1:15 PM - Saturday - Book Club
2025-05-17 14:00 - 16:00 (America/Chicago) | Quatrefoil Library, 1220 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55407, United States
What: And There He Kept Her
By: Joshua Moehling
Where: Quatrefoil Library
When: May 17th at 1:15 PM
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Book Review:
Joshua Moehling’s debut is on solid ground in its writing and suspense. The opening gambit is simple – two teens go missing after breaking into someone’s house. ‘Propulsive’ and ‘atmospheric’ are two words that will alternate in your brain as you read this novel about a Deputy Sheriff, his secrets and the small town that holds even more secrets.

1:15 PM - Saturday - Book Club
2025-04-19 13:00 - 16:00
What: Young Man from the Provinces
By: Alan Helms
Where: Quatrefoil Library
When: April 19th at 1:15 PM
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Book Review:
Young Man from The Provinces
by Alan Helms
Young, intelligent, and handsome, Alan Helms
left a brutal midwestern childhood for New York
City in 1955. Denied a Rhodes scholarship
because of his sexual orientation, he soon
became an object of desire in a gay
underground scene frequented by, among
many others, Noel Coward, Leonard Bernstein,
and Marlene Dietrich. In this unusually vivid
and sensitive account, Helms describes the
business of being a sex object and its
psychological and physical toll.

1:15 PM - Saturday - Book Club
2025-03-15 13:00 - 16:00
What: The Bell in the Fog
By: Lev AC Rosen
Where: Quatrefoil Library
When: March 15 at 1:15 PM
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Book Review:
The Bell in the Fog
by Lev AC Rosen
San Francisco, 1952. Detective Evander
“Andy” Mills has started a new life for himself
as a private detective—but his business hasn’t
exactly taken off. Then James, an old flame
from the war arrives and the case takes him
back to the closeted world of the Navy, and
then out into the gay bars of the city.

6:30 PM - Saturday - Quatrefoil Game Nights
2025-03-08 18:30 - 21:30
Every 2nd and 4th Saturday every Month
6:30pm to 9:30pm
Community Room of the Quatrefoil Library
1220 E. Lake St. Minneapolis, MN

6:00 PM - Friday - LGBTIA+ Game Nights
2025-03-07 18:00 - 22:00
LGBTIA+ Game Nights
6:00 pm Till 10 pm
EVERY FRIDAY EVENING!
Located in the Quatrefoil Library. Please see the Facebook page for the group is LGBTQ Board Games Twin Cities for updates. We offer a wide variety of games of many levels of play. Snacks provided.
Cancellations will be posted on the Facebook page.
Russ Game Whore!
For more information contact us by email here.

1:15 PM - Saturday - Book Club
2025-02-22 13:00 - 16:00
What: Gay Bar
By: Jeremy Atherton Lin
Where: Quatrefoil Library
When: Feb. 22nd at 1:15 PM
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Book Review:
Jeremy Atherton Lin’s prose time-travels from
Hollywood nights in the 1970s to a warren of
cruising tunnels built beneath London in the 1770s
to chichi bars in the aftermath of AIDS and today’s
fluid queer spaces.

6:30 PM - Saturday - Quatrefoil Library Game Nights
2025-02-08 18:30 - 21:30

6:00 PM - Friday - LGBTIA+ Game Nights
2025-02-07 18:00 - 22:00
LGBTIA+ Game Nights
LGBTIA+ Game Nights
6:00 pm Till 10 pm at
2930 13th Ave S.
EVERY FRIDAY EVENING!
Look up R. Lovaasen on the Callbox at the
back of the building. Call me and I will let you
into the community room (The same one used
by Quatrefoil Library). The Facebook page for
the group is LGBTQ Board Games Twin Cities
for updates. We offer a wide variety of games
of many levels of play. Snacks provided.
Cancellations will be posted on the Facebook
page.

1:15 PM - Saturday - Book Club
2025-01-18 14:00 - 16:00
What: Zig Zag
By: Philip Hambone
Where: Quatrefoil Library
When: Jan. 18 at 1:15 PM
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Book Review:
“In this collection of fully realized, fully fleshed
portraits of gay men of a certain age, Philip
Gambone reveals the rich, complicated,
empowering history that defines a generation.
These men are pioneers and survivors — but still
growing and still learning. Storytelling at its best.”

