Arts book review: date of birth, time of death: pp hartnet It’s punchy, practical, and well-honed heft will slap you with its audacity, and then comfort you with the cold comfort of truth. It’s never clear if this is fantasy, confession or observation in the many seriously sexual gay male spaces Hartnet is very familiar with, but its sharp edged needling vo By Eric Page • 2 min read
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: Ednapeadia: Dame Edna Dame Edna spares no one and nothing, especially the truth, in her quest to explain why Australia is the best darn place in the whole world. With her trademark honestly and subtle delicate prose Dame Enda, world famous housewife, chanteuse and satirist shows us once again why she is Australia’s most 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: Madonna 66 In June 1983 a well-known New York casting director and producer, asked her photographer son Richard to drop everything and head over to Manhattan’s Lower East Side to take polaroids of a young and upcoming performer. By Craig Hanlon-Smith • 3 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 PREVIEW: Stalin’s Englishman – The Lives of Guy Burgess a talk by Andrew Lownie A unique series of Tuesday talks at The Old Courtroom continues with Andrew Lownie discussing his book Stalin’s Englishman The Lives of Guy Burgess who believes Guy Burgess was the most important, complex and fascinating of The Cambridge Spies – Maclean, Philby, Blunt – all brilliant young men recru By Contributor • 2 min read
Arts Award-winning Brighton-based speaker and speech coach reveals his secrets with launch of new book Steve Bustin, the Brighton-based professional speaker and speech coach, launched his new book at an event at Café Plenty in Brighton on November 2. By Paul Gustafson • 2 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 New gender diversity books in 2017 Jessica Kingsley Publishers (JKP’s) to launch new list of gender diversity books in January 2017. JKP’s pioneering gender diversity list publishes personal stories and resources that encourage greater understanding of gender identity and gender expression. By Gary Hart • 1 min read
Arts Paul McVeigh wins the Polari First Book Prize 2016 Belfast author Paul McVeigh takes the Polari First Book Prize 2016 with his novel The Good Son and Juliet Jacques is runner up for her memoir Trans. By Besi • 2 min read
