Fullerton College Library

Queer Book Club

Ever been a book club member? There’s never been a better time to connect with fellow literature lovers. The Queer Book Club includes instructors, staff, and students. Allies welcome!

We’ve discussed: 1) white fragility, 2) not being brown enough or queer enough, 3) Spanish language in popular American literature, 4) white feminism vs. brown feminism, 5) the hegemony of the canon, & 6) a space cat, of course.

This group was created in response to students’ request at the 2019 LGBTQ+ Student Forum.

Join us for a meeting. Even if you don’t have time to read the book; we enjoy seeing your face & we appreciate the experiences and thoughts that you share.

Join our 2x-per-semester book club talks via Zoom or in-person!

Want more info? Contact Monique Delatte, mdelatte@fullcoll.edu. The next meeting will be: Nov. 17, Friday, 2p-3p . We’ll meet in the library meeting room, 820-P, which is near the library classroom.

Join our next Queer Book Club meeting to discuss: Confidence, a novel by Rafael Frumkin. The author will join us via Zoom!

The Queer Book Club will read one book per semester, and we’ll meet to discuss roughly half of each title before midterms and again before finals.

A previous read was David Sedaris‘ new collection of essays, Happy-Go-Lucky. 
Another great (previous) read:
Even if you can’t find time to read the book, please join us!🙃
We appreciate the experiences/thoughts that you share.Book Cover, 2 Boys Kissing

 

Another prior selection was: The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For, by Alison Bechdel.

Read the NPR review : )
QUEER BOOK CLUB FLYER

"Confidence" by Rafael Frumkin

QBC’s Past Reads

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Falling in Love with Hominids by Nalo Hopkinson

Critic Jason Heller writes that Hopkinson’s stories “dazzle with a hard-won sense of hope.” 

On a Sunbeam BY TILLIE WALDEN

LA Times Book Prize – Winner, Hugo Award – Nominee, Lambda Literary Award – Nominee, Publishers Weekly Best Books of the Year, Harvey Award, Washington Post Best Books of the Year

THE SONG OF ACHILLES BY MADELINE MILLER

New York Times bestseller, Orange Prize

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Angels in America by Tony Kushner

Pulitzer Prize for Drama,
Tony Award for Best Play,
Desk Award for Outstanding Play

STONE BUTCH BLUES BY LESLIE FEINBERG

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1994 Lambda Literary Award finalist in the category of Lesbian Fiction

1994 American Library Association Gay & Lesbian Book Award

HEDWIG & THE ANGRY INCH BY John Cameron Mitchell

Sundance Film Festival, Best Director Award

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Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera

American Library Association Top Ten selection,
Over the Rainbow Project winner,
Independent Publisher Book Award for Gay/Lesbian/Bi/Trans Fiction silver award winner. 

Females by Andrea Long Chu

Well-reviewed in Vogue, LA Times, & NPR

Queer Book Club Reads & Intersection

 

 

 

  • Gay Jewish writers
  1. Two Boys Kissing Levithan, David
  2. Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes Kushner, Tony

 

  • Queer Black female writers
  1. Falling in Love with Hominids Hopkinson, Nalo (Caribbean, raised in Jamaica, Guyana, Trinidad, and Canada)
  2. You Should See Me in a Crown Johnson, Leah

 

 

 

 

  • Gay writer, Primarily of Greek decent, but also of Middle-Eastern and Ashkenazi Jewish descent
    1. Happy-Go-Lucky Sedaris, David

 

 

  • Queer writer
  1. Hedwig and the Angry Inch: Broadway Edition Mitchell, John Cameron (nonbinary)
    • (co-writer, Stephen Trask is of Jewish descent)