Arts REVIEW: BI THE WAY by Lois Shearing Shearing examines difficult subjects with a deft clarity of purpose, affirming and platforming real people’s experience throughout. It’s an engaging read, and if your head it turned by all sorts of folk, and your pulse quickened then the book supports an honest self-exploration of what that can mean By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: Books:Fat & Queer An Anthology of Queer and Trans Bodies I enjoy a good anthology and one which highlights the experiences and adventures of anyone who has to navigate the body shaming highways of modern life, before turning off to the sedate byways of homo queer fat folx is a treat to find. The trio of editors have selected stories, poems, prose and By Eric Page • 1 min read
Arts REVIEW: Books: First Come Love by Tom Rasmussen We are asked to consider marriage, as an achievement, a compromise, a selling-out, a practical solution and given experiences of authentic lives of what marriage means to a range of people across the spectrum of sexuality and class, and what the future looks like for this most historic and universa By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: Books:The adventures of Isabel by Candas Jane Dorsey Not to be confused with the Ogden Nash poem, although very much in the bonkers celebratory style of his prose and radically mind popping daftness this is a delightful entertaining book from author Dorsey who adores words, pokes, tickles, makes them perform these incredibly funny feats of phraseolog By Eric Page • 2 min read
Cabaret Pride at the Ironworks kicks off in style Brighton’s new Ironworks Studio immediately established itself as a destination venue with its inaugural sold-out event, the Pride Gala Launch, on Saturday July 31. A sleek, welcoming space with tiered seating for 150 and a handful of small tables stage-side (making capacity 180 in total), the studi By Jaq Bayles • 3 min read
Arts Review: Nen and the lonely Fisherman: Ian Eagleton & James Mayhew Eric Page is delighted by this lovely book for the younger reader with a strong diversity theme and a subtle intelligent ecological one also woven into the story By Eric Page • 1 min read
Arts Review: Top to Bottom : Finlay Games Eric Page is seduced by this witty testimony to transformation and learning to love your body and the changes and opportunity’s that change can provide By Eric Page • 1 min read
Arts Review: Gender Euphoria : Laura Kate Dale Eric Page enjoys this book which distils a wide range of personal transcendent Queer experiences in an appealing and easy to read anthology By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: Coming Out again: Sabrina Symington Eric Page enjoys this colourful new Queer graphic novel – Coming Out again from Sabrina Symington By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts BOOK REVIEW: Scent by Isabel Costello ..truth under our noses, we smell the complex scent of fear, the astringent sting of truth.. By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts Book REVIEW:The Thirty Names of Night: A Novel Zeyn Joukhadar a stunning portrait of a young Syrian American artist and how love, life and work twist together in his life as he seeks to express his true gender. By Eric Page • 1 min read
Arts Book REVIEW: The Pharmacist : Justin David By parts astonishingly tender and brutally honest The Pharmacist should be on every gay mans reading list. By Eric Page • 1 min read
