This was such an expected surprise. Yesterday, two days after the cover reveal, We Can Be Heroes shot to number one in the Amazon chart...

Huge thanks to everyone who’s read an advance copy of We Can Be Heroes and shared their thoughts! As Mr Bowie used to say, "love on ya!"...

Part memoir, part meditation on what it means to be othered as a working class gay man, this book is beautifully written, brave,...

Bette Bourne & Neil Bartlett in A Vision of Love Revealed In Sleep, 1989 Welcome to the latest episode of We Can Be Heroes podcast with...

It's not often that I get to sit down and chat with a Booker winning author. But I've known Bernardine Evaristo for many years and...

The second episode of We Can Be Heroes is available now on Acast, Apple, Google and Spotify. My special guest is singer-songwriter and...

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...

Not a word of remembrance for those who died. Not a show of solidarity with those who survived. Not a mention.

Word is out! I’ll be chairing my first ever panel at Harrogate in July. I’ve been attending as a punter since 2017, and last year I...

In some ways, I’m still catapulting condoms over prison walls - only now they’re landing where they’re needed most.

On Wednesday, I hosted my final Polari event of the year at Heaven. It was World AIDS Day and many of the readings and song choices...

Subtitled ‘A Present for Mr Oscar Wilde’, Neil Bartlett’s first book is both a testament to the legacy of Wilde and an insight into the...

Since we went into lockdown I’ve been busy tidying my study, reorganising my bookshelves, rediscovering books I haven’t read in a while...

There are no gay victims in ‘Making Love’. It’s a far cry from what came before – and after.

I’m a gay man who grew up at a time when gay rights didn’t exist. There was no equal age of consent when I came out, no employment...