LGBT Center of Raleigh Library

Our q***r literary festival, Pages of Pride, presented by Quail Ridge Books is happening THIS SUNDAY! Come along for your chance to win tickets to RuPaul's Drag Race Werq the Tour and book bundles! More information on the event can be found at pagesofpride.com

Upcoming virtual screening of Mama Has A Mustache!

Register here: https://chapman.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJctceisqDkoGtODmJKZZ56Fxfr5AfADde9b

Join the LGBT Center of Raleigh and partners for a Q&A with Sally Rubin filmmaker of Mama has a Mustache, a short, quirky, fully animated documentary about gender and family, as seen through children’s eyes. Driven completely by audio interviews of kids ages 5-10, the film uses these sound bites combined with clipart and mixed media to explore how children experience a world outside of the traditional gender binary.

Live Q&A is Thursday, March 3 at 8pm ET. The film will be screened at the beginning of the event and you can also access the film anytime between Mar. 1 and Mar. 9. This event is open to the public; youth, parents, other adults, and supporters are welcome.

Register here:
https://chapman.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJctceisqDkoGtODmJKZZ56Fxfr5AfADde9b

Check out the website for more info on the film and partners helping make this happen:
https://watch.showandtell.film/watch/mama_centerlink

Such a fun, fascinating event with V.E. Schwab and Naomi Novik tonight! Thank so much to Quail Ridge Books for organizing and hosting - we were so glad to be part of it!

As a follow-up, I want to share again this essay about the long, painful, liberating process of coming out:

"You didn’t need walls—you needed space. Out here, there are no rooms, no roof. There are no walls, no doors, just open ground, a sprawling night filled with radiant riotous blooms....There are people out here in the garden, and they welcome you without asking where you’ve been, and you say you’re sorry you’re late, you got lost, and they fold you into their arms and says it is okay, you are here now."

How Author V.E. Schwab Finally Found the Words to Come Out of the Closet For the writer, it was more like coming out of a house.

Don't forget our event with V.E. Schwab tonight! We're so excited to be doing this with Quail Ridge books! If you haven't been able to find the link, we finally have the event listing up! You can also find that information here:

V. E. Schwab - 'The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue' (online) | Quail Ridge Books A No. 1 New York Times best-selling author of adult, YA, and children's fantasy, V.E. Schwab opens her latest work in 1716 France, where young Addie LaRue makes a Faustian bargain: She will live forever, significantly shaping the course of history and art, but will be forgotten by everyone she enc...