Tommi Avicolli Mecca, ed., Smash the Church, Smash the State! The Early Years of Gay Liberation City Lights, 2009
Forty years to the month after the Stonewall Riots sparked the gay liberation movement, a new volume edited by Tommi Avicolli Mecca remembers the radical activism of the '60s and '70s and assesses the current state of LGBT organizing. Paola Bacchetta's essay recalls her involvement with a lesbian political group in Philadelphia.
Sheila Rowbotham, Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love Verso, 2008
A forerunner of radical politics a century later, Edward Carpenter advocated women's and homosexual liberation, prison reform, free love, health food, recycling, and Eastern mysticism. Sheila Rowbotham talks about the life, times and legacy of the 19th-century gay socialist writer. (Encore presentation.)
Keith Bunin's The Busy World is Hushed at Aurora Theatre
In his new short-story collection The Boat, Nam Le expertly portrays people in difficult circumstances in places like Hiroshima, Tehran, Colombia, and the South China Sea. And in The Busy World is Hushed, playwright Keith Bunin examines faith, family, and the complexity of human relationships.
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