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Last night turned out to be a really good night for me.

I'd spent the day preparing for Gender X Genre. I went to the uni and printed 20 copies of "Transitions Vol. 1", a 40 page collection of my poetry (Vol. 2 will be my Prose). I went straight to town, dropping a copy off to Liz at 2nd Life on the way. I happened to meet Dean (who lives and works at the Royal Exchange) while looking for something to eat. As he was too, we got burgers at Oportos, a dodgy looking fast food franchise if ever I saw one. It did have cute buzzers that you hold and which go off when your meal is ready. Just as we got back to the RE, Bugsy turned up, and then we waited for Sophie and the rest to show.

When they did, we were able to check the comics presentation on Kerrie's laptop, and everything seemed fine. I took Bugsy and Kim to 40 Hunter St, which was hosting an art exhibition (for queer artists 25 years and under, so that's me out) and the official opening of the Rainbow Visions Festival.

The finger food was good, and though they had wine, I only took orange juice. There was a section of butchers paper where you could draw and make remarks. I drew a rainbow and under it wrote "rainbows are for all of us". After the opening speech (which conspicuously didn't mention tonight's event) we went outside to unveil the shop front.

One of the organisers said "Gay to the left, Lesbians to the Right, and Trans and Intersex anywhere you want" (which got a laugh) and then the newspaper was ripped off, to reveal - gay and lesbian fashion scenes (see pic above). Good stuff. After a bit more hob-nobbing (and after Bugsy announced Gender X Genre) we headed back to the Exchange.










We were all ready and time, and had an audience of two (plus each other)! Oddly enough, none of us cared, and the show went on, as they say. Sophie and I narrated and read scenes from my comics, which were projected onto the screen. Bugsy read some poetry and prose; Kerrie read an extract from "Bodily Fluids" and Kim read her story "Better dead than Fred".

Now despite the low audience turnout, it was a good event, and I cam away feeling satisfied with things. Dean taped it and will broadcast the whole thing on Satellite  Community TV!
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Well, the reading went better than I expected.

Didn't get away from home until 11am. Got to the city at 11:30, and as the reading wasn't until 12:30pm, I went for a wander. had some lunch, (and bumped into Thom while he was taking a break from his work) and wandered back at 12:20pm. I met Sophie outside the venue (which sucked harshly because of location, and the fact that our readings were competing with a cappuccino machine), and then Bugsy turned up, as did Kim, and maybe a 1/2 dozen folk to listen.

We filled the whole hour. I read: "Girls, Like Me"; "Bitters Edge"; "On the Beach" (prose); and "A light was seen". Sophie also read the first sixth of my "Self Help" which she though was about a transgender support group, but which (if she'd bothered to read it all) was actually about Werewolves!

But I had a good time. Afterwards Sophie, myself, Kim and Bugsy all went around to the venue for the presentation next Friday. I was able to see how to present my comics there, and we discussed other issues with Dean, and it was fun. Afterwards we had coffee (and I got some chocolate cake - yum) and blocked out which bits of my comics would be used next week.

Then I dropped Kim off in Darby St, popped into the Octapod to use their toilets and drop off copies of my comics for their Zine Library. Apart from the reading, I haven;'t been to a single other TINA event. They're closing up here in a few minutes, and I might have a wander over to the PAN building, but it's straight home after that. I checked out the program, and there's nothing on from now 'til tonight that interests me.

Back tomorrow for the Arts Market / Zine Fair! :-)

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Afterwards I had a look at the Watt Space Gallery.  Usual sort of stuff in there, but I was really taken by the art in the Locker Room - which was openly gay and out. I also chatted with Luke, one of the artists who created it, and was suitably impressed with their clarity and detail. They created a toilet cubicle mock-up with appropriate grafitti. Very clever.

I also dropped into the PAN building but they had a some panel speaking through a bad P.A. system, and a too crowded venue -- I wasn't impressed. Went home and fed the pets instead.

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