John R. Gordon
John R. Gordon | |
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Gordon in September 2020 | |
| Born | 1964 (age 60–61) Portsmouth, England |
| Occupation(s) | Novelist, screenwriter, playwright, publisher, artist, art designer |
| Website | www |
John R. Gordon (born 1964) is a British writer. His work – novels, plays, screenplays and biography - deals with the intersections of race, sexuality and class. With Rikki Beadle-Blair he founded and runs queer-of-colour-centric indie press Team Angelica. Although he was a "white person from a white suburb", according to Gordon, in the 1980s he became deeply interested in black cultural figures such as James Baldwin, Malcolm X and Frantz Fanon, and they have influenced his work ever since.