Out of the Underground explores homosexuality in the radical press. It covers the rise and fall of the Gay Liberation Front in several cities, including Milwaukee, Atlanta, Austin, Detroit, San Jose, as well as gay metropolises like New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Chicago. Prior to a regular and reliable gay press, the only positive images of homosexuals appeared in the underground rags. In the turbulent 1960s, young gay men couldn't relate to the stuffy newsletters of Mattachine-era groups. Young lesbians too were drawn to the direct action of the Radical Lesbians and Women's Liberation Front, rather than the gab and java get-togethers of the Daughters of Bilitis (DOB). Those young radicals were more likely to read the Great Speckled Bird, the Ann Arbor Argus, the San Francisco Oracle, the feminist It Ain't Me Babe, and the anarchic Berkeley Tribe, than the Ladder, the DOB newsletter. Out of the Underground is also about the culture, music, politics, and art, that radicalized young queers. Clearly, not all LGBTs were left-wing revolutionaries. Some were conservative and worked within established gay groups. The majority were deeply closeted. This book isn't about them.

Out Of The Underground: Homosexuality, The Radical Press, And The Rise And Fall Of The Gay Liberation Front

For centuries the voices of LGBTQ people have been silenced, unable to share their lives openly. The result has been widespread isolation, misunderstanding, and shame - often with dire consequences still felt today. "Tell Me About It" explores these lives and tells stories never fully shared. In "Tell Me About It, " author/historians St Sukie de la Croix and Owen Keehnen asked a variety of individuals ten specific questions. Their frank, audacious, hilarious, and sometimes heartbreaking responses will resonate with readers from all walks of life. They offer a glimpse into the individual life experiences that have quietly brought LGBTQ people together into a community. Through the voices of others, "Tell Me About It" reveals who we are, what we share, and why we must never allow ourselves to be silenced again.

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Book 2 in the Twilight Manors in Palm Springs Series Brian & Stéphane are Back! Everyone's favorite politically-incorrect couple is back, spreading more madness and mayhem in Palm Springs, California!  So what do Peruvian Priestesses, lesbian stunt doubles, drag queen botanists, Zen gardens, cannabis-laced brownies, and S&M ABBA clogs have to do with each other?  They're all part of a new Brian and Stéphane adventure! News Flash!  There's been a spate of crimes in Palm Springs!  A bank has been robbed, and even more heinous-someone has stolen a priceless Donna Reed wig from the Palm Springs Art Museum's movie memorabilia display! An insult to the Palm Springs community! Brian and Stéphane and their wacky friends and neighbors must step into the breach again and save the Palm Springs cultural community. Twilight Manors in Palm Springs-The Strange Case of Donna Reed's Missing Wig is book two in the hilarious Brian and Stéphane series.

Twilight Manors in Palm Springs: The Strange Case of Donna Reed’s Missing Wig - Twilight Manors in Palm Springs, #2

Tell Me About It 3 Continues the Project of Exploring the Lives of Everyday LGBTQ People and Introduces New Questions! Is there a song that lifts your spirits as an LGBTQ person? Did you have a mentor(s) in the LGBTQ community and if so, what did they teach you? What LGBTQ community activity (spiritual, sporting, activism,  volunteer work, etc.) gives you the greatest sense of connection andwhat about that activity is fulfilling? What are your thoughts about the social and cultural assimilation of LGBTQ people? What are the best and worst parts of going out to the bars/clubs? When was the first time you realized you were different? Tell us about the one that got away? Do you experience prejudice in your day-to-day life and if so, what form does it take? What movies or TV shows best capture your funny as well as your serious side? Did you have a religious upbringing and how did (or does) that affect your life as an LGBTQ person?  Were you bullied in school and if so, what form did it take? Have you ever lived with an LGBTQ lover/partner/spouse? If so, what advice would you give to someone about making a live-in relationship work? How did your parents react when you came out to them? Did you have a famous LGBTQ role model who inspired you to come out? When did you first hear about AIDS?  Have you attended a school reunion as an out LGBTQ person and if so, describe the evening? What famous person fanned your desire as a young LGBTQ person and why? As a youth or young adult, was there a place, other than a bar, where you congregated with fellow LGBTQ people? Name three things that are on your LGBTQ bucket list?  We all have stories - sometimes poignant, sometimes entertaining, and usually quite interesting. As historians of LGBTQ life, St Sukie de la Croix and Owen Keehnen, have been recording and collecting the memories, personal experiences, and anecdotes of queer folks for decades. The Tell Me About It series is an extension of their ongoing work. The Tell Me About It series collects personal anecdotes in response to a series of questions. Like its two predecessors, Tell Me About It 3 is full of moving, horrendous, hilarious, and thought-provoking answers by LGBTQ people from across the country and around the globe, capturing a variety of experiences, often revealing more profound similarities. Tell Me About It 3 offers glimpses of what makes us different, who we are, what we share, and where we fit in.

