BOOK REVIEW: Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
With a bright enquiring and loving intelligent and geeky queer character at the heart of the narrative this coming-of-age, coming out story this is a splendid first novel from Becky Albertalli.
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BOOK REVIEW: Blood Relatives
Alcock has written that most lovely of books, a wonderfully spot-on working class positive coming out story of the most precious kind, authentic, self-defined and rough, but veined with hope and life lived well.
BOOK REVIEW: The Up Stairs Lounge Arson
This grim but absorbing read covers the events of June 24, 1973, when a fire in a New Orleans gay bar killed 32 people. On Gay Pride Day in 1973, an arsonist set the entrance to a French Quarter gay bar on fire. In the terrible inferno that followed, 32 people lost their lives, including a third of
Why primary school kids are not too young to learn about diversity
Elly Barnes, CEO of Educate & Celebrate, talks about her experience educating primary school children and introduces a film showing the Educate & Celebrate PRIDE in Primary Education resources being used. Children are not born racist, sexist or homophobic; this is a fact I say in every training sess
The Pink Humanist Spring issue ready for download
The role played over many decades by black atheists in the struggle against institutionalised racism and homophobia is highlighted in a major feature in the latest issue of The Pink Humanist. Also included in the spring 2015 edition are articles about: Workplace equality, which shows that companies
Jubilee Library celebrates ten year anniversary on World Book Day
Brighton’s Jubilee Library will be celebrating its 10th anniversary this Thursday, March 5, on World Book Day. Since opening in 2005, Jubilee Library has become the top performing library in the region and second most popular in the country. The building, which forms the centrepiece of Jubilee Squar
Polari First Book Prize 2015 – Call for submissions
Submissions are being sought for this year’s Polari First Book Prize, now in its fifth year. The Polari Prize is for a first book which explores the LGBT experience. It is open to any work of poetry, prose, fiction or non-fiction published in English by a writer born or resident in the UK within the