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BOOK REVIEW: For Your Convenience – Paul Pry

BOOK REVIEW: For Your Convenience – Paul Pry

By Eric Page • 1 min read

Bristol’s largest New Year’s party line up announced! Hot Chip & the promoters of iconic London LGBTQ+ night and festival collective Little Gay Brother are joining forces with Bristol’s own LGBTQ+ event Bitch, Please!

New Year’s Day: Hot Chip (Little Gay Brother and Bitch, Please!) AREA 404 – is offering double the pleasure as the city welcomes in 2020 with not one but two events; kicking things off with the New Year’s Eve spectacular, followed by New Year’s Day all dayer for those who don’t want the party to […]

By Eric Page • 2 min read

REVIEW: Letting Go by Kent Hung

The main protagonist Andrew’s outlook has been moulded by a childhood brought up alone by his mother, by his fear of abandonment and by the numerous losses in his life.

By Eric Page • 1 min read

REVIEW: Crossfire: A Litany for Survival by Staceyann Chin

Crossfire collects Staceyann Chin’s empowering, feminist-LGBTQ+, Caribbean, activist-driven poetry for the first time in a single book.  This is powerful urgent intersectional writing which is about the self, the one, the utter delight of being authentic.

By Eric Page • 1 min read

REVIEW: Julian is a Mermaid by Jessica Love

This young person’s book, reading age 4+ is a terrific delight, understated, magical and profound it put a smile on my face.

By Eric Page • 1 min read

Brighton charity, Same Sky, invites local support to help keep the much-loved winter solstice event running

Brighton charity, Same Sky, invites local support to help keep the much-loved winter solstice event running Brighton charity Same Sky launched their crowdfunder  and the theme for Burning the Clocks 2019, offering exclusive rewards to raise £6.5k to help fund the event. The annual event will take pl

By Eric Page • 3 min read

REVIEW: On Earth we’re briefly gorgeous by OCEAN VUONG

His urgent uncompromising queerness is refreshing, his seductive sensuality spellbinding and his singular modern voice brings an appealing perspective to his narrative flow.  He’s an easy read, but you’ll quickly get carried away by his undercurrents into spaces and places you’d perhaps never though

By Eric Page • 1 min read

REVIEW: Transgender behind Prison Walls by Sarah Jane Baker

This is Sarah Jane Baker’s second book but the first book of its kind. Written by a transgender life-sentence prisoner this looks in detail, both personal experience and well researched evidence of what it’s like to live as a woman in a man’s prison.

By Eric Page • 2 min read

REVIEW: Celebrating Difference:  A whole-school approach to LGBT+ inclusion by Shaun Dellenty

This is a timely, well researched and pertinent book from author and writer Shaun Dellenty. Covering a wide range of issues aimed at all primary and secondary teachers.  It shows ways of making the classroom (and the whole school) an inclusive and compassionate place for everyone

By Eric Page • 1 min read

REVIEW: The Last Queen of Scotland by Ray Barron-Woolford

This superbly researched and engaging books details the life of the most important UK civil-rights activist of the past 100 years you probably knew nothing about.

By Eric Page • 1 min read

REVIEW: Queer Intentions: A (Personal) Journey through LGBTQ + Culture by Amelia Abraham

Abrahams searing honesty and candour gives us a serious insight into what it is to be Queer today. Told with great humour & compassion this book holds a wise mirror up to our lives, asking us if this is what we want and shows, by example and gentle suggestions, how much further we need to go to chan

By Eric Page • 1 min read

REVIEW: Ten Times Table @ Devonshire Park Theatre

Ten Times Table is the inaugural production of THE Classic Comedy Theatre Company, produced by Bill Kenwright. There’s a superb line up of acting talent in this production and that’s one of the strongest things going for it.

By Eric Page • 3 min read