A pirate ship with LGBT crew members in the same world as Creatures of Grace (Pacific Book Awards - Fantasy Finalist 2014). They started as separate lives: A young girl's life is turned upside down when she and everyone else discover that she's actually a boy, a deceit created by her mother to avoid the draft into the army. Years later, a soldier performs an act to prove his masculinity, that would result in turning his life upside down yet again. A cavalry captain helplessly watches his best friend's decline from a war hero to a drug addict. The matter becomes worse when the captain's own...

"Active Voice" started as a column written by P. Kristen Enos in the LGBT Orange County & Long Beach Blade Newsmagazine in 1994. It was an opportunity for her to share random serious and humorous stories as an Asian-American, Lesbian, Feminist Activist in ultra-conservative Orange County, California (nestled between Los Angeles and San Diego.) The stories in this collection are primarily from Enos's days in the UC Irvine Gay & Lesbian Student Union and her corporate world. Key events covered are the first LGBT pride event in Santa Ana in 1989 and the debut of the NAMES Project's AIDS Memorial...