BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//GayOut//Event Export//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT UID:148025@gayout.com DTSTAMP:20260730T163329Z DTSTART:20260807T190000Z DTEND:20260807T203000Z SUMMARY:Read the Rainbow Book Club — Squirrel Hill DESCRIPTION:This month\\, we’\\;ll be discussing My Government Means to Kill Me by Rasheed Newson\\nNeed to order a copy of the book? You can do so here.\\nAbout the book:\\nNATIONAL BESTSELLER · A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK · A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITOR’\\;S CHOICE · 2 023 LAMBDA LITERARY PRIZE FOR GAY FICTION FINALIST\\nThe debut novel from television WRITER/PRODUCER OF THE CHI\\, NARCOS\\, and BEL-AIR tells a f ierce and riveting queer coming-of-age story following the personal and p olitical awakening of a young\\, gay\\, Black man in 1980s New York City. \\n“\\;Consistently engrossing.”\\; —New York Times Book Revi ew\\n“Full of joy and righteous anger\\, sex and straight talk\\, brill iant storytelling and humor…\\; A spectacularly researched Dickensia n tale with vibrant characters and dozens of famous cameos\\, it is preci sely the book we’ve needed for a long time.” —Andrew Sean Greer\\, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less\\nEarl “\\;Trey”\\; Singl eton III arrives in New York City with only a few dollars in his pocket. Born into a wealthy Black Indianapolis family\\, at 17\\, he is ready to leave his overbearing parents and their expectations behind.\\nIn the cit y\\, Trey meets up with a cast of characters that changes his life foreve r. He volunteers at a renegade home hospice for AIDS patients\\, and afte r being put to the test by gay rights activists\\, becomes a member of th e AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP). Along the way\\, Trey attempt s to navigate past traumas and searches for ways to maintain familial rel ationships—all while seeking the meaning of life amid so much death.\\n Vibrant\\, humorous\\, and fraught with entanglements\\, Rasheed Newson s My Government Means to Kill Me is an exhilarating\\, fast-paced coming -of-age story that lends itself to a larger discussion about what it mean s for a young gay Black man in the mid-1980s to come to terms with his ro le in the midst of a political and social reckoning.\\nhttps://www.gayout .com/usa-canada/united-states/pittsburgh/events/read-the-rainbow-book-clu b-squirrel-hill-2026-08-07 LOCATION:Pittsburgh URL:https://www.gayout.com/usa-canada/united-states/pittsburgh/events/read-the-rainbow-book-club-squirrel-hill-2026-08-07 STATUS:CONFIRMED END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR