Join the Adult Services department and the Pride Center of NJ for Rainbow Reads! We will be discussing Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States, by Samantha Allen.
This program will take place at the Pride Center of New Jersey, 85 Raritan Ave #100, Highland Park.
Book description:
A trans reporter’s narrative tour through the surprisingly vibrant queer communities sprouting up in red states, offering a vision of a stronger, more humane America.
Samantha Allen has a deep love of red state America, and of queer people who stay in so-called flyover country rather than moving to the liberal coasts. In Real Queer America, Allen takes us on a cross-country road trip stretching all the way from Provo, Utah, to the Rio Grande Valley to the Bible Belt and to the Deep South. Making pit stops at drag shows, political rallies, and hubs of queer life across the heartland, she introduces us to extraordinary LGBT people working for change.
This book reclaims ‘real America’ as beautifully, unequivocally, powerfully queer. While Allen faces the dark realities and challenges of queer life in the United States head-on, her book is anything but despairing.
Join the Rainbow Reads Book Group to discuss books written by queer and trans authors or featuring queer and trans characters and themes. While this book group is centered on LGBTQ+ stories and authors, readers of all identities are invited to join and participate in respectful and fun conversation.
