The LOFT Book Club is an open group which meets monthly to discuss different LGBT literary selections. From Pulp Fiction to Queer Literature, The LOFT’s Book Club is your way of keeping up on the latest in LGBT literature, while finally getting to those better-known genre pieces you haven’t gotten around to reading. The LOFT Book Club is presented by The LOFT Library & David Bohnett Cyber Center.
The LOFT: LGBT Community Services Center
252 Bryant Avenue, White Plains, NY 10605
The group meets on the 3rd Tuesday of each month from 8:00pm to 9:30pm.
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Discussion on December 19: The Days of Anna Madrigal by Armistead Maupin - CANCELLED
Anna Madrigal, the 92-year-old former landlady of 28 Barbary Lane, recalls her teen years as Andy Ramsay, the son of a brothel owner in Winnemucca, Nevada. Meanwhile in the present, Anna's longtime friend and former tenant Michael Tolliver finds that his much-younger husband Ben is a constant reminder of his own mortality. Another former tenant, Brian Hawkins, offers to take Anna for a final visit back to Winnemucca, where she claims she has unfinished business, as Brian's adopted daughter Shawna puts the wheels in motion to have a baby. It all converges at Burning Man, an unlikely destination for Anna.
Previous 2017 Book Club Selections:
January 2017, A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
February 2017, The Mothers by Brit Bennett
March 2017, The Good Girls Revolt by Lynn Povich
April 2017, Dressed for Death: Guido Brunetti Mysteries by Donna Leon
May 2017, The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
June 2017, Faggots by Larry Kramer
July 2017, Sing You Home by Jodi Picoult
August 2017, The Drowning of Stephan Jones by Bette Greene
October 2017, What Happened by Hillary Rodham Clinton
November 2017, Maryann in Autumn by Armistead Maupin
Previous 2016 Book Club Selections:
January 2016, The Old Deep and Dark by Ellen Hart
February 2016, Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
March 2016, My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinem
April, 2016, The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman (a graphic novel)
May 2016, The Geography Club by Brent Hartinger
June 2016, The Gay Revolution by Lillian Faderman / session 1
June 2016, The Gay Revolution by Lillian Faderman / session 2
July & August, 2016, Annie On My Mind by Nancy Garden
September 2016, HOWL by Allen Ginsberg
October 2016, Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
November 2016, The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith
December 2016 and January 2017, A Little Life by Hanya Hanagihara
Past Years’ Book Club Selections:
January 2013 Book choice: Red Tent by Anita Diamant
February: 2013 Book choice: Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
March 2013 Book choice: Further Tales of the City by Amisteam Maupin
April 2013 Book Choice: Why be Happy When You Could Be Normal by Jeanette Winterson
May 2013 Book Choice: The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan
June 2013 Book Choice: Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel
July 2013 Book Choice: The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
August 2013 Book Choice: Every Woman’s Dream by Leslea Newman
September 2013 Book Choice: Am I Blue? Coming Out from the Silence by Marion Dane Bauer
October 2013 Book Choice: Tell the Wolves I’m Home by Carol Rifka Brunt
November 2013 Book Choice: We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting for Inner Light in a Time of Darkness by Alice Walker
December 2013 Book Choice: I, Tina: My Own Story by Tina Turner
January 2014 Book Choice: Family Affair by Saxon Bennett
February 2014 Book Choice: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
April 2014 Book Choice: And the Band Played On by Randy Shilts
May 20, 2014: The Brothers Bishop by Bart Yates
June 17, 2014: A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
July 15, 2014: Specimen Days by Michael Cunningham
August 2014 Book Selection: Are You My Mother by Allison Bechdel
September 2014 Book Selection: Annabel by Kathleen Winter
January 2015: Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
March 2015: Forcing the Spring: Inside the Fight for Marriage Equality by Jo Becker
April 2015: Center Square: The Paul Lynde Story by Steve Wilson and Joe Florenski
May 2015: Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
June 2015: Orange is the New Black by Piper Kerman
July 2015: Summer Recess – No Book Selection for July
August 2015: A Collection of Poems by Langston Hughes
September 2015: So That Happened: My Unexpected Life in Hollywood: A Memoir by Jon Cryer
October and November 2015: Tab Hunter Confidential: The Making of a Movie Star by Tab Hunter and Eddie Muller
December 2015: All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
LOFT Social Groups are open groups which welcome everyone ages 18 and over. There is no need to preregister and no fee to attend. Donations are welcome. They are lead by facilitators who identify as peers with those in attendance.
There is no fee to attend groups but a $5 donation is suggested, more if you can, less if you can’t. Fees related to activities are to the responsibility of participants.
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