Author Blair Fell and historian Jeff Ioavannone lead what will surely be a lively conversation about queerness in fiction, accompanied by a chorus of voices reading from cult classic Faggots & Their Friends Between Revolutions.

Blair Fell writes and lives in New York City. Blair’s television work includes Queer as Folk, and the Emmy Award–winning California Connected. He’s written dozens of plays including the award-winning plays Naked Will, The Tragic and Horrible Life of the Singing Nun, and the downtown cult miniseries Burning Habits. His personal essays have appeared in HuffPost, Out, Daily News (New York), and more. He’s a two-time winner of the prestigious Doris Lippman Prize in Creative Writing from the City College of New York, including for his early unfinished draft of The Sign for Home. Concurrently with being a writer, Blair has been an ASL interpreter for the Deaf since 1993, and has also worked as an actor, producer, and director.

Jeff Iovannone is a social historian who specializes in LGBTQ place-based history. He holds a PhD in American Studies from the University at Buffalo and a Masters in Historic Preservation Planning and LGBT Studies from Cornell University. He has authored several National Register of Historic Places nominations for LGBTQ historic sites, including the headquarters of Firebrand Books and the Lavender Hill Commune, and is the creator of the digital exhibit Leslie Feinberg's Buffalo: Historic Sites in Stone Butch Blues.