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Jason Shaw
Jason Shaw, (Born 2nd August 65) is a writer and broadcaster from the south coast of England, United Kingdom. He has written countless articles and news reports for various publications - both in print and online, including technorati, The Rainbow Post, Best Gay Blogs, Consumer News and Gay Agenda. His is also the author of The Top 50 Most Influential Gay Movies book, a chart of some of the best gay movies and gay themed movies of the last fifty years and their influential impact on our lives. His second book was an erotic gay fiction novel entitled Memory Lanes Future, both books, along with a short story First Day of Term, are available from online retailers, such as Amazon.

Early Life and Career
Jason Shaw was born and brought up in the home county town of Reigate in Surrey, England. He has two brothers and one sister. In college he studied travel and tourism and started a career within the travel industry at an agency in Croydon. He worked for a number of companies in travel including airline Air Europe and holiday company Unijet/First Choice. These positions afforded him the ability to indulge of what described as his 'great passion' in life – travelling. Travelling around the world twice, Jason visited over 50 cities in 30 countries.

Jason had a chance encounter at a party with John Wellington, the programme controller of a local radio station Radio Mercury. Soon after that encounter he started work from the station, at first just during the weekends and later full time. Starting off as a runner, he worked on many programmes and special broadcasts, before taking a break from the media industry and worked as childrens entertainer at a holiday centre in the south west. He returned to Crawley and the Allied Radio group working in the music library becoming a producer and occasional presenter. He then went on to present a music based evening show during the week on County Sound/Mercury Xtra AM. He also produced and presented the AM stations sports bulletins on the dedicated sports and music show on Saturday afternoons. It was whilst working here that Jason was asked to write an advice column for Consumer News in Essex and Guyz London in London which sparked a desire and a love for the written word.

Jason has written many articles, features and news stories for various publications both in print and online, specialising in Human and gay rights, cinematic entertainment and travel and aviation. Whilst doing research for feature on how influential gay themed movies could be on the mainstream entertainment industry that Jason decided to research further into the subject. A year of intense research later his first book The Top 50 Most Influential Gay Movies of All Time, was completed and published.

Memory Lanes Future was his second book, his first fiction offering, is an erotic gay novel that seems the main protagonist racing through the scenes of his past in order to find the strength to face his future head on. Jason has also published a short story called First Day of Term, which was designed to be the first of a series of short story releases, however so far no more have been released.

Health
Jason suffered a broken back in a bike accident near Gatwick in 2004 which resulted in a loss of over an inch in height and numerous scans and x-rays. Three years later Jason broke his leg whilst dancing on a cruise ship in the Mediterranean, this break required an open reduction internal fixation operation to put together the tibia of his right leg. The metal work remains in his leg to this day.

There are more than 7000 people in the UK waiting for a donor organ and n October 2012 Jason decided to become an organ donor, however not only did he register to become one after his death, he also volunteered to become a living kidney donor. He proceeded with flying colours through most of the medical tests and investigations including chest x-rays, ECG's and blood tests. However, during one of these tests - glomerular filtration rate (GFR) found that Jason's kidneys were not working properly, further investigation found that Jason had mildly reduced kidney function, bordering between stage 2 and 3 chronic kidney disease. Jason's health has continued to slowly deteriorate.