Bi+ Pride Milwaukee's Book Club meets bi-monthly (every other month)
@ the Milwaukee LGBT Center at 6:30 PM
315 W Court Street, Milwaukee, WI 53212
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Join Bi+ Pride Milwaukee for a book discussion at the LGBT Community Center. October's book is "One Last Stop" by Casey McQuiston, the queer and nonbinary author of a previous Bi+ Book Club read "Red, White, and Royal Blue"
Featuring a bisexual Main Character embarking on a sapphic romance, "One Last Stop" follows August Landry and Jane Su after they meet on the NYC Subway, and gives us a bit of Magical Realism along the journey.
Join Bi+ Pride Milwaukee for a book discussion at the LGBT Community Center. December's book is "The Raven and the Reindeer" by T. Kingfisher. Also known as Ursula Vernon, a Hugo, Nebula, and Mythopoeic Award winner several times over, Kingfisher brings readers an overtly queer retelling of Hans Christian Anderson's "The Snow Queen"
This book is the only book for the next year that isn't available from Milwaukee Public Library. However, a benefactor has provided a limited number of ebook versions of this text. If purchasing a copy of this book would be a financial hardship, please email bipridemilwaukee@gmail.com to request a donated copy.
Join Bi+ Pride Milwaukee for a book discussion at the LGBT Community Center. February's Book is "Heartstopper, Volume 1", a graphic novel from queer author Alice Oseman that tells the story of two modern British schoolboys (on of whom is bisexual) falling for each other and discovering themselves, surrounded by a diverse group of friends.
With a little bit of romance just before Valentine's Day, readers can also compare the graphic novel to the popular Netflix adaptation, now in its second season.
Join Bi+ Pride Milwaukee for a book discussion at the LGBT Community Center. April's book is "Baggage: Tales From a Fully Packed Life". This memoir from openly bisexual stage and screen actor Alan Cumming, who was once touted by the New York Observer as a "frolicky pansexual sex symbol for the new millennium" tells his story in this collection of anecdotes, recollections and musings where every chapter title ends in the letter "y".
Join Bi+ Pride Milwaukee for a book discussion at the LGBT Community Center. June's book is a Non-Fiction offering about science, Bisexual identity, and history from Julia Shaw, a queer Psychologist at the University of London and a member of the thinktank "Queer Politics" at Princeton University. We'll be reading and discussing "Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality" just in time for Pride!
Join Bi+ Pride Milwaukee for a book discussion at the LGBT Community Center. August's book is a historical romance focused on a widowed Bisexual Highwayman (and Coffee House Owner) Kitt Webb, and a nobleman named Percy (who happens to be the son of the very Duke who mysteriously wronged Kitt Webb in the past).
Although this title is her first novel released as a trade paperback, Cat Sebastian has long been recognized for her queer historical romances.