We're Here, We're Queer (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781463606213)

Writer and historian Owen Keehnen's fiction, essays, erotica, reviews, and interviews have appeared in hundreds of magazines and anthologies worldwide, including the upcoming Windy City Queer from University of Wisconsin Press. He is the co-author (along with Tracy Baim) of Leatherman: The Legend of Chuck Renslow (Prairie Avenue Productions, 2011). His forthcoming novel, The Sand Bar, is due in autumn 2011 from Lethe Press. Keehnen is the author of the horror novel Doorway Unto Darkness (Dancing Moon Press, 2010) and recently published the humorous gay novel I May Not Be Much But I'm All I Think About (e-gaymag.com). He is also co-editor of Nothing Personal: Chronicles of Chicago's LGBTQ Community 1977-1997 (Firetrap Press, 2009) and contributed 10 of the biographical essays in the groundbreaking coffee-table book Out and Proud in Chicago (Surrey/Agate, 2008). Keehnen is a founding board member of The Legacy Project and currently serves as secretary for the LGBT history-education-arts program focused on pride, acceptance, and bringing proper recognition to the courageous lives and contributions of international LGBTQ historical figures (legacyprojectchicago.org). He is the former programming director for Gerber/Hart Library and has had two queer monologues adapted for the stage. He has written regular columns in such magazines as Penthouse Forum and Men's Style and was author of the Starz books, a four-volume series of interviews with gay porn stars. He was co-editor of the Windy City Times Pride Literary Supplement for several years and continues working periodically as a features writer for the newspaper. He lives in Chicago's Rogers Park neighborhood with his partner, Carl, and his two ridiculously spoiled dogs, Flannery and Fitzgerald.