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Join Generous Press and queer luminaries Kate Bornstein and Caitlin Sullivan to celebrate the launch of NEARLY ROADKILL: QUEER LOVE ON THE RUN. After a brief reading from the book, the authors will chat with Generous publishers Elaina Ellis and Amber Flame about gender rebellion, queer sex on the internet, and the intersection of political resistance and happily ever after.
In this rowdy erotic cyber-romance originally written in the 1990s, two people meet online and fall in love in every guise they can manage. As Scratch and Winc go from anonymous lovers to accidental heroes and gender outlaws, they expose the shadowy Web stretched between technology and capitalist greed, nearly becoming roadkill on the internet superhighway. With a little help from their friends including a brave teenager and a mysterious hacker, these darling rebels fight government intervention and find chosen family in this eerily prescient tale.
The 30th anniversary “reboot” edition includes an updated lens for today’s readers, as GenZ investigative journalist Drew uncovers what just might be the greatest queer love story of all time. Like Octavia Butler’s PARABLE OF THE SOWER, Margaret Atwood’s A HANDMAID’S TALE, and George Orwell’s 1984, the return of NEARLY ROADKILL is right on time with urgent lessons for our contemporary landscape.
Generous Press aims to please readers like you by publishing lush, high-caliber romance fiction and other books about love by brilliant LGBTQ+, BIPOC, and disabled authors. Built on joy, we are writing a world in which all people feel cherished and free.
NEARLY ROADKILL is published in collaboration with Row House Publishing.
To reserve a copy of NEARLY ROADKILL: QUEER LOVE ON THE RUN (Generous Press, September 9, 2025, paperback, $18.99) please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com with “please reserve Nearly Roadkill for October 19 event” in the subject line.
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This event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center, 208 W. 13th St., NYC, 10011.
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KATE BORNSTEIN is a trans icon whose pioneering books about nonbinary gender, GENDER OUTLAW and MY GENDER WORKBOOK, are available in six languages and taught at hundreds of colleges. Kate’s 2006 book, HELLO, CRUEL WORLD: 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks, and Other Outlaws propelled them into an international position of advocacy for marginalized youth, earning two citations of honor from the New York City Council.
CAITLIN SULLIVAN has written several plays, 2 1/2 novels, a comic book, worked as a journalist, and reported and edited for the Seattle Gay News for many years. She lives in a small rural town near a loud donkey and quiet cows.