South Pasadena Library Marks Pride Month With Author Chloe O. Davis

Press release from the City of South Pasadena:

May 12, 2021

To commemorate Pride Month this June, the South Pasadena Public Library has invited Chloe O. Davis, author of The Queens’ English: The LGBTQIA+ Dictionary of Lingo and Colloquial Phrases, to present a virtual talk titled “The Power of Language: Unpacking the Diversity and Intersectionality in LGBTQIA+ Culture” on Wednesday, June 23rd at 6:00 p.m. The event, which is appropriate for high school students through adults, will be held via Crowdcast at https://www.crowdcast.io/e/chloedavis.

Davis notes she will “discuss how language shapes culture, highlight the many diverse communities and intersectional identities that make our LGBTQIA+ community, guide conversations on the importance of empowering queer identity, help bring visibility and understanding to queerness, gayness, Blackness, and transness, and speak on the value of LGBTQIA+ visibility and resources.”

Davis is a proud Black bisexual woman and debut author who works in the entertainment industry in New York. A graduate of Hampton University and Temple University, she has centered her creative platform on amplifying the narratives of Black culture and heightening the awareness of the LGBTQIA+ community. Davis’s work as a dancer, actor, and creative has allowed her to travel to all fifty states and internationally where she spent fifteen years researching, writing and creating The Queens’ English. She celebrates the etymological diversity of over eight hundred terms used to describe the collective gay and queer experience and believes The Queens’ English is a starting point for important conversations around inclusivity, sexuality, gender expression and identity. The Queens’ English is currently available for checkout at the South Pasadena Public Library.

This program is presented by the South Pasadena Public Library with generous support from the Friends of the South Pasadena Public Library.

This press release was produced by the City of South Pasadena. The views expressed here are the author’s own.