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A wonderful, witty and acerbic take on iconic Hollywood films and indie cult favorites from a Black gay icon, also a touching and extremely readable personal memoir of growing up Black and gay in the early '60s.

Rikki Beadle-Blair MBE is a multi-award-winning black gay working class theatre- and film-maker. A tireless mentor of minority and socially-outsider writers and performers, he's been struck by the lack of working class pieces suitable for performing at auditions by increasingly defiant and determined generations of bold young actors. Common is his - and their - response. Designed to supply the increasing demand for working class audition piece...

A first collection of poems from Robert Chevara. Robert is an internationally-acclaimed, award-winning artist, writer and director. His output spans the fields of opera, film and theatre, and his productions include seminal works by Shakespeare, Williams, Ridley, Verdi, Bizet and Adès. He has written several opera libretti and contributed to poetry collections, and is equally active in the arenas of political engagement and both visual and per...

Rikki Beadle-Blair MBE is a multi-award-winning black gay theatre- and film-maker. A tireless mentor of minority and socially-outsider writers and performers, he's been struck by the lack of 'out' pieces suitable for performing at auditions by increasingly out and defiant generations of bold young actors. Fierce is his - and their - response, designed to supply the increasing demand for LGBTQ+ audition pieces, Fierce is a collection of short q...

From the author of the Lambda Literary award-winning roman a clef, Tiny Piece of Skull, also available from Team Angelica Publishing, this chapbook is a passionate collection of highly personal poems by trans elder Roz Kaveney, most of them written in the white heat of the current moment of marked anti-trans hostility, others to mark Trans Day of Remembrance. From the foreword: "In the autumn of 2021, well into the second year of Covid-19 an...

This substantial selection of Roz Kaveney's poems covers everything from her provocative and often raunchy translations of Catullus, her reflections, raw and considered, from a life very fully lived, on trans and queer/lgbtq+ experiences and politics, a playful engagement with figures from history and mythology - Sappho, Lilith, Aphrodite, Cassandra, Hecuba, commentary on pressing topical issues such as Grenfell and #MeToo, and poignant encomi...

There is strong correlation between childhood trauma and mental health issues. I suffer with PTSD and depression, and use poetry to write honestly about the multitude of issues I have experienced in my 39 years. I have found writing to be hugely therapeutic. While I recognize the value of professional therapy, my poetry has helped me to come to terms with some of these issues.If they're not already doing so, I hope to inspire the readers of th...

John R Gordon is the winner of the prestigious 2019 Ferro-Grumley Award for best LGBTQ fiction."Hark mixes several genres with grace, aplomb and undeniable queerness. It's audaciously provocative, sexy and spooky all at once. And very much of the zeitgeist!" -- Craig Laurance Gidney (A Spectral Hue)The night the statue of a Confederate colonel is torn down in the center of a dying, opioid-scarred and racially divided Southern town is the night...

Tash is a simple girl. Except she's not. She's Black. She's a woman. She's Queer. And in the world of university and 'identity politics', that's anything but simple. It's powerful.When it's time for student elections, Tash ticks all the boxes to take her to the top... apart from one - she's not that great at speaking her mind. Luckily, there's a controversial rapper who knows all about that.I AM [NOT] KANYE WEST is a hilarious and provocative ...

From the forest-fringed suburbs of Oslo to the bustling heart of Bombay, from the timeless banks of the Ganges to the never-closing nightclubs of Berlin, this collection of short stories by gay Indian-Norwegian author Vikram Kolmannskog captures a headily contemporary sense of what it is to be queer, cosmopolitan, spiritual and sexual."[C]aptures the essence of the gay Indian experience - funny, sensual, heartbreaking, and exhilarating, all at...

Los narradores de estos CUENTOS PARA NIÑOS PERDIDOS se encuentran constantemente al borde de la auto-revelación. Los personajes que aparecen en estos relatos (jóvenes gais y lesbianas somalíes) se ven forzados a navegar entre las convulsas aguas de la familia, la identidad y el exilio en su camino hacia la libertad. Ambientadas en Kenia, Somalia y el sur de Londres, estas historias están llenas de emoción, de pasión y juegos de lenguaje y anun...

* Winner 2019 Ferro-Grumley Best LGBT Fiction Award *A compelling, thrilling tale of love in slavery times.When house-servant Abednego is sold away south, his broken-hearted field-hand lover Cyrus snaps and flees the estate on which he has lived his entire life. Leaving everything he knows behind him, and evading patrollers and dogs to head north and find freedom, in the midst of a dismal swamp Cyrus receives the revelation that Abednego is hi...

Youngest of four siblings, sixteen-year-old Ella is popular, addicted to social media, Queen of the Selfie, and mixed race. Her thriving YouTube channel has make up tips, opinions, and videos of her boisterous family. But after one of her videos goes viral, Ella finds herself in the centre of a social media storm that leads to a family meltdown. With her identity and perception of beauty challenged, can Ella promote self-love without fueling h...

A joyous and groundbreaking UK-based anthology of writings by and about Same Gender Loving Women of African/Caribbean descent, including bi, queer, non-binary and mixed race women, Sista! showcases 31 contributors, offering a mix of biography/memoir, essays/think-pieces, fiction and poetry, and is the companion volume to Team Angelica's 2015 anthology, Black & Gay in the UK.Contributors include: Andreena Bogle-Walton, babirye bukilwa, Chardine...

From Victoria Island, Lagos to Brooklyn, U.S.A. to Accra, Ghana to Paris, France, from across the Diaspora to the heart of the African continent, in this memoir Nigerian journalist Chike Frankie Edozien offers a highly personal series of contemporary snapshots of same gender loving Africans, unsung Great Men living their lives, triumphing and finding joy in the face of great adversity. On his travels and sojourns Edozien explores the worsening...

A new full-length play by multi award-winning Rikki Beadle-Blair, a cutting-edge romantic comedy about homeless, pansexual, multiracial trans youth and elders, all searching for love and for somwhere to live as a sweltering London summer draws towards its close. Originally performed at London's legendary Theatre Royal Stratford East in July 2017 with an all-trans cast, Summer in London was written, directed, and included a sondtrack composed b...

When a young black man, Brian, dies in police custody, it sends shock waves across the community. Reeling from his death, Brian's family struggle to make sense of their loss, whilst pursuing a lengthy court battle to clear his name. Based on the lived experience of creator Urbain Hayo, AKA Urban Wolf, and conceived by him, this stark and timely new play, written by Tom Wainwright and performed in March 2017 at London's Ovalhouse theatre, explo...

A novel of gay urban Afro-boho interracial romance set over one sweaty summer following a night of shocking violence in a post-9/11 London of vinyl records, video-cassettes and mix-tapes, seething with passion and oil-paint, music and dance. Meet bebop-cool Malcolm, wigger rudeboy Luke, Jamaican choreographer George and schizophrenic African artist Ziggy, seekers for love, on the run from buried truths that by the summer's end they all must...

A new book of motivational daily meditations from writer-director Rikki Beadle-Blair, author of 'What I Learned Today' encouraging readers to seize control of their lives and take responsibility for discovering, nurturing and displaying their inner joy to the world. Practical, tough-minded, uplifting.

WINNER 2016 LAMBDA BEST TRANS FICTION LITERARY AWARD' In the 1980s, poet and activist Roz Kaveney wrote a novel, 'Tiny Pieces of Skull', about trans street life and bar life in London and Chicago in the late 1970s. Much admired in manuscript by writers from Kathy Acker to Neil Gaiman, it has never seen print until now...Funny and terrifying by turns, and full of glimpses of other lives, it is the story of how beautiful Natasha persuades clever...