I showed up unannounced in the offices of London Gay News and promptly became friends with the editor, Peter Burton, visiting his flat in London and his second home in Brighton. He wrote a book called Gin and It.
He was kind enough to include one of my stories in his anthology The Mammoth Book of Gay Short Stories.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/364266.The_Mammoth_Book_of_Gay_Short_Stories
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He was kind enough to include one of my stories in his anthology The Mammoth Book of Gay Short Stories.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/364266.The_Mammoth_Book_of_Gay_Short_Stories
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