SEAN BUMGARNER
SPANK ZINE RELEASE PARTY
New York City nightlife and art zine comes to San Francisco. Tap into the underground gay nightlife culture journal and explore a diverse network of talented artists and performers. The creators of the zine will be throwing their West Coast launch with Djs and live figure drawing. Come be apart of the party and get your hands on the only place in San Francisco to get a copy of Spank. http://spankzine.wordpress.com/
MONDAY MAY 4TH @ 7:30 PM
JON GINOLI
DEFLOWERED: MY LIFE IN PANSY DIVISION
"We're the buttfuckers of rock-and-roll, We want to sock it to your hole!" With these words written in a notebook, Jon Ginoli sets off on a journey of self-discovery and musical passion to become the founding member of Pansy Division, the first out and proud queercore punk rock band to hit the semi-big time. Set against the changing decades of music, we follow the band from their inception in San Francisco, to their search for a music label and a permanent drummer to their current status as indie rock icons. We see the highs—touring with Green Day—and the lows—homophobic fans—of striving for acceptance and success in the world of rock. Replete with the requisite tales of sex, drugs, groupies, band fights and label battles, this rollicking memoir is also an impassioned account of staying true to the artistic vision of queer rock'n'roll.
TUESDAY MAY 5TH @ 7:30 PM
MARK JENKINS
WATERMARK
His eye for masterful compositions and lighting leads collectors and critics to drawing strong comparisons to Robert Mapplethorpe. Sensually Pleasing from cover to cover. This photo journal packs a wallop . Jenkins' works here are stunning to the eye and soul. This work epitomizes his unique style and pure clarity of photography .This journal is a collection of truly unique and beautiful male imagery.
THURSDAY MAY 7TH @ 7:30 PM
PHIL POLIZATTO
HUNGA DUNGA
Giacco Giordano is insane! He has organic brain damage from too much LSD. He's harmless, but incurable. The State awards him a paltry stipend, but enough to contribute to the communal coffers of Hunga Dunga and to pursue enlightenment on a grand scale. This is Giacco's story about that brief but unforgettable time in our history when fl ower children were sure peace and love would guide the planet. It was only a matter of time. Or so they thought. What happened? Giacco would like to remind you. Time is running out. HUNGA DUNGA is often holy, often horny. Sometimes saintly, sometimes sexually explicit. From New York to Los Angeles, Lovelock to Woodstock, Tucson to Prince George, San Francisco to Twisp, and an amazing journey around the world in search of The Guru. You are in for some very strange rides. If you are lucky, you may just find the secret to god-realization. But make sure you are sitting under a blanket. .,."this is damned good stuff! Superlative dialogue. Written with a comfort and assuredness that vacuumed me into that world. Excellent, amusing and poignant..." - Colonel, Retired, U.S. Army Donald McRae, author of Montana Gold and Conflict of Interest "Polizatto had given the world an amazing (and accurate) picture of that very special time in history. He's woven such a sweet and beautiful story in such a conversational manner, that all the intellectual references gently drip like honey so that anyone can partake in the feast." - Lee Balan, author of Exhumations and Alien Journal .,."this book is defi nitely Kerouacian in it's scope, both on the human (cast of characters - and what characters!) and geographical scale. For those who have ears to hear, Hunga Dunga is areminder of some of our deepest and hardest won truths." - Randolph Maxted, publisher, The Intriguist Literary and Arts Magazine PHIL POLIZATTO attended a very reputable university and graduated reputably. He has been a feature writer for the overseas division of UPI, a copywriter for CBS, and an award-winning corporate film producer. He wrote the score, lyrics and book for the musical, Pokin' Around! and immortalized the music of Cowboy Bob in the unforgettable CD, Cowboy Bob: The Morbid Years. Mr. Polizatto is a published poet and a regular contributor to a popular arts and literary journal. Hunga Dunga is his first novel.
SUNDAY MAY 10TH @ 3:00PM
DUSTIN LANCE BLACK
MILK: THE PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY AND MILK: THE SHOOTING SCRIPT.
