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‘Woman Who Owned the Shadows’
Caleb Rainey | Out on the Page Editor’s note: Gay San Diego is happy to welcome Caleb Rainey, the founder of the San Diego Multicultural LGBT Book Club. Rainey will be writing a monthly column...
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‘Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa’
Caleb Rainey | Out on the Page “I tried many times to claim a snippet of this spectacle by hiding a monarch in my pocket […] But all I ever pulled out was the orange-black powder of the crushed insect,...
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‘Zami: A New Spelling of My Name’
Caleb Rainey | Out on the Page “I have felt the age-old triangle of mother father and child. With the ‘I’ at its eternal core, elongate and flatten out into the elegantly strong triad of grandmother...
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‘Christ Like’
Caleb Rainey | Out on the Page “In his drug enhanced daze, Mikey turned to watch the cars drive by with locked doors. The West Side Highway haunted by the ghosts of men who once walked in the arms of...
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‘Yes Means Yes!’
Caleb Rainey | Out on the Page “Sexual Intimacy, embodied affection, physical contact. These are as intrinsic to our human well-being as are fresh air, clean water, wholesome and nutritious foods. And...
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‘Edinburgh’
Caleb Rainey | Out on the Page “What do they look like faggot, he says. Just leave me alone, Fuck off me. Get the fuck off me. He pushes, unable to move against me, and then he manages, rolling us over...
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‘Ash’
Caleb Rainey | Out on the Page “Are you saying all those tales you tell Ash have any basis in reality?” he said in disbelief. “They are only bed-time stories – it is superstition, nothing more.”...
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Criminal neglect
Caleb Rainey | Out on the Page I know I usually write a review of a particular book and celebrate its creative power. I have decided to do something slightly different for this holiday season. I want...
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Memory Mambo
Caleb Rainey | Out on the Page “Memory Mambo” by Achy Obejas is a gorgeous novel that not only tells the story of Juani — a 24-year-old Cuban lesbian who has to navigate her family as well as a racist...
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‘A visitation of spirituality’
Caleb Rainey | Out on the Page In honor of Black History Month, the San Diego Multicultural LGBT Literary Foundation has selected Randall Kenan’s debut novel and masterpiece — “A Visitation of Spirits”...
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The girls our mothers still warn us about
Caleb Rainey | Out on the Page “Chicana” is an identity that was reclaimed during the 1960s and ’70s, when the political organizing of Americans of Mexican descent began to gain real traction in the...
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‘City of Palaces’ well worth the wait
Caleb Rainey | Out on the Page Michael Nava is perhaps best known for the “Henry Rios” mystery series, a collection of crime novels that was extremely popular during the ’80s and ’90s and featured a...
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Expressing our literary pride
Caleb Rainey | Out on the Page It is with great excitement that I write this article. Not only is Pride this month but San Diego will play host to the first multicultural LGBT literary festival on the...
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Borders abound
Caleb Rainey | Out on the Page Borders. Borders can keep things out and keep things in. Borders help define a shape or purpose and are inherently exclusionary. Borders tell us what something is by...
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Literature: the necessary bread
Caleb Rainey | Out on the Page As a director of a literature foundation and as someone who studied literature relentlessly in college, you would think that I had an unwavering belief that literature is...
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‘Christ Like’
Caleb Rainey | Out on the Page “In his drug enhanced daze, Mikey turned to watch the cars drive by with locked doors. The West Side Highway haunted by the ghosts of men who once walked in the arms of...
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‘Yes Means Yes!’
Caleb Rainey | Out on the Page “Sexual Intimacy, embodied affection, physical contact. These are as intrinsic to our human well-being as are fresh air, clean water, wholesome and nutritious foods. And...
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‘Edinburgh’
Caleb Rainey | Out on the Page “What do they look like faggot, he says. Just leave me alone, Fuck off me. Get the fuck off me. He pushes, unable to move against me, and then he manages, rolling us over...
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‘Ash’
Caleb Rainey | Out on the Page “Are you saying all those tales you tell Ash have any basis in reality?” he said in disbelief. “They are only bed-time stories – it is superstition, nothing more.”...
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Criminal neglect
Caleb Rainey | Out on the Page I know I usually write a review of a particular book and celebrate its creative power. I have decided to do something slightly different for this holiday season. I want...
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