Arts BOOK REVIEW: Flamingo by Rachel Elliot Flamingo, at its dysfunctional heart, is a story of people learning to let go and grow, to accept and love people regardless of their flaws, to find a radical space in the heart for kindness to flow. It’s a book about chosen family, finding yourself and the way truly being seen is the safest place o By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts BOOK REVIEW: Love From the Pink Palace by Jill Nalder This book is a huge throb of love, from a woman who continues to give and share. Her love teaches us that radical unconditional love will get us through the darkest of times and give us an opportunity to build on the ashes of the glories of those who went before. By Eric Page • 4 min read
Arts IN PICTURES: Pride Cymru 2022 Pride Cymru 2022 Eric Page returns home and enjoys the wonderful atmosphere of Queer love in the Welsh Capital, Cardiff. After the pandemic pause Pride Cymru returned with a massive turn out, blazing sunshine and a huge cheer in Cardiff on Saturday, August 27 as thousands of people marched through t By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts BOOK REVIEW: I Am Not Raymond Wallace by Sam Kenyon A satisfying new addition to queer literature. By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts BOOK REVIEW: Filthy Animals by Brandon Taylor Filthy Animals Brandon Taylor This collection of eleven LGBTQ+ stories, interwoven and interconnected by character, theme and narrative tension is superb. Taylor takes the familiar Queer tropes and upends them, shakes them out, twists them round, some get a spit and rub, others placed back in strang By Eric Page • 3 min read
Community Pride Cymru 2022 – Cardiff 27th & 28th August This August Bank Holiday sees the return of Pride Cymru in Cardiff, the theme for this year’s event is #Unique&united / #UnigrywacUnedig with more than 50,000 people expected to enjoy the packed weekend, city centre parade and vibrant LGBTQ+ scene. By Eric Page • 4 min read
Arts BOOK REVIEW: Destination Pride by Andrew Collins Destination Pride Andrew Collins This travel sized book, part of the ‘Destination’ series is a celebration of freedom and of the progress that continues to make it both safe and inspiring for Queer people to explore parts of every continent. LGBTQ+ travellers know the importance of feeling safe and By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: Waitress @ Theatre Royal Brighton This is a fizzing fun and quirky show, I was delighted by it. It’s lovely to enjoy such a clever combination of writing, lyrics and music which pull the classic arc of musicals into a modern messy genre mixing focus. But in a charming surgery way which belies the sophisticated work going on beneath By Eric Page • 4 min read
Arts THE RAINBOW CHORUS : Summer Concert Last night’s programme was well chosen with plenty of new material, some excellent solos and delightful break out groups that allowed the choir to highlight some exceptional talents. By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts BOOK REVIEW: Great LGBTQ+ Speeches by Tea Uglow Eric Page is delighted by the insight, sass and glorious rhetoric (from) these speeches shine like beacons, they glow with the power of inspiration, they shake with rage, shudder with righteous anger and shout across time space for us to echo them in our daily testimony, struggle and who we fight to By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts REVIEW: The Burnt City – Punchdrunk We are ghosts in this narrative machine, and the action unfolds around us in small private performances or huge perfectly choregraphed set pieces, stunning in their reach and discipline. By Eric Page • 6 min read
Arts REVIEW: Cluedo @ Theatre Royal Brighton Cluedo was this; a great farce trying to escape from a rather dull game, but trapped like a trap in a trap, wriggling with all the energy of a committed talented cast, sometimes fighting against their material with real verve and mostly succeeding, but there were quite a few moments where it didn’t By Eric Page • 3 min read
