Now for some good news

Remember that petition that went round asking the UK government not to deport a young gay man back to Iran, because he would only be executed when he got there? Thank you everyone who signed! We have a partial success - the government has promised to re-think and for now he's safe.

Here is a further petition which will continue to put the pressure on in case they feel inclined to change their minds:
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Stopdeportinggay/


Also - and only ever so slightly loosely connected - there is a new blog in town on the subject of gay historic romance. Owned by Erastes, Lee Rowan, Charlie Cochrane and me, with contributions from our very own Emma Collingwood and several other writers of published historical slash, it's called The Macaronis, and you can find it here: The Macaronis


RSS feed for the Macaronis available here

Torchwood: Out of the Rain

I’ve noticed that people are increasingly dissatisfied with the progress of the Jack/Ianto relationship on Torchwood. ‘Hold on’, they’re saying, ‘we were promised a slowly building relationship between these two, whereas in fact we’ve had the Owen + Tosh show, and last week we got Jack mooning after Gwen. Then we get an episode where Jack and Ianto spend most of their on-screen time together, and what do we get? Nothing.’

And that’s true really. For characters who are sleeping together, these two appear to have no other connection at all. Jack does not comfort Ianto when Ianto is visibly upset, nor does he pick him up when he’s been attacked by the ghostmaker. Ianto does not ask Jack for support, and when, at the end, he is shaken and frightened he walks abruptly away as if afraid that Jack is going to say something.

So what is going on with this relationship?

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