“I wanted to know every aspect of Bart and Bettina Dawes’s lives up until the present day, especially the scandalous parts” BY SARAH WINGROVE Bart likes men and Bettina likes [….]
The Coast Is Queer: Brighton’s LGBTQI literary festival is back 🌈
Published on :Brighton & Hove’s LGBTQI literature festival goes online for 2021 BY SOPHIE GRIFFITHS, IMAGE OF JUNO DAWSON BY JACK LATHAM The Coast Is Queer, Brighton & Hove’s festival celebrating LGBTQI [….]
“The difficulties and the knock-backs make you graft harder”: What it’s like to be a queer poet
Published on :Amy Tollyfield, a published writer and performance poet, tells us all about their career BY SOPHIE GRIFFITHS, IMAGE BY SIMON HOLLIDAY Amy Tollyfield is a published performance poet and the [….]
BOOKS: Kate Davies and Amrou Al-Kadhi announced as winners of the 10th Polari Prizes
Published on :The UK’s only award for books exploring the LGBTQI experience announces it’s 2020 winners BY SOPHIE GRIFFITHS Amrou Al-Kadhi and Kate Davieshave tonight been announced as the winners of the 2020 Polari [….]
BOOKS: Five queer Black authors to read this Black History Month
Published on :Some of our favourite Black writers who are transforming queer literature BY SOPHIE GRIFFITHS, IMAGE VIA INSTAGRAM We’re sure you’ve been ploughing through your lockdown reading list as the days [….]
BOOKS: Review of The Scoop by Cat Walker
Published on :“If you’ve missed out on the glory of escapism this summer, The Scoop is the perfect read for you” BY SOPHIE GRIFFITHS We all remember what it was like to [….]
BOOKS: We’re here, we’re queer
Published on :Meet the regulars of Scotland’s queer bookshop… BY DANIELLE MUSTARDE, IMAGES BY PAUL REICH Located in the south side of Glasgow, Category Is is a brand spankin’ new, “fiercely independent” [….]