African-American Transgender Author Toni Newman Reading Her Memoir I Rise at 2nd Outwrite Book Fair

July 25, 2012 - PRLog -- African-American Transgender Author Toni Newman will be Reading Her Memoir I Rise-The Transformation of Toni Newman at 2nd Annual Outwrite Book Fair on 12:30pm, August 4, 2012 at the DC Center in Washington DC.  The Memoir I Rise has been adapted into Feature Film Heart of a Woman directed by Brit Keith Holland with Executive Producers Jay Gira (Form Theory Productions), Alton Demore (Original Screenwriter), and Shahid Manning (Millennia Scope Entertainment Foundation).   Several A-List Actors attached to the Film Heart of a Woman are Transgender Songtress/Actress Angelica Ross, Former PussyCat Doll Rachel Sterling, Soap Opera Star Daniel Sobieray,  Lifetime Client List Star Elisabeth Rohm and Def Jam Comedian Leslie Jones.  

I Rise is the true story of Toni Newman’s transformation from an internally conflicted male to a proud, pre-operative transsexual. Born the eldest son into a strict Christian family, Toni admits knowing from her earliest days that she “was a different bird born in the wrong body.” With laser-guided sincerity, curiosity, and above all, humor and compassion, Toni tells her story of being a “sissy boy,” a scholarship student, a business professional, an escort, a drag queen, a NYC prostitute, an LA dominatrix, and finally, a transsexual attending law school in order to help her transsexual sisters in need.

The DC Center for the LGBT Community is hosting OutWrite, its second annual queer books festival, on August 3rd and 4th. The OutWrite Book Fair seeks to redress the lack of a queer bookstore in the DC area, as well as promoting local queer writers from the DC community. OutWrite will be two days full of book readings, book vendors, book discussions, poetry readings and more.

OutWrite will be held at the DC Center at 1318 U Street Northwest, Washington DC, 20009. Over 15 exhibitors will be selling their books, ranging from romance subgenres, action and adventure, sci-fi, and children’s books. Featured events include head / heart / soul, a reading by Black LGBT poets, a storytelling performance on gender, sexuality, and our everyday lives by acclaimed performer, Kimberly Dark, and a discussion on intersectional activism with author Sharon Doetsch-Kidder. Various queer writers will be reading, including Toni D. Newman, the first African-American transgender woman to publish a Memoir and have it adapted into Feature Film called  Heart of a Woman, Brittany Fonte, and Wayne Hammond, both local authors.

OutWrite will take place from 6pm to 9pm on Friday, August 3rd, and 11am to 9pm on Saturday, August 4th. Over 1,000 new and used LGBT books will be for sale, For more information and event times, visit the OutWrite website at http://thedccenter.org/outwritedc/

To get more information on the Memoir I Rise go to http://www.tonidnewman.com and For Film Heart of a Woman go to http://www.heartofawomanmovie.com.   The publicist to the Book I Rise and Film Heart of a Woman and Public Relations for Author Toni Newman is Kayo Anderson of Kayo Anderson Media kayo@kayoandersonmedia.com 310.405.9839.