Queer Love: 'There aren’t many books that focus on gay people'
Paul McVeigh edited the Queer Love anthology.
When Paul McVeigh was growing up in Belfast, the library was a refuge — from the febrile atmosphere on the streets, a difficult home life and "the kind of trouble being an effeminate boy got you’". However, even in that ‘safe space’, he struggled to find stories that represented his life and experience, especially from an Irish perspective.
When the author was invited by Pat Cotter of Cork-based press Southword Editions to edit Queer Love: An Anthology of Irish Fiction, he saw an opportunity to redress this imbalance.
