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SUMMARY:Queer Silences
DESCRIPTION:Given that it’s that back-to-school time of year\, the Bureau would like to host some classes. These might take the form of a single evening or perhaps two or three sessions. Please send us proposals at contact@bgsqd.com. \nTo get the ball rolling\, Greg Newton\, the Bureau’s Minister of Propaganda\, will offer a class that will meet once with the option to continue indefinitely. The class\, Queer Silences\, will explore the subject of silence from queer perspectives. The first and possibly only class will take place on Wednesday\, September 18th\, from 7 to 9. In advance of the class\, participants will read Jonathan D. Katz’s essay “John Cage’s Queer Silence: Or How to Avoid Making Matter’s Worse” and Caroline A. Jones’s “Finishing School: John Cage and the Abstract Expressionist Ego.” Greg will send PDFs of the essays to all who RSVP to contact@bgsqd.com.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/queer-silences/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130912T200000
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SUMMARY:The Bureau at Pussy Faggot!
DESCRIPTION:PUSSY FAGGOT! returns with a special end of summer edition hosted by Penny Arcade. Bring your campfire stories and sordid tales of summer! \nAdmission $10 / $6 with RSVP to\nhttps://www.pussyfaggot.net/events/rsvp-for-reduced-guest-list-2 \nDJ Jo Equality Lampert ( AVAN LAVA) \n8:00 pm- Bureau of General Services-Queer Division (BGSQD) reading featuring Ariel Speedwagon\, Chavisa Woods\, and poet Bobby Miller in his first NYC performance in 5 years! \nConfirmed Performers Include: \n✬ Champagne Jerry (aka Neal Medlyn)\n✬ Fidel Cathro (aka Cath Alcorn – from Sydney\, Australia!)\n✬ Clay Aztec Dalmatians\n✬ Glittered and Mauled\n✬ Mss Vee\n✬ Natti Vogel\n✬ Ryan Landry (P-town’s “Showgirls” and Gold Dust Orphans)\n✬ Sabrina Chap\n✬ Shane Shane\n✬ Tyler Ashley\n✬ TURSI \nand \n✬ Needles Jones \n*.☆。☆。*。☆。*。☆。☆。*。☆。☆。*。☆。☆。* 。☆.*\n★。＼｜／。★★。＼｜／。★★。＼｜／。★★。＼｜／。★\n…..CELEBRATING…DUSTY CHILDER’S………BIRTHDAY!…..\n★。／｜＼。★★。／｜＼。★★。／｜＼。★★。／｜＼。★\n* .☆。*。☆。☆。*。☆。☆。*。☆。☆。 *。☆。☆。*.☆.*
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/the-bureau-at-pussy-faggot/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130905T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130905T220000
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SUMMARY:Opening Party at Cage with Annie Lanzillotto\, Zee Whitesides\,
DESCRIPTION:The Bureau will celebrate the beginning of our stay at Cage with readings by Annie Lanzillotto and Zee Whitesides and a musical performance by Brett Every! \nCage will host the Bureau for the months of September and October. Cage is a space for dialogue\, mutual support and production located on the Lower East Side of New York\, which involves changing membership in ongoing response to material conditions. Cage is located at 83A Hester St.\, between Orchard and Allen–around the corner from Strange Loop Gallery. \nPhoto: Carolina Kroon\, 2011. carolinakroonphotography.com\nAnnie Lanzillotto is the author of “L is for Lion: an italian bronx butch freedom memoir” SUNY Press 2013\, and “Schistsong” a book of poems\, Bordighera Press 2013. Her albums “Blue Pill” “Carry My Coffee” and “Eleven Recitations” are available on iTunes and webwide. Lanzillotto is a devotee of BGSQD \n\nZee Whitesides is a poet and musician born in Elizabethtown\, Kentucky. Her poetry and cultural writing has appeared or is forthcoming in/on Autostraddle.com\, Jughead’s Basement\, and Seven Stamps among others\, and she’s the author of two handmade chapbooks. She also leads Brooklyn trans punk band Little Waist. \n  \n \nBrett Every (brettevery.com) has won some awards (OutMusic\, RightOutTV)\, been described as having “a voice that sounds like it’s been dipped in dark chocolate and steroids” (DNA Mag)\, and is thrilled and honored to be bringing his songs\, guitar and throat to the Bureau’s housewarming.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/opening-party-at-cage-with-annie-lanzillotto-zee-whitesides/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130825T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130825T210000
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SUMMARY:Verse\, Prose\, And Ramblings From The Minds Of Nicholas Gorham\, Justin Sayre\, And Charlotte Miller
DESCRIPTION:Nicholas Gorham invites his two favorite writers to join him in a public end of summer thoughts and feelings fest that will surely titillate the neuroses of the most steadfast wasp. Join us for a reading of some work\, new and old! \n \nNICHOLAS GORHAM\nNicholas Gorham is a graduate of The American Academy of Dramatic Arts and has been performing in New York since the early part of the Century. After crossing the Canadian border\, Nicholas had an awakening that theatre could exist without limitations and began to create his own work in the downtown queer performance scene. Credits include The Goddess Ianna in “Justin Bond Re:Galli Blonde (A Sissy Fix)”; Big Art Group’s “Fleshtone” and Nicholas Gorham: “One Drop Passing” at La MaMa\, E.T.C.\, In 2011\, Nicholas founded The Spectrum\, a queer performance\, rehearsal and art space in Brooklyn.\n \n  \n\nJUSTIN SAYRE\nBest known as the creator and writer of the hit downtown comedy/variety show The Meeting*(2012 Bistro Award\, 2011 MAC Nominee) and its annual benefit “Night of A Thousand Judys” – was described by Michael Musto in The Village Voice as “Oscar Wilde meets Whoopi Goldberg.” In a recent story for Edge New York\, Steve Weinstein said “Comedian\, raconteur\, performing artist\, gay rights activist and sexual outlaw: I’m not sure Justin Sayre is classifiable. The veteran performer is on his way to becoming a Downtown Manhattan institution along the lines of Charles Ludlum or Charles Busch.” An evening of his short plays\, “Justin Sayre Is Alive and Well… Writing” – called one of the “Top 10 Events on the New York Stage” by the New York Daily News – sold out two shows at Ars Nova last April. A second reading of his play\, The Click of The Lock\, starring Randy Harrison\, Christian Coulson and Sean Dugan took place at Labyrinth’s Bank Street Theater this February\n \n  \n\nCHARLOTTE MILLER\nCharlotte Miller is a Brooklyn-based playwright. Her plays include Raising Jo (Playpenn 2010)\, Fur (Longstocking Productions)\, A Moment of Silence for the Living (Longstocking Productions)\, and Sexy JayJay (serials@the Flea). Her plays have received readings at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater and Labyrinth Theater company. She has performed with Nicholas Gorham multiple times in and around the city as a back-up dancer\, word-sayer\, and costume-changer. Charlotte’s newest work “Worst Year Ever” is part of this year’s New York International Fringe Festival. The piece looks at the difficulties of being a Texas preteen in the grunge era.
