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SUMMARY:A Brief History of Gay Porn from 'Boys in the Sand' to Bel Ami Revised and Updated
DESCRIPTION:  \nJoin us for the revised and updated version of the brief history of gay porn that Kyle Renick originally presented at the Bureau in May! \nThis time the event is ticketed\, so you’re guaranteed a seat! Purchase here for $5: \nhttps://www.artful.ly/store/events/10250 \nAlmost every guy who has made a pornographic film or video is referred to as a “gay porn star”. He isn’t of course; but occasionally he is. Starting with the moment of Casey Donovan emerging from the waters off Fire Island in 1971 and commencing the Classic Era of modern gay porn\, through the Budapest boys of Bel Ami and the tattooed hunks of New York’s Cocky Boys proclaiming the merger of gay porn with reality television\, the brief modern history of gay porn can best be understood with a look at the boys and men who made it popular\, and the consumers who told them what they wanted. \n  \nKYLE RENICK served as Executive Director of WPA Theatre (Workshop of the Players Art Foundation\, Inc.) for 25 years\, producing more than one hundred Off-Broadway plays and musicals\, including such long-running successes as Little Shop of Horrors by Howard Ashman and Alan Menken\, and Steel Magnolias by Robert Harling. He produced new works by Yoko Ono\, Larry Kramer\, Charles Busch\, Paul Rudnick\, Larry Ketron\, Doug Wright\, Israel Horovitz and Reynolds Price\, as well as revivals by Tennessee Williams\, Lillian Hellman and Edward Albee. Born and raised in St. Louis\, he attended Tufts University in Boston and graduated Phi Beta Kappa with degrees in Drama and Music. Mr. Renick has been a consultant for both the New York State Council on the Arts and National Endowment for the Arts\, and served for 12 years on the Board of Directors of the Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York. He has written extensively on movie music for Film Score Monthly\, and has had articles published in Theatre Times and Back Stage\, among other publications. Mr. Renick is a Charter Member of Early Music America\, and he does volunteer work for the Boston Early Music Festival. He is currently writing a book about actors\, writers and other artists he worked with at WPA Theatre. \nEvent image: Bel Ami’s Lukas Ridgeston and Johan Paulik\, photography by Kyle Renick \n  \n 
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161020T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161020T210000
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SUMMARY:Juicy Fruits: A Pack of Lesbian Writers
DESCRIPTION:You don’t have to be a woman to read women writers\, a poet to read poetry\, or a chewer of Juicy Fruit gum to happily listen to a pack of lesbian writers read their fabulous work. “Juicy Fruits: A Pack of Lesbian Writers” is an evening of celebration – of dykes with pens and laptops. We are prsenting excellent poets and writers\, including Donna Minkowitz\, Ana Božičević\, Candace Williams\, Sarah Sarai\, and Mariel Reyes. ALL are welcome. \n  \nArt: Pearl Blauvelt\, All Sizes Both Silk and Cotton\, ca. 1940. \n  \nDonna Minkowitz is the author of the memoir Growing Up Golem\, which Kirkus lauded for bringing “a defiant\, playful energy to her difficult and dark past.” She won a Lambda Literary Award for her first memoir\, Ferocious Romance: What My Encounters with the Right Taught Me About Sex\, God\, and Fury. Minkowitz has also written for The New York Times Book Review and The Nation\, and was a columnist for the Village Voice for eight years. She is the restaurant columnist for Gay City News. \n  \nCandace Williams is a Brooklyn Poets Fellow and her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Sixth Finch\, Bennington Review\, Lambda Literary Review\, Copper Nickel and elsewhere. She earned her MA in Elementary Education at Stanford University and has taken workshops at Cave Canem and Brooklyn Poets. She lives in Brooklyn with a pit bull named Madonna and tweets a little too often (@TeacherC). www.candace-williams.com. \n  \nAna Božičević’s chapbooks include Morning News and Document. Her first book-length collection\, Stars of the Night Commute\, was a Lambda Literary Award finalist\, and her second book Rise in the Fall won a Lambda Literary Award. Joy of Missing Out will be published this Fall. She was born in Zagreb\, Croatia; emigrated to New York City; studied at Hunter; recently worked on renovations at the Ruth Stone House in Vermont. \n  \nSarah Sarai’s chapbooks include The Risen Barbie\, I Feel Good\, and Emily Dickinson’s Coconut Face. Geographies of Soul and Taffeta was published this year by Indolent Books. Her poems are in Painted Bride Quarterly\, Barrow Street\, Boston Review\, Threepenny Review\, and others; her fiction in Devil’s Lake\, South Dakota Review\, Tampa Review\, and so on. She reviews for Lambda Literary; is a freelance editor of poetry collections\, fiction\, and pharmaceutical advertising. She has an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and a Twitter account—@SarahSarai. \n  \nMariel Reyes has always been a mad scientist weirdo nerd. Not a doctor\, lawyer or engineer\, but instead letting herself get sucked into storytelling\, hoping be as engaging as her grandmother someday. She’s performed on stages at The Brooklyn Museum\, BAX\, Dixon Place & BGSQD. You’ve can see her online in funny web videos or in the film Appropriate Behavior. She’s 5’2 and finally understands the appeal of a runny egg. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/juicy-fruits-a-pack-of-lesbian-writers/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161019T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161019T203000
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SUMMARY:‘My Son Wears Heels’ Book Launch: Julie Tarney in Conversation with JamesMichael Nichols\, and her son\, Harry James Hanson (aka Amber Alert).
