Smack Dab Open Stage
featuring book release reading for Mark Abramson's "Beach Reading"
- When
- Wed Aug 20, 2008
- Where
- Magnet
- Time
- 7:30 signup, 8 pm reading
- Tags
- Theater, Performance Arts, Literary Arts, Author Appearances, Gay, Gay Books
Description
Mark Abramson is the author of the new book "Beach Reading," the first of a new series of books set in San Francisco.Mark Abramson was a Minnesota farm boy who joined the gay migration to San Francisco in the 1970s.
His writing has appeared in the gay press as far back as Christopher Street, Fag Rag, Gay Sunshine, Mouth of the Dragon and more recently in Lethe Press' acclaimed anthology Charmed Lives, gay spirit in storytelling.
He is best known locally as a bartender and a co-producer with the late Jim Cvitanich of "MEN BEHIND BARS, the bartenders' folly" an annual AIDS benefit, as well as "PIER PRESSURE" and "HIGH TEA" both mega-dance parties on the piers of San Francisco.
In addition to the Beach Reading series, he is busy editing a
memoir,Castro Street Diaries recounting true tales from the great gay Mecca in the years before AIDS - including adventures with old friends such as John Preston, Rita Rockett and Al Parker. http://beachreading.net
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