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Tea Leaves: a memoir of mothers and daughters by Janet Mason (Bella Books April 2012) is now available -- click here for more info

“There is something here for everyone who has ever loved someone else or plans to. I highly recommend “Tea Leaves” just because it is so real and so beautifully written.”–Reviews by Amos Lassen

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read Janet Mason's latest piece in The Huffington Post --Chick-fil-A: What Would Gandhi Do If He Were Gay?



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Re-issue of Lesbian Pulp Odd Girl out and Terry Mutchler's Under This Beautiful Dome

Pride Climbing Higher (stories from Nepal) Maris Gras (photos from Australia) and The Last Conception (novel by Gabriel Constas)

Redeeming the Dream/ All I Love and Know

A Positive View of LGBTQ and Living Out Islam

Trans Bodies, Trans Selves, Stuck In The Middle With You, Raising My Rainbow

Edmund White -- Inside a Pearl

Judith K. Witherow and S. Renee Bess

Giovanni's Room -- a reflection

The Wilde Passions of Dorian Gray, a novel

Foolish Hearts, new gay fiction

Heal This Way and Coming Around

Joan Timberlake and Nicole Brossard

the harder she comes Butch/Femme Erotica Edited by DL King

Harvey Milk is on a stamp

The Sin Warriors -- Julian E. Farris

Notes of a Native Son -- James Baldwin

The Last Nude --Ellis Avery

This Way Out -- Richard Blanco

This Way Out -- Joining the LGBT caretaking club

 

Rhapsody KG MacGregor Bella Books 2012

Shakesqueer: A Queer Companion to the Complete works of Shakespeare

October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shephard by Leslea Newman


Torn Apart: United by Love, Divided by Law by Judy Rickard

Secret Historian The Life and Times of Samuel Steward -- (a new glimpse into the lives of Gertrude and Alice)

In response to the bullying of LGBTQ teens:
The Side Door: A Young Adult Novel

Persistent Voices: Poetry by writers lost to AIDS

Over the Rainbow -- again: Redefining Wicked

the hour between by Sebastian Stuart

Gay TV and remembering Audre Lorde

Harvey Milk -- then and now

A tribute to Toni Brown: radio commentary

Art and Sex in Greenwich Village: Gay Literary Life After Stonewall, by Felice Picano

Pride in the Village: Commentary
James Baldwin & Sol Stein: Native Sons
Walking Higher: Gay men write about the deaths of their mothers (Alexander Renault)
Sappho: a journey

Poetry by Janet Mason-- Sapphics & a woman alone

Poetry by Toni Brown -- The Witch


From Toni's reading in Northampton, Mass, 05
Hair Poems --9.35 MB
Clementine Poems -- 7.58 MB
My Father Poems -- 4.99 MB


 

 

 

October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shephard
by Leslea Newman

Rhapsody KG MacGregor Bella Books 2012

Shakesqueer: A Queer Companion to the Complete works of Shakespeare

Anthony Milano -- victim of the first reported anti gay hate crime

The Lives of Transgender People
Genny Beemyn and Susan Rankin
Transgender 101: a simple guide to a complex issue
Nicholas M. Teich

Jim Cory No Brainer Variations

Sally Bellerose (The Girls Club) and Bett Norris (What's Best for Jane)

In response to the bullying of LGBTQ teens:
The Side Door: A Young Adult Novel

Sexuality and Socialism: History, Politics, and Theory of LGBT Liberation

Persistent Voices: Poetry by Writers Lost to AIDS

Over the Rainbow -- again: Redefining Wicked

Queers in History: the comprehensive encyclopedia of historical gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgenders by Keith Stern

Called Back: My Reply to Cancer, My Return to Life by Mary Cappello

Advanced Elvis Course -- CA Conrad -- All Shook Up

Gay TV and remembering Audre Lorde

CA Conrad, the Book of Frank

Harvey Milk -- then and now

Focus on the Fabulous: Colorado GLBT Voices

Lunar Eclipse #9

Looking for Cover--poems by Maria Fama

Portrait of a Friendship -- in memoriam, Toni Brown

Pride in the Village (LGBT rights in NYC and India)

Jane Bowles: Lesbian Writer

The Sociopath in the Corner Office

Sinister Wisdom...The Grief Issue

Gertrude Stein & Alice B. Toklas: Love Notes

Emily Dickenson -- Open Me Carefully
Jeanette Winterson -- Weight
Anita Cornwell: a friendship
Susan Stinson -- Venus of Chalk
Alexander Renault -- Walking Higher: Gay men write about the deaths of their mothers
CA Conrad -- Deviant Propulsion
Damian McNicholl -- A son called Gabriel
James Baldwin & Sol Stein: Notes of a Nat
ive Son
Who's Sappho?-- a journey
Augusten Burroughs -- Possible Side Effects
The Golden Age of Lesbian Erotica
Djuna Barnes -- Nightwood

Tea Leaves: a memoir of mothers & daughters
by Janet Mason
Hitching To Nirvana -- a novel
by Janet Mason

Tea Leaves: a memoir of mothers and daughters

by Janet Mason

Tea Leaves reviewed by Gordon Wilson on Joy 94.9 (A gay and lesbian radio station in Melbourne, Australia)

Tea Leaves interview with Gordon Wilson, presenter, Joy 94.9 (a gay and lesbian radio station in Melbourne, Australia)

Hitching To Nirvana -- by Janet Mason

a novel of midlife and adolescence --
Now available from Amazon.com (in book format and for the Kindle)

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Click here to read the first place award winning a woman alone poems from Philadelphia Poets 2009

Janet Mason's readings and appearances

Anita Cornwell--writings by & about:

Anita Cornwell on Angela Davis -- Part 1

Anita Cornwell on Angela Davis -- Part 2

Anita Cornwell on Angela Davis -- Part 3

Anita Cornwell interview with Pat Parker--Part 1

Anita Cornwell interview with Pat Parker--Part 2 Commentary
interview with Pat Parker--Part 3 Commentary
interview with Pat Parker--Part 4 Commentary
Commentary on Anita Cornwell by Janet Mason
Excerpt from Black Lesbian in White America
Journal entries -- 1961 - 63 (previously unpublished!)
Highsmith, A Romance of the 1950s

Poetry by Janet Mason--

a woman alone -- takes first place
Sapphics
a woman alone (travels in Greece)
Sapphics for Alexandra Grilikhes
Poetry Books
readings/appearances
Pride Photos NY 08

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Anita Cornwell's landing page

Maria Fama and Jim Cory

Beth Phillips Brown --After What Joan and Janis Said

Anne-Adele Wight--two poems 2010

Karen Mittelman -- two poems 2009

Philadelphia Poets 2009--
Lili Bita and Annie Rachel Lanzillotto

Jim Cory

Richard McMichael

Anne Kaier
Maria Fama - Sappho
Toni Brown -- in memoriam
Mel Brake
Sandy Friedlander
Kathy Anderson

Maralyn Lois Polak
Rosemary Capello

Kelley Jean White, M.D. & Deidra Greenleaf Allan
Sally Bellerose
Al Tacconelli
Cori Gracheck
Alexandra Grilikhes

Kelley Jean White
Maria Fama
Gloria Rohlfs
Alix Dobkin
Anita Cornwell
Kathy Anderson
Lynne Walker
Karen Mittelman
Judith K. Witherow
Toni Brown

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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