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe Bureau presents the book launch of MY SON WEARS HEELS\, a memoir by Brooklyn author Julie Tarney about her experiences raising a gender-nonconforming child of the ‘90s and what she learned from him along the way about gender identity\, gender expression and self-acceptance. She’ll be joined in conversation by JamesMichael Nichols\, Deputy Editor of Queer Voices at the Huffington Post\, and her son\, Harry James Hanson (aka Amber Alert). \n  \n“Tarney does an exceptional job of tracing the zigzagging line of [her child] Harry’s self-identity and recalling the inevitable questions asked along the way.” —New York Times Book Review \n  \n“A memorable account of one young person’s journey toward self-identity and a valuable parenting guide for a new era of gender awareness and acceptance.”—Foreword Reviews \n  \n“An exciting\, exhilarating account of parenting a remarkably savvy and self-possessed girly-boy.” —Will Fellows\, author of Farm Boys \n  \n“A fearlessly open and frank memoir.” —Kirkus Reviews \n  \n  \n \nJulie Tarney is a board member for the It Gets Better Project\, blogs for the Huffington Post Queer Voices page\, and is a contributing writer for My Kid Is Gay and the True Colors Fund’s Give a Damn Campaign. She volunteers for the PFLAG Safe Schools Program. Julie lives in Brooklyn\, where she’s also her drag artist son’s biggest fan. Visit julietarney.com \n  \n \nJamesMichael Nichols is a queer writer and cultural critic living and working in New York City. He is the Deputy Editor for the Huffington Post Queer Voices section\, with his work focusing heavily on gender\, sexuality\, art\, performance and the many ways of being in the world across the spectrum of queer and trans identity. Hailing from the South\, he is committed to both elevating the voices of the marginalized and to helping build a world that we all want to actually live in. Twitter: @jamesmichael \n  \n \nHarry James Hanson is an artist known for his powerful imagery\, compelling compositions and provocative interviews. Whether working in photography\, video or the written word\, his desire to tell stories and affirm individualistic beauty reveals a sublime vision of the world. Harry and his work have been featured in The New York Times\, The Huffington Post\, MTV News\, The Village Voice\, The Daily Mail\, Paper Magazine and numerous independent publications. By night\, she can often be found on stage in Brooklyn as drag artist Amber Alert. Visit harryjameshanson.com \n  \n  \n  \n 
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161018T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161018T213000
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SUMMARY:Union Square Slam: Billy Tuggle\, Wil Gibson and Open Slam #2
DESCRIPTION:  \nUnion Square Slam is super excited to host our second of six chances to qualify for our Team Selection Finals in April. To boot\, we have an exciting feature for you: The Griot and Troubadour tour\, Wil Gibson and Bill Tuggle!!! \n6pm: Free Writing Workshop\n7pm: Sign-ups and Socialize\n8pm: Slam Round One (8 poets)\n8:30pm: Features\n9pm: Slam Rounds 2 and 3 (5 and 3 poets\, respectively) \n$5 Admission // All Ages // Wheelchair Accessible \nAbout Our Features: \nWil Gibson is a writer that has lived in a lot of places or passed through them at some point\, but has only called a few of them home. He currently lives in Humboldt County\, California where the trees are big. He has had 4 collections published by kind people\, and has been included in a number of anthologies and lit mags both online and in print. He was a founding member of Port Veritas in Portland\, Maine\, has been featured on Button Poetry\, and has been on 7 National Poetry Slam teams from coast to coast. \nYou can find links to books and more info at wilgibson.com \nBilly Tuggle a.k.a. Karma Threesixty is a vocalist\, performance poet\, mentor\, student\, and HipHop culturalist. Since 2004\, he has been a member of the Chicago multimedia arts collective PolyRhythmic and\, in 2009\, co-founded the Chicago Four Star Poetry Club with Andi Kauth. Billy has co-hosted “In One Ear” at the Heartland Café since 2008 with Pete Wolf. As of 2010\, Billy is a member of the Arkansas Grand Slam organizing committee. \nBilly has been published in such anthologies as The Columbia Poetry Review #14\, The 16th & Mission Review\, Minglewood Haiku and Learn Then Burn. His first chapbook\, Conscience Under Pressure\, was published by Fractal Edge Press. Since 2004\, he has recorded and released 3 CDs: Flawed Glory (Live Mental Graffiti)\, Syllabalistics 101 with DJ Risky Bizness\, and Turnstyles. In the independent film Urban Poet [New Film Productions\, 2002]\, he played himself. \nBilly has been active in the Temple of HipHop for over a decade. Music and poetry have led him to share stages with Brother Ali\, Pevin Everett\, the Large Professor\, Denizen Kane of Typical Cats\, DJ Spinna\, Jesse De La Pena\, Saul Williams\, KRS-ONE and “American Idol” finalist Crystal Bowersox. \nBilly has represented the Chicago area at the National