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LGBT History Month profile: Pulitzer Prize-winning author Willa Cather
Willa Cather was a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and one of the most prominent American writers of the early 20th century. She is best known for her novels “O Pioneers!” and “My Antonia.”
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LGBT History Month profile: Transgender author Patrick Califia
Patrick Califia is a transgender author of fiction, nonfiction and poetry. His writings explore sexuality and gender identity, and have included lesbian erotica and works about BDSM subculture.
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Openly gay soccer player Robbie Rogers to write memoir
NEW YORK — Robbie Rogers, the first openly gay male athlete to play in a U.S. professional league, has a memoir scheduled to be published next year.
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LGBT History Month profile: Activist and author Joseph Beam
Joseph Beam was a gay rights activist who helped build a black LGBT community in the 1980s. He was the editor of “In the Life,” the first collection of nonfiction works by and about black gay men.
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LGBT History Month profile: Modernist writer Djuna Barnes
Djuna Barnes is a prominent modernist writer known for her experimental style and edgy themes. Born in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York, to a polygamist family, she was inspired to write by her grandmother, a feminist writer and journalist.
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LGBT History Month profile: Cuban author, poet Reinaldo Arenas
Reinaldo Arenas was a Cuban poet, novelist and essayist whose work focused on political and social injustices. He was born into poverty in the Cuban countryside. He wrote his first poems by carving words into tree trunks.
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‘Banned Books Week’ reaffirms ongoing censorship of books about LGBT families
The American Library Association’s annual “Banned Books Week” is underway, and again this year books about LGBT people and their families remain one of the biggest targets of censorship in school classrooms and libraries, according to the American Civil Liberties Union.
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New book attempts to rewrite the history of Matthew Shepard’s life and death
A freelance television producer and writer is claiming that the events leading to the murder of 21-year-old University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard in October of 1998 are substantially incorrect.
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In ‘Raising my Rainbow,’ mom shares story of ‘fabulous, gender creative’ son
For Lori Duron, parenting her younger son C.J. is etched in time as B.B. and A.B. — before Barbie and after Barbie. The 6½-year-old discovered the doll at the back of his mother’s closet about four years ago, and she’s barely left his clutches since.
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Mormon authors back Utah gay writer in dispute with publishing company
SALT LAKE CITY — More than 40 Mormon authors are backing a gay writer in his dispute with a Utah publisher over an author’s autobiographical reference to the writer’s boyfriend.