Dylan Mulvaney and Gus Kenworthy are teaming up with RuPaul to get banned books into the hands of readers via two new book clubs, People magazine reports.
Mulvaney, the actor and social media influencer, will launch the Dylan Mulvaney Book Club, which will focus on pop culture and entertainment books. Mulvaney announced her club in an Instagram video, saying, “The Dylan Mulvaney Book Club is for the girls, the gays, and the theys, like me, who don’t have a ton of time to read, so when we do, we want to know it’s going to be a surefire good time.”
Mulvaney’s first book club pick is The Age of Magical Overthinking by Amanda Montell, which the actor described as “light self-help meets new ideas.”
Kenworthy, the freestyle skier and actor, is set to start Gus Kenworthy’s Coffee Table Book Club, which will “challenge conventional thinking about beauty and culture.”
Both clubs will partner with Allstora, the online bookstore founded by drag queen and television producer RuPaul, historian Eric Cervini, and actor Adam Powell in March. The store launched with the Rainbow Book Bus, a brightly colored vehicle that gave away free books in cities across America.
Subscriptions to Mulvaney and Kenworthy’s book club will support the Rainbow Book Bus as it continues to give away banned books to LGBTQ+ organizations.
“I love what The Rainbow Book Bus is doing, and would have loved to have these books when I was going up,” Kenworthy told People. “Everyone should have access to books that make them feel seen, loved and supported.”
Michael Schaub is a contributing writer.
