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RELEASE DATE: JUNE 2021

A fast-paced, emotional, behind-the-scenes journey of the seventeen years that led to repeal of don’t ask, don’t tell. 

The Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell directive ordered that military applicants were not to be asked about their sexual orientation. Some thought this was good, but the results of this directive were far-reaching and difficult to live with. This is the story of the repeal of that directive, the story of a fight for freedom within a country’s military framework. This journey ranges from the arms of grieving parents in Kansas City, Missouri whose son was killed because he was thought to be gay to the head of the Army’s Criminal Investigative Division at Quantico where the author demanded that the Army not cover up the hate crime; 

from a banyan tree in Honolulu where an officer was told he had to come out to avoid jail to a focus group of drill instructors Lackland Air Force base who helped discern the reasons behind a massive gay purge; from a bus stop in Dupont Circle to a Pentagon anti-gay harassment policy over the phone with the Air Force Assistant Secretary of Defense to the day Sen. Joe Lieberman walked 90 minutes from his home in the bitter cold on the Sabbath so he could vote for repeal. 

  by L.F. Ranner

Three friends, one life-changing summer.

Vana, the math prodigy with a voice that is 85% Sarah Vaughan, 10% Billie Holiday, and 5% Aretha Franklin and an attitude to match. Desperate to leave her chaotic family and become the independent woman of her imagination, she lands a summer job on an aging Greek cruise ship as a member of the house band. 

Marko, who failed his university entrance exams, is on the trail of bouzouki god Markos Vamvakaris, in hopes of claiming his own artistic identity.

Stepan, agronomist, accordionist, occasional mystic, has spent the last ten years hopelessly, secretly in love with his only friend. 

Stranded in the surreal microcosm of a cruise ship, the three friends stumble across a series of dark and dissolving frontiers: between love and friendship, memory and forgetfulness, sacrifice and redemption. On this voyage to the heart of an ancient world, can the bonds of a friendship forged in childhood survive the tests of tragedy and self-discovery? 

Available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo and wherever books are sold.

PRIDE

by Elizabeth Austin

A photographic look at the LGBTQ community of Hampton Roads.

Release date: Winter, 2020

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More great books are coming!

More great books are coming!

More great books are coming!