Poetry Slam 7 years running. Other slam accomplishments include Rustbelt Regional champion- 2006\, finalist 2008; Chicago Grand Slam Champion- 2008; NPS semifinalist 2006\, 2008; Arkansas Grand Slam finalist and Grand Haikuster- 2009; Lethal Poetry/Chicago Grand Slam Champion 2010. Other teammates and collaborators have included Def Poets Nikki Patin\, Marty McConnell\, Alvin Lau and Death From Below plus Tristan Silverman\, Jon Sands\, Laura Yes Yes and JW Baz; all inter/national slam competition finalists. Billy has been a regular volunteer for the Women of the World Poetry Slam\, Louder Than A Bomb\, the Chicago youth slam\, and Brave New Voices. \nBilly has also appeared in the educational video Literature Launchers for McGraw-Hill. He has performed\, facilitated workshops or has just plain spoken to students at or for the University of Chicago; Columbia College (Chicago); Northwestern University; the University of Minnesota; the University of Connecticut; Hampshire College (Massachusetts); the University of California-Santa Cruz; Humboldt State University\, and\, in addition to other colleges across America\, middle and high schools all over Chicagoland. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/union-square-slam-presents-billy-tuggle-wil-gibson/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161016T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161016T190000
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SUMMARY:Young QTPOC Professionals Sip and Mingle
DESCRIPTION:  \nDo you start to ever feel isolated in the workplace and in this city? This event is a chance for us to network and socialize together as young queer/trans professionals of color. Let’s take this opportunity to share our expertise and experiences with each other over some light refreshments. Cash bar. Free event. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/young-qtpoc-professionals-sip-and-mingle/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161014T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161014T210000
DTSTAMP:20260404T061933
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SUMMARY:Show & Tale: MWMF (aka MichFest)
DESCRIPTION:Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival was part of our lesbian herstory & culture for 40 years. Now what?\nDid you keep your wrist band? Handmade sign? A piece of art you created there or bought? A book\, poster or tape/CD with one of the performers autographs? And of course the photos & scars/ink and many other objects holding part of your story….. Every Thing has a story!\nShow & Tell or Look & Listen! Everyone & Every Thing WELCOME. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/show-tale-mwmf-aka-michfest/
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161013T200000
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SUMMARY:Bi Book Club discusses Girlfag by Janet W. Hardy
DESCRIPTION:  \nOur book for Oct: Girlfag: A Life Told In Sex and Musicals is a memoir by Ethical Slut co-author Janet W. Hardy\, focussing on her relationships with men and women. It was a finalist of the first year of the Bisexual Book Awards\, published in 2011. \nCome and join the discussion\, even if you haven’t read the book. We take turns reading passages aloud from the book and discuss them–anyone can participate! As usual\, we’ll be using the text as a jumping off point to further discussion of bisexual issues and personal experiences. \nIf you have read the book: pick out some phrases\, paragraphs or scenes that you’d like to discuss\, give us your critique of the book: what worked\, what didn’t\, how was bisexuality represented? \nRSVP: to Bi Meetup \nJoin Bi Meetup: to get announcements about Bi Book Club and other bi groups & events in the NYC area. \nNext Book: TBA \nDirections: Take A\,C\,E\,L\,1\,2\,3 train to 14 St. \nQuestions? Email fuscialadybug (at) netzero (dot) com or call 917-583-1797. \n  \n  \n 
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161012T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161012T213000
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SUMMARY:20Something Monthly Manhattan Meetup
DESCRIPTION:  \nIf you are new to the city\, recently out\, just looking for friends\, or whatever experiences brought you to us – we offer a safe space where we can mingle and talk about our experiences as an LGBT person in New York City. We recommend this 20Something Meetup to anyone who is looking for a more casual space to explore their sexual/gender identity. There will be light refreshments. Bring friends! \nSuggested donation of $5 to benefit the Bureau and 20Something. No one turned away for lack of funds. \n20Something is the largest social events organization for young lesbian\, gay\, bisexual\, and transgender people in New York City\, aged 21 to 30. We hold a monthly social\, and two monthly icebreaker/discussion groups at the Brooklyn Pride Center and at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division\, the queer cultural center and bookstore on the second floor of The LGBT Community Center\, in Manhattan. With more than 2\,500 members\, we engage young adults across all 5 boroughs with a safe\, confidential\, and respectful platform to meet other LGBT folk. Many of our members have made long lasting friendships\, relationships\, and have been connected to important LGBT services and resources. Whether you are new to the city\, recently out\, or just looking to make friends – 20Something offers a space for you to pave the way to your own adventures in New York City – and make living here a little easier. Become a member: meetup.com/20SomethingNYC \n  \n 
