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posted Saturday, January 22, 2022
There’s no right way to keep a diary, but if there’s an entertaining way, David Sedaris seems to have mastered it. After his best selling, Theft by Finding: Diaries 1977-2002, he’s back with a follow up, A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries (2003-2020). If it’s navel-gazing you’re after, you’ve come to the wrong place; ditto treacly […]
posted Friday, January 21, 2022
Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can’t remember exactly when the feeling took root—that desire to look, to move closer, to touch. Whenever it started growing, it definitely bloomed the moment she and Kathleen Miller walked under the flashing neon sign of a lesbian bar called the Telegraph Club. Suddenly everything seemed possible.But America in 1954 is not a […]
posted Monday, January 17, 2022
It’s not easy “choosing not to choose,” especially for a nonbinary teen in 2007. Corey was born intersex, but their father and stepmother didn’t make a big deal about it. Then Corey’s dad dies suddenly. Now Corey’s disapproving mother wants Corey to “pick a side”. Corey’s old enough to say no to medical intervention—but not […]
posted Saturday, January 15, 2022
The Girl Who Was Convinced Beyond Reason That She Could Fly is a visionary young-adult illustrated novel about Eggs, a homeless girl who knows how to fly. In a rusted unnamed city full of five-dollar hotels and flea markets, a young homeless girl named Eggs is trying to make her way in the world. She’s […]
posted Friday, January 14, 2022
Brrr, baby it’s cold outside. I know it’s January, whom some like to refer to as Dry January. A time when they take a month away from (over) indulging the month before with all the holiday festivities. I get it, but why can’t we just be more selective in our indulgence? With the pandemic still […]
posted Thursday, January 13, 2022
The Vegan Travel Association (VTA) will be holding their second annual Travelling in a New Vegan World Summit (#NVW22) virtual event taking place over 17 days, January 14th – 31st, 2022, and it’s free to participate! The Vegan Travel Association is a collective of travel professionals who support travellers and travel businesses from all over […]
posted Tuesday, January 11, 2022
A debut memoir about coming of age as a gay, Latinx man, High-Risk Homosexual opens in the ultimate anti-gay space: Edgar Gomez’s uncle’s cockfighting ring in Nicaragua, where he was sent at thirteen years old to become a man. Readers follow Gomez through the queer spaces where he learned to love being gay and Latinx, including Pulse […]
posted Monday, January 10, 2022
DAMN SHAME: A Memoir of Desire, Defiance and Show Tunes is funny, moving, bawdy, and powerful. Written by 62-year-old actor, erotic provocateur and anti-ageist, anti-body shaming, pro-sexuality advocate David Pevsner. Over the course of his 40-year career in show business, he has done it all. He’s acted on Broadway, off-Broadway, in independent films and numerous TV network shows […]
posted Saturday, January 8, 2022
The late 1970s and early 1980s were a volatile period in the history of Vancouver, where broad social and cultural changes were afoot. This was perhaps most clearly evident in the West End, the well-known home to the city’s tight-knit gay community that would soon be devastated by the AIDS epidemic. But the West End’s […]
posted Friday, January 7, 2022
In the fifties and sixties, in the period leading up to the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality and the founding of the Gay Liberation movement, a group of gay men behind the scenes of rock’n’roll was changing pop, politics and society for good. Through a mix of new interviews and contemporary reports, Darryl W. Bullock shines […]
