Monday, September 22, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Book Soup, West Hollywood
WARNING: Those who don't remember my past are doomed to repeat it. I'm Prancing As Fast As I Can is a coming of Gay story that takes us from a scared, self-hating kid who spends most of his time under his desk staring at the hunky man on the Doan's Pills box, to becoming a writer on Will & Grace, helping to make it a little easier for other scared, self-hating kids who might also be hiding and staring at their secret desire. It's a journey through Olympic mustaches and when Che´r's name had an accent and losing your virginity to a trucker and chasing Gay bashers in six-inch heels dressed as a drag bunny and a terrible virus and memorials and memorials and memorials and ACTing UP and using the word "lover" and having a fan who's also a serial killer and Gay penguins and spreading your boyfriends' ashes with your new boyfriend and Prop 8 and getting to write lines for divas on Ugly Betty and Gay marriage and more stuff like that and in the end ketamine therapy to help it all make sense. Jim Colucci is a Los Angeles-based freelance entertainment writer whose work has appeared in such publications as [TV Guide](http://tvguidemagazine.com/), Closer, Emmy and [CBS’ Watch! magazine](http://cbswatchmagazine.com/), where he served as a Deputy Editor. In 2025, he co-founded Pride LIVE! Hollywood, a month-long festival celebrating LGBTQ+ achievements in film, TV and pop culture. He has appeared on such shows as CNN’s History of the Sitcom, Reelz’s Behind Closed Doors and Discovery+’s Inventions That Changed History, and for a decade delivered a weekly on-air entertainment report on his husband Frank DeCaro’s self-titled show on Sirius XM radio. His books include the November 2021 release All in the Family: The Show That Changed Television, co-authored with Norman Lear, as well as Will & Grace: Fabulously Uncensored, The Q Guide to The Golden Girls and the New York Times best-seller Golden Girls Forever. He recently completed his next book, Love Boat Forever, while being constantly interrupted by the couple’s cookie-demanding pug mix, Penny. Jon Kinnally was born in Syracuse, New York, and went to college at Oswego State, before moving to a then-affordable Manhattan, where he pursued acting and performed with his writing partner, Tracy Poust, in their comedy group Loud Blouse. After relocating to Los Angeles, they got a job on a new show called Will & Grace and stayed with it for it’s entire eight seasons, eventually running it and returning for the reboot. Over the years, there were many Emmy nominations as well as a Writers Guild Award for Outstanding Writing in Episodic Comedy in 2018. He has also worked on several other shows with Tracy, including Ugly Betty—Emmy and NAACP award nominations—and The Crazy Ones which they ran, and had the privilege to write for the great Robin Williams. He currently lives in Spain with his husband, Chris, and their cats, Howard Bannister and Elliott.