Portland Queer - Tales of the Rose City Edited By Ariel Gore At once a love letter to the Rose City and a dream of escape, the first-person narratives of Portland Queer reveal the contradictions and commonalities of life in one of the world’s great queer meccas. A waiter falls in love with a straight guy from the café next door. A young dyke discovers gay karaoke at the Silverado. A pregnant man prepares for new life transitions. An ambitious teenager finds her tribe at St. Mary’s Academy. A closet-case is confronted by his wife. And a video-game addict takes a chance on love. “As rough-hewn and gorgeous as the city that inspired it, this anthology breaks queer ground as it shows us that everywhere is Portland — but Portland is its own special place, home to queers seeking and finding home, from the city itself to each others’ arms.” —Daphne Gottlieb, author of Kissing Dead Girls Lit Star Press Memoir/Fiction/Gay and Lesbian ISBN 10: 1-934620-65-3 ISBN 13: 978-1-934620-65-6 Distributed by Microcosm microcosmpublishing.com $15.95 Contributors to Portland Queer include: Dexter Flowers, sts, Kathleen Bryson, Colleen Siviter, David Ciminello, Tony Longshanks LeTigre, Michael Sage Ricci, Annie Murphy, Sarah Gottesdiener, Jacob Anderson-Minshall, Gabrielle Rivera, David Oates, Donal Mosher, J.T. Neel, Marc Acito, Christa Orth, Sarah Dougher, Nicole Vaicunas, Jacqueline Raphael, Lois Leveen, Megan Kruse, Stevie Anntonym, Wayne Gregory, and Tom Spanbauer EVENTS In Portland, Oregon and New York, New York Most events hosted by Ariel Gore Broadway Books - NE Portland - Monday, June 8, 7 p.m. Get Directions Featuring: Tom Spanbauer Michael Sage Ricci Colleen Siviter Dexter Flowers Reading Frenzy – Downtown Portland – Tuesday June 16, 7 p.m. Get Directions Featuring: Lois Leveen Michael Sage Ricci Jacqueline Raphael Nicole Vaicunas In Other Words – NE Portland – Tuesday, June 23, 7 p.m. Get Directions Featuring: sts Jacob Anderson-Minshall J.T. Neel Megan Kruse Bluestockings – New York, lower east side – Wednesday, June 24, 7 p.m. Get Directions Featuring: Christa Orth Gabrielle Rivera David Ciminello Stevie Anntonym Powell’s City of Books on Burnside – Downtown Portland – Tuesday, June 30, 7:30 p.m. Get Directions Featuring: Sarah Dougher Wayne Gregory Dexter Flowers Donal Mosher Q Literati! – Q Center – SE Portland – Wednesday, July 8, 7 p.m. Get Directions Featuring: Nicole Vaicunas Jacob Anderson-Minshall David Oates Lois Leveen © 2009 Lit Star Press