Name: Let's discuss "STUCK RUBBER BABY" by HOWARD CRUSE + dinner & drinks at WILDE BAR
Start: 2026-02-10T18:00:00-06:00
End: 2026-02-10T20:00:00-06:00
Location: 708 W Belmont Ave

Painstakingly researched and exquisitely illustrated, Stuck Rubber Baby is a groundbreaking graphic novel that draws on Howard Cruse’s experience coming of age and coming out in 1960s Birmingham, Alabama.

As a young gay man leading a closeted life in the 1960s American South, Toland Polk tries his best to keep a low profile. He’s aware of the racial injustice all around him—the segregationist politicians, the corrupt cops, the violent Klan members—but he feels powerless to make a difference. That all changes when he crosses paths with an impassioned coed named Ginger Raines.

Winning the Eisner and Harvey awards for Best Graphic Novel—in addition to being nominated for ALA’s Lesbian & Gay Book Award and for the Lambda Literary Award—Cruse's work has inspired LGBTQ+ storytellers and artists for decades including Alison Bechdel, who notes Cruse's influence on Dykes to Watch Out For and her bestselliing queer graphic memoir Fun Home.

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