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March 30, 2013
What's a Booty Bong; "Cherry Soda Cowboy" Release Day
The past two days I've spent going back and forth with an editor at Riverdalebooks.com discussing edits for my upcoming erotic gay romance, "Fangters." And sometimes these discussions can get amusing, with regard to erotic romance, if the editor isn't familiar with me. This time a few interesting questions came up, one of which was "What's a booty bong?"
To be perfectly honest, I wouldn't have known what the hell a booty bong was if I hadn't heard it mentioned on the TV show "Shameless," a few...
March 29, 2013
America Ready for Gay Marriage; Free Excerpt; The Virgin Billionaire's Littlest Angel
Here's another post about Freedom to Marry, an organization I've talked about before. I'm on their mailing list, and I pass on the info from my inbox as I get it for those who aren't familiar with them. This time they get into whether or not America seems ready for Gay marriage.
Even before the SCOTUS hearings this week, I've been seeing studies and articles about how things are changing in America and how even some of the most unlikely are now thinking differently about gay marriage. I...
New Orleans Gay Easter Parade; BBC Compares Gay to Christ; Gay Easter Atlanta: Priest Banned in Austria
I'm not sure how much blogging I'll do this weekend because we are hosting about fifteen people on Sunday for Easter, but I did want to put up some things that I thought looked interesting for (or about) Easter Weekend...one of which is the Gay Easter Parade in New Orleans.
Gay Easter Parade presents the "4th annual Bunnies in The Big Easy: Put the Good Back in Friday," March 29, 7-10pm. This year the party will be hosted at Bourbon Vieux, 501 Bourbon Street. Advance tickets are $35, and...
March 28, 2013
Darren Moss Full Frontal Nudity; Free Excerpt "Fangsters"
In keeping with my blog posts about double standards when it comes to male full frontal nudity in films, here's a link to one with Darren Moss. It's from a film titled, X: Night of Vengeance, and I don't know anything about it. But the clip to which I've linked shows a fully nude Darren Moss standing in the middle of a group of women about to have sex with another woman. It's actually somewhat explicit, and you'll have to turn off the age setting on the web page in order to view it. But...
March 27, 2013
SCOTUS Gay Marriage Day 2; Free Excerpt; Online Newspapers Charge for Content
In the 1990's the US Government defined marriage as between one man and one woman and called it Defense of Marriage Act, or DOMA. This came as a result of many things I won't get into now. But today, many years later, SCOTUS is hearing arguments against DOMA, and they will rule in June.
One of the reasons this is so important to gay couples is this:
The DOMA challenge was brought by Edie Windsor, an 83-year-old woman from New York who married Thea Clara Spyer in 2007. After Spyer...
March 26, 2013
Ten Dem Senators Who Won't Back Gay Marriage
In scouting articles about this week's hearings with SCOTUS and gay marriage, I found this interesting article about ten senators who are democrats who won't back gay marriage.
Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.) backs civil unions but not gay marriage.
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) continues to back DOMA, in addition to opposing same-sex marriage.
Sen. Kay Hagan (D-N.C.) has not publicly come out in support of marriage equality, although she did oppose North Carolina's constitutional ban on sa...
Zeke Emanuel's Book; SCOTUS on Gay Marriage; Amanda Knox and Double Jeopardy
In Time Magazine there's a question and answer at the back of each issue, and this past week it was with Zeke Emanuel who speaks about his book, Brothers Emanuel, growing up in Chicago, and his life with his brothers, Ari and Rahm.
For those who don't know, Zeke Emanuel is a brilliant medical doctor who teaches at University of Pennsylvania. It's one of the best in the country. I take a very good friend there every three months who sees Dr. Jay Kostman, another brilliant doctor. And we f...
March 25, 2013
New Book Cover: Fangsters; Hannah on "Girls" Gets E-book Deal; CBS Sunday Morning Barbie Porn
Here's the preview cover for my new book, Fangsters, that's being published with Riverdaleave.com books on April 30th. I've posted about this here. And I'll post more info with excerpts as I get it back in coming weeks. Here's the book description:
When organized crime meets the underworld of the living dead, it creates endless possibilities for intrigue and passion. Combine that with a traditional old vampire clan from Sicily trying to mainstream with humans in northern New Jersey as bus...
March 24, 2013
The Great Gay Novel
I had a discussion this weekend with a friend about a blog post where a gay author stated he's still waiting for the great gay novel. It's all subjective; it's all personal taste. But it stunned me a little because I've read "great" gay novels I thought were not only great, but are great classic gay novels.
So I did a search and this is what I came up with. I didn't want to list my own favorites, or what I think is the "great" gay novel. I wanted to show that others have taken the t...
March 23, 2013
Focus On Erotic Romance CBS Sunday Morning; Cherry Soda Cowboy Cover
On Sunday, Charles Osgood will focus on erotic romance novels and e-publisher Ellora's Cave, on the TV show CBS Sunday morning.
Correspondent Bill Geist goes under the covers for a report on the boom in steamy erotic romance novels, where e-readers are helping drive sales, for the "The Money Issue" of CBS SUNDAY MORNING WITH Charles Osgood to be broadcast March 24, 2013 (9:00 AM, ET) on the CBS Television Network.
Geist travels to Texas to speak with Desiree Holt, a 76-year-old grandmother, wh...
