Tristan Taormino has been promoting sex positivity for decades, from a queer porn editor in the ‘90s to writing the definitive guide to anal sex for women.
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Book World: Lies with Man shines a light on anti-gay policies. It s also a great legal novel.
Dennis Drabelle, The Washington Post
May 13, 2021
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John Grisham is usually the first name to come up in discussions of legal fiction - and justifiably so. But it s time to recognize another master of the genre: Michael Nava, whose ninth mystery, Lies with Man, was published last month. This engrossing novel is set in 1986, at the height of the AIDS crisis, and centers on the battle over a ballot initiative that, as first-person narrator Henry Rios explains, would allow county officials to identify and round up people who were HIV positive and force them into quarantine camps.
April 20, 2021 • Sean J Patrick Carney on the ground in Oakland
5733 San Leandro Street, Oakland, CA. Photo: Kirk Crippens and Torre McQueen. Courtesy of the Oakland Cannery Collective.
WITH FEWER THAN HALF A MILLION RESIDENTS, Oakland’s complex art ecosystem rivals those of cities twice its size. Muralists, art-school grads, experimental musicians, artist-activists, graffiti writers, and Burning Man sectarians live and work throughout Oakland’s deindustrialized shoreline corridor and flatlands. Its DIY cultures are eclectic and often political, owing to the city’s distinctive history of liberation movements, mutual-aid networks, and labor organizing.
Fifteen years ago, Oakland was, relative to tech-gentrified San Francisco, semi-affordable. Today, Oakland artists battle colossal