Aesop Queer Library Is Returning for Pride Month 2023
And you don’t need to purchase anything to pick up your chosen copy.
June is Pride Month, and in honor of celebrating and representing the LGBTQIA+ community, Aesop is bringing back its Queer Library initiative.
Aesop Queer Library has, once again, teamed up with Gay’s the Word, as well as Pilot Press, Fourteen Poems and Cipher Press to deliver a comprehensive stock of titles all centered around the Queer experience.
The books range from forgotten titles to culture-defining classics, and also puts a big focus on independent names and emerging authors. Per the brand, it has also enlisted “A Vibe Called Tech, a Black-owned creative agency with an intersectional approach, to showcase two historical queer texts featured in the library by making excerpts available to read online. A Place for Us by Isabel Miller (1969) tells a tender story of a lesbian relationship set in early 19th-century New England, and Escape to an Autumn Pavement by Andrew Salkey (1960) explores sexuality in Caribbean culture against the backdrop of a changing London.”
Additionally, Aesop’s Soho, London store will become host to a panel discussion titled “Repeated Histories.” It is facilitated by A Vibe Called Tech, hosted by its founder Charlene Prempeh and Creative Director Lewis Dalton Gilbert, and features, Paul Mendez, Erica Gillingham, and Dr. Peter Ely, who will discuss the importance of preserving stories from marginalized communities.
Banned or challenged titles from the U.S. and Canada will also be available in New York, Los Angeles, and Toronto.
The Aesop Queer Library commences on June 29 and runs until July 2, and there is no purchase required in order to obtain your chosen title. Find out more on Aesop’s website, where the lifestyle brand has also interviewed a selection of authors and thinkers.
In other news, the NFL has launched a Pride collection with Humberto Leon.
