In the first instalment of this new column, The Grindr Report, meet Clark Rockerfeller, the virtual gay man trapped inside a woman’s body.

” I am a gay man inside a woman’s body. And thus, the story begins. Cloaked and manufactured and glittery.”

What has homosexuality to do with the gameof football? A lot, it turns out.

Agent of German captain Michael Ballack talks of a “bunch of gays” in the national team. This shows why it is important for gay sportsmen and women to come out.

It is no great revelation to state that football creates a bond between heterosexual men that is somewhat tribal. Introduce anything else into the arena of how football is portrayed in the media, it would seem, and it starts to raise questions about what it means to be a man.

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378 pages • Public Affairs • October 2nd, 2008

A fascinating collection of journalism from 2008 that marks the end of the Bush era.

To understand what America has become, what it can become, and why Obama is the ideal candidate to bring about change, this is essential reading.