MONTREAL QUEER BOOKFAIR
August 17, 2013 12pm – 6pm
Comité Social Centre-Sud, 1710 Beaudry Beaudry Subway Station
August 17, 2013 12pm – 6pm
Comité Social Centre-Sud, 1710 Beaudry Beaudry Subway Station
Come visit Radical Montreal at this years QUEER BOOKFAIR!
Since the closing of L’Androgyne in 2002, Montreal has not maintained a long-standing queer bookstore. Queer Between the Covers aims to provide access to queer materials that are otherwise unavailable in the city, as well as draw attention to the role of queer bookstores in providing community space and supporting queer cultural production. This is the sixth year that Queer Between the Covers will be taking place in Montreal. It happens each August, as part of an alternative Pride series called Pervers/cité, which is a radical response to the continued commercialization and de-politicization of mainstream pride events in the city. The bookfair began as an initiative of Qteam, a radical queer collective in the city, and is now an autonomous project. The bookfair attracts hundreds of people each year, and brings together both local and out-of-town independent bookstores, publishers, zinesters, authors, and community groups.
Queer Between the Covers is being organized by a collective of volunteers based in Montreal, with the support of QPIRG Concordia. The collective also maintains a year-round queer and trans book and zine distro and puts on book launches and other smaller events every few months. We are always looking for new people to get involved.
Here’s the complete list of 2013 participants:
AIDS ACTION NOW /// poster/virus
AJ Withers
Andrew Grimes Griffin
B&D Press
Belhue Press
Bender Gear
Berlin & Jackie
Bits of String
Brody Wood
Co-op Bookstore
Coco Riot
Crooked Fagazine
Dinah press
Éditions du fleche
Fernwood
Guano Distro
Jenna Meyers
Jennifer Code
Justseeds
Kersplebedeb
Laura Mac (Peents)
Maison Kasini Books
Montreal Anarchist People Of Colour Distro
Paper Dog Press
Paper Pusher
Perry Crass
Pigeon Posse
Plenitude magazine
PolitiQ
QPIRG Concordia Library
Queer/Trans* People of Color Distro
QWest Films
Radical Montreal
Sellers & Newel Second-hand books
St. Émilie Skillshare
Tara Jay
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Twelveohtwo
UGE
Venus Envy
xxx zines