• Drag Queen Story Hour

    Drag Queen Story Hour

    Personally we never usually think about drag queens and children in the same sentence, but maybe we are wrong .  The folk at the Feminist Press think that they have a lot in common : well they both  love dressing up and all things sparkly and fancy! So they have established a popular children’s storytelling series,…

  • I Am Not Your Negro

    I Am Not Your Negro

      When the credits roll on respected Haitian filmmaker Raul Peck’s powerful new documentary you will notice that the screenwriter listed is in fact the late author and social critic James Baldwin himself.  This memoir/semi-biography of this great African/American man of letters which links the ideas of three assassinated leaders uses only prose lifted directly…

  • World AIDS Day : Remembering and giving Hope

    World AIDS Day : Remembering and giving Hope

    Their are many ways to mark this day when we remember all the remarkable people who we have loved and lost to this disease.  Friends and lovers who enriched our lives only to have their own so unfairly taken away from them.  Events will be held around the globe today to help us focus not…

  • The Happys

    The Happys

    When you are young and in love sometimes its hard to see the wood for the trees. In this particular case when 21 year old Tracy (Amanda Bauer) comes home unexpectedly the wood she sees is on her movie star boyfriend Mark (Jack DePew) who is naked and making out with another man in their…