| Valencia | |
| Author: | Michelle Tea |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Genre: | Novel |
| Publisher: | Seal Press |
| Release Date: | 2000 |
| Media Type: | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages: | 216 pp (first edition, hardback) |
| Isbn: | 1-58005-238-X |
Valencia is a 2000 Lambda Literary Award-winning[1] novel by Michelle Tea. It is an autobiographical novel 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.[3] The film premiered at the Frameline Film Festival in May 2013.[4]