‘Northern Boy’ is the story of a gay ABBA-obsessed British-Pakistani boy growing up in a mill town in the North of England during the Thatcher era. His dreams of becoming a performer are encouraged by a teacher, but his family are opposed.

His first love is an Australian boy, living in the town briefly for family reasons, and Australia is where the character is living when the story opens. His journey home for a wedding is the other strand of the narrative.

I love the way the characters feel like real people - flawed and fascinating.

The book captures what that era was like as mills, mines, steel plants and factories closed one by one, and HIV killed and outed gay men. Also the violent racist mobs, now back with us.

https://www.ihussainwriter.com/

#NorthernBoy #IqbalHussain #Blackburn #LGBTQ #queerlit #comingofagestory #northernengland #lancashire #gay #queer #gayfiction #ABBA #AIDS #HIV #80sbritain #bollywood #britishpakistani #pakistan #islam #australia #queeruk

I'm looking for a peertube host recommandation. The makers of The Lovers and Fighters Convention, a queer film from 2008, want to put it online and are looking for something both well-moderated and uncorporate. It was on YT, but has an R rating and attracted loads of abuse, things I hope will be less of a problem with a pt instance.

In the words of the British Council, "The Lovers and Fighters Convention tells the story of one night at London's legendary Transfabulous Arts Festival. In the wake of the Queen signing into law The Gender Recognition Act in the mid-noughties, a community developed of people who wanted to recognise a new culture in the UK, a culture of 'transness' - artistic work that developed around gender.

"The Transfabulous Arts Festival became a lightning rod for these ideas. This observational documentary shows just one night at this festival in 2008."

#PeerTube #QueerUK #Transfabulous

#TransphobicWesStreeting #WesStreetingFUCKYOU

Home Secretary wants permanent ban on #pubertyblockers. IMP, it's just plain HATE, not based on #science and info

#ProtectTransKids  

This fucker will kill trans kids

#UK #QueerUK #UKpol #JKStreeting #JKStreetingFUCKYOU

#TransAndNonbinaryRightsAreHumanRights  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVd54g5bZeU

#BrigitteEmpire 5 days ago

The   #UKTransgenderHealthScandal Ignored by #British Politicians

#QueerPolitics #UKpol #UK #QueerUK

⚠️ ⚠️  #TransYouthSuicideCrisis ⚠️ ⚠️

#ProtectTransKids
#TransAndNonbinaryRightsAreHumanRights  

LONDON! I'm coming to see you tomorrow, and I'll be joined by my wonderful friends The Advantages for a night of #queer joy 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ as seen at #EdFringe 😁

📍 Two Brewers, #Clapham High St, #London
📆 Thu 10 Nov, 8pm
🎟 £10 adv from http://tbo.show/n22ldn or on-the-door
🚌 50, 88, 155, 322, 356, N155

(N155 goes Morden-Aldwych)

Buses added above 'cos the Tube strike's on - but that won't stop us will it? 😁

#Theatre #Music #QueerLondon #LGBTQ #QueerUK