1:15 PM - Saturday - Book Club
2024-12-21 14:00 - 16:00
What: Queer
By: William Burroughs
Where: Quatrefoil Library
When: Dec. 21 at 1:15 PM
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Book Review:
Set in Mexico City during the early 50s, Queer follows William Lee’s hopeless pursuit of desire from bar to bar in the American expatriate scene. Burroughs’ only realist love story, Queer is a haunting tale of possession and exorcism. A film adaptation with Daniel Craig opens in December.
The book club will meet: December 21st
@1:15pm at the Quatrefoil Library
1220 E Lake St, Minneapolis, MN 55407

1:15 PM - Saturday - Book Club
2024-11-16 14:00 - 16:00
What: Beijing Comrades
By: Bei Tang
Where: Quatrefoil Library
When: Nov 16th at 1:15 PM
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Book Review:

The first gay novel from mainland China: a tale of capitalism, love, power, and secrecy.

Beijing Comrades is the story of a torrid love affair set against the sociopolitical unrest of late-

eighties China. Due to its depiction of gay sexuality and its critique of the totalitarian government, it was originally published anonymously on an underground gay website within mainland China. This riveting and heartbreaking novel, circulated throughout China in 1998, quickly developed a cult following, and remains a central work of queer literature from the People’s Republic of China. This is the first English-language translation of Beijing Comrades.

Bei Tong is the anonymous author of Beijing Comrades. The author’s real-world identity has been a subject of ongoing debate since the novel was first published.

1:15 PM - Saturday - Book Club
2024-10-19 14:00 - 16:00
What: Henry Henry
By: Allen Bratten
Where: Quatrefoil Library
When: Oct 19 at 1:15 PM
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Book Review:

Henry Henry is a queer reimagining of Shakespeare’s Henriad, transposing the legend of Henry V’s wayward youth into 21st-century Britain in the years leading up to the Brexit referendum.
Henry Henry follows Hal Lancaster—22, gay, Catholic—as he spends his first years out of Oxford

floating between internships, drinking with his actor friends, struggling through awkward hook-ups, and occasionally going to confession to be absolved of his sins.

1:15 PM - Saturday - Book Club
2024-09-21 14:00 - 16:00
What: Day
By: Michael Cunningham
Where: Quatrefoil Library
When: Sept. 21 at 1:15 PM
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Book Review:

Michael Cunningham’s new novel, “Day,” visits a family on April 5 in 2019, 2020 and 2021 — before, during and after the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, which shadows the book although the words “Covid” and “pandemic” never appear.
At the core of the family’s dynamic is a love triangle, more or less platonic. Isabel, a photo editor with a “pugilistic jaw,” feels bad about having lost her erotic connection to her husband, Dan, a former rock ’n’ roller who has now grown “stocky and slightly, voluptuously soft,” but is fantasizing about a comeback. Both she and Dan consider her gay brother, Robbie, a sixth-grade teacher who lives alone in the attic of their brownstone, to be their closest friend.

1:15 PM - Saturday - Book Club
2024-08-17 14:00 - 16:00
What: A Tale of Tow Omars
By: Omar Sharif Jr.
Where: Quatrefoil Library
When: Dec. 21 at 1:15 PM
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Book Review:

A Memoir of Family, Revolution, and Coming Out During the Arab Spring.

1:15 PM - Saturday - Book Club
2024-07-20 14:00 - 16:00
What: Mona of the Manor
By: Armistead Maurine
Where: Quatrefoil Library
When: July 20 at 1:15 PM
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Book Review:

Mona Ramsey is now the owner of a debt-ridden English estate.

1:15 PM - Saturday - Book Club
2024-06-15 14:00 - 16:00
What: The New Life
By: Tom Crewe
Where: Quatrefoil Library
When: June 15 at 1:15 PM
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Book Review:

London, 1894. After a lifetime spent navigating his desires, John Addington, married to Catherine, has met Frank, a working-class printer.

Meanwhile Henry Ellis’s wife Edith has fallen in love with Angelica – and Angelica wants Edith all to herself.

