Upcoming Event
Voices 2025: Ruth Ellis Center Annual Gala
Save the date. Pick your outfit. And start putting together your dance crew. Because this year, we’re paying homage to HOUSE. As a nod to the house parties Ruth Ellis once hosted, we’re spotlighting local queer artists who magnify their voice through their art. Just as Ruth Ellis Center magnifies the voices of LGBTQ+ young people.
Joy, community, and art are acts of resistance. Through them, we show that we aren’t afraid, that we aren’t alone, and that we will not yield.
House music of the 1980s was born of Black and Queer folks who were rejected from mainstream establishments.
House parties, the grandchildren of rent parties from the 1920s, were held in urban communities to help folks raise their rent and stay in their homes.
So, we come back to HOUSE. To the art we use to voice our despair, our joy, our resistance.
September 19th at The Gem Theater
Honor local artists. Resist through joy.
Upcoming Event
August’s Reading Room Selection: Pet by Akwaeke Emezi
Pet is here to hunt a monster. Are you brave enough to look?
There are no monsters anymore, or so the children in the city of Lucille are taught. Jam and her best friend, Redemption, have grown up with this lesson all their life. But when Jam meets Pet, a creature made of horns and colors and claws, who emerges from one of her mother’s paintings and a drop of Jam’s blood, she must reconsider what she’s been told. Pet has come to hunt a monster—and the shadow of something grim lurks in Redemption’s house. Jam must fight not only to protect her best friend, but also uncover the truth, and the answer to the question—How do you save the world from monsters if no one will admit they exist?
In their riveting and timely young adult debut, acclaimed novelist Akwaeke Emezi asks difficult questions about what choices you can make when the society around you is in denial.
