RUTH PERKINSON

Well, 2009 is here...and, boy, am I glad that things are looking up. Regardless of Obama's choice for the invocation on 1/20/09, I still believe that having him in office over Bush is a victory for GLBT rights and that we will progress no matter what.  Let the healing begin with a new and inspirational President, with the faultering economy, and for the millions who seek equal treatment and fairness in the workplace and in the social and religious realms, too.  Also, let's make this year one where the people who are still closeted COME OUT! Harvey Milk was espousing this thirty years ago...and thirty years later we still have some of our own who are too ashamed to get out of the closet. He said that we won't have equal rights and equal treatment till all of us come out. So, tell your friends and family this...ask them to come out of the closet and begin this year with a commitment to end our own repression that sometimes...sadly...comes from us. We are strong. Let us not belabor this any longer. Once we're all out...the change can really, finally come to fruition.

Happy New Year: And, COME OUT! Hurry! We need you...you know who you are...come on you can do it.

Reviewed by Terri L. Jones, V Magazine for Women

Harper Lee pulled it off with Scout in To Kill a Mockingbird; Carson McCullers’ Frankie won readers over in The Member of the Wedding; and in Rubyfruit Jungle, Rita Mae Brown helped you get to know - and like - the young Molly Bolt. But it’s not easy writing from the perspective of a child. Not only must you come up with convincing dialogue, but you’re also forced to resurrect those unadulterated thought processes that you long ago outgrew. Now, Richmond author Ruth Perkinson has created a character reminiscent of—and as believably and likeably portrayed—as the classic literary tomboys before her, in her new novel, Piper’s Someday. Read the rest.