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PREVIEW: Brighton Museum & Art Gallery Pride event

Fashion Cities Africa tour and film screening: Stories of Our Lives

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Start your Pride Weekend celebrations with a late night private view of Brighton Museum’s Fashion Cities Africa exhibition. This late night event includes a pay bar where you can relax with a drink, before sitting down to a private screening of a film characterising the queer experience in Kenya.

Told through a series of five vignettes, the film explores the true stories of people identifying as gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender or Intersex.

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Event: Fashion Cities Africa tour and film screening: Stories of Our Lives

Where: Brighton Museum, Royal Pavilion Gardens, Brighton BN1 1EE

When: Friday, August 5

Time: 7.45pm-10pm

Cost: £10

Please book through the Royal Pavilion & Museums booking office: 03000 290900

BOOK REVIEW: Hide: Matthew Griffin

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Matthew Griffin

Wendell and Frank meet at the end of World War II, when Frank returns home to their North Carolina town.  They fall in love, they turn their backs on the world to follow their hearts and live together, obsessively protecting themselves from a world which refuses to understand, respect or even acknowledge their love.. At 83,  Wednal finds Frank laying outside among their tomatoes and their whole carefully protected almost perfect world is challenged. 

Oh, this book moved me, I utterly loved every page of it. One of the best gay love stories I’ve ever read, and that’s saying something.

This is an astonishing book; it’s the love affair/marriage of two men over almost their whole lives told with compassion, passion, commitment, and wonderful touches of humour and pathos that mirror the true stories of many people who have spent so long together. The grace and tender wonder of this book is that it’s a male couple featured in their journey through life together, secretive, claustrophobic but also liberating in its honest portrait of two men choosing each other’s lives to live in.   Griffin writes with panache, characters and situations utterly believable and the soft Carolina countryside wafts its way into the narrative. I could close my eyes and feel the perfumed air, the cloying heat, the squeak of the porch door, he’s such an evocative writer.

I loved this book, it made me laugh and brought a tear to my eye and it’s rare a book does both, the narrative is huge and emotionally brutal, little details bringing the reality crashing in, but always human and real and the men’s relationship offered up with a tender honesty that reflects so many lives we know were lived in secret.

Dhc2FWIcSee more about this author here: . Simply superb, please read it, just to encourage Griffin to write more like it.

Out now £16.99

For more info or to buy the book , see the publishers website here. 

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