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161011T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161011T213000
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SUMMARY:Union Square Slam presents Sweet Action
DESCRIPTION:  \nWhile the slammers are away at IWPS\, the quieter side of Union Square Slam is taking over! Join workshop facilitator Sara Emily Kuntz as she hosts readings by her very special workshop crew! Come workshop with us\, come read on the open mic\, we might even bring snacks! \nAll Ages // $5 // Wheelchair Accessible \n6pm: Free Writing Workshop with Sweet Action members!\n7pm: Open Mic Sign-Ups\n7:30pm: Open Mic\n8:15pm: Readings from: Emily Blair\, Mirielle Clifford\, Betsy Guttmacher\, Julie Hart\, Phoebe Lifton\, Cory Nakasue\, Amy Klein \nSweet Action Poetry Collective was founded in 2014 by Mirielle Clifford and Julie Hart. The group is based in Brooklyn\, and was originally named not for the beer\, but for a line in a poem that references the beer. Now\, to us at least\, “Sweet Action” means gathering to share our poems with each other and the public. https://sweetactionpoetry.com/ \n  \nBios \nEmily Blair’s poetry has appeared in The Boiler\, Sixth Finch\, The Mississippi Review and others. She received a New York Foundation of the Arts Fellowship in Poetry in 2014 and in Fiction in 2006\, and is the author of the illustrated chapbook Idaville (Booklyn Artists’ Alliance\, 2010). Also a visual artist\, she creates multimedia books and collaborates on community-based projects with social practice artist Michelle Illuminato. More of her work can be seen at emilyblair.com and nextquestion.org \nMirielle Clifford is originally from Texas\, but she now lives and writes in Crown Heights. She is a co‑founder of the poetry collective Sweet Action\, and she couldn’t ask for a better source of feedback and encouragement. She is working on a chapbook\, entitled I Follow Beyoncé: A Valentine. \nMarine Cornuet’s poetry has appeared in Handsy Lit\, Yellow Chair Review (forthcoming)\, and Cactus Calamité (a French poetry magazine). She works at a Brooklyn not-for-profit exhibition and performance space that she loves\, curates exhibitions\, and is the production director of the Sonic Room\, a group of music-lovers who organize concerts in unconventional places. \nBetsy Guttmacher lives in Brooklyn NY where she is currently the Director of Volunteer Programs for a local non-profit organization. She likes taking pictures of found hearts on the sidewalk (@gumloveetc) and encourages everyone to look down more. She is relatively new to reading and writing poetry and is digging it! \nOriginally from Minnesota\, Julie Hart has lived in London\, Zurich and Tokyo and now in Brooklyn Heights. Her work can be found in Five Quarterly\, Denim Skin\, PANK Magazine\, The Rumpus\, Vol. 1 Brooklyn\, Floor Plan Journal\, Blue Lyra Review\, Yellow Chair Review and at juliehartwrites.com. \nAmy Klein is a poet\, writer\, and songwriter living in Brooklyn. Her work has appeared in the Believer\, Prelude\, Asymptote\, and Podium. Her poetry has received an Academy of American Poets Prize\, an Edward Eager Award\, and two Lloyd McKim Garrison Prizes. She was a two-time fellow of the Home School for poets and artists. Fire\, her newest album of original songs\, was released in June 2016 on the punk label Don Giovanni Records. \nSara Emily Kuntz has a BA in English from the University of Pittsburgh and a MFA in Creative Writing from Carlow University. Sara is a workshop facilitator and organizer for Union Square Slam\, a weekly reading series in New York City. She has been published in the Mom Egg Review\, Rivet\, Stone Highway Review\, Cabildo Quarterly\, Rust + Moth\, and Cactus Heart. Sara lives in Brooklyn with a big grey cat named Miso\, like the soup. \nPhoebe Lifton lives in Brooklyn\, NY and studied Indigenous Rights and Creative Writing in college. She now works at the Museum of Modern Art and spends most Wednesday nights going to ‘church’ at the Poetry Project in St. Marks. She is a helpful woman. \nCory Nakasue is a dance and theatre artist. She works as a movement teacher\, therapist\, and astrological guidance counselor. She recently co-founded Gemini Hill in the Hudson Valley\, a community farm and arts incubator. Poetry is a new love that has been nurtured by the talented group at Sweet Action poetry. More: www.corynakasue.com \n  \n  \n 
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161009T180000
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SUMMARY:Sex of the Oppressed. What About Sex in Russia Under Putin.