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130825T190000
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SUMMARY:Book Sale at the Bureau
DESCRIPTION:The Bureau will leave Strange Loop Gallery on August 31st\, and we will announce our next location shortly. With less than two weeks to go we need to lose a bit of weight in order to make our move easier. Several lovely people have donated boxes of books to the Bureau over the past months\, and the Bureau is happy to announce that we will host a book sale on Saturday\, August 24th and Sunday\, August 25th from 12 to 7 PM. Prices will start at $1! So come on down and get you some books! We’ll also have some great deals on posters and art magazines! \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/book-sale-at-the-bureau-2/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130824T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130824T230000
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SUMMARY:Queer Film Summer Camp: Tony Phillips Introduces Ben-Hur
DESCRIPTION:For the eighth and final installment of Queer Film Summer Camp Tony Phillips will introduce William Wyler’s Ben-Hur (1959) \nIMDB page for Ben-Hur \nTony Phillips is a freelance journalist who lives between Manhattan and Fort Lauderdale. After completing a prestigious Goldring Fellowship at Syracuse’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications in 2009\, he returned to the city to publish his controversial “Jersey Shore” feature on the cover of The Village Voice. He recently wrote several features for OutMagazine including a profile of French art house crossover Francois Sagat shot by photographer Terry Richardson and currently writes for Random House’s Word & Film focusing on films that have been adapted from novels. Tony is currently finishing his second book and working on a feature about the launch of Barbie’s 10\,000 square-foot Dreamhouse for a new national publication. He is pictured here in Barbie’s stately Dream Kitchen at The Dreamhouse Experience in Fort Lauderdale. \nQueer Film Summer Camp\, a series devoted to queer films or films viewed queerly\, is proudly presented by the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division and Peter M. Hargrove\, President of Hargrove Entertainment\, Inc. Queer Film Summer Camp will take place at the Bureau on eight consecutive Saturday evenings in July and August. An exciting array of film critics and historians along with other queer and queer-friendly NYC-based arts professionals will introduce each film with a brief lecture. \nSaturdays\, July 6\, 13\, 20\, 27\, August 3\, 10\, 17\, 24 \nSuggested donation of $10 \nDrinks will be served at 7 PM \nThe introductory lectures will begin at 8 PM \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/queer-film-summer-camp-tony-phillips-introduces-ben-hur/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130824T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130824T190000
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SUMMARY:Book Sale at the Bureau
DESCRIPTION:The Bureau will leave Strange Loop Gallery on August 31st\, and we will announce our next location shortly. With less than two weeks to go we need to lose a bit of weight in order to make our move easier. Several lovely people have donated boxes of books to the Bureau over the past months\, and the Bureau is happy to announce that we will host a book sale on Saturday\, August 24th and Sunday\, August 25th from 12 to 7 PM. Prices will start at $1! So come on down and get you some books! We’ll also have some great deals on posters and art magazines! \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/book-sale-at-the-bureau/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130823T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130823T220000
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CREATED:20130801T140919Z
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SUMMARY:Launch Party for Pinups NO17
DESCRIPTION:After a year-long hiatus\, Pinups is back with a new issue that disrupts the book’s inherent narrative. As always\, the magazine can be unbound and re-assembled to form a large poster from pages of abstract halftone but as a book\, this issue is more complex than its predecessors. In contrast to the halftone pages\, which are only fragments of the poster\, other pages contain parts of numerous images scattered randomly across the pagination. As single pages share bits and pieces of multiple images\, the connections can only be imagined until the poster is assembled and the full images revealed on the poster’s flipside. Pinups No17 features performance artist Jake Dibeler clad with performance props. \n \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/pinups/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130822T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130822T220000
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CREATED:20130819T143135Z
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SUMMARY:BB Forever
DESCRIPTION:Bj Dini reads his crazy Kayvon Zand poem\, Dia Dear dances in the dark\, Stephen Boyer reads for us too\, Subtle Curves awes\, White screens his PILLOW TALK cycle. \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/bb-forever/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130821T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130821T210000
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CREATED:20130809T203645Z
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SUMMARY:ART FAG Conquers Uranus
DESCRIPTION:London cartoonist Sina Sparrow comes to New York to conquer URANUS with his zine ART FAG! Joining him is our friend Carlo Quispe\, AKA Uranus\, who will present romance comics from his upcoming URANUS Comics #2. Come enjoy the slide show and take home some free comics as always!!
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/art-fag-conquers-uranus/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130818T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130818T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T193544
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SUMMARY:Hell in a Handbag
DESCRIPTION:A night of queer madcap stories that fly in the face of bossy bureaucracies (you know the kind) and mandated prescriptions. The lunatic fringe strikes back. \nLegendary drag icon and parlor whore\, Flawless Sabrina aka Jack Doroshow exposes herself under a blanket of freedom of expression. Visual artist Curtis Carman aka Curtsy recites some queer whimsical poem-ettes. Curtis and Jack’s special guest\, Leigh Novog\, will read two quirky gay anecdotes that take place in a hyper vigilant New York. Come for a queer night at the bookstore and support a place of freedom with love. \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/hell-in-a-handbag/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130817T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130817T230000
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SUMMARY:Queer Film Summer Camp: Andrew Durbin Presents The Nomi Song
