LGBTQ+ VIRTUAL BOOK CLUB
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Every month Capital City Pride Book Club Members will read one LGBTQ+ book to read as a group. During the last week of each month, Capital City Pride will meet either in-person or via Zoom for discussions about the book. Sometimes, via Zoom, even the author can join us at some meetings! Every six months the group votes on the selection of books to be read. If you have suggestions, share them with the moderator.
The Capital City Pride LGBTQ+ Book Club is completely free to join! Click the button below to join our email group for all the latest updates and meeting times! Also, join our facebook group "MSCCP LGBTQ Book Club" as it will serve as a safe place for continuous dialogue amongst the group. We look forward to reading with you!
Local Book Stores
We ask that, if possible, you buy your books from local Mississippi Book Stores. We will call these stores in advance of any books chosen to be read to make sure that they will have them in stock. Two that we recommend are:
Lemuria Books - Jackson MS (601-366-7619)
Violet Valley Bookstore - Water Valley, MS (662-506-2750)
Friendly City Books - Columbus, MS (662-570-4247)
March Book of the month
We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir by Samra Habib
“We Have Always Been Here challenges so many received wisdoms on gender, faith and sexuality that its very existence in the world is cause for celebration.”
—The Globe and Mail
“Habib writes through a lens of compassion, hope, and ever-widening circles of understanding.”
—Quill and Quire
“I fell in love with this book. In prose as economical, crisp, clear, and truthful as poetry, Samra Habib offers a map of how we might learn to see and treasure one another and ourselves. In this way it calls to mind the works of James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, and Jane Rule. I predict that this book will never go out of print—it will become required and desired reading for people of all ages, persuasions, and backgrounds. How I wish I had had it to keep close to my heart when I was younger.”
—Shani Mootoo, author of Cereus Blooms at Night
Upcoming Book Club Discussions