Tell Me About It 3: LGBTQ Secrets, Confessions, and Life Stories - Tell Me About It

On September 16, 1951, Darryl Michael Vincent, a fairy boy-child, fell out of a badger hole in Midford Woods. He grew up in a prefabricated house with his mother, Doreen, his father, Stanley, and a red butterfly called Karl Marx.  There was something different about him. Very, very, different. He was a Groucho Marxist. As a Groucho Marxist, formal education was wasted on him. And so, Darryl Michael Vincent was educated in Midford Woods by fairies, the souls of homosexuals long gone from this mortal Earth. He opened books, dived into well-thumbed pages, and swam in a soup of words. In this woodland school, helped by psilocybin mushrooms and opium, he was taught by Oscar Wilde, Virginia Woolf, Rupert Brooke, and other occupants of Midford Woods. Most important of all, Darryl Michael Vincent dipped the ruling class into bowls of custard and left them on the train track for the porcupine waitresses to laugh at.

Memoir Of A Groucho Marxist: A Very British Fairy Tale

We all have stories - sometimes poignant, sometimes entertaining, and usually quite interesting. As historians of LGBTQ life, St Sukie de la Croix and Owen Keehnen, have been recording and collecting the memories, personal experiences, and anecdotes of queer folks for decades. The Tell Me About It series is an extension of their ongoing work. The Tell Me About It series sheds light on the lives, the circumstances, and the reality of LGBTQ people through the sharing of personal anecdotes in response to a series of questions. The results are a prime example of the power and the connection that comes from sharing our stories. Like its predecessor, Tell Me About It 2 is full of moving, horrendous, hilarious, and thought-provoking answers by LGBTQ people from across the country and around the globe, capturing a variety of experience, yet often revealing more profound similarities. Tell Me About It 2 offers glimpses of what makes us different, who we are, what we share, and where we fit in.

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"Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions." ~William Gladstone The year is 1924; the place is Chicago's Towertown, home to the city's Bohemian set. The Clam Sisters, their staff and guests at Palourde Parlor at 35 E. Chestnut Street, are about to have life as they know it turned on its head. When one of the Clam Sisters purchases a rare blue spong from an exotic songbird dealer, the aristocratic sisters find themselves exposed to a flying oddity that leads them to shed their commonplace and staid way of life, for something altogether bold and daring. Chinese tongs, vaudeville shows, fraudulent spiritualists . St Sukie de la Croix's novel is a humorous historical fantasy that showcases the follies of leading a mediocre existence.

The Blue Spong and the Flight from Mediocrity

"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" ~ Poem on the Statue of Liberty, Emma Lazarus Indeed, waves of wretched refuse did wash up on America's shore: the Irish fled the Emerald Isle to escape the potato famine; Jews escaped marauding Cossacks and Russian pogroms; Italian anarchists escaped persecution; the Dutch fled the horror of wearing clogs and growing tulips and British vampires escaped the publication of Bram Stoker's Dracula. In 1897 London, Archibald Constable and Co. published Dracula by the Irish author Bram Stoker. The book portrayed vampires in an unsympathetic light, to say the least. Fearing pogroms, British vampires packed their bags and fled to America, landing at the sweaty buzzing beehive of Ellis Island. In 1924 Chicago, vampires gather at the Vamp-Art Café in Towertown and share stories.

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