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BOOK CLUB
Monthly Meetings via Zoom
The 2nd Monday of every month from 6:30 – 8:00 pm
The 2nd Monday of every month from 6:30 – 8:00 pm
Led by: Clayton Littlewood
Born and raised in England, Clay now lives in Fort Lauderdale. A musician, playwright, and actor, he is the author of two books “Dirty White Boy: Tales of Soho” and “Goodbye to Soho.”
To sign up, please e-mail Inquiry@stonewall-museum.org
Next meeting date to: June 10, 2024 | 6:30 PM (EST)
Book: “Maurice” by EM Forster
Maurice Hall knows he must choose between living life in the shadows or denying himself a chance at love and fulfilment. Aware of his attraction to the same sex, in a time where it was considered unlawful and immoral to have homosexual desires, Maurice must decide whether to battle or submit to a prejudiced 20th-century English society.
BOOK CLUB
“I Will Greet the Sun Again” by Khashayar J. Khabushani
Time and Date: Monday, April 14, 2025 at 6:30 p.m.
A searing, heartbreaking debut about the powerful bonds that make and break an Iranian-American family
Three young brothers leave Los Angeles in the dead of night for Iran, taken by their father from their mother to a country and an ancestral home they barely recognize. They return to the Valley months later, spit back into American life and changed in awful and inexorable ways. Under the annihilating light of the California sun, our protagonist, the youngest brother, tries to piece together a childhood shattered by his father’s abuse, a queer adolescence marked by a shy, secret love affair with a boy he meets on the basketball court, and his suddenly-hostile status as a Muslim living under the shadow of 9/11.
Next meeting date: July 8, 2024 | 6:30 PM (EST)
Book: “Alec” by William di Canzio
William di Canzio’s Alec, inspired by Maurice, E. M. Forster’s secret novel of a happy same-sex love affair, tells the story of Alec Scudder, the gamekeeper Maurice Hall falls in love with in Forster’s classic, published only after the author’s death.
Di Canzio follows their story past the end of Maurice to the front lines of battle in World War I and beyond. Forster, who tried to write an epilogue about the future of his characters, was stymied by the radical change that the Great War brought to their world. With the hindsight of a century, di Canzio imagines a future for them and a past for Alec―a young villager possessed of remarkable passion and self-knowledge.
To join, you must be a current member of Stonewall. Membership to Stonewall begins with an annual donation of $50 or more for an individual, $100 for a household.
CLICK HERE TO BECOME A MEMBER.
If you are not a member already, become a member today
and find community in one of the following clubs.
FILM CLUB
Monthly Meetings via Zoom
The 2nd Wednesday of every month from 7:00 – 8:30 pm
The 2nd Wednesday of every month from 7:00 – 8:30 pm
Led by: John Catania and Charles Ignacio of Chillfest.
Founded in 2005 by John Catania and Charles Ignacio, Chillfest is dedicated to screening moving image art forms that express and celebrate the LGBTQIA+ experience.
Participants who will select an LGBTQIA+ film, watch it on their own time, and meet to discuss, critique, learn and reflect.
To sign up, please e-mail Inquiry@stonewall-museum.org
Film Club
“The Origin of Evil” (2022)
Wed, April 9 at 7 PM (ET)
Read NOTHING out there about this film before watching!
Rich and powerful families with all their rivalries and dysfunction have endlessly fascinated movie-goers (i.e., Saltburn, a Film Club favorite), TV-watchers (i.e., from Dallas to Succession to White Lotus), and theater-lovers (i.e., Shakespeare’s gory dramas like King Lear and Richard III). We yearn to know who’s in, who’s out…and who is next to die.
Director Sébastien Marnier’s dark comic thriller revels in this sphere, taking inspiration also from Alfred Hitchcock, David Lynch and Brian De Palma. But even to reveal the genre perhaps gives too much away. Suffice it to say that the Lears, Ewings, Roys and the Catton family of Saltburn have stiff competition from the Dumontet’s of Côte d’Azur. And if, like our sweet and unassuming Stéphane (Laure Calamy), one has the fortune, or misfortune, to drop into this loopy clan, then buckle up and be ready for anything.
Pass the popcorn, please.
Watch on Apple TV, Hulu or Prime Video
