How to Get Banned: An LGBTQ Author Panel

The demand for queer books has grown significantly in the past two years. According to NPD Group, in 2022, LGBTQ fiction book year-over-year sales increased by 39%. While the growing demand creates more opportunities, authors of LGBTQ literature continue to navigate a discriminating publishing environment.

Folio: The Seattle Athenaeum invites you to discover how LGBTQ authors overcome various obstacles to getting their works published, and how to fight book bans. Joining author and Folio board trustee John Treat on the panel are author Felice Picano, author and poet Julene Tripp Weaver and Cuban American writer Patrick Milian. Enjoy a lively discussion and readings from each author's favorite LGBTQ banned book, followed by a wine reception with the authors.

Julene Tripp Weaver‘s truth be bold is a powerful, readable, nearly impossible-to-put-down, boundary-crossing coming-out collection. Weaver writes authentically about difficult but important things. She’s a hawk for truth; her unflinching gaze guides…