Arts BOOK REVIEW: Speak it’s Name!: Quotations by and about gay men and women This collection of quotations by and about gay people is a celebration of the advances in LGBT rights in the UK over the last half-century and a demonstration of the battle against oppression and prejudice that led to them. From a diverse range of people across the world, funny ones are interspersed By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts BOOK REVIEW: Breaking Down the Walls of Heartache: Martin Aston Breaking Down the Walls of Heartache is a story for a wide audience, not just the LGBT community but a broad spectrum of music lovers who are fascinated by these characters, events, stories and songs By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts BOOK REVIEW: A Boxful of Ideas: John Dixon & Jeffrey Doorn There’s a strong selection of short stories, poems, all with a current take on topics of interest. It’s a superb anthology not just of good stories filled with humor, honesty and well written plots that will connect with all Queers readers, but also an anthology of style and prose. By Eric Page • 1 min read
Arts BOOK REVIEW: Nick & Greg: John Roman Baker Nick and Greg both grab the opportunities that being young and queer offer them but in different ways and the impact and fall out of their choices on their family, and their own relationships are vividly displayed as the narrative slowly unwinds to its climax. By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts BOOK REVIEW: Magda Szubanski: Reckoning Utterly superb, an eye opening book, even if you’re a hard hearted non laughing idiot who’s not interested in the perfectly pitched comedic work of Szubanski this profound and delicately entertaining book on a women’s struggle to illuminate and understand a stunning family history that reflects the By Eric Page • 4 min read
Arts BOOK REVIEW: Beijing Comrades: Bei Tong. The book follows the passionate and hugely engaging gay love story of Handong and Lan Yu and is placed in the upheaval of a China bursting out of the repressions of Mao and into a modern state. By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts BOOK REVIEW: THE GOOD SON: Paul McVeigh Profound, funny, gripping and this book touched me moving deftly beyond life in Northern Ireland and getting to grips, with a confident prose with the bigger issues in growing up and out. By Eric Page • 1 min read
Arts BOOK REVIEW: Massive: Gay Erotic Manga and the Men Who Make It Big, burly, lascivious, and soft around the edges: welcome to this hyper-masculine world. Massive: Gay Erotic Manga and the Men Who Make It is an in-depth introduction to nine of the most exciting comic artists making work for a gay male audience in Japan. By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts BOOK REVIEW: Gay Dad: David Leadain With a candid foreword about his own experiences from Coronation Street actor (and gay dad) Charlie Condou this is a timely book reflecting the experiences of a sizable part of our complex LGBT world. We all known a gay dad…it’s time to understand them a little more. By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts BOOK REVIEW: Dusty – An intimate portrait of a musical legend Never simple, always passionate this is a seriously good biography for all lovers of Ms Springfield. By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts BOOK REVIEW: The Adventures of a Happy Homosexual: Memoirs of an Unlikely Activist: Terry Sanderson Terry’s eye witness accounts of just about every LGBT event of importance from the last 40 odd years is as funny as it is poignant and his trademark ruthlessness and honesty shines through this book and is testament to his belief in the importance of recording our own LGBT history on our own terms a By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts BOOK REVIEW: Purple Prose: Bisexuality in Britain: Kate Harrad This book is an important and relevant commentary on contemporary British Bisexual experience and a must read for Bi people and their allies from across the LGBTQ world. By Eric Page • 1 min read