Outcome

LGBT Portraits

Tom Dingley

• Publisher: Arachne Press
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN:
  9781909208261
• eBook ISBN:
  9781909208278
• Topic: Art
• Subtopic: Photography

In 2014 Photographer Tom Dingley set up his #Outcome project - to photograph LGBT people with the attributes of their everyday life - their work, or their interests; and holding a picture of themself as a child. The message was, no matter how hard it is growing up, no matter who you were, you become who you become, and you are amazing.
Two years and several exhibitions later, this is the Outcome. Portraits from all walks of life: Performers, Artists, Writers, Cooks, Bloggers, Campaigners, Politicians, Volunteers, Diplomats, Entrepreneurs, Journalists, Health Care professionals, Engineers, Pilots, athletes, Plant Hunters, Shamans, Teachers , Students... from a peer of the realm to the woman next door, this is a book about celebration, not celebrity.
The exhibition and photographing continues, travelling around the UK as more people are added to the archive.

Jonathan Blake

Founding member of LGSM

Born in 1949, I am a medically retired, former actor, tailor, costume maker and gardener. I am aLong Term HIV Survivor, diagnosed Oct 1982 HTLV3, and a founding member of ‘Lesbians and Gay Men Support The Miners’ (LGSM).

I am happy that my HIV status was ‘outed’ to the world during the end credits of PRIDE the movie, as I hope it may help to normalise the disease and aid an end to stigma. As a character in the film, Jonathan was not a victim; HIV was just part of his DNA/RNA. I am not a victim. There is no stigma in being HIV+.

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BOOKS

Short Stories

London Lies

ISBN: 978-1-909208-00-1

Our first Liars’ League showcase, featuring unlikely tales set in London.

Stations: stories inspired by the Overground Line

ISBN: 978-1-909208-01-8

A story for every station from New Cross, Crystal Palace, and West Croydon at the Southern extremes of the Overground line all the way to Highbury & Islington.

Lovers’ Lies

ISBN: 978-1-909208-02-5

Our second collaboration with Liars’ League, bringing the freshness, wit, imagination and passion of their authors to stories of love.

Mosaic of Air, Cherry Potts

ISBN: 978-1-909208-03-2

Sixteen short stories from a lesbian perspective.

Weird Lies

ISBN: 978-1-909208-10-0

WINNER of the Saboteur2014 Best Anthology Award: our third Liars’ League collaboration – more than twenty stories varying in style from tales not out of place in One Thousand and One Nights to the completely bemusing.

Solstice Shorts: Sixteen Stories about Time

ISBN: 978-1-909208-23-0

Winning stories from the first Solstice Shorts Festival competition together with a story from each of the competition judges.

Novels

Devilskein & Dearlove, Alex Smith

ISBN: 978-1-909208-15-5 Nominated for the 2015 CILIP Carnegie Medal.

Young Erin Dearlove has lost everything, and is living in a rundown apartment block. Then she has tea with Mr Devilskein, the demon who lives on the top floor, and opens a door into another world.

The Dowry Blade, Cherry Potts

ISBN: 979-1-909208-20-9

When nomad Brede finds a wounded mercenary and the Dowry Blade, she is set on a journey of revenge, love, and loss.

Poetry

The Other Side of Sleep: Narrative Poems

ISBN: 978-1-909208-18-6

Long, narrative poems by contemporary voices, including Inua Elams, Brian Johnstone, and Kate Foley, whose title poem for the anthology was the winner of the 2014 Second Light Long Poem competition.

The Don’t Touch Garden, Kate Foley

ISBN: 978-1-909208-19-3

A complex autobiographical collection of poems of adoption and identity, from award-winning poet Kate Foley.

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Table of contents

• Copyright Page
• Introduction
• Gregory Gaige
• Alicya Eyo
• Ross Williams
• Bex Smith
• Stephen McKenna
• Hatti Smart
• Dean Atta
• Nienke Westdijk
• Phil InGud (Phillip Anthony)
• Melantha Chittenden
• Kevin Wilson
• Kalie Jade
• Alistair Frederick
• Tonnie Bakkenist
• Chris Smith (Lord Smith of Finsbury)
• Sage Barrier
• John Whaite
• Hannah Winterbourne and Jake Graf
• Sanjay Sood-Smith
• Libby Rose
• Wes Streeting
• Veronica Fearon (V.A. Fearon)
• Roland West
• Anna McNay
• Randon Burns
• Hizze Fletcher King
• Fox Fisher
• Akeilah Bennett
• La Voix
• Tina Ledger
• James Clark
• Alix Adams
• Tom Dolphin
• Vanessa Pope
• Jay Kamiraz
• Cherry Potts
• Andrew Moore
• Jett Nyx (Tanith Nyx)
• Andromeda Circus (Adrián Martel)
• Helen Oakleigh
• Daniel James Beeson
• DJ Ritu
• Jamie Raines
• Susan Hailes
• Martin Cremin
• Rosie Wilby
• Marlon Kameka
• Amy Withnall
• Mawaan Rizwan
• Jacq Applebee
• Neil Livingstone
• Heathen Jochens
• Freddie Martin
• Nia Griffiths
• Bisi Alimi
• Jacqui Gavin
• Richard Walker
• Kayza Rose
• Harrie Brom
• Kathryn Barnes and Eleanor Fletcher
• Michael Perry
• Pete Twyman
• Kathy Caton
• Robert Gray
• Femi Otitoju
• Lola Lasagne
• Bea Duval
• Lewis Hancox
• Kate Foley
• Matthew Kon
• Elly Barnes MBE
• Tom Knight
• Amy Gunn (Terrible Ladygay)
• Peter Tatchell
• Naomi Bennett
• Peter Gracey
• Vernon
• Luigi Ambrosio
• Sheila Wharton
• Jonathan Blake