Category LGBT
Television: American Horror Story: Asylum – Episode 4 – The Review (Spoilers Alert)
Before I say anything else I would just like to say “I FRIGGING LOVE FRANKA POTENTE!!”. This week’s episode, the first in a two -parter sees her first appearance on the show and it looks like she is going to really stir things up. Yet again the entire cast put in a fantastic performance but […]
Television: American Horror Story: Asylum – Episode 1 – The Review (Spoiler Alert)
American Horror Story became one of last year’s major television success stories and last night, on the Eve of Halloween, the British début of it’s second season was aired and it is TWISTED. It was announced fairly soon after the show got renewed that rather than returning to the storyline of last season the second would […]
LGBT: Do numbers matter when it comes to equality?
ACCORDING to figures released by the Office of National Statistics only 2.6% of people questioned in a recent survey said they identified as either lesbian, gay or bisexual. This has lead the Christian Institute, which claims to be “a nondenominational [sic] Christian charity committed to upholding the truths of the Bible”, to question whether such […]
Archive: LGBT Opinion Column – Mancunian Matters
During my NCTJ course with News Associates in Manchester I began to write an opinion column on LGBT issues for Mancunian Matters (www.mancunianmatters.co.uk). Here is a list, with links, to all my previously published opinion columns, enjoy: You don’t have to be homophobic to be religious Why are there so few out people in professional […]
Owen Jack Williams 
Television: American Horror Story: Asylum – Episode 2 – The Review (Spoiler Alert)
Violent Misogyny seems to be the theme in this weeks instalment of American Horror Story as we begin to settle in to the new surroundings of Briarcliff Mental Institution. While the centre-piece of episode two, and its most visually violent element, is an exorcism (which I will talk about in a moment), it is flanked […]