Let Them Stare: Book Launch with Jonathan Van Ness & Julie Murphy
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Region: Downtown
Address: 14 W 10th St., Kansas City, MO 64105
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Related Organization: Kansas City Public Library
New high school graduate Sully is desperate to leave home, and an amazing local thrift-store handbag seems valuable enough to be a ticket out. Except for one thing – the item is haunted by the ghost of a 1950s drag performer.
Bestselling co-authors Jonathan Van Ness and Kansas City’s own Julie Murphy talk about their collaboration, Let Them Stare. They discuss how their story about unlocking the past and finding a way out turned into a celebration of a hometown’s long-buried queer history and growing strong right at home.
In 2018, near the end of filming in Kansas City, Van Ness and his co-stars on the Netflix reality series Queer Eye launched their book, Queer Eye: Love Yourself, Love Your Life, at Central Library before a standing-room only crowd.
The book's official release day is May 20. The local bookseller, Under the Cover, will have early release signed copies available for purchase.