DESCRIPTION:For the seventh installment of Queer Film Summer Camp Andrew Durbin will introduce Andrew Horn‘s The Nomi Song (2004) \nIMDB page for The Nomi Song \nAndrew Durbin co-edits Wonder\, an open-source publishing and events platform for poetry and new media art. He is the author of Reveler (Argos Books 2012) and The Standard (Insert Blanc Press 2014). He curates the Queer Division reading series at the Bureau of General Services–Queer Division on the Lower East Side\, and lives in New York. \nQueer Film Summer Camp\, a series devoted to queer films or films viewed queerly\, is proudly presented by the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division and Peter M. Hargrove\, President of Hargrove Entertainment\, Inc. Queer Film Summer Camp will take place at the Bureau on eight consecutive Saturday evenings in July and August. An exciting array of film critics and historians along with other queer and queer-friendly NYC-based arts professionals will introduce each film with a brief lecture. \nSaturdays\, July 6\, 13\, 20\, 27\, August 3\, 10\, 17\, 24 \nSuggested donation of $10 \nDrinks will be served at 7 PM \nThe introductory lectures will begin at 8 PM \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/queer-film-summer-camp-andrew-durbin-presents-the-nomi-song/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130813T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130813T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T193544
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SUMMARY:Contributors to Sensual Travels: The Best of Gay Travel Erotica Read at the Bureau
DESCRIPTION:Dominic Ambrose\, Michael Luongo (editor)\, and Michael Mele will read. \nSensual Travels: The Best of Gay Travel Erotica \nEdited by Michael Luongo \nBruno Gmünder May 2013 \nWhether traversing desert sands\, steamy jungles\, or the urban playground: these are the erotic encounters told by men willing to roam. The stories in Sensual Travels pack a sexual punch\, and carry with them the resonance and character of their locales. The writers in this book got to relish and relive their adventures\, revisiting them in their minds as they wrote them down for these stories. For the reader\, each chance encounter described by the writers is brand new\, as fresh and exciting as they were on the day they happened years ago on continents far away. \nEdited by renowned travel writer Michael Luongo\, Sensual Travels includes contributions from Felice Picano\, Lawrence Schimel\, Michael Mele (reading)\, Dominic Ambrose (reading)\, Sebastian V\, Jesse Archer\, Trebor Healey\, and many others\, writing on destinations as diverse as Spain\, Japan\, Lebanon\, Brazil\, Russia\, Thailand and other regions. \nBruno Gmünder Website listing for the Book: \nhttps://www.brunogmuender.com/products/details/id/7424_Sensual_Travels \n  \nBIOS \n \nDOMINIC AMBROSE is a writer with a transatlantic vocation. He has written two novels with gay themes\, Nickel Fare\, set in New York in the 1970s\, and The Shriek and the Rattle of Trains\, set in Romania in the 1990s. His work has appeared in various publications\, such as Van Gogh’s Ear and Inverses (in France) as well as read on BBC World Service. “Croatian Heat” will eventually be included in a personal memoir of the Balkans. He now lives in New York City. \n \nMICHAEL MELE has published the children’s book\, A Gift for the Contessa\, illustrated by Ron Paolillo\, with Pelican Publishing. His poetry has appeared in The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide\, and his gay travel stories have been published in Haworth Press’s Between the Palms\, edited by Michael Luongo. He is the director of the travel company Il Chiostro\, Inc. which organizes arts-related workshops (painting\, writing\, photography\, cooking) in Italy (www.ilchiostro.com). Michael and his partner Andy travel a lot between New York; Tuscany; Bucks County\, Pennsylvania; and the island of Vieques\, Puerto Rico. \n  \n \nMICHAEL LUONGO is the editor of Sensual Travels\, published by Bruno Gmünder in May 2013. Michael was senior editor for Haworth Press’s Out in the World series on gay and lesbian travel literature\, where a version of this book was originally to be published as Between the Palms\, Volume II: Put It in Your Hands Again\, a follow-on to the 2004 original Between the Palms\, before Haworth’s takeover by Routledge. His travel writing has appeared in Conde Nast Traveler\, The New York Times\, the Chicago Tribune\, National Geographic Traveler\, CNN\, Bloomberg\, Out Traveler\, Gay City News\, Passport\, and many other publications. Michael is a native of New Jersey who grew up near the fabled Jersey Shore and now lives in Manhattan. He has been to over eighty countries and all seven continents\, with Latin America and the Middle East his favorite areas. His most challenging work has been the post-9/11 Middle East\, including Iraq\, Gaza\, and Afghanistan on both gay and mainstream topics\, including the killing of gay men in Iraq for Gay City News which was nominated for a 2010 Pulitzer. He pioneered bringing gay tourism into the academic world by coauthoring with his professor Dr. Briavel Holcomb an article in the Annals of Tourism Research. In 2002\, he also coedited Continuum Press’s Gay Tourism: Culture\, Identity and Sex\, the first academic book on the gay travel industry\, with Dr. Stephen Clift and Carry Callister. Other books include Haworth’s Gay Travels in the Muslim World in 2007\, the only gay American book translated into Arabic. In 2007\, Alyson Books published his debut novel The Voyeur\, about a gay sex researcher in New York during the Giuliani era. Luongo also writes the Frommer’s Buenos Aires guidebook. He is one of America’s most award-winning gay journalists\, having won the LGBT Journalist of the Year Sarah Pettit Memorial Award in 2011 from the National Lesbian and Gay Journalist Association; the 2010 Grand Prize in Travel Journalism Award from the North American Travel Journalists Association; and in 2012 the first writers award from IGLTA\, the International Gay and Lesbian Travel Association. He also teaches travel writing at New York University. Visit him at www.michaelluongo.com. \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/contributors-to-sensual-travels-the-best-of-gay-travel-erotica-read-at-the-bureau/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130810T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130810T230000
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SUMMARY:Queer Film Summer Camp: Jim Fouratt Introduces To Die Like a Man
DESCRIPTION:For the sixth installment of Queer Film Summer Camp Jim Fouratt will introduce João Pedro Rodrigues‘s To Die Like a Man (2009) \nTo Die Like a Man is a look at the the dance between desire\, subjectivity\, nature and heterosexual definitions of gender expression. Add religion\, body modification options\, queens colliding\, gender illusion\, bad boys\, ageism and drugs to mix and you get a very contemporary look at the dialectics of gender expression. And it’s beautifully shot and respectful of the world it inhabits. Hard questions\, no easy answers. A NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL selection. \nQueer Film Summer Camp\, a series devoted to queer films or films viewed queerly\, is proudly presented by the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division and Peter M. Hargrove\, President of Hargrove Entertainment\, Inc. Queer Film Summer Camp will take place at the Bureau on eight consecutive Saturday evenings in July and August. An exciting array of film critics and historians along with other queer and queer-friendly NYC-based arts professionals will introduce each film with a brief lecture. \nSaturdays\, July 6\, 13\, 20\, 27\, August 3\, 10\, 17\, 24 \nSuggested donation of $10 \nDrinks will be served at 7 PM \nThe introductory lectures will begin at 8 PM \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/queer-film-summer-camp-jim-fouratt-introduces-to-die-like-a-man/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130808T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130808T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T193544
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SUMMARY:Teaser of The Drifts Live\, Queer. Southern. Gothic. with Thom Vernon
