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Outside In
" Outcast is a useful antidote to much of the literature to be found in "gay" sections of bookshopsa gripping modern day morality tale."- Gay Times Outcast told the coming out story of Mark Holly, a twenty year old working class boy from a small English town and captured the feel of provincial life in the 1990's. We now catch up with Mark as he moves to London with his young lover Andrew where they both get swept into the frenetic world of the club scene. Mark finds it hard to resist the temptation of drugs and men, so will their relationship survive in the big city?
- GenresGayGay Fiction
200 pages, Paperback
First published September 1, 2001
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About the author
Stuart Thorogood
7 booksStuart Thorogood was a man of many parts; an author and journalist who was also well known as a colourful and quirky Soho "scenester".
Stu worked at the Open University in London where his flamboyant style, irreverent humour and loyal friendship ensured him a unique place in collegiate life. His comedy sketches and Voice of Region column in the staff magazine provided an "alternative", but always affectionate, view of the OU.
One of three children, Stu grew up in Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire, in a close and loving family. However, he later wrote that his lifelong struggle with depression began when he was 11, due partly to his growing awareness of his sexuality and the difficulty of asserting his identity as a young gay man in a small English town.
The struggle for acceptance, and eventual celebration of a lifestyle he didn't so much choose as grab with both hands and drag around the dance-floor, was fictionalised in his first novel Outcast, published by Gay Men's Press in 1999. The sequel, Outside In, appeared in 2001. Both were well-received for their refreshing insight into the challenges of coming out in a working class community in the 1990s.
His short stories were included in the Gay Times anthologies Bend Sinister (2002) and Serendipity (2004). He also published Drink Me (2009), a brutally honest memoir about his growing dependence on alcohol and drugs as he attempted to escape from the depression and anxiety that continued to haunt him. These problems made him decide to leave the OU and London and return home, where he became increasingly reclusive, although he maintained contact with his friends and continued to write, with social media providing a ready outlet for his sharp-witted (and sharp-tongued) observations.
Among the last things he wrote was a picture book entitled What Would You Rather?, dedicated to his beloved nephew and niece.
Stu worked at the Open University in London where his flamboyant style, irreverent humour and loyal friendship ensured him a unique place in collegiate life. His comedy sketches and Voice of Region column in the staff magazine provided an "alternative", but always affectionate, view of the OU.
One of three children, Stu grew up in Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire, in a close and loving family. However, he later wrote that his lifelong struggle with depression began when he was 11, due partly to his growing awareness of his sexuality and the difficulty of asserting his identity as a young gay man in a small English town.
The struggle for acceptance, and eventual celebration of a lifestyle he didn't so much choose as grab with both hands and drag around the dance-floor, was fictionalised in his first novel Outcast, published by Gay Men's Press in 1999. The sequel, Outside In, appeared in 2001. Both were well-received for their refreshing insight into the challenges of coming out in a working class community in the 1990s.
His short stories were included in the Gay Times anthologies Bend Sinister (2002) and Serendipity (2004). He also published Drink Me (2009), a brutally honest memoir about his growing dependence on alcohol and drugs as he attempted to escape from the depression and anxiety that continued to haunt him. These problems made him decide to leave the OU and London and return home, where he became increasingly reclusive, although he maintained contact with his friends and continued to write, with social media providing a ready outlet for his sharp-witted (and sharp-tongued) observations.
Among the last things he wrote was a picture book entitled What Would You Rather?, dedicated to his beloved nephew and niece.
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