Just pretend I didn’t tell you that it came from an ad, and imagine it’s just a completely natural authentic recording of lads singing pop songs down at the pub. When leading British mental health organisation The Priory Group surveyed 1,000 men in 2015, their results revealed that at its crux, 40 per cent of men were unwilling to talk to anyone about their mental health, with further findings showing that 77 per cent of those same men have suffered from depression, anxiety or stress. In her book “Not Gay: Sex Between Straight White Men”, Jane Ward asks, why do seemingly Straight White Men do such seemingly Gay White things?

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pg 426: “Sam suggested that much of the reason there was so much more kissing at the university was because of the liberal environment: “I never kiss any of my friends back home,” he said. Dirk Bogarde, an actor who never acknowledged the rumours of his homosexuality during his lifetime, took a real career risk in playing a lawyer who, following a string of blackmail attempts against gay men, begins to realise his own sexuality. In 1999, it was reported that 12 men between the ages of 15 and 24 killed themselves per week, while asurvey of 1,400 men aged between 13 – 19 found ​ “67 per cent who had suicidal feelings said they had nowhere to turn for emotional help”. At the start of the video, the men kiss briefly and instinctively, as if they’ve done it before so many times.For the three artists, their experience of male-dominated lad culture in modern Britain has different meaning, just as their work spans varied mediums and concepts.

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If love is a form of magic, then I am a magical sea nymph recovering Icarus from the boy-blue ocean.My in-game damage model is straight­forward: The main lad starts with 20 health, and each strike inflicts damage based on chair velocity, usually 5-15 damage. This is the simple love one might reserve for a succinct capture of early 21st century himbo masculinity, a brilliant tragicomedy in three 20-second acts… an important failure. I was trying to apply physics forces to keep the ragdoll upright, but instead it levitated the hurt lad off the ground.

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For each completed playthrough, the player also earns various works of art depicting Icarus, which can in-turn unlock bonus features like a golden ratio camera overlay, classy black and white filter, or even wings. I watched him steadily rise into the air, as if transcending this mortal plane of pain and suffering and chairs. Victim was released four years after the publication of the Wolfenden report, a paper which recommended that male homosexuality no longer be regarded as a criminal offence.

London-based zine-maker Sam Harris’ approach to documenting the male-dominated culture he grew up in takes amore conceptual approach. Tom Shkolnik’s beautifully observed The Comedian (2012), in which a possibly gay, possibly bi thirtysomething (Edward Hogg) tries to make it as a standup in the capital, also narrowly missed inclusion. This loving pose has prompted humorous comparisons to the painting “Lament For Icarus” by late Victorian painter Herbert James Draper.

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before smashing the bottle on the ground, and then takes one last drag from his cigarette before wantonly discarding the perfectly good roach. The British ‘kitchen sink’ dramas, focused around working-class lives, that prevailed in the late 50s and early 60s occasionally contained sympathetic gay characters, such as Murray Melvin’s student in A Taste of Honey (1961) and Cicely Courtneidge’s ageing actor in The L-shaped Room (1962).A ​ ‘lad’ can actually be someone who likes alaugh and abit of back and forth, but actually cares deeply about his friends and the world around him,” says the artist. The murder of a gay man triggers an avalanche of trouble for two black pirate radio DJs, one of whom starts a relationship with a white, gay punk. Landscape with the Fall of Icarus” by Dutch renaissance painter Bruegel (or some other painter, who cares) emphasizes the humiliation of Icarus’ failed ambition. We’ve narrowed down the list to films easily available on DVD, although honourable mention must go to the über-rare Two Gentlemen Sharing (1969), a swinging slice of the 60s that hinted at interracial homosexuality. The testosterone-fuelled heydays of lad culture in the mid-1990s, for example, played apart in forming groups of like-minded men with those same-old ​ “sissy” jibes thrown around in pubs and pitches.