Arts Autumn issue of The Pink Humanist ready for download Online magazine The Pink Humanist is published by the UK LGBT charity the Pink Triangle Trust (PTT). It features topics of special interest to those who identify as atheists, freethinkers, humanists, secularists and sceptics in the LGTB communities and those who support them. By Besi • 1 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 PREVIEW: Polari at the Marlborough on October 14 London‘s award-winning LGBT literary salon Polari returns to the Marlborough as part of a national tour funded by Arts Council England. By Contributor • 2 min read
Arts BOOK PREVIEW: ‘Purple Prose’ debuts at Leicester Pride today A new book on bisexuality co-curated by a University of Leicester staff member will feature on the University’s stand at Leicester Pride tomorrow, Saturday, September 3, 2016. By Gary Hart • 2 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
Books BOOK REVIEW: First tie your camel, then trust in god: Chivvis Moore Not an easy read, but not an easy subject, Moore gives us her own unfazed clarity of view and guides us into the heart of the community and the way it embraces and occasionally judges her, it’s been a long time since I’ve read a narrative with such force that has made me think so hard about received 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: A Bunch of lies by Lucy Rutherford Based in Brighton & Hove the plot of A Bunch of Lies follows a woman’s life unravelling as she searches for meaning following the hit and run death of her eight year- old daughter which slowly leads to the collapse of everything she thought she knew. After finding her daughter’s diary, a web of inte By Eric Page • 1 min read
Arts Pioneering out-of-hours scheme allows Brighton libraries to stay open longer Following successful pilots at Woodingdean and Portslade Libraries, Brighton & Hove City Council has launched a new service called ‘Libraries Extra’. By Gary Hart • 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