DESCRIPTION:  \nJoin us for the NYC launch of Sex of the Oppressed and a conversation with artist and activist Nikolay Oleynikov\, author of the book. Oleynikov will be joined by Jonathan Brooks Platt (translator of the book\, author of the foreword\, Professor of Slavic Studies at Pittsburgh University) and Yevegeniy Fiks (artist\, NY). \nThis book is an experiment in introspection about sexualities\, gender and radical sensibilities in Soviet and Post-Soviet culture. It speaks to a grass-roots politics focused on the historical/hysterical conditions of the Putin era. Why has “sex never happened” in Russia\, why does it “not exist” and why will it probably never work? How is it that in contemporary late-Putinite Russia there is such incredible rage whipped up against the queer\, gay and feminist theories and practices? What brought Russia to implement outrageous proto-medieval anti-gay laws? And how for fuck’s sake is it possible that there have been only few cases in the whole history of modern Russia\, in which the questions of sexuality have reached the daylight of half-sane public debate. \nJoin us for a night with the author of the project\, Nikolay Oleynikov\, a recognized Russian left-wing activist and artist\, member of Chto Delat collective\, and originator of numerous important cultural initiatives. In SEX of the OPPRESSED\, Oleynikov busily sets about answering these questions in dialogue with his close friends. These include the philosopher and poet Keti Chukhrov; Oxana Timofeeva\, also a philosopher and a member of Chto Delat; the queer activist and scholar Grey Violet; and Kirill Medvedev\, the renowned poet\, translator\, radical socialist activist and frontman of the Arkadiy Kots band. \nSEX of the OPPRESSED is composed of four sincere dialogues in four modes: a “kitchen-table talk” with Keti Chukhrov on Soviet and post-soviet culture; a “police interrogation” with Grey Violet on queer activism\, including her [he/she/its] personal account of working with Voina and Pussy Riot; an “intimate epistolary” with Oxana Timofeeva on animals and femininity; and a “question-question session” with Kirill Medvedev on male feminism. The edition also includes three new series of graphic works by Nikolay Oleynikov. \nTranslated into English by Jonathan Brooks Platt thanks to Musagetes (Canada)\, originally published in 2013 by The Free Marxist Press\, an independent activist publishing house based in Moscow\, SEX of the OPPRESSED it’s now published by Publication Studio Guelph and available here: \nwww.publicationstudio.biz/books/330 \nTo reserve a copy of Sex of the Oppressed\, please write to contact@bgsqd.com. \n  \n 
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161008T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161008T210000
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SUMMARY:Rumi Missabu hosts: Six Twisted Views from The Left Coast
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe legendary Original Cockette Rumi Missabu returns to the Bureau from San Francisco with Donna Personna\, Trangela Lansbury\, Roxanne Redmeat\, Bruja\, Hayley Nystrom\, and HRH Lee Mentley\, joined by New York’s own Nicholas Gorham! \nPhoto credits:\nNicholas Gorham\, photograph by James Miille\nBruja\, photograph by David Wilson\nRumi Missabu\, photograph by Fletcher Oakes\nDonna Persona\, photograph by Keith Gemerek\nRoxanne Redmeat\, photograph by David Wilson\nTrangela Lansbury\, photograph by Sloane Kanter \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/rumi-missabu-hosts-six-twisted-views-from-the-left-coast/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161008T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161008T120000
DTSTAMP:20260404T061934
CREATED:20160916T163637Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160916T191032Z
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SUMMARY:Eros & Dust Erotic Writing Workshop with Trebor Healey
DESCRIPTION:  \nWhat are the challenges of writing good erotic prose and poetry? Is erotic writing a separate genre or can it be an integral part of all genres? If so\, how do we get past the trap of the subjective and build erotic voices grounded in our various characters\, setting and voice? How can using humor\, bad sex or even problematic sex lend themselves to a fuller – and yes hotter – interaction between two characters? Ultimately what is the relationship between sex and literature and how can we make it naturally fit in the flow of a good story? \nSuggested donation of $10. \nPlease bring pen and paper. \nLimited to 15 participants. \nPlease write to Trebor Healey to sign up for the workshop: treborhealey@gmail.com \n  \nTrebor Healey is the recipient of a Lambda Literary award\, two Publishing Triangle awards and a Violet Quill award. He is the author of three novels (A Horse Named Sorrow\, Faun\, and Through It Came Bright Colors) a book of poetry (Sweet Son of Pan) and a previous collection of stories (A Perfect Scar & Other Stories). He co-edited (with Marci Blackman) Beyond Definition: New Writing from Gay and Lesbian San Francisco and co-edited (with Amie M. Evans) Queer & Catholic. www.treborhealey.com. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/trebor-healey-writing-workshop/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161007T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161007T210000
