Queer book club meetings
in Montreal
from May 16 to 23, 2026
Rencontres de club de lecture queer à Montréal
du 16 au 23 mai 2026
Join one (or several) of Montreal’s vibrant book clubs for a celebration of queer literature from May 16 to 23, 2026. Clubs will be reading works in English, French, and Spanish, and all readers (including allies) are welcome. Please note that each club has its own rules and instructions, so be sure to check the details before participating. Additional activities will be added over time, so stay tuned. Happy reading!
Joignez-vous à un (ou plusieurs) des clubs de lecture dynamiques pour célébrer la littérature queer du 16 au 23 mai. Les clubs liront des œuvres en anglais, en français et en espagnol, et toutes les personnes lectrices (y compris les allié·e·s) sont les bienvenues. Veuillez noter que chaque club a ses propres règles et consignes — assurez-vous de vérifier les détails avant de participer. Bonne lecture !!
Wisecracking, inquisitive, and bombastic, Selam Asmelash is the youngest child in her large, boisterous family. Even before she is born, she has a wry, bewitching omniscience that animates life in her Small Town in southwestern Ethiopia in the 1980s…
Meet other LGBTQ+ book lovers through a series of short, timed conversations about your favourite queer reads — bring books to share or swap if you like. Afterwards, the event shifts into a lively, lesbo-centric, multigenerational dance party…
Il y a quelques années déjà, Martine Delvaux publiait le récit d’une rupture amoureuse. Elle reprend ici cette histoire d’amour et de perte de manière à la démaquiller, pour dire toute la vérité, rien que…
El 7 de diciembre de 1990 el escritor cubano Reinaldo Arenas, en fase terminal del SIDA, se suicidaba en Nueva York dejando este estremecedor testimonio personal y político, que terminó apenas unos días antes de poner fin a su vida…
Chute-à-Tréfonds est un quartier sujet à toutes les prédations. Qu’il s’agisse de la gentrification agressive de la ville au nom pompeux de Nouveau Stockholm ou des ambitions postmodernes d’une cinéaste documentariste, les périls sont nombreux…
In this metatheatrical tragicomedy, an ensemble of queer and trans performers cast themselves in a thought experiment, imagining the future heir to the British throne as having a life resembling their own. Jordan Tannahill, one of Canada’s most…
Les poèmes de ce recueil sont une chronique de l’individu pris dans la réalité de la ville et des passions modernes. Une nouvelle conduite amoureuse est élaborée à partir des petits faits quotidiens, à la fois vulgaires et démesurés, où chaque geste devient…
Twenty-four-year-old Formula 1 driver Travis Keeping is halfway through an incredible racing season, with the championship well within his sights. But when a massive crash in Formula 2 leaves driver Jacob Nichols in critical condition, Travis’s world is…
At a dinner party in 1922, Virginia Woolf met the renowned author, aristocrat – and sapphist – Vita Sackville-West. Virginia wrote in her diary that she didn’t think much of Vita’s conversation, but she did think very highly of her legs. It was to be the start…
After a trip to Paris, Ingken returns home ready for a break from drugs. Their supportive partner, Lily, is flushed, excited about a new connection she’s made. Although Ingken wants to be happy for her, there’s a discomfort they can’t shake. Sleepless nights fill…
Oscillating between post-explosion Beirut to a Parc-Extension balcony in summer, the verse and prose poems in The Good Arabs ground the reader in place, language, and the body. Peeling and rinsing radishes. Dancing as a pre-teen to Nancy Ajram…
An emotional, slow-burn, grumpy/sunshine, queer mid-century romance for fans of Evvie Drake Starts Over, about grief and found family, between the new star shortstop stuck in a batting slump and the reporter assigned to (reluctantly) cover his first season…
Les ouvriers et ouvrières de la scierie de Roberval sont en grève. Sous l’apparente cohésion de la lutte, on découvre rapidement les revendications plus personnelles de chacun. Ils partagent toutefois un même désir d’échapper à la misère et de se venger…
In 1993, Mirha Soleil-Ross and Xanthra Phillippa MacKay, fed up with a gay scene that rejected trans people and a trans scene that saw no alternative to going “stealth,” began to publish the zine Gendertrash From Hell. Over four issues, they interviewed sex workers and…