Arts REVIEW: Queer Life, Queer Love The prose is world class, the arguments a clarion call, although not all of them recent, they chime in our daily lives still. The authentic narrative of personal experience of transition lift this book into Gospel and the poetry shakes it all back down again with metaphorical and emotional lightning By Eric Page • 1 min read
Arts StoneCrabs Theatre celebrates LGBT History Month with a new book and exhibition about the Isle of Wight’s hidden LGBTQ+ history The book features excerpts from 18 interviews with LGBTQ+ people, carried out over two years, who share honest, intimate accounts of what it’s like to be ‘out’ on the Isle of Wight, an isolated island with a long and abiding conservative history By Graham Robson • 2 min read
Arts Neil Bartlett’s Address Book Neil Bartlett’s Address Book takes a deep dive into LGBT+ history. By Alex Klineberg • 5 min read
Arts REVIEW: The Pirate Mums by Jodie Lancet-Grant & Lydia Corry I love seeing us reflected in stories and with young people it’s really important that they can see themselves as key parts of fun, engaging and constructive narratives. The Pirate Mums is all of that, inclusive to the bone, celebratory of LGBTQ+ families and lives and very gently challenging of pre By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts The Centre for Transforming Sexuality and Gender to host free online event with Dr Tina Sikka Dr Sikka’s recent work, ‘Sex, Consent and Justice: A New Feminist Framework’, reflects research around increasingly fraught debates about sex, consent, feminism, justice, abolition, and gender relations that have taken centre stage in academic, journalistic and social media circles in recent years. By Graham Robson • 1 min read
Arts Unravelling the myth of Greta Garbo Robert Gottlieb is a revered literary editor and lifelong Garbo devotee. His latest book “Garbo” attempts to unravel the mystery of Hollywood’s most elusive star. By Alex Klineberg • 3 min read
Arts Interview With The Vampire author Anne Rice dies at 80 Her books went on to sell over 150 million copies, making her one of the most popular writers ever to put pen to paper. By Alex Klineberg • 3 min read
Arts REVIEW: Ace of Spades by Faridah Abike-Iyimide If you like books about sinister powerful elitist organisations who use all sorts of nefarious tricks to keep their holds on power you’ll love this book, but look in the mirror as it’s not a conspiracy thriller but the fictionalised narrative of institutionalised racism and individual prejudice focu By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: Guy UsinU – Oil & fetish The book is an evocative and crepuscular exploration not just of the people and places of Brighton but also the psycho-sexual geography of the artist themselves. Where they lay, pause, linger, what they see, feel and embrace, and what they leave in the echoes of desire, control and abandonment which By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: This much is true – Miriam Margolyes A natural raconteur the book is a superb read and may challenge as much as it will certainly delight. By Eric Page • 1 min read
Arts REVIEW: The Reluctant Gay Activist by Terry Sanderson Sanderson, one of our National Treasures has published this revised memoir, in which he looks again at his very long involvement with equality campaigning and particularly the struggle for gay rights, of which he formed a key role and how his life as a leading secularist guided him. I’ve got a lot By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: The Transgender Issue by Shon Faye Keeping the emphasis on change, clearly detailing the harm caused by the current toxic situation but keeping the attention on hope, on what could and should be done by everyone interested in real equality to achieve it by working in solidarity. This is a book which offers us a way onward, to a bet By Eric Page • 2 min read
