Queer and Catholic examines the culture of how being raised catholic informs and influences, positively or negatively, our queerness and how our queerness affects our Catholicism, our vestigial catholic nature or even our flight from and continued struggle with the ‘the Church of Rome.’ Whether we embrace or reject our Catholic upbringings, they affect and shape who we are and bump up against our queer identities. Examining the culture of Catholicism, rather than the dogma or letter of it, these essays and short stories do not seek to address whether or not queers and the Catholic Church can reconcile or how and why the church should change, but instead explore the impact that growing up Catholic and queer has on us as individuals, writers, and political agents. Join editor Amie M. Evans, and contributors: Helen Boyd, Joseph de Marco, Anthony Easton, Stephen Greco, Vince Sgambati; Charlie Vazquez; and Emanuel Xavier as they read from their contributions to the anthology. Friday, September 5, 8PM at BlueStockings, 172 Allen St; New York, NY 10002 (212) 777-6028

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