John Roman Baker

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John Roman Baker is a British / French-born poet, playwright, activist and journalist associated mainly with the work of Aids Positive Underground Theatre (Aputheatre). Winner of the Brighton Festival award for Best Theatre in 1990 for his play 'The Ice Pick'

His first play 'Limitations' launched the first season of the Gay Sweatshop Theatre company.^[1] In 1985 he was co-founder of the Sussex AIDS Helpline (aka Sussex AIDS Centre^[2]) one of the UK's first voluntary organisations established to campaign for an assist those affected by HIV and AIDS.

The Prostitution Plays was first performed in Amsterdam in 2000,^[3] and subsequently toured several European cities at the time of their Gay Pride festivals.^[4]

1 Works
2 Personal life
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Works

Performed plays include:^[5]

COCK!, 1993
The Club Beautiful, 2001
Crying Celibate Tears, 1989
East Side Skin, 2003
Easy, 1993
Freedom to Party,
Heroes, 1999
The Ice Pick, 1990
In One Take, 1994
The Last Century of Desire, 1995
The Prostitution Plays, 2000
The Pornographic Wall; 1999
Prisoners of Sex, 2006
Romophobia, 2005
Things Happen, 2004
The War Fuck, 2004

[edit] Personal life

Early notoriety was achieved when in 1974 he appeared with his then boyfriend Tony Whitehead, the first chairperson of the Terrence Higgins Trust, in a Southern Television documentary about Gay Rights.^[6] They were pictured kissing as one of them met the other of a train at Brighton Station. As a result of this, Whitehead was immediately fired by his employer British Home Stores. A national outcry ensued which galvanised the Gay Rights movement led by CHE the Campaign for Homosexual Equality and GLF the Gay Liberation Front.^[7]