When in 1894 John and Henry decide to write a revolutionary book together, intended to challenge convention and the law, they are both caught in relationships stalked by guilt and shame. Yet they share a possibilities for men and women everywhere.

Their daring book threatens to throw John and Henry, and all those around them, into danger. How far should they go to win personal freedoms? And how high a price are they willing to pay for a new way of living?

1:15 PM - Saturday - Book Club
2024-05-18 14:00 - 16:00
What: The Words that Remain
By: Stenio Gardel
Where: Quatrefoil Library
When: May 18 at 1:15 PM
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Book Review:

A letter has beckoned to Raimundo since he received it over fifty years ago from his youthful passion, Cícero. But having grown up in an impoverished area of Brazil where the demands of manual labor thwarted his becoming literate, Raimundo has long been unable to read. Now at age seventy-one, he at last acquires a true education and the ability to access the letter.

1:15 PM - Saturday - Book Club
2024-04-20 13:00 - 16:00
What: The Late Americans
By: Brandon Taylor
Where: Quatrefoil Library
When: April 20th at 1:15 PM
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Book Review:

In the shared and private spaces of the college town of Iowa City, a loose circle of lovers and friends encounter, confront, and provoke one another in a volatile year of self-discovery. n.” These four are buffeted by a cast of artists, landlords, meatpacking workers, and mathematicians who populate the cafes, classrooms, and food-

service kitchens of the city, sometimes to violent and electrifying consequence.

1:15 PM - Saturday - Book Club
2024-03-23 13:00 - 16:00
What: Fellow Travelers
By: Thomas Mallon
Where: Quatrefoil Library
When: March 23rd at 1:15 PM
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Book Review:

Mallon establishes a clear link between the “red menace” and what’s been called “the lavender scare,” seeing both purges as part of the same web of suspicion. At the time, some people made that connection too, yet the novel’s main characters don’t. Their sexual identities are an entirely private matter, something removed from politics.

1:15 PM - Saturday - Book Club
2024-02-17 13:00 - 16:00
What: Hide
By: Matthew Griffen
Where: Quatrefoil Library
When: Feb. 17 at 1:15 PM
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Book Review:

It’s a quiet winter day in the shop when Wendell first sees Frank, a young World War II vet returned to their Southern town. The wary love that develops between them is forbidden in this time and place, but by cutting ties with the outside world, they make a

home for themselves on the far edge of town. Wendell cooks, Frank tends the garden and tries to keep the dog from digging it up. But when old age sets in and Frank’s strength and memory start to deteriorate, the two of them must confront the sacrifices they’ve made—the lives they never had and the one they’ll fight to keep.

1:15 PM - Saturday - Book Club
2024-01-20 13:00 - 16:00
What: In Memoriam
By: Alice Winn
Where: Quatrefoil Library
When: Jan. 20 at 1:15 PM
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Book Review:

Henry Gaunt, half German, is busy fighting his own private battle–an all- consuming infatuation with his best friend, Sidney Ellwood–without a clue that Ellwood is pining for him in return. When Gaunt’s family asks him to enlist to forestall the anti-German sentiment they face,

Gaunt does so immediately, relieved to escape his overwhelming feelings for Ellwood. To Gaunt’s horror, Ellwood rushes to join him at the front, and the rest of their classmates soon follow. Now death surrounds them in all its grim reality, often inches away, and no one knows who will be next.

1:15 PM - Saturday - Book Club
2023-12-16 14:00 - 16:00
What: Razorblade Tears
By: S.A. Cosby
Where: Quatrefoil Library
When: Dec. 16th at 1:15 PM
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Book Review:

Ike Randolph and Buddy Lee, two ex- cons with little else in common other than a criminal past and a love for their dead sons, band together in their desperate desire for revenge. In their quest to do better for their sons in death than they did in life, hardened men Ike and Buddy Lee will
confront their own prejudices about their sons and each other, as they rain down vengeance upon those who hurt their boys.

1:15 PM - Saturday - Book Club
2023-11-18 13:00 - 16:00
What: Razorblade Tears
By: S.A. Cosby
Where: Quatrefoil Library
When: Nov 18th at 1:15 PM
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Book Review:

Ike Randolph and Buddy Lee, two ex- cons with little else in common other than a criminal past and a love for their dead sons, band together in their desperate desire for revenge. In their quest to do better for their sons in death than they did in life, hardened men Ike and Buddy Lee will
confront their own prejudices about their sons and each other, as they rain down vengeance upon those who hurt their boys.

