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Wednesday, June 25
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Source: Bangkok Post 'Being a lesbian is tiring," Chantalak Raksayoo said in an inteview with Bangkok Post 's Outlook section, "but one should take pride in one's self. And I'm proud of who I am." Chantalak, 36, is a lesbian activist who believes in the power of media to create public awareness on gay and lesbian rights and, more importantly, to help gays and lesbians feel confident about themselves and to realise their rights to live their lives as equals in society. Chantalak is the founder of Sapaan, an alternative media source for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender...
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Wednesday, June 18
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Source: New England Blade , Boston Herald Writing for the Boston Herald , reviewer Jill Radsken describes Scott Pomfret's new book, Since My Last Confession [ Amazon ], as a "chaotic memoir." In the New England Blade , reviewer William Henderson, who calls the book "achingly funny and very readable," explains [T]his is no naval-gazing attempt to explain why he is the way he is. Instead, this memoir attempts to explain why it is that Catholicism is the way it is and why it can’t seem to wrap its brotherly-loving arms around gay men and lesbians and welcome them to the fold...
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Thursday, June 05
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Source: Gay City News , Advocate Gay literati were the stars in LA on May 29th as 20th Annual Lambda Literary Awards -- affectionately known as the "Lammys" -- were held on in what is likely America's gayest two square miles -- West Hollywood. Twenty-one books received awards. Highlights include the LGBT anthology First Person Queer , edited by Richard Labonte and Lawrence Schimel (Arsenal Pulp Press) and The IHOP Papers , by Ali Leibegott (Carroll & Graf) in the category of Women's Fiction. The award represents double triumph for Leibegott, who received a Publishing Triangle...
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Monday, May 12
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Source: Guardian , Southern Voice American rap music is an industry ruled by machismo. It is a place where reputations are made by shady pasts, the aura of violence and ultra-masculinity. But now an explosive new book is lifting the lid on one of hip hop's most unexpected secrets: that many people in the business are gay. Terrance Dean, a former executive at music channel MTV, has penned a memoir of his life and times in the hip hop industry as a gay man. It called an "explosive exposé" by a Guardian reviewer who has read a pre-release copy. It exposes a thriving gay subculture in...
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Friday, April 25
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Source: New York Times , Episcopal Life Bishop Gene Robinson, the openly gay Episcopal prelate whose consecration led conservatives to split from the church, said in an interview on Thursday that he and his partner of 20 years were planning a civil union ceremony to be held in his home church in the diocese of New Hampshire in June. Bishop Robinson told the New York Times that by scheduling the ceremony for June, he did not intend to further inflame conservatives just before the Anglican Communion gathers in August in Cambridge, England, for the Lambeth Conference, which happens only once every...
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Thursday, March 20
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Source: TIME Rita Mae Brown, foxhunting photo: RitaMaeBrown.com No one could ever accuse Rita Mae Brown, 63, of having lived a boring life. The bestselling author of 37 books is nothing if not versatile: feminist activist, mystery writer, lesbian pioneer, fox hunter, screenwriter, novelist, animal rescuer. She even became a tabloid star during her three-year relationship with tennis superstar Martina Navratilova. TIME's Andrea Sachs spoke with Brown, who was in Pennsylvania on tour for her latest book, The Purrfect Murder (Bantam). TIME: Your 1973 book Ruby Fruit Jungle was a groundbreaking...
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Sunday, March 16
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Source: Los Angeles Times , Desert Sun , UPI via Political Gateway , KESQ News Warm Sands is an older neighborhood, a mix of vintage ranches and glassy contemporaries. There are cactuses and fruit trees, a health food shop, the oldest hardware store in town and -- displayed prominently on one corner lot -- a 5-foot-tall sculpture of a phallus. Subtlety is not always a hallmark of Palm Springs' gay community. But then, unlike in many towns, it doesn't have to be. As many as half of Palm Springs' 40,000-or-so adult residents are gay; it has become, some locals contend, the gayest city...
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Sunday, March 02
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Source: New Yorker The New Yorker has now published to the web the excerpt of a book by his daughter about the late Bishop Paul Moore, who was a major force for social justice and religious tolerance in the Episcopal Church. [see Qnews summary ] The author, Honor Moore was appropriately named by her parents, because she honors her father in the book, A Bishop's Daughter . He was, she says, "a force of imagination that flared and coruscated, an instrument of transformation." The book is -- even in this brief eight-page excerpt -- a remarkable memoir of a remarkable man, but it is also...
