You may have received Fatale’s holiday postcard last week announcing our gift to you this holiday season—complimentary shipping, no minimum purchase required.

Fatale’s sexy gift sets offer lots of choices for all your sweeties—and don’t forget those December and January birthdays!

We’ve also got something new for you—Fatale Media Gift Certificates. You asked for it, we listened.

Here are some of the highlights of Fatale’s new gift certificates:

–You decide how much the gift certificate is for, even if it’s an odd amount

–No minimums

–No expirations

–Add a personalized message if you like

–E-mailed right to you or to your gift recipient, your choice

–Redeem online or via phone order

Remember, gift certificates make the perfect last-minute gifts, too. Plus, we ship worldwide.

Check it out – http://www.fatalemedia.com/gift_certificate.html

With a Fatale Media Gift Certificate, you can’t go wrong.

Happy Hanukkah!

Yours in good love and sex,

Nan & Christi
nan@fatalemedia.com
christi@fatalemedia.com

P.S. Check out Fatale’s best lesbian videos and choice assortment of sexy gift sets.

Our friends in New York keep us up on what’s happening in Chelsea, and especially what’s happening with the Stonewall veteran and our friend Stormé.

Best known for her role in the 1969 Stonewall Riots, Stormé worked as a male impersonator and performed with the Jewel Box Revue at the Apollo Theater and many other legendary venues.

Nan still has the framed photo of Stormé in her heyday, which Stormé gave her many years ago, on her dresser.

“A Toast to Stormé DeLarverie” offered some good news about Stormé—she has been moved to a different nursing home in Brooklyn, CABS Nursing Home, where a friend of hers lives. It’s “a much nicer facility,” Ed Hamilton writes in this Chelsea Hotel blog posting. Good!

There was a benefit for Stormé that took place the Sunday before Thanksgiving at Henrietta Hudson’s in the West Village. We remember when Stormé was Henrietta Hudson’s bouncer, but more than that, she became our friend when Christi and Nan lived in Chelsea on 20th Street.

Our friend Kate wrote an e-mail update about the afternoon at Henrietta’s:

“The benefit was a huge success! The place was totally jammed and jumping and spilling onto the street. Stormé was there, overlooking the crowd, on a slightly elevated platform, in her wheelchair, receiving well-wishers. I was finally able to get up to her and we had a brief conversation, although it was hard to hear her over the din.  There were balloons floating about and lots of elbow-to-elbow dancing to quite loud music. A good time was had by all and it was a wonderful tribute to Stormé.”

Thanks, Kate!

Katrina Fox is the amazing editor-in-chief of the online magazine The Scavenger. Each month, she cooks up a brew of articles—about sexual health, sexual life, social justice, the media, feminism and pop culture, “gender diversity” and much, much more. We admire Katrina’s tireless devotion to The Scavenger, a damned good monthly read.

Here are some offerings from the November issue, and just so you know, the monthly issues tend to arrive mid-month:

“In defence of stripping and sex work,” an interview with Zahra Stardust by Katrina Fox

“Addressing racism and classism in animal rights activism” by Stephanie Lai

“Am I genderqueer?” by Tiara the Merchgirl

Snip from this last piece: “My question(s) stem from this: I don’t feel like I can neatly relate to masculinity or femininity (and also butch or femme) as contemporary Western culture, or even Malaysian/Bengali culture, defines them.”

Food for thought and worth reading.

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Speaking of which, one of the first genderqueer titles Fatale put out was Full Load: Scenes from ssspread.com.

We called it an “FTM and lesbian sex video.” It is still one of the best for its explicit views of genderqueers, thanks to the superb camerawork of Barbara DeGenevieve.

What a week. First we were absolutely thrilled to see the San Francisco Giants win the World Series over the Texas Rangers. And the parade on Wednesday! That feeling of elation everywhere.

The San Jose Mercury News called it “a party for the ages.” We couldn’t agree more.

Did the parade take the edge off Election Day results this week? Perhaps.

President Obama’s picture on the front page of yesterday’s New York Times was rather shocking, his “shellacking” notwithstanding.

We recommend an article by Timothy Egan, also published in the Times’ Web site, “How Obama Saved Capitalism and Lost the Midterms.” 

Snip: ”For no matter your view of President Obama, he effectively saved capitalism. And for that, he paid a terrible political price.”

On a completely other note, we received an e-mail from a reader who asked about Suzy Suburbanite. We’ve linked to Suzy’s main site for a long time and didn’t realize she hadn’t been too active. We found “Suzy’s Travel Blog” but there hasn’t been a posting for years. Hmm.

Anybody know where Suzy has gone? Is she okay? Let us know, and we’ll update you next time.

We watched half-aghast, half-laughing earlier this week as Carl Paladino, the Upstate New York Republican nominee for governor, stumbled his way through bad-mouthing gays and lesbians in front of some Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn.

Oh, where was Mel Brooks when we needed him? Or, for that matter, David Sedaris?

In case you missed it, here’s the YouTube clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKL9TRaePww

In case you missed it and don’t feel like watching a Carl Paladino YouTube clip, here’s one of the choicest lines:

–“I just think my children and your children would be much better off and much more successful getting married and raising a family, and I don’t want them brainwashed into thinking that homosexuality is an equally valid and successful option — it isn’t.”

Last we heard, and please correct us if we’re wrong, Paladino doesn’t believe queers should get married and raise a family. Hmm.

Last we heard, homosexuality wasn’t an “option.” You are or you’re not. Or maybe you’re somewhere in between, a bisexual, a pansexual or similar. But you don’t sit down and say, “Gee, I think I’ll be a homosexual.”

Hard because we’d just read about a Bronx gang’s torture of a drag queen and two teenagers for being gay.

