"Confessions of a Gay Priest" Online Launch Party
Mon, Jun 22
|Zoom event via Prairie Lights Bookstore
Celebrate the release of "Confessions of a Gay Priest" with author Tom Mayhall Rastrelli and special guests, authors M.G. Lord and Amanda Fletcher, on the 18th anniversary of his ordination to the Catholic priesthood.


Time & Location
Jun 22, 2020, 6:00 PM – 7:20 PM PDT
Zoom event via Prairie Lights Bookstore
About the event
Happy Pride! Join me for an online reading and discussion to celebrate the release of Confessions of A Gay Priest: A Memoir of Sex, Love, Abuse, and Scandal in the Catholic Seminary.
June 22 is the 18th anniversary of my ordination to the priesthood. Let's reclaim that date with big gay celebration of joy!
The event is hosted by Prairie Lights Bookstore in Iowa City. Please, show them your support.
You must RSVP here to get the link to attend the event online.
Special guests
Author M.G. Lord will join me and interview me about the creation of Confessions. M.G. is the perfect candidate for this, as she is another recovered Cathlic and was my thesis advisor at the University of Southern California, where she remains on the faculty. She mentored me through the first two drafts of Confessions. M.G. is the author of The Accidental Feminist: How Elizabeth Taylor…