This novel about loss, love and healing is set in San Francisco during the AIDS epidemic: Phoenix Bay, her gay friend Rennie, and his sister Cecile come together to create a family where they feel they belong.
Cartier GG Timmons and Monya Money White were born to teenage mothers who were also best friends. The two young neglectful mothers allowed Moneys alcoholic grandmother to raise their daughters. At 15, GG formed her own crew aptly named the Cartier Cartel. The main and only vision of the crew GG, Money, Bam, Lil Mama, and Shanine was to do petty ...
A collection of travel stories by contemporary women writers, this book ranges from Egypt and West Africa to Russia, Greece, Kathmandu and Chile. In one tale, Sonja Franeta journeys 3000 miles on the Trans-Siberian railroad, and in another, Mariana Romo-Carmona returns home to Chile after 30 years.
On a nondescript street somewhere in San Francisco sits Babe's bar, a legendary place where women who love women come to celebrate, to dry their tears, to spin dreams, and, every once in a while, to have their dreams come true. "The Bar Stories "presents a panoramic view of the lesbian nation, and celebrates lesbian survival in a world more often ...
Nearly 30 women, including some of the best-known lesbian writers in the country, contributed to this remarkable ode to mothers with memoirs that are astonishing in their diversity and truth. These reminiscences prove that raising a child is a lifelong process that continues in spite of distance, estrangement, and even death.
There is a marriage movement growing in the Black community. Across the country, advocates of marriage and marriage strengthening programs are taking their message to the Black community and finding a receptive audience. This book represents work by some of the warriors in the field. It addresses the questions: Why marriage? What's going on around ...
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