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Julián Delgado Lopera: Pretend You're Dead!

  • The Lab 2948 16th St San Francisco, CA, 94103 (map)

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Doors 8pm / Show 8:30pm
$11.33 adv ($10 + fees) / $12 door / free or discounted for members
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Come join us in celebrating the book launch of Julián Delgado Lopera’s Pretend You’re Dead and I Carry You, a stunning new novel which takes us to underground queer Colombia. A Queerty and Ms. Magazine most anticipated book of 2026, Pretend You’re Dead and I Carry You has already been called “scintillating” (Publishers Weekly starred review) and “at once intimate and devastating” (Kirkus Reviews). Julián will be joined in conversation by the legendary Honey Mahogany, plus performances from Grace Towers and Kochina Rude—with extra special readings by Ingrid Rojas Contreras and Maryam Rostami, and a surprise from the GLBT Historical Society’s archive.

Books will be available for purchase and signing at the event courtesy of Green Apple Books.

 
Earlier Event: May 23
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Later Event: June 6
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