Polari Press

Polari PressAn independent publishing house which helps hidden voices be heard. Polari was a secret language from the early 1900s when homosexuality was still criminalised in the UK. Spoken almost exclusively by gay and bisexual men, the nature of clandestine meetings brought together people from all walks of life, who all had an influence on the language. Cockney, Romany and Italian languages mixed with the colloquialisms of thespians, circus performers,

mental health

Crep Suzette - A Shoe Show (with Bert McLean

supernatural

brushes and other tools

Lauren’s art aims to centre joy and intimate moments of desire

ecclesiastical textile design and architecture is also visible in my work

With over 30 emerging and established artists many from Black

The art she creates comes from her experience of possessing a body that is maligned and weaponised by a society that has a destructive agenda that seeks to control and prescribe people's behaviours based on a fundamentalist idea of human nature

queer theory

followed by the release of a catalogue published by Primary Information in 2023

Booze Guitar (Matt’s Gallery

UK artist and writer behind the Pound Shop zine cycle and the ongoing Horny & High anthology comic series exploring British chemsex subculture among gay men in 2010’s London