Polari Press

Omg it’s #NationalBlackCatDay! Here’s our CEO (Cat Executive Officer) Angel helping us run Polari Press over the years…

To celebrate the release of his latest record Moustache, we're selling the last few remaining copies of @tomaspaul.bsky.social's 'Black Country Music: The Book', which accompanied his debut album in 2021. Now just £20, and including the double album on CD. Buy it here: polari.press/shop/books/b...

Bluesky has four kinds of users:

LGBTQ+ people need to watch this. Turning Point UK 'protests' eg the anti-drag mobilisations at Honor Oak in south London - these need looked at again. TPUK were involved in deals to hire paramilitary groups and paid for agitators and violence for political purposes. Tenconi linked too. [1/2]

Looks like we’ll be stopping posting to the EU (again). 😔 Love these new and continuing Brexit bonuses…

“Forcing trans people into third spaces is not the answer. It’s discrimination – and it’s a breach of their human rights.” We need your help to fight back. https://goodlaw.social/fwdt

We are deeply disturbed by the new NHS guidance for trans people. Hopefully there will be legal challenges as it must surely go against rights to privacy. In the mean time, to our trans siblings, please know we feel this injustice acutely and remain dedicated to fighting for you. 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏳️‍🌈

Missed that it was Thatcher’s birthday yesterday. polari.press/shop/art-pri...

Your regular reminder that my daughter Alice’s death wasn’t counted in Appleby’s report, despite her meeting all the criteria. And when I emailed the Tavistock adult GIC to inform them they could take Alice off the waitlist, because she’d died by suicide, they never replied. It’s a disgrace.

As we come to the end of @bannedbooksweek.bsky.social having just released the new edition of Erased by James McDermott, there's something wonderful/special/ironic(?) about publishing a poetry pamphlet where it's the homophobia that's "banned" from the book: polari.press/erased #BannedBooksWeek

We’ve raised just over £1,000 for The Sameer Project from sales of our Risographs. Thank you to everyone who bought one. 💞 People are still in desperate need in Gaza so we have a new print available online at polari.press/as-a-river-flows with about £14 of each sale being donated. Please buy/share!

Stickers at the ready for the weekend at Queeriosities!

Cruising stories we all need more of. 💜

The window of my local queer bookshop was smashed last week. They're fundraising to install shutters so they can keep themselves and their community safe. Support this one-of-a-kind place, its one-of-a-kind proprietors, and the whole Glasgow queer & trans community: www.gofundme.com/f/categoryis...

Here's the email I sent out this morning to our subscribers: polari.com/papers/3/ Sign up here to receive the next one direct to your inbox: polari.com/newsletter/

He's beginning to feel a little bi-furious. 🐺 Vintage horror meets '90s teen flicks in I WAS A TEENAGE BISEXUAL, a one-of-a-kind, one-man beast touring in 2026. LONDON, 14-19 Oct NOTTINGHAM, 24 Oct SALE, 3 Nov WOLVERHAMPTON, 6 Nov 🎟 polisloizou.com/iwatb Thanks to @artscouncilengland.bsky.social

Just finishing up writing a newsletter for the first time in a while (over a year… oops... I guess that's a guarantee I won't spam you). Sign up here to receive it in your inbox. I'm aiming to send about one a month: polari.com/newsletter/

A great explainer from 2024 when this all initially happened: medium.com/@kevin.m.jam...

The best way to honor the two who have left us recently, imo, is to keep being as gay as possible

“The years since the Leveson inquiry have taught us that the press is not interested in self-regulation… press conduct is getting worse. And the impact of that failure is deadly.” We must dismantle institutional racism. Sign/share this petition for a public inquiry into Prof Jason Arday’s death.

I'm so stoked to be exhibiting at Queeriosities for the fourth year. Get tickets for the opening night here: www.outsavvy.com/event/38435/...

The clues were in Nicholas Hoult’s Met Gala outfit.

Are you taking part in the Edinburgh Festivals this year? Want to create a solidarity statement, raise awareness, or make a call to action but unsure how to go about it? We've made a support pack to help! Download here: drive.google.com/file/d/1wmEC...

The softest of soft launches but we just published our new website at polari.com 🫣 Please be gentle.

OK now we just need to sell ten more prints… come on, people! 🇵🇸

Saw this exhibition last weekend and it’s incredible.

Cover reveal for the reissue of ‘Erased’ by James McDermott which was our first poetry pamphlet in 2021. Out at the end of August, preorder now: polari.press/erased

This 2024 paper doesn’t get enough attention in the media.

Still an hour left to get yourselves to Hackney Pride and come find us at Chats Palace in the Art & Makers Market.

Love receiving news of another #BrexitBonus! This one is from Royal Mail and is news that there’ll now be a €3 (+ handling fee) charge when exporting to the EU. 😒

I don't really talk about this, because I'm actually quite private about my personal life, but many many years ago Tony Head took me under his wing and showed me the kind of person I could be. It's not an exaggeration to say that I'm the person I am today because of the kindness he showed me.

A powerful statement of solidarity from Disability Rights UK; and in light of the subsequent EHRC statement on disabled people, minoritised groups sticking together is as important as it ever has been. ✊