Read with Pride Book Club with Author, Jack Cooper

Date: April 2, 2026
Time: 7:00pm – 8:00pm
Location: Susman Room

Join us for a discussion of Pain Before the Rainbow by Jack Cooper.

This gripping book chronicles the life of a man who was acutely aware of being gay as a boy in an unaccepting world—a time before the rainbow. Cooper presents an eloquent narrative through a series of stories that engage the reader’s mind and heart in this skillfully composed exploration of identity and compelling perspective through the lens of a man who lives and loves outside the lines of the oppressive heterosexual boxes that society and religion drew and that condition boys to think and act according to a preset definition of masculinity. 2025. 182 pages. Please register online.

We will be joined by the author for this discussion!