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Alan Keslian

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Born

in Liverpool, The United Kingdom

Website

http://www.gaylesbooks.co.uk

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Genre

Fiction, Gay and Lesbian, Nonfiction

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January 2010

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https://www.goodreads.com/keslian

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I was a Gay Liberation Front activist in London in the 1970s, among other things setting up West London GLF and organising gay dances attended by hundreds in Fulham Town Hall.
I have experienced and benefited from the huge change in attitudes towards Gay men and Lesbians in England and elsewhere during recent decades. During my teenage years, in the UK any sex between men was a crime, whereas now civil partnership offers a legal status on a par with marriage, and discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation is increasingly outlawed. This transformation has huge implications for gay relationships, and my motive in writing is to explore the impact of this new freedom and portray its effects. My first novel, Goodmans Hotel, was published in ...more

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Average rating: 3.04 · 116 ratings · 20 reviews · 4 distinct works

	Goodmans Hotel 3.02 avg rating — 85 ratings — published 2002 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Closer Than Breathing: A Light Gay Odyssey 3.04 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2009 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Gay Humanist Manifesto 3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Closer Than Breathing - A Light Gay Odyssey 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Dull and boring?

The reviews I quote in this "blog" are all genuine comments from readers unknown to me. The reward at best is likely to be a thank you note from me.

I very much appreciate the trouble readers go to in leaving comments, even those which are critical. The exception is posts of the "It was really dull and boring but I struggled on all the same until the end even though it was awful" kind.

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“In the best of times, our days are numbered anyway. So it would be a crime against nature for any generation to take the world crisis so solemnly that it put off enjoying those things for which we were designed in the first place: the opportunity to do good work, to enjoy friends, to fall in love, to hit a ball, and to bounce a baby.”
― Alistair Cooke

tags: inspirational

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