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# MICHAEL CASHMAN IN CONVERSATION @ Coast is Queer
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/michael-cashman-in-conversation-coast-is-queer/
- Published: 2022-10-05T14:38:41.000Z
- Updated: 2022-10-05T14:38:41.000Z
- Description: 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.
- Author: Eric Page
- Tags: Arts, Books, Coast Is Queer, Festival, LGBTQ

**MICHAEL CASHMAN IN CONVERSATION**

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.

[**Join us at the Attenborough Centre**](https://coastisqueer.com/in-conversation-michael-cashman-with-pete-lawson/?ref=scenemag.co.uk) to meet the man who cut up his Visa card in the House of Lords in protest at their support for the Sochi Winter Olympics, resigned from the Labour Party over their lack of Brexit bottle, and was one half of [THAT kiss i](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxFjIp%5FagYg&ref=scenemag.co.uk)n 1987!

**![](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/coastqueer-e1663083732508.jpg)BRIGHTON & HOVE’S LGBTQ+ LITERATURE FESTIVAL**

**Sunday 9th October**

**2.00-3.15pm**

ATTENBOROUGH CENTER FOR THE CREATIVE ARTS

[For more info or to book tickets see the Coast is Queer Website Here ](https://coastisqueer.com/in-conversation-michael-cashman-with-pete-lawson/?ref=scenemag.co.uk)

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