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Maryland = Mom's Gay=20 Fiction Makes Her the Next Big Writer =

by Rahne=20 = Alexander

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Ivey Banks, an Odenton = mom, won=20 top prize for her new novel, Out of the = Dark .=20 Her work can be read by logging onto h= ttp://www.baltimoregaylife.com/Books/www.thenextbigwriter.com.=20 For detailed information on intersex = issues from=20 the Intersex Society of North America, = visit http://www.ba= ltimoregaylife.com/Books/www.isna.org.

Ivey Banks has = been writing=20 fiction in her spare time for 13 years. In = recent=20 months, the southern Maryland mother of = three has=20 posted installments of her coming-of-age = novel=20 Out Of The Dark on the web-based = writing=20 workshop TheNextBigWriter.com, with quite=20 unexpected results.

In July, Out = Of The=20 Dark nabbed the top prize at=20 TheNextBigWriter.com novel writing = contest,=20 emerging victorious over 200 other novels = posted=20 over six months. What really sets the = novel apart,=20 however, is the subject matter. The novel = is the=20 first of a series of five novels following = the=20 HIV-positive Thorn MacDonnell and five = quirky=20 teachers who open up their world to him. = One of=20 them, Shane Fetters, first becomes Thorn's = closest=20 friend, and later his first love.

Gay Life=20 interviewed Ivey Banks from her = Odenton=20 home.

After 13 = years of=20 writing, it must feel really rewarding to = have=20 your work noticed.

I'm still getting = used to=20 phone calls and emails. It's exciting to = know that=20 people are interested in hearing about the = book=20 and the characters. There's nothing more = rewarding=20 as a writer.

Let's talk about = the=20 characters in Out Of The Dark . = Thorn is=20 the main character, and he's an = HIV-positive=20 teenager.

Thorn does have = HIV and he=20 also has a form of leukemia. I found in my = research that it's not an altogether = uncommon=20 thing. A lot of times, kids do get hit = with both,=20 and each exacerbates the other. It leads = to a very=20 difficult existence at times, and I wanted = to=20 portray that. Kids born with HIV, they can = have=20 very normal kinds of lives. Their feelings = are=20 just like any other teenager's, and I = wanted to=20 show that they are out there living and = struggling=20 like any other teenager. So that's what I = think I=20 managed to do with Thorn. He does have = some=20 difficulties, but like any other kid, he = doesn't=20 want to let those define him. At the same = time,=20 Thorn doesn't think he's going to live = forever, so=20 he's in a hurry to experience everything = he=20 possibly can. Being fourteen, he has no = sense that=20 he has limitations. Like most teenagers, = he's in=20 the door, grab something to eat, and he's = running=20 out the back door.

You've received = compliments=20 from some readers on your portrayal of = Thorn's=20 teenage crushes.

Some of the most = avid=20 readers were gay men who read it and loved = the way=20 I expressed Thorn's early feelings, when = he had=20 first begun to have feelings for his male = teacher=20 and didn't know how to deal with them. = Hearing=20 from gay men that feel I got it right was = a=20 tremendous validation as a writer.

Shane is one of = the=20 teachers, and he happens to be = intersexed.

You first meet = Shane as a=20 21-year-old math teacher. He's still young = enough,=20 at 21, to still be searching to find out = who he is=20 and what he wants out of life. He's got = this=20 tremendous responsibility, being a math = teacher,=20 in helping young people find their own = way. Being=20 intersexed is not brought out as a major = issue for=20 him, because if I focused too heavily on = that=20 aspect, it would be sort of showing what's = different about him, when one of the major = points=20 of my writing is more to focus on the = things that=20 bring us all together. Basically you find = out, and=20 situations crop up where, there are some=20 difficulties. For example, he marries = young in an=20 attempt to fulfill the male role that had = been=20 thrust upon him. He does have some = problems with=20 the relationship with his wife.

Why did = you decide=20 to write Shane as an intersexed character? =

That was the way = he=20 revealed himself to me. Always, in the = back of my=20 mind, I wanted to do a character like him, = because=20 I think so many people in our society = really don't=20 have a good comprehension of what that = entails. I=20 wanted to present a character that would = appeal=20 not only to those who are intersexed, or = to a gay=20 and lesbian audience, but to a general = population.=20 I wanted to present it almost casually, as = just=20 the way some people are born. I didn't = expect=20 Shane to be that character. I had always = thought=20 that was a future goal, for when I was = older,=20 smarter, a more sensitive writer. But I = realized=20 he already was that character.

Have you = had any=20 response yet from the intersex=20 community?

I did do a lot of = research,=20 obviously, for the intersex issues and for = the HIV=20 angle for Thorn. I did contact the = Intersex=20 Society of North America, and they were = extremely=20 helpful while I was getting the manuscript = ready.=20 I hope to keep that support once they do = read it.=20 They did caution me that my character = Shane, being=20 male, is not the typical case. Most = children who=20 are born intersexed are socialized as = female,=20 which I knew going into it. I considered = making=20 him female. But he was a tremendous = character in=20 his own right, and I would have been = destroying=20 some of the things that were strongest and = best=20 about him in trying to reshape him into = something=20 that he wasn't.

It's great that = what you do=20 for fun can be an educational tool for = others.

In talking to my = friends=20 who are straight sometimes I am surprised = at the=20 misconceptions that exist about people who = are=20 struggling with gender-identity issues. = People are=20 surprised at those of us who have gay = friends. I=20 remember a few years ago a friend was = appalled=20 that I let a gay friend come spend the = week at my=20 house because I had a young son. That kind = of=20 attitude is what prompts me to try to = help, in my=20 own tiny little way, reach some of those=20 distances, and show that a relationship = between=20 two men is no different than a = relationship=20 between a man and a woman. And it's not = about sex.=20 They're soulmates. It's about who they are = on the=20 inside. =

Posted August 4, = 2006

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