Join the Library for a full day of reading s\, workshops\, and panels from DC's LGBTQ literary community. Find Your S tory will be a day of workshops\, presentations\, and author talks focused on DC&rsquo\;s writing community. For World Pride the event will have a s pecial focus on LGBTQ writers in the DC area. The day will include panel d iscussions\, informal writing workshops\, and a dedicated poetry stage.
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\nDC's Liwanag DC Filipino Book Festival organizers and Queer Poets perform poems of the ever evoloving struggle t o come out as queer\, bisexual\, non-binary and how their lives are impact ed during the current administration.
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\nJoin the Lib rary and PEN/Faulkner Foundation. for a special conversation with literary icons Manil Suri and Rabih Allameddine. Moderated by novelist Jeffrey Dal e Lofton\, the conversation will explore their work as gay novelists and r eflections on community and friendship among writers.
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\nLunch and Network ing
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\nJoin us for a moderated conve rsation with Find Your Story&rsquo\;s Signature Speaker\, Denne Michele No rris. Norris will discuss her debut novel When the Harvest Comes\, a story about a young Black gay man\, estranged from his father\, must confront h is painful past&mdash\;and his deepest desires around gender\, love\, and sex.
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\nJoin a panel of LGB TQ romance authors for a discussion on the art of telling LGBTQ+ love stor ies\, new perspectives on romance genre traditions\, and writing meaningfu l "happily ever afters" for queer characters. Afterwards\, meet the author s\, have your books signed\, and collect generative writing prompts for an informal workshop. \;
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\nDr. Casey Catherine Moore and Regie Cab ico\, co-curators of DC's premiere queer comedy and spoken word series\, H omoStanzas. share their queer biographical love poems and inspirations suc h as Sappho and Ishanee Chanda. Participants will also generate their orig inal queer love poem\, sharing their work in a nurturing and positive spac e. Be prepared to craft evocative verses that celebrate queer love\, ident ity\, and resilience.
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\nA spec
ial World Pride edition of Los Bookis Podcast recorded live in front of an
audience\, featuring a roundtable discussion with queer Latine writer: Ve
nessa Vida Kelley\, author of When the Tides Held the Moon.
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\nRegie Cabico\, the Fairy Godmother of Spoken Word\ , and Kim Roberts\, the premier literary historian of DC\, curate and host fourteen LGBTQ+ poets from the greater DC region as they share poetry of love and resilience. Join us in the afternoon for a book fair featuring sm all local presses and an open mic.
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\nCelebrate the commun ity of independent presses and publishers in the DC area amplifying the vo ices of LGBTQ writers with a press fair and open mic featuring their work.
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