BOOK REVIEW: ‘From Mohair Suits to Kinky Boots’ by Geoff Deane
This is a tale of a fortunate life, grasped and wrung out, told with self-depreciating humour by a man with some considerable insight into his own and the wider world’s bullshit
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Judges revealed for inaugural Inclusive Books For Children Awards
Jeffrey Boakye, author, speaker and educator; A.M. Dassu, author, campaigner and director of Inclusive Minds; Aoife Dooley, writer, illustrator, comedian and graphic designer; Jessica Kellgren-Fozard, content creator and leading advocate for LGBTQ+ and disability rights; Farrah Serroukh, interim exe
LGBTQ+ children’s education company Pop’n’Olly to donate 300 LGBTQ+ children’s books to primary schools in the constituencies of Rishi Sunak and Suella Braverman
In response to “anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric” coming from the Tory Party Conference, LGBTQ+ children’s education company Pop’n’Olly has announced they are donating 300 of its LGBTQ+ children’s books to primary schools in the constituencies of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Home Secretary Suella Braverman. O
BOOK REVIEW: ‘DRAG: A British History’ by Jacob Bloomfield
The book takes us by the manicured gloved hand and leads us, via clubs, shows, scandals, politics, intrigue, to some rather delicious Queer individuals and the way they used Drag to succeed and flourish on stage
Inclusive Books for Children launches website that makes sourcing high-quality inclusive children’s books “a seamless experience”
The new website will host trusted reviews and recommendations for hundreds of inclusive children’s books
The UK’s only LGBTQ+ literary festival, the Coast Is Queer, to return to Brighton in October
Brian Butler looks forward to the only UK queer literature festival – and it’s here in Brighton
BOOK REVIEW: ‘No Straight White Men’ by Paul Stone
Brian Butler finds Paul Stone’s anthology of queer monologues intriguing