Queer Voices reading was extraordinary

Thirty years! Thirty years of Queer Voices.

Poetry and prose happened. Tears (yes, I cried a couple times; I’m not ashamed—writing does that, when it works well, and let me tell you, everything was working well on Saturday). Laughter.

OG Queer Voices people — the founders! Carolyn Holbrook, Andrea Jenkins, John Medeiros — showed up and received a heaping helping of well-deserved praise and flowers, from our most excellent MCs and hosts (and co-curators of Queer Voices), LM Brimmer and Sherrie Fernandez-Williams.

Junauda Petrus read from her YA novel, The Stars and the Blackness Between Them, and it was frankly hilarious. I’ve never heard her read before, which I immediately regretted. I have not read much fiction lately, which I also immediately regretted.