Arts
Aubrey Beardsley: Radical illustrator’s work featured in Tate exhibition
When Oscar Wilde was arrested in 1895 for gross indecency, the press reported that he was led away with a yellow book under his arm.
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Book REVIEW:The Thirty Names of Night: A Novel Zeyn Joukhadar
a stunning portrait of a young Syrian American artist and how love, life and work twist together in his life as he seeks to express his true gender.
Books
Amazon to stop selling anti-LGBTQ+ books
Amazon will cease to sell books which frame being LGBTQ+ as equivalent to having a mental illness.
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Book REVIEW: Honey Girl Morgan Rogers
Rogers writes with warmth, her prose giving us an intimacy with the characters dreams, aspirations, the breathless passion of abandoning yourself to hot, wild love
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Book REVIEW: The Pharmacist : Justin David
By parts astonishingly tender and brutally honest The Pharmacist should be on every gay mans reading list.
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Book REVIEW: The Prophets : Robert Jones Jr
It gives Black Queer love a triumphant, raging, unstoppable voice, fierce with passion, undefiled by others, with a deep culturally distinct African history,
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FEATURE: The Coast Is Queer 3 – Jamie Windust
Brian Butler listens intently to non-binary writer/model Jamie Windust
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Book REVIEW: The Art of Drag: Jake Hall
The book informs, educated and stitches together connections, influences and reasons of why looks came about and what may have driven their development, but above all, looks fierce.
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FEATURE: The Coast Is Queer 1: Val The Queen Of Crime Novels
Dropping in on Brighton’s queer literary festival Brian Butler listens to Val McDermid
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Book REVIEW: The Game Weavers: Rebecca Zahabi
Good fun, thumping narrative tensions and a surprisingly tender examination of new young queer relationships in a fantasy sci-fi setting.
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Book REVIEW: Golem Girl: Riva Lehrer
Lehrer’s personal memoir on growing up differently abled in a world that’s not built for her is astonishing.
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Spotlight on Scott St Martyn : More Diaries Of A West End Wendy
Brian Butler wonders at West End star Scott St Martyn’s latest memoir