Our Pride Month title is Fine: a Comic About Gender  by Rhea Ewing

Tender and wise, inclusive and inviting, Fine is an indispensable account for anyone eager to define gender in their own terms. Register here.

In our G(r)ay Matter Book Group we discuss works by contemporary LGBTQIA+ and Two-spirit authors in a variety of genres, including fiction, history, memoirs, poetry, science fiction, and graphic novels.

Our May title is Flung Out of Space: Inspired by the Indecent Adventures of Patricia Highsmith by Grace Ellis, fictional and complex portrait of bestselling author Patricia Highsmith caught up in the longing that would inspire her queer classic, The Price of Salt.

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In our G(r)ay Matter Book Group we discuss works by contemporary LGBTQIA+ and Two-spirit authors in a variety of genres, including fiction, history, memoirs, poetry, science fiction, and graphic novels.

Our April title is Smahtguy: The Life and Times of Barney Frank  by Erik Orner

The acclaimed cartoonist of one of the country’s most popular and longest-running gay comic strips presents a dazzling, irreverent biography of the iconic and iconoclastic Barney Frank, one of the first gay and out congressmen and a front-line defender of civil rights.

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In our G(r)ay Matter Book Group we discuss works by contemporary LGBTQIA+ and Two-spirit authors in a variety of genres, including fiction, history, memoirs, poetry, science fiction, and graphic novels.

Our Women’s History Month title is What We Do in the Dark  by Michelle Hart
This simmering, unsettling novel reveals the consequences of desire and influence, portraying two women whose lives have been transformed by love, loss, and secrecy. REGISTER.

In our G(r)ay Matter Book Group we discuss works by contemporary LGBTQIA+ and Two-spirit authors in a variety of genres, including fiction, history, memoirs, poetry, science fiction, and graphic novels.

Our February title is The Memory Librarian: and Other Stories of Dirty Computer by Janelle Monae

Monáe and collaborators write of the Afrofuturistic world of her critically acclaimed album, exploring how different threads of liberation -- queerness, race, gender plurality and love—become tangled with future possibilities of memory and time in such a totalitarian landscape ... and what the costs might be when trying to unravel and weave them into freedoms. REGISTER HERE.

In our G(r)ay Matter Book Group we discuss works by contemporary LGBTQIA+ and Two-spirit authors in a variety of genres, including fiction, history, memoirs, poetry, science fiction, and graphic novels.

Our January title is High Risk Homosexual  by Edgar Gomez

This witty memoir traces a touching and often hilarious path to embracing a gay, Latinx identity against a culture of machismo—from cockfighting in Nicaragua to cities across the U.S.—and the bath houses, night clubs, and drag queens who help redefine pride. REGISTER HERE.

Our December title is In the Event of Love by Courtney Kae

This queer romcom combines everything people love about holiday romances with laugh-out-loud humor and a sweet and steamy love story between two women.

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In our G(r)ay Matter Book Group we discuss works by contemporary LGBTQIA+ and Two-spirit authors in a variety of genres.

Our November title is Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters

A whipsmart debut about three women—transgender and cisgender—whose lives collide after an unexpected pregnancy forces them to confront their deepest desires around gender, motherhood, and sex. REGISTER HERE.

In our G(r)ay Matter Book Group we discuss works by contemporary LGBTQIA+ and Two-spirit authors in a variety of genres.

Our October title is How to be ACE by Rebecca Burgess This graphic memoir follows the author as she navigates her asexual identity and mental health in a world obsessed with sex. REGISTER HERE.

In our G(r)ay Matter Book Group we discuss works by contemporary LGBTQIA+ and Two-spirit authors in a variety of genres.

Our Hispanic Heritage Month title is Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado

Machado shapes startling narratives that map the realities of women's lives and demolishes the arbitrary borders between psychological realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and fabulism.

In our G(r)ay Matter Book Group we discuss works by contemporary LGBTQIA+ and Two-spirit authors in a variety of genres, including fiction, history, memoirs, poetry, science fiction, and graphic novels.

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Our Pride Month title is Spellbound: a Graphic Memoir by Bishakh Som

This exquisite graphic novel memoir by a transgender artist explores the concept of identity by inviting the reader to view the author moving through life as she sees herself. Through candid autobiographical narrative, this book explores themes of gender and sexuality, memory and urbanism, love and loss.

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In our G(r)ay Matter Book Group we discuss works by contemporary LGBTQIA+ and Two-spirit authors in a variety of genres, including fiction, history, memoirs, poetry, science fiction, and graphic novels.

Our AAPI Month title is Love in the Big City by Sand Young Park

This funny, transporting, surprising, and poignant novel  tells the story of a young gay man searching for happiness in the lonely city of Seoul. REGISTER HERE.

In our G(r)ay Matter Book Group we discuss works by contemporary LGBTQIA+ and Two-spirit authors in a variety of genres, including fiction, history, memoirs, poetry, science fiction, and graphic novels.

Our Women’s History Month title is Bad Feminist: Essays by Roxanne Gay
In these funny and insightful essays, Gay takes us through the journey of her evolution as a woman of color while also taking readers on a ride through culture of the last few years and commenting on the state of feminism today. REGISTER

In our G(r)ay Matter Book Group we discuss works by contemporary LGBTQIA+ and Two-spirit authors in a variety of genres, including fiction, history, memoirs, poetry, science fiction, and graphic novels. All are welcome.

Our Black History Month title is How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir by Saeed Jones
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Haunted and haunting, How We Fight for Our Lives is a stunning coming-of-age memoir about a young, black, gay man from the South as he fights to carve out a place for himself within his family, within his country, within his own hopes, desires, and fears.
In our G(r)ay Matter Book Group we discuss works by contemporary LGBTQIA+ and Two-spirit authors in a variety of genres, including fiction, history, memoirs, poetry, science fiction, and graphic novels.