Tuesday, November 24: Bo Dixon in the Flesh (Calendar Signing)

BO DIXON: Reinvented 2010 is the former COLT model's first complete calendar with the thick-bearded, hirsute powerhouse appearing in different characters for every month of the year. Fans can enjoy Football Bo, Wrestling Bo, Leather Bo, Swimsuit Bo, and of course, Birthday-Suit Bo. Bo Dixon has become an icon of masculinity and muscle in the gay/bear community.

Bo Dixon visits A Different Light in an exclusive, intimate, in-the-flesh appearance. You can look and now, you can touch!

CALENDAR: BO DIXON: Reinvented 2010
AUTHOR: Bo Dixon
DATE: Tuesday, November 24
TIME: 7:30 p.m.
LOCATION: A Different Light Bookstore

Thursday, December 10: Renee Jacobs presents her 2010 calendar of female nudes, Provocateur

Award-winning lesbian photographer Renee Jacobs proudly presents the 2010 Provocateur calendar of her female nudes.

An exciting change in this year’s calendar is that it contains a mix of both Jacobs’ award-winning black and white and color images. Jacobs’ 2009 calendar was a bestseller and garnered awards as the best black and white calendar of the year.

Jacobs started as a photojournalist and then practiced civil rights law for fifteen years. Since returning to photography in 2007, Jacobs’ work has won numerous awards, including the prestigious 2008 International Photography Award First Prize for Fine Art Nude. Features on her nude work have appeared in Photicon, Fine Art Photo, FHM Germany, VIP Brazil, Esquire Turkey, Maxim Romania and a host of other international publications. Her work is in numerous private and public collections, hanging beside the work of such celebrated photographers as Jock Sturges, Ruth Bernhard, Edward Weston, Robert Mapplethorpe and Helmut Newton. She has been hailed as “one of America’s most exciting female photographers.”

CALENDAR: Provocateur: Women
PHOTOGRAPHER: Renee Jacobs
DATE: Thursday, December 10
TIME: 7:30 p.m.
LOCATION: A Different Light Bookstore

Monday, December 21: Talk w/ Frederick Hertz (co-author of 'Making It Legal: A Guide to Same-Sex Marriage, Domestic Partnerships & Civil Unions')

When Making It Legal: A Guide to Same-Sex Marriage, Domestic Partnerships & Civil Unions arrived in bookstores this September, it became the most up-to-date guide to the past, present and future of same-sex relationship law.

Authors Frederick Hertz and Emily Doskow, nationally recognized experts on same-sex law with more than 40 years of combined experience counseling gay and lesbian couples, offer a comprehensive overview of the latest laws that apply to same-sex couples from California to Maine and every state in between.

Hertz and Doskow’s years of experience counseling gay and lesbian couples on marriage, divorce, adoption, and other relationship issues has given them real knowledge and insight into the questions that couples need to consider before making the decision to marry or legally partner. The right to marry is a right we all should have, but marriage is simply not for everyone—gay or straight— and for same-sex couples the legal consequences of marriage are even more significant. For example, the authors discuss “The Ugly Gay Divorce” in Chapter 8, which covers some of the unique difficulties faced by same-sex couples ending their relationships.

Making It Legal is an important and timely book. It examines the state of same- sex marriage (and marriage-like statuses) in this country and around the world, it makes a few predictions about the future of marriage equality, and it breaks down the complex and ever-changing rules of relationships, offering practical and timely advice throughout. There’s even a Marriage License Test that uses humor to bring home some critical information about what marriage means and what is consequences can be.

Frederick Hertz is a practicing attorney-mediator whose work focuses on co-ownership relations between friends, lovers, spouses, partners and siblings. He is the coauthor of Nolo’s Living Together: A Legal Guide for Unmarried Couples and A Legal Guide for Lesbian and Gay Couples. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

BOOK: Making It Legal
AUTHOR: Frederick Hertz
DATE: Monday, December 21
TIME: 7:30 p.m.
LOCATION: A Different Light Bookstore