Our first e-book sale! Thank you!

We just sold our first copy of the e-book Becoming Betty Desire!  Thank you Betty supporter!

Just Published! Betty E-book!

Just published, Becoming Betty Desire: a conversation with Matt Endrizzi as an e-book through Smashwords.com!  

You can buy this e-book at this link https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/461223.  

This e-book is being sold as a fund-raiser for Betty Desire the Movie.  

You can decide how much you'd like to contribute by buying at the full list price of $29.99, or use one of the coupon codes here to pay a lower price.  For the e-book at $19.99, enter coupon code NJ79A (not case-sensitive).  For Betty's book at $9.99, enter the coupon code RR94U.  To pay $4.99, enter coupon code ZW75N.  Your purchase at any price will help us to our goal of making Betty's story into a documentary.  

If you'd like to contribute more to Betty the Movie, there's a Donate button if you scroll down in this blog!

(Betty's e-book is not available on Amazon and won't be until we sell at least 2,000 copies, but it will soon be available through most other e-book retailers.  It should, however, work with your Kindle, or so we've been told.)

We still need YOU!

Our June 20 deadline to get ready for 2014 Pride came and went, unfortunately, without enough funds raised.  We still need YOU to help us make this film a reality.  Please donate today!  Thanks!

Here's Betty Desire the Movie's donate button!!

Please donate today!  Help Betty Desire the Movie get started!

 

Here's the button!

Please donate by June 20 to help us get ready for Pride!

Friends and fans of Betty,
Your donation by June 20 will help us get started in time for 2014 Gay Pride.  Please help!
Thank you.

Help fund Betty Desire the Movie

There are times when a story grabs you, won’t let go, and absolutely needs to be told.  That’s the story of Betty Desire.  That’s why I’ve set up this blog with a Donate button.  To raise money to make a documentary telling Betty’s tale.   

Whether you’re new to Betty or, like me, one of her longtime friends and fans, I hope you’ll send something our way.   Even a dollar or two.  Every contribution will help us make this project a reality.

We don’t have nonprofit status yet, but we’re working on it.  We have a verbal commitment from a fiscal sponsor, but we have to jump some hoops which cost money before we can qualify.     

What you’ll get for your contribution is our heartfelt thanks and the knowledge that you’re helping us get one step closer to telling Betty’s story.

And a grateful thanks to photographer John Phillip, NW Photo John, for allowing this project to use his photos of Betty. 

About Betty Desire

For those who have never met Betty Desire, she’s a drag queen.  But she’s not typical.  Her wigs and make-up are never perfect and due to her cerebral palsy she can’t walk in high heels.  She wears running shoes. 

She’s my friend, Matt Endrizzi’s alter ego.  When the wig and the make-up come off, he’s a gay man, father of two, and currently grandfather of two more.  

 

Here’s what Kathy Reim, PFLAG Pacific Northwest Regional Director says about Betty:

“I love the story- not just because I admire Betty but also because I think it is an interesting / compelling story at many levels.  Betty has been a powerful political activist for progressive causes as well, and she has been my mentor and inspiration.”

                                                           

From KOMO news reporter Kera Wanielista’s blog:

“Endrizzi, both as Betty and not, has made a huge impact on Bellingham's LGBT community. Being an active and visible part of the community, and a beacon of acceptance for people who may be struggling with their own coming out process.”

             

             Bellingham’s 2012 Most Fascinating People - Betty Desire topped the list

And from a KOMO reader:

"Betty and the people she introduces to the audience provide the opportunity to open minds and hearts to the fact that we are not as different as we seem, but all human, in fact, with much to offer one another."