Every 2nd Wednesday of the month 6:30pm - 8pm January to October
Our queer book club, led by queer bookseller and local author Neil Cochrane, is open to everyone interested in reading and discussing books by and/or about queer people.
See our 2026 book list and schedule below! (Subject to change)
January 14th Miss Major Speaks: the Life and Times of a Black Trans Revolutionary: memoir. Miss Major died in October 2025 at the age of 78. Miss Major Speaks is both a document of her brilliant life–told with intimacy, warmth and an undeniable levity-and a roadmap for the challenges black, brown, queer and trans youth will face on the path to liberation today.
February 11th The Chosen and the Beautiful: sapphic, historical, Gatsby retelling. Nghi Vo's debut novel The Chosen and the Beautiful reinvents this classic of the American canon as a coming-of-age story full of magic, mystery, and glittering excess, and introduces a major new literary voice.
March 11th A Gentleman’s Gentleman: M/m historical romance. With its heady combination of dry wit, slow-burn romance, and a nuanced portrait of trans identity, A Gentleman's Gentleman stands to transform the historical romance genre as we know it.
April 8th George Falls Through Time: (pre-order) achillean, speculative. A confessional queer romance, a swords-and-sorcery soap opera, a paradox-embracing reimagining of the legend of St. George and the Dragon, George Falls Through Time is a profound meditation on the nature of desire that pits modern sensibilities against a raw and alien backdrop.Â
May 13th The Lavender House: mystery. When you're a cop in 1952 and your colleagues bust you in a raid on a gay bar, your career options become extremely limited. Former San Francisco Police Inspector Evander Mills’ retirement plan is to drink until his money is gone, then pitch himself into the bay. Until a widow sits down next to Andy at the bar and offers him a private gig—find out what happened to her wife.
June 10th Masquerade: fiction. Exploring social, cultural, and sexual identities in New York, Shanghai, and beyond, Mike Fu's Masquerade is a skillfully layered, brilliantly interwoven debut novel of friendship, queer longing, and worlds on the brink, asking how we can find ourselves among ghosts of all kinds, and who we can trust when nothing--and no one--is as it seems. (Local publisher!)
July 8th Outdrawn: f/f romance, webcomic. Two rival webcomic artists are assigned to relaunch a cult-classic comic together. Shenanigans ensue!
August 12th The Palace of Eros: f/enby, fiction, romance. The Palace of Eros transports us to a magical world imbued by divine forces as well as everyday realities, where palaces glitter with magic even as ordinary people fight for freedom in a society that fears the unknown.
September 9th Sorcery and Small Magics: m/m, fantasy. Desperate to undo the curse binding them to each other, an impulsive sorcerer and his curmudgeonly rival venture deep into a magical forest in search of a counterspell—only to discover that magic might not be the only thing pulling them together.
October 14th Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One: f/f, fiction. Equal parts bravado, tenderness, and humor, and bursting with misfits, magicians, musicians, and mimes, Stop Me If You've Heard This One is a masterpiece of comedic fiction that asks big questions about art and performance, friendship and community, and the importance of timing in jokes and in life.
