Image: Headshot of Malinda Lo, 2017; photograph by Sharona Jacobs. Cover for Last Night at the Telegraph Club courtesy of Dutton Books.
Award-winning young-adult author Malinda Lo will read selections from and discuss her new novel Last Night at the Telegraph Club (Dutton Books, 2021), a queer coming-of-age story set in San Francisco’s Chinatown in the 1950s. The story traces the blossoming of love between seventeen year-old Lily Hu and Kathleen Miller in a Chinatown beset by Red-Scare paranoia and deportation threats. Lo will share details from her research into the midcentury LGBTQ community at the GLBT Historical Society’s archives, and discuss the novel and its historical inspirations with historian Amy Sueyoshi, a professor at San Francisco State University whose research specializes in Asian American and sexuality studies.
Those who purchase copies of Last Night at the Telegraph Club from our Bookshop.org page and attend this event will receive a personalized autographed bookplate from author Malinda Lo! Please send an email with your ticket confirmation and Bookshop.org receipt to leigh@glbthistory.org for your autographed bookplate, with information on how you would like yours personalized, by 3/8/2021.
SPEAKERS
Malinda Lo (she/her/hers) is the critically acclaimed author of several young adult novels, including most recently A Line in the Dark, which was a Kirkus Best Young Adult Book of 2017 and one of Vulture’s 10 Best Young Adult Books of 2017. Her novel Ash, a lesbian retelling of Cinderella, was a finalist for the William C. Morris Young Adult Debut Award, the Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy, the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award, and was a Kirkus Best Book for Children and Teens. She has been a three-time finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. Lo’s nonfiction has been published by the New York Times Book Review, NPR, the Huffington Post, The Toast, the Horn Book, and in the anthologies Here We Are, How I Resist, and Scratch. She lives in Massachusetts with her wife.
Amy Sueyoshi (she/her/hers/they/their/theirs) is dean of the College of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University. A historian by training, her research lies at the intersection of Asian American studies and sexuality studies. She has authored two books: Queer Compulsions: Race, Nation, and Sexuality in the Affairs of Yone Noguchi (2012) and Discriminating Sex: White Leisure and the Making of the American “Oriental” (2018). Sueyoshi is a founding co-curator of the GLBT Historical Society Museum and served as co-chair of the inaugural Queer History Conference 2019 hosted by the Committee on LGBT History.
HOW TO PARTICIPATE
This event will take place online. After you register, you will receive a confirmation email with a link and instructions on how to join online. The event will also be livestreamed on our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/GLBTHistory/ and then archived on our YouTube page at https://bit.ly/2UyGVbG.
ADMISSION
Free | $5.00 suggested donation
Register online here: http://bit.ly/2KM03AT
ASL INTERPRETATION
ASL interpretation provided upon request. Please write at least three days in advance of event to leigh@glbthistory.org.
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