A reminder that children do indeed have an inalienable right to be gay. 🩷

'Erased was a joyous collaboration between James and me. Now more than ever we need to challenge the erasure of our identities. It's exciting to create a new edition that continues to push back and uses the bigot's words against them.’
— Peter Collins

‘I'm giddy with glee to be working again with Polari Press to reissue the publication and to create a new range of art, helping the poems and the timely message of Erased reach even more readers.’
— James McDermott

And ending on seeing @longbarrowpress.bsky.social who have recently published a gorgeous poetry collection by my old Religious Studies teacher Steve Ely. Small world!

Great to meet John Bently who runs Bonesandtheaft bonding over Railton Road (him as a resident and me as publisher of ‘On Railton Road’, a play about the gay squats in the 1970s.

Among the many exhibitors were Pilot Press featuring ‘All by teachers died of AIDS’ by Sam Moore. I published Sam’s follow-up pamphlet ‘Long live the new flesh’ as a limited edition Singer-sewn pamphlet in 2022.

Buy a print in Red or Green. £15 each. All proceeds (only minus card transaction fees) will go to the Sameer Project.

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