07/05/2026
Join us Thursday for a reading and Q&A with the author of American Teenager, Nico Lang. Nico has been touring for the last 22 months throughout the entire nation “[speaking] back to extreme anti-trans rhetoric about youth by showing trans young people as they actually are: powerfully human.” More info below!
WHERE: Gloria Dei Lutheran, Rochester, MN (1212 12th Ave)
WHEN: Thursday, July 9th at 6:30 PM
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Nico Lang (they/them) is a nonbinary award-winning journalist with over a decade of experience covering the transgender community’s fight for equality. Their work has appeared in major publications, including Rolling Stone, Esquire, The New York Times, Vox, The Wall Street Journal, Salon, Harper’s Bazaar, Time, The Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times. Lang is the creator of Q***r News Daily and
previously served as the deputy editor for Out magazine, the news editor for Them, the LGBTQ+ correspondent for VICE, and the editor and cofounder of the literary journal In Our Words. Their industry-leading contributions to q***r media have resulted in a GLAAD Media Award, 10 awards from the National Association of LGBTQ Journalists (NLGJA), and three awards from the Los Angeles Press Club, including the 2023 Online Journalist of the Year. Lang is also the first-ever recipient of the Visibility Award from the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund (TLDEF), an honor created to recognize their impactful contributions to reporting on the
lives of LGBTQ+ people.
