Holly Valero

Tales of an American Lesbian: The Best of the Straight & Narrow: 1986 - 1993 (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

It was the late 1980s. A time before email, the World Wide Web, desktop publishing, cell phones, and sadly, spellcheck. Today's LGBTQIA+ was missing more than a few letters and symbols.

I was a 21-year-old lesbian in search of a normal life working as the night shift disc jockey at WTTC radio, a 500-watt AM/FM station in the rural Pennsylvania town of Towanda.

Dreams of making more than $3 an hour and maybe even finding at least one lesbian my age took me to Concord, New Hampshire. It was there, in my mid 20s, that I began writing The Straight and Narrow, a monthly column series documenting the politically turbulent 1980s. The global AIDS epidemic coincided with early LGBTQ activism. The result was widespread fear, a lot of intolerance, and internal community strife.

Despite AIDS casting a national spotlight on the gay community, the lesbian population in the face of that epidemic simply disappeared. I wanted to remind the world and lesbians that we were still here, still queer, and still trying to get used to it.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Holly Valero
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. März 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780983483595
• Artikelnr.: 70646135

Autorenporträt

Born in Miami, Florida in the early 1960's, Holly Valero grew up on a 100-acre, Pennsylvania sheep farm and half-way house for psychiatrically-labelled chickens. The only lesbian in a one-lesbian town she spent several years as the night shift DJ at WTTC Radio, a 500-watt AM/FM station with an audience largely comprised of dairy cattle.

Radio took her to Concord, New Hampshire, where she became involved in early efforts to change the laws regarding gay and lesbian rights. It was there she began writing a regular series for the local gay and lesbian community newspapers.

A move to Portland, Maine and a change in careers (newspaper, then publishing) led her eventually to the World Wide Web where she established her own web and graphic design business in 2000, called HollyWorks, and more recently, a digital publishing company.

Holly Valero is a writer, artist, programmer and publisher living in Southern Maine with her partner, Janet McKenney.