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DESCRIPTION:everything i have is blue  Short Fiction by Working-Class Men  about 
 More-or-Less Gay Life  Join Everything I Have Is Blue editor Wendell 
 Ricketts, along with community activist and youth organizer, Ayoka Turner, 
 for an evening of reading and conversation about queers and class, fiction 
 and reality.  522 Valencia Street (San Francisco)  Wednesday, July 20, 2005 
 v 7:00pm  "This book gives us what no contemporary TV program, movie, or 
 magazine has even come close to—the tender, angry, funny emotional 
 innards of the embattled daily life of working-class gay men." (Minnie 
 Bruce Pratt, author of S/He)  "The edgy, surprising stories in Everything I 
 Have Is Blue are a tonic,… bringing to our attention characters and 
 themes we seldom see explored in gay contemporary fiction." (Jaime 
 Manrique, editor of Besame Mucho: New Gay Latino Fiction)   “Blue is a 
 response not to silence but to overwhelming noise—pop-cultural, media, 
 and literary representations of gay men that shove us all into the Will 
 &Grace/Queer Eye for the Straight Guy mold, that assume that 
 gentrification, mindless consumption, and so-called "good taste" are what 
 you need to be a member of the gay community. The contributors to Blue 
 write as and about men whose multifaceted lives haven’t been deformed by 
 trying to stuff them into that claustrophobic stereotype. They write about 
 what it really means to be a queer man today.” (Wendell Ricketts)  \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2005/07/17/71553.php
SUMMARY:everything i have is blue: Short Fiction by Working-Class Men
LOCATION:The Center for Political Education  at 522 Valencia Street, 3rd Floor   San 
 Francisco   (near 16th Street, one block from the 16th and Mission St. BART 
 Station)   $5 donation (no one turned away for lack of funds)
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2005/07/17/71553.php
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