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Book Review:‘You Always Change the Love of Your Life (For Another Love or Another Life)’ by Amalia Andrade

Amalia Andrade sets high goals for herself: in a recent interview, she said she wants to be the Adele and Beyoncé of books. You Always Change the Love of Your Life (For Another Love or Another Life) performed well in its original Spanish version (Penguin Books released the English translation of the book in December), and it’s plain to see why. Her book–mostly handwritten, with many illustrations–is accessible and easygoing. It’s an eclectic mix of advice, fiction, short creative nonfiction pieces, mixtapes, and recipes, with plenty of guided writing and drawing exercises for her readers. Andrade entered herself into a rehab […]

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Marvel Unveils its First ever Drag Queen Superhero in X-Men Series

Marvel has revealed its first ever drag queen superhero in an X-Men series. Shade is a mutant who is also a drag queen, and she’s already a big hit with the fandom. The superhero sashayed her way into the world with a single panel appearance in last month’s Iceman #4. Fans are already creating fan art of Shade | Photo: Twitter But many Marvel fans wondered whether it was just a drag queen posing as a mutant or not? Writer Sina Grace, who’s out, has now revealed that Shade is a mutant and will be appearing in future issues of […]

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Book Review:‘Oranges’ by Gary Eldon Peter

A debut collection of linked short stories about love, loss, and intimacy, Oranges is a gentle look at what it means to come of age and grow older as a gay man in the Midwest. The slim collection of nine tales sketches the life of Michael Dolin, a civil lawyer who grew up closeted in Mason City, Iowa, before finding self-respect in Minneapolis as an adult. In spare prose, author Gary Eldon Peter portrays Michael’s lifelong journey toward inner peace with care and compassion. The first story, “Blankets,” opens the collection with the protagonist at his most vulnerable. A recent […]

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‘Bohemian Rhapsody,’ ‘Versace’ and Many Other LGBT Golden Globes Wins

Rami Malek as Freddie Mercury in ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ (Screenshot via YouTube) The 76th annual Golden Globes, hosted by Andy Samberg and Sandra Oh, recognized the best in film and television at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Sunday with some prominent awards handed to LGBT projects. “Bohemian Rhapsody,” the Queen biopic starring Rami Malek as queer frontman Freddie Mercury, won Best Motion Picture Drama. Malek’s portrayal of Mercury was also honored with the award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama. Before raking in the accolades, the film was already a box office hit becoming the […]

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Ellen DeGeneres Under Fire for Supporting Kevin Hart

Kevin Hart and Ellen DeGeneres. (Screenshot via YouTube) Ellen DeGeneres is facing backlash for supporting Kevin Hart and actively campaigning to have Hart host the Oscars. Hart was tapped to host this year’s Oscars but stepped down after old homophobic jokes and tweets resurfaced. DeGeneres invited Hart on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” to talk about the fall out with the episode scheduled to air on Monday. However, DeGeneres and her producers was apparently so impressed by the interview that the episode aired on Friday instead. In the interview, Hart explains that he has repeatedly apologized for the jokes, which were […]

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Words and Music’ with Laurie Lewis, Don Henry, Claudia Russell and Nina Gerber At OCA Jan. 18

Calendar/Singer/Songwriter Music: Friday January 18 @ 7 pm. Occidental Center for the Arts is pleased to present: ‘Words and Music’ with Laurie Lewis, Don Henry, Claudia Russell and Nina Gerber. Join us for a night of outstanding music when three celebrated, award-winning singer/songwriters trade favorite tunes in a Nashville-style song circle, accompanied by virtuoso guitarist Nina Gerber! Don’t miss this special collaboration of talent at Sonoma County’s acoustic ’sweet spot’ OCA!  $25 Advance/$30 at the door. Reservations advised. Fine refreshments available. Wheelchair accessible . Art gallery open for viewing. www.occidentalcenterforthearts.org. 707-874-9392. 3850 Doris Murphy Ct. Occidental, CA. 95465 Let’s go! See […]

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Book Review:‘The Blue Clerk’ by Dionne Brand

We are living in a golden age of lyric, hybrid forms. Following in the queer lineage of Maggie Nelson’s Bluets, Dionne Brand’s The Blue Clerk is a fascinating collections of prose poems and hybrid poetry. The Blue Clerk is a timely book. Self-identified as an “Ars Poetica in 59 Versos,” The Blue Clerk follows the narrative arc of a speaker/poet and an omniscient clerk—who may be the poet/speaker’s archivist, confidant, guide, or Maker, depending on where one finds themselves in the story. Captivating us with a similarly rich landscape of hues (including the fascination with indigos/blues found in Nelson’s book), this collection interweaves […]

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Book Review:‘No Archive Will Restore You’ by Julietta Singh

An archivist is a professional obsessive with an impossible task: to collect, preserve and organize everything within one’s chosen bounds. Julietta Singh is not an archivist in the typical sense: on the contrary, she says, she has “a long history of becoming discomfortingly overwhelmed in spaces that contain masses of information.” Instead, the obsession that propels No Archive Will Restore You is the idea of the archive itself, and what it might mean to behold one’s own body—in this case, a queer, multiracial one marked by experiences ranging from bulimia to childbirth—as an archive worthy of passionate study. Her starting […]

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Blacklight: Jeanne Winer’s ‘Her Kind of Case’ Brings Rich, Character-Based Storytelling to the Legal Thriller

Jeanne Winer’s second novel, Her Kind of Case, is an authoritative, grounded, and deeply human legal thriller. Crime fiction in part stems from the 19th century social novel, so it’s always a treat to read a contemporary novel that sheds light on a contemporary social issue: in this case, the complicated origins of homophobic violence and how our legal system handles teenagers involvement in such violence. Winer’s Lee Isaacs is a 59-year-old criminal defense lawyer in Boulder, Colorado. She’s seasoned, savvy, and winding down a stellar career. She’s also a loner, still grieving the death of her husband. A difficult […]

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Film Review: “Boy Erased”

  When Jared (LUCAS HEDGES) is outed as gay to his parents by a desperate new college friend, he is just as shocked as they are.  Whilst he is aware of having feelings for other boys Jared is genuinely unsure of his sexuality and this is the reason he calmly acquiesces to his parents demand that he leave college to attend Love In Action that specialises in gay conversion therapy. His father (RUSSELL CROWE) is the part time Pastor of a large church and also the owner of a successful car dealership in Arkansas and has reached his decision that […]

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