PrideReads
We’re bringing queer stories home to Indy. PrideReads is Indy Pride's new queer book club, brought to life in partnership with Tomorrow Bookstore of Indianapolis. Each session, we gather around stories that reflect, challenge, and celebrate queer experience. Come for the book. Stay for the conversation. Leave feeling a little more seen.
NEXT UP AT PRIDEREADS:
First Time for Everything
By Henry Fry
July 27, 2026 | 7:30PM | Tomorrow Bookstore
Published in 2022, First Time for Everything is Henry Fry's debut novel and a standout entry in a new wave of queer fiction that centers joy and self-discovery over trauma. The story follows Danny Scudd, a gay journalist in his late twenties who has spent his whole life trying to blend in, right up until a breakup, an eviction, and an unexpected diagnosis force him out of his careful routines and into Jacob's East London commune, a household of eccentric, unapologetically queer friends. What unfolds is a messy, very funny, and often tender education in dating, therapy, and the parts of himself Danny has never let anyone see. Fry writes with real warmth for his characters, even at their most chaotic, and the friendship at the heart of the book between Danny and Jacob grounds the comedy in something genuinely moving. First Time for Everything is a coming of age story for anyone who found their people a little later than planned, and a reminder that becoming yourself rarely happens on schedule.
PrideReads attendees get a 10% discount on First Time for Everything at Tomorrow Bookstore.
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Previous PrideReads Selections
Giovanni’s Room
By James Baldwin
April 6, 2026
Published in 1956, Giovanni's Room is James Baldwin's devastating and beautiful meditation on love, identity, and the cost of hiding who you are. Set in Paris and told with Baldwin's unmistakable precision, the novel follows an American man torn between the life he thinks he is supposed to want and the love he cannot bring himself to claim. Nearly seventy years later, it remains one of the most powerful and honest portraits of queer longing ever written.
Tales of the City
By Armistead Maupin
May 18, 2026
Published in 1978, Tales of the City is Armistead Maupin's warm and irresistible love letter to San Francisco and the chosen families that queer people build when the world they were born into no longer fits. Serialized originally in the San Francisco Chronicle, the novel follows a rotating cast of residents at 28 Barbary Lane, bound together by their landlady, the unforgettable Anna Madrigal, and by a city that dared to say queer lives were worth celebrating out loud. It is a story about coming out, finding your people, and discovering that home is not a place you are born into but one you choose. Nearly fifty years later, it remains one of the most joyful and affirming portraits of queer belonging ever written.
Separate Rooms
By Armistead Maupin
April 6, 2026
Published in 1989 and widely considered Pier Vittorio Tondelli's masterwork, Separate Rooms is a devastating and luminous meditation on love, grief, and the ache of what remains after loss. Written as Tondelli himself was dying of AIDS-related illness, the novel follows Leo, a writer consumed by mourning for his partner Tomas, moving between memory and longing across the cities they shared. Spare and lyrical, it reads less like a narrative than like a sustained act of remembrance. Tondelli wrote queer desire into Italian literature at a moment when that was an act of profound courage, and this novel carries the weight of everything he knew was ending. Nearly four decades later, Separate Rooms endures as one of the most intimate and heartbreaking portraits of queer love ever committed to the page.
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Know a queer story that deserves a room full of readers? We want to hear about it. PrideReads grows through the recommendations of our community, and Tomorrow Bookstore helps us bring the best of them to life. Submit your nomination below, and tell us why this book belongs in the conversation.