May 7

Join Capital Pride Alliance and Loyalty Bookstores’ Gaysians! Book Club for the May WorldPride Book Club meeting. We’re reading The Emperor and the Endless Palace by Justinian Huang. The Gaysians! Book Club focuses on reading and championing books by Queer Asian authors and is led by Loyalty’s resident gaysian Christine! Christine Bollow is the Co-Owner and Director of Programs for Loyalty Bookstores — a Black, Queer, and Asian owned bookstore in Washington, DC and Silver Spring, MD. Christine is a 2024 Kirkus Prize Fiction Juror, 2022 Publishers Weekly Star Watch Honoree, winner of the Duende-Word BIPOC Bookseller Award for Leadership, and is the Founder and Co-Organizer of the Liwanag Filipino Lit Fest DC.