GAYLETTER

We love the Bureau of General Services Queer Division, the book store in The LGBT Center. You can find some really great queer literature there, from one-off zines to luxurious art and photography books, to vintage pamphlets, to GAYLETTER and her contemporaries. In fact, this past Christmas, it’s where I did all my shopping for the other GL queens. But BGSQD is more than a printed matter purveyor. They host talks, workshops, and events with visiting queer artists, which we often write about in our weekly newsletter. This event is a talk by nationally syndicated talk show and podcast host Rob Redding, and he’s discussing his autobiography “Out Loud.” In this book — which “ranked No. 2 on Amazon.com” — Redding “recounts how losing his first boyfriend to gun violence forced him out of the closet.” It’s a story of race and sexuality and it sounds juicy for sure. “Out Loud” is neither his first nor only book; rather, it’s his most recent of 9 best-selling books. Yasss prolific writing! Following the talk, there will be a conversation between Redding and Terry Roethlein of Gays Against Guns, which should be just as juicy.  —Connor Atkins