DTSTAMP:20260404T061934
CREATED:20160916T162440Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160916T163812Z
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SUMMARY:Trebor Healey Reading and Q&A for new book\, Eros & Dust
DESCRIPTION:  \nA reading and q&a for Eros & Dust\, a new collection of short stories by Trebor Healey\, the author of the Ferro-Grumley Fiction Award-winning novel\, A Horse Named Sorrow. \nTo reserve a copy of Eros & Dust\, please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com. \n  \nTrebor Healey will conduct an erotic writing workshop at the Bureau on the morning of Saturday\, October 8th. Details here. \n  \n \nTrebor Healey is the recipient of a Lambda Literary award\, two Publishing Triangle awards and a Violet Quill award. He is the author of three novels (A Horse Named Sorrow\, Faun\, and Through It Came Bright Colors) a book of poetry (Sweet Son of Pan) and a previous collection of stories (A Perfect Scar & Other Stories). He co-edited (with Marci Blackman) Beyond Definition: New Writing from Gay and Lesbian San Francisco and co-edited (with Amie M. Evans) Queer & Catholic. www.treborhealey.com. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/trebor-healey-reading-and-qa-for-new-book-eros-dust/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161005T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161005T210000
DTSTAMP:20260404T061934
CREATED:20160916T160446Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160919T162910Z
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SUMMARY:Something in the Blood: The Untold Story of Bram Stoker
DESCRIPTION:  \nDavid J. Skal discusses and signs Something in the Blood: The Untold Story of Bram Stoker\, the Man Who Wrote Dracula. \nIntroduction by Christopher Bram\, author of Gods and Monsters.\nBram Stoker\, despite having a name nearly as famous as his legendary undead Count\, has remained a puzzling enigma. In a talk with Christopher Bram based on his new book— Something in the Blood: The Untold Story of Bram Stoker\, the Man Who Wrote Dracula— David J. Skal exhumes the inner world and strange genius of the writer who conjured an undying cultural icon. The psychosexual dimensions of Stoker’s passionate youthful correspondence with Walt Whitman\, his punishing work ethic\, and his slavish adoration of the actor Sir Henry Irving are examined in splendidly Gothic detail. \nFollowing his talk\, Skal will sign copies of Something in the Blood. \nTo reserve a copy of Something in the Blood\, please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com. \n  \nPhotograph by Brian J. Showers\nDavid J. Skal is a leading American cultural historian and critic of horror film and literature. The author of The Monster Show and Hollywood Gothic\, he lives in Glendale\, California. \n  \n  \n \nChristopher Bram is the author of nine novels\, including Father of Frankenstein\, which was made into the Academy Award–winning movie Gods and Monsters\, starring Ian McKellen. Bram was a Guggenheim Fellow in 2001\, and in 2003\, he received Publishing Triangle’s Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement. He lives in Greenwich Village and teaches at New York University. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/something-in-the-blood/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161004T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161004T213000
DTSTAMP:20260404T061934
CREATED:20160919T155943Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160919T161326Z
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SUMMARY:Union Square Slam presents Black Nerd Problems and the Nerd Slam
DESCRIPTION:  \nWhat better way to kick off NYC’s ComiCon week with a Nerd Slam!! \nBlack Nerd Problems brings us a double feature from Will Evans and Lauren Bullock\, hosted by Omar Holmon. Bring your nerdiest to the open mic\, but be prepared to NERD OFF for the chance to read your poem!! \nAll Ages // $5 // Wheelchair Accessible \n6pm: Free Writing Workshop\n7pm: Sign-Ups\n7:30pm: Black Nerd Problems and the Nerd Slam \nAbout our Features: \nLauren Bullock is a writer\, performer\, and reincarnated sailor senshi. She enjoys long walks in the woods and fighting crime as a costumed vigilante of many aliases. @LBullockPoetry \nWilliam Evans is the third of his name\, Warden of the Midwest and Protector of the Realm. A scribe in many forms. An Ohio native by way of Wakanda. He married the real life Storm and apologizes to you all for the frequent thunderstorms. @willevanswrites \nAbout Black Nerd Problems: \nhttps://blacknerdproblems.com/\nblacknerdproblems@gmail.com *\n@blknrdproblems *\nfacebook.com/blacknerdproblems * instagram.com/blacknerdproblems * \nOmar Holmon and William Evans met in the summer of 2007 in a city neither one of them is from surrounded by people neither of them knew very well. None of that is really important though. They’ve been friends and some years later\, they decided to co-found an editorial and informative website that focused on popular\, nerd and geek culture from the perspective of People of Color. On May 15th\, 2014\, this website was launched and it has only picked up steam ever since. \nWe have a great team of writers and personalities. We have a lot of fun on this site because there is no pretense or ceiling on how we express our nerd-dom and if you enjoy it half as much as we do\, we’ll be doing this dance for a long time. \nCome on in. Get comfortable. There’s always something new to digest. Stay a while. We’re glad you’re here. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/union-square-slam-black-nerd-problems/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161001T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161001T210000
