I’ll be reading with other Queer + Catholic authors on September 4th & 5th in NY. Do come!
Queer and Catholic is an essay collection that examines the culture of how being raised Catholic informs and influences, positively or negatively, our queerness and how our queerness affects our Catholicism, our vestigial Catholic nature or even our flight from and continued struggle with the ʽthe Church of Rome.ʼ Whether we embrace or reject our Catholic upbringings, they affect and shape who we are and bump up against our queer identities. Examining the culture of Catholicism, rather than the dogma or letter of it, these essays and short stories do not seek to address whether or not queers and the Catholic Church can reconcile or how and why the church should change, but instead explore the impact that growing up Catholic and queer has on us as individuals, writers, and political agents.
Join editor Amie M. Evans and contributors Helen Boyd, Joseph de Marco, Anthony Easton, Stephen Greco, Vince Sgambati, Charlie Vazquez and Emanuel Xavier as they read from their contributions to the anthology.
- Thursday, September 4 at 6:30PM, CUNY Grad Center, 365 5th Avenue, Skylight Room, (Rm 9100, T. 212-817-7000)
- Friday, September 5th at 7PM, Bluestockings, 172 Allen St (btwn Rivington and Stanton Street).
edited to add: the San Francisco reading is tonight at SF’s Main Library, 100 Larkin Street, 6PM.
Since I grew up Catholic (and later discovered that I’m queer), I’m eager to have a look at the new book. Wish I could make the readings, but Manhattan is a long way from Denver. Best of luck with it!
i’ve put the bluestockings reading in my calendar.