Back in 2010, Justin Myers, whose fantastic debut novel The Last Romeo has just been published in paperback, started a wildly popular dating blog under the nom de plume The Guyliner. Best known for casting a beady eye over The Guardian’s weekly Blind Dates column, Myers built a substantial and dedicated audience online with his cutting (but almost always affectionate) commentary and strong gif game. Prior to this, he had blogged a number of his own first dates, detailing over 60 nights out, each with a pre-date and post-date rating out of ten.
The very nature of what we do and how we behave is, in the main, about keeping straight people happy, whether we realise it or not.