As part of my training as a psychologist, I completed pre- and postdoctoral internships. One pre-doc internship was at a student health center at the University of Southern California. The other was at the Gay and Lesbian Community Center in West Los Angeles. One of the post-doc internships was at USC/LAC Child and Adolescent Hospital. […]
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As book bans rise and anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric grows louder, independent queer presses are doing the vital work of keeping our stories alive. While big publishers can pivot away from LGBTQ+ titles when times get tough, queer presses like Rattling Good Yarns Press — and the many others that share our mission — can’t and won’t. We are the community we publish. This season, supporting LGBTQ+ books means more than giving a gift — it means standing up for visibility, creativity, and history itself.
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How a Closet and a Camera Made Me a Better Writer When I let people know I’m a retired military officer, the most common response I get is “Thank you for your service.” That seems to be the reflex. I’m a retired U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel with 24 years under my military belt. Up
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Among the folks I thanked in the acknowledgments page of Boy Wander – A Coming of Age Memoir (Rattling Good Yarns Press, 2023) were the writing groups I was a part of over the years, first in New York, then in Bucks County, PA, and finally online during the pandemic. All of them patiently read
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Whenever someone discovers that I published a collection of short stories, their first question is the obvious, logical one: “What are they about?” Playing the role of Serious Author, my measured, thoughtful response is, “They are about gay men who navigate and survive trauma, sometimes successfully, sometimes not, and often in ways that challenge and
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Dear Reader, The holiday season is here again, and this year, we’re sending you a message different from past years. This year, we ask you to support independent LGBTQ+ presses like Rattling Good Yarns Press. All you have to do is watch or read the news to see how the tone has changed. Book banning
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$28.95 Add to Cart LGBTQ historian, St Sukie de la Croix interviews, author of Chicago Whispers: A History of LGBT Chicago Before Stonewall and the recently released, Chicago After Stonewall: A History of LGBTQ Chicago from Gay Lib to Gay Life, gives us this historical timeline of Chicago Pride Celebrations from 1970 to 1975. 1970
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LGBTQ historian, journalist and novelist, St Sukie de la Croix interviews Gregg Shapiro about his new collection of short stories, How to Whistle: Expanded Edition. Many of your stories in How to Whistle mention music. How important is music to your fiction writing? Music is important to every facet of my writing – fiction, poetry,
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