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		<title>Call For Papers LGBTQ history conference</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 09:54:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is LGBT(Q) History and where do we stand? History Postgraduates and LGBT History Wednesday 7th  November 2012 Queen Mary, University of London http://whatislgbtqhistory.blogspot.co.uk/ Decades have passed since the first published histories examining aspects of gay, lesbian, bisexual, trans, intersex or queer life, or analysing social movements made up by LGBTIQ people. Historical work on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&#038;blog=1542532&#038;post=4850&#038;subd=speakitsname&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hop Against Homophobia &#8211; Speak Its Name</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 11:29:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[International Day Against Homophobia 17th May http://hopagainsthomophobia.blogspot.co.uk/ Homophobic discrimination is a serious issue in every single country on this planet, no matter how big or small. Some countries are more advanced in GLBTQ rights, while in some countries the penalty for being a GLBTQ person is death. All over the world, GLBTQ people are shunned [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&#038;blog=1542532&#038;post=4846&#038;subd=speakitsname&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: On the Trail to Moonlight Gulch by Shelter Somerset</title>
		<link>http://speakitsname.com/2012/05/10/review-on-the-trail-to-moonlight-gulch-by-shelter-somerset/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 14:30:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s 1886, and Chicago is booming, but for nineteen-year-old Torsten Pilkvist, American-born son of Swedish immigrants, it’s not big enough. After tragically losing a rare love, Tory immerses himself in the pages of a Wild West mail-order bride magazine, where he stumbles on the advertisement of frontiersman and Civil War veteran Franklin Ausmus. Torsten and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&#038;blog=1542532&#038;post=4844&#038;subd=speakitsname&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Shadowboxing by Anne Barwell</title>
		<link>http://speakitsname.com/2012/05/06/review-shadowboxing-by-anne-barwell/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2012 14:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Can physicist Kristopher and Resistance member Michel find love and safety in the middle of World War II? Shadowboxing by Anne Barwell, available from Dreamspinner Press. 266 pages   Berlin, 1943. An encounter with an old friend leaves German physicist Dr. Kristopher Lehrer with doubts about his work. But when he confronts his superior, everything goes horribly wrong. Suddenly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&#038;blog=1542532&#038;post=4842&#038;subd=speakitsname&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: The Amethyst Cat Caper by Charlie Cochet</title>
		<link>http://speakitsname.com/2012/04/30/review-the-amethyst-cat-caper-by-charlie-cochet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 13:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two years ago, Remington Trueblood left England and everything he held dear for the chance at a new life. Now the successful owner of The Purple Rose Tea House in Manhattan, Remi has come across the perfect addition to his business: a stunning amethyst cat. But Remi&#8217;s acquired something else with his latest purchase: the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&#038;blog=1542532&#038;post=4832&#038;subd=speakitsname&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Film Review: Victor/Victoria dir. Blake Edwards</title>
		<link>http://speakitsname.com/2012/04/28/film-review-victorvictoria-dir-blake-edwards/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2012 13:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1934 Paris, trained coloratura soprano Victoria Grant, a native Brit, can&#8217;t get a job as a singer and is having trouble making ends meet. She doesn&#8217;t even have enough money for the basics of food and shelter. Gay cabaret singer Carole &#8216;Toddy&#8217; Todd may befall the same fate as Victoria as he was just [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&#038;blog=1542532&#038;post=4820&#038;subd=speakitsname&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: The Forgotten Man by Ryan Loveless</title>
		<link>http://speakitsname.com/2012/04/26/review-the-forgotten-man-by-ryan-loveless/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1932, after Captain Joshua Pascal’s family loses its fortune, the Great War veteran’s sense of duty compels him to help his mother convert his childhood home into a Jewish boarding house. He’s lived openly as a homosexual among his friends, but now Joshua must pretend to be a “normal,” and hiding his nature is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&#038;blog=1542532&#038;post=4817&#038;subd=speakitsname&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Whistle Pass by KevaD</title>
		<link>http://speakitsname.com/2012/04/23/review-whistle-pass-by-kevad/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 13:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the battlefields of WWII Europe, Charlie Harris fell in love with Roger Black, and after the war, Roger marched home without a glance back. Ten years later, Charlie receives a cryptic summons and quickly departs for his former lover’s hometown of Whistle Pass.  But Roger Black isn’t the lover of Charlie’s dreams anymore. He’s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&#038;blog=1542532&#038;post=4807&#038;subd=speakitsname&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Brook Street: Thief by Ava March</title>
		<link>http://speakitsname.com/2012/04/21/review-brook-street-thief-by-ava-march/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Apr 2012 14:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erastes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[London, 1822 It was only supposed to be one night. One night to determine once and for all if he truly preferred men. But the last thing Lord Benjamin Parker expected to find in a questionable gambling hall in Cheapside is a gorgeous young man who steals his heart. It was only supposed to be a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&#038;blog=1542532&#038;post=4802&#038;subd=speakitsname&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: The Sartorialist by Cecilia Ryan</title>
		<link>http://speakitsname.com/2012/04/19/review-the-sartorialist-by-cecelia-ryan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 13:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When royal sartorial adviser Beau Brummell meets a pretty soldier at a ball full of people who have begun to bore him, he&#8217;s only thinking of a brief affair and the opportunity to prove that clothes make the man. When Toby turns out to be not only beautiful but kind and a generous lover, Beau [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&#038;blog=1542532&#038;post=4777&#038;subd=speakitsname&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: An Angel in Hollywood (Hurrah for Hollywood 1) by Parhelion</title>
		<link>http://speakitsname.com/2012/04/17/review-an-angel-in-hollywood-hurrah-for-hollywood-1-by-parhelion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 13:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erastes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When confronted by a rampaging comic genius, what&#8217;s a studio publicity fella to do? Review by Erastes I believe this book was out once with Torquere, but lucky you lot, if you didn&#8217;t manage to get hold of an ecopy back then (it was published in 2005 I think) there&#8217;s a free version on Parhelion&#8217;s website, together [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&#038;blog=1542532&#038;post=4782&#038;subd=speakitsname&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Sail Away by Lee Rowan</title>
		<link>http://speakitsname.com/2012/04/15/review-sail-away-by-lee-rowan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2012 13:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Corrupt governments, divided loyalties,lovingly exchanged gifts, astral travel and sensual love; not to mention a sailors unwanted little lodgers are all combined in this charming and entertaining collection of short stories by Lee Rowan, plus an extra treat from Charlie Cochrane. THE CAPTAINS COURTSHIP Set in 18th century New England amid revolutionary rumblings, The Captains [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&#038;blog=1542532&#038;post=4788&#038;subd=speakitsname&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: The Rise and Fall of the Sacred Band of Thebes by G.A. Hauser</title>
		<link>http://speakitsname.com/2012/04/13/review-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-sacred-band-of-thebes-by-g-a-hauser/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 14:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the year 338 BC on the plain of Chaeronea, a war was fought between the allied armies of Thebes and Athens, against the might of Macedon ruled by King Philip and his son Alexander the Great. In that bloody battle Thebes was defeated and lost almost every man of its exclusive fighting force called [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&#038;blog=1542532&#038;post=4772&#038;subd=speakitsname&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Historical Novel Society International Award 2012/13</title>
		<link>http://speakitsname.com/2012/04/09/the-historical-novel-society-international-award-201213/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 10:32:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://historicalnovelsociety.org/hns-award/ £5000 ($8000) prize plus e-publication (to include professional copy-editing and cover design) For an unpublished novel that is neither under contract nor option International and open to all (previously published or unpublished authors) Historical Fiction of any kind admissible Electronic submission only (here) Initial submission of synopsis and first chapter(s) up to 5000 words [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&#038;blog=1542532&#038;post=4766&#038;subd=speakitsname&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Bonds of Earth by G.N. Chevalier</title>
		<link>http://speakitsname.com/2012/04/04/review-bonds-of-earth-by-g-n-chevalier/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 14:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1918, Michael McCready returned from the war with one goal: to lose himself in the pursuit of pleasure. Once a promising young medical student, Michael buried his dreams alongside the broken bodies of the men he could not save. After fleeing New York to preserve the one relationship he still values, he takes a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&#038;blog=1542532&#038;post=4760&#038;subd=speakitsname&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Purgatory: A Novel of the Civil War by Jeff Mann</title>
		<link>http://speakitsname.com/2012/04/02/review-purgatory-a-novel-of-the-civil-war-by-jeff-mann/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 14:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the Civil War, two young soldiers on opposite sides find themselves drawn together. One man, Ian, is a war-weary but scholarly Southerner who has seen too much bloodshed, especially the tortures inflicted upon the enemy by his vicious, sadistic commanding officer, his uncle. The other, Drew, is a Herculean Yankee captured by the ragtag [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&#038;blog=1542532&#038;post=4756&#038;subd=speakitsname&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: The Master of Seacliff by Max Pierce</title>
		<link>http://speakitsname.com/2012/03/31/review-the-master-of-seacliff-by-max-pierce/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2012 14:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is 1899, and young Andrew Wyndham has accepted a position tutoring the unruly son of wealthy industrialist Duncan Stewart in the hopes that the work will be brief yet provide an avenue to pay for his passage to France to study art. But Seacliff is a dark and eerie mansion enshrouded in near-eternal fog, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&#038;blog=1542532&#038;post=4748&#038;subd=speakitsname&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Abominations by Paul R Brenner</title>
		<link>http://speakitsname.com/2012/03/12/review-abominations-by-paul-r-brenner/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 16:20:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The year is 68 CE. Led by the fanatical Sicarii, the ideological dagger men, Jews seize Jerusalem, execute the Roman garrison, and begin to cleanse Judaea of all impurities and foreign influences, including Greek love. Nero sends Vespasianus with three legions to quell the revolt. Caught in this conflict is the Sacred Community of Men, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&#038;blog=1542532&#038;post=4733&#038;subd=speakitsname&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Alike as Two Bees by Elin Gregory</title>
		<link>http://speakitsname.com/2012/03/09/review-alike-as-two-bees-by-elin-gregory/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 14:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Horses, love, and the tang of thyme and honey&#8230; In Classical Greece, apprentice sculptor Philon has chosen the ideal horse to model for his masterpiece. Sadly, the rider falls well short of the ideal of beauty, but scarred and tattered Hilarion, with his brilliant, imperfect smile, draws Philon in a way that mere perfection cannot. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&#038;blog=1542532&#038;post=4726&#038;subd=speakitsname&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: The Layered Mask by Sue Brown</title>
		<link>http://speakitsname.com/2012/02/27/review-the-layered-mask-by-sue-brown/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2012 21:59:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lord Edwin Nash has been sent to London by his father, threatened with disinheritance unless he finds a wife. Lord Thomas Downe sees through the mask Edwin presents to the world and leaves Edwin powerless to deny his love. Threatened by his father with disinheritance, Lord Edwin Nash arrives in London for one season to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakitsname.com&#038;blog=1542532&#038;post=4715&#038;subd=speakitsname&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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