famous people get in contact it’s just like anyone else taking the time out to say they liked your work.

An interview with Tori Amos about her album Midwinter Graces.

Polari Magazine talks to Tori Amos the morning after her intimate performance at the Jazz Café in North London about the seasonal albumMidwinter Graces and the upcoming musical The Light Princess.

When you go to the bigger places and come back it’s quite a challenge because you have to not feel under a microscope, and you have to feel ok about being exposed.

An audio birthday message from Tori Amos.

This was recorded on 3 December, 2009, at the end of the interview with Tori Amos about Midwinter Graces.

25/40: An interview with Greta Schiller, the director of Before Stonewall

Greta Schiller talks about the 25th anniversary of her influential documentary film Before Stonewall and the nasty world of today’s Creationists.

The important thing is that when a documentary such as Before Stonewall is screened in the context of today people get a longer view of history.

An Interview with Chris Mason

David Watters talks to Chris Mason about Driving Ambition, a 107-day, 48 State, 16,000-mile road-trip with a mission to examine LGBT inequality and discrimination throughout the United States.

In West Virginia we spoke to an openly gay doctor. He and his partner, and their adopted son, live in a rural town in the middle of West Virginia. This is the last place I‘d expected to find someone willing to talk about being gay.

An interview with Patrick Wolf.

Patrick Wolf talks his new albumThe Bachelor, the conflict with record label, Univeral, and taking on homophobes with the aid of the homeless.

When the internet came along the ‘freak’ they wanted to mock they could mock in a very public, Mediaeval English way. I am a big target for a lot of those type of people.

Extra material from the interview with Patrick Wolf.

Patrick Wolf talks collaborations, and what it means to be a performer.

When I changed my name to Wolf I was sixteen. In my early interviews I said I was a werewolf and I was born in a lighthouse on an island.

An interview with Paul Burston about The Gay Divorcee.

Polari Magazine talks to Paul Burston about contemporary gay fiction, the trashy gay press, and gay marriage.

I had a friend who was once married to a woman and had then married his male partner of twenty years. That got me thinking about the potential for a story about a man who gets married twice.