Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterYoung people need to come out in their own good time – no matter how many well-meaning people are willing you on to throw off those straight shackles and wrap yourself in the feather boa of gay pride! Tom Allen is a good example of this and as we skip lightly through his memoir, we … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterWriting workshops present a mixed bag. Out of many submissions, a few might be worthwhile. It must be similar to what creative writing professors experience in every seminar or class. The good ones will shine and collecting stories for an anthology gives the editor the leeway to make the cuts. Since this collection comes from … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterThe musician BRANDEN JAMES may seem a tad young to be writing a memoir but having packed a lot into his life so far gets to add author to his list of talents as he has just releasing his memoir “LYRICS OF MY LIFE”. It covers his growing up in California to evangelical … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterSartorial innovation has become something of a trademark, even a cliché or stereotype, of the (in)famous ‘homosexual sensibility’ (think Queer Eye). In Susan Sontag’s 1964 essay, ‘Notes on Camp’, she writes: “A sensibility (as distinct from an idea) is one of the hardest things to talk about.” Better, perhaps, to show rather than tell, … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterJacaranda Books recently won UK Regional Small Press of the Year, and if all their output is of the very high standard of quality to be found in this wonderful novel, they very much deserved to win. Shola von Reinhold’s debut is a joy, a gem of a novel, as lustrous and multi-hued as the … Continue reading
