An Evening of Queer Devotion
Sat, May 31
|Portland
Join me at my favorite queer bookstore Always Here Books for a special author talk, Q&A, and signing to celebrate the release of Queer Devotion!
Time & Location
May 31, 2025, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Portland, 4555 N Williams Ave, Portland, OR 97217, USA
About the Event
Join me at Always Here Bookstore (my favorite queer bookstore in Portland!) for an evening of Queer Devotion! I will be speaking about the lineage of queer divinity, punctuated with excerpts from the book, and we'll close with a Q&A and signing opportunity.
About Queer Devotion:
A liberating exploration of the queer divine in deities and figures of myth and legend that opens pathways for LGBTQIA+ people to revere the divinity within and create an affirming spiritual practice.
Queer people have always existed and queerness has always been divine. Queer Devotion, by tarot teacher and deck creator Charlie Claire Burgess, reminds us of this by re-examining sacred stories through a queer and gender expansive lens.
With exercises, reflection prompts, and ritual suggestions, readers can discover a deeper spiritual relationship with themselves and the divine and begin building an affirming personal practice of self-defined queer devotion.
From gay Greek gods to genderfluid Norse ones, from transgender Catholic saints to queer Arthurian legends, Queer Devotion reveals that spirituality has always been far queerer than we’ve been led to believe. In the beginning, the gods were queer—and they still are.
About the author:
Charlie Claire Burgess is a queer and trans nonbinary author and artist working at the intersection of spirituality and queerness. They are the author of Queer Devotion and Radical Tarot and the creator of the Fifth Spirit Tarot and Gay Marseille Tarot decks. Charlie’s nonfiction writing has appeared in the Tarot in Other Words anthology, The Lambda Literary Review, F(r)iction, The Rebis, and elsewhere. Their short fiction has received a Pushcart Prize Special Mention and notable mentions in two Best American anthologies. Charlie lives in the Pacific Northwest with their spouse, a one-eyed pug, and an extreme number of houseplants.