The Gay Bradshaw works in aviation, which means he technically spends more time in the clouds than with his feet on the ground. A perfect metaphor for starting a writing career with zero experience. This is his first attempt at a weekly column, so buckle up, keep your tray tables up and let’s hope this flight doesn’t experience too much turbulence.
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WEEK 23/2025
My very first PR deal: a free meal and as payment a simple column on my experience of the night. Oh I could also bring a friend. Well win win cause I’m a fatty. I love food.
WEEK 21/2025
Imagine Marsha P. Johnson, black, trans, fierce, and fabulous strutting through the streets of New York today. Would she be welcomed at a corporate-sponsored Pride parade or would she get side-eyed by security for not fitting the sanitized rainbow narrative?
More likely, she’d face politicians who treat her existence like a political piñata, especially those who think “trans rights” is a foreign language best left unspoken.
WEEK 20/2025
Two guys, a fatbike, and three words I can’t forget:
“You dirty fags.”
That’s how my cute date ended a couple of weeks ago.
We weren’t even holding hands. Just walking. Smiling. Existing.
I don’t think I’ve ever turned around so quickly in my life.
WEEK 19/2025
Let me take you back to the late ’70s, early ’80s. Lady Diana Spencer was, in many ways, an ordinary girl. I mean, she was an aristocrat with a title, but at the same time, she worked at a kindergarten. She owned a flat in the posh area of Earl’s Court, London, with flatmates. Who could have imagined she would become the most photographed woman on Earth?
When her engagement to the Prince of Wales was announced, her life did a full 180. It was the beginning of the end.
WEEK 18/2025
I’ve hinted at it before but the fact is: I have been overweight. Massively overweight. Do you know these BMI calculators online? Well when I filled in my details it said: way too high. I kid you not. At my heaviest the scale produced 3 digits!
Let me take you back, and if you have read my columns you might already know this but I once used to play water polo with 9 training sessions a week.
WEEK 17/2025
Every so often the little boy in me wonders, where do I truly come from and where do I belong?
As cabin crew for a major international airline, I’ve visited so many great cities and countries around the world, perks of the job, I guess. Going to Suriname is always a bit more special, though. A former colony of the Netherlands at the top of Latin America. When I mention this country, most people outside the Netherlands don't actually know anything of this paradise…
WEEK 16/2025
My younger years were a little different than most. You see, I played water polo for the Dutch national team. We trained 9 times a week, before school, after school and 1 or 2 matches a week. So partying wasn’t really a thing I did until I injured my shoulder and wasn't able to play water polo anymore.I found myself gaining a lot of weight until it got so bad that if you painted me white I would be the Michelin man.
Obviously this, and other things I might write a column about one day, influenced my confidence a lot…
WEEK 15/2025
Have you ever truly experienced heartbreak? I think most of us have. You feel like your world collapses, your heart breaking in a thousand little pieces and no one is able to fix that, no medicine, no instant cure.
When I think back on my heartbreaks of the past, only one really comes to mind. Quite recent if i'm honest. Let me take you back…
Introduction needed?
So where do I begin? The standard introduction is a bit boring. Name age and location? Top or bottom? I mean it is not Grindr. I think it would be a better idea to use this platform for you to get to know me.
So let me start how this adventure began.
I have always wanted to write but I never actually started till…
