Event: Author Ann Bannon at Books Inc!

Date: October 27, 2010
Time: 7PM
Place: Books Inc
1760 4th Street, Berkeley, CA

Ann Bannon: Don't miss her at 7PM October 27

Books Inc
1760 4th Street, Berkeley, CA
“The Queen of Lesbian Pulp” ANN BANNON talks about her Beebo Brinker series.

Check out her interview in ourbiggayborhood.com!

"Little did Bannon know that her stories would become legends, inspiring countless fledgling dykes to flock to the Village, dog-eared copies of her books in hand, to find their own Beebos and Lauras and others who shared the love they dared not name." San Francisco Bay Guardian

Journey to a Woman by Ann Bannon
Paperback: 225 pages
Publisher: Cleis Press (April 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1573441708
ISBN-13: 978-1573441704
Amazon: Journey to a Woman (Lesbian Pulp Fiction)

Dubbed the "Queen of Lesbian Pulp" for her series of landmark novels beginning in 1957, Ann Bannon's work defined lesbian fiction for the pre-Stonewall generation. Following the release of Cleis Press's new editions of Beebo Brinker and Odd Girl Out, Journey to a Woman finds Laura in love amidst the lesbian bohemia of Greenwich Village. This fifth in Cleis Press's series of rereleased lesbian pulp fiction classics features a new introduction by the author.

Event: Author Ann Bannon at Books Inc!

Date: October 27, 2010
Time: 7PM
Place: Books Inc
1760 4th Street, Berkeley, CA

Ann Bannon: Don't miss her at 7PM October 27

Books Inc
1760 4th Street, Berkeley, CA
“The Queen of Lesbian Pulp” ANN BANNON talks about her Beebo Brinker series.

Check out her interview in ourbiggayborhood.com!

"Little did Bannon know that her stories would become legends, inspiring countless fledgling dykes to flock to the Village, dog-eared copies of her books in hand, to find their own Beebos and Lauras and others who shared the love they dared not name." San Francisco Bay Guardian

Journey to a Woman by Ann Bannon
Paperback: 225 pages
Publisher: Cleis Press (April 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1573441708
ISBN-13: 978-1573441704
Amazon: Journey to a Woman (Lesbian Pulp Fiction)

Dubbed the "Queen of Lesbian Pulp" for her series of landmark novels beginning in 1957, Ann Bannon's work defined lesbian fiction for the pre-Stonewall generation. Following the release of Cleis Press's new editions of Beebo Brinker and Odd Girl Out, Journey to a Woman finds Laura in love amidst the lesbian bohemia of Greenwich Village. This fifth in Cleis Press's series of rereleased lesbian pulp fiction classics features a new introduction by the author.

Gemini Art: The male form in its most beautiful and powerful sense

"The concept behind Gemini Art is to represent the male form in its most beautiful an powerful sense. The work I attempt to create should inspire the imagination and sense of fantasy. While much of the work is based on photographic references the artwork doesn't necessarily strive for photographic realism.



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While modern photography has made it possible to capture the literal image of the human form, its precision as a record can't interpret those images in an artistic fashion. It is the eye of an artist who truly admires the beauty and strength of the male form that can transform the subject into its most idealised state.

I hope you will view the work for its artistic merits of line, shape, color and gesture. The male form is highly expressive. The poses created by the artist and model convey a great many emotions and themes. These themes are not intended by the artist or model to be vulgar or distasteful. We hope that any viewer that would look at them in such a way would refrain from viewing the artwork."

http://members.cox.net/gemini_art/index.html

More Artists at my website: http://www.elisarolle.com/, My Ramblings/Art

Rainbow Awards: Official Card

Paul Richmond sent me the work in progress of the special card he is designing for the Rainbow Awards.



Is it beautiful or not? Think that the authors who will receive the Rainbow Awards will be able to show it on their website ;-)

Rainbow Awards: Official Card

Paul Richmond sent me the work in progress of the special card he is designing for the Rainbow Awards.



Is it beautiful or not? Think that the authors who will receive the Rainbow Awards will be able to show it on their website ;-)

For the Heart of Phillip by S.L. Danielson

In a way or the other all three men of this novel have their problem and they are not exactly the hero type.

When the story starts Phillip is 12 years old and he is already full of problem: he is a manic depressive and bipolar, he is under medication and convinced that no one will ever want him, not as a friend let aside as lover. Moreover he is a cronic undecided, he is not able to choose between one thing or the other, between one man and the other, and in the end, he doesn more damage than good.

