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John R Gordon - Mother of Serpents

John R Gordon's radical queer horror novel explores race, the uncanny and madness in modern America.

Josie White - Rotten

Hitchcock meets 'Lord of the Flies' in this thrilling play directed by Rikki Beadle-Blair.

Rikki Beadle-Blair—Hello, London!

Zack Polanski presents Rikki Beadle-Blair's glorious 'Hello, London!' play at City Hall.

The Team Angelica Film Archive

The ongoing Team Angelica film archive is here, including short films, trailers, making of featurettes and interviews.

Curious (Short film)

A tough, tender, twisty tale of queer Black British youth. Directed by Rikki Beadle-Blair and written by John R. Gordon.

Larry Duplechan - Movies that Made Me Gay

A stunning collection of essays from the iconic, Lambda Award-winning writer, Larry Duplechan.

Cameron Raasdal Munro - Gangsta Baby

A dive into the world of sex work, drugs, internalised homophobia, betrayal & desperate need for love in the criminal classes.

Sam Danson - Bi-Topia

This one-man show, premiering in London, is a ‘hilarious, honest and raw’ exploration of the authentic bisexual experience.

John R. Gordon - Yemi & Femi Go Windrush

John R. Gordon's visionary comic is transformed into a scorching play directed by Rikki Beadle-Blair.

Ashley Byam - Cuffed

How do you show and receive love when you have no guide as a Black man, let alone a Black gay roadman?

Chris Panayi, Rikki Beadle-Blair and John R. Gordon - Alex the Great

A Greek-Cypriot dad battles with his estranged wife and angry gay son while refusing to deal with his own secret sexuality.

Scooters, Shooters & Shottas (Audio Play)

A powerful audio play written by John R. Gordon and directed by Rikki Beadle-Blair.

Tom Ratcliffe - Wreckage

A moving one-act play by playwright Tom Ratcliffe exploring love and loss.

Monologues for Actors: Fierce, Common, Lit

Three companion volumes of monologues for actors featuring queer, working class and underrepresented ethnicities.

Robert Chevara - Perfect. Scar

An internationally-acclaimed, award-winning artist, writer and director, this is Robert Chevara's moving debut poetry collection.

Diriye Osman - The Butterfly Jungle (Hardback)

Diriye Osman's masterpiece is an Afrofuturistic collection of interlinked stories about Black British queerness, family and #MeToo

Roz Kaveney - Selected Poems (2009-2021)

Lambda Award-winning trans icon, Roz Kaveney's lauded selected poems are the distillation of a lifetime's experience.

Roz Kaveney - The Great Good Time

Team Angelica is proud to present Roz Kaveney's urgent poetry collection about the trans experience.

Sonny Nwachukwu - Saturn Returns

Sonny Nwachukwu's seductive choreopoems are coded with pathos, passion and power.

Andreena Leeanne - Charred

Shortlisted for the Polari First Book Prize, Andreena Leeane's collection of poetry is a queer survivor's testimony.

John R. Gordon - Hark

John R. Gordon's soulful young adult novel set in the Deep South was nominated for the Polari Prize.

Natasha Brown - I AM [NOT] KANYE WEST

I AM [NOT] KANYE WEST is a provocative solo show that asks how much of ourselves are we willing to lose in order to win.

Tom Wright - Undetectable

A tender, funny, uplifting love story for the post-chemsex generation.

Vikram Kolmannskog - Lord of the Senses

Vikram Kolmannskog's tender and sensual collection of stories about growing up Indian-Norwegian was widely praised.

Tom Wright - My Dad's Gap Year

A delightful comedy about mid-life crises, sexuality, family and new beginnings.

John R. Gordon - Drapetomania

John R. Gordon's masterpiece is the one of the first fictional depictions of same gender loving men during slavery times.

Sista! Anthology

This anthology is one of the first compendiums of Black British lesbian writing.

Lynette Lynton - #Hashtag Lightie

#Hashtag Lightie was award-winning playwright and artistic director, Lynette Linton's breakout work.

Chike Frankie Edozien - Lives of Great Men

Chike Frankie Edozien's Lives of Great Men was not only widely praised, but it was also the first gay Nigerian memoir.

Rikki Beadle-Blair - Summer in London

A cutting-edge romantic comedy about homeless, multiracial trans youth and elders by Rikki Beadle-Blair.

Nnanna Ikpo - Fimí sílẹ̀ Forever

Nnanna Ikpo's Lambda Award-nominated novel was not only acclaimed, but it was an early gay fictional text from Nigeria.

Tom Wainwright - Custody

Created by artist, Urbain Hayo, and written by Tom Wainwright, this lauded play about police brutality is not only powerful, but necessary.

Gemma Van Praagh-More Than! Anthology

We asked the students of a London school to write creative pieces exploring LGBTQ identities in order to tackle stigma and stereotypes.

John R. Gordon - Yemi & Femi's Fun Night Out

Literary maverick, John R. Gordon is also the acclaimed graphic novelist and illustrator of the Yemi & Femi series.

Alex Gregory - Slap

Alexis Gregory's sexy, critically-acclaimed smash about a glamorous trans sex worker in the throws of an emotional meltdown.

Roz Kaveney - Tiny Pieces of Skull

Legendary cultural critic, poet and activist, Roz Kaveney's critically heralded, award-winning novel about trans life in the late 1970's.

Black and Gay in the UK

A landmark volume that provides a snapshot of the rich variety of black gay men’s experiences in the UK today.

John R. Gordon - Souljah (Novel & Film)

The Lambda Award-nominated tale of a gay African former child soldier and his struggle to find freedom and love in London.

Team Angelica - Boom!

Directed by Rikki Beadle-Blair and co-dramaturged by John R. Gordon, these plays remain radical and inventive.

Diriye Osman - Fairytales for Lost Children

Diriye Osman's groundbreaking, award-winning debut about queer Somali immigrants has inspired a generation.

Rikki Beadle-Blair: Bashment

A thriller about race, bashment music, sexuality and the flaws in the justice system. Written and directed by Rikki Beadle-Blair.

John R. Gordon - Colour Scheme

A passionate novel of interracial desire, jazz, art, Vodou and dance by award-winning maverick, John R Gordon.

Rikki Beadle-Blair - Reasons to Live

More life-lessons from the online diary of a human dynamo.

John R. Gordon - Faggamuffin

The thrilling, acclaimed novel of gay Jamaican life in London by Ferro Grumley Award winner John R Gordon.

Rikki Beadle-Blair - What I Learned Today

Powerful 365 life-lessons from the online diary of writer, director and performer Rikki Beadle-Blair MBE.

Rikki Beadle-Blair: KickOff

What happens when the hardest team in the Sunday Soccer league comes up against an equally tough gay team?

FIT Screen and stage play

Rikki Beadle-Blair's screenplay and stage play of the groundbreaking FIT project. Also with teaching notes.

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