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Book Launch @ Gay's The Word. Michael Bronski in conversation with Ed Webb-Ingall. Thursday 19 December, 79pm. FREE and all welcome! Join us for the launch of the newest publication from A6 BOOKS: The Last Gay Liberationist by Michael Bronski. The author will be in attendance from the US and will take part in a conversation with writer and film-maker Ed Webb-ingall. Famous at the height of Gay Liberation in the 1970s and 80s as a theorist, writer, activist, and founder of the anarchist gay mens periodical Fag Rag, Charles Shively was mostly forgotten during the last three decades of his life, not unlike the radical social movement to which he gave so much. A key figure in the development of early queer press in the US, Shively actively used DIY publishing as a means of sparking social change and creating community. Through Fag Rag Shively published his influential essays that theorised homosexuality as a transgressive, liberative force. Shively, along with his Gay Liberation comrades, felt homosexuals should remain outside of the mainstreamthat queers were meant to be at the helm of the destruction of society as we know it. The Last Gay Liberationist presents a remembrance and reappraisal of the complicated life and legacy of Charles Shively by long-time friend and fellow activist Michael Bronski. Copies of the book will be available for purchase. Michael Bronski has been involved with LGBT politics since 1969 as an activist, organiser, writer, publisher, editor, and independent scholar. He has written numerous articles and books, most recently A Queer History of the United States for Young People (Beacon Press, 2019), and he is the editor of the forthcoming four-volume survey Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History: Critical Readings (Bloomsbury, 2020). He is Professor of the Practice in Media and Activism in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University, Cambridge, USA. Ed Webb-Ingall is a filmmaker and researcher working with archival materials and methodologies drawn from community video. He collaborates with groups to explore under-represented historical moments and their relationship to contemporary life, developing modes of self-representation specific to the subject or the experiences of the participants. He is currently developing a new project on the role of video in response to the housing crisis and is writing a book with the working title Video Activism Before the Internet:1969-1993.' A6 BOOKS is a new project by the London Centre for Book Arts. The aim is to help promote and distribute books, zines and publications by emerging artists. With a simple criteria and an inclusive open-submission process, we hope to create a new way for artists to reach their readers.

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