| Valencia | |
|---|---|
| Author(s) | Michelle Tea |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Seal Press |
| Publication date | 2000 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 216 pp (first edition, hardback) |
| ISBN | ISBN 158005238X |
Valencia is a 2000 Lambda Literary Award-winning[1] novel by Michelle Tea. It is a autobiographical and picaresque detailing the narrator's experiences in San Francisco's queer subculture. It includes experimentation with consensual sado-masochism after the author meets Petra, a knife-wielder; as well as Willa, a tormented poet; and Iris, a young butch who escaped from a repressive Southern upbringing to San Francisco [2]
During 2011, Valencia was adapted into an arthouse film, with twenty-one different lesbian and queer directors enlisted to film each of the book's twenty-one chapters within a series of short film segments. They include Cheryl Dunye, Courtney Trouble, trans film maker Amos Mac, documentarian Hilary Goldberg and others. Filming has been completed and the film is currently in post-production, scheduled to be released at film festivals in 2012 [3]