Andrew is the 10 years old boy who befriends 12 years old Phillip. When they meet, Phillip has just started to realize that he is gay, but Andy is still too young; he sees Phillip as a big brother, his best friend, and he is very jelaous of him. Andy is a bit spoiled, I had the idea that he was a much wished child, and his parents even adopted before having him. When he arrived, his stepbrother was almost an adult, and so Andy grew up like a single child, with all the spoiled attitude of one. Nothing was denied to him, and no one: when he saw the possibility for Phillip to be separated by him, he “decided” that he was gay and that Phillip had to be with him.

Robert is the 16 years old guy same age Phillip met one summer. Gay like Phillip, and virgin like him, it seemed natural for them to be together. But they didn’t consider Andy, and of course Andy didn’t take it very well. In a way, Robert was not a bad guy, but I think he was too much naïve: once he realized that Phillip was not free, and he would never be, he should have let it go. Instead Robert focused on Phillip like he was his only chance at love.

I really don’t understand what Andy and Rob see in Phillip. While I can understand Andy’s fixation, given his past history with Phillip, I think Rob in a way chose to ruin his life. He had even the chance to start over, he found a good man who loved him, but he had always this idea that Phillip was the real love of his life, and sincerely Phillip has never once behaved like a good boyfriend.

On the other hand Andy did everything possible to lure Phillip to him, I think he even seduced him (if I read that part correctly), to then cheating on him as soon as they were finally together. Not only that, Phillip instead of leaving, or asking for a reason, cheated him back. And if someone wants to be finicky, he did that even before the material act, starting to think to another man.

All these ups and downs on the lives of these three men can only be justified by the fact they are really young, and I think also spoiled: all their parents, instead of trying to instill them a little of common sense, were always ready to support them in their mistakes, because they loved them, either because they were worried about the consequences of not to.

http://silverpublishing.info/product_book_info/glbt-contemporary-c-82_53_54/for-the-heart-of-phillip-p-53

Amazon: For the Heart of Phillip

Amazon Kindle: For the Heart of Phillip

Reading List:

http://www.librarything.com/catalog_bottom.php?tag=reading list&view=elisa.rolle

For the Heart of Phillip by S.L. Danielson

In a way or the other all three men of this novel have their problem and they are not exactly the hero type.

When the story starts Phillip is 12 years old and he is already full of problem: he is a manic depressive and bipolar, he is under medication and convinced that no one will ever want him, not as a friend let aside as lover. Moreover he is a cronic undecided, he is not able to choose between one thing or the other, between one man and the other, and in the end, he doesn more damage than good.

Andrew is the 10 years old boy who befriends 12 years old Phillip. When they meet, Phillip has just started to realize that he is gay, but Andy is still too young; he sees Phillip as a big brother, his best friend, and he is very jelaous of him. Andy is a bit spoiled, I had the idea that he was a much wished child, and his parents even adopted before having him. When he arrived, his stepbrother was almost an adult, and so Andy grew up like a single child, with all the spoiled attitude of one. Nothing was denied to him, and no one: when he saw the possibility for Phillip to be separated by him, he “decided” that he was gay and that Phillip had to be with him.

Robert is the 16 years old guy same age Phillip met one summer. Gay like Phillip, and virgin like him, it seemed natural for them to be together. But they didn’t consider Andy, and of course Andy didn’t take it very well. In a way, Robert was not a bad guy, but I think he was too much naïve: once he realized that Phillip was not free, and he would never be, he should have let it go. Instead Robert focused on Phillip like he was his only chance at love.

I really don’t understand what Andy and Rob see in Phillip. While I can understand Andy’s fixation, given his past history with Phillip, I think Rob in a way chose to ruin his life. He had even the chance to start over, he found a good man who loved him, but he had always this idea that Phillip was the real love of his life, and sincerely Phillip has never once behaved like a good boyfriend.

On the other hand Andy did everything possible to lure Phillip to him, I think he even seduced him (if I read that part correctly), to then cheating on him as soon as they were finally together. Not only that, Phillip instead of leaving, or asking for a reason, cheated him back. And if someone wants to be finicky, he did that even before the material act, starting to think to another man.

All these ups and downs on the lives of these three men can only be justified by the fact they are really young, and I think also spoiled: all their parents, instead of trying to instill them a little of common sense, were always ready to support them in their mistakes, because they loved them, either because they were worried about the consequences of not to.

http://silverpublishing.info/product_book_info/glbt-contemporary-c-82_53_54/for-the-heart-of-phillip-p-53

Amazon: For the Heart of Phillip

Amazon Kindle: For the Heart of Phillip

Reading List:

http://www.librarything.com/catalog_bottom.php?tag=reading list&view=elisa.rolle