Montreal writer Christopher DiRaddo says he's disappointed after a municipal library told him he's not allowed to hold his monthly book club there because it would violate Quebec's new language law.

Christopher DiRaddo says he recently approached the Pere-Ambroise library in the Ville-Marie borough to host gatherings for the Violet Hour book club, which focuses on LGBTQ+ literature.

Christopher DiRaddo, the author behind the Violet Hour book club, which focuses on LGBTQ+ literature, said the city told him Friday that he can hold his club meetings at the library after all.

Montreal author Chris DiRaddo outside Bibliothèque Père-Ambroise. “What’s crazy is that we also read French books,” DiRaddo says of the language controversy over his book club. Dave ...

Chris DiRaddo, a Montreal author, started a book club about six years ago called The Violet Hour Book Club that focuses on LGBTQ literature and conducts its meetings in English. The Bibliothèque ...

Montreal writer Christopher DiRaddo says he's disappointed after a municipal library told him he's not allowed to hold his monthly book club there because it would violate Quebec's new language law.

A local library cited Quebec's language laws in refusing a Montreal author's request to host an English-language book club, he says.