Eric Poole, memoirist, award-winning commercial writer, and Endora wanna-be

 

 

 

 

Ali Sands, author, speaker, consultant, founder of “Illuminating Identity.” She kept a journal throughout her partner’s transition, which became the basis of her book “I Know Who You Are, But What Am I?”

 

 

 

 

Charles Busch, playwright, actor, leading lady, novelist, director, portrait artist, and cabaret entertainer

 

 

 

 

Charles Busch discusses performing as a woman, “Drag,” and “Camp”

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lise Weil, award-winning editor, translator, and essayist. Originally from Chicago, she has lived in Montreal since 1990.

 

 

 

 

 

Felice Picano, activist and award-winning author of more than thirty books of poetry, fiction, memoir, non-fiction, and plays. He is one of the founders of modern gay literature, along with other members of the Violet Quill

 

 

 

 

Felice Picano discusses Diana Vreeland, Jackie Kennedy, and his time at the Rizzoli Bookstore in New York