​This May, we're participating in Montreal's #LireQueer Reader Fest, a new celebration of queer literature that will spotlight works in English, French, and Spanish to create meaningful connections among MTL's book lovers ! To celebrate, for the first time in Gay Writes herstory, we'll be reading a stage play — Prince Faggot, the newest work from one of Canada's most acclaimed playwrights, Jordan Tannahill !! 

​It opens with its cast of performers discussing the play's inspiration: a now infamous 2017 photo that crowned then four-year-old Prince George ​a "gay icon." Together, they stage a near-future where George, returning from college, brings home his own Prince Charming to meet the family. Dev, older and of British-Indian heritage, openly criticizes the monarchy and is too clever to mistake his relationship with a prince for progress, a tension that immediately fractures the fantasy of a poised and polished royal family.

But what begins as a cheeky "what if" quickly fractures into something far stranger, with performers stepping out of character to share ​confessional fragments of their own​. The result is messy, provocative, and deeply self-aware — less a linear story than ​a layered interrogation of identity, desire, and who gets to belong where.

As the relationship unfolds (and inevitably becomes public), Prince Faggot digs into the uncomfortable question at its core: can queerness truly exist within institutions built on ​p​ower, inheritance, and exclusion​?

iRL meeting:
MONDAY 18 MAY
​7pm​
Pulp Books