Pick of the Day: April 15.

Daily highlights of the Fringe! Gay Film Festival. Gays On TV, 2 documentaries, one from 1975, the other 1983 examining gay youth in the UK, Un Chant D’Amour, presented by Jonathan Kemp at Little Joe’s temporary film hut and Swoon, Tom Kalin’s 1992 stylish noir classic.

Jonathan Kemp at Idea Store Bow, February 27, London

In celebration of LGBT History Month, Jonathan Kemp reads from his novel TwentySix

Peter Wildeblood

Award-winning author Jonathan Kemp selects Peter Wildeblood for Polari Magazine’s list of LGBT Heroes. For UK LGBT History Month 2012.

We owe a great deal to Wildeblood and men like him. With their courage & fight, their refusal to shut up & hide, they helped us move out of the dark ages and into the freedoms gay men enjoy today.

The world’s first pop-up shopping mall

Boxpark opened on December 3, 2011, and is home to the charities Art Against Knives and Amnesty International.

What is interesting about Boxpark is that it taps into the very identity of Shoreditch as a commercial and artistic hub.

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Top 10 Men

Gay’s the Word, the London Lesbian and Gay Bookshop, offers its list of the Top 10 Best Books by and about men for 2011

“Gay’s the Word, to my mind, is the fountainhead of queer literature in Britain. I am deeply grateful that these pioneers fought so hard for our right to tell — and read — our own stories.” Armistead Maupin

Talking songs and sex

The first Polari Magazine podcast features interviews with Sabrina Chap and Jonathan Kemp. With music by Maggie and Martin, and Sabrina Chap … and an interruption from Clementine, the Living Fashion Doll.

An interview with Jonathan Kemp.

The author of London Triptych talks pornography, philosophy and the meaning of sex in his new book Twenty-Six.

In terms of me personally I had to overcome a certain reticence in writing these things, because however much it might be autobiographical or however much it might be fictional, people read it in a simplistic way, thinking these things correspond to one’s life.

A reading at Bar Wotever

Jonathan Kemp reading from TwentySix, his recently published book of short prose poems, at Bar Wotever (Tuesdays at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern, London).

An in-depth conversation with Jonathan Kemp about his novel London Triptych.

Polari Magazine talks writing, Oscar Wilde and pornography with Jonathan Kemp on the eve of the publication of London Triptych, his debut novel.

It was very important to me that it was if not sexy then at least sexual. And sexual in a very different way, one that wasn’t necessarily pornographic.

Clayton Littlewood’s Soho Stories: Jonathan Kemp.

Clayton writes about cafes, record shops, and Jonathan Kemp, author of London Triptych.

Outside the street is even busier, the crowds more raucous, and we decide to end the night back at the coffee shop, passing dancing Krishnas, drunken businessmen and six blonde girls with pink fluffy headbands and weather-defying minis, their thighs turning pinky-blue with the cold.