The Queerish Book Club October 2024: Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle

Megan Hemsley

The Queerish Book Club is a monthly book club that specialises in LGBTQ+ literature. It typically runs on the last Monday of the month at 7pm and takes place at The Queerish Bookshop.

Our October book is Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle and our meeting will take place on Monday 28th October at 7pm.

To attend, you will need to book your free ticket here in order to guarantee your spot. You can also buy the book in-store or order online

Below are the questions we will discuss at the club. Please note the questions contain spoilers.  
 

Bury Your Gays - Book Club Questions

1. Misha experiences queerbaiting for the first time as a child when watching the TV show, Dark Encounters. As an adult, he’s forced to kill the gay characters in his script. Have you experienced queerbaiting and/or the bury your gays trope in a TV show/film? How did it make you feel?

 2. 
The AI algorithm forces Misha to kill of his gay characters and plans a grand tragic death for Misha for 0.003162% more profit. After Misha’s speech at the Oscars, queer joy is profitable and the algorithm wants Misha to stop writing horror and work on Queeroes 2. How does the desire for higher profit margins impact creative freedom?

3. AI recreates deceased famous actor, Chris Oak, to play a villainous mob boss even though this is a role the actor would never have done when alive. What’s your opinion on AI and how it’s altering the state of human creativity and skill?

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