Melissa Deluca on Equality TV

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I am extraordinarily happy and proud that Melissa Deluca (my cousin) has started a weekly vlog for Equality TV.

Equality TV is a new media venture which provides a platform for alternative voices in entertainment and social commentary. In their words: “Our platform offers a social soapbox for the alternative lifestyles communities and individuals to broadcast themselves in the name of equality.”

Deluca’s vlog “Shades of Grey” features her perspectives on society and politics as an African American, cross-culturally adopted lesbian.

Here’s her weekly segment on the topic of Ann Coulter and the Boston bombings.

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Werecat: The Rearing Cover Reveal!

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I’m so excited to see this project come to life.

The first installment of my paranormal romance series will be coming out from Vagabondage Press on May 28th. The cover art was just finalized.

Werecat: The Rearing is the story of a college senior named Jacks who goes to Montreal for Spring Break, hooks up with a handsome drifter and takes a free fall into the world of feline shapeshifters. The e-novelette will be available for purchase at all the major on-line booksellers (Amazon, Barnes and Noble, etc.) and the publisher’s website.

So here it is…the big reveal. Let me know what you think.

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Kings, Queens and In-Betweens

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My friend Gabrielle Burton is working on a spectacular project to raise awareness of gender expression diversity and human rights.

She’s the director of the documentary “Kings, Queens and In-Betweens,” which profiles the lives of a wide spectrum drag performers in Columbus, Ohio. The film illuminates a vibrant gender-bending community in the small city of Columbus. Produced by Five Sisters Productions, a family-run company which Gabrielle helms, the documentary will be a powerful tool for public education and advocacy regarding transgender rights and LGBT equality initiatives such as marriage equality.

Burton has started a Kickstarter campaign for production and distribution of the film. I made a pledge. Can you? I’ve included the really fun trailer with Burton explaining the film below.

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And here’s a disclosure and a fun fact. Gabrielle was my date to our high school prom. This was well before I came out to her, or myself for that matter. But I guess we were in a sense a high school gender-bending couple. 🙂

 

 

 

Sights and Sounds from Rainbow Book Fair

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This past Saturday’s Rainbow Book Fair was fun and energizing!

I wish I had taken more photos, but here’s one from the Bold Strokes Books exhibit booth. Pictured are Joshua Martino (center), author of Fontana, the story of the first gay sports superstar, and Jennifer Lavoie (right), author of Andy Squared, a contemporary gay YA novel.

(Martino is a rather tall gentleman who I had trouble fitting entirely in the picture 🙂 )

IMG_0287Here’s video of my reading from The Seventh Pleiade. The passage is from an early section of the book where the main character Aerander is looking for his cousin Dam. Dam is a novice priest who went missing with two boys named Koz and Leo on the eve of a sacred festival called the Paneygris. Aerander does some sleuthing after a temple ceremony by trying to talk to Hephad, who is one of Dam’s friends in the priesthood.

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NY Rainbow Book Fair is tomorrow!!

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Rainbow Book FairCome one, come all to the Fifth Annual New York Rainbow Book Fair this Saturday!

The “longest running LGBT book fair in the U.S.,” the Rainbow Book Fair is a great place to find a wide range of LGBT fiction, non-fiction and poetry titles. There will be appearances by Sarah Schulman and Leslea Newman, author panels, readings, exhibit booths and more.

Part of the “and more” is that I will be on an reading panel from 2:30-2:50pm , reading an excerpt from The Seventh Pleiade. Please stop by and say hello. You can also find me at Bold Strokes Books’ exhibit booth from 4:00-5:00pm.