Fishing for Birds by Christine Burns

In the summer of 2007, during the course of the second LGBT Health Summit in Manchester, Christine volunteered to step out of her normal comfort zone as a trans rights speaker and try her hand as a stand-up entertainer instead. Armed with her book of poems, penned over the course of the past 30 years, she stepped up to the floor mic in Canal Street’s noisy and bustling “Taurus” Bar and invited the drinkers and revellers to a lesson in how to fish for birds.