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Martin Foreman is a London-based writer of fact, fiction and opinion.
He tries not to get the three confused.
This website is being renovated throughout 2008; apologies for any missing links.
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Fiction
online extracts from Martin's novels and short story collections
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HIV & Development
gender, sexuality & sex
work, stigma; treatment access & other issues
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Opinion
a sideways look at social issues and politics
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Shopping
books, dvds and other products from trusted sources
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My grandmother is ill, April 2008:
His beloved grandmother - the one who brought him up while his parents worked abroad
- has suffered a stroke. The hospital won't treat her unless the family come up with
$750 downpayment. He has $300 of his money - the $150 I sent him and the
$150 he has saved - and the family has come up with another $150. They still need
another $300. Can I send it?
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Macho dancer, April 2008:
My eyes were certainly glued to the screen by the long sequences in which
one, two or more cute young men rubbed up against each other near-naked (that full-frontal is the exception rather than the rule). It was only in
the second half of the film that both a plot and a serious social message appear.
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Turning down a natty, April 2008:
There is longing and hurt in her eyes. I take her hand and kiss it. Then I lean forward and gently kiss her cheek as I tell her how soft she is – it is not a lie – and how much I love her above all others in the world. And while I say the words, that statement is also true.
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Siam Love, March 2008: The basic story is simple.
Hitman Mek is hired to kill It but is unconvinced of the need to do so.
After a shoot-out with his employer's men, the wounded Mek and It hide out in a rooftop shack.
Cue tender bathing. Cue sexual intercourse. Cue wondering-about-one's-sexual-identity.
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Berlin, March 2008: On top of buildings, lining bridges and
in fountains, adonises can be seen fighting, dying, wrestling, relaxing, cavorting
and dreaming in postures that display their anatomies to their best advantage, and
usually at an angle which allows the viewer to contemplate their every asset (and frontet).
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February, March 2008: An exotic, pastoral scene. A long-haired, long-bearded man in his thirties in a white robe is lecturing, in a manner that is firm but kind, to an informal group of twelve young men, all of whom are listening intently. Most of the students are naked; the others are draped by cloth that will shortly fall to the ground.
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photo of MF: Mitamada, Bangkok; Cambodia photo: MF; other photos: to be confirmed
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