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Left Lion, Nottingham’s magnificent monthly magazine that showcases
the alternative side of life in The Queen Of The Midlands featured a full-page interview with me in the November 2024 edition.
It’s praise indeed that my website identity was replicated so faithfully!
Thanks to CJ De Barra for a fabulously insightful article
which can be read by clicking here.

NOVEMBER 2024

20th Century Boy

From the personal to the countercultural,
we talk to St. Ann’s born-and-bred author
Simon Smalley about the pivotal moments
of growing up as a gay man in the 60s and 70s.