"Paras Borgohain is a screenwriter for diverse audiences, including eight broadcast seasons of Sesame Street and a feature for Turner Broadcast International. He was a 2016 BlueCat Screenplay Award recipient, and one of the twelve writers recommended for the Scriptapalooza Screenwriting Fellowship in 2017 - both in recognition of his queer epistolary drama Deepest, Darkest or How Not to Lie. He is currently developing two feature screenplays and a limited miniseries."Leventhal, Stan: - STAN LEVENTHAL, author, editor, and publisher, lived in New York City in the 1980s through 1995 where he died of AIDS. He is fondly remembered as a generous, genuine and passionate advocate for social causes and other writers. He was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award three times: for he debut novel Mountain Climbing in Sheridan Square, Faultlines and The Black Marble Pool. He published one other novel and three collections of short stories. He served as a judge for the annual Bill Whitehead Memorial Award and was a member of the Publishing Triangle Steering Committee. His short stories and reviews appeared in Outweek, The Advocate, The New York Native, Torso, Mandate, Exquisite Corpse, The James White Review and Gaylaxian Gayzette. In addition, his work appeared in the anthologies: Gay Life, edited by Eric E. Rofes; Shadows of Love, edited by Charles Jurris; The Stiffest of the Corpse, edited by Andrei Codrescu; and Sword of the Rainbow, edited by Eric Garber and Jewelle Gomez. The author was actively involved in the fight for literacy. His message to his readers: "Literature is crucial to our lives; reading is fun."