2010 Speakers
Cecilia Tan
Cecilia Tan is the woman Susie Bright called “simply one of the most important writers, editors, and innovators in contemporary American erotic literature.” She is the author of numerous books of short stories and erotic novels, ebooks, and... Read more →
Bernard Cooper
Bernard Cooper has written two collections of memoirs, Maps to Anywhere and Truth Serum, as well as a novel, A Year of Rhymes, and a collection of short stories, Guess Again. His work has appeared in Story, Ploughshares, Harper’s, The Paris Review,... Read more →
Emanuel Xavier
Emanuel Xavier is the author of the poetry collection Americano, the novel Christ Like, and editor of Bullets & Butterflies: queer spoken word poetry and Mariposas: A Modern Anthology of Queer Latino Poetry. He has been featured on Russell Simmons... Read more →
Fiona Zedde
Fiona Zedde is a transplanted Jamaican currently living and working in Atlanta, Georgia. Her work has been published in various anthologies including Best Lesbian Erotica 2004 and 2007, Wicked: Sexy Tales of Legendary Lovers, and Iridescence: Sensuous... Read more →
Jim Grimsley
Jim Grimsley is an award winning playwright and author. His literary fiction includes such novels as My Drowning, Winter Birds, Dream Boy, and Comfort and Joy; his fantasy fiction includes the award winning novels Kirith Kirin and The Ordinary. His... Read more →
Lucy Jane Bledsoe
Lucy Jane Bledsoe is the recipient of the 2009 Sherwood Anderson Prize for Fiction, the 2009 Arts & Letters Fiction Prize, as well as a California Arts Council Fellowship, an American Library Association Stonewall Award, and two National Science... Read more →
Tim Miller
Tim Miller We’re excited to announce that Tim Miller will be performing his new show, Lay of the Land, at the 2010 event. Lay of the Land is Tim Miller’s saucy, sharp-knifed look at the State of the Queer Union during a time of trial! Careening... Read more →
Ann Bannon
Ann Bannon Ann Bannon has been called “The Queen of Lesbian Pulp Fiction” for her landmark “Beebo Brinker Chronicles,” a series of five original paperback novels published by Gold Medal Books in the 1950s and 60s. The books tell... Read more →
Michael Nava
Michael Nava Michael Nava is the author of a seven-volume series of novels featuring a gay Latino criminal defense lawyer, Henry Rios. Published between 1988 and 2000, the Rios novels (The Little Death, Goldenboy, Howtown, The Hidden Law, The Death... Read more →
