by Chris | Nov 5, 2012 | Uncategorized
It’s been four years since I woke up on the Wednesday after Election Day, 2008, to learn that California voters had approved a consitutional amendment to deny marriage rights to same-sex couples. I remember how hollowed-out I felt on that day and the days that...
by Chris | Oct 29, 2012 | Uncategorized
As I was saying last week, I’ve learned that for reading from your work at an open mike, it’s important to put yourself out there. So last Wednesday, at the Magnet event in the Castro, I stepped to the mike and read a passage that included the following...
by Chris | Oct 22, 2012 | Uncategorized
Last Wednesday night, on a night so unseasonably warm that I drank a cold lemonade at an outside café beforehand, I took a turn reading aloud from my work at Smack Dab, the open mike hosted by the inimitable Larry-bob Roberts and Kirk Read and held at Magnet, the...
by Chris | Oct 16, 2012 | Uncategorized
Over the next few weeks I’ll be sharing a few of my favorite details from “You Are Here,” and I can’t think of a better way to start than the novel’s beginning, where the hero, Peter Bankston, who works the register at a fictional coffee...
by Chris | Oct 9, 2012 | Uncategorized
I just wanted to extend a warm thank-you to everyone who stopped by my ironing board at the Temescal Art Hop last Friday night. (I got word from my husband that the lead actor from “Entourage” was there, but I never saw him.) I had gone into the...
by Chris | Sep 30, 2012 | Uncategorized
Although I wrote the first draft of You Are Here in the late 1990s, I didn’t really kick my writing into full gear until 2008-2009, the novel’s final time setting. As any good gay marriage historian knows, 2008 is the year that a slim majority of...
