Dancing in Heaven: Scarborough Launch

Saturday 6 December at the Shakespeare Gallery and Studios, St Helen's Square, Scarborough YO11 1EU at 4-6 pm (part of the Scarborough Fringe Winter Edition)

Free tickets here or here.
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Meet the author Suzanne and publishers Reconnecting Rainbows Press to celebrate the launch of Suzanne’s latest book, Dancing in Heaven. Stories celebrating the women of the 1980s HIV/AIDS crisis.

There will be an opportunity to browse through a range of publications by the Reconnecting Rainbows Press and hear from Suzanne about the reasons behind the development of the book and her writing process.

In 1981, the medical journal The Lancet reported the first case of AIDS in the UK. By the end of the decade, hundreds were dead: mostly young, mostly gay, mostly men.

Across the country, women were there. Mothers, sisters, daughters, friends, lovers, professionals. They cared, cleaned, cooked, coped, cried and campaigned.

They lost people they loved. And they went to endless funerals.

Dancing in Heaven celebrates the voices of these women – the loud ones and the unheard ones. Together, they represent strength, grief, anger, and an awful lot of love. 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.

A donation will be made to Switchboard for each copy sold.

A Big Queer Fringe Scarborough Production
Supported by Scarborough Community Box Office Limited
Part of The Scarborough Fair Winter Fringe.