I've gotten two new stories submitted and my new lesbian erotica collections for Queen of Swords Press, my new publishing venture, are in progress and due to be released later on this year.
With all that in mind, I'm opening back up to guest blog submissions for posts focussed on F/F, queer women and/or lesbian erotica and erotic romance post. Got a new book coming out or a event title to plug? Contact me for details.
Queen of Swords is still gearing up, but you can connect with us on Twitter at @qospress and Facebook. Mailing List will be up and ready soon.
Monday, January 16, 2017
Tuesday, August 2, 2016
It's Give Out Day!
Today's the day to give to one or more of your favorite LGBTQ+ nonprofits! Check out the website for some great options and help queer nonprofits grow and better serve their communities. https://www.giveoutday.org/c/GO/
Wednesday, July 6, 2016
Friday, July 1, 2016
#Prideorgs - Celebrating and Supporting LGBTQ+ Organizations Part 2
See yesterday's post for the first part
of the list. As noted there, I picked three LGBTQ organizations a day
to plug; it's not an exhaustive list by any means, but I tried for a
broad range of topics and for organizations that are less high profile
and/or which are doing good work for folks who are otherwise not in the
spotlight. Hope that this proves useful!
Aging
#prideorgs #24 SAGE@sageusa - national organization providing support and advocacy for LGBTQ elders - http://www.sageusa.org-
#prideorgs #25 National Center on LGBT Aging@lgbtagingcntr - technical assistance and training for caregivers, etc. http://www.lgbtagingcenter.org -
#prideorgs #26 Zami Nobla@ZAMINOBLA support and programs for black lesbians and queer women on aging - http://www.zaminobla.org
Living with Disabilities
#prideorgs #27 Rainbow Alliance for the Deaf - Advocacy, support, biennial conference - http://www.deafrad.org-
#prideorgs #28 Blind LGBT Pride@blindprideintl - Advocacy, networking, support, conference - http://blindlgbtpride.org #prideorgs #29 Disability Visibility Project@DisVisibility - oral histories, social media campaigns,#CripTheVote - https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com
Suicide Counseling and Prevention
#prideorgs #30 The Trevor Project@TrevorProject - crisis intervention and suicide prevention for LGBTQ youth http://www.thetrevorproject.org-
#prideorgs #31 Trans Lifeline@Translifeline - support hotline for trans folks -http://www.translifeline.org -
#prideorgs #32 GLBT National Helpline@glbtNatlHelpCtr: coming out, family counseling, local resource referral, etc. http://www.glbthotline.org
Writing While Queer
#prideorgs #33 Outwrite@OutWriteDC - LGBTQ writers' festival in Washington, D.C.. http://thedccenter.org/outwritedc/-
#prideorgs #34 GCLS@goldencrownls - promoting lesbian lit, annual conference, awards, writing programs - http://www.goldencrown.org/?page=AboutUs -
#prideorgs #35 Lambda Literary@LambdaLiterary - website featuring reviews and essays, annual awards- http://www.lambdaliterary.org/
Native American Two Spirit and LGBTQ+
#Prideorgs #36 NativeOut@nativeout - resources for and about Native American Two Spirit people - http://nativeout.com-
#prideorgs #37 Dancing to the Eagle Spirit Society - Canada, healing/empowerment of Two Spirit aboriginal people - http://www.dancingtoeaglespiritsociety.org - #prideorgs #38 Transformative Media Project
@tmorganizers - media organizing projects, incl. Two Spirit and LGBTQ - https://www.alliedmedia.org/tmo
Refugees
#prideorgs #39 Rainbow Welcome Initiative of@heartlandhelps - LGBTQ refugee resettlement and support -#refugees http://www.rainbowwelcome.org-
#prideorgs#refugees #40 Alturi@AlturiOrg - international LGBTQ rights, refugee support - http://www.alturi.org -
#prideorgs#refugees #41 LGBT Freedom and Asylum Network@lgbt_fan - support for asylum seekers - http://www.lgbt-fan.org
Religion and Humanism
#prideorgs #42 Muslim Alliance for Sexual and Gender Diversity@TheMASGD - support and networking - http://www.muslimalliance.org-
#prideorgs #43 Institute for Welcoming Resources@ShowerofStoles - welcoming Christian and Jewish congregations - http://www.welcomingresources.org -
#prideorgs #44 LGBTQ Humanist Alliance@LGBTQHumanists - resources/community for LGBTQ+ humanists and allies - http://lgbthumanists.org
Some Regional Organizations that Could Really Use a Hand
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#prideorgs #45 Equality Mississippi@EqualityMiss - advocacy and support - http://www.equalitymississippi.org/about/ -
#prideorgs #46 Equality North Carolina@equalitync - lobbying, advocacy and support - http://equalitync.org/who/mission/ -
#prideorgs #47 Tennessee Equality Project@tnequality - education and legal and political - advocacy http://tnep.nationbuilder.com
Finishing out the list with theaters, because I love live theater and everybody should get to see themselves on stage:
#prideorgs #48 Split Britches@Split_Britches - lesbian theater company active for over 30 years - splitbritches.wordpress.com/about/#prideorgs #49 Gadfly Theatre Company@GadflyTheatre - new plays by/about LGBTQ+ people - http://www.gadflytheatre.org#prideorgs #50 Pride Films and Plays@PrideFilmsPlays - LGBT-themed plays, performance, films - pridefilmsandplays.com/
#Prideorgs - Celebrating and Supporting LGBTQ+ Organizations - Part 1
I'd been thinking about this project for Pride Month anyway, but Orlando made it feel a lot more necessary. As a rule, most nonprofit and/or advocacy organizations that focus on LGBTQ+ people are generally underfunded and understaffed. They don't have the resources to deal with huge demands, like the aftermath of a massacre or fighting the continuing onslaught of bathroom bills or equivalent disasters. They operate on a shoestring to support everything from suicide counseling to coming out to refugee assistance to legal aid to training the next generation of LGBTQ folks to be elected to public office. My hope is that people will donate where they can, volunteer and otherwise support these groups and others like them. I started this on June 14th and will be wrapping up on June 30th, but I thought I'd start compiling the list out here. I've been boosting 3 organizations a day which provide some sort of support to LGBTQ+ folks. Each three are more or less thematically linked, at last in my head. If you follow me on Twitter (@clundoff), you can follow along daily on the #prideorgs, but you can also see the list on a browser without logging in. It is U.S.-focused but there are some Canadian and international organizations included as well. Most site have additional resources and links to other groups.
