(Palm Springs, CA) – September 15, 2022 - The Palm Springs Public Library Foundation (Foundation) presents Pride on the Page, a two-day book festival on November 4 – 5, 2022 as an official event of Greater Palm Springs Pride. There will also be a special celebrity evening event on Saturday November 5, 2022, at the historic Plaza Theater featuring multi Emmy and Golden Globe winning actress, Sharon Gless in conversation with Peter Paige, her former co-star on Queer as Folk. This evening event will be a ticketed fundraising event for the Foundation.

Pride on the Page is a free Book Festival that will present five panels each day of LGBTQ+ affirming authors and/or for the LGBTQ+ community and their books over the course of two days, November 4 – 5, 2022 from 10 a.m.- 4:00 p.m. during Greater PS Pride. Our goal is to bring together thought-provoking, entertaining, and enriching subject-matter that communicates different viewpoints and represents various genres that will attract readers/people who have never experienced queer culture, and others who have made it the focus of their lives.  Our panel moderators will lead the authors through discussions of their work, hearing from their point-of-view, helping attendees to discover new authors or get reacquainted with long-time favorites!

The event will be outside on the Welwood Murray Memorial Library patio in downtown Palm Springs and talks will be an hour each with a break between talks allowing time for author book signings. A few of the panels scheduled are “Wonderous Words – New Fiction from LGBTQ+ Authors”, “The Heat Is On: Mystery & Mayhem in the Desert”, “Who Am I? Memoir and Memory from LGBTQ+ Authors”. The following authors are confirmed: Melissa Chadburn, Michael Craft, Alex Espinoza, Katherine V. Forrest, Rachel M. Harper, Michael Nava, Abdi Nazemian, Steven Rowley, Omar Shariff Jr., K.M. Soehnlein, Rebecca Walker, and Brian Sonia-Wallace, just to name a few!

The Saturday evening event will begin at 5:30 p.m. and feature Sharon Gless and Peter Paige. They will discuss her highly acclaimed autobiography, Apparently There Were Complaints, released in December 2021, sharing stories of their time together on Queer as Folk, and other topics. This is a ticketed event as a fund-raiser for the Palm Springs Public Library Foundation; tickets are $40 each, general admission. Following the program Ms. Gless will sign books, which will be for sale courtesy of Follet Books. The first 50 people to purchase tickets to the event will receive a complimentary copy of her book!

There will be something for everyone at Pride on the Page presented by the Palm Springs Public Library and the Palm Springs Public Library Foundation. In addition to Greater Palm Springs Pride other sponsors include Palm Springs Fine Men’s Salon and Follet Books. To learn more about the Pride on the Page Book Festival, the appearing authors, schedule of events and to buy tickets to see Sharon Gless and Peter Paige, go to prideonthepage.org.

Enriching Lives, Connecting Community, Inspiring Growth, and Sparking Creativity. For over a century, Palm Springs has recognized the importance of a thriving local library. From a small adobe housing its first books in 1919 to today’s stacks holding over 100,000 resource items, the library has served residents from a dozen different branches. The mission of the Palm Springs Public Library Foundation is to continue that legacy. We aim to support the Palm Springs Public Library and to increase and broaden its use as a cultural and educational institution through financial support securing its place as an essential community resource. Ensuring local access to high-quality library services for generations requires more than just tax-based funding.   Although public funds make libraries possible, it is private gifts that make them flourish. To learn more about the Foundation or how to become a member go to https://www.pslibraryfoundation.org/