About us
ALL BLACK LIVES MATTER. STOP AAPI HATE. END ANTI-SEMITISM. END RACISM. CHOOSE LOVE. The Canandaigua (CDGA) Queer Lit Book Club has been welcoming readers since 2018. In partnership with Wood Library, we are an inclusive community of readers who meet bi-monthly in a hybrid format to discuss LGBTQAI2S+ books and/or books by LGBTQAI2S+ authors. Representation matters. Join the conversation!
The Canandaigua Queer Lit Book Club respectfully acknowledges that we operate on land, which is the territory of the Onöndowa’ga:’ (Seneca) Nation, a member of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. Learn more with Ganondagan and the National Indigenous Women's Resource Center.
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Credits
CDGA Queer Lit Book Club Logo design by Jacob Marsh
Canandaigua Chamber of Commerce. [canandaiguachamberofcommer1916]. (2015,
October 26). Canandaigua, NY: The chosen spot. [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44X0HKR9Vuc&t=5s
Video (CC) [♪♪ "Miracles Exist In You- Full Length/Underscore" by Adam John Salkeld, PRS and Neil Pollard, PRS playing]
Featured event
Giovanni's Room | A Hybrid Book Discussion
- Join your friends and meet new ones as we continue our eighth season of CDGA Queer Lit Book Club and discuss Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin. *This hybrid event will take place in person at Wood Library in Canandaigua and online via Zoom.
OVERVIEW
* One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years
- "David, a young American in 1950s Paris, is waiting for his fiancée to return from vacation in Spain. But when he meets Giovanni, a handsome Italian barman, the two men are drawn into an intense affair."
WE ♥ LIBRARIES
- Our event title is available to borrow through the OWWL, Monroe and New York Public Library systems.
WE ♥ INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORES
- Noire Reading Room is Rochester's online/pop-up Black Feminist Bookstore, featuring Black, Queer, and Radical texts. Support Noire Reading Room when you purchase this event's selection on their partner page with Bookshop.
- Archivist Books is a Black, Queer-owned independent bookstore based in Rochester, NY. Support Archivist Books when you purchase this event's selection on their partner page with Bookshop.
- Ampersand Books is the Neighborhood of the Arts' independent bookstore owned and operated by Writers & Books, Rochester’s leading nonprofit literary arts center. Book club selections are always 15% off!
CREDITS
- Giovanni's room. (n.d.). Penguin. Retrieved February 18, 2026, from https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/57368/giovannis-room-by-baldwin-james/9780241718599
Upcoming events
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Giovanni's Room | A Hybrid Book Discussion
Wood Library, 134 North Main Street, Canandaigua, NY, US- Join your friends and meet new ones as we continue our eighth season of CDGA Queer Lit Book Club and discuss Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin. *This hybrid event will take place in person at Wood Library in Canandaigua and online via Zoom.
OVERVIEW
* One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years- "David, a young American in 1950s Paris, is waiting for his fiancée to return from vacation in Spain. But when he meets Giovanni, a handsome Italian barman, the two men are drawn into an intense affair."
WE ♥ LIBRARIES
- Our event title is available to borrow through the OWWL, Monroe and New York Public Library systems.
WE ♥ INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORES
- Noire Reading Room is Rochester's online/pop-up Black Feminist Bookstore, featuring Black, Queer, and Radical texts. Support Noire Reading Room when you purchase this event's selection on their partner page with Bookshop.
- Archivist Books is a Black, Queer-owned independent bookstore based in Rochester, NY. Support Archivist Books when you purchase this event's selection on their partner page with Bookshop.
- Ampersand Books is the Neighborhood of the Arts' independent bookstore owned and operated by Writers & Books, Rochester’s leading nonprofit literary arts center. Book club selections are always 15% off!
CREDITS
- Giovanni's room. (n.d.). Penguin. Retrieved February 18, 2026, from https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/57368/giovannis-room-by-baldwin-james/9780241718599
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