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New York, NY, April 21, 2007—Women of Choice (WoC), LLC presents “Part Deux…Orchids II Reality or Fantasy” the continuation of unspoken lesbian erotica with a twist.

Beginning our journey as Q&T, LLC now Women of Choice, we signify the choices of life that we as women dare to explore. Our mission is to go beyond the realm of women’s comfort zones and normalcy by providing you with exotic adventures, unexplained pleasures, new and exciting ideas and inexplicable desires. WoC is comprised of women who appreciate the Art of Loving and challenge the Brave at Heart by surrounding ourselves with multi-talented women and men, who are involved with more than just average and crave to be distinctive.

Orchids II Reality or Fantasy is filled with scintillating episodes that force you to envision participation and indulge in gratification. “Orchids I African American Lesbian Erotica One Night Stands” enticed women to want to share their Reality and Fantasy desires which are scattered throughout Orchids II Reality or Fantasy. In addition, each story tempts you with a seductively enticing photo that will warrant shameful thoughts of debauchery.

Our symbol, The Orchid represents the chameleon that lies within each of us; the layers that surround our consciousness; and the beauty of our souls.

Continue to explore the unknown through us and within yourselves.

Copies of Orchids II Reality or Fantasy and Orchids I African American Lesbian Erotica One Night Stands can be obtained via email. ORDER YOUR ADVANCE COPY(IES) NOW!

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RedBone Press is honoring the release of Voices Rising: Celebrating 20 Years of Black Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Writing with a reading/signing by New York City contributors Christopher Adams, Djola Branner, R. Erica Doyle, Renita Martin, Bruce Morrow and Curu Necos-Bloice, and RedBone Press publisher Lisa C. Moore.

The event will be 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 20, 2007 at Columbia University, 413 Dodge Hall, 2960 Broadway at 116th Street, New York City, 10027. (Take the #1 local train to Columbia University/116th Street. Enter through the 116th Street gates, walk left up the stairs; Dodge Hall is to the left at the top of the stairs.)

This event is sponsored by QUART, the Columbia University School of the Arts LGBTQ student organization. Come, bring friends, and yes, buy books!

RedBone Press is honoring the release of Voices Rising: Celebrating 20 Years of Black Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Writing with a reading/signing by New York City contributors Christopher Adams, Djola Branner, R. Erica Doyle, Renita Martin, Bruce Morrow and Curu Necos-Bloice, and RedBone Press publisher Lisa C. Moore.

The event will be 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 20, 2007 at Columbia University, 413 Dodge Hall, 2960 Broadway at 116th Street, New York City, 10027. (Take the #1 local train to Columbia University/116th Street. Enter through the 116th Street gates, walk left up the stairs; Dodge Hall is to the left at the top of the stairs.)

This event is sponsored by QUART, the Columbia University School of the Arts LGBTQ student organization. Come, bring friends, and yes, buy books!

New Stuff This Month

*6 new poems
Comfort Of A Woman by Jaedafynest
Do Not Judge Me by Pussycat
My Passion Cries by JaeB
Rebirth Of This Pen by Chinky
The Position Has Been Filled by Shaylove

*3 new stories
Not Just Another Night by LatiJade
Lets play a game first…

Predikah by Tigress Healy
Do what you gotta do but I’m about to get my freak on!

Wait Until She Gets Home by Rayne 2. Marzett
Is there anything you want me to pick up?

*new Xtasy Tale
Personal Connections

Updated SGL Movie Guide – Version 5.51

So, new Steam Room-Xtasy Tales will be available as part of the message board. This part of the forum “unlocks” sometime soon–Monday or Tuesday of next week.

This time around, in addition to added to stories already there, you will be able to start your own Xtasy Tales. 

Also, whether you want to add to a story or just read one, please read the rules first.

Just Like a Girl: A Manifesta!

The latest offering from GirlChild Press is intended to be a rough and tumble, sassy, wickedly clever, kick-ass anthology.
Where Growing Up Girl: An Anthology of Voices from Marginalized Spaces was a meditation on the state of girlhood; Just Like a Girl is meant to highlight the clever girl, the funny girl, the girls who don’t ask for permission and takes up as much room as they damn well like. She is the girl who knows there is no sin in being born one; and that in spite of all evidence and current belief systems girl/woman does not equal weak.

Said girl doesn’t have to be a super hero, but she has hit a few balls out of the park, cursed out a couple trash talking construction workers, took a few racist, homophobic, misogynistic folks to task.

She’s a feminist. 2nd Wave. 3rd Wave. No Wave.
She’s high maintenance.
She has read the Patriot Act. She understands it.
She recognizes that people’s lives fall apart, but with time and some Elmer’s glue it all works itself out.
She’s an urban girl. A country girl.
She lives in a square state. A blue state. A red state.
She seriously ponders what are the SAT scores of those girls grinding in the music videos. She is the girl in the music video.
She has the perfect plan on how to break up with a boyfriend and how not to lose her cool when her 38 triple D bra snaps in the middle of a cocktail party.
She’s a 25th century girl.
She knows the words to Roberta Flack’s Killing Me Softly.
She secretly pinches her best friend’s bratty three year old.
She is a cashier at WALMART.
She’s the second chair flute in her 8th grade band.
She marches on Washington
She makes fun of vegans
She has 6,000 friends on myspace.com
She still hides the tattoo that she got at senior beach week from her mother – she’s 42.
She writes for herself. She writes for her sister. She writes for the girls still not born.

