Kecks and Daniel Radcliffe's sexuality

It's official! Kecks definitely means undershorts, or underpants, or whatever it is you want to call them. When I wrote about my encounter with the Geordie guy last month, I reported that some people think that kecks means trousers, and even how to spell kecks wasn't completely clear.

The oracle of all wisdom that I invoke here to prove that kecks means undershorts is the 14th-20th February 2007 print edition of the London Time Out listings magazine. In their theatre section, they had the following to say in advance of the opening night of the new production of Equus by Peter Shaffer at the Gielgud Theatre on Shaftsbury Avenue:

Potter (known to his mother as Daniel Radcliffe) gets his kecks off on stage, thus kissing goodbye to his childhood in what must be the theatrical equivalent of Britney Spears losing her virginity.

So there you have it, kecks=undershorts, because if you think that Daniel Radcliffe is just going without trousers you're in for a bit of a shock!

This new production of Equus opened on Friday, i.e. just two days ago, and myself and boyfriend number 1 were lucky enough to have tickets very near the front of the stalls for last night's performance. It was a good show, with excellent performances by both Daniel Radcliffe and Richard Griffiths, even though at one point Richard Griffiths needed a few prompts to get through one of his longer speeches.

One of the things which struck me was the different physical dimensions of the two main actors. I don't mean to be rude, but at his current size Richard Griffiths must be one of the widest men I've ever seen. Aged 17, Daniel Radcliffe on the other hand is a typical skinny teenager. But they worked well together. The horses were played by six hunky actors with fabulous wire frame horse heads, with wire frames for hooves as well, which all looked magnificent.

And then there was the nudity. Just before the end of the first half, there's a scene where Alan (played by Daniel Radcliffe) was telling the psychiatrist (played by Richard Griffiths) how he liked to take off all his clothes and ride horses naked. But as he was playing out the scene, although his shirt came off, both trousers and kecks remained firmly in place!

"He's bottled out of the nudity bit, hasn't he?" said boyfriend number 1 to me during the interval, "I'm sure Peter Firth was naked for that bit when he did the film in the 1970's!"

But however much nudity there was in previous productions and films, there was more than enough in the current production. It was all saved up for the finale, when both Daniel Radcliffe and actress Joanna Christie got all their kit off, although I must admit most of my attention was on Daniel!

Is it possible to tell a guy's sexuality purely by looking at his tackle? I've seen a lot of naked guys in the past of course, from school showers and gym changing rooms to gay saunas and encounters. I've had a good idea about the sexuality of a lot of the guys that I've seen naked too. So I like to think that it's with some authority when I say that judging by the shape of his tackle, Daniel Radcliffe looks distinctly heterosexual. Which I guess is good news for all his young female fans, but if there are any young gay male fans out there, sorry to say that I don't think he's one of us!