At the age of twenty-seven, Amber Cantorna came out to her family as gay. As the daughter of a Focus on the Family, an American Christian conservative organization, executive, that transparency cost her everything. Cantorna will discuss and signRefocusing My Family: Coming Out, Being Cast Out, and Discovering the True Love of God(26.99 Fortress Press), a powerful story of survival, perfectionism, reputation, and appearances
Editor Marilyn Schuster will discuss and sign A Queer Love Story: The Letters of Jane Rule and Rick Bebout($49.95 UBC Press). A Queer Love Story presents the first fifteen years of letters between Jane Rule - novelist and the first widely recognized "public lesbian" in North America - and Rick Bebout, journalist and editor with the Toronto-based Body Politic, an important incubator of LGBT+ thought and activism.
