Product Description

In Colorado, the conservatives are ultra, the liberals are flaming, and the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered population thrives alongside some of the most anti-gay organizations in the country. Now, in Focus on the Fabulous: Colorado GLBT Voices, thirty-three of the state's GLBT writers explore their history, their land, their loves, and their lives in a groundbreaking collection of short fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry that is sure to make readers see Colorado--and its GLBT community--in a new and exciting way. From Amendment 2 to gender reassignment and from PrideFest to prairie sage, the diversity reflects the many facets of Colorado as seen through the eyes of its GLBT resident writers.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #850564 in Books
• Published on: 2007-08-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 167 pages

About the Author
Matt Kailey, a journalist with Out Front Colorado newspaper in Denver, is the author of Just Add Hormones: An Insider's Guide to the Transsexual Experience, a Lambda Literary Award finalist in 2006. His work has appeared in 5280 magazine; I Do, I Don't: Queers on Marriage; From the Inside Out: Radical Gender Transformation, FTM and Beyond; the Journal of Bisexuality; and numerous other publications. He is the winner of the 2003 Poets & Writers, Inc. Writers Exchange Award for fiction. He has also appeared in three films: Matt Kailey: A Conversation; Kaiser Permanente's Our Lives; and the award-winning Call Me Malcolm. He lives in Denver.

Customer Reviews

A well crafted anthology long overdue
Kudos to the publishers and the editor of Focus on the Fabulous. Focus is a well crafted anthology of the voices of the GLBT community in Colorado.

I really liked the book and loved the title. How better to get the community to recognize who we are than to share our stories and reflect on how that flies in the face of the right-wingers in our state? And lets get that straight, (so to speak). This book and these authors make clear that it is OUR state. We live here and we love it here. We recognize the challenges of living here, and we share it with a great diversity of people. That's one of the things that I liked about this book. It doesn't show the GLBT community as only one sided. It has drag queens and trans people. It has young and old, men and women. It lets us identify who we are, not what others want us to be. When you read these stories you get a snapshot of one person's history. This collection begins to craft those individual stories into the history of GLBT people in Colorado.

Matt Kailey is to be congratulated for identifying fine stories and for organizing these stories in a way to make us look for ourselves and our stories.