Billie Jean King was the tennis player who got married, won six Wimbledon singles titles, started the women’s professional tennis circuit and the Women’s Tennis Association, co-founded Team Tennis, fought for equal prize money, had an abortion, got sued by her lesbian lover (well, one of them), and (in 1973) beat 55-year-old Bobby Riggs in…
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Oct
My first five trips to Argentina were all during, or just after, elections. I photographed the posters above on my first visit, during its 2003 Presidential election. Eva Perón was supposed to be a reason to vote for Carlos Menem, pictured below. Exactly why a woman who’d been dead for 51 years should make people…
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Sep
I can’t say that the place our city is named after is terribly exciting. Small, peaceful, quiet and dull – well, maybe not so unlike its Western Australian counterpart! I actually felt quite homesick being there – only worse – because Perth, Scotland isn’t pronounced “Purrrth” – it’s “Pearth” – so it didn’t quite seem…
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Sep
There were the pupils in the eyes of Christ the Redeemer, at the Brickman Wonders of the World exhibition in the Perth Convention Centre. There aren’t any in the statue in Rio de Janiero, and as a result, they look creepy.
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Sep
In 2002, I proved my credentials as a serious lawyer by appearing in make-up and a blue wig on Rose Hancock Porteous’ reality TV show. But wait! There’s more! Around this time, I also went to three garage sales at her mansion Prix D’Amour, which was French for Price or Prize of Love. At one…
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Aug
This is Jennifer: It’s actually a Samsung S8, but one of my cousins has named it after Jennifer Hawkins, the former Miss Universe. Jennifer is my first regular smartphone, and apparently quite an advanced model. My cousin thinks that as a gay man, I wouldn’t appreciate all the wonderful things about Jennifer Hawkins. Likewise, as…
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Aug
Lord’s Cricket Ground in London, home of the MCC (Marylebone Cricket Club), with the urn containing The Ashes for which England and Australia compete every two years. Traditionally, the ashes are of a burnt bail, but there’s speculation that they were actually the remains of a stump, ball or even a woman’s veil. And whatever they were…
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Aug
Given that I’m over 40, I’d like to think that 35 isn’t too old to win Wimbledon, so I’m glad Roger Federer recently proved this. He didn’t even lose a set, which makes me hope that they’ll soon have a 37 or 38-year-old champion. Martina Navratilova won the US Open mixed doubles when she was…
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Aug
