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Born Again Queer
William Stell

Sponsored by Metropolitan Community Church of San Francisco

​Sunday, August 16th at 6pm

​Evangelicals claim that their opposition to homosexuality is an inherent feature of their faith, rooted in their unchanging beliefs about the Bible. Most scholars, journalists, and observers have accepted this account; in Born Again Queer, William Stell upends it. Arguing that the antigay majority in evangelicalism has been less dominant and more vulnerable than previously thought, Stell describes a network of authors, ministers, and professors—all veterans of major evangelical institutions—who worked in the 1970s and 1980s to persuade Christians that their churches should affirm the relationships and ministries of gay and lesbian members. By the late 1970s, some even thought that these activists might shape the future of evangelicalism.

Of course, that speculation proved mistaken, and the antigay evangelical majority eventually overpowered the gay-affirming minority. Stell’s history of the rise and fall of evangelical gay activism shines a light on this largely forgotten chapter in American evangelicalism. Drawing on extensive archival research and interviews, Stell documents the work of four prominent activists: the founder of a predominantly LGBTQ+ denomination called the Metropolitan Community Churches, the leader of a gay advocacy organization called Evangelicals Concerned, and the evangelical feminist coauthors of the influential book Is the Homosexual My Neighbor? By recovering the successes of evangelical gay activists and the struggles of their opponents, Stell’s account transforms how we think about evangelicalism, how we talk about the culture wars, and how we approach both religion in queer movements and queer activism in religious movements.

Outside the Lines
Trans Book (&Coloring) Club

Monday, August 17th at 6pm
Queer Arts Featured, 575 Castro St

Welcome to Outside the Lines, a trans book (and coloring) club. Every third Monday of the month, we meet to chat about a trans book, do some coloring, eat some snacks and generally just enjoy being in each other's company. We hope that you'll join us!

The August book club pick is Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary.

​The future of Black, queer, and trans liberation explored by a legendary transgender elder and activist.
Miss Major Griffin-Gracy is a veteran of the infamous Stonewall Riots, a former sex worker, and a transgender elder and activist who has survived Bellevue psychiatric hospital, Attica Prison, the HIV/AIDS crisis and a world that white supremacy has built. She has shared tips with other sex workers in the nascent drag ball scene of the late 1960s, and helped found one of America's first needle exchange clinics from the back of her van.
Miss Major Speaks is both document of her brilliant life-told with intimacy, warmth and an undeniable levity-and a roadmap for the challenges black, brown, queer and trans youth will face on the path to liberation today.
Her incredible story of a life lived and a world survived becomes a conduit for larger questions about the riddle of collective liberation. For a younger generation, she warns about the traps of 'representation, ' the politics of 'self-care, ' and the frequent dead-ends of non-profit organizing; for all of us, she is a strike against those who would erase these histories of struggle.
Miss Major offers something that cannot be found elsewhere: an affirmation that our vision for freedom can and must be more expansive than those on offer by mainstream institutions.
Purchase your copy at Fabulosa Books for 10% off! Just let the bookseller know you're getting it for the book club when you check out.

Love is a Contact Sport
Frederick Smith

​Tuesday, August 25th at 7pm

After a rough breakup, gay romance author Renny Ross heads to the Bay Area for a fresh start. His new gig writing the anniversary story for a local university is supposed to be a fresh chapter (thanks to university president Dr. Taylor James). But Renny didn’t expect to run into a familiar face from his past.

​After dropping off his youngest child at college, recently divorced Brent D. King DuPree, is on a journey to freedom, liberation, and living the life he put on hold for over twenty years to raise his family. Figuring out life as a newly out and newly single man, Brent is hesitant about stepping into the Bay Area gay scene until a chance reunion with his first real crush, and the guy he never quite forgot, his peer mentor and tutor in college: Renny Ross.
Neither man expected a second chance. But working together at the same university stirs up feelings that never really faded. Their love doesn’t have to be a secret anymore, but will they get it right this time?

Outliving Michael
Steven Reigns

Sunday, September 13th at 4pm

Outliving Michael is a memorial memoir in poetry, chronicling Steven Reigns’s profound friendship with Michael Church, who died of AIDS in 2000.

Through vignettes and tender reflections, Reigns traces their intergenerational bond, a connection of mentorship, shared artistic pursuits, and the quiet acts of devotion that shaped their lives as gay men in the 1990s.

This deeply personal collection becomes both an elegy and an archive, honoring the countless roles played by a generation lost to AIDS: lover, sibling, parent, friend. Reigns preserves the texture of their companionship with unflinching honesty and lyricism, illuminating how certain people leave an indelible mark long after they are gone.

Outliving Michael is a testament to friendship’s power to sustain, transform, and survive even death itself.

Fabulosa Books Summer Reading Bingo!

Rules and Guidelines:
  • Blackout your bingo card and redeem it for a $10 Fabulosa Gift Card.
  • Write the title of a book and/or the name of an event you attended on the empty lines. One book can be used to fill two squares.
  • When your bingo card is full, present it to a bookseller at Fabulosa Books so they can sign & date the card.
  • Summer Reading Book Bingo begins on June 1st and ends on August 31st. Completed bingo cards will not be accepted after September 7th.

Download and print out a bingo card, and spend your summer reading with us :)
If you want to schedule a reading or book release party, please fill out our event request form. 

Please note: we concentrate on LGBTQ+ titles, but do occasionally make exceptions. However, we do not do events for self-help books, academic titles or business books. All events must be scheduled at least 6 weeks in advance and (since we do not have a public restroom) readings should last no longer than 90 minutes.

We truly wish we could host everyone who wants to hold an event here. Alas, there are simply too many wonderful authors with wonderful books for us to accommodate all the requests we receive. Thanks for understanding!
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