1:15 PM - Saturday - Book Club
2023-10-21 13:00 - 16:00
What: The Magician
By: Colm Toibin
Where: Quatrefoil Library
When: Oct. 21st at 1:15 PM
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Book Review:

Germany’s greatest 20th century writer, Thomas Mann, is the subject of Colm Tóibín’s novel.
Gay, artistic Thomas Mann is born into a prosperous mercantile family in Lübeck, a provincial German port on the Baltic Sea. In Thomas’s surroundings, money is as self-evident and essential as water and sunshine. When, a few decades later, the post-war inflation evaporates the family fortune, his mother does what other self- respecting women of her class would do – take to bed and starve herself to death – because she simply doesn’t know how to live otherwise.

1:15 PM - Saturday - Book Club
2023-09-16 13:00 - 16:00
What: Ike’s Master Man: The Secret Lives of Robert Cutler
By: Peter Shinkle
Where: Quatrefoil Library
When: Sept. 16th at 1:15 PM
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Book Review:

What do you do if you’re gay, closeted, and a vital part of a homophobic president’s inner circle? Journalist Peter Shinkle seeks to answer this question with his book Ike’s Mystery Man: The Secret Lives of Robert Cutler. Shinkle spent twelve years pulling together a book on his great-uncle Robert “Bobby” Cutler’s. Using Cutler’s personal diary as a pivotal reference, a dairy which described his obsessive love affair with another man, Ike’s Mystery Man digs deep into US post-World War II history and how our government dealt with the LGBTQ community at that time.

1:15 PM - Saturday - Book Club
2023-08-19 13:00 - 16:00
What: Under the Rainbow
By: Celia Laskey
Where: Quatrefoil Library
When: August 19th at 1:15 PM
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Book Review:

Celia Laskey’s Under the Rainbow is a timely look into what it means to be queer in spaces that aggressively refuse you. Smart and compulsively readable, Laskey has woven together narratives that seek to embrace each other through the hurt. There is love and loss alike sandwiched in its pages, pain and pleasure.

1:15 PM - Saturday - Book Club
2023-07-15 13:00 - 16:00
What: The Best Strangers in the World: Stories from a Life Spent Listening
By: Ari Shapiro
Where: Quatrefoil Library
When: July 15 at 1:15 PM
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Book Review:

Ari Shapiro, host of NPR’s “All Things Considered,” came out at 16. Though he hadn’t even kissed a boy there were rumors among his peers about his sexuality. “I decided that the best approach was to drown out the whisper campaign with a bullhorn.” He plastered his locker with postcards of Tom of Finland drawings and photographs by
Herb Ritts and Tom Bianchi. “On Halloween, I came to school in drag. After that, my calculus teacher stopped calling on me when I raised my hand in class.”

1:15 PM - Saturday - Book Club
2023-06-17 14:00 - 16:00
What: Last Call
By: Elon Green
Host: Jerry
Where: Quatrefoil Library
When: June 17th at 1:15 PM
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Book Review:

Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Fact- Based Crime Book. A harrowing, true-crime account of an elusive serial killer who preyed upon gay men in the 1990s New York.

1:15 PM - Saturday - Book Club
2023-05-20 14:00 - 16:00
What: Up with the Sun
By: Thomas Mallon
Where: Quatrefoil Library
When: May 20th at 1:15 PM
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Book Review:

Through the life of Dick Kallman—a real-life celebrity striver, poisonously charming actor, and eventual murder victim—the unforgiving worlds of postwar showbiz and down-low gay sexuality are explored.

1:15 PM - Saturday - Book Club
2023-04-15 14:00 - 16:00
What: My Government Means to Kill Me
By: Rasheed Newson
Where: Quatrefoil Library
When: April.15th at 1:15 PM
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Book Review:

Debut novel from television writer Rasheed Newson (The Chi, Bel-Air) tells a fierce and riveting queer coming-of-age story following the personal and political awakening of a young, gay, Black man in 1980s New York City.
