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Thursday, October 22
 

6:00pm PDT

Her Story, History, Their Story, Whose Story? Facts and Fictions in Historical Queer Books
Thursday October 22, 2026 6:00pm - 7:30pm PDT
GLBT Historical Society
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Co-presented with Bay Area Reporter and GLBT Historical Society

What are the rules of engagement when telling historical tales about the lives of LGBTQ characters? Authors and scholars compare notes on their fictional and nonfiction works that resonate realistically, and even those that are completely fantastical yet set in the real world’s past. Featuring authors Mark Abramson, Lucy Jane Bledsoe, Joey Cain, and Katie Gilmartin. Moderated by Bay Area Reporter arts editor and author Jim Provenzano. Doors at 5:30pm.
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Jim Provenzano

Jim Provenzano is the author of seven novels, including the Lambda Literary Award winner Every Time I Think of You and its sequel Message of Love (a Lambda finalist), his debut novel PINS and its award-winning commissioned stage adaptation. Other works include four audiobook adap... Read More →
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Mark Abramson

Mark Abramson is the author of eight volumes of “Beach Reading”—a mystery series set primarily in San Francisco’s Castro neighborhood, plus publishing nine non-fiction memoirs and diaries covering various chapters of his remarkable life story, including Sex, Drugs & Disco... Read More →
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Lucy Jane Bledsoe

Lucy Jane Bledsoe’s eighth novel, Tell the Rest, received starred reviews in both Library Journal and Kirkus Reviews, and the New York Times said her work “triumphs as an intimate and humane evocation of day-to-day life under inhumane circumstances.” Her fiction has won a California Arts Council Fellowship in Literature, an American Library Association Stonewall Award, the Arts & Letters Fiction Prize, three Pushca... Read More →
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Joey Cain

Joey Cain is an exhibition curator, activist and LGBT historian specializing in the history of Queer Men’s Consciousness and self-conception. He’s curated exhibits for the San Francisco Public Library and the GLBT Historical Society, and co-edits the Edward Carpenter Circle website. His... Read More →
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Katie Gilmartin

Katie Gilmartin’s checkered past includes stints as a buoyant union organizer, bona fide sex researcher, and deeply engaged college professor. She cofounded City Art Cooperative Gallery, a still-thriving arts space on Valencia Street, and launched the Queer Ancestors Project, devoted to forging... Read More →
Thursday October 22, 2026 6:00pm - 7:30pm PDT
GLBT Historical Society 4127 18th St, San Francisco, CA 94114
  Storytelling/Memoir

7:00pm PDT

Ben Ehrenreich: Hold Still
Thursday October 22, 2026 7:00pm - 8:30pm PDT
City Lights
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FREE

Co-presented with City Lights


In the months after his mother Barbara’s death, author and essayist Ben Ehrenreich set himself the task of writing a story every day. Leaving open the question of what a “story” might be, some entries ended up fable-like tales involving animals doing surprising things. Others were closer to journal entries, many of them about his daughter, who was nearly three at the time, and who was trying to understand death herself at the same time that she was voraciously exploring the living world. This deeply moving collection of those daily journeys into storytelling—a finely crafted combination of fiction, memoir, and poetic prose—is both profound and satisfyingly whimsical. In conversation with Daniel Gumbiner.

Moderators
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Daniel Gumbiner

Daniel Gumbiner is the author of The Boatbuilder, a nominee for the National Book Award and Fire in the Canyon, a California Book Award Finalist. His short story “The Vermilion Sea,” published in VQR, received the Emily Clark Balch Prize. He is the Editor of The Believer and lives... Read More →
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Ben Ehrenreich

Ben Ehrenreich is the author, most recently, of Hold Still, published October 2026 by City Lights. He has also written two books of nonfiction—the American Book Award-winning Desert Notebooks: A Road Map for the End of Time and The Way to the Spring: Life and Death in Palestine... Read More →
Thursday October 22, 2026 7:00pm - 8:30pm PDT
City Lights 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco
  Storytelling/Memoir, FREE

7:30pm PDT

Lights, Camera, Action: Porchlight Storytelling on the Big Screen
Thursday October 22, 2026 7:30pm - 9:30pm PDT
Vogue Theater
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$20 adv / $25 door


The Bay Area’s long-running Porchlight storytelling series returns to Litquake for this special cinematic edition, featuring tales of the silver screen from the Bay’s finest writers and comedians including Jack Boulware, Mukethe Kawinzi, Ali Liebegott, Allison Mick, TK Moyer, and sam sax. Co-hosted by Arline Klatte and Beth Lisick. Music by Marc Capelle. Doors at 7:00pm.

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Mukethe Kawinzi

Mukethe Kawinzi is a trans shepherd and land steward working at the intersection of the pastoral, modern negritude, queer identity, and contemporary rural life. He has farmed in sustainable and organic agriculture for six years, with a focus on small ruminants, artisanal cheesemaking, non-violent livest... Read More →
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Arline Klatte

Arline Klatte is the co-founder of the Porchlight Storytelling series, San Francisco's longest-running storytelling show, now in its 24th season.


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Beth Lisick

Beth Lisick is an author, actor, and events producer who lives in New York's Hudson Valley. Originally from the Bay Area, Beth is the co-founder of the Porchlight Storytelling Series, now in its 24th year. The popular storytelling series, known for its adventurous booking style, has featured... Read More →
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Ali Liebegott

Ali Liebegott is a writer and painter that currently resides in Los Angeles. She’s published four books: The Beautifully Worthless, The IHOP Papers, Cha-Ching!, and The Summer of Dead Birds. She’s the recipient of a Peabody Award, two Lambda Literary Awards and a Ferro-Grumle... Read More →
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Jack Boulware

Jack Boulware co-founded the Bay Area’s Litquake literary festival and was director for 24 years. He is author/co-author of "San Francisco Bizarro" (St. Martin’s, 2000) and the punk oral history "Gimme Something Better" (Penguin, 2009). He currently works on book projects and... Read More →
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Allison Mick

Allison Mick (she/they) is a Los Angeles-based horror writer and the author of eco-gothic HUMBOLDT CUT (Erewhon Books). Her upcoming releases are DIVE (Tenebrous Press, Nov 2026), a speculative punk horror collection and maritime eco-horror DARK WAVES (Erewhon, Jan 2027). Mick’s... Read More →
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T.K. Moyer

Terrence K. Moyer is an author, stand-up comedian, actor, and U.S. Navy veteran based in San Francisco, California. After serving honorably in the United States Navy, he pursued a career in the performing arts, earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting for Film from the Academy of... Read More →
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Sam Sax

Sam Sax is the author of the novel Yr Dead (Longlisted for the National Book Award) and the poetry collections PIG (best book of 2023 Vulture & Electric Lit), Bury It (Winner of the James Laughlin Award), and Madness (Winner of the National Poetry Series). They're the two time Bay... Read More →
Thursday October 22, 2026 7:30pm - 9:30pm PDT
Vogue Theater 3290 Sacramento St, San Francisco
  Storytelling/Memoir
 

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