Arts REVIEW: Coast Is Queer 2022 The Coast Is Queer brought together writers, poets, performers, academics, activists and, of course, readers, for three superb days of accessible, lively in-conversation events, workshops, films and discussions celebrating queer lives and literature. By Eric Page • 4 min read
Arts REVIEW: Noises Off @ Theatre Royal Brighton Noises Off Theatre Royal Brighton This rather sweet 40th anniversary production of Michael Frayn’s play-within-a-play farce, directed by Lindsay Posner gave the appreciative audience exactly what they wanted last night, Theatre Royal Baths’ production offering up Felicity Kendal, Jonathan Coy, Matth By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts BOOK REVIEW: The Enemy Within by Adam Macqueen The Enemy Within’ is a cracking read,a gripping thriller and complex real Queer love story, of men struggling to be honest and real enough to grab love when it’s there, an adventure racked with radical threat and emotional trauma, a tender self-realisation story as Alex matures and understands himse By Eric Page • 6 min read
Arts Book REVIEW: Beneath the Streets by Adam MacQueen MacQueen’s first novel gives us an alternative history based around corrupt 1970’s England and the dark London underbelly of sex for sale and political intrigue By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts Sarah Winman and Beatrice Hitchman @ Coast is Queer Sarah Winman and Beatrice Hitchman create beloved characters that will stay with us for years to come. Join these wonderful writers as they discuss their latest books, ‘Still Life’ and ‘All of You Every Single One’. By Eric Page • 1 min read
Arts Neil Bartlett and Okechukwu Nzelu @ Coast is Queer Coast is Queer, Brighton & Hove’s LGBTQ+ literary festival, presents an intriguing intergenerational conversation between two of the UK’s most exciting gay writers – Neil Bartlett and Okechukwu Nzelu – at Attenborough Centre for Creative Arts on Saturday, October 8 from 2pm. By Eric Page • 1 min read
Arts MICHAEL CASHMAN IN CONVERSATION @ Coast is Queer Michael Cashman – activist, politician, actor and biographer – talks about his lifelong campaigning for LGBTQ+ rights, taking tea with David Hockney, and sharing his life with Paul Cottingham for 31 years. By Eric Page • 1 min read
Arts BOOK REVIEW: Please Miss: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Penis by Grace Lavery Please Miss: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Penis Grace Lavery Grace Lavery is in their own words ‘a reformed druggie, an unreformed omnisexual chaos Muppet, and 100 percent, all-natural, synthetic female hormone monster’. In this meta surreal book she solves her “penis problem,” begins receivin By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts DISRUPTING THE STATUS QUO : Coast is Queer panel event As part of the Coast is Queer festival, this exciting panel event looks at two new collections of life writing and short fiction salute the richness of queer life experience – This Arab is Queer celebrates the varied experiences of the queer diasporic community. By Eric Page • 1 min read
Arts REVIEW: The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel at Theatre Royal Brighton A pleasant enough evening at the theatre with a stella cast and the most charming atmospheric set, but somehow lacking the heart of the film. By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts BOOK REVIEW: ‘A Working-Class Family Ages Badly’ by Juno Roche This is writing that takes us somewhere, sometimes through a shockingly forthright landscape. That’s a rare talent, one that they’re modest about. We’re offered up moments, captured in their minds eye, held up, turned in the light, reflections, refractions, thoughts playing off the shiny surfaces th By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts BOOK REVIEW: Queer Beyond London by Matt Cook & Alison Oram Part history, part dream, part political, part romance, part research but wholly celebratory. A book that tells Our story, by those that built and continue to build the spaces we choose to live in. The range of voices written in its pages reflects the diversity of our community back to us, but time By Eric Page • 3 min read
