Arts Payton Edgar’s Agony to help Sussex Cancer Fund Matthew is a trained nurse who has worked in the Sussex Cancer Centre for 15 years. Currently working in the outpatient clinic department, he has also worked in both the chemotherapy department and the inpatient unit, Howard One. He has been writing seriously for 10 years, and in 2011 was a runner u By Michael Hootman • 1 min read
Arts BOOK REVIEW: Red Hot 100 Three years ago Thomas Knights had an idea – to put ginger guys in the spotlight like never seen before. To show them as desirable, as alpha males. Sexual, confident, Heroic, as the ultimate male. By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts Leicester University celebrate 50th anniversary of Joe Orton’s first play To mark the 50th anniversary of Leicester-born writer Joe Orton’s first stage play, his sister Leonie Orton Barnett unveiled a pot specially commissioned for the University of Leicester David Wilson Library from local ceramicist Rachel Barnett, Orton’s niece. By Besi • 2 min read
Arts BOOK REVIEW: Camp Carnage Every now and again a book drops into my slot with perfect timing and I got this one for Halloween. Local boy Joshua Winning and his co-author Elliot Cross have conspired on this book based in a 1980s American summer camp where gay teens are sent to be straightened out but- as is the gore-norm for s By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts BOOK REVIEW: Out There In the year that Scotland voted to not choose independence from the rest of the UK and kicked off a greater debate about the Union and what it is, and what it means to the rest of us in the UK, Freight Books brings a new and definitive anthology of poetry and prose writing from Scotland’s leading an By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts BOOK REVIEW: Dear Infidel: Tamim Sadikali Dear Infidel is evocative of the frustrations and challenges faced by British Muslims as the gravity of world politics has a domino effect on their own lives. With the news full of young British men going off to fight in a war and for a reason that many find unfathomable this is a well-timed book on By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts BOOK REVIEW: The Queen of Clubs: Tobias International This is at heart a book balanced on suspense and if you’ve always wondered quote how much of that makeup, attitude and viciousness is left behind in the dressing rooms of Drag Queens then you will enjoy the rising tensions as these Drag Queens clash and wrestle and worse, and be taken up with the ne By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts ‘Are you a boy or are you a girl?’ Trans* activist Sarah Savage launches Kickstarter campaign to finance the printing and design of her first children’s book. Sarah is a writer, transgender community advocate and a few years ago took part in the Channel 4 documentary series called My Transsexual Summer. She said: “Are you a Boy or ar By Besi • 3 min read
Arts Winter Pride UK Arts Awards 2014 The second Winter Pride UK Arts Awards will be hosted by Irish broadcasting personality Brendan Courtney at Tobacco Dock in East London on Saturday, November 15. Winter Pride UK, a unique celebration of creativity and a dazzling display of the finest performance and visual arts, is open to all artis By Besi • 2 min read
Arts New ‘coming out’ guidance for young people from Stonewall Stonewall launches new guide for young people who think they might be lesbian, gay or bisexual (LGB) ahead of Saturday’s National Coming Out Day. Coming Out: Answers to Some of the Questions You May Have, discusses in plain English issues including religion, having children, getting married and bull By Besi • 1 min read
Arts Osman wins Polari First Book Prize Diriye Osman has won the Polari First Book Prize for his short story collection, Fairytales for Lost Children, published by Team Angelica Press. Last night, (Wednesday, October 8), the British-Somali short story writer, essayist, critic and visual artist was presented with a cheque for £1,000 by Vin By Besi • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: Dominicanos by Ernest Montgomery This is an exceptional book, full of 128 pages of full colour photographs of some astonishingly beautiful men in a Caribbean country almost as breathtakingly varied as the men who live there. By Eric Page • 2 min read
