What we’re about
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.
Book Club
- ASL Interpreter Request Form
- Book Recommendation Form
- Celebrating Our Local Authors
- Code of Conduct
- Feedback Form
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Season 7 Poster (Previous Posters)
- What We've Been Reading
Community
- AAA Travel with Pride (Overview)
- Allstora
- Anthony Mascioli Rainbow Dialogues
- Archivist Books
- Blaque/Out Magazine
- Chorus- Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse
- 490 Farmers
- Flower City Pride Band
- Gleaners Community Kitchen- 183 N Main St, Canandaigua, NY
- ImageOut
- Immigrant Legal Resource Center
- Little Free Farm Stand @ Wood Library- now open
- Next Generation Men of Transition (NGMT)
- Noire Reading Room
- Penn Yan PRIDE Coalition
- Pittsford CommUNITY
- Pride Center of Western New York
- Pride at Work
- Queering Environmental Justice- (Goldsmith & Bell, 2021; Goldsmith et al., 2022)
- Rainbow Seniors Roc
- Rochester LGBTQ+ Together
- Rochester Rainbow Union
- the Center of the Finger Lakes
- Trans Alliance of Greater Rochester (TAGR)
- Transparent
- Voter Registration (Register to Vote- New York State)
- WAVE Woman Inc.
- We Exist FLX
Health
- A.A.
- Active Shooter Safety Resources
- Caring Relationships, Healthy You- English, Spanish
- Erie County LGBTQIA2S+ Healthcare Resources
- Evergreen Health Services
- HIV
- How to Find a Therapist You Connect With
- Mpox
- New York State LGBT Health
- Preventing Intimate Partner Violence
- STI Testing and Treatment
- Support- The Trevor Project; Veterans; 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline; 988 Chat & Text
- Trillium Health
- UR Medicine Thompson Health LGBTQ+ Patients
Pride
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]
YOU'RE INVITED
- Join your friends and meet new ones as we conclude our seventh season of CDGA Queer Lit Book Club and discuss Andrew Gelwicks' The Queer Advantage: Conversations with LGBTQ+ Leaders on the Power of Identity. We will also open voting for our Season 8 (2025 - 2026) titles!* This hybrid event will take place in person at Wood Library in Canandaigua and online via Zoom.
ASL Interpreter Request Form
OVERVIEW
- "Collecting incisive, deeply personal conversations with LGBTQ+ trailblazers about how they leveraged the challenges and insights they had as relative outsiders to succeed in the worlds of business, tech, politics, Hollywood, sports and beyond, The Queer Advantage celebrates the unique, supercharged power of queerness."
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.
- Ampersand Books is the Neighborhood of the Arts' independent bookstore owned and operated by Writers & Books, Rochester’s leading nonprofit literary arts center. Support Ampersand Books and get 15% off when you purchase this event's selection on their website.
CREDITS
- The Queer advantage: Conversations with LGBTQ+ leaders on the power of identity. (n.d.). OWWL library system. Retrieved April 17, 2025, from https://search.owwl.org/Record/644225?searchId=28837185&recordIndex=1&page=1&referred=resultIndex
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Upcoming events (1)
See all- The Queer Advantage | A Hybrid Book DiscussionWood Library, Canandaigua, NY
YOU'RE INVITED
- Join your friends and meet new ones as we conclude our seventh season of CDGA Queer Lit Book Club and discuss Andrew Gelwicks' The Queer Advantage: Conversations with LGBTQ+ Leaders on the Power of Identity. We will also open voting for our Season 8 (2025 - 2026) titles!* This hybrid event will take place in person at Wood Library in Canandaigua and online via Zoom.
ASL Interpreter Request Form
OVERVIEW- "Collecting incisive, deeply personal conversations with LGBTQ+ trailblazers about how they leveraged the challenges and insights they had as relative outsiders to succeed in the worlds of business, tech, politics, Hollywood, sports and beyond, The Queer Advantage celebrates the unique, supercharged power of queerness."
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.
- Ampersand Books is the Neighborhood of the Arts' independent bookstore owned and operated by Writers & Books, Rochester’s leading nonprofit literary arts center. Support Ampersand Books and get 15% off when you purchase this event's selection on their website.
CREDITS
- The Queer advantage: Conversations with LGBTQ+ leaders on the power of identity. (n.d.). OWWL library system. Retrieved April 17, 2025, from https://search.owwl.org/Record/644225?searchId=28837185&recordIndex=1&page=1&referred=resultIndex
Featured photo created with Canva Pro.