DESCRIPTION:Queer. Southern. Gothic. William Faulkner meets Flannery O’Connor meets Carson McCullers. A trans-dad\, a pregnant housewife\, her cheating husband\, his butch lover and a calf fight their sex in a mean Arkansas blizzard. Thom Vernon (performer/writer) teases his @fringenyc stint of The Drifts Live: the novel onstage with performance\, readings and talk on gender and mattering.  The Drifts (Coachhouse Books) was called ‘Magnificent’ (Globe & Mail); audiences have said the performances are “Hilarious and harrowing…stricken with a dangerous poetry.” \nthedriftslive.com \nFree. All donations go to Future Perfect: Build the Bureau\, the Bureau’s fundraising campaign to establish a permanent location on the Lower East Side. \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/thomvernon/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130807T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130807T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T193544
CREATED:20130713T161938Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20130802T132246Z
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SUMMARY:Future Perfect: Build the Bureau\, a Fundraiser for the Bureau at The Pyramid Club
DESCRIPTION:In conjunction with the Bureau’s Indiegogo fundraising campaign\, Future Perfect: Build the Bureau\, we will host a fundraiser party at \nThe Pyramid Club on Wednesday\, August 7th\, from 8 PM on \nDonors of $10 or more to our Indiegogo crowd-funding campaign will receive a ticket to this event. Donate $100 or more and receive two tickets. $15 at door. \nDonate here \nMaster of Ceremonies\, Justin Sayre \n \nFeaturing some of the best Queer Performers in New York today! \nPerformances will start at 9pm with A Special Return for Jack Waters and Peewee Nyob\, also with performances by Dan Fishback and Reginald M Lamar \nAt 10pm\, a Special Hour Curated by Earl Dax and PUSSY FAGGOT!\, Hosted by Penny Arcade \nAt 11 We continue the line up with Performances by Brett Every\, Max Steele\, Linda Simpson\, Jonathan Dalin\, and Karl Marks! \nAt 12 Shane-Shane and his amazing party\, FANCY Present Music and Merriment with Chris Tyler\, Valerie Geffner\, and Paul Leopold. \n  \nSome of NYC’s Best DJs will spin both upstairs and downstairs! \nGio Black Peter\nAsh Wood\nDandylion\n& Spank Magazine‘s DJ Will Automagic & DJ Sean B \nDonors of $10 or more to our Indiegogo crowd-funding campaign will receive a ticket to this event. Donate $100 or more and receive two tickets. $15 at door. We will print out a list of donors\, so no need to print anything out. We’ve got it covered. \nDONATE HERE \nStay tuned for announcements about additional performers and other details. \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/future-perfect-build-the-bureau-a-fundraiser-for-the-bureau-at-the-pyramid-club/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130803T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130803T230000
DTSTAMP:20260403T193544
CREATED:20130706T165556Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20130706T165556Z
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SUMMARY:Queer Film Summer Camp: Shade Rupe Introduces Love Is The Devil: Study For A Portrait Of Francis Bacon
DESCRIPTION:For the fifth installment of Queer Film Summer Camp Shade Rupe will introduce John Maybury‘s Love Is The Devil: Study For A Portrait Of Francis Bacon (1998)  \nIMDB page for Love Is The Devil \nShade Rupe\nFilmmaker\, writer\, festival programmer\, and lover of outsider life is the author of the acclaimed interview collection DARK STARS RISING: CONVERSATION FROM THE OUTER REALMS (Headpress Books\, 2011)\, featuring Divine\, Alejandro Jodorowsky\, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge\, Udo Kier\, Dennis Cooper\, Gaspar Noe\, and other pioneers of individuated lifestyles\, which Robert Ebert declared as “the most fearsome creatures in the transgressive cinema.” His 2011 short film T IS FOR TRICK elicited queer author Clive Barker’s praise: “That was an elegantly shot\, sharply edited and strongly conceived and directed four minutes of filmmaking. Colour me impressed.” Shade produced and directed the live recording of Teller (Penn & Teller) and Todd Robbins’ off-Broadway spookshow PLAY DEAD\, which premiered at Montreal’s Fantasia Film Festival in 2012\, with further plays at the AFI Center in Washington DC and the American Cinemathque in Los Angeles\, which Marilyn Manson praised by commenting “PLAY DEAD reminds me of my early years as a spiritual terrorist.” 2013 Shade was a guest at the Off Plus Camera film festival in Kraków\, Poland\, bringing several films based around Dark Stars Rising\, including a 35mm print of Andy Warhol’s Dracula\, which was introduced with live running commentary by festival judge Udo Kier. \nQueer Film Summer Camp\, a series devoted to queer films or films viewed queerly\, is proudly presented by the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division and Peter M. Hargrove\, President of Hargrove Entertainment\, Inc. Queer Film Summer Camp will take place at the Bureau on eight consecutive Saturday evenings in July and August. An exciting array of film critics and historians along with other queer and queer-friendly NYC-based arts professionals will introduce each film with a brief lecture. \nSaturdays\, July 6\, 13\, 20\, 27\, August 3\, 10\, 17\, 24 \nSuggested donation of $10 \nDrinks will be served at 7 PM \nThe introductory lectures will begin at 8 PM \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/queer-film-summer-camp-shade-rupe-introduces-love-is-the-devil-study-for-a-portrait-of-francis-bacon/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130730T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130730T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T193544
CREATED:20130715T161538Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20130715T173203Z
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SUMMARY:ANGELS AND DEMONS AT PLAY: Poetry Readings by Steve Koenig and Robin Small McCarthy
DESCRIPTION:ANGELS AND DEMONS AT PLAY \nPoetry Readings by Steve Koenig and Robin Small McCarthy \n  \n \nSteve Koenig\, a third generation Brooklynite\, writes about growing up queer in NYC and the cultural and racial spirits of Mexico\, jazz\, and everyday shamans. He is a poet\, educator\, music journalist\, and Editor of the arts and culture magazine  www.AcousticLevitation.org\, as well as co-founder of the Acoustic Levitation music collaborative and record label (.com). He has been a queer activist since his teens\, and co- founded the Baruch College Gay Students Association in 1977.  Much of Steve’s poetry has been in collaboration with painters\, sculptors\, and improvising musicians from around the world\, especially Mexico City.  His poetry volume Among The Powder will be followed by the forthcoming Collected Poems: Ants Eating Through Brick and CD release It Was The Fingers.  Steve has been published in Sensations Magazine\, Diseased Pariah News\, Poetry In Performance\, Brooklyn Day Of The Poet\, Unbearable Assembling\, Q Review\, planetAUTHORity. and Outside. \n  \nRobin Small-McCarthy\, a transplanted New Yorker\, lives in Pelham Parkway (the Bronx)\, teaches in Midtown\, and performs and plays in the Village. She writes about the fluidity of racial\, cultural\, gender\, and sexual identity–embracing the interconnectivity of all life. She is a well-known poet and performing artist in the New York City underground poetry and music scene.  She is the author of two books of poetry and song\, Love During Wartime and Cold Winter Days and Dark Nights of the Soul: The Madison Chronicles.  