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The Stranger’s Child by Alan Hollinghurst

Posted on: August 18th, 2011 by History Month
The Stranger’s Child by Alan Hollinghurst Published by Picador Books         ISBN 978-0-330-48324-7   Mr. Hollinghurst is a classic writer; mature and beautiful in his style. However I felt that this book was all style and no substance. I like something to happen in a novel, especially one that has...

What Love Is- edited by Peter Burton

Posted on: July 17th, 2011 by History Month
          Book Review: by Stephen Boyce I must admit that I am not a fan of the genre of short stories but this collection is a stirring and thoughtful exploration of the form. No single story stands out above the other and none fully encapsulate...

Beyond the Capes- by Richard de la Haye

Posted on: July 17th, 2011 by History Month
                  Book Review, by Stephen Boyce This novel is excellent, well crafted, transporting the readers through the Canadian Wilderness to the Transport Colonies of the New World. It is an epic, a gay love story that defies the forces of history....

We’re All Slime

Posted on: May 29th, 2011 by History Month
Self-styled Queer Poet Laureate Vince Laws had his work celebrated by being read aloud in Norwich city centre. His anthemic work Slime was read out by local citizens on IDAHO. To see the vid click here

Queer Poetry Evening at Gays the Word

Posted on: May 15th, 2011 by History Month
Gays the Word hosts a Queer Poetry Evening on May 23rd which will include the launch of The Frost Fairs by John McCullough and The Private Parts of Girls by Sophie Mayer (both from Salt Publishing, 2011).  Chroma’s Andra Simons will round off the evening with a lyrical extravaganza....
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Book: Gypsy Boy

Posted on: June 15th, 2010 by History Month
>The third edition of Gypsy, Roma and Taveller History Month is taking place this month. There is precious little material on the LGBT experience in the Gypsy, Roma and Taveller community. Gypsy Boy: One Boy’s Struggle to Escape from a Secret World by Mikey Walsh is one such rare...
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TS Eliot a Champion of Lesbian Literature

Posted on: September 3rd, 2009 by History Month
>Poet-playwright TS Eliot will be shown as a champion of lesbian fiction and compassionate father figure to struggling writers, when a new exhibition opens at the British Library next month. According to reports, letters written by him as a publisher at Faber and Faber suggest that he risked the...
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Evelyn Waugh ‘Had Gay Affairs at Oxford’

Posted on: August 15th, 2009 by History Month
>A new biography of author Evelyn Waugh claims he had three gay relationships while studying at Oxford in the 1920s. Waugh, whose most famous works were Brideshead Revisited and Scoop, was described as “one of the great bisexual authors” by biographer Paula Byrne. In the book, titled Mad World:...
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Breaking News: Lesbian Poet Becomes Poet Laureate

Posted on: May 1st, 2009 by History Month
>Carol Ann Duffy has been announced as the UK first ever female Poet Laureate. Duffy, 53, is thought to be the most widely read living poet in the English language. A Poet Laureate is a poet officially appointed by a government and is often expected to compose poems for...

Bi-Novelists Talk About Their Love for Each Other

Posted on: April 19th, 2009 by History Month
>A lesbian novelist who used to attack bisexuals and a bisexual author have talked about their relationship four years on. To coincide with his new novel, Jake Arnott, author of The Long Firm, tells the Guardian about his relationship with Stephanie Theobold, whilst Theobold herself explains how she had...

Lorca Was Censored to Hide His Sexuality, Biographer Reveals

Posted on: March 20th, 2009 by History Month
>Many recognised his homosexuality from the start, but for decades Spain’s literary establishment, and even his own family, refused to acknowledge that the country’s best loved poet, Federico Garcia Lorca, was gay. Now his biographer, Ian Gibson, has conclusive evidence that Lorca’s poetic achievements sprang from his lifelong frustration...
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Write Queer London Competition

Posted on: November 11th, 2008 by History Month
>What does your queer London look like? And how does it compare with queer London of yesteryear? The website www.untoldlondon.org.uk are launching a new annual queer history writing prize in association with Chroma Queer Arts Journal. The competition is entitled Write Queer London and accept submissions of stories, non-fiction...

Alan Bennett Gives Papers to Bodleian Library

Posted on: November 1st, 2008 by History Month
>Alan Bennett is to give a wealth of written work from nearly 50 years as an author and playwright to the Bodleian Library at Oxford University. Notes, drafts and scripts for all of his stage and TV plays were among the collection, the library said. There are also manuscripts...
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Dominique Fernandez, Gay Académicien

Posted on: December 20th, 2007 by History Month
>On 13 December, the Académie Française received an openly gay member who had been elected in March. The Académie Française, or the French Academy was officially established in 1635 by Cardinal Richelieu, the chief minister to King Louis XIII. It consists of forty members, known as immortels (immortals). New...
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Jenny, Eric, Martin . . . and Me

Posted on: November 18th, 2007 by History Month
>Today marks the 4th year since the repeal of the infamous Section 28. The amendment to the Local Government Act which stated that a local authority “shall not intentionally promote homosexuality or publish material with the intention of promoting homosexuality” or “promote the teaching in any maintained school of...

Dumbledore Outed

Posted on: October 20th, 2007 by History Month
>During a recent Q&A session at the Carnegie Hall in New York, JK Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series, answered a question about one of her characters’ love life by stating that he is gay. Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore is, for the majority of the series, the...
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Renaissance Literary Lovers Exhumed

Posted on: September 7th, 2007 by History Month
>The bodies of Italian Renaissance philosopher Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (February 24, 1463 -November 17, 1494) and classical scholar and poet Angelo Ambrogini, best known as Poliziano (July 14, 1454 – September 24, 1494) were recently exhumed from St. Mark’s Basilica in Florence. The two men, who died a...
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Maupin on Bookclub on Radio 4

Posted on: September 1st, 2007 by History Month
>The September edition of BBC Radio 4′s Bookclub, presented by James Naughtie will be discussing Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin, the first in a serie of six books which began as a column in the San Francisco Chronicle in the mid-70s. Maupin created a utopian community that...
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Literature Goes Queer: Lesbian & Gay Writing Since the 1920s

Posted on: August 15th, 2007 by History Month
>The FCE Literature Programme at Birkbeck, University of London is offering a new course exploring some of the decisive moments in modern queer fiction. 22 meetings, led by Paulina Palmer and Jonathan Kemp, in the London School of Economics. Starts Weds 3 October, 6.45pm–8.45pm. £220 (£110 cons.). To enroll...
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Forster’s Maurice on Radio 4

Posted on: July 15th, 2007 by History Month
>BBC Radio 4 will today start broadcasting a two part adaptation of Maurice by E.M. Forster. A story tells of homosexual love in early 20th century England, and follows Maurice Hall from his schooldays, through university and beyond. The book was written around 1913. Although Forster showed the manuscript...
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Lecture: Daphne Du Maurier

Posted on: July 5th, 2007 by History Month
>To mark the centenary of her birth, the National Portriat Gallery is hold a lecture examining the life of Daphne du Maurier, author of many bestselling novels including The Breaking Point(1959) and The Birds, which was later adapted to become a successful Alfred Hitchcock film in 1963. Sunday 8...
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