DTSTAMP:20260404T061934
CREATED:20160918T195523Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161006T183730Z
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SUMMARY:Coney Island Babies: Visual Artists from The Brooklyn Drag Scene
DESCRIPTION:  \nTaking its title from a song by Lou Reed dedicated to his trans lover Rachel\, Coney Island Babies\, curated by Chris Bogia and Montgomery Smith for Fire Island Artist Residency\, brings together a group of visual artists working in and around Brooklyn’s flourishing young avant-garde drag scene. The artists here all do double duty as drag queens\, musicians or designers\, and the line between “artistic studio practice” and drag is blurred by their social practices and performance work. From their studios to the Bushwig mainstage\, these artists are creating culture and community that is unapologetically rebellious\, ferociously beautiful and superbly queer. \n  \nConey Island Babies\, presented by Fire Island Artist Residency at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division\, features a group of emerging artists working in a multitude of media including fashion\, photography\, video\, sculpture\, drawing\, design and performance. Many of the artists incorporate their work from the studio in drag performances\, and the exhibition will reflect this by including ephemera and recordings from drag performances alongside formal studio works. Free public programming will include live performances and conversations about the current Brooklyn drag scene\, its legendary influences\, and its evolving future. \n  \nThe exhibition will include works by: Fred Attenborough/Sophi Skin-Tight\, Tyler Ashley\, Brad Callahan\, Luc Craig/Lucy Balls\, Harry James Hanson/Amber Alert\, Hystée Lauder\, Chris of Hur\, Matthew de Leon/Untitled Queen\, Raul de Nieves\, Donald C Shorter\, Sisters in the Attic/Anthony Argentina and Glossy Bohemond\, Montgomery Perry Smith/Patti Spliff\, Sasha Steinberg/Sasha Velour\, Vincent Tiley/Jon Benet Glamsey\, Victor-John Villanueva/Victor Pump. \n  \nConey Island Babies will remain on view at the Bureau from October 1 through November 27\, 2016.\n \n  \nAbout Fire Island Artist Residency: \nFire Island Artist Residency (FIAR) is an organization founded in 2011 which brings gay\, bisexual\, transgender and queer identifying artists to Fire Island\, a place long-steeped in LGBTQ history\, to create\, commune\, and contribute to the location’s rich legacy \n  \nImage: Fred Attenborough\, Babes\, 2010\, Impossible Polaroid (taken at CLUMP at Trophy Bar) \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/coney-island-babies-visual-artists-from-the-brooklyn-drag-scene/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160930T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160930T213000
DTSTAMP:20260404T061934
CREATED:20160913T211835Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160915T135146Z
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SUMMARY:Private Dick: An Aurally Stimulating Evening
DESCRIPTION:Chris Harder and Harder Candy Inc. are excited to uncover for YOU: PRIVATE DICK\, queerly mysterious readings from gay and lesbian pulp fiction-with an added dash of the Hardy’s Boys and Nancy Drew too! \n“Agents who weren’t like agents\, homosexuals who weren’t like homosexuals — things were getting awfully mixed up.”* \n“Frank noticed a suspicious bulge at the back of the man’s baggy trousers.”** \nDrawing from a variety of authors and work\, Harder\, alongside Burlesque performer Nasty Canasta (Wasabassco Burlesque) and writer Issac Oliver (Intimacy Idiot) present an “aurally fixating” evening that juxtaposes the idealic and hard-boiled American detective with his (and her) even harder homosexual counterparts! Complete with Burlesque performances from Harder and Nasty and raffle prizes from Gun Oil Lube\, The Pleasure Chest\, and Harder Candy Inc.! \n*From\, “The Man From C.A.M.P.” by Victor J. Banis \n**From\, “The Hardy Boys: While the Clock Ticked!” By Franklin W. Dixon \nPrivate DICK at The Bureau\nThe Sleuthing and Stripping STARTS at 8pm!\n$10 Suggested Donation \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/private-dick-an-aurally-stimulating-evening/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160929T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160929T213000
DTSTAMP:20260404T061934
CREATED:20160831T224046Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160902T131014Z
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SUMMARY:Two Natures Novel Launch & Poetry Reading
