Paul Burston

Books and topics

• We Can Be Heroes
• Shameless
• The Gay Divorcee
• Star People
• The Black Path
• The Closer I Get

Profile highlights

• He worked for the London gay policing group GALOP and was an activist with ACT UP before moving into journalism.
• He edited, for some years, the LGBT section of Time Out and founded the Polari Prize.
• Journalist, activist and novelist Paul Burston returns to the Book Bag to discuss his hard-hitting but glitzy memoir 'We Can Be Heroes' and what it means to be a 'Method fan