Dancing in Heaven

<p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><em>'So much more than just a gay issue... like all human rights when you see yourself as human first it involves all of us.'</em></strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In 1981 the medical journal </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Lancet</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> reported the first case of AIDS in the UK. By the end of the decade hundreds were dead: mostly young mostly gay mostly men. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>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.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Dancing in Heaven </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>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.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>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. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A donation will be made to Switchboard for each copy sold.</span></p><p></p>