Come discover new voices, connect with fellow book lovers, and help us kick off this exciting new space!

📚✨ You’re Invited! ✨📚

Join us for the unveiling of our LGBTQ+ Library! 🌈

Celebrate community, stories, and representation with:
📖 Book readings
✍️ Meet & greets with authors
🏳️‍🌈 Local bookstores
🛍 Book sales

• Book readings & Meet the Authors •

1. Lorena L. Sikorski | Artists and Vagabonds: How I Escaped My Mother’s Narcissistic Personality Disorder
2. Jack Castiglione | The Chartreuse Garden: The Horrific Murders of Innocents that Compelled Me to Fight Social Injustice and Hate, My Life on Purpose: Fending Off Death, the Catholic Church, the AIDS Epidemic and Hate Crimes & How to Stop Hate Crime
3. Dr. Marie Cartier | Baby, You Are My Religion: Women, Gay Bars, and Theology Before Stonewall
4. Brittany Hart Scholten | Leah’s Long Beach Adventures
5. Sydney Lear | Racing Hearts
6. Gerrie Schipske | LGBTQ+ Long Beach: Image of America & The Long Beach Gay Trials: A History of Injustice