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  • “My Queer Cinema” with Douglas Messerli

    Book Soup 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA, United States

    Douglas Messerli will sign and speak about his new book "My Queer Cinema," an encyclopedic work with hundreds of titillating stills that reveals how cinema has always relied on queer imagery to add excitement and to show what it might pretend doesn't exist. The first volume discusses 180 films, and begins with an examination of the first on-screen kiss, which Read More ...

  • Queer and Ally Book Club

    Chevalier's Books 133 North Larchmont Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA, United States

    Queer & Ally Book Club at Chevalier's Books | Monthly LGBTQ+ Community Book Discussion | Los AngelesJoin Alexia Gyorody and David Canfield, virtually or in-person, monthly on the 2nd Monday for Queer and Ally Book Club!Chevalier's Books, Los Angeles' oldest independent bookstore, is our gracious host. Please note: This event is marked "online" to highlight the Zoom option as space Read More ...

    Free
  • READ LIKE A WRITER w/ Rasheed Newson

    Reparations Club 3054 South Victoria Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, United States

    Join Permission To Write at Rep Club for a book-club-meets-writers-group with There's Only One Sin In Hollywood author Rasheed Newson WHO & WHAT: Join Permission To Write at Rep Club for a book-club-meets-writers-group with 'There's Only One Sin In Hollywood' author Rasheed Newson. Read Like a Writer invites participants to slow down and study how Black authors build their books Read More ...

    Free
  • WeHo Reads: Into the Unknown

    Online (virtual event)

    Five queer authors open portals to spectacular new worlds and dare us to get lost in them. Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2026 · 6:30 - 8:00 p.m. Online via Zoom and YouTube What can we discover in worlds that have never existed? And how does queer imagination remake the rules of magic, adventure, and belonging? On Oct. 14, five queer authors Read More ...