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Paul Burston is a gay author and has edited TimeOut magazine's gay pages for many years. Paul Burston was born in York, raised in South Wales and now lives in London. His books include the critically-acclaimed novels 'Shameless' (shortlisted for the State of Britain Award 2001, reprinted 2009), 'Star People' (2006, reprinted 2009, 2010), 'Lovers and Losers' (shortlisted for the Stonewall Award 2007, reprinted twice in 2009) and his latest 'The Gay Divorcee' (2009, reprinted 2009 and 2010).

Paul Burston is also a curator at the London Literature Festival and host of "London's peerless gay literay salon", Polari, both at the Southbank Centre.

His hobbies include diving and DJing.

Paul claims that he was on the Pink Paper's top-5 hated people list and publisher Kelvin Sollis would not allow his books to be reviewed.

Bibliography

The Gay Divorcee – Publisher: Sphere (4 Mar 2010) ISBN 978-0751542363

Lovers and Losers – Publisher: Sphere (5 April 2007) ISBN 978-0751538649

Boys and Girls – Publisher: Glasshouse Books (15 July 2010) ISBN 978-1907536090

A Queer Romance: Lesbians, Gay Men and Popular Culture – Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (19 Jan 1995) ISBN 978-0415096188

Shameless – Publisher: Abacus; New edition edition (2 May 2002) ISBN 978-0349114798

What Are You Looking At?: Queer Sex, Style and Cinema (Lesbian and Gay Studies) – Publisher: Continuum International Publishing; First Edition edition (12 Oct 1995) ISBN 978-0304343003

Star People – Publisher: Sphere; New edition edition (6 Sep 2007) ISBN 978-0751538496

External links

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/hes-out-as-in-outcast-1579277.html

http://www.paulburston

http://www.facebook.com/paulburston