{"product_id":"tales-of-an-american-lesbian-holly-valero-9780983483588","title":"Tales of an American Lesbian: The Best of the Straight \u0026 Narrow: 1986 - 1993","description":"It was the late 1980s. A time before email, the World Wide Web, desktop publishing, cell phones, and sadly, spellcheck. Today's LGBTQIA+ was missing more than a few letters and symbols.I was a 21-year-old lesbian in search of a normal life working as the night shift disc jockey at WTTC radio, a 500-watt AM\/FM station in the rural Pennsylvania town of Towanda. My dreams of making more than $3 an hour and maybe even finding at least one lesbian my age took me to Concord, New Hampshire. It was there, in my mid 20s, that I began writing The Straight and Narrow, a monthly column series documenting the politically turbulent 1980s. The global AIDS epidemic coincided with early LGBTQ activism. The result was widespread fear, a lot of intolerance, and internal community strife. Despite AIDS casting a national spotlight on the gay community, the lesbian population in the face of that epidemic simply disappeared. I wanted to remind the world - and lesbians - that we were still here, still queer, and still trying to get used to it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Holly Valero\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0983483582\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780983483588\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Boilerplate Books, LLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/12\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 140\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.43lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.33d","brand":"Holly Valero","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48447082037503,"sku":"9780983483588","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_aacb4a3d-10c1-4a3f-9fc7-b45de6c8f145.jpg?v=1777228696","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/tales-of-an-american-lesbian-holly-valero-9780983483588","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}