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8 July 2010

Richard Dennen, The Standard’s new gay columnist

I didn’t see it myself, but have come across bloggers discussing The Evening Standard’s new gay columnist, Richard Dennen. His column runs on Tuesday evenings.

You can read his column online, and remember to scroll down to see the comments.

The second blow came from Dominic, aged 23 (only five years younger than me), who I’d met on the Central line after a gig a month earlier. We flirted over my new Union Jack Converse, and my friend Assisi Jackson, who had stayed on one stop further with him than me at Notting Hill (her mum, Jade Jagger, lives in intensely edgy Kensal Rise, of course), had texted me his number before I’d even got to my front door. I didn’t bother going home and went straight over to his. It was all very Sliding Doors. Sort of. Except now I was reading an email from him telling how he’d met a dog-walker on Ladbroke Grove and we’d be riding the Tube together no more.

Dr Bryn isn’t a fan, and wonders why Josh Hunt, Gay About Town, wasn’t invited to continue his old thelondonpaper column. Urban Woo, Clair Woodward, thinks it was so bad it set gay equality back forty years.

What do you think? Great to see an out gay columnist writing about gay life, or just an annoying parody of great things which have come before?



About the Author

Caspar Aremi
Caspar grew up in north Scotland, but fled to London in 2002 where he has since become an honourary EastEnder. He manages user generated content and social media accounts for government agencies while not nagging SSG contributors to write more.




 
 

 
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Josh Hunt, formerly of the London Paper here. Thanks for the retrospective enthusiasm people - very good to hear the column is still remembered. To be honest, spilling your guts about your personal life in the paper can make said life pretty hard to manage. My love life has improved greatly since the demise of the London paper, so I'd be loath to go back to writing in a freebie again (and I'm getting on a bit). I do however continue the column as a smaller scale blog - check it out at gayabouttown.com

I have to see that my initial hope for this column has gradually disappeared. He is always talking about his flatmate and then this and that. No real insight though. Such a shame. The column is different but I just don't get it. Bryn

Josh Hunt, formerly of the London Paper here. Thanks for the retrospective enthusiasm people - very good to hear the column is still remembered. To be honest, spilling your guts about your personal life in the paper can make said life pretty hard to manage. My love life has improved greatly since the demise of the London paper, so I'd be loath to go back to writing in a freebie again (and I'm getting on a bit). I do however continue the column as a smaller scale blog - check it out at gayabouttown.com

Absolutely dreadful.

He sounds like he's trying to be 'normal' by fitting his gay life into high society - where in fact - he is just making an arse of himself.

Oh and how many of his useless friends requested to be mentioned in that 5 minutes of my life that I'll never get back.

I definitely preferred Josh Hunt.