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Mark Simpson

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Born

York, The United Kingdom

Website

http://www.marksimpson.com

Twitter

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Nonfiction, Social Sciences, Entertainment

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July 2016

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English author and journalist Mark Simpson is credited/blamed for ‘fathering’ the metrosexual in 1994, predicting with terrifying accuracy, that the future belonged to the male desire to be desired.

He is the author of several critically-acclaimed books.

“SIMPSON WRITES WITH ENOUGH PANACHE TO MAKE MOST OF HIS PEERS TOSS THEIR LAPTOPS INTO THE WASTE DISPOSAL AND WEEP”
– Independent on Sunday

“THE GAY ANTI-CHRIST” – Vogue

“I ALMOST HATE TO AGREE WITH ANYTHING HE SAYS” – LRB

“AN AMUSED, DETACHED VOLTAIRE”
– Independent on Sunday

“ERUDITE, INCISIVE, SASSY… FRESH, HILARIOUS” – Publishers Weekly

“ONE OF THE BRIGHTEST WRITERS AROUND” – Time Out

“BRILLIANTLY BUCCANEERING”
– Spectator

“SERIOUSLY FUNNY”
– Scotland On Sunday

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Queer Eye of the Straight Gal

How women’s interest in man-on-man-lurve came out, got main-streamed – and topped the “real” gay thing. Without my permission. Having recently completed it, I was planning to post something about the sports-themed, age-verification-exempt, streaming gay porn everyone else has already written and raved about – reporting how women are apparently ‘feral’ for it. You know the one,… Read More »Queer Ey

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Mark Simpson’s books

Average rating: 3.59 · 930 ratings · 74 reviews · 8 distinct works • Similar authors

	Saint Morrissey 3.52 avg rating — 692 ratings — published 2004 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Male Impersonators: Men Performing Masculinity 3.90 avg rating — 63 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Anti-Gay 3.78 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 1996 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	It's a Queer World: Deviant Adventures in Pop Culture 3.72 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 1999 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Metrosexy 3.82 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	End of Gays? 3.50 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sex Terror: Erotic Misadventures in Pop Culture 3.90 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2002 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Queen is Dead : A Story of Jarheads, Eggheads, Serial Killers and Bad Sex by Mark Simpson (Goodreads Author), Steven Zeeland 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2001	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Tattoos, after all, are a passionate, usually doomed assertion of mastery of your own destiny, or at least a defiant embrace of one that you cannot control.”
― Mark Simpson, Saint Morrissey: A Portrait of This Charming Man by an Alarming Fan

tags: defiance, destiny, skin, tattoos

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“Bond is now the Bond Girl of the opening credits. It’s his silhouette we see – and nary a dancing naked babe in sight. Perhaps to compensate for this, in the actual film he gets his tits out a lot. He emerges from the sea glistening, showing off his pumped boobs, like Ursula Andress in ‘Dr No’ — save his nipples are more prominent. Bond has finally become his own Bond Girl.”
― Mark Simpson, Metrosexy

tags: daniel-craig, james-bond, metrosexual

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“The artistic disposition is little more than an extreme form of sulking.”
― Mark Simpson, Saint Morrissey: A Portrait of This Charming Man by an Alarming Fan

tags: artist, morrissey, sulking, temperament

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