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· Oct 9
Issue 26 is here 📸
With a cover from @daveyjones.bsky.social and work from Tamlin Magee, @garyiship.bsky.social, Ella Benson Easton, @williamasclarke.bsky.social, Zara Meerza, Antonia Bentel, @jimmymcintosh.bsky.social & more
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With a cover from @daveyjones.bsky.social and work from Tamlin Magee, @garyiship.bsky.social, Ella Benson Easton, @williamasclarke.bsky.social, Zara Meerza, Antonia Bentel, @jimmymcintosh.bsky.social & more
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November 27, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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November 27, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Exciting stuff from the Fence. Great prizes but also (more importantly imo) funding great journalism.
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November 27, 2025 at 1:38 PM
The Fence is launching a fighting fund to help us keep doing what we do, and grow in just the right ways to do much more. To help us do this, we're also offering some insanely bougie things as part of our first ever full festive Fence-tastic prizedraw. Treats and treasures galore - while slots last!
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November 25, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Did everyone enjoy the newsletter today?
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also, sharing a bonus tidbit here from the cutting room floor which I feel really captures Andy’s singular essence.
November 25, 2025 at 12:42 PM
also, sharing a bonus tidbit here from the cutting room floor which I feel really captures Andy’s singular essence.
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in my latest for @thefence.bsky.social, I hightailed it to Cambridgeshire to pay a visit to @andyleexxx.bsky.social and have look around his Gay For Pay University. It was a surreal experience, throughout which my eyes were firmly open.
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Summa Cum Laude
‘It’s not sex,’ Andy Lee declares of what he does to earn a living. He’s showing me a pair of worker boots that he sometimes demands a submissive scene partner to sniff, assuring me they’re not just…
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November 25, 2025 at 12:41 PM
in my latest for @thefence.bsky.social, I hightailed it to Cambridgeshire to pay a visit to @andyleexxx.bsky.social and have look around his Gay For Pay University. It was a surreal experience, throughout which my eyes were firmly open.
www.the-fence.com/summa-cum-la...
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But where on the (quite short) Herts/Cambs border? Cambs side, so there's a fairly limited number of places it can be
For the latest issue of the Fence, we sent @garyiship.bsky.social to the border of Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire, to check in on Porn Star University, the UK's premier academy for Gay-For-Pay adult performers.
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Summa Cum Laude
‘It’s not sex,’ Andy Lee declares of what he does to earn a living. He’s showing me a pair of worker boots that he sometimes demands a submissive scene partner to sniff, assuring me they’re not just…
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November 24, 2025 at 6:58 PM
But where on the (quite short) Herts/Cambs border? Cambs side, so there's a fairly limited number of places it can be
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"In the background, I can hear Hard Tom and Jak’s scene coming to a momentous climax."
For the latest issue of the Fence, we sent @garyiship.bsky.social to the border of Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire, to check in on Porn Star University, the UK's premier academy for Gay-For-Pay adult performers.
www.the-fence.com/summa-cum-la...
www.the-fence.com/summa-cum-la...
Summa Cum Laude
‘It’s not sex,’ Andy Lee declares of what he does to earn a living. He’s showing me a pair of worker boots that he sometimes demands a submissive scene partner to sniff, assuring me they’re not just…
www.the-fence.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:59 PM
"In the background, I can hear Hard Tom and Jak’s scene coming to a momentous climax."
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Hard ( no pun intendted ) hitting journalism
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For the latest issue of the Fence, we sent @garyiship.bsky.social to the border of Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire, to check in on Porn Star University, the UK's premier academy for Gay-For-Pay adult performers.
www.the-fence.com/summa-cum-la...
www.the-fence.com/summa-cum-la...
Summa Cum Laude
‘It’s not sex,’ Andy Lee declares of what he does to earn a living. He’s showing me a pair of worker boots that he sometimes demands a submissive scene partner to sniff, assuring me they’re not just…
www.the-fence.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Hard ( no pun intendted ) hitting journalism
👏👏👏👏
👏👏👏👏
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a) this is very fun, b) I have genuinely not even considered before the prospect of "straight-for-pay" porn
For the latest issue of the Fence, we sent @garyiship.bsky.social to the border of Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire, to check in on Porn Star University, the UK's premier academy for Gay-For-Pay adult performers.
www.the-fence.com/summa-cum-la...
www.the-fence.com/summa-cum-la...
