Chelsea Girls | 
Every week, I highlight #LGBTQAuthors as part of #TheRainbowShelf 🏳️🌈 Eileen Myles is a poet, novelist, performance artist, professor, art journalist, and playwrite. Their work has earned multiple awards since 1980, including Lambda Book Awards, the Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Warhol Foundation/Creative Capital Arts Writers Grant. #poetry #playwrite #OwnVoices
pickIn this memoir, Eileen Myles writes about being queer in New York in the 70s (a time/place I am a sucker for). She crossed paths with various famous people but it‘s her observations that stuck with me, like attending a child‘s birthday party in the suburbs with her girlfriend and marveling at all the straight married couples like zoo animals.
Elle: "This book is about Eileen's adventures in the 60s, 70s and 80s. She is a poet who lives in New York City. I'm trying to read more work by female authors and found her in the queer section. One thing that stood out to me is that she's not a gold star lesbian. There's this fear that when you come out later in life you should have known all along. I came out at 27. It's hard to recognize your feelings for what they are sometimes."