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Thursday, February 28
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The New Yorker this week publishes an excerpt from the new book “The Bishop’s Daughter” to be published in May. Honor Moore writes about her father, the Episcopal bishop Paul Moore, his faith, and his secret. The article is not available online, but the magazine offers an audio interview with the author who talks about her father’s public service and private life. See also: A more complete synopsis of the New Yorker article When she was a child, Honor Moore writes that she accepted her father as a force of imagination that flared and coruscated, an instrument of transformation. At seminary, he...
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Monday, February 18
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Source: Miami Herald On the 30th anniversary of his breakout novel Dancer From the Dance , gay novelist Andrew Holleran held a reading at the Stonewall Library & Archives in Fort Lauderdale. Holleran's 1978 novel Dancer From the Dance is set against a backdrop of the bars, discos and the gay scene of Fire Island in New York. ''His novel captured the moment when it was OK to make fun of ourselves,'' said Nate Klarfeld, president of the Stonewall Library & Archives. "All of the other gay fiction had the characters killing themselves in the end or being rejected by...
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Sunday, January 06
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Source: Seattle Times A new book on the late Seattle architect Lionel Pries goes a long way to restore some of the honor that once surrounded his name. Pries was one of the region's foremost architectural designers and instructors, an old-school Beaux Arts advocate who also led the way in Northwest modernism, designing some of the region's most distinctive and progressive houses in the 1930s to '50s. Pries (pronounced Prees) taught at the University of Washington during that time, helping shape the thinking and the skills of many of the Northwest's top architects. But after 30 years...
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Sunday, January 06
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Source: Allentown Morning Call Allentown, Penn. -- A controversial gay-themed children's book which just weeks ago was unavailable at most local public libraries is now more widely accessible after a couple's attempt to have the book removed from the Lower Macungie Library backfired. [see Qnews summary ] Following news coverage of the library's denial of the request, a local gay activist group sent it a $50 donation and purchased the controversial book ''King & King'' for four area public libraries that didn't carry it. At least three of the libraries in Allentown...
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Sunday, December 02
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Source: Chicago Tribune by Sid Smith They constitute an awesome assembly of mid-20th Century artists. "Did others better evoke Americans' joys and pains than Tennessee Williams in 'The Glass Menagerie' (1945) and 'A Streetcar Named Desire' (1947) or Thornton Wilder in 'Our Town' (1938)? Did they exceed Aaron Copland in evoking spacious plains, cowboys and rural life, or Samuel Barber at conveying loss in Adagio for Strings (1938)? Who bettered Leonard Bernstein in his musical 'On the Town' (1944) at expressing wartime exuberance or urban energy, or Cole...
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Friday, November 30
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Source: Allentown Morning Call Allentown, Penn -- Storytime ceased abruptly when the picture book Eileen Issa was reading her 2 1/2-year-old son surprisingly ended with two men marrying and smooching. The tale about a disgruntled queen who demanded that her son marry a princess looked like the average children's book to the mother of two when she scooped it up along with about nine others at the Lower Macungie Library. She had no idea the book has been the subject of a federal lawsuit and controversy in other parts of the country. ''I saw them at the altar and I said, 'This can't...
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Thursday, November 29
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Source: Globe and Mail and Toronto Star Writer, teacher, cultural nationalist and lesbian role model, Jane Rule died last night of complications from liver cancer at her home on Galiano Island, British Columbia. She was 76. The author of a dozen books, including the novels Desert of the Heart , This is not for You and Memory Board , and the non-fiction essays Lesbian Images , Ms. Rule brought the idea of women loving women into the quotidian world both in her personal life, which was lived openly for nearly 50 years with her partner Helen Sonthoff, and in her writing. She explored the conflict...
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Wednesday, November 28
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Source: The Advocate Longtime gay activist Frank Kameny has sent an angry letter to former news anchor Tom Brokaw about his latest book, Boom! Voices of the Sixties. Kameny complained to the book's publisher, Random House, and the author about Brokaw's omission of anything pertaining to the seminal gay rights movement of the '60s, though references are made to civil rights, gender issues, and the environmental movement. "The only allusions to us in your entire book are the most shallow, superficial, brief references in connection with sundry heterosexuals," Kameny writes....
