Metro Weekly invited OutWrite 2018 participants to submit excerpts of their work for publication in the magazine’s first-ever Literary Issue. What follows is a sampling of the writers and literary styles you can meet at this weekend’s OutWrite 2018.
Joseph LoGiudice, the founder and clinical director of Manhattan's Liberation Psychotherapy, an LGBTQ-centered practice, has been indicted on charges of sexually assaulting two patients, including allegedly raping a man in his 30s in his office.
According to prosecutors, the patient -- who was attending therapy to cope with a sexual assault -- told LoGiudice he did not want to have sex because he was recovering from anal surgery.
At an October 1 bail hearing, Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Claudia Khoury-Yacoub alleged that LoGiudice began sexually exploiting the patient shortly after he joined the therapy group in fall 2022.
A new AI-generated attack ad supporting Jennifer Balkcom, the Republican nominee for North Carolina's 11th Congressional District, accuses Democratic nominee Jamie Ager of hosting a barn dance with drag queens and children.
The ad, paid for by the National Republican Congressional Committee and approved by Balkcom, was posted to the North Carolina Republican Party's official X account on October 22.
The ad shows Ager speaking into a microphone, with a Progress Pride flag hanging on a barn wall behind him. "Wanna know what we need more of in Washington, D.C.? Barn dances!" he says, as ABBA's "Dancing Queen" starts playing.
The Farmville Public Library logo does not resemble a traditional rainbow. It depicts an open book with multicolored pages and a spine in shades of teal, blue, magenta, lime green, orange, purple, and yellow, arranged in no particular order.
But three residents reportedly objected to the logo over concerns that its colors could be interpreted as a show of support for the LGBTQ community. After receiving their complaints, a town commissioner asked the town manager to remove the 14-year-old logo.
The logo was subsequently removed without public debate or discussion, surprising other local officials, including Farmville Mayor Alex Joyner.
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