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Election Post Mortem
an Editorial...
Looks like we woke up to a New America this morning. This time with a GW Bush who can claim a legitimate presidency. He not only won the popular vote, but now that John Kerry has conceded the election, there will be no litigations of any importance to contest the vote count. The provisional ballots will not be counted. So it looks like the majority of Americans have made key decisions about what the face of this New America will look like. The war on terror and the war in Iraq are the same thing. Pre-emptive strikes on sovereign countries that might threaten US interests can now be made with our blessings. Apparently most Americans prefer that a growing number of personal liberties be sacrificed for the promise of greater security—despite the warning that those who would give up freedom for security have neither. And we now have four branches of government:
As a gay person, I will continue to act as though I live in a country where I have the freedom of speech, and that the Constitution and the Bill of Rights were created to protect my rights rather than take them away. I will simply ignore any laws that abridge my inalienable human rights. I think that is called civil disobedience. —Ronald L. Donaghe
Las Cruces, NM Why is the makeup of the Supreme Court more important than any other issue of this campaign? Precisely because GW Bush has called for a Constitutional amendment to ban gays from marrying. And here is what we're getting when religion is brought into the argument: Vatican: Gay families = cockroaches No, that’s not an exaggeration: A Vatican official has said that the idea of gay-led families is no different than including cockroaches in a family. It seems the prospect of legalized same-sex marriage in Spain has brought the Vatican to the edge of hysteria. By the Most Reverend Bruce J. Simpson, Benedictine Order of St. John the Beloved |
In
this issue... Adrian Debolt of TGForum.com
reviews William Maltese's Slovakian
Boy
(page 2),
Andrew Barriger, author of Finding Faith and Finding Peace, reviews The
Last Days of Summer (page 3).
Cheri Rosenberg, a regular
contributor to
this
newsletter reviews Lori L. Lake's Gun
Shy (page 4), E. Layne Kelly's Runaway:
A Surviovor (page 4), and Lori
L. Lake's newest anthology, The Milk
of Human Kindness (page 9). I believe that Gene Hayworth's review of C. E.
Gatchalian's Motifs
& Repititions and Other Plays
(page 5) will be the first
time a book
of
plays has been reviewed. This book was a finalist in the Lambda
Literary Awards. And to balance out this review of plays, Jak
Klinikowski gives us another episode in his ongoing soap opera from The
Adventures of Ineeda Willingbottom: "High
Noon in High Heels: Showdown in Roswell" (page6).English writer Jay Mandal gives us two short stories from his ever growing collection: "Love from Mum" (page 7) and a short short story, "The Wedding" (page 7) Jerry Flack reviews two more books this issue, Alex Sanchez' new book So Hard to Say (page 8) and Barbara Kerley's Walt Whitman: Words for America (page 8). One thing I hope readers will notice in Jerry Flack's reviews, and especially of Walt Whitman is the grounding in historical context he applies to this review. Regular reviewer and one of the editors of IGW, John Charles, weighs in with the second in a series Dark Callings II: Inamorata (page 10) by Elizabeth Jewell, with Antonio Marquez' thriller series: The Hunt: Winter in July (page11), Wet Nightmares, Wet Dreams (page 11), edited by Michael Huxley , and Lev Raphael's Tropic of Murder (page 11). One of the most prolific writers and reviewers at work in the glbt scene today, Lori L. Lake reviews Above All Honor (page 12) by Radclyffe and Verda Foster's The Gift (page 12).  And of
course, no Independent Gay Writer
newsletter is complete without
the inimitable rewiews from our man from England, Tony Heyes, who
reviews Elf Child (page 13) by David M.
Pierce and the film "Le Fate Ignoranti" (The
Ignorant Fairies) (page 13)
(2001) DVD, directed by Ferzan
Özpetek. Featured Article... “Play It Again, Sam -- How to Craft a Series” by Radclyffe This was a talk/workshop Radclyffe recently did and she has graciously allowed IGW to reprint the entire presentation in this issue. As writers, we are always aided to have the perspective of a prolific writer. This article will be of special interest to those of us who can't seem to stop writing more stories of our favorite characters. But is there more to series writing than this? Find out...page 14 So we've got another full plate. I know it's The Election, but I hope that you will return to this newsletter once we learn who the leader of the free world is going to be for the next four years! Featured Title...  The Independent Gay
Writer is glad to present Antonio Marquez' 2nd book in The Hunt
series. The Hunt: Winter in July.
Long-time readers of IGW may recall that we presented his first book in
the 12th
issue of the newsletter. But far more than just Antonio's writing
is important here. We're talking about a man who has displayed enormous
courage and heart: Being diagnosed with HIV in December of 1999
sealed his determination to help others with this disease. Donating a
portion of the proceeds is his way of giving back what has been so
graciously given to him. With only a sixth grade formal education his writing
career has spanned over twenty years and several novels. These two are
the first to be published. Write
to Antonio and let him know you have seen his work in this
newsletter. Better yet, order both books. Book
One. Book
Two. |
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