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Monday, November 26
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Source: Washington Post by Charles Kaiser Tom Brokaw's sprawling new book about the 1960s has a striking cover, and it includes interviews with 50 people, many of them recognizable names from the era, like Joan Baez, Arlo Guthrie , Andrew Young and Gloria Steinem. Combining oral history with the author's own memories, this 662-page tome touches on nearly all the major events of that extraordinary time. Unfortunately, it tells us nothing new about any of them. The same abilities that made Brokaw a great anchorman don't serve him well in this venture. On TV he was pleasant and affable...
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Sunday, October 28
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Source: EW.com by Mark Harris Now she tells us? When I first heard that J.K. Rowling had revealed the homosexuality of Professor Albus Dumbledore, esteemed headmaster of Hogwarts, before a packed congregation of children and adults at Carnegie Hall on Oct. 19, my reaction was half appreciation, half annoyance. Ten years, seven books, 4,000 pages, and it never occurred to her to mention this before? At least she didn't make the gay character a fairy (or a troll), so we'll be spared those jokes, I thought. Rowling's announcement felt almost too strategic, a gotcha! she conveniently withheld...
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Wednesday, October 24
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Source: Bloomberg Robert Hilferty profiles David Leavitt and his new novel, "The Indian Clerk" Oct. 24 (Bloomberg) -- David Leavitt sets his new novel during World War I in the milieu of the Cambridge Apostles, a secret society at the British university whose members -- such as Wittgenstein, Keynes, Strachey -- tended to be brilliant and gay. "The Indian Clerk" focuses on the mathematician G.H. Hardy (1877-1947) and the prodigy he discovered and came to love, Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887-1920). Leavitt interweaves a lecture in praise of Ramanujan that Hardy gave many years after...
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Tuesday, October 23
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Source: Reuters TORONTO (Reuters) - J.K. Rowling, whose Harry Potter series made her the first billionaire author, said on Tuesday she was surprised at the fuss surrounding her announcement the boy wizard's head teacher, Albus Dumbledore, was gay. "It has certainly never been news to me that a brave and brilliant man could love other men," Rowling told a news conference in Toronto, where she is attending an authors' festival. Rowling, a mother-of-three, made the surprise revelation in New York on Friday, during her first U.S. tour in seven years. She said Dumbledore was once infatuated...
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Monday, October 22
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Source: Associated Press via Google NEW YORK (AP) — With author J.K. Rowling's revelation that master wizard Albus Dumbledore is gay, some passages about the Hogwarts headmaster and rival wizard Gellert Grindelwald have taken on a new and clearer meaning. The British author stunned her fans at Carnegie Hall on Friday night when she answered one young reader's question about Dumbledore by saying that he was gay and had been in love with Grindelwald, whom he had defeated years ago in a bitter fight. '"You cannot imagine how his ideas caught me, Harry, inflamed me,'" Dumbledore...
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Sunday, October 21
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Source: Online.ie A leading human rights campaigner today welcomed the revelation from Harry Potter author JK Rowling that Albus Dumbledore, headmaster of Hogwarts, is gay. But Peter Tatchell said the sexuality of the master wizard should have been made explicit in the hit series of children's books. Rowling outed Dumbledore, a central character in the books, while speaking to an audience of fans in New York last night. "Dumbledore is gay," the author said to a response of gasps and applause. Rowling then joked: "I would have told you earlier if I knew it would make you so happy...
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Saturday, October 20
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Source: EW.com First things first: At last night's talk at New York City's Carnegie Hall -- an event for thousands of young Harry Potter fans and their parents -- J.K. Rowling outed the kindly headmaster. Responding to a question from a child about Dumbledore's love life, Rowling hesitated and then revealed, "I always saw Dumbledore as gay." Filling in a few more details, she said, "Dumbledore fell in love with Grindelwald.... Don't forget, falling in love can blind us. [He] was very drawn to this brilliant person. This was Dumbledore's tragedy." She added...
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Sunday, October 14
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The fame of Gertrude Stein has long thrived upon her unreadability. No one gets through the impenetrable writings of this great modernist, but everyone knows something about the formidable Stein and her self-effacing - but wholly indispensable - partner...
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