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I'm here today with, uh, Wellington City libraries, which is part of Wellington City Council. And we're really kind of showing the talking to the community about, um, our, uh, ebooks that you can download, but also some of the other services that you can use for free with your library card. And I What we've found in the last three years of being here at out in the park is that, um a lot of people don't know that they that we have eBooks for download and other types of services, but particularly LGBTI Q A books as well. So [00:00:30] as somebody who spends their day, um, putting a lot of these services together for the online community. Um, it's actually really thrilling to come here and be able to talk to people and tell them about it in person and did. I mean, there's so many people around your your store. That's right. I must admit that we do have free badges of literary icons and people do really like that. So that's really neat. Yeah, and it looks like some have already kind of like I was going to say, sold out. But no, they have gone Yes, The first one to go was Sao. So [00:01:00] more Saffo next year, obviously. And more Gertrude Stein. So but, um but yeah. No, we, uh we bring along the book bike as well, which is really neat. Um and so, um, it just gives us an opportunity to kind of share what we have with the community, and and, um yeah, take part in a really thrilling day. So, yeah. Take me through some of the literary queer icons. Yeah. Um, yeah. We have Virginia Wolf who? Somebody asked me before whether she wrote thrillers. And I said, um, no, um And, um so [00:01:30] And who is her special friend? And James Baldwin, William Burroughs and Patricia Highsmith, of course. And Audrey Lord Christopher Isherwood, Michelle Foca and sign Oscar Wilde. And, of course, we made extra Oscar Wilde this year because last year we ran out of him really fast. So and, um, yeah, as I said, O as well. So no, we love We love bringing these badges here, and we've also got little rainbow ones [00:02:00] with our library icon on them as well. So yeah. Now I'm really interested in how you actually talk about, uh relationships that happened back in history. But you don't know whether they were lesbian or gay or putting these, um, current constructs on their relationships. How do you navigate that? Oh, that's a good point, actually. Um, I guess we just, uh, do some research. Make sure that there is some validation to choosing these people. Obviously, we use copyright free images as well for our badges. [00:02:30] Um and, uh, yeah, we we certainly don't out anybody. We and they, they generally have been, uh, if we do put them on a badge, they've been there for a number of years. Yeah, and they do have a have a connection to the LGBTI Q community. Yeah. You talking about somebody's special friend, you know? Do you Do you say special friend, or do you say lover? Do you say partner? Well, that's very true. Yeah, this is the first year that we've had Vita. So, um yeah, she's she's more of [00:03:00] a fringe person. I think. Um, although the badge is really lovely, we haven't given away so many of hers, so But no, I would I would say lover, but, um I I know that other people have a different view of that. Yeah, Yeah. On a personal note, Um, what is it like for you being here on out in the park or out in the park? Oh, I love being here, Out in the park. I mean, this is I've been coming here for a number of years, um, as part of another community group as well. But I guess just being here in [00:03:30] the community and seeing many young people as well engaging in our community is is really fantastic. And just seeing the breadth of the community too, is, um, all the different Um uh, flavours for want of another term of of our broader community. So and everybody is just such a fun feeling. Yeah, yeah.
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