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FILM: What if HIV Had Never Happened?

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Leo Herrera, a gay Mexican director, is working on a new project that imagines what life would be like for LGBTI people if the AIDS epidemic had never occurred. The short film, Fathers (or The Fathers Project), is funded entirely by individual donors and art supporters. Herrera has been working on the project for almost two years and started filming across the United States this month. The film combines elements of real-life and fantasy, even being described as sci-fi. Featuring LGBTI artists, historians, activists, and performers, the movie explores the political and cultural influence the LGBTI rights movement could have … Read more

Me Me Monday!

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Welcome to M3: ME ME MONDAY at our FB discussion group – your chance to pop in and tell us about your latest success. Have a new book or short story coming out? Let us know. Just sell something? Let us know so we can cheer you on. HOW IT WORKS: I’ll pin this topic to the top of our FB discussion page for the day. –Please post your announcement as a separate post so we can comment on yours specifically –Check out the other posts and congratulate and share them too! And congratulations!!!

ANNOUNCEMENT: Goddess Forsaken, by Amy Allen

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Goddess Forsaken

QSFer Amy Allen has a new queer urban fantasy book out: In a world not too different from our own, where the things we consider fantasy are an everyday reality, a new goddess has just been born. There haven’t been new gods in nearly two centuries. Lacuna must work together with vlogger Khath and gamer Snap to get across the country, gather followers, and meet with the gods. If she succeeds, she will be officially divine. If she fails, they will consume her, and the world will go back to the way it was. Amazon Excerpt Urd is not a … Read more

FOR READERS: I Want to Live There

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FOR READERS Today’s reader topic comes from QSFer Tam Ames: Which book have you had fantasies about inserting yourself as a character in that book? A world you wish you could experience for real because of characters you just adored or settings you would want to experience for yourself. Writers: This is a reader chat – you are welcome to join it, but please do not reference your own works directly. Thanks! Join the chat

TV: Colton Haynes to Join American Horror Story

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Teen Wolf and Arrow star Colton Haynes has signed up to the latest season of American Horror Story. The out actor announced today that he would be appearing on the upcoming seventh season Ryan Murphy’s horror anthology series. Haynes shared an image in which he appears shirtless with bleached-blonde hair, and blood-like red stains around his mouth. He wrote: “American Horror Story Season 7…Already feels like home :) So excited.” Full Story at Pink News

ANNOUNCEMENT: Fate: No Strings Attached, by Erik Schubach

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Fate No Strings Attached - Erik Schubach

QSFer Eric Schubach has a new FF Fantasy book out: Found unconscious in an impact crater in the Cascade Mountains, with no memory of who she is or how she got there, Sloan Tesha attempts to start a new life as she tries to discover who she really is. As she recovers, the tattoos that cover her body begin to move and morph under her skin, the threads of ink reweaving to reflect the life all around her. Along with officer Andreya Lisbon, Sloan learns that she is one of the three fabled Fates, the Maiden, and dark forces are … Read more

FOR WRITERS & READERS: Music and Writing

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FOR WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Robin Harper: Music for reading/writing~? Love it? Hate it? Ever make a playlist in preparation for either~? :D Or do you find that ONE SONG and listen to it on repeat while you read/write into the wee hours of the morning? (no comment as to whether or not I am guilty of that one >>;; ) Join the chat

Dubai Robot Cops

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Dubai police have enrolled a robotic officer, the first in a unit that aims to make up a quarter of the force by 2030. Just watched the video, and he’s no Robocop. Full Story at AFP

ANNOUNCEMENT – Burning Suns: Conflagration Book Three, by Lisa Wylie

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Burning Suns: Conflagration Book 3

QSFer Lisa Wylie has a new gay sci fi book out: Having been shot at, shot up, and almost shot down, Jen and Keera have finally learned to trust one another, but there’s no time to stop and enjoy their newly forged relationship. Commissioned by a rogue Guardian to attempt the most audacious theft in history, they head to the capital of the Assembly with a single objective—steal the weapon Jen should have acquired in Berlin. If they can get to it first, they’ll stop a war before it starts. Kiith Kohath, meanwhile, has assumed command of an allied fleet … Read more

FOR READERS: Books to Cheer You Up

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FOR READERS Today’s reader topic comes from QSFer Hank T. Cannon: What do you like to read when you’re feeling off, or down? Do you want to curl up with a familiar book and familiar situations? If so, what. If you don’t like to re-read books, what do you look for in something new to help chase the blues away? Writers: This is a reader chat – you are welcome to join it, but please do not reference your own works directly. Thanks! Join the chat