One of Three Events to Attend This Week:

Special added guests Red Durkin, Athens Boys Choir and Jessica Halem.

Free autographed photos of Sarah Palin’s legs

to the first 20 people in the door.

(autographed by Katz and Kelli and Red and Jessica, not by Sarah Palin)

Get the latest updates about the show by RSVPing on facebook.

ABOUT KELLI DUNHAM:

KELLI DUNHAM is a ex-nun, genderqueerious stand-up nerd comic, one of Velvet Park Magazine’s 25 Significant Queer Women of 2011 and author of four books of humorous non-fiction, including two children’s books being used by Sonlight conservative home schooling association in their science curriculum.

Kelli has performed nationwide at LGBT pride events (Seattle, Long Beach CA, Rhode Island, Baltimore, Atlanta), colleges (University of Delaware, Penn State University, Smith College, Temple University, Colorado State University) and even the occasional livestock auction. Both her comedy CDs, “I am NOT a 12 Year Old Boy” and “Almost Pretty” are on regular rotation on Sirius Satellite Radio’s mainstream comedy station and she has appeared on Showtime and the Discovery Network.

She was the winner of the 2007 Fresh Fruit Festival Award of Distinction for stand up comedy, although she has never before or since been called distinguished.

From Kelli:

I’m so excited about my upcoming Good Ol’ Fashioned Queer Comedy Revival Tour, I put together a little game so you can play along at home.

And since the theme is revival how better to play along than a good ol’ fashioned BINGO game that Kelli is calling TOUR-O. Complete with some dubiously valuable prizes!

To play along:

Download one of the BINGO cards below (right click to save as, but you know that) and then comment with your name (or a user-name or whatever you’d prefer) and the code number (found in the caption) . Before you download the card, check the comments to make sure no one else has downloaded it, or you’ll have to share your prizes! Unfortunately, these aren’t fillable, you’ll have to print it out or save it to a photo/illustration program.

Then, go to my facebook page. You can subscribe to my updates if we’re not already friends, I’m actually at my FB friend limit. I’ll start my tour on 4/24, so keep checking in. Whenever I post a potential TOURO incident, I’ll end the update with a (TOURO) in parenthesis.

You can win by getting five across, five down or diagonally. When you do, take a photo of the winning entry and post it on my facebook wall. I’ll praise you generously, and probably jump up and down and I’ll send you a postcard from wherever I am on the road. Plus when I get home I’ll send you some nice swag!

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Ex–nun, nerd, comic: Kelli Dunham’s Good Ol’ Fashioned Queer ComedyRevival Show is lively one person storytelling comedy show that promises to answer all of life’s important questions:

What is butch butt?
Why were there so many failed tubal ligations the year Kelli was born?
Is it okay to call your mom for the sole purpose of obtaining comedy material?
What does being over 40 have to do with dead rabbits and the butch ego?
How many library books can one person take on vacation anyway?

Sunday May 6th at MCC Knoxville, 5.30 PM

Free, but we’ll pass the hat for Kelli afterwards!

(please note there will be no Sunday service that night, it’s a revival of spirits with laughter kinda thing.)

KELLI DUNHAM is a ex-nun, genderqueerious stand-up nerd comic, one
of Velvet Park Magazine’s 25 Significant Queer Women of 2011 and author
of four books of humorous non-fiction, including two children’s books
being used by Sonlight conservative home schooling association in their
science curriculum.

Watch a little bit of Kelli…you’’ll want to see more!

You don’t need to get a ticket in advance, but we’d be so thrilled if you’d RSVP on facebook.

Read more about the history behind this tour and other shows in Atlanta, New Orleans, Huntsville,  Memphis and Nashville here.

