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The 2007 Gay Pride Month Write-Off
by jps246 | May 30 '07
Show your pride and support your gay, lesbian and bisexual friends and family by taking part in the 2007 Gay Pride Write-Off!

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Re: Better Late than Never? (Reply to this comment)
by jps246
Not a problem! Thanks for the entry!
Jul 10 '07
7:30 am PDT

Better Late than Never? (Reply to this comment)
by dramastef
I'm late, I know, but I wanted to contribute anyways:

http://www.epinions.com/content_386494860932

Thanks!

~Stef
Jul 05 '07
7:38 am PDT

A (Reply to this comment)
by hashal
not-very-inspired review of a novel attempting to inspire hope is my contribution this year: "Cinderfella" at http://www.epinions.com/content_384272993924. It does extend the geographic borders; I just wish it were a better book...
Jun 30 '07
5:35 pm PDT

If not a Big Finish, (Reply to this comment)
by Stephen_Murray
at least a final flurry!

Edmund White's Skinned Alive as Bittersweet auto-fiction
at http://www0.epinions.com/content_384234720900

"Bulgarian Lovers" as "Is it still 'exploitation' if the exploited one has eyes wide open to the dynamics?
at http://www0.epinions.com/content_384252153476

The movie adaptation of Armistead Maupin's The Night Listener
as "A not-uninteresting adaptation of a(n impossible-to-film) book about listening"
at http://www0.epinions.com/content_384252612228

Bart Yates's Leave Myself Behind
as "Multiple mysteries, a haunted house, and puppy love--all in 244 pages"
at http://www0.epinions.com/content_384252874372
bart Yates's second novel The Brothers Bishop
as "Comedies and tragedies on the Connecticut coast"
at http://www0.epinions.com/content_384253202052
Jun 30 '07
4:38 pm PDT

Still not done (Reply to this comment)
by Stephen_Murray
but on a black'n'gay victim-status-refusing roll.

the second season of "Noah's Arc" at
http://www.epinions.com/content_383798906500
Jun 29 '07
6:20 pm PDT

Another proffer (Reply to this comment)
by Ricardo_Ramos
My review of The Rice Queen Diaries by Daniel Gathrop:
www.epinions.com/content_383656038020
(the content filter does not allow including "rcce queens"!?!
Jun 29 '07
12:18 pm PDT

One review, one lengthy essay (Reply to this comment)
by paulsavage
http://www.epinions.com/content_5049262212 (examination of radical religious right scare tactics)
http://www.epinions.com/content_380300463748
review of You Are Not Alone
Jun 28 '07
3:34 pm PDT

and more (Reply to this comment)
by Stephen_Murray
The text of Richard Greenberg's multiple Tony-winning "Take Me Out"
as "Racism, heterosexism, regionalism, and baseball in a heady mix"
at http://www.epinions.com/content_383165435524
Jun 28 '07
11:24 am PDT

Thanks (Reply to this comment)
by jps246
To everyone who has taken part in the write-off so far! There are still a couple of more days left in June, so get those entries in!

Jeff
Jun 28 '07
6:05 am PDT

Glad (Reply to this comment)
by Stephen_Murray
that there's an interruption to the listing of mine!

Onto Isaac Julien's "Young Soul Rebels"
as Sexual and Racial Identities, and Soul Music in E. London, ca. 1977
at http://www.epinions.com/content_382682173060.
It even has a out-and-proud gay couple in it, and a bisexual black woman with a black male and a white female lover.
Jun 27 '07
11:00 am PDT

Here's Mine... (Reply to this comment)
by thevoid99
Tarnation by Jonathan Caouette:

http://www.epinions.com/content_382638853764
Jun 27 '07
9:10 am PDT

Another book (Reply to this comment)
by Stephen_Murray
John Fox's Boys on the Rock
as "Coming out while trying to stop an earlier foreign military misadventure"
at
http://www.epinions.com/content_382382214788
Jun 26 '07
8:03 pm PDT

and again (Reply to this comment)
by Stephen_Murray
the movie "Red Dirt" as "A Southern Gothic movie that doesn't quite work (except in making the audience want to give and take Prozac)
at
http://www.epinions.com/content_378537152132
Jun 19 '07
11:43 am PDT

Back at it (Reply to this comment)
by Stephen_Murray
Nan Boyd's Wide-Open Town (as "Small-scale entrepreneurial capitalism and LGBT San Francisco (1849-1965)" at
http://www.epinions.com/content_377101454980

Lawrence Chua's Gold by the Inch as "I'm special. Surely my prostitute will see that!"
at
http://www.epinions.com/content_377100406404
(though whether any "pride"--as contrasted with arrogance--is involved is dubious!)
Jun 16 '07
9:53 am PDT

Re: Re: question (Reply to this comment)
by jankp
Great! Here it is! Is it fun or what?

http://www99.epinions.com/content_375513976452

Jan
Jun 14 '07
8:56 pm PDT

and still another... (Reply to this comment)
by rkingfish
A book review:

Is Your Cat Gay? Is This Book Necessary?

http://www.epinions.com/content_375985049220

Thanks, Jeff!

Rick
Jun 14 '07
2:19 am PDT

Talking to the Moon by Noel Alumit (Reply to this comment)
by Ricardo_Ramos
www0.epinions.com/content_374278229636
Jun 10 '07
10:42 am PDT

Re: Here's another entry for you. (Reply to this comment)
by jps246
You're not crashing! Thanks for the entry!

Jeff
Jun 10 '07
6:15 am PDT

Re: I'm In... (Reply to this comment)
by jps246
Great - I'm looking forward to seeing your review!

Jeff
Jun 10 '07
6:11 am PDT

Re: question (Reply to this comment)
by jps246
that's cool with me! Look forward to your entry!

Jeff
Jun 10 '07
6:09 am PDT

question (Reply to this comment)
by jankp
I think Antony of Antony and the Johnsons is something like transgendered. I don't know what that means yet, but isn't that included in this celebration? I'll review his CD if that's ok.

Jan
Jun 09 '07
10:50 pm PDT

Here's another entry for you. (Reply to this comment)
by telynor
I hope you don't mind my crashing the party, here's an entry for you:

Tipping the Velvet (film)
http://www.epinions.com/content_374008614532

And here's hoping that you get plenty of entries for the month. -- Telynor
Jun 09 '07
9:08 pm PDT

Here's another... (Reply to this comment)
by rkingfish
a Movie this time...

Gods and Monsters - Sunset Boulevard Redux

http://www.epinions.com/content_373968178820
Jun 09 '07
6:56 pm PDT

I'm In... (Reply to this comment)
by thevoid99
Though I'm doing a Gay/Lesbian Film Marathon at the moment.

My contribution for this w/o will probably come towards the end of the month with the closing film in Jonathan Caouette's Tarnation.
Jun 08 '07
5:58 pm PDT

Here's my first entry, Jeff . . . (Reply to this comment)
by rkingfish
This one's a book:

Joseph Hansen's Brilliance Bestowed As Brandstetter Books Beguile

http://www.epinions.com/content_371683659396

Thanks!

Rick
Jun 05 '07
2:14 am PDT