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Tired Old Queen at the Movies: Gentlemen’s Agreement
Gregory Peck heads an all star cast in Darryl F Zanuck’s Oscar winning Best Picture of 1947; Elia Kazan’s “Gentlemen’s Agreement”. Based on the bestselling novel by Laura Z Hobson, it deals with the problem of antisemitism just after the World War II. Also in the cast are Dorothy McGuire, John Garfield, Anne Revere, June Havoc and Celeste Holm in the role of the sympathetic reporter that won her an Oscar as Best Supporting Actress. Brilliantly written by Moss Hart, it’s subtly acted, directed and as relevant today as the day it premiered.
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April Featured Author: Joe Cosentino
Author Joe Cosentino Joe Cosentino is as prolific a writer as you’ll likely ever meet. His series include the Nicky and Noah Mysteries, the Jana Lane Mysteries, the Cozzi Cove Series, holiday stories, romances, and a host of audiobooks.
Joe recently released second editions of the first three Nicky and Noah mystery novels. Audiobooks for them(narrated by Michael Gilboe, Chip Hurley, and Brad Enright) are still for sale on Audible, Amazon and iTunes. He also has audiobooks available for The Naked Prince and Other Tales from Fairyland (Dreamspinner Press, Joel Leslie); A Home for the Holidays, Bobby and Paolo’s Holiday Stories Book 1(Dreamspinner Press, Joel Leslie), Cozzi Cove: Bouncing Back, the first Cozzi Cove novel (NineStar Press, Chase Johnson), and Porcelain Doll, the second Jana Lane mystery (The Wild Rose Press, Derick Snow).
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LGBTSr Daily Now Provides News Roundup Every Morning
I’m a news junky. That’s required a serious adjustment at a time when so much content is empty filler. But I try to keep up on the world I’m living in, and now there’s a simple way for readers of this website to do the same: the LGBTSr Daily, on Paper.li. You can read the headlines right here in the right hand column, or surf to the paper itself, with the option to subscribe and get a news roundup every day.
We’re living in chaotic, always-changing times, with a news cycle that spins faster and faster. Weed out the nonsense, turn down the noise, and enjoy a quick, easy-to-read overview with your morning coffee and equality scone.
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Jolly Good Soda Campaign Launches
Watch closely at the ending credits: that’s me listed on the creative team as the writer. Sweet! Literally.
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Q Audiobooks: Inside Dumont, Narrated by Author Michael Craft
Q Audiobooks is a regular feature highlighting audiobooks of interest to the LGBTQ listener.Author, craftsman and master storyteller Michael Craft’s novel, Inside Dumont: A Novel in Stories, was recently released on audiobook, available at Audible, Amazon and iTunes.
Narrated by the author himself, Inside Dumont: A Novel in Stories uses interconnected viewpoints to tell a touching, funny, intricate narrative about lead character Marson Miles’s later-life journey toward discovery—of himself, his desires, and his place in a town called Dumont.
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LGBTSr Celebrates 7 Years with a ‘Thank You’ and A Party Hat!
Seven years ago I posted the very first item here (Survey Focuses on Treatment of Long-Term Care for LGBT Elders). I was a mere 52 years old, a kid with a vision: to create and sustain an online space for the over-50 LGBTQ audience and our friends and allies. After an extended hiatus to do some reimagining of my life (move with my husband to our house in rural New Jersey, check; trade office cubicle for a job at a grocery story, check), the site is back and better than ever.
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The Savvy Senior: How to Choose a Memory Care Unit
By Jim MillerDear Savvy Senior,
My mom has Alzheimer’s disease and has gotten to the point that she can’t live at home any longer. I need to find a good memory care residential unit for her but could use some help. Any suggestions?
Exhausted Daughter
Dear Exhausted,
Choosing a good memory care residential unit for a loved one with Alzheimer’s disease is a very important decision that requires careful evaluation and some homework.
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Gay Travelers Magazine: Philadelphia Hotspots
Photo by Steven Skelley Reprinted with permission from Gay Travelers Magazine
Philadelphia LGBT Hotspots
By Steven Skelley and Thomas Routzong
Where could a traveler go to find unique, revolutionary, historical significance, one of the most influential, big cities of the New World, and some of the best LGBT hotspots in the USA? According to VISIT PHILADELPHIA, all this and more is available in the city of brotherly love.
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Tired Old Queen at the Movies: The Damned Don’t Cry, with Joan Crawford
From Steve Hayes, Tired Old Queen at the Movies
Once again, Joan Crawford wallows in the underworld with some very questionable characters in Vincent Sherman’s “The Damned Don’t Cry,” 1950. Surrounded by a bevy of handsome thugs, that include David Brian, Richard Egan and hunkie Steve Cochran, Joan tries seduces them all with varying degrees of success as she works her way up from cigarette girl to gangsters moll in this quintessential Fabulous Film Noir!
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‘Murder at the Paisley Parrot’ Now Available In Audiobook
It’s all read and done: ‘Murder at the Paisley Parrot’ has just released in audiobook. You can find it now on Audible, Amazon, and coming soon on iTunes. Narrated by Audible Approved narrator Fred Wolinsky, the audiobook brings to life the first book in the Marshall James series. Wolinsky’s steady, experienced narration lets the writing come through and the characters speak for themselves. Listeners will hear the tale of a world-weary man deciding now is the time to talk, to tell a story or three about some murders he was involved in back in the day, Hollywood, 1983. Are you listening? -
‘Murder at the Paisley Parrot’ Receives Stellar Review at The Novel Approach
Mark McNease did a terrific job writing Marshall James’s story. The murder mystery was intriguing and suspenseful and made this a page-turner for me. – Maryann
I knew it was coming, but I didn’t know if it would be negative, positive, or mixed. Imagine my delight at getting a stellar review, calling ‘Murder at the Paisley Parrot’ a page turner. Just the shot in the arm a writer needs now and then. And listen for the audiobook arriving any day now, narrated by the fabulous Fred Wolinsky.
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The Twist Podcast #61: Craigslist Impersonals, 2018 Does 1968, and the Movie Every Gay Kid Deserves
Join co-hosts Mark McNease and Rick Rose as we take a look at the headlines, the protests of 2018, a requiem for Craigslist, and ‘Love, Simon’, the story every gay kid deserves.Enjoy The Twist on Libsyn, iTunes, SoundCloud, Stitcher, and right here at The Twist Podcast page.
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