DESCRIPTION:  \nAn evening of gay literature with two award-winning authors. \nJendi Reiter kicks off her book tour for her debut novel\, Two Natures (Saddle Road Press)\, the spiritual coming-of-age story of a New York City fashion photographer during the 1990s AIDS crisis. Midwest Book Review calls it “a powerful saga” with “intense revelations about what it means to be both Christian and gay”. \n  \nCharlie Bondhus will read from the revised (and remixed!) edition of his first book\, How the Boy Might See It (reissued last year by Jane’s Boy Press)\, plus new work. His most recent book\, All the Heat We Could Carry–voiced by a veteran of the Afghanistan war and his homefront lover–won the 2014 Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry. Carolyn Forché calls it “a rare\, brilliant and necessary book”. \nJoin the conversation. Like The Good Men Project on Facebook. \n  \n \nJendi Reiter is the author of the novel Two Natures (Saddle Road Press\, forthcoming 2016) and four poetry books and chapbooks\, most recently Bullies in Love (Little Red Tree Publishing\, 2015). Her stories have appeared in The Iowa Review\, American Fiction\, The Adirondack Review\, Bayou Magazine\, and Literal Latte. Writing awards include a Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist’s Fellowship. She is the editor of WinningWriters.com\, an online resource site for creative writers. Visit her blog at www.jendireiter.com and follow her on Twitter @JendiReiter . \n  \nHeadshot by Alan Barnett\nCharlie Bondhus‘s second poetry book\, All the Heat We Could Carry\, won the 2013 Main Street Rag Award and the 2014 Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry. His work appears in Poetry\, The Missouri Review\, Columbia Journal\, The Bellevue Literary Review\, Nimrod\, Copper Nickel\, and others. He is assistant professor of English at Raritan Valley Community College (NJ) and is the poetry editor at The Good Men Project (goodmenproject.com). \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/two-natures-novel-launch-poetry-reading/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160927T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160927T213000
DTSTAMP:20260404T061934
CREATED:20160912T161223Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160912T161223Z
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SUMMARY:Union Square Slam presents JIDAH
DESCRIPTION:  \n*Mark your calendars: the last Tuesday of every month will feature a local musical performer.* \nThis week\, we have the lovely and effervescent JIDAH! Come through for cool vibes and fire tunes. \nAbout our Show: \n6:00pm: Free Workshop with I.S. Jones\n7:30pm: Sign-ups and Socialize\n8:00pm: Open Mic (Music + Poetry Are Welcomed Here!)\n8:45pm: JIDAH \nAll Ages // Wheelchair Accessible\nOpen Mic // $5\nAbout our Feature: \nJIDAH\, formerly “BurgundyBleu\,” is a vibrant NYC Singer/Guitarist known for her jazzy hip-hop based tunes and colorful lyricism. \nFor JIDAH’s music\, visit her at https://soundcloud.com/justjidah \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/union-square-slam-presents-jidah/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160925T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160925T200000
DTSTAMP:20260404T061934
CREATED:20160916T151210Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160918T202759Z
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SUMMARY:Are Queers Ageist?
DESCRIPTION:  \nAward winning artist Scottee thinks there’s a problem with ageism within the queer community. Our elders are often invisible\, the older generation think the young queens know nothing about their history and the youngsters think 40 is old.\n  \nScottee is hosting a dinner party discussion without the food and you’re invited. Around the table will sit some old queers and some young queers to share their ideas\, explore where the problem is and ask the burning question – are queers ageist?\n  \nThis discussion is part of the development of a new theatre piece Scottee is creating titled Queen\, supported by AFO theatre. \n  \nscottee.co.uk\n@scotteeisfat\n\n\n \n* Presented in association with Queer New York International\nwww.queerny.org \n  \n\n\n\n\nScottee is an artist from London\, his work is often about outsiderness; race\, sexuality\, class\, age and gender. He creates spaces where the perceived underdog is celebrated\, at the forefront and no longer ignorable. \nHis work has been performed for audiences across the globe; Australia\, Asia\, Europe and America. In London his projects have been presented at some of the worlds leading spaces; Barbican\, Royal Opera House\, Tate Britain\, Roundhouse\, ICA and Southbank Centre but he prefers to make work in dodgy gay bars\, public toilets\, bedrooms\, disused tanning shops and forgotten community centres. \nIn 2010 Scottee won the title of Time Out Performer of the Year\, his debut solo tour \nThe Worst of Scottee won Total Theatre Award for Innovation in 2013 and in 2015 Scottee was included on Independent’s Rainbow List as one of Britain’s most influential LGBTQI+ people. He is currently an associate artist at the Roundhouse and with performance company Duckie. \nScottee is a co-host on BBC Radio 4’s Loose Ends; in 2015 his debut radