I DO! An Anthology for Equality
California's "Prop Hate" - Proposition 8, the issue currently in the courts, took away the right for gay and lesbian Californians to marry their life partners. Writer Alex Beecroft, an Englishwoman and author of gay historicals, wanted to do something to help undo this injustice. She asked other m/m writers if they'd be interested in contributing to a collection of stories whose proceeds would go to Lambda Legal to help in the fight.
This is the result:
Do you support the right of all human beings to marry the person they love? The right to say 'I Do' to a life of commitment and sharing with the that one special person? Through sickness and health, for better or worse, til death do them part...
We do. We hope that marriage will soon be a dream that everyone can share. That's why more than twenty top authors of GBLT fiction have donated stories to this book.
on schedule for release Valentine's Day, 2010, from MLR Publishing.
The project has an editorial team – Alex Beecroft, Charlie Cochrane, Sophia Deri-Bowen, Lee Rowan – and not forgetting Kris Jacen at MLR who have kindly agreed to be the publishers again.
I'll quote Alex Bee here:
"Strangely enough, the heat level is way down this year, making this a volume highly suitable for buying for friends and relatives who might be supportive of civil rights without wanting to read too much erotica. But otherwise we have perhaps more of a wide spread of subjects and settings than we had last year, and a real international line-up with authors from the USA, UK, Canada, New Zealand, Ireland and Australia.
In no particular order – almost certainly not the order in which they will appear in the book, these are our stories for 2009:
Two Men: A Fugue by Sophia Deri-Bowen
The Uneven Chance by Charlie Cochrane
Work Experience by Bruin Fisher
Elephants In Her Tea by Julia Rios
Mountain Ash by Ruth Sims
Inner Truth by Alex Beecroft
Mallory’s Gift by L-J Baker
Cakewalk by Nathan Burgoine
The Song Inside by Nexis Pas
Turnabout by Lee Rowan
Home Cooking by Brian Holliday
Morbidly Obese by Rick Reed
Ships that Pass by Jamie Freeman
Honolulu Hula by Neil S. Plakcy
Aim Higher by JL Merrow
Hitched by Michael Gouda
No Queens on Pickett Street by Martha Miller
Even Guys Cry by D.C. Juris
Ganymede by Lenore Black
Under the Shadow of Your Wings by Jill Palmer
Touche by James Buchanan
Stripes by Nigel Puerasch
Mister Right by Rob Rosen
And thanks to everyone who sent stories--we could have filled two volumes, I think!