Simon Edge
Simon Edge (born 25 December 1964 in Chester) is a British novelist and journalist. He was editor of Capital Gay and subsequently wrote for the gay magazine Attitude. He was married to Ezio Alessandroni, a former Roman Catholic priest, until the latter’s death from cancer in March 2017.
Career
Edge edited Capital Gay, one of the leading LGBT newspapers in the UK during the 1980s and 1990s, and later contributed to Attitude.
He has published several novels in a satirical vein. 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 Francis Wheen as “a bracingly sharp satire on the sleep of reason and the tyranny of twaddle”.[1][2]
His novel In the Beginning (Lightning Books, 2023) is a fictionalised account of the Forstater v CGD Europe employment tribunal, in which a tax expert’s contract was not renewed after she posted gender-critical comments on social media. Maya Forstater spoke at the book launch.
Edge appears in Adult Human Female (2022), a documentary presenting gender-critical perspectives on debates around sex and gender recognition, in which he discusses the influence of Stonewall’s policies on institutional adoption of trans-inclusive practices.[3]
References
- ↑ Lightning Books, August 2021.
- ↑ https://www.eye-books.com/author/simon-edge
- ↑ Adult Human Female, 2022.