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About the Big Queer Tent

It's big enough for all of us.

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Reading Romance to Escape – From What? To What?

Karin Kallmaker 07/10/2020 LIFE + STYLE 0 Comments

When we crave to escape into a romance story, what are we escaping to? What gets left behind? Who gets left behind?

#BigQueerTent#HallmarkSoWhite#mylesbianfreespeech#weneeddiversebooksLesbian Romance
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Okay Lesbian Boomer – Diaspora and Other Rewards

Karin Kallmaker 11/15/2019 LIFE + STYLE 5 Comments

We left our closet homeland, struggled toward equality, and now we see what we set in motion. Diaspora, #TheseKidsToday, and #OKBoomer Lesbian style.

#BigQueerTent#mylesbianfreespeech#okboomer#thesekidstoday
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Casting the First Tweet – Why Someone Else’s Gender Is Not About Me

Karin Kallmaker 06/12/2015 Cheers & Chocolate, LIFE + STYLE 19 Comments

My brain-churning, stomach-twisting questioning presumed that I knew all there was to know about what it’s like to be a woman in this world. And I don’t.

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Keeping it ‘Real’ and Buying into the Big Lie

Karin Kallmaker 09/14/2014 LIFE + STYLE 12 Comments

What is a ‘real lesbian’ and who decides? Karin Kallmaker on the tightrope of being guest and host in the Big Queer Tent.

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To the Girly-Girls Who Like Girls

Karin Kallmaker 10/20/2010 LIFE + STYLE 4 Comments

If you’re a young femme in school and you really want the purple shoes, the fabulous purse and the supermodel hair, but the gay kids give you a hard time for not looking gay enough — that gets better too.

#BigQueerTent#lesbianpride#mylesbianfreespeech
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Random Trivial Things

  • Trivia: What’s in a Title? Inspiration, That’s What
    Karin has named several books after songs, including Substitute for Love (Madonna), Stepping Stone (Duffy), Unforgettable (Nat King Cole), Wild Things (Cris Williamson) and The Kiss that Counted (Catie Curtis).

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  • A glowing young black woman with natural hair and red lips looks over her should through mottled light at the Grand Canal and skyline of St. Marcos Plaza in Venice. A glass of deep red wine is in the foregound. Text reads A Coin of Love Romance, Velvet in Venice, Karin Kallmaker, Goldie and Lammy Winning Author Velvet in Venice - Paperback $13.95

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    She tells stories that can be read over and over again with characters that linger in your thoughts.
  • All the Wrong Places at Bay Windows
    Karin Kallmaker heats up the lesbian romance genre...
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