Robin has been a featured performer in such venues as the Bowery Poetry Club\, the Cornelia Street Café\, the Green Pavilion\, the KGB Bar\, Bluestockings\, and the Yippie Museum Cafe.  Robin is the founder and co-host of Kairos Poetry Café.  She has adjudicated poetry slams in Madison\, Wisconsin. Her writing–poetry and literary criticism–has been published in numerous journals\, including the Journal of Cultural Studies\, Discourse\,Nomad’s Choir Poetry Journal\, and The WisCon Chronicles.  She has performed on two CDs:  Kairos Poetry Café Presents Selections of Poetry and Music (AB Film Productions) and Beauty Keeps Laying ItsSharp Knife Against Me (Logochrysalis Productions).  Robin has taught and directed theatre at Syracuse University\, the University of Illinois\, Technical Career Institutes\, the BRLT Actor’s Workshop\, and City Lights Youth Theatre.  Her play\, Starseed: The Journey Home\, is currently in production. Robin is also an English instructor at Technical Career Institutes and the New York Institute of Technology.  A compassionate activist and cultural worker at heart\, in all that she creates and wherever her journey finds her\, Robin’s ultimate goal and hope is to be a conduit of peace\, love\, and social justice. \nwww.linkedin.com/in/robinsmallmccarthy \nwww.facebook.com/robinsmallmccarthyinstructorpoetperformingartist \nwww.facebook.com/JazzMassStJohnsOnChristopherStreet \nwww.facebook.com/kairospoets \nhttps://www.acousticlevitation.org/robinsmallmccarthy.html \nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOak1fAsA9Q \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/angels-and-demons-at-play-poetry-readings-by-steve-koenig-and-robin-small-mccarthy/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130727T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130727T230000
DTSTAMP:20260403T193544
CREATED:20130629T163552Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20130629T182718Z
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SUMMARY:Queer Film Summer Camp: David Noh Presents Riptide
DESCRIPTION:For the fourth installment of Queer Film Summer Camp David Noh will introduce Edmund Goulding‘s Riptide (1934) \nIMDB page for Riptide \nDavid Noh\, born in Hawaii and living in Manhattan\, is a film critic who has written for FILM JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL\, THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER\, BACKSTAGE\, OPERA NEWS and other publications. He also writes a regular culture column for GAY CITY NEWS and has a blog\, WWW.NOHWAY.WORDPRESS.COM. He is happy to be part of this wonderful film series\, and hopes that his choices will be enjoyed\, as well as a fresh discovery for those unfamiliar with them. \nQueer Film Summer Camp\, a series devoted to queer films or films viewed queerly\, is proudly presented by the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division and Peter M. Hargrove\, President of Hargrove Entertainment\, Inc. Queer Film Summer Camp will take place at the Bureau on eight consecutive Saturday evenings in July and August. An exciting array of film critics and historians along with other queer and queer-friendly NYC-based arts professionals will introduce each film with a brief lecture. \nSaturdays\, July 6\, 13\, 20\, 27\, August 3\, 10\, 17\, 24 \nSuggested donation of $10 \nDrinks will be served at 7 PM \nThe introductory lectures will begin at 8 PM \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/queer-film-summer-camp-david-noh-presents-riptide/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130726T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130726T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T193544
CREATED:20130708T172450Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20130715T173030Z
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SUMMARY:The F from Female: A Discussion about Gynarchy
DESCRIPTION:A performance by Anastasia Papatheodorou \nWhen we hear the word ‘matriarchy\,’ we are conditioned to a number of responses: that matriarchy refers to the past and that matriarchies have never existed; that matriarchy is a hopeless fantasy of female domination\, of mothers dominating children\, of women being cruel to men. Conditioning us negatively to matriarchy is\, of course\, in the interests of patriarchs. We are made to feel that patriarchy is natural; we are less likely to question it\, and less likely to direct our energies to ending it. \nDonations encouraged \nAnastasia Papatheodorou\nAnastasia Papatheodorou was born in Athens. Her performances are a synthesis of voice\, poetry improvisations\, sound effects and cinematic storytelling in an open dramaturgy. She has been performing and living in  Athens – Vienna -Berlin -Paris – and Portugal.\nThe Bureau will launch our fundraising campaign\, Future Perfect: Build the Bureau\, on Friday\, July 26th\, so we hope you’ll come to see Anastasia’s performance and make a donation at the Bureau that night–because donating online can be lonely. So come on down to the Bureau and donate in the company of friends\, lovers\, and friends and lovers whom you have yet to meet.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/the-f-from-female-a-discussion-about-gynarchy/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130723T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130723T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T193544
CREATED:20130708T172720Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20130708T173246Z
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SUMMARY:Launch of issue 2 of Prose & Lore\, the literary journal of the Red Umbrella Project
DESCRIPTION:Featuring readings by Brandon Aguilar\, Dominick\, Essence Revealed\, and Danielle.  The Red Umbrella Project is dedicated to amplifying the voices of people who have current or former experience working in the sex trades.\n \n \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/launch-of-issue-2-of-prose-lore-the-literary-journal-of-the-red-umbrella-project/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130720T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130720T230000
DTSTAMP:20260403T193544
CREATED:20130629T162913Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20130629T182811Z
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SUMMARY:Queer Film Summer Camp: David Noh Presents You Are Not Alone
DESCRIPTION:For the third installment of Queer Film Summer Camp David Noh will introduce Ernst Johansen & Lasse Nielsen‘s You Are Not Alone (1978). \nIMDB page for You Are Not Alone\n \nDavid Noh\, born in Hawaii and living in Manhattan\, is a film critic who has written for FILM JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL\, THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER\, BACKSTAGE\, OPERA NEWS and other publications. He also writes a regular culture column for GAY CITY NEWS and has a blog\, WWW.NOHWAY.WORDPRESS.COM. He is happy to be part of this wonderful film series\, and hopes that his choices will be enjoyed\, as well as a fresh discovery for those unfamiliar with them. \nQueer Film Summer Camp\, a series devoted to queer films or films viewed queerly\, is proudly presented by the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division and Peter M. Hargrove\, President of Hargrove Entertainment\, Inc. Queer Film Summer Camp will take place at the Bureau on eight consecutive Saturday evenings in July and August. An exciting array of film critics and historians along with other queer and queer-friendly NYC-based arts professionals will introduce each film with a brief lecture. \nSaturdays\, July 6\, 13\, 20\, 27\, August 3\, 10\, 17\, 24 \nSuggested donation of $10 \nDrinks will be served at 7 PM \nThe introductory lectures will begin at 8 PM \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/queer-film-summer-camp-david-noh-presents-you-are-not-alone/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130718T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130718T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T193544
