Queens' country - Paul Burston

QUEENS' COUNTRY presents a tour through the British Isles in search of the gay community by 'the bright bad boy of gay culture' (INDEPENDENT). Providing detailed accounts of the many and varied social, political and commercial structures shaping gay life in Britain today, he asks what it means to be gay in a country where gay style is chic yet gay equality remains a dream. What do a suburban middle-aged couple have in common with the disco bunny Stepford boyz of Soho's gay village? What about the pink pound, queer politics, religion, coming out and the age of consent.

Fearless of revealing the endemic bickering and shallowness of much of gay culture, Paul Burston's travels - to London, Manchester, Essex, South Wales, the West Country, Edinburgh, Derbyshire and Belfast - present a saucy and sharp, intelligent and always entertaining view of gay Britain at a time of great change.