Imagine my surprise when I open up my mail and see:
Thursday, October 16
Readings by Alex Sanchez, Dan Vera and Sister So Am I at Outwrite Books, 7:30 p.m.
Cliterati Open Mic featuring Daphne Gottlieb and Blair at Charis Books, 7 p.m.
Skin Deep at First Existentialist Church ft. pre-show reading by Patrique Vosges & Dustin Brookshire, 7 p.m.
Friday, October 17
Keynote Readings by Kate Bornstein, James Nolan and Theresa Davis. Hosted by Megan Volpert, 7 p.m.
Reading by Jenny Block at Outwrite Books, 7:30 p.m.
Readings by Lisa Allender, Alice Teeter, Reginald Jackson and Patrique Vosges at Charis Books, 8 p.m.
The Atlanta Queer Literary Festival will be held October 15-19, 2008 at venues around Atlanta.
I cannot stop laughing and smiling at this news. Yesterday I danced around my home office to “Proud Mary” and “Get Me Bodied” to celebrate. Simply amazing. Now to decide what to read and how to read it. I should select something by this week, and get to practicing/get feedback. Oh my. Thank you Mr. Abbott.
I told my parents that I would be reading next month, leaving out the Queer part. They’ve no problems with me being gay. Or The Gays in general. I’ve been out for 5 years now. But I don’t think they’ve actually interacted with The Gays, and this will be their first time.
This will also be their first introduction to Patrique, and as we all know or will find out, Patrique can be interesting to deal with. Ask any of the bars in Athens. Or any of my friends who’ve had to put me to bed. Think Towanda meets Sasha, Beyonce’s alter ego, meets Pink meets Colin Ferrell meets Christina meets Oscar Wild/Paul Rimbaud, ‘L’enfant terrible.’ That is a lot of people for my parents to meet at once. So I’m going to be working both factors in slowly.
In other news, I’ve been immersed in research these past few days, hence the lack of posts. Mind you, I sat down Monday to write, and 10 pages came out. What started as a letter turned into a chapter of my memoirs. I’ve also been researching data for my series L’Essence of Being Gay. Mind you, I’ve been doing a lot of this research on gay sex sites. Let me tell you, I’ve never seen so many dicks and ass shots in my life. At one point I had to turn off pictures because I just couldn’t handle anymore. They were everywhere. Even in my raccoon wounds. To sum it up, searching through roughly 30,000 profiles is a LOT of work. All in an attempt to define Alpha Males, Queen Bees and The Essence of Being Gay.
All this research, and number crunching, has made me a little crazier than normal. I find myself wanting to post some of the findings, but I decided a coherent series of articles would be better than randomly posting findings, statistics and figures here and there. And, I’ve realized, I need feedback. Not that I ever had any intention of defining The Essence of Being Gay, Alpha Males, or Queen Bees all by myself. I did need time to think about my own definition on the Essence of Being Gay.
But now, I require feed back. Lots of it. Please, please, please tell me what you think The Essence of Being Gay is. Or, what does it mean to be an Alpha Male or Queen Bee? I know I’ve yet to define them thoroughly on this site yet, but whatever your response is to either three, just Send it to Patrique.vosges@gmail.com . The more responses, the better.
With Alpah Males, think of the masculine qualities (muscle/body worship, leather, bears/cubs, daddies/sons, allegedly Str8 Gays, and any other symbolism of masculinity in the world of The Gays) With Queen Bees, the first thing that pops to mind are Drag Queens, but I think they’re an end result in the process of realizing the feminity in each of us, regardless of sexuality. With Queen Bees, I think of the more feminine aspects of The Gays (Twinks, love of chiffon and all things shiny, Drag queens, appletinis, etc) Anyways, that’s a start. Now, tell me what you think.
Signed,
Patrique
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