CREATED:20130701T175030Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20130701T180314Z
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SUMMARY:Davidson Garrett and John J. Trause Read at the Bureau
DESCRIPTION:Davidson Garrett is a native of Shreveport\, Louisiana. He trained for the theater at The American Academy of Dramatic Arts and graduated from The City College of New York with an M.S. in Education. A member of Screen Actor’s Guild/AFTRA and Actors’ Equity\, he has worked in theater\, film and television since 1973. His poetry\, fiction and articles have been published in The New York Times\, The Episcopal New Yorker\, Xavier Review (New Orleans)\, Sensations Magazine\, Third Wednesday\, Marco Polo Arts Mag\, Big City Lit\, the website of The Beat Museum in San Francisco and in Podium\, the online literary journal of the 92nd Street Y.  In 2000\, his chapbook manuscript\, Taxi Dreams\, was a finalist in the Gival Press Chapbook Competition.  In 2006\, that manuscript evolved into his first collection of poetry and prose\, King Lear of the Taxi (Advent Purple Press). Two of the poems from his book were the subject of a short film\, Taxi Driver\, produced by Flashgun Films of Great Britain. The film was screened at the Portobello Film Festival in London in 2008. In 2011\, Davidson was nominated for a Pushcart Prize for his work in the anthology Pears\, Prose and Poetry\, published by Poets Wear Prada.  He was profiled in New York Magazine in July 2012\, in an article about taxi drivers who moonlight in other professions. In August 2012\, Davidso premiered his one-man show\, King Lear of the Taxi: A Poetic Monologue\, for the Boog City Art and Music Festival in Manhattan’s East Village.  In May 2013\, Davidson was invited to read his postry at Joe’s Pub\, presented by the PEN World Voices Festival as part of the Taxi Driver Writers’ Workshop.  Davidson has been a New York City taxi driver\, full time and part time\, for over 35 years to help subsidize his art. \n  \n \nJOHN J. TRAUSE\, said to be the secret love child of Henri Langlois and Mary  Meerson (Or is it Marie Menken and Willard Maas?)\, is  the Director of Oradell Public Library and the author of Eye Candy for Andy: 13 Most Beautiful… Poems for Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests; Inside Out\, Upside Down\, and Round and Round; Seriously Serial; and Latter-Day Litany\, the latter staged Off-Off Broadway.  His translations\, poetry\, and visual work appear internationally in many journals and anthologies\, including the artists’ periodical Crossings\, the Dada journal Maintenant\, the journal Offerta Speciale\, the Uphook Press anthologies Hell Strung and Crooked and -gape-seed-\, and the Great Weather for Media anthology It’s Animal but Merciful.  He has shared the stage with Steven Van Zandt\, Anne Waldman\, Karen Finley\, and Jerome Rothenberg\, the page with Lita Hornick\, William Carlos Williams\, Woody Allen\, Ted Kooser\, and Pope John Paul II\, and the cage with the Cumaean Sibyl\, Ezra Pound\, Hannibal Lector\, Andrei Chikatilo\, and George “The Animal” Steele.  He is a founder of the William Carlos Williams Poetry Cooperative in Rutherford\, NJ\, and the former host and curator of its monthly reading series.  He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize (2009 – 2011).  For the sake of art Mr. Trause hung naked for one whole month in the summer of 2007 on the Art Wall of the Bowery Poetry Club. \n\nPraise for John J. Trause’s EYE CANDY FOR ANDY: 13 Most Beautiful… Poems for Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests \n* Aphorisms… Minimalisms… Trauseisms… More fun with Andy \nTaylor Mead\, writer\, actor\, performer\, poet\, and one of Andy Warhol’s Superstars \n  \n* Brief as the lives on display\, these utterly charming pieces resonate with eroticism\, sentiment\, devilish humor and unexpected editorial comment… fitting testament to one of the key moving image projects of the 20th Century. \nRon Magliozzi\, Associate Curator\, Department of Film\, Museum of Modern Art\, New York \n  \n* sighting by Billy.  i see the poem\, read it\, and find it charming\, one of the 13 most beautiful….. \nBilly Name\, photographer\, filmmaker\, lighting designer\, Warhol Factory Archivist
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/davidson-garrett-and-john-j-trause-read-at-the-bureau/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130717T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130717T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T193544
CREATED:20130701T183857Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20130702T173410Z
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SUMMARY:Mario López-Cordero Reads from His Debut Novel Monarch Season\, with guests Martin Wilson and John Stewart Wynne\, author of the new novel The Red Shoes
DESCRIPTION:Mario López-Cordero is a journalist who has spent more than a decade writing about design\, travel\, fashion\, and culture. He is currently the senior editor of Veranda and his writing has also appeared in New York\, Travel + Leisure\, and Martha Stewart Living; he previously held staff positions at Elle Decor\, Harper’s Bazaar\, and House Beautiful. He lives in New York City. \nMonarch Season  \nDevin Santos knows success is in the details: in the furrows of cobblestone abs\, the thread count of Egyptian cotton sheets\, the patina of iron window casements left purposely to rust. Add it all up\, however\, and something’s missing. The cracks are beginning to show in his relationship with domineering i‐banker Charlie Doherty\, and no amount of chalky Venetian plaster can obscure them. When a neighborhood admirer appears alongside his best friend Jude at the Pines ferry terminal\, Devin is at first unimpressed. But Frank Duma is confident\, clever\, and shameless in his pursuit of Devin. The cat‐and‐mouse\, hot‐and‐cold relationship that develops will change both their lives forever. \n  \nPhoto by Kevin McGrath\nMartin Wilson was born in Tuscaloosa\, Alabama. He received a BA from Vanderbilt University and an MFA from the University of Florida\, where one of his short stories received a Henfield/Transatlantic Review Award. His debut novel\, What They Always Tell Us (Delacorte Press\, 2008)\, won the Alabama Author Award for best young adult book. The novel was also a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award\, an Indie Next Selection\, an ALA-ALSC Rainbow List Selection\, and a CCBC Choices Book. He lives in New York City. Visit him at www.martinwilsonwrites.com \n  \n \nJohn Stewart Wynne (aka John Wynne) is an American author of fiction.  He is also a Grammy-nominated producer of spoken word recordings. \nHe is the author of the short story collection The Other World (City Lights)\, which the James White Review called “one of the best books of the decade”\, the novel Crime Wave (John Calder/Riverrun Press)\, and the chapbook The Sighting.  His new novel The Red Shoes will be published by Magnus Books in Summer 2013. \n“His writing has been praised for its audacious originality\, its beautiful imagery\, the astute asides and wry observations of his characters\, and his highly charged but often darkly comic mise-en-scènes. He has been hailed as the heir apparent to the tradition of  ‘outsider art’ exemplified by Tennessee Williams\, Carson McCullers and Truman Capote.” (Wikipedia) \n\nWynne’s controversial narrative poem “Two Struggling Actresses”\, about an actor consumed by the personality of Jayne Mansfield\, appeared in The Paris Review.  His short fiction has been published in High Risk 2 and Christopher Street among numerous publications. \nWynne is also the producer of over one hundred audio books. They range from John Waters reading his Shock Value to F. Murray Abraham reading The Phantom of the Opera to John Kennedy\, Jr. reading his father’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book Profiles in Courage. \nHe wrote the first popular guide to spoken word recordings\, The Listener’s Guide to Audio Books (Simon & Schuster). \nHe is at work on a new novel. \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/mario-lopez-cordero-reads-from-his-debut-novel-monarch-season-with-guests-martin-wilson-and-john-stewart-wynne/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130714T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130714T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T193544
