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Queer Book Club: "Deep House: The Gayest Love Story Ever Told" by Jeremy Atherton Lin
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Tue, Sep 29, 2026 · 7:30 PM
About this event
The Queer Book Club digs into Jeremy Atherton Lin's National Book Critics Circle Award-winning memoir—a sweat-soaked hybrid of love story, queer history, and civil rights reckoning. Set in 1996, Deep House traces one couple's fight to stay together as Congress debates the Defense of Marriage Act, moving through rented apartments and a lineage of outlaw lovers across centuries. It's tenderness and wicked humor wrapped around the real stakes of immigration, marriage equality, and making a home in the shadows. Monthly gatherings that alternate between gay fiction classics and contemporary voices you need to hear.