Think of Just Like a Girl as a travelogue for the bumpy, powerful, action packed world of girlhood.

Tell a secret.
Reveal a lie
Go tell it on the mountain.
You get the point.
So cast a net and see what the day’s catch brings

Submission Details

Deadline: September 30, 2007

The anthology is open to any subject matter.
Work is especially welcomed from new and emerging writers.
Contributors may submit up to three pieces.
Essays and short stories should be no longer than 3,000 words.
Poems should have the contributor’s name on each page
Sci-fi is encouraged!

Electronic Mail
Send your work to girlchildpress@aol.com
Attachments should be titled with your name and the email subject should be Just Like a Girl.

Snail mail
Michelle Sewell
GirlChild Press
PO Box 93
Hyattsville, MD 20781

* Please include a brief bio and a mailing address.

Contributors will receive a copy of the anthology and the opportunity to read at the official Spring 2008 booksigning.

For more information on Michelle Sewell and the press check out www.girlchildpress.com

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The Riverside Church’s Maranatha: Riversiders for LGBT Concerns Sponsors Book Reading About Black Gay Christians

Maranatha: Riversiders for LGBT Concerns, a ministry of The Riverside Church, will sponsor a book reading, panel discussion, signing and reception for a provocative new book, Their Own Receive Them Not, African American Lesbians and Gays in Black Churches by Rev. Dr. Horace L. Griffin on Thursday, May 10, 2007 at the Riverside Church, 7:00 p.m.

Their Own Receive Them Not, nominated as a finalist for the 19th Lambda Literary Awards in the category of LGBTQ Studies, provides a historical overview and critical analysis of the black church and its current engagement with lesbian and gay Christians, and shares ways in which black churches can learn to reach out and confront all types of oppression – not just race – in order to do the work of the black community.

Rev. Dr. Horace L. Griffin, an openly gay African-American Christian pastoral theologian and seminary professor, offers new approaches to understanding scripture and homosexuality through pastoral theology and black liberation theology. An Episcopal priest, Dr. Griffin teaches pastoral theology and is director of field education at The General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church in New York City. Dr. Griffin received his Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University, a M.Div. from Boston University and a B.A. from Morehouse College.

The event will take place at The Riverside Church, on Thursday, May 10, 2007 at 7:00 p.m. in Room 9T. The Riverside Church is located at 91 Claremont, 490 Riverside Drive between 120th and 122nd Streets.

The event is co-sponsored by Gay Men of African Descent (GMAD), Griot Circle, Inc., The Maua Flowers Institute, National Black Justice Coalition, New York State Black Gay Network, LGBT Community Center’s Out and Faithful, Empire State Pride Agenda’s Pride in the Pulpit, Rehoboth Temple Christ Conscious Church, SAGE NYC, Unity Fellowship Church of New Brunswick, NJ, Unity Fellowship Church of Christ.

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ABOUT MARANATHA: RIVERSIDERS FOR LGBT CONCERNS
AND THE RIVERSIDE CHURCH

Maranatha: Riversiders for LGBT Concerns, a ministry of The Riverside Church, is committed to serving God by fostering greater understanding while promoting equity for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer/Questioning people. To these ends, we have organized our ministry to serve, advocate, and support the LGBTQ community.

The Riverside Church is an interdenominational (American Baptist and United Church of Christ), inter-racial and international church in New York City, famous not only for its elaborate, gothic style architecture – which includes the world’s largest carillon – but also as a center for progressive causes. The mission of the Church is to serve God through word and witness; to treat all human beings as sisters and brothers; and to foster responsible stewardship of all God’s creation. The Church commits itself to welcoming all persons, celebrating the diversity found in a congregation broadly inclusive of persons from different backgrounds of race, economic class, religion, culture, ethnicity, gender, age and sexual orientation.

This documentary on the outrageous female fans of ragga – dancehall music was directed by black lesbian filmmaker Inge Blackman. Learn about what she’s been up to lately at BlackmanVision.com.

Contemporary Creative Voices: Black Male Writers Discuss
Masculinity, Hip Hop, and African American Literature
Friday, April 13, 2007 from 7 – 9 pm
Distinctive African American Art and Premier Gallery
357 South 200 East Salt Lake City (north of the City Library and Trax Station)

Bestselling authors, Michael Datcher (Raising Fences: A Black Man’s Love Story), Mel Donalson (Masculinity in the Interracial Buddy Film), Frederick Smith (Down For Whatever), and Jervey Tervalon (Understand This) share the works of African American authors who inspired their literary careers, read previews of their upcoming work, and offer advice to writers aspiring to break into the publishing business.

Event is free. Refreshments served. Books sold. For more
information, contact the Ethnic Studies Program at University of Utah at (801) 581-5206.