Join us on the 23rd of June from 7:30 pm for a wide-ranging discussion on the state of gay (and bisexual) culture in the UK - its joys, challenges, and shortcomings. Our panelists, Michael Handrick, Vaneet Mehta, Jeremy Atherton Lin, and Daniel Harding are four insightful and incisive authors who have each written important books about gay men's culture.
About the Authors
Michael Handrick
Michael Handrick's work has been shortlisted for Penguin Random House’s Write Now 2020 and Kit de Waal’s anthology, Common People, and longlisted for the London Writers Awards, 2019. In 2013, aged 23, he was invited to present his academic thesis on gender and sexuality at an international literary conference at Magdalen College, Oxford. He has had features and articles on culture, mental health, gender and sexuality published by magazines such as Attitude and PYLOT, and his fiction pieces have been published in anthologies such as Litro, and shortlisted and longlisted for various competitions including the Creative Future Literary Awards (2018, 2020).
Vaneet Mehta
Vaneet Mehta is an Indian bisexual man born and raised in Southall, West London. He is a software engineer, writer and public speaker and the founder of #BisexualMenExist, which went viral in 2020. He has appeared on numerous panels and delivered talks to various companies. He has written for Men's Health, Stonewall, GMFA, Metro UK, OutLife and Unicorn Magazine and his work has been published in The Bi-ble: New Testimonials, The Ampersand Project and The Sex Agenda. Bisexual Men Exist is his first book.
Jeremy Atherton Lin
Jeremy Atherton Lin is an Asian-American essayist based in Los Angeles and East Sussex. His debut book Gay Bar (2021) received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography. He has contributed to the Times Literary Supplement, the Guardian, Frieze, GQ, World of Interiors and The Yale Review, from which his essay 'The Wrong Daddy' was anthologised in Best American Magazine Writing 2022. His next book, Deep House, about falling in love across borders before same-sex marriage, will be published in 2025.
Daniel Harding
Daniel Harding is a journalist, presenter and news producer. He regularly writes about LGBTQIA+ issues and his writing has appeared in Attitude, Cosmopolitan, The London Economic and The Mirror. Gay Man Talking is his first book.
Please note that this event will take place in our downstairs event space, which unfortunately is not currently wheelchair accessible.