Oscar winner Dustin Lance Black comes back to the place where the story began. This official illustrated companion book features oral histories, archival photographs, behind-the-scenes stills, and the story of the new Focus Features film directed by Gus Van Sant (Good Will Hunting, My Own Private Idaho), starring Academy Award winner Sean Penn (Mystic River, Dead Man Walking) as gay-rights icon Harvey Milk.
SATURDAY MAY 30TH @ 2:30PM
KATE CLINTON
I TOLD YOU SO
I Told You So is a hilarious, bittersweet, and politically acute survival guide. In collected columns and routines, Kate Clinton gleefully details personal coping techniques tested over a lifetime. They’re perfectly suited for political and cultural upheaval: wildcatting for democracy, curbing your cynicism, and changing the climate. Read them and you’ll never be voted off the island.
Clinton’s new collection spans refreshingly disparate topics: sexual hypocrisy and gay marriage; girls gone wild and boys gone to war; Hillary Clinton and U.S. politics; Obama props and prop hates; baptism and waterboarding, as well as intelligent design, families of choice, and even bee colony collapses. With intriguing titles such as “The Sistine Shusher,” “Lights out on Bush,” and “The Closet and the Confessional,” the essays in the book are classic Clinton—provocative, thoughtful, and edgy.
As a humorist for over twenty-five years, Clinton believes that making light—light enough to see and light enough to move—is what sustains us. What unites the essays is a Möbius strip of humor intended not to dissipate outrage but rather to motivate action.
“I Told You So is true, terrifying, and coffee-out-your-nose funny. I love Kate Clinton. Buy the book, or I’ll sic the NSA on your ass.”
—Rachel Maddow
“A hilarious, jam-packed and fun-filled collection of thoughts from the mind of an American original.”
—Lily Tomlin
“Kate Clinton makes our world bigger by sharing hers. With her laser beam wit, she offers up a series of bittersweet, twisted, tart and tangy, honest and from the heart essays. I enjoyed every minute of viewing the world through her eyes. All that and she is funny.”
—Lewis Black, The Daily Show
“Quick-witted, clear-spoken . . . She has developed a bizarrely logical, seemingly free-associating style of delivery that . . . had this critic in tears from laughing so hard.”
—Ben Brantley, New York Times
“Clinton rattles off policy issues and political hot potatoes like a Beltway insider.”
—Los Angeles Times
“Easily as sharp as top political bananas Jon Stewart and Bill Maher.”
—The Advocate
“Funny lesbian Kate Clinton’s book of vignettes, “I Told You So” (May), throws just as many ingredients into the pot — she riffs on Hillary Clinton and waterboarding, baptism and Provincetown — but comedic license and her own wicked sense of humor, allow Clinton a kind of thematic ADD that fiction would not afford.”
—Washington Blade
"Clinton proves in these essays—which cover topics from the inherent lesbianism of Sex and the City to three-dimensional thesauri—that she still ranks among the sharpest, funniest working comedians."
—Ms.
MONDAY JUNE 3RD @ 7:30PM
MICHAEL THOMAS FORD
WHAT WE REMEMBER
Michael Thomas Ford writes, "This novel is a bit of a departure for me. It's a mystery of sorts, about a family who seven years before the book opens were shaken by what they believe to be the suicide of the father. Now they find that he was actually murdered. By whom and why form the core of the novel. But really it's about the secrets we keep and how we often go to great lengths to maintain the appearance of normalcy."
"Ford provides each character’s views and recollections with a drop-by-drop craftsmanship that makes the book blaze by. But this isn’t simply an exhibition of Ford’s storytelling skill: "What We Remember," true to its title, is also an examination of the layered, multiple meanings of moments, both as we live them and as we look back at them to make sense of where we’ve been. The expert plotting defies prediction, keeping the reader guessing until the moment Ford chooses to deploy a final volley of shocks and revelations, but it’s the book’s deeper meanings that will stick with you later on."--Killian Melloy
