Raquel "Rocky" Digati is an artist, writer and musician who hails originally from Bristol, Rhode Island. She has loved bones, skulls, bones and all things odd and grim since she was a kid walking around in the historic cemeteries of New England. Her dad ( and her sister, uncle and cousin) all were/are artists and art teachers. She's the black sheep of the family... as she works in the medical IT field by day, is an artist and writer by night, and a ( sometime) rock star singing and playing music on the weekends. She lives in a spooky old Victorian home in rural, South NJ. She thanks you for stopping by... and hopes you find bones, her work, and the world around us to be as curious odd, and beautiful as she does.

Charles F. Rosenay

Charles F. Rosenay!!! of Orange may be best known in Connecticut as the producer of the Connecticut Beatles conventions and festivals for over four decades, or as a professional DJ/MC/Entertainer for as many years. Last year, he published his first book, a pop culture collection titled “The Book of Top 10 Horror Lists,” which presented lists of favorite monster movies, actors, and other themes from one hundred celebrities. That first effort was finished during the pandemic, and now Charles has completed his second book, “True Ghost Stories of Connecticut.” In this new book, some of Connecticut’s best-known paranormal investigators, psychics, mediums, and ghost-hunters join everyday people in sharing their most memorable, scariest, and most unbelievable – but true - stories of the supernatural. Not only are they all true, but they happened in Connecticut, one of the most haunted states in America.

Thea Lewis

Vermont native Thea Lewis is a writer and creator of special events. When not touring, she’s stirring up fun with speaking engagements, pop-up events and big productions like Queen City Ghostwalk’s Halloween season showing of the classic film, Rocky Horror Picture Show. In addition to her work with The History Press, Thea has written a book for kids, There’s a Witch In My Sock Drawer! (Peapod Press, 2011). Her new book, True Crime Stories of Burlington, Vermont, was released in September, 2023. Find all of her books at independent booksellers like Phoenix Books in Burlington and Essex, Vermont and at amazon.com.

Duane Scott Cerny

Duane Scott Cerny is the co-owner of The Broadway Antique Market, Chicago oldest and largest multi-dealer vintage emporium. He is an essayist (New York Times), columnist (It's All My Fault, NYC's Village View), Poet, Performance Storyteller & Recording Artist, Les Disques

De La Mort, France. He can be seen on AmberLive.TV, Vermont's LGBTQ comedy talk show, with his segments "Amber's Crazy in the Attic."

transgender rights and more!

Metro Nashville Councilmember At-Large Olivia Hill was elected to office on September 14, 2023. The first out transgender person to ever run for office in the Volunteer State, she is one of five At-Large members elected countywide. A Nashville native, Olivia is a product of public schools. She is a Navy veteran who served in the engineering division for a decade, seeing combat in Desert Storm. While in service, she gained expertise in electrical engineering, a skill set she used to become the Senior Supervisor of the Vanderbilt University power plant, where she managed a 24/7 operation with a budget of more than $100 million. In recent years, Olivia has emerged as a community leader, educating the public about difficulties faced by women and the LGBTQ+ community. She is frequently invited to speak to many organizations, including the Metro Nashville Police Academy, Vanderbilt University, Nashville School of Law, churches, and Metro Nashville Social Services. A member of the board of directors of the Tennessee Pride Chamber, she was the 2023 Grand Marshall of the city’s Pride celebration. She received Vanderbilt University’s Chancellor’s Heart and Soul Award in 2019 and was chosen as the LGBTQ Advocate of the Year in 2020. In 2021, she sued Vanderbilt University for discrimination she endured after her transition, a suit she settled the following year. Olivia is completing her book chronicling her life with gender dysphoria and her transition beginning in 2018.

Mosaics: Community Bookstore & Venue in Provo, UT

Tara Lipsyncki (They/Them) is above all else, a proud transgender

activist. With hundreds of published interviews and panel discussions on

the topics of drag history, anti-trans legislation, First Amendment

rights, body autonomy rights of minors and women, and more, Tara has

been on the frontline of queer advocacy for over a decade. Since

relocating back to Salt Lake City, UT from San Francisco, CA in 2019,

Tara has worked tirelessly to bring diversity and inclusion to the

forefront in the queer nightlife and entertainment communities. From

being part of ARTEL talent in 2020, the first exclusively PoC and Trans

owned and operated collective of queer artists in Utah history, to

recently being the founding President of the non-profit The United Drag

Alliance, an all Trans lead group bringing financial assistance to

struggling members of the LGBTQIA+ community through the art of drag, in

2023.

