TITLE: Prince Faggot by Jordan Tannahill (Playwrights Canada Press, 2025)
BOOK CLUB: Gay Writes at Librairie Pulp Books & Café
DATE/TIME: Monday, May 18, from 7 PM to 8:30 PM
LOCATION: Librairie Pulp Books & Café (3952 Wellington)
MODERATOR: Jame
MAX # OF PARTICIPANTS: 25
SIGN-UP: RSVP at this link
LANGUAGE: The book and the discussion are in English
RULES: NA
OTHER DETAILS: Book is available 10% for Lire Queer participants at Librairie Pulp Books & Café
ABOUT THE BOOK:
In this metatheatrical tragicomedy, an ensemble of queer and trans performers cast themselves in a thought experiment, imagining the future heir to the British throne as having a life resembling their own. Jordan Tannahill, one of Canada’s most acclaimed playwrights, takes no prisoners in this ferociously audacious what-if, brimming with unbridled sexuality, wit, and imagination. A poppers-fuelled phantasmagoria interwoven with personal stories and ecstatic fantasies, Prince Faggot reckons with how the forces of power, privilege, and colonization play upon queer lives.
ABOUT THE BOOK CLUB:
While it began as a book club, GAY WRITES has grown into a larger queer cultural platform. It’s a home for queer stories and the people who obsess over them, challenging traditional ideas of literature and art by analyzing them through the lens of frivolous faggotry — because you can write about piss play and pop divas and simultaneously deconstruct the effects of colonialism on queer life ! We partner with eleven indie bookstores across Canada, from Vancouver to Halifax, and host a regular screening series in Montreal. In a time of political backlash and cultural instability, gathering as a community to think, argue, and laugh together feels more vital than ever. Gay Writes exists to amplify the voices of queer authors / artists, and to build the spaces where their work can be celebrated.
