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SUMMARY:4th Annual Rebel Satori World AIDS Day Book Release and Reading (in person & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:The Library of Homosexual Congress\, a Rebel Satori imprint\, is proud to reissue two seminal novels from the AIDS crisis: Bo Huston’s Remember Me and Sacred Lips of the Bronx by Douglas Sadownick. \nTom Cardamone from the Rebel Satori imprint\, The Library of Homosexual Congress\, will read from Bo Huston’s work. \n  \nTo reserve a copy of Remember Me (Library of Homosexual Congress\, November 11\, 2025\, paperback\, $17.95) and/or Sacred Lips of the Bronx (Library of Homosexual Congress\, November 4\, 2025\, paperback\, $23.95) please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com with “please reserve Remember Me and/or Sacred Lips of the Bronx for December 3 event” in the subject line\, and in the body of the email let us know which book you’d like to purchase or if you’d like to purchase both. \nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us! \nYou can also purchase Remember Me and/or Sacred Lips of the Bronx (click on either title below) on our online shop at bookshop.com/shop/bgsqd: \nRemember Me \nSacred Lips of the Bronx \n  \nThis event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division\, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center\, 208 W. 13th St.\, NYC\, 10011. \n\n\nRegistration is not required. Seating is first come\, first served. \n\nAlso live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel: \nyoutube.com/@bgsqd \nThe Bureau will solicit donations at the beginning of the event—we especially encourage donations from those who do not plan to purchase any books. \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without a donation. \n\nWe will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event\, but we can also take credit card donations at the register or on Venmo @BGSQD \nEven better: sign up to make a monthly tax-deductible donation to the Bureau! \n\nThank you for committing to sustaining this vital project! \n\n  \nRemember Me by Bo Huston \nThis elegiac novel\, first published in 1991\, is the story of smalltown friendship\, longing\, and the impact of AIDS on a young gay writer’s now fleeting artistic ambition. In prose poetic yet uncompromising\, Huston’s work brings a life from the margins to the forefront like no other novel from an era of overwhelming prejudice\, fear and powerful resilience. \nA three-time Lambda Literary Award nominee\, Bo Huston (1959 – 1993) was the author of two novels and two short story collections. A columnist for the San Francisco Times\, he was a co-founder of the LGBT literary conference Out/Write and participated in the first March on Washington DC. Huston received his HIV diagnosis in 1988 and in diminishing health orchestrated his own exit on May 24th\, 1993. \n  \nSacred Lips of the Bronx by Douglas Sadownick \n“Sadownick’s ambitious first novel combines AIDS activism\, Jewish folklore\, New Age therapies\, kinky sex\, and some extraordinary passages about life in contemporary Venice\, California\, and the Bronx of yesteryear. At the center is Michael Kaplan\, an AIDS journalist living in post-riot Los Angeles. Sadownick juxtaposes the ghosts of Michael’s adolescence in the Bronx –his Polish grandmother Frieda\, his jazz musician brother\, and his Puerto Rican teenage lover –against his current struggles in L.A.\, particularly his deteriorating 10-year relationship with Robert\, an AIDS activist and performance artist.” \n-Publishers Weekly \n  \nDouglas Sadownick was born on Shakespeare Avenue in the Bronx\, where he first encountered the allure of gay desire amidst the gritty sensuality of urban life. His intellectual journey took him to Columbia College\, where he studied Plato and Baldwin\, developing a lifelong fascination with homosexual Eros. He later earned a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute and founded the nation’s first LGBT Specialization in Clinical Psychology at Antioch University in 2006. He also established the Colors LGBTQ Youth Counseling Center. \nIn addition to Sacred Lips of the Bronx (1994)\, he’s the author of Sex Between Men: An Intimate History of the Sex Lives of Gay Men Postwar to Present (1996) and Healing Gay Sex and Love: A Group Experience (2025).
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/4th-annual-rebel-satori-world-aids-day-book-release-and-reading/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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