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Jami has lead a sheltered life; she's home-schooled, shy, smart and pretty. Carys helped start the GSA in her high school, is a clown and a theater geek, doesn't get along with her parents and doesn't quite know what she is. They meet at a spring break arts camp and fall in love. Figuring out what that means, for one girl who has never willingly worn a dress and another who is intersexed, is a bit of a problem. Being a teenager in love is never easy; for Carys and Jami falling in love with each other is a terrifying journey in self-discovery and trust.

Always the activist, Carys has helped start a support group for queer and gender-questioning young people. The death of a online member of that group sends shock waves that change Carys's and Jami's relationship, nudge Jami to change her appearance, and convince Carys to form a gender theater troupe. Keywords: bisexual, erotica, ethics, gay, genderqueer, guitar, humanism, intersex, jail, lesbian, music, philosophy, photography, polyfidelity, priest, protest, religion, sex, spoken word, theater, trans, wysiwyg.

One of the great myths of our culture is that at birth each infant can be identified as 'male' or 'female' (reproductive physiology), will grow up to have correspondingly 'masculine' or 'feminine' behavior (gender), live as a 'man' or a 'woman' (social role), and marry a woman or a man (heterosexual affective orientation). This is not so. There is much disagreement as to why this is not so, but a significant number of people in fact do not fit this simple idea of biologically predetermined gender/role destiny.

Upcoming works:

An autobiographical memoir tentatively titled Everything Else Changed. I'm taking a somewhat different approach to this, writing it online on its own website: WiltedFlowerChild.com

A sequel of sorts to A Queer Circle of Friends, titled A Queer Turn of Events, is happening as a rather quirky web serialization / comic on its own website: WizzyWig.net

Phreeky Dragon Press is the self-publishing imprint of Lisa Lees, whose main website is: lisalees.com