Kelli Dunham’s Good Ol’ Fashioned Queer Comedy Revival Show at Allways Lounge

Ex–nun, nerd, comic: Kelli Dunham’s Good Ol’ Fashioned Queer Comedy Revival Show is lively one person storytelling comedy show that promises to answer all of life’s important questions:

What is butch butt?
Why were there so many failed tubal ligations the year Kelli was born?
Is it okay to call your mom for the sole purpose of obtaining comedy material?
What does being over 40 have to do with dead rabbits and the butch ego?
How many library books can one person take on vacation anyway?

Sunday April 29 at 8 PM

Allways Lounge

Tickets are at the door, although it’d help us out a heap if you can let us know you are coming on facebook.

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KELLI DUNHAM is a ex-nun, genderqueerious stand-up nerd comic, one of Velvet Park Magazine’s 25 Significant Queer Women of 2011 and author of four books of humorous non-fiction, including two children’s books being used by Sonlight conservative home schooling association in their
science curriculum.

Watch a little bit of Kelli you’’ll want to see more!

Kelli has performed nationwide at LGBT pride events (Seattle, Long Beach CA, Rhode Island, Baltimore, Atlanta), colleges (University of Delaware, Penn State University, Smith College, Temple University, Colorado State University) and even the occasional livestock auction. Both her comedy CDs, “I am NOT a 12 Year Old Boy” and “Almost Pretty”
are on regular rotation on Sirius Satellite Radio’s mainstream comedy station and she has appeared on Showtime and the Discovery Network.

She was the winner of the 2007 Fresh Fruit Festival Award of
Distinction for stand up comedy, although she has never before or since been called distinguished.

“Part storytelling, part therapy, part cultural commentary, and always hilarious, Kelli manages to be both a true personality and someone you’re forever rooting for. And if you ask nicely she might even make you cookies.”
- Autumn Whitefield-Madrano , The Beheld: Beauty and What It Means

Read more about the history behind this tour and other shows in New Orleans, Memphis, Huntsville, Nashville and Knoxville here.

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It’s my stop on the virtual book tour for Sinclair Sexsmith’s Say Please! Which means, of course, I’m going to write about the Say Please release party in New York, which happened on Friday.

Who does sexily flustered better than Mr Sexsmith? No one, that's who.

I don’t think I make it any secret that I find erotica readings slightly awkward. If it’s good erotica (which Say Please is) and if it’s the particular kind of erotica that does it for you (which Say Please is, for me) then one is likely to have a biological reaction. Yet it’s in public and with all your friends and the lights are way up and even though I’ve been to play parties with less actual ambiance (and you have too I bet) it usually feels slightly you know, awkward.

And since leatherfolks are not infrequently of that superintelligent variety of people for whom additional social awkwardness can be a tiny bit of a problem (I am counting myself firmly in this category) well, huh.

But the thing is, Friday’s night reading at Bluestockings (the best book store in New York City by the way) was sexy and enjoyable rather than sexy and awkward, for the same reason the book itself is sexy and enjoyable rather than sexy and awkward. All the stories in Say Please are character driven.

Think about it? What’s weird about p***? Well besides how many men in straight porn leave their socks on and “lesbians” with long fingernails? It’s the alleged stories that make no sense, the alleged plots that go nowhere because hey, just when you think “isn’t the pizza man going to get in trouble? Can he take this much time out, he’s probably at most making minimum wage plus tips” hey look, they’re having sex and wow, I didn’t even think you could do that with an anchovie.

Hey look it's contributor Sassafras Lowrey looking angry and smart!

But if the characters in your erotica actually seem like real people with lives other than sex lives, you’re drawn in. We want to know what happens next to Xan West’s boy/girl. Do they go out for dinner? (BTW side note: West’s story is some of the most boundary breaking erotica I’ve heard in a while, and a much more fun way to talk about gender than arguing about it, which is what our community seems to love most). We want to know, what happens to Sassafras Lowrey’s first person narrator when they go back to the club?

Hey look it's contributor Perez with a very cool story (first time writing erotica!) and very cool tie

So that’s why you should buy, steal, borrow (well mostly just buy I suppose, I don’t suppose the point of a virtual book tour is to encourage people to STEAL the book) yourself a copy of Say Please. And attend the events; so far April 22 in Boston and May 2 in Seattle. Keep your eye on the Say Please website for more info.

100 percent less awkward, 100 percent more sexy, populated with real characters.

Because we all know our community is imbued with real characters, right?

PS

Sexy book cover right? I love the Cleis Press' page gives the command "immerse yourself in the world of lesbian kink" Way to be toppy Cleis!

PPS If you hated this post because it wasn’t sexy enough, you should totally visit these other stops on the virtual tour, who are REAL sex writers!

Kelli Dunham’s Good Ol’ Fashioned Queer Comedy Revival Show at the Little Hamilton

Saturday May 5th at 9 PM

You don’t need to get a ticket in advance, but we’d be so thrilled if you’d RSVP on facebook.

Read more about the history behind this tour and other shows in Atlanta, New Orleans, Huntsville,  Memphis and Knoxville here.

Kelli Dunham’s Good Ol’ Fashioned Queer Comedy Revival Show at the Flying Monkey

Ex–nun, nerd, comic: Kelli Dunham’s Good Ol’ Fashioned Queer Comedy Revival Show is lively one person storytelling comedy show that promises to answer all of life’s important questions:
What is butch butt?
Why were there so many failed tubal ligations the year Kelli was born?
Is it okay to call your mom for the sole purpose of obtaining comedy material?
What does being over 40 have to do with dead rabbits and the butch ego?
How many library books can one person take on vacation anyway?

KELLI DUNHAM is a ex-nun, genderqueerious stand-up nerd comic, one of Velvet Park Magazine’s 25 Significant Queer Women of 2011 and author of four books of humorous non-fiction, including two children’s books being used by Sonlight conservative home schooling association in their
science curriculum.

Watch a little bit of Kelli…you’’ll want to see more!

Kelli has performed nationwide at LGBT pride events (Seattle, Long Beach CA, Rhode Island, Baltimore, Atlanta), colleges (University of Delaware, Penn State University, Smith College, Temple University, Colorado State University) and even the occasional livestock auction. Both her comedy CDs, “I am NOT a 12 Year Old Boy” and “Almost Pretty”are on regular rotation on Sirius Satellite Radio’s mainstream comedy station and she has appeared on Showtime and the Discovery Network.

She was the winner of the 2007 Fresh Fruit Festival Award of Distinction for stand up comedy, although she has never before or since been called distinguished.

Wednesday May 2nd at 8 PM

Flying Monkey Theater Lowe Mill,

2211 Seminole Drive, Hunstville, AL

Tickets 5 bucks at the door.

You don’t need advance tickets, but we’d be oh so pleased if you’d RSVP on facebook.

Read more about the history behind this tour and other shows in Atlanta, New Orleans, Huntsville, Nashville and Knoxville here.

Kelli Dunham’s Good Ol’ Fashioned Queer Comedy Revival Show at Memphis Lesbian and Gay Center
Ex–nun, nerd, comic: Kelli Dunham’s Good Ol’ Fashioned Queer Comedy Revival Show is lively one person storytelling comedy show that promises to answer all of life’s important questions:
What is butch butt?
Why were there so many failed tubal ligations the year Kelli was born?
Is it okay to call your mom for the sole purpose of obtaining comedy material?
What does being over 40 have to do with dead rabbits and the butch ego?
How many library books can one person take on vacation anyway?

Tuesday May 1 at the Lesbian and Gay Community Center, Memphis, TN

892 South Cooper, Memphis, TN 38104

Free, with a pass the hat afterwards.

You don’t need reservations, but can you pretty please RVSP on facebook?

Read more about the history behind this tour and other shows in Atlanta, New Orleans, Huntsville, Nashville and Knoxville here.

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