About us
Hi gay!
Waverley Library is calling all members of the LGBTQIA+ community who are interested in joining Queer Reads monthly book club or Queer Cinema monthly film screenings.
Celebrate diversity and difference and make new friends in the queer community. Each month in Queer Reads we will discuss a different book chosen by group consensus.
Queer Cinema's goal is to highlight the history and joy of positive representation for our community.
Queer Reads meets on the 3rd Wednesday of the month.
Queer Cinema meets on the 3rd Friday of the month.
Drinks and snacks provided.
Reading list for 2026:
- Feb: Queer Heroes of Myth and Legend by Dan Jones
- Mar: Everyone In This Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily Austin
- Apr: Invisible Boys by Holden Sheppard
- May: In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
- Jun: Just by Looking at Him by Ryan O'Connell
- Jul: Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart
- Aug: Pageboy by Elliot Page
- Sep: Milk Fed by Melissa Broder
- Oct: Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka
- Nov: Jack Charles: Born-again Blakfella by Jack Charles
- Dec: The Price of Salt (Carol) by Patricia Highsmith
Upcoming events
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Orlando, My Political Biography
Waverley Library, 32-48 Denison St, Bondi Junction, NS, AU“Come, come! I’m sick to death of this particular self. I want another.”
Taking Virginia Woolf’s novel Orlando: A Biography as his starting point, academic virtuoso turned filmmaker Paul B. Preciado fashioned the documentary ORLANDO, MY POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY—a personal essay, historical analysis, and social manifesto.
For almost a century, Woolf’s eponymous hero(ine) has inspired readers with their gender fluidity as well as their physical and spiritual metamorphoses across a three-hundred-year span. In making his film, Preciado invited a diverse group of more than twenty trans and nonbinary people to play the role of Orlando and to participate in this shared biography.
Together, they perform interpretations of the novel, weaving into Woolf’s narrative their own stories of transition and identity formation. Not content to simply update a groundbreaking work, Preciado interrogates the relevance of Orlando in the ongoing struggle to secure dignity for trans people worldwide.
Language: French with English subtitles
2023
1hr 42minYou need to be a library member to attend this event. Discover everything the library has to offer including free e-books, audiobooks, e-magazines, movie streaming and so much more. Access our e-library 24/7. Join our library here
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Queer Cinema
Waverley Library, 32-48 Denison St, Bondi Junction, NS, AUQueer Cinema is a movie night dedicated to celebrating queer stories of love, loss, joy and history.
Every month we will be screening a film with drinks and snacks provided. Bring your chosen family and enjoy this special night!
Queer Cinema is held on the 3rd Friday of the month.
You don't need to be a library member to attend our events but we value your membership and would love you to join. Discover everything the library has to offer including free e-books, audiobooks, e-magazines, movie streaming and so much more. Access our e-library 24/7. Join our library here2 attendees
Past events
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