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Join us in conversation with Pete Crighton, whose work explores memory, desire, and identity. Crighton’s The Vinyl Diaries: Sex, Deep Cuts, and My Soundtrack to Queer Joy blends memoir and music, celebrating queer life with humor, honesty, and rhythm. He’ll be reading, reflecting, and discussing the power of art – literature, memory, and music – to transform personal experience into universal resonance.

Moderated by Berardo Manari

The Vinyl Diaries: Sex, Deep Cuts, and My Soundtrack to Queer Joy

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Pete Crighton

Pete Crighton is the best selling author of The Vinyl Diaries: Sex, Deep Cuts and My Soundtrack to Queer Joy and The B-52s’ Cosmic Thing in Bloomsbury’s 33 1/3 series. Crighton is based in Wellington and Toronto and his work has appeared in the Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, Queerty, The Advocate, and the West End Phoenix.

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