Summa Cum Laude
‘It’s not sex,’ Andy Lee declares of what he does to earn a living. He’s showing me a pair of worker boots that he sometimes demands a submissive scene partner to sniff, assuring me they’re not just…
www.the-fence.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:47 PM
a) this is very fun, b) I have genuinely not even considered before the prospect of "straight-for-pay" porn
Come on this is magic stuff
November 24, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Come on this is magic stuff
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This is the piece I posted about earlier. I think the best short summary I can come up with is… eye-opening
For the latest issue of the Fence, we sent @garyiship.bsky.social to the border of Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire, to check in on Porn Star University, the UK's premier academy for Gay-For-Pay adult performers.
www.the-fence.com/summa-cum-la...
www.the-fence.com/summa-cum-la...
Summa Cum Laude
‘It’s not sex,’ Andy Lee declares of what he does to earn a living. He’s showing me a pair of worker boots that he sometimes demands a submissive scene partner to sniff, assuring me they’re not just…
www.the-fence.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:50 PM
This is the piece I posted about earlier. I think the best short summary I can come up with is… eye-opening
Issue 25 is in the Lake District
November 24, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Issue 25 is in the Lake District
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For the latest issue of the Fence, we sent @garyiship.bsky.social to the border of Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire, to check in on Porn Star University, the UK's premier academy for Gay-For-Pay adult performers.
www.the-fence.com/summa-cum-la...
www.the-fence.com/summa-cum-la...
Summa Cum Laude
‘It’s not sex,’ Andy Lee declares of what he does to earn a living. He’s showing me a pair of worker boots that he sometimes demands a submissive scene partner to sniff, assuring me they’re not just…
www.the-fence.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:42 PM
For the latest issue of the Fence, we sent @garyiship.bsky.social to the border of Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire, to check in on Porn Star University, the UK's premier academy for Gay-For-Pay adult performers.
www.the-fence.com/summa-cum-la...
www.the-fence.com/summa-cum-la...
Issue 25 is riding the blue bullet
November 24, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Issue 25 is riding the blue bullet
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Lunchtime reading: some fine headline work here from @thefence.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Lunchtime reading: some fine headline work here from @thefence.bsky.social
In one of the lead features from Issue 25, @garyiship.bsky.social visits Andy Lee, the straight Dubliner who is running a 'gay-for-pay' university in rural Cambridgeshire.
www.the-fence.com/summa-cum-la...
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Summa Cum Laude
‘It’s not sex,’ Andy Lee declares of what he does to earn a living. He’s showing me a pair of worker boots that he sometimes demands a submissive scene partner to sniff, assuring me they’re not just…
www.the-fence.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM
In one of the lead features from Issue 25, @garyiship.bsky.social visits Andy Lee, the straight Dubliner who is running a 'gay-for-pay' university in rural Cambridgeshire.
www.the-fence.com/summa-cum-la...
www.the-fence.com/summa-cum-la...
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Where else but @thefence.bsky.social could you read the collected life advice of Robin Lane Fox? (Though I'd swap 'fox hunting' for 'exploring')
November 23, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Where else but @thefence.bsky.social could you read the collected life advice of Robin Lane Fox? (Though I'd swap 'fox hunting' for 'exploring')
Issue 25 is on the Yucatan. Thanks to Alistair S for the photo.
November 23, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Issue 25 is on the Yucatan. Thanks to Alistair S for the photo.
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Come and join us to launch The Kingdom by Yoel Noorali at @burleyfisher.bsky.social on 9th December!
Yoel will be in conversation with Kieran Morris (@thefence.bsky.social). Free, all welcome, see you there!
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Yoel will be in conversation with Kieran Morris (@thefence.bsky.social). Free, all welcome, see you there!
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Conversation : The Kingdom by Yoel Noorali w/ Kieran Morris
Tuesday 9th December 6-9.30pm Join us to celebrate The Kingdom by Yoel Noorali. Yoel will be in conversation with Kieran Morris. In a surreal and hilarious mix of fiction and autobiography, The Kingdo...
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November 19, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Come and join us to launch The Kingdom by Yoel Noorali at @burleyfisher.bsky.social on 9th December!
Yoel will be in conversation with Kieran Morris (@thefence.bsky.social). Free, all welcome, see you there!
burleyfisherbooks.com/products/con...
Yoel will be in conversation with Kieran Morris (@thefence.bsky.social). Free, all welcome, see you there!
burleyfisherbooks.com/products/con...
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