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ENTHUSIASMS: CLASSICAL MUSIC, ESPECIALLY OBSCURE ROMANTIC COMPOSERS; BACH/HANDEL LITERATURE, ESPECIALLY THOUGHTFUL, WELL-WRITTEN(STYLISTICALLY)NOVELS W G SEBALD WALTER BENJAMIN THEODOR ADORNO(JUST BEGINNING!) AESTHETIC PHILOSOPHY GAY MEN'S WRITING;QUEER THEORY STIMULATING DISCUSSIONS(EMOTIONALLY AND INTELLECTUALLY) GOOD RICH THICK ESPRESSO MICHAEL PONTI SPRITUALITY/LIFE'S "AURA"(BENJAMIN), WHATEVER TRANSCENDENTAL THING YOU WANT TO CALL THIS MEMORY-the elusiveness thereof. LOST TIME AND AN ATTEMPT AT ITS REDEMPTION(NON THEISTICALLY/RELIGIOUSLY)

“DEAR ‘QUEER THE PAGE'{MERSEYSIDE LGBTQ WRITING GROUP}”

Posted on April 26, 2024 by decayetude

STEVEN BENSON. 26.4.24. LIPA/WOW. Dear “Queer the Page”, Little did I know, when I set up this group, nine years ago, with a colleague,that it would: Transmute Transform (itself/people) Re-configure in winding ways. And, indeed, dear Merseyside LGBTQ(18+) Writing Group,you … Continue reading →

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QUEER CREATIVITY: an attempt to encapsulate-rhizomatically-in one sentence

Posted on April 26, 2024 by decayetude

QUEER CREATIVITY:ATHWART ONE WINDING SENTENCE BY STEVEN BENSON. FOR  ‘QUEER THE PAGE’/WOW/LIPA performance, May 2024. Queer creativity is an eco-system, self-sustaining, self- promulgating; a weft of threads, weaving and woven into  one thick twine, (tautologically) thrusting its very survival,  [from “counter”-narrative … Continue reading →

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MIRRORS:(IN/SEMI-)VISIBILITY, as a gay man/gayman:A psycho-socio-cultural framework to my experience of memory and (in/semi-)visibility

Posted on February 27, 2024 by decayetude

BY STEVEN BENSON. I am (mainly visible), in that I “out” myself in situations where other gay men think it “not relevant”{unpick THAT complexity…..that is another post, if I can be bothered…}. This can cause divisions between gay men: partners, … Continue reading →

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PRIDE HOUSE FOR THEN;PRIDE HOUSE FOREVER.IN CAPTURES AND MOMENTS. BY STEVEN BENSON

Posted on May 24, 2023 by decayetude

It opened: I was there (so was Rylan:P) Monolithically(for a change..)lgbtq We did! We began to make progress……. We WERE open… not many came(yet…); but our Pride/LGBTQ family began…. I set out our (Merseyside LGBTQ) stall(first version) We got a … Continue reading →

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HOUSE/HOME OF PRIDE. IMPRESSIONS: OF “PRIDE HOUSE”, LIVERPOOL, MAY 2023.

Posted on May 19, 2023 by decayetude

BY STEVEN BENSON { pictures to come, if I can wade through the techno unhome} Eurovision popped up The Pride House was a pop up Home-for this homo-was moot/liminal, as usual{I cannot even fix on a tone or style here} … Continue reading →

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THE PSYCHOGEOGRAPHICAL SITUATION(ISM)OF GAY MEN:AND ME QUA/AS A GAY MAN

Posted on January 30, 2023 by decayetude

This fits the two common (working) definitions of Situationism. SO: gaymale psychogeography is, structurally at least, a unionisation of the self and the our comrades(other gaymen), an (attempted sometimes)emancipation from forces of capitalist enslavement; which spreads its slimy tentacles, in … Continue reading →

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MICHAEL PONTI AND ME

Posted on January 9, 2023 by decayetude

SECOND MOVEMENT EMBRYO- GAYMAN- PSYCHOGEOGRAPHY, ATHWART MUSIC BY STEVEN BENSON MAKING A NEGATIVE COMMENT INTO A POSITIVE PROMPT “You always write about the same subject/in the same style; with repeated adjectives”. Initially, the comment was enough to throw me into … Continue reading →

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MICHAEL PONTI, THE GAIETY, AND ME

Posted on October 21, 2022 by decayetude

(with homage to Neil Bartlett) The great and fabulous pianist, Michael Ponti, died on Monday night; a few days before his eighty-fifth birthday. Michael and I have never met… but he feels very close to me, in some ways(and I … Continue reading →

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SAMPLE CHAPTER. IN RELATION TO PITCH FOR ‘HOMOLANDS:PERSUASIVELY OTHER.THE PSYCHOGEOGRAPHY OF GAY MEN’.BY STEVEN BENSON

Posted on July 18, 2022 by decayetude

‘MY INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL LAND(GAY)SCAPE’. MY PSYCHOGEOGRAPHY { 5x A4 Pp, max) How I live in, ramble through, situate myself in a world which is often inimical to me (as gay man, a very core part of my selfhood). Steve … Continue reading →

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WHAT IS GAY MALE PSYCHOGEOGRAPHY; and DO I WANT TO CO-WRITE A BOOK ABOUT IT[or these two propositions the other way round!] BY STEVEN BENSON

Posted on July 1, 2022 by decayetude

FOCUS! I KNOW what gay male psychogeography is: I live it; I MAKE it…. 2. Do I want to write ANY kind of (indie-)published book, viz a non SELF/group anthologised one? 3.Yes, theoretically…….. 4.I said theoretically, because I DO NOT … Continue reading →

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