Stonewall 50: Matthew Riemer, Leighton Brown, and Garrard Conley in Conversation - Sold Out

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the STONEWALL RIOTS, we will host a CONVERSATION FEATURING MATTHEW RIEMER AND LEIGHTON BROWN, creators of Instagram’s @lgbt_history, and acclaimed author GARRARD CONLEY (_Boy Erased_). The three authors and activists will talk about RIEMER AND BROWN’s wildly popular @lgbt_history page and their debut book, _We Are Everywhere_, a rich and sweeping photographic history of the Queer Liberation Movement, along with GARRARD CONLEY’s best-selling memoir. _Boy Erased_ was adapted for the 2018 film of the same name, as well as the podcast _UnErased: The History of Conversion Therapy in America_. Their shared experience casts a powerful light on the LGBTQ+ community’s hardships in the past, its challenges for the future, and what STONEWALL MEANS TO US TODAY. MATTHEW RIEMER AND LEIGHTON BROWN [https://queerhistory.com/], creators of Instagram’s massively popular @lgbt_history [https://www.instagram.com/lgbt_history/], live in Washington, D.C., where BROWN IS AN ATTORNEY AND RIEMER, a former attorney, is a writer and lecturer. They enjoying fighting fascists, spending time with their dog, and disrupting fundamentalists’ worldviews._ _Essential and empowering, _We Are Everywhere_, the couple’s first book, is a rich and sweeping photographic history of the Queer Liberation Movement, combining exhaustively researched narrative with meticulously curated photographs, just in time for the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots. GARRARD CONLEY [http://garrardconley.com/] is the author of the _New York Times_ best-seller _Boy Erased _(Penguin 2016), now a major motion picture. _Boy Erased_ was nominated for a Lamdba Literary Award and was featured as a top 2016 nonfiction book by _O Magazine, Buzzfeed Books_, and _Shelf Awareness_, and has been translated into over a dozen languages. CONLEY IS ALSO A PRODUCER AND CREATOR OF THE PODCAST UnErased [http://garrardconley.com/biography/tell%20the%20history%20of%20the%20%22pray%20away%20the%20gay%22%20movement%20in%20the%20United%20States%20and%20abroad%20through%20interviews%20with%20its%20creators,%20critics,%20and%20survivors], which explores the history of conversion therapy in America. His work has been published in the _New York Times, TIME, VICE, CNN, BuzzFeed, Them, Virginia Quarterly Review,_ and the _Huffington Post_. He is currently at work on a novel about queer eighteenth-century lives.