A Different Light and Magnet Book Club
In other neighborhood business news, gay bookseller A Different Light (489 Castro Street) has joined with men’s health center Magnet (4122 18th Street) to lead a monthly book club for gay men. The book club started last year as an event for Magnet volunteers, but the group opens to the general public with this month’s read, National Book Award-winning Just Kids by rock musician Patti Smith.
According to A Different Light event coordinator Oscar Raymundo, “The club is a great social outlet for those residents in the Castro who’d like to meet new people in a more sophisticated atmosphere than, say, a nightclub or bar, and discuss great, big ideas with other like-minded men.”
And he added, “We welcome everyone - gay, straight, male, female - but we are currently focusing on fiction and memoirs that appeal to a gay male perspective.”
The book club meets the last Tuesday of each month (January 25) at 7:30 p.m. at Magnet. All book club selections are available at A Different Light for a 10 percent discount for club members.
By Raymond Flournoy, The Bay Area Reporter (January 13, 2011)
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fridalikeswatermelon said:
That’s really awesome you’re doing this, Oscar. If I lived in the city still, I’d definitely be there.
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rising said:
I love ‘A Different Light’
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