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Book Review: ‘Uncovered: How I left Hasidic Life and Finally Came Home’ by Leah Lax

At a writers’ conference, Nancy Bereano, the publisher of Firebrand Books from 1985-2000, suggested that the current popularity of memoir as a genre could be traced to the work of feminist writers and feminist publishing. I agree. Feminist writers changed the memoir and creative non-fiction and Bereano’s Firebrand Books was on the cutting-edge of these changes. Bereano published Mab Segrest’s My Mama’s Dead Squirrel, Minnie Bruce Pratt’s S/HE, Beth Brant’s Food and Spirit, and Barrie Jean Borich’s first collection, Restoring the Color of Roses. Each of these books altered how readers understood story-telling, including what stories are worth telling. One […]

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“We Know Who We Are” Vid Supports LGBTs in World’s Most Homophobic Countries

  In a powerful new music video, Steven James and Quentin Sound send a message of hope and support to LGBT people living in some of the most homophobic nations in the world: Jamaica, Russia and Uganda. In Jamaica, sexual acts between men are punishable with up to ten years in prison, while Human Rights Watch documented 56 cases of anti-LGBT violence in 2013—only four led to arrests or prosecutions. Russia’s rampant homophobia has been well-documented. Though there are no laws criminalizing same-sex activity, a law passed in 2013 banning the spread of propaganda of “non-traditional” sexual relations among minors […]

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Book Review: ‘Alexander McQueen: Blood Beneath the Skin’ by Andrew Wilson

How difficult it must be to write a biography of a recently deceased person who was often called the ‘best of his generation’ and a ‘creative genius’; even more so in this age of instant information where video and audio evidence of an artist’s craft is prevalent. In his tightly-researched book on Alexander McQueen, Andrew Wilson pieces together, with panache and ease, the fractured selves of the brilliant British designer who rose from the working-class, East-end of London to the pinnacle of Parisian high-fashion. The title, Blood Beneath The Skin, perfectly describes the grit below his surface and how readily […]

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“You Can’t Take it With You” Enjoys Run at Analy High School

Do you know the play “You Can’t Take It With You?” Although written some 80 years ago, it addresses the issues of today: do we live a small life: in fear,& resistant to change, or do we live a joyous, inclusive, and fancy free life? The story of this play centers around a family that live an uninhibited and joyous life and the people driven by fear, who are inspired by them. It’s funny and it’s poignant. And by the way, our son Elijah is the lead, as Grandpa. Award Winning AnalyTheatre Dept. presents  “YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU” […]

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Film Review: “Summer”

  Life seems to have been unchanged for ever in this rather boring and isolated Dutch village, but little do its residents know that by the end of the sweltering summer that is about to start, nothing will ever be the same again.  The story that unfolds through the eyes of teenage Annie or “Ms Silent’ as she is better known, and it starts peacefully enough with her biking in the countryside with a pack of other village girls. They alway pass by the Power Station which everyone loves because it provides jobs and even some culture for the entire […]

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Streaming services have more LGBT characters than all traditional TV channels put together

  Streaming media providers Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Prime feature more LGBT series regulars than all of US network TV put together. The news comes from the latest GLAAD ‘Where We Are On TV’ report. The report found that the streaming services had more LGBT representation across just 23 series, than American primetime network television has on 118. American network television featured 35 LGB series regulars out of 881 characters, which is an increase of three since last year – but features no transgender characters on any of the 118 primetime scripted shows studied. Meanwhile, cable services including HBO, AMC […]

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Gay Adult Film Written By Late Actor Sir John Gielgud Creates Row In U.K.

  A pornographic gay film based on an original screenplay by the late actor Sir John Gielgud has wrapped production, but it still faces tremendous opposition from his estate. Set in a men’s clothing store where an orgy takes place, Trouser Bar stars Nigel Havers and Julian Clary as passerby who spy the proceedings fondly. Gielgud, one of the most celebrated stage actors of his time, but best-known for his Oscar-winning work as Dudley Moore’s butler in the film comedy Arthur and for his turn in the TV drama Brideshead Revisited, wrote the screenplay in secret in 1976 and intended […]

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New Memoir Explores Black Gay Experience

Born to a 14-year-old mother, raised in a household with an alcoholic grandfather, Jarrett Neal was in eighth grade when his gym class accidentally walked in on their coach showering. It was Neal’s first glimpse of a naked man and it “ended my boyhood,” he writes in “What Color is Your Hoodie: Essays on Black Gay Identity.” He was well into college when he finally admitted to himself that he was attracted to men; still, the “daily taunts” from his more athletic, more self-confident peers and the absence of a father haunted him for many years. To counteract it, Neal […]

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Gay Jamaican Author Marlon James Wins Man Booker Prize

Gay Jamaican novelist Marlon James was awarded the 2015 Man Booker Prize on Tuesday for his novel, A Brief History of Seven Killings. The prize is the top literary honor in the UK and comes with an award of $78,000. Using the attempted assassination of Bob Marley in the 1970s as a springboard, it delves into Jamaican politics, gang wars and drug trafficking. Judges called the novel the “most exciting book” on this year’s list. “It’s a crime novel that moves beyond the world of crime and takes us deep into a recent history we know far too little about,” […]

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Book Review: ‘Lord Byron’s Prophecy’ by Sean Eads

A darkly hallucinatory and unsettling fever-dream of a novel, Lord Byron’s Prophecy offers doppelgängers, apocalyptic visions, ominous portents, and eerie hauntings as it recounts a centuries-spanning tale of guilt–and appetite–driven men whose suppressed secrets and illicit desires poison their own lives and those around them. With a kaleidoscopic, continent-crossing narrating technique that leap-frogs between 1816, 1960, 2010, and 2027; Sean Eads (The Survivors) makes a case—a gothic-veined and sporadically operatic one—for what Freud called the return of the repressed. Set in various American and European locales, the prismatic story opens with Adam Fane, a deeply miserable, raving, and semi-delirious English […]

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