Me and Alexis Gregory Earlier this week I hosted my first onstage event in seven months. It was a major one, too – Polari In Heaven. Even...

Hello, folks! I hope you're keeping well. Just to let you know, I have two Polari events coming up in May. On May 6, there's Polari Live...

Photo by Ketut Subiyanto It’s ten weeks today since I last drank any alcohol. Here are a few things I’ve discovered - It’s been far...

For much of the past year, I’ve been working on a memoir. It’s about a lot of things - AIDS activism, David Bowie, love and loss, nearly...

A tribute to the many talented women writers and performers who've helped make Polari such a success. Including Sophia Blackwell, Stella...

New film on YouTube, charing Polari's journey from Soho to the Southbank Centre and beyond! WATCH HERE

There aren’t many sassy, sexually-ambiguous, ten year-old, Irish first-person narrators in fiction. So thank heavens for Mickey Donnelly....

In the ’60s, her name was synonymous with all things hip and swinging. Her fashion sense was imitated by millions. And on the day...

When Tennessee Williams’s memoirs were first published in 1975, one reviewer wrote: ‘If he has not exactly opened his heart, he has...

These are queer times for superheroes. Last October, Batwoman came out as the first crime-fighting lesbian to front her own TV show....

My last post about EM Forster and Maurice got me thinking about another much-loved, more recent read. Published in 2015 and shortlisted...

As an isolated gay teenager growing up in South Wales, my introductions to gay literature came largely via the medium of queer pop. I...

‘I never thought I’d need so many people’ - Five Years I’m writing this during the third week of lockdown and the fourth week since we...

When a book comes lavished with praise from Elton John, Tori Spelling and Vanessa Williams, you know you’re in celebrity love-in...

Subtitled ‘A Present for Mr Oscar Wilde’, Neil Bartlett’s first book is both a testament to the legacy of Wilde and an insight into the...

As the title suggests, this isn’t a run-of-the-mill biography of Garland but a personal meditation on how the star shaped the author’s...

In 1989 I was entrusted with the role of ‘media liaison officer’ for ACT-UP London and enjoying a media liaison with a young Canadian TV...

Since we went into lockdown I’ve been busy tidying my study, reorganising my bookshelves, rediscovering books I haven’t read in a while...

There are no gay victims in ‘Making Love’. It’s a far cry from what came before – and after.

I’m a gay man who grew up at a time when gay rights didn’t exist. There was no equal age of consent when I came out, no employment...