Nathaniel J Hall

c. Dawn Kilner Last year I said something out loud for the first time. It was utterly terrifying. After 15 years of living in secret, I came out to the world as HIV+. It was a very public coming out. I made a theatre show about how I got HIV the first time I ever had sex aged 16 - over 400 people saw it. I commissioned community outreach work with local artists and charities that culminated in a gallery exhibition - nearly 4000 people saw that. And then the press picked up th

Playwright Chris Hoyle writes about growing up gay in 1990’s Manchester, the historical and cultural importance of Canal Street and how the North’s gay mecca influenced his new play, The Newspaper Boy… Written by Chris Hoyle Additional words by Nathaniel Hall This article originally appeared in Gay Star News in February 2018. Manchester is a city that really punches above it’s weight for it’s size: the industrial revolution, the women’s suffrage movement, the birthplace of so