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<div>'''Simon Edge''' (born 25 December 1964 in [[Chester]]) is a British novelist and <br />
journalist. He was editor of [[Capital Gay]] and subsequently wrote for the gay magazine <br />
[[Attitude]]. He was married to Ezio Alessandroni, a former Roman Catholic priest, <br />
until the latter’s death from cancer in March 2017.<br />
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==Career==<br />
Edge was the final editor of [[Capital Gay]], the pioneering lesbian and gay newspaper published in London between 1981 and 1995, and was later a senior contributing editor at [[Attitude]]. He was also involved in the launch of ''Positive Nation'', the magazine produced by the [[UK Coalition of People Living with HIV and AIDS]].<br />
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He is the author of six novels including ''The Hurtle of Hell'' (Lightning Books, 2018), a satire on the attitude of religion to homosexuality. Novelist Michael Arditti called it ‘an ingenious take on<br />
''It’s A Wonderful Life''’.</ref><ref>https://www.eye-books.com/author/simon-edge</ref><br />
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His fifth novel, ''The End of the World is Flat'' (Lightning Books, 2021), uses flat earth belief as an allegory for contemporary ideological debates; it was described by Matthew Parris in ''The Times'' as “a satire of Swiftian ferocity, a thinly veiled parody of a prevailing madness of the hour”.<ref>Lightning Books, August 2021.</ref><ref>https://www.eye-books.com/author/simon-edge</ref><br />
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His novel ''In the Beginning'' (Lightning Books, 2023) is a fictionalised satirical account of <br />
the [[Forstater v CGD Europe]] employment tribunal, in which a tax expert’s contract <br />
was not renewed after she posted gender-critical comments on social media.<br />
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Edge appears in ''Adult Human Female'' (2022), a documentary presenting gender-critical <br />
perspectives on debates around sex and gender recognition, in which he discusses the <br />
influence of [[Stonewall]]’s policies on institutional adoption of trans-inclusive <br />
practices.<ref>''Adult Human Female'', 2022.</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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[[Category:Journalists]]<br />
[[Category:Novelists]]<br />
[[Category:1964 births]]</div>Simonedge