GenderQueer: Los Alamos Author Tells a Story From a Different Closet, with Allan Hunter Online
GenderQueer is the story of Derek, a different kind of male hero - a genderqueer person's tale. It follows Derek from his debut as an eighth grader in Los Alamos, New Mexico until his unorthodox coming out at the age of twenty-one on the University of New Mexico campus in Albuquerque.
Author Allan D. Hunter will read selections from the book and then open the floor for discussion and comment.
In the 1970s -- decades before terms like "genderqueer" or "nonbinary" rolled off of anyone's tongues -- Allan Derek Hunter arrived at Cumbres Junior High in Los Alamos as a stranger, a somewhat feminine, shy, and slightly brittle person. Derek had always liked the girls, played with the girls, and tried to behave like them, disdaining the company of boys or any identity in common with them.
Some of that shyness and brittle fragility came from a new and frightening vulnerability: like the rest of us at puberty, Derek was being hit with strong sexual feelings, and like many of the boys around him, his attraction was towards the girls. But neither he nor his classmates had any model for how to be a feminine heterosexual male.
- Date:
- Thursday, October 7, 2021
- Time:
- 7:00pm - 8:00pm
- Time Zone:
- Mountain Time - US & Canada (change)
- Online:
- This is an online event. Event URL will be sent via registration email.
- Audience:
- adults
- Categories:
- adult virtual- streaming