Notebook
(BOOK)
Stories For Boys
In Stories for Boys — a memoir of fathers and sons recently
released by Hawthorne books — Gregory Martin struggles
to reconcile the father he thought he knew with a man who
has just survived a suicide attempt; a man who had been hav-
ing anonymous affairs with men throughout his thirty nine
years of marriage; who now must begin his life as a gay man.
Martin explores, with humor and bracing candor, the im-
pact his father’s lifelong secrets have upon his life now as
a husband and father of two young boys. Stories for Boys is
resonant with conflicting emotions and the complexities
of family sympathy, and asks the questions: How well do we
know the people that we think we know the best? And how
much do we have to know in order to continue loving them?
Gregory Martin is the author of Mountain City a memoir,
which received a Washington State Book Award and was
named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. He teach-
es creative writing at the University of New Mexico.
hawthornebooks.com
(MUSIC)
Comp 175
Comp 175 is a benefit record for Queer programs and services
in the Pacific Northwest: 36 bands, 45 songs, 15 bucks. All profits
from this release go directly to Q Center, which operates both the
LGBTQ Community Center and the Sexual and Gender Minority
Youth Resource Center (SMYRC).
The title comes from Section 175 — a provision of the German Crim-
inal Code from 1871 to 1994 that made homosexuality a crime.
Over 140,000 people were convicted under the law. The Nazis
broadened the law in 1935 and thousands died in concentration
camps as a result of the prosecutions that followed.
The eclectic mix of musicians include local favorites such as Atole,
Kerry Hallett, Kelly Moe, and Magic Mouth as well as international
acts such as “drag terrorist” Christeene, Peaches, hip-hoppers God-
Des, and She and Scream Club, romantic singer/songwriter Tom
Goss and tons more. A more diverse set of LGBT musicians you
can’t find on any other compilation.
facebook.com/Comp175
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February 2013