Naked Boys Reading: A Queer Literary Salon

Well, more vulnerable than usual.

They’re going to bare their souls. They will stand in their truths, their very spirits exposed.

They’re also, surprise surprise, not going to be wearing any clothes. In celebration of MJ’s birthday–happy Virgo season, y’all!–the boys will be exhibiting and embodying the very concept of vulnerability because, as a wise woman once said, “... that visibility which makes us most vulnerable is that which also is the source of our greatest strength.”

Naked Boys Reading is exactly what it sounds like... a titillating queer literary salon featuring sexy, unclothed literary buffs reading, in the buff, to you.

Naked Boys Reading Toronto returns to Glad Day Bookshop as a bi-monthly reading salon for appreciators of... fine literature. NBRTO is inspired by and in participation with the official London event, in turn inspired by the Chicago-born burlesque sensation, Naked Girls Reading.

In London, Naked Boys Reading is an intimate nude literary salon featuring in-the-buff readings by local beefcakes, bears, twinks, otters, butch femmes, sissy sluts, boys next door with an exhibitionist streak and lovers of naturism with a well-endowed library.

Naked Boys Reading 2024: Vulnerability

Produced and hosted in partnership with Glad Day Bookshop by MJ Lyons

Tickets are on a sliding scale of $5-$25.

All funds go to Glad Day Lit, which funds local 2SLGBTQ artists and the non-profit work of Glad Day.

There are a limited number of TABLES that can be reserved for an extra cost, all with front row or good sightlines.

There will be 10-20 standing room only tickets sold at the door for PWYC. You can arrive at

7:30pm for those.

These boys are naked and hot and they want to read to YOU!

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