Onsite assistance to Orlando shooting victims, their loved ones and their communities.
- #1 Equality Florida
@equalityfl Advocacy, education, outreach. http://www.eqfl.org/news/pulse - #2 The Center
@Center_Orlando - LGBT Center for Central FL - counseling, support groups http://www.thecenterorlando.org - #3.Unity Coalition
@unitycoalition Advocacy, services, social events for FL LGBTQ Latinos/as/x http://www.unitycoalition.org
- #4 Lambda Legal
@LambdaLegal legal advocacy since 1973 - employment discrimination, civil rights, marriage equality www.lambdalegal.org/about-us - #5 National Center for Lesbian Rights @NCLR - legal advocacy and policy creation to support the whole rainbow http://www.nclrights.org
- #6 Transgender Law Center
@TransLawCenter - Legal advocacy, policy, immigration issues, employment, etc. http://transgenderlawcenter.org/about
- #7 Third Wave Fund
@3Wave - funding grassroots activism by young queer activists http://thirdwavefund.org/index.html - #8 Horizons Foundation
@horizonsfdn - funding for community organizations, GiveOutDay sponsor www.horizonsfoundation.org/s/about/ - #9 Pfund Foundation
@PFundFoundation - funding for multicultural LGBTQ org and arts in the Midwest pfundfoundation.org/
LGBTQ Archives and Libraries
- #10 U of MN Tretter Collection is one of the largest LGBTQ+ archives in the world https://www.lib.umn.edu/tretter
- #11 Quatrefoil Library
@Q_Library Lending library, archives, event space - http://www.qlibrary.org - #12 ONE Archives at USC
@ONEarchives - the largest LGBTQ+ collection in the world - http://one.usc.edu
Political Advocacy
- #13 Equality California
@eqca - civil rights fed and state http://www.eqca.org/our-endorsemen - #14 LPAC
@TeamLPAC - PAC focused on promoting the needs of queer women by electing supportive officials teamlpac.com/about-us/ - #15 Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund
@VictoryFund Training and funding for LGBTQ+ candidates https://www.victoryfund.org
- #16 BiNet USA
@BiNetUSA - networking and advocacy for bisexual folks http://www.binetusa.org - #17 National Center for Transgender Equality
@TransEquality - advocacy and support for trans folks http://www.transequality.org - #18 Gender Spectrum
@GenderSpectrum - works to create gender-inclusive support for youth https://www.genderspectrum.org
- #19. Ali Forney Center
@AliForneyCenter - services and advocacy for homeless LGBTQ youth http://www.aliforneycenter.org/about-us/ - #20 True Colors Fund
@TrueColorsFund - advocacy and policy making to end LGBTQ youth homelessness https://truecolorsfund.org - #21 Thrive Youth Center
@ThriveYouthSA - shelter, support and advocacy for quiet homeless youth (TX) www.thriveyouthcenter.com/#!the-project/ceu8
- #22 Audre Lorde Project
@audrelorde - community and activism center for NYC area POC LGBTQ+ folks http://alp.org/about - #23 Trikone
@trikone - International advocacy and support for South Asian LGBTQ+ folks - http://www.trikone.org - #24 Black Girl Dangerous
@BGDblog - multimedia blog for queer and trans POC folks - http://www.blackgirldangerous.org
Monday, June 20, 2016
GCLS Annual Conference
The Golden Crown Literary Society is having its annual lesbian fiction conference in a couple of weeks in Washington, D.C. There'll be panels, talks, readings, the Goldie Awards and other fun stuff. It's definitely worthwhile if you write romance, paranormals, lit fiction, etc. with lesbian characters. And as a two-time Goldie Award winner, my congrats to the nominees and finalists for this year!
Tuesday, June 14, 2016
Pride Month boosting
Like a lot of folks, I'm still reeling from the horrible events in Orlando. I want to do something to help on a larger scale, so I've started a new project on Twitter to boost organizations working with LGBTQ folks in the U.S and internationally.
Details: I've started a project on Twitter that I'd been thinking about already, but which now feels a lot more urgent. Organizations that work with LGBTQ populations tend to be critically underfunded and understaffed. It shouldn't take horrible tragedies for them to get support for education, advocacy and organization they provide. So for the rest of Pride Month, I'm going to be boosting several organizations (not business at this time) a day. Hashtag is #prideorgs and my Twitter is @clundoff for those who want to boost, follow along, etc.
I hope you'll join in!
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