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Tag: LGBTQA

International Zine Month and Comics Fair

International Zine Month and Comics Fair

June 26, 2025

Participate in lightning talks and workshops around the inspiration and production of creative works in both text and image.Go to full post …read more

More Than Two, Second Edition: Book Launch and Conversation

More Than Two, Second Edition: Book Launch a...

August 12, 2024

Join us and Eve Rickert & Andrea Zanin for the release of More Than Two, Second Edition. Cultivating nonmonogamous relationships with kindness and integrity, in conversation with Carrie Jenkins.
Venue & Accessibility
The event will be hosted at the Massy Go to full post …read more

Virtual Reading: How Do I Sexy? Mx. Nillin Lore in conversation with Matsui de Roo

Virtual Reading: How Do I Sexy? Mx. Nillin L...

Cross & Crows Books welcomes author Mx. Nillin Lore and Matsui de Roo for a virtual reading and discussion of Nillin’s first book, How Do I Sexy?
ABOUT HOW DO I SEXY?
What even is “sexy,” and how do you Go to full post …read more

Double Poetry Collection Launch: Patrick Grace and Tina Biello

Double Poetry Collection Launch: Patrick Gra...

March 5, 2024

Please join Munro’s Books in celebrating the launches of two new poetry collections by local authors!
Patrick Grace’s debut collection, Deviant, traces a trajectory of queer self-discovery from childhood to adulthood, examining love, fear, grief, and the violence that men are Go to full post …read more

Celebrate Pride Month with Local Books

Celebrate Pride Month with Local Books

June 14, 2023

Paint your bookworm soul with all the colours of the rainbow by checking out these BC titles.Go to full post …read more

These Books Will Help Introduce Your Kids to Social Justice

These Books Will Help Introduce Your Kids to...

August 7, 2020

How do we approach talking to children about complex topics like social justice? We turn to books of course! Rife with beautiful illustrations and rhythmic stories that are easy to follow, children’s books are the perfect way to introduce kids to Go to full post …read more

5 books to pick up during Pride Month

5 books to pick up during Pride Month

June 4, 2019

Make the most of Pride Month with reads that inspire and move you.Go to full post …read more

Robin Stevenson: No, I will not stop talking about Queer Pride

Robin Stevenson: No, I will not stop talking...

June 25, 2018

We began talking about what the letters L, G, B, T and Q stand for. But when we got to T, a teacher held up his hand, palm out, traffic cop style. “I’m going to stop you right there,” he said.Go to full post …read more

Poetic Licence: Tina Biello influenced by contemporary poets

Poetic Licence: Tina Biello influenced by co...

April 2, 2018

Poetic Licence is a special feature highlighting poets during National Poetry Month. Tina Biello is the current Poet Laureate for Nanaimo.Go to full post …read more

BC titles nominated for the 30th annual Lambda Literary Awards

BC titles nominated for the 30th annual Lamb...

March 6, 2018

The “Lammys” celebrate achievement in LGBTQ writing. Go to full post …read more

“The concerns of our time and our tribe”: Excerpt from the letters of Jane Rule and Rick Bébout

"The concerns of our time and our tribe": Ex...

June 28, 2017

In August 1989, Jane Rule—novelist, essayist, and the first widely recognized “public lesbian” in North America—summed up the first eight years of her correspondence with Rick Bébout, a noted gay activist and publisher in Toronto: “It seems to me that what Go to full post …read more

Robin Stevenson talks Pride and celebrating diversity

Robin Stevenson talks Pride and celebrating ...

June 12, 2017

In honour of Pride Month in June, Robin Stevenson talks about her award-winning book, Pride: Celebrating Diversity & CommunityGo to full post …read more


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