CREATED:20130619T163907Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20130619T164245Z
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SUMMARY:Dirty Looks On Location at the Bureau: Lynda Benglis + Harry Dodge
DESCRIPTION:Fantastic Queer Narratives: Lynda Benglis\, The Amazing Bow Wow + Harry Dodge\, The Ass and the Lap Dog \nLynda Benglis\, The Amazing Bow Wow\, video\, 32 min\, 1976\nHarry Dodge\, The Ass and the Lap Dog\, video\, 33 min\, 2013 \nDirty Looks: On Location comes to Bureau of General Services – Queer Division for an evening of fantastic queer narratives\, spanning more than thirty years of video art practice. Made in 1976\, The Amazing Bow Wow is the only fully narrative video Lynda Benglis produced and follows the adventures of a talking\, intersexed dog used by Benglis and her partner in their carnival sideshow act—until Benglis starts to fall for Bow Wow and things take a tragic turn.The Ass and the Lap Dog\, from 2013\, sees Harry Dodge attempting several on-camera interviews only to be bombarded with bizarre\, insanely detailed descriptions of the videos his interviewees would like to make\, to hilarious and hallucinatory effect. \nLynda Benglis was born in Lake Charles\, Louisiana in 1941. An important sculptor for more than three decades\, Benglis also produced a pioneering body of feminist video in the 1970s. Immediate and visceral\, her performance-based video work confronts issues raised by feminist theory\, including the representation of women\, the role of the spectator\, and female sexuality. Her work has been shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art\, Los Angeles; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Tate Modern\, London; The Museum of Modern Art\, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art\, New York; Walker Art Center\, Minneapolis; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum\, New York; Philadelphia Museum of Art; National Gallery of Art\, Washington\, DC; the 39th Venice Biennale; Cheim & Read and Franklin Parrasch galleries in New York\, among many other venues. In 2011\, a retrospective of her work was exhibited at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York. She has taught at the School of Visual Arts\, the University of Arizona\, Yale University\, Princeton University and the California Institute of the Arts\, among other schools. Benglis lives and works in New York. \nHarry Dodge is an artist living and working in Los Angeles who makes shows that include video\, performance\, sculpture\, and drawing. In the early 90s\, Dodge was one of the founders of the now-legendary San Francisco community-based performance space\, The Bearded Lady\, which served as a gathering point for a pioneering\, polysexual\, queer literary and arts scene. In the latter part of 90s\, Dodge wrote\, directed\, edited and starred in (with Silas Howard) a narrative feature film\, By Hook or By Crook\, which premiered at the Sundance Festival in 2002\, and went on to become a cult classic\, garnering five Best Feature awards at various film festivals. Dodge also performed in the 2000 John Waters film\, Cecil B. Demented. Dodge has shown solo and collaborative work at venues including the 2008 Whitney Biennial; the Getty Museum\, Los Angeles; the Hammer Museum\, Los Angeles; PS 1\, Contemporary Art Center; Elizabeth Dee Gallery\, New York; and Wallspace Gallery\, New York\, among many others\, and has work in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art\, New York. Recent activities include a forthcoming book of drawings and a feature-length video\, Camp Is A Tender Feeling (2013). \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/dirty-looks-on-location-at-the-bureau-lynda-benglis-harry-dodge/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130713T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130713T220000
DTSTAMP:20260403T193544
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SUMMARY:Queer Film Summer Camp: Jarman's Sebastiane\, Presented by Genesis Breyer P-Orridge
DESCRIPTION:Genesis Breyer P-Orridge will introduce Derek Jarman‘s Sebastiane (1976)\, the second film in the Queer Film Summer Camp series\, presented by the Bureau and Peter Hargrove (see below). \nIMDB page for Sebastiane \nThe cultural engineer Genesis Breyer P-Orridge is an avant-garde anti-hero whose remarkable body of underground work reminds us that when you believe something\, artistic integrity demands that you live by it too. In 2007 h/er partner Lady Jaye BREYER dropped h/er body. Since that time Genesis continues to represent the amalgam BREYER P-ORRIDGE in the material “world” and Lady Jaye represents the amalgam BREYER P-ORRIDGE in the immaterial “world” creating an ongoing interdimensional collaboration. Their work documents the physical alterations s/he and the late Lady Jaye\, endured within their project Pandrogeny\, about re-union and re-solution of male and female to a perfecting hermaphroditic state. Genesis is one of the most rigorous and relentless agents of the postwar Anglo-American vanguard\, interrogating the meaning and substance of identity in a peerless half-century program of willful reincarnation and shape-shifting. Embracing the body as not simply the vessel but the site of the avant-garde impulse\, BREYER P-ORRIDGE has reinvented and reintroduced h/erself again and again—as Fluxus pioneer\, groundbreaking performance artist\, inventor of industrial music\, “wrecker of civilization\,” essayist and theoretician\, and\, most recently\, as pandrogyne. \nwww.genesisbreyerporridge.com \n  \nThe Bureau of General Services—Queer Division and Peter M. Hargrove\, President of Hargrove Entertainment\, Inc.\, proudly present Queer Film Summer Camp\, a series devoted to queer films\, or films viewed queerly. Queer Film Summer Camp will take place at the Bureau on the nine consecutive Saturday evenings in July and August. An exciting array of film critics and historians along with other queer and queer-friendly NYC-based arts professionals will introduce each film with a brief lecture. \nSuggested donation of $10\nDrinks will be served at 7 PM\nThe introductory lectures will begin at 8 PM
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/queer-film-summer-camp-jarmans-sebastiane-presented-by-genesis-breyer-p-orridge/
LOCATION:NY
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130713T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T193544
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SUMMARY:Come out and celebrate the launch of The OUTspoken Collection!
