Rainbow Reading Book Club
Location
Organizer
William Way LGBT Community Center
Phone
(215) 732-2220Website
https://www.waygay.org/The William Way LGBT Community Center is open 365 days a year to serve the Greater Philadelphia region's community of sexual and gender minorities through service, recreational, educational and cultural programming.
Rainbow Reading Book Club
Date
- Apr 21 - 24, 2021
- Expired!
Time
- 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Rainbow Reading is our book club devoted to the queer literary experience. A new book is selected each month and represent a diverse range of themes, genres, and authors reflective of the LGBTQ+ experience.
Philly AIDS Thrift at Giovanni’s Room (345 S. 12th St.) offers book club members a 10% discount on each month’s selected book. The club usually meets on the third Wednesday of the month at 6 p.m. unless there are scheduling conflicts.
April 21, 6:00 pm: “Bastard Out of Carolina” by Dorothy Allison
Greenville County, South Carolina, is a wild, lush place that is home to the Boatwright family – a tight-knit clan of rough-hewn, hard-drinking men who shoot up each other’s trucks, and indomitable women who get married young and age too quickly. At the heart of this story is Ruth Anne Boatwright, known simply as Bone, a bastard child who observes the world around her with a mercilessly keen perspective. When her stepfather Daddy Glen, “cold as death, mean as a snake,” becomes increasingly more vicious toward her, Bone finds herself caught in a family triangle that tests the loyalty of her mother, Anney—and leads to a final, harrowing encounter from which there can be no turning back
For more information, contact info@waygay.org.