Dan Glass is a multi-award-winning popular educator, author, performer, film presenter, ACT UP activist and sexual and healthcare freedom movement-builder. Activist of the Year, campaigning role model and BBC Greater Londoner , Dan founded ‘Queer Tours of London - A Mince Through Time’, Queer/Trans Muay Thai & Self Defence movement Bender Defenders, re-formed AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) London and founded This is My Culture (TIMC) protest-party. His books ‘United Queerdom from the Legends of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) to the Queers of Tomorrow’ and Queer Footprints - A Guide to Uncovering London's Fierce History are used as roadmaps for freedom across the world. Dan is on the international committee of Training for Transformation and an artist with In Place of War. He is now writing 'This is Our Culture - The Revolutionary Legacy of George Michael.' @danglassmincer
Barney Ashton-Bullock is the writer for the hybrid music/poetry/theatre project ‘Andy Bell is Torsten’ with Erasure’s Andy Bell and is the poet on the ‘Downes Braide Association’ albums. He is widely published in cult poetry journals - Travesties, Queerlings, Bold, Ice Floe Press, Poetry Bus, the ‘Avalanches In Poetry’ Leonard Cohen tribute anthologies, various themed Dreich pamphlets, Pilot Press’s ‘Queer Anthology Of Healing’ and Broken Sleep’s Aphex Twin anthology. Recent solo pamphlets and collections include ‘Café Kaput!’ (Broken Sleep, 2020), ‘F**kpig Zeitgeist!’ and ‘Bucolicism’ (both Cherry Red, 2021), ‘Geopoliticus, Pupsy!’ (Red Ceilings Press, 2022) and ‘Cul-de-Sacrilege!’ (Polari Press. 2022).
He also project manages expanded album re-issues for Cherry Red Records and is a consultant on releases for London Records where he worked on Bronski Beat’s ‘The Age Of Consent’ 40th Anniversary edition which won the Classic Pop Magazine ‘Best Re-issue Album Of The Year’ award. He organised the poetry element of the recent ‘Smalltown Boy’ art exhibition at SWG3 in Glasgow, is currently putting together a book to celebrate the classic Jimmy Somerville Bronski Beat years and is curating an all new Bronski Beat remix album for Autumn 2025.