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.

COMING UP AT PRIDEREADS:

Bury Your Gays

By Chuck Tingle

October 18, 2026 | 7:30PM | Tomorrow Bookstore

Bury Your Gays is Chuck Tingle's 2024 horror novel, a fast, funny, genuinely frightening story about what the entertainment industry asks queer people to trade away for a seat at the table. Misha Byrne has spent decades clawing toward success in Hollywood, and he finally has an Oscar nomination to show for it, when studio executives hand him an ultimatum: kill off the queer leads of his long running series in the season finale, because the algorithm says so. Misha refuses, and almost immediately the monsters he invented for his early horror projects start turning up in the hills above Los Angeles, stalking him and the people he loves. The scares land because they are personal. One of those creatures was modeled on someone who hurt him as a child, and the book is as interested in the past Misha buried to get here as it is in the one chasing him now. Bury Your Gays is a gleeful, gory takedown of a tired trope, and underneath the blood it is a story about a man deciding, finally, that some things are not worth surviving.

PrideReads attendees get a 10% discount on Bury Your Gays at Tomorrow Bookstore.

Long Island Girls

By Gabrielle Korn

September 21, 2026 | 7:30PM | Tomorrow Bookstore

Long Island Girls is Gabrielle Korn's latest novel, a sprawling, nostalgia soaked story that follows Susan from an awkward seventeen year old on Long Island to a woman in her mid thirties building a life in Brooklyn's indie music world. The story centers on Susan's relationship with Eliza, a first love that keeps resurfacing across a decade of dating apps, bad bosses, and unfinished business, even as Susan finds real friendship and steadier ground elsewhere. Along the way, Eliza is still wrestling with trauma tied to the same people who now fill Susan's professional orbit, and the novel doesn't shy away from the harder edges of the industry Susan is trying to break into. Korn writes with a sharp eye for the specific ache of growing up online in the early 2000s, and the friendships that carry Susan through it, particularly her high school best friend Katie, give the book its emotional backbone. Long Island Girls is a coming of age story about the loves and near misses that shape us, and a reminder that moving forward rarely means moving on completely.

PrideReads attendees get a 10% discount on Long Island Girls at Tomorrow Bookstore. Tomorrow will also host an Author Talk with Korn on September 22 at 7:30PM.

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Previous PrideReads Selections

Maurice by E.M. Forster: August 31, 2026

First Time for Everything by Henry Fry: July 27, 2026

Separate Rooms by Pier Vittorio Tondelli: June 22, 2026

Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin: May 18, 2026

Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin: April 6, 2026

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