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Redfern’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Redfern’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Redfern Jon Barrett
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August 02, 1984
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The Giddy Death of the Gays & the Strange Demise of Straights
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2015
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Proud Pink Sky
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2023
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Forget Yourself
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2012
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Heiresses of Russ 2014: The Year's Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction
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2014
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Drag Noir
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Threesome: Him, Him, and Me
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2016
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TFF-X: Ten years of The Future Fire
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Flash Fiction Online November 2018
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The Colored Lens: Spring 2022
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A Salon, a Journal, and a Prize
It's been just under two months since my last blog post, and it feels like 40 years of history has happened in the meantime. And as the world continues to spin perilously out of control, I've been doing what we all do to get by: mostly continue on like things are normal, and that our personal accomplishments aren't going to be obliterated in yet another world war. So on that note... onwards and up
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Redfern’s Recent Updates
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Redfern Barrett
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Redfern Barrett
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'Nathan Burgoine's
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Tabletop Tuesday � A Tale of Traitors (Part Two)
"It’s Tuesday again and I’m back with my series of traitorous garbage characters discussion. When I first thought of this as a topic it occurred to me that I have two stories—and maybe a bonus semi-third—from a TTRPG point of view about weaving tra..."
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| From the opening pages of The Demon Equilibrium we're presented with a mystery: why have the two protagonists' memories been wiped, leaving them with little knowledge of who and what they are? First we follow Grace, a gruff magic "source" who's looki ...more | |
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| A brutal and heartfelt account of growing up gay in '80s Scotland, Maggie & Me details Damian Barr's own upbringing with unflinching honesty � all framed by his childhood fantasies of the distant Prime Minister. Class, sexuality, and gender all inter ...more | |
"I LOVED this concept and world building.
There are the characters and their stories, and there are also excerpts from (fictional) pamphlets and news of the locations and the culture, and the way this was done just made my brain so very happy. I could" Read more of this review » |
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"This was an awesome book! It definitely didn't hurt that it was set in Berlin. But it's such a fascinating idea, of a gay haven. Then complicated issues of who gets included, etc."
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The Giddy Death of the Gays & the Strange Demise of Straights
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| I'm really, really pleased to announce that The Giddy Death of the Gays & the Strange Demise of Straights is getting a re-edition from Amble Press! Released May 28, the new version contains updated pronouns, a foreword by me, and an afterword by the ...more | |
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| I'm also published with Amble, and I've been working my way through their other books over the past months. The line-up is generally of excellent quality, but when it comes to Kiss the Scars on the Back of My Neck I can only say... wow. Honestly, I d ...more | |
“As the hours passed, she realised that their work wasn't pointless at all: it was vital to keep going in the face of aggression; to put things back together when others wanted you to fall apart.”
― Proud Pink Sky
― Proud Pink Sky
“Humiliation prickled him while he picked at the fragments of glass, as though an unseen audience had judged his life and found him wanting. Not his circumstances, not his orientation, but him, himself, whole.”
― Proud Pink Sky
― Proud Pink Sky
“What someone thinks about you--even someone as close to you as Gareth--is no reflection of who you are. In fact, there is no who you are. We're different with each person, we change with each circumstance.”
― Proud Pink Sky
― Proud Pink Sky
Topics Mentioning This Author
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| Gay Science Fiction: * GSF group authors | 5 | 364 | May 22, 2017 09:41PM | |
| Queereaders: November/December Group Read Nominations | 70 | 308 | Oct 28, 2017 08:53AM |
“It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.”
― The Diary of a Young Girl
― The Diary of a Young Girl
“What someone thinks about you--even someone as close to you as Gareth--is no reflection of who you are. In fact, there is no who you are. We're different with each person, we change with each circumstance.”
― Proud Pink Sky
― Proud Pink Sky
“Humiliation prickled him while he picked at the fragments of glass, as though an unseen audience had judged his life and found him wanting. Not his circumstances, not his orientation, but him, himself, whole.”
― Proud Pink Sky
― Proud Pink Sky
“...and this smoke is ours too. We savvy better than anyone how hallow it rings when they cackle about love and freedom. We savvy their obsession with dividing everyone into homie and palonie. We savvy how they'll hurt others in the name of family, security, tradition.”
― Proud Pink Sky
― Proud Pink Sky
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— last activity Dec 01, 2018 05:51PM
This is a group for people who are deaf or know sign lanuage.
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— last activity Apr 15, 2025 09:55AM
A safe place to talk about GLBTQ+ fiction, from m/m romance to trans* and queer books. Please note if you are requesting to join, either your profil ...more
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— last activity Oct 18, 2016 07:47PM
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A group for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals and supporters interested in fun and stimulating conversation about books, movies, art, ...more
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— last activity Aug 02, 2013 08:26AM
It comes as no surprise that being LGBT or becoming involved in any sexually alternative lifestyles, promotes all sort of intolerance. We want to le ...more