Coming from an extensive professional performance background, including

skating professionally on Disney on Ice, Tara also has received

professional recognitions including a Certificate of Recognition from

the California State Senate for Drag Queens on Ice in 2018, Miss Golden

Gate 2019, Miss Gay Pride 2021, and Miss Gay USofA Newcomer West Coast

2021. In 2023 Tara published their first children's book, Letter From

The Queen, and is opening their own queer bookstore and performance

venue 5 minutes from the Mormon stronghold of BYU in Provo, UT.

Marc Tyler Nobleman talks a lot about the creation of Batman. A lot. He has written about it, and there's even a documentary based on his work! An important point in the narrative that he tells uses the word 'gay." It's part of the story. But recently he was spoken to after his first talk in a series at a Georgia school and told not to say "gay" again. That made national news. Now, it's happened again in Texas. Find out directly from Marc what happened and what he did about it.

Marc Tyler Nobleman, author/speaker

Marc Tyler Nobleman is an author of books for young readers including Bill the Boy Wonder: The Secret Co-Creator of Batman, which helped change the Batman credit line and inspired the Hulu documentary Batman & Bill.

Robusta Capp is a live singing drag performer and sometime male actress based in New York City. Working with nightlife folks such as Will Clark and former Empress of the Imperial Court of New York, Witti Repartee, honed her craft at The Ritz and Uncle Charlies in New York. She has also taken her incredibly well received two "girl" act, Dirty Little Ditties, with sister in song, Miss Jane Aquilina, across the United States. Robusta and her husband, P. William Pinto, also co-own their own theatre production company, Bizarre Noir, where they've put on over 30 shows in New York and Massachusetts over the past 16 years including Little Shop of Horrors, The Bad Seed, Die, Mommie, Die, and countless cabaret style shows, of which our latest is called Oh Wh*rey Night to premiere at the legendary Stonewall Inn on Christopher Street.

Brought to you by the drag queen comedy talk show, Amber Live.

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Pickle

Pickle is a live-singing, drag queen host, entertainer, and storyteller. A Los Angeles native, she attended Hamilton High School Academy of Music before receiving her BA in Liberal Arts from Sarah Lawrence College. Pickle has focused on blending education initiatives into her drag work and runs the LA chapter of Drag Story Hour. She has partnered with many organizations, including the Academy Museum, the Aquarium of

the Pacific, the City of West Hollywood, the Independent Shakespeare Company, LA County Library, LA Public Library, LACMA, the Music Center, Tinder, and many more, to present unique and dynamic drag programming.

Pickle is dedicated to expanding drag as a medium both for herself and for the community as a whole. She has appeared on television on NBC’s The Weakest Link, the Discovery Channel’s Dodgeball Thunderdome, and Tyler Perry’s Sistas. She collaborates regularly with live musicians to incorporate big-band sound into her performances and is committed to

exploring new technologies for the art of drag, including artificial intelligence and virtual reality. She is the first Drag Laureate of the City of West Hollywood.

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Danny Alias

Danny Alias is an American house music artist and playwright born in Norridge, Illinois. In 1984, he co-founded Persona Records with David Bell and released the single “Civil Defense,” an early example of Chicago house music which was played by DJ Ron Hardy. The label went on to release the first two singles by Jamie Principle and Frankie Knuckles: “Waiting on My Angel” and “Your Love.” In 2012, “Civil Defense” was re-issued on Kill the DJ, a French label founded by DJ Ivan Smagghe.

In 1990, Alias created Chicago’s Broadway Antique Market, a 20,000 square-foot multi-dealer shop specializing in mid-century modern collectibles. In 2018, Thunderground Press published his book Selling Dead People’s Things: Inexplicably True Tales, Vintage Fails & Objects of Objectionable Estates with anecdotes from his career as a vintage dealer.

Alias has also written two LGBT comedic spoofs, “Mrs. Hyde and the Case of the Gaslight Buggerings,” which debuted at the Athenaeum Theatre in 2009, and “The Bloody Fabulous Curse of Dragula,” which debuted at Mary’s Attic Theatre in 2010.