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We Can Be Heroes with David McAlmont
The second episode of We Can Be Heroes is available now on Acast, Apple, Google and Spotify. My special guest is singer-songwriter and...
Paul Burston
Jun 16, 20221 min read
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We Can Be Heroes – the podcast
I'm currently working on the copyedit for my memoir, We Can Be Heroes, which is out next summer. Meanwhile, I've been busy working on a...
Paul Burston
Jun 1, 20221 min read
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Shame on you, Stonewall
Not a word of remembrance for those who died. Not a show of solidarity with those who survived. Not a mention.
Paul Burston
May 2, 20222 min read
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Over the wall
In some ways, I’m still catapulting condoms over prison walls - only now they’re landing where they’re needed most.
Paul Burston
Mar 9, 20223 min read
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We Can Be Heroes
“What d’you say?” I’m thrilled to announce that my memoir will be published by Amazon Publishing imprint Little A. It’s called We Can Be...
Paul Burston
Dec 9, 20211 min read
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Six months sober
Today I’m six months sober. To mark the occasion, I’ve decided to keep a journal – not just to keep track of my sobriety, but also for...
Paul Burston
Jul 1, 20212 min read
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Lockdown Bookclub – Tennessee Williams, Memoirs
When Tennessee Williams’s memoirs were first published in 1975, one reviewer wrote: ‘If he has not exactly opened his heart, he has...
Paul Burston
Apr 15, 20203 min read
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Lockdown Bookclub – Maurice
As an isolated gay teenager growing up in South Wales, my introductions to gay literature came largely via the medium of queer pop. I...
Paul Burston
Apr 11, 20202 min read
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Lockdown Bookclub – Ziggyology
‘I never thought I’d need so many people’ - Five Years I’m writing this during the third week of lockdown and the fourth week since we...
Paul Burston
Apr 9, 20204 min read
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