Hard because Tyler Clementi had just jumped to his death off the George Washington Bridge after his same-sex date night was broadcast over the Internet by his Rutgers roommate.

Just hard.

Then Paladino apologized. Public relations people will tell you that apologies, if not handled correctly, can actually be worse than the original sin.

One of Christi’s Upstate New York relatives wrote on Facebook, “Yeah, and when he says he’s going to look out for the well-being of all New Yorkers, how can he be believed if [to him] some of that population does not live a valid lifestyle.

“This guy [will] have the LGBT community sleeping with the fishes.”

Gurgle, gurgle.

Till next time, yours in good love and sex,

Nan & Christi
nan@fatalemedia.com
christi@fatalemedia.com

P.S. See Fatale’s best lesbian videos.

Director Shar Rednour at the camera with producer Nan Kinney

We adore Shar Rednour and her partner, Jackie Strano. They are the duo behind S.I.R. Video, creators of some of the best lesbian porn we know.

Full disclosure: Fatale Media is the exclusive distributor for S.I.R. Video movies.

Not long ago, Shar started a new blog, Great Sex Good Mom, all about “how great sex made me a good mom.”

One thing Shar points out is that her parents were affectionate with each other in front of the kids. And why not? Does it make us, as adults, less loving? We don’t think so.

One of the blog posts we especially liked was all about candlelight. Subtitled “How to create a romantic setting even when baseballs threaten,” this is a lovely sex tips piece from the queen of hot sex.

We love candlelight, too. Thanks, Shar, for drawing our attention to how romantic it can be.

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To see Shar and Jackie in one of Fatale’s bestselling DVDs, check out Hard Love and How to Fuck in High Heels. Tristan Taormino (Pucker Up, Village Voice) wrote: “Dyke drama at its finest, Hard Love is the story of two former girlfriends who can’t resist a last roll in the hay….The plot’s climax between the exes—Strano and newcomer C.C. Bell—is genuine, explosive, and one of the best lesbian sex scenes ever made.”

Facebook invitations are a dime a dozen, and we ignore most of them. But every now and then, some invite captures our imagination…or plain old curiosity.

An invitation to like “Love”—just Love with a capital L, nothing more—sounded worthwhile. Who doesn’t like love? Who doesn’t love to be loved?

Well, we did see that tables-turned HBO documentary Teenage Paparazzo. Maybe love can go too far.

Ditto with stalking. Which is kinda what the paparazzi do on a regular basis. And we love them for it, those camera-wielders.

From the “Like” Love area we moved on to see what else had recently been posted, and we found io9’s piece “about this weekend’s conference for brainy pervs,” “The future of sexology comes to San Francisco with the Arse Elektronika conference.” Great photo.

We recommend Saturday evening “Making Spaces for Sex: From Rituals to Parties to Playa” hosted by Carol Queen. 8:30 PM. There’s more information at Monochrom.

Carol Queen, in case you don’t know, instructs and stars in (with hubby Robert Morgan) Fatale’s bestselling Bend Over Boyfriend. Worth a look, if you haven’t seen this or tried it yourself.

When it comes to science fiction and sex, though, to our minds nobody tops Shar Rednour’s Sugar High Glitter City when it comes to pure dyke sci-fi sex.

Named “Best Lesbian Porn” by LesbianLife.About.com, there’s some of the hottest dildo action in this we’ve ever seen.

Till next time, yours in good love and sex,

Nan & Christi
nan@fatalemedia.com
christi@fatalemedia.com

P.S. Click here to see all Fatale’s videos.

September already, and the 9/11anniversary has passed, albeit with protests on the street regarding the Muslim mosque that is slated to go into the old Burlington Coat Factory two blocks from ground zero. Christi has been on the East Coast for a couple weeks, closer to the fray.

The Pope has reiterated the Catholic Church’s opposition to gay marriage…so what else is new, right?

Watching all the Catholic school kids headed off to school in their uniforms after Labor Day, we were inspired to get out Afterschool Special, the knock-‘em-dead amateur porn flick by “Miss Hussy.” She gathered a posse of her college dyke friends and shot the whole thing.

What a party! Makes us long for school again, with all those delicious bodies ripe for the taking.

If you haven’t seen it lately, we highly recommend this lesbian classic.

Till next time, yours in good love and sex,

Nan & Christi
nan@fatalemedia.com
christi@fatalemedia.com

P.S. See  more about Afterschool Special and Turn Me Up Over and On.

During a visit to Florida recently, Christi watched one evening as couples gathered on the beach near sundown, some of them under cabanas but mostly just sprawled on towels, lying face-up to watch the evening sky darken.

A long line of airplanes, lit like planets in themselves, were aligned across the eastern sky, each of them headed toward Miami. Behind the beach runs the Hollywood (Florida) boardwalk where couples strolled hand in hand and restaurants filled with hungry diners.

It was after Labor Day and before “winter,” as the locals call it here—that time when northerners descend on the state and locals “can’t get a place to park.”

It was steamy and sexy all at once. Those couples lying on the beach, couples holding hands on the boardwalk, all lost in private reverie.

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To see a good DVD for couples in love, check out Female Ejaculation for Couples.

This past two weeks we saw Proposition 8 stuck down, with U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker, saying that the California proposition was “unconstitutional.”

Then just this past week, we saw the New York Times breaking news that California gay and lesbian couples who wanted to get married would have to wait—again, until Wednesday, August 18th.

We posted a comment on Fatale’s Facebook page, and now we wait with bated breath to see what happens next.

Till victory.

Yours in good love and sex,

Nan & Christi
nan@fatalemedia.com
christi@fatalemedia.com