DESCRIPTION:The OUTspoken Collection collaborates with queer artists to create products that playfully subvert the words/slander/euphemisms that coalesce into an [often-false] identity for men who have sex with men.  In short\, we undefine ourselves.\n\nOur first product is a tank top created by Minneapolis-based artist\, Joe Sinness\, based on Faggot.  The illustration is his interpretation of the traditional meaning of the word juxtaposed with its modern\, hate-filled connotation.  Sinness’s expresses multiple levels of meaning through the arrangement objects found in the word’s history and combines them with gay ephemera (flowers\, sex toys\, etc).  Also\, it looks really bad ass.\n\nWear your tank if you have one\, purchase one at www.outspokencollection.com \, or buy one at the event!\n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/outspoken/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130712T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130712T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T193544
CREATED:20130704T142040Z
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SUMMARY:Katrina del Mar - Shorts\, presented by Strange Loop Gallery
DESCRIPTION:Sweating Gasoline\, reaching for a match – Katrina del Mar \nKatrina del Mar’s defiantly queer videos offer an exuberant\, hyper-stylized sexuality\, an unapologetic feminist voice\, and often guerilla-style production tactics. \nShe uses her Lower East Side friends and lovers as punk heroines; and within her girl gang movies a world of strictly female population. \nKatrina triumphs in the underground\, revels in the grit and lathers on the beauty in these short films. \nwww.katrinadelmar.com \nOn Friday July 12th \nStrange Loop Gallery will be hosting 40 minutes of short films – event starts at 7pm \nsuggested donation $6 \n\n   
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/katrina-del-mar-shorts-presented-by-strange-loop-gallery/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130711T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130711T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T193544
CREATED:20130602T194237Z
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SUMMARY:NYC Book Launch for Thomas Glave's Among the Bloodpeople: Politics and Flesh
DESCRIPTION:Thomas Glave will read from his new book Among the Bloodpeople: Politics and Flesh (Akashic Books\, 2013). Glave will be introduced by author David McConnell\, who will moderate the discussion following the reading. \n \nThomas Glave has been admired for his unique style and exploration of taboo\, politically volatile topics. The award-winning author’s new collection\, Among the Bloodpeople\, contains all the power and daring of his earlier writing but ventures even further into the political\, the personal\, and the secret. \nEach essay in the volume reveals a passionate commitment to social justice and human truth. Whether confronting Jamaica’s prime minister on antigay bigotry\, contemplating the risks and seductions of “outlawed” sex\, exploring a world of octopuses and men performing somersaults in the Caribbean Sea\, or challenging repressive tactics employed at the University of Cambridge\, Glave expresses the observations of a global citizen with the voice of a poet. \nWith an introduction by Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa. \n“A profound compassion for racial and sexual minorities\, the oppressed\, and the colonized\, informs [Glave’s] searing\, beautifully evocative collection of essays . . . He captures the languor and seductiveness of Jamaica . . . A graceful and original stylist\, Glave highlights the marginalized—calling on the descendants of people who toiled for the Empire as slaves and colonial subjects to never forget their past\, and\, in effect\, to those who profit from that past to acknowledge their complicity. Ultimately\, his work is critical\, yet filled with generosity and compassion.”\n—Publishers Weekly\, starred review \n  \n  \n \nDavid McConnell is the author of the acclaimed novels The Silver Hearted (a finalist for Lambda and Ferro-Grumley awards) and Firebrat. His short fiction and journalism have appeared widely in magazines and anthologies\, including the Literary Review (UK)\, Granta\, and Prospect magazine (UK). He is the former cochair of the Lambda Literary Foundation\, and lives in New York City. McConnell’s most recent book is American Honor Killings: Desire and Rage Among Men (2013)\, an investigation of recent murders of gay men in the U.S. \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/nyc-book-launch-for-thomas-glaves-among-the-bloodpeople-politics-flesh/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130710T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130710T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T193544
CREATED:20130629T174730Z
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SUMMARY:Celebration of Annie Lanzillotto's Schistsong
DESCRIPTION:Book blast party & reading for Annie Lanzillotto‘s book of poems\, Schistsong with introduction by Rosette Imperato. Come toast the book. \nAnnie is joined by special guests: Emily Kunkel\, Rose Imperato on Sax. \nMembers of Annie’s class\, LITERARY OUTLAWS FOR LIBERATION\, will also read. \nALL WELCOME\nBRING YOUR FRIENDS\nWE WILL SING AND DANCE \nL IS FOR LION\nand\nSCHISTONG\nwill be available \n  \n  \nSCHISTSONG \nby Annie Rachele Lanzillotto \nAn urban songline of New York. From the author\nof the memoir L is for Lion\, comes a panegyric of\nthe geology of Manhattan. ese poems glitter.\nManhattan schist is rendered as a template for the\nskyline and characters of New York. Grit and stardust\ncollide in this debut collection of poetry and song.\ne book begins with the bright re ective quality of\nMica and ends with the gentri ed vision of the city\nwhere “New York is nine millions doors\, and you have\nnot one key.” In between are stories of urban icons:\niceman\, sh peddler\, heart butcher\, meter maid\, San\nGennaro\, the magic of grandmothers’ hands\, the\nvision of the oldest living tree in the city\, immigrants\nwho fell out windows and died in explosions\, Italian\nphrases that link the essence of the sun to a rose to a\nheart\, crushed tomatoes\, sunsets\, supermarkets\, the\nglory of hot tar\, the lessons of marines and lesbians.\nYou will learn history and geology\, Italian American\nheroes\, and spiritual imperatives\, through the syllables\nof this one poet’s soul. \n  \n“Stunning in its originality\, Annie Lanzillotto’s poetic voice is musical\, energetic\, wise\, and compassionate. In Schistsong\, Annie Lanzillotto creates a rhythmic love letter to New York with vivid\, evocative poems that showcase unforgettable people\, while encompassing history\, science\, geography\, medicine\, and geology.” \n— MARIA FAMÀ\, Author of Mystics in the Family\, and Looking For Cover \n  \n“Schistsong\, Annie Lanzillotto’s astounding collection of poems is big and dense and speaks in a New York accent forged in the bedrock that predates the history of this great city\, the metamorphic rock that is older than New York\, older than Italy\, many millions of years old. ‘Find your inner schist\,’ your bedrock\, this poet urges. Sprinkled with liberal handfuls of shiny mica\, these poems are meant to kick and stomp and make sure you know they’re here. They come direct from the ‘heel of the boot’ as it was planted in the Bronx\, New York.” \n— ROSETTE CAPOTORTO\, Author of Popbeads\, and Bronx Italian \n  \n“A cacophony of bold urban verse\, where we hear the barking fish vendors and shaky war veterans\, the bitter iceworkers and lustful dykes looming on the docks. Lanzillotto’s witty slang cuts over the traffic\, it whistles\, sings; this is her testimony of a place and time where L’America beckons out immigrant Bronx soul windows\, where words and rhythms are constructed of that glittering truth that makes the concrete mountains of Manhattan possible –schistpoetry!” \n–TIM Z. HERNANDEZ\, American Book Award winning poet and novelist\, Author of Natural Takeover of Small Things \n  \n“Lanzillotto’s words’ skin can be tough as the leather used by immigrant shoemakers\, and ring metallically as her father’s iceman tongs. At the core of it all is the tenderness of ripe\, fresh crushed tomatoes. A seasoned performer as well as poet\, Lanzillotto’s poetry appeals to the ear as well as the eye\, intellect\, and heart. These poems\, all 15\,164 words of them\, are without a doubt among the finest I’ve ever read from any literary era.” \n–ROSEMARY PETRACCA CAPPELLO\, Poet\, Writer\, and Editor of Philadelphia Poets \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/2425/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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