Events

TBANew events coming soon!
Pink map of the United States for the book Who Needs Gay Bars? with map pins for featured gay bars, illustrated with dancing people, a yellow unicorn, and a bartender under a rainbow

Past events

May 30
2023
Book launch!
7pm EDT
The Stonewall Inn, NYC
Book sales on site by The Bureau
Hosted by the legendary Murray Hill
Free and 21+
A moustachioed man in a natty suit interviewing a bearded man with thick glasses in a silver-fringed shirt and pink sneakers on the stage at The Stonewall Inn
May 31Convo w/ Hugh Ryan:
7pm EDT
The Bureau of General Services—Queer Division
NYC (in the Center)
Book sales on site
Streaming on YouTube!
June 1Book party
7pm EDT
Troupe429
Norwalk, Connecticut
Book sales by Barrett Bookstore
Free tickets here
A black man in shorts and a cap interviewing a fat white bearded man on stage in front of a rainbow mural reading Troupe
June 10Book party
3pm
Trellis at Studio West 117th
Cleveland, Ohio
Book sales by Visible Voice
White man in Keith Haring black and white shirt and red sneakers standing with a beer in his hand and talking
June 30Mac’s Backs Books on Coventry
Final Fridays Art Walk + Market
Cleveland Heights, Ohio
July 8Author Alley at Loganberry BooksShaker Heights, Ohio
July 15Book party at Dacha Loft – ShawWashington, DC
July 16Book party at Chumley’sState College, Pennsylvania
Sept 27
Book talk with Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies
Duke University
Durham, NC
Sept 28Book talk at Scuppernong BooksGreensboro, NC
Oct 18Book Q&A at Left Bank Books hosted by historian Steven Louis BrawleySt. Louis, MO
Oct 19Colloquium: The Importance of Gay Bars in a COVID-19 world.
4-5pm
University of Missouri
Columbia, MO
Oct 26Book talk at Speak of the Devil with Ship to ShoreLorain, OH
Nov 11The Past, Present, and Future of Queer Nightlife: Conversation with Tim Piotrowski at A Room of One’s Own Bookstore.Madison, WI
Nov 18, 2023Books by the Banks Book Festival
10am-4pm
Cincinatti, OH
Jan 12
2024
Book talk at Changing Hands BookstorePhoenix, Arizona

Mar 12
Panel: Who Needs LGBTQ+ Bars? with Emily Bielagus (Rubyfruit), Jesse Plotsky (Babes Bar), and Renato Estacio (Sidewinders)Oberlin, OH
Mar 22Saints + Sinners Literary FestivalNew Orleans
May 28Reading at Prinz Eisenherz, 8:30pmBerlin, Germany
Jun 12Conversation with Mira Eskelinen at Tekstintalo, co-sponsored by the U.S. Embassy to FinlandHelsinki, Finland
Jul 25Rural Sociological Association Keynote: The Cosmopolitanism of Rural Gay BarsMadison, WI
Aug 1, 2024Conversation with Krista Burton at Dorothy’s courtesy of Gerber/Hart Library and Archives with book sales by Women and Children FirstChicago, IL