Enlightenment Productions Launches New Book and Movie Downloads
February 11, 2010
In a busy month, independent multi-media company Enlightenment Productions is releasing a host of new products for sale at their site http://www.enlightenment-productions.com.
New Book From Award-Winning Author Shamim Sarif on Special Pre-Order For March Delivery. Wrote the Book, Made the Movie, Raised the Kids, Now the Blog! is the witty and original new hardback from acclaimed [...]
Emily Dickinson’s 21st Century Makeover
February 8, 2010
Emily Dickinson fans… meet Emily Dickinson’s number 1 fan: Jerome Charyn, the author of the new book, The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson. In his work, Charyn has written about Dickinson in her own voice, with all its characteristic modulations that he learned from many years of studying her letters and poems. His goal was [...]
Interview: Kate Clinton Will Make You a Smarter Lesbian
February 1, 2010
A few weeks ago an editor here at Cherry Grrl had the opportunity to interview writer, political humorist, and entertainer, Kate Clinton. Since the conversation took place, that individual has begun reading The New York Times on a daily basis, become addicted to MSNBC, and, most recently, taken an interest in a State of the [...]
Award-Winning LGBT Graphic Novel Miniseries Continues With New Release
January 11, 2010
What happens to a girl with a stolen destiny on her journey to Lesbos? The House of the Muses is a powerful miniseries that explores one possibility behind the 2,500-year-old poems of Sappho.
Pam Harrison is the creator, author, and illustrator of the ground-breaking LGBT miniseries that illuminates the latter days of Sappho of Lesbos for [...]
Mini-Comic Features Lesbian Vignette Among “Casual Encounters”
January 4, 2010
Hot off the presses, the new indy comic “One Night Stand,” written by David Hopkins, is available now at select stores. The mini-comic series (that is the collaborative work of 32 artists) features a collection of one-page stories all about “casual encounters” where sex and intimacy, guilt and anonymity, and risk and fantasy are explored. [...]
Meredith Baxter to Write Memoir Detailing Her Life
December 17, 2009
Meredith Baxter, an acclaimed television, film, and stage actress, producer, and advocate for women’s rights and breast cancer research who recently came out as a lesbian, has reached agreement with Broadway Books, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, to write a candid and revealing memoir of her eventful personal and professional life.
In her book, [...]
New E-Book Addresses LGBTQ Issues in the Education of Healthcare Professionals
November 6, 2009
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins has announced the publication of LGBTQ Cultures: What Health Care Professionals Need to Know About Sexual and Gender Diversity, written by Michele J. Eliason, PhD, Suzanne L Dibble, DNSc, RN, Jeanne DeJoseph, CNM, PhD, and Peggy Chinn, RN, PhD. The book is available online only at www.NursingCenter.com/lgbtq and addresses health care [...]
Fresh Ten Lesbian Themed Banned Books
September 29, 2009
Cherry Grrl recently highlighted Banned Books Week (BBW), which is observed during the last week of September each year. BBW: Celebrating the Freedom to Read, has been taking place since 1982 and is the annual American Library Association (ALA) event that reminds Americans not to take this precious democratic freedom for granted. It will come [...]
LGBT Miniseries “House of the Muses #4” Released
August 21, 2009
Pam Harrison, creator, author and illustrator of the ground-breaking LGBT miniseries which illuminates the latter days of Sappho of Lesbos for the first time ever in a Teen+ format, welcomes the arrival of the fourth book in her nine-issue series, House of the Muses #4: Immortal Lovers.
The latest book in the series launched on IndyPlanet.com [...]
Gay Comic-Con – A View From the Inside
August 10, 2009
BY LYNN GETTMAN
Comic-Con, which took place in San Diego from July 23-26, 2009, is perhaps one of the largest fan supported events in the country. The focus of Comic-Con is the cartoon, anime, and horror industries. Not only do you get an opportunity to go to panels where you can learn the inside scoop on [...]
