Dancing in Heaven

Suzanne Elvidge's first solo collection of monologues, Dancing in Heaven, celebrates the voices of the women who were there during the HIV/AIDS crisis. While the monologues are fiction, the stories are real, drawn from conversations, press coverage, articles and the archives of Switchboard, the national LGBTQIA+ support line.

Dancing in Heaven is a collection of women's voices from the HIV/AIDS crisis in the 1980s and early 1990s. Based on interviews, research and archive materials, these are the often untold stories of the women who were part of the global pandemic. They were the nurses, cleaners, carers, scientists, mothers, sisters, daughters and friends, from the late night helpline volunteer to the young nurse doing her first rotation on an infectious diseases ward, and from the teenage volunteer at a family respite camp to the mother coming to terms with faith, fear, anger and loss.

To be published December 2025 by Reconnecting Rainbows Press.

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