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Playing Superhero by LGBT Author Hans Hirschi

As a young boy, my brother and I would play super heroes. I’d be the Flash, he’d be Batman. We’d save the world with our combined imaginations. That imagination also helped me write stories from a very young age. I had all but forgotten about it until I recently discovered some old writing from my preteen and teen years.

I also kept diaries. I lost those, however, to a “gay purging” fire after my first coming out at the age of seventeen, a few months before I headed west, to America, as an exc...

National Give OUT Day

Today isNationalGive OUT day.

This is a national campaign designed to raise awareness and funds for local and national LGBT Organizations. As you know, here around the Shire we raise funds by donating 10% of the proceeds from our books to twoorganizationsthat worktirelesslyto get homeless LGBT youth off the streets.

Both of theseorganizationsare taking part in today’s event and you can donate to them at the links below. I would like toparticularly emphasize that you take note of the Lost-n-Foun...

Interview with Filmmaker Michael Morgenstern

WelcomeMichael Morgenstern, Writer and Director of Shabbat Dinner, a short film about gay youth. You can see the film online. It is a pay-what-you-want with 10% of the profits going to the Ali Forney Center which combats LGBT youth homelessness. (See the trailer below.)

Brandon: I really liked your film. Tell us what motivated you to create it.

Michael: Well, I’d been working on a TV pilot for years about growing up gay in Los Angeles at age sixteen. In the nineties, it wasn’t what it’s like no...

Interview with LGBT Author Dick O’Connor

Welcome author Dick O’Connnor to the blog.



Brandon: Poking around your social sites I noted that you’re gritty and raw, just like real life. I like that. Tell us a little something about yourself that we won’t find online.

Dick: I am a former model (I got too old and the binge drinking was hell on my abs) and a wannabe socialite. I’m originally from a desert cow town in Southern California and got into the gay club scene when I was eighteen once my best friend spotted my innocence in a club and...

Author of the Month at QMO Magazine

Authorof theMonthfor May 2013

I’ve been chosen asAuthorof theMonthfor May 2013 over at QMO Magazine. You can visit the LGBT community and read the interview I gave here.

Thanks so much for this honor.

Rejecting Your LGBTQ Child by Sue Brown

This is a special guest post by my friend and fellow author, Sue Brown. She shares my passion, as you can see below. ~B.

Who am I talking to here? Probably not the people who should be reading this. So let me tell you about me. I grew up just outside of London, England. Nice area, nice parents, nice school. Everything just ‘nice’ and ‘normal’. And that’s it. Aside from my mum dying when I was eighteen there was nothing different about my life.

Scroll forward to today and I live about ten miles...

Interview with LGBT Author Lichen Craig

I’m talking with friend and fellow author, Lichen Craig today. Often the interviewer, but rarely the interviewee, I thought it was time we switched the chairs around and found out a little more about her. ~B

Can you tell us a little about your writing background?

I have been writing for many years – nonfiction up until 2012. Sometimes I had other professions at the same time. It all amounts to a lot of experience that helps in setting a scene! I wrote on wildlife, environment, current events, a...

Motivations for Gay Romance – Cold

Today I have an exclusive post over at Scorching Reviews for their 2013 LGBT Fiction Blog Hop. I’m talking about my latest gay romance, Cold and my motivations for creating the characters within that book. Click on over there and check out the post, and don’t forget, there’s a new LGBT author posting every single day in April.

Add Cold to your To Be Read list on Goodreads

Publication Date: May 20, 2013

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My Favorite Book – LGBT Author Alan Chin

Choosing one favorite book out of the seven I’ve written is a daunting task. Each novel was inspired by people and events that mean everything to me. If I had to choose one, however, it would have to be Match Maker, for several reasons.

Book Blurb:

In the four years since being forced off the professional tour for being gay, Daniel Bottega has taught tennis at a second-rate country club. He found a sanctuary to hide from an unkind world, while his lover, Jared Stoderling, fought a losing battle...

Spotlight on an LGBT volunteer and why $12 is important

~ From James Robinson, Executive Director ofGLBT Advocacy & Youth Services(reposted from Facebook.)

Today’s spotlight is on one of our volunteers … Ashley Rossis completing her Master’s in Social Work degree from the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. Ashley first met with me about 9 months ago to discuss the possibility of an internship placement with the agency. I knew there was something special about Ashley when she showed up in December, a month early for her internship placement, and b...