The Queer Advantage | A Hybrid Book Discussion

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. * This hybrid event will take place in person at Wood Library in Canandaigua and online via Zoom.

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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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