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Saints & Sinners 2022

Posted on March 31, 2022March 31, 2022 by gar

Once upon a time, I had plane tickets and lodging reservations for New Orleans to attend the 2020 Saints & Sinners LGBTQ Literary Festival. It was scheduled for March 27 – 29, ending on my birthday. And then, well, we all know what happened next. SAS has held virtual events in light of the pandemic….

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Stonewall’s Echo in “Sin Against the Race”

Posted on June 28, 2019June 28, 2019 by gar

In 1988, I wrote an article for 10 Percent, the former LGBTQ news magazine at UCLA about Christopher Street West. The article also included a bit of history about the Stonewall Rebellion. As I had learned in my Civil Rights History classes, Stonewall did not just up and happen. Stonewall happened in the context of…

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A Reading at Laurel Books

Posted on August 18, 2018August 18, 2018 by gar

I’ll be reading with Perfectly Queer at their last event at Laurel Books, Oakland this coming Wednesday, August 22 at 7pm. Laurel Books will be closing at the end of August, a great loss for the East Bay’s literary community. However, we’ll be celebrating the Oakland landmark in the event “Queer Authors read other Queer…

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gar does DC: OutWrite 2018

Posted on July 19, 2018July 19, 2018 by gar

Excited! I’m attending my first #OutWriteDC conference this year…and I’ll be kept quite busy! I will co-facilitate a panel with legendary poet Philip Robinson entitled The Road Before Us: Black Queer Lit in the Post-Obama Era. Joining us on the panel will be La Toya Hankins, Larry Benjamin, and Cheryl Head. Please join us! Our panel…

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Reading at Saints and Sinners Literary Festival

Posted on March 24, 2018 by gar

This weekend I’m attending, for the first time, the Saints and Sinners Literary Festival in New Orleans. In its 15th year, this gathering of LGBTQ writers has become one of the premier events of the queer literary world. Today, I presented on a panel discussing Queer Fiction as Social Commentary with authors Matthew Griffin, Nick…

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Out in Print: Queer Book Reviews

Posted on February 18, 2018 by gar

Jerry L. Wheeler at Out in Print: Queer Book Reviews has reviewed Sin Against the Race. The site has hundreds of reviews over many years, so I am grateful for the review. “First novels are tough, especially ones that aim to tell a large story. Big stories usually require big casts, which can be difficult for even…

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New Year, New Day, New Books – A reading event

Posted on January 2, 2018January 2, 2018 by gar

Happy New Year! I’ll be reading with the perfectly fabulous Perfectly Queer again, this time in San Francisco. The theme: New Year, New Day, New Books. I’m on the bill with two other recently published authors: Lewis DeSimone and Randall Mann. The store will have copies of my novel Sin Against the Race available for sale. We’ll read,…

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