OUTstages 2026

Books and other library things to enjoy alongside the performances at Intrepid Theatre's OUTstages Festival, running January 29 to February 7, 2026.

Updated December 12, 2025
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Greater Victoria Public Library
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Didn't we almost have it all in defense of Whitney Houston
Kennedy, Gerrick
Paper Book
On February 11, 2012, Whitney Houston was found submerged in the bathtub of her suite at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. In the decade since, the world has mourned her death amid new revelations about her relationship to her Blackness, her sexuality, and her addictions. Didn't We Almost Have It All<...
The Sparsholt affair
Hollinghurst, Alan
Paper Book
"Call Me By Your Name meets Evelyn Waugh in a gorgeous novel about the generations-long aftershocks of a youthful tryst." --Esquire From the winner of the Man Booker Prize, a masterly novel that spans seven transformative decades as it plumbs the complex...
Unprotected a memoir
Porter, Billy
Paper Book
It's easy to be yourself when who and what you are is in vogue. But growing up Black and gay in America has never been easy. Before Billy Porter was slaying red carpets and giving an iconic Emmy-winning performance in the celebrated TV show Pose; before he was the groundbreaking Tony and...
When Brooklyn was queer
Ryan, Hugh, 1978- author.
Paper Book
The never-before-told story of Brooklyn's vibrant and forgotten queer history, from the mid-1850s up to the present day. ***An ALA GLBT Round Table Over the Rainbow 2019 Top Ten Selection*** ***NAMED ONE OF THE BEST LGBTQ BOOKS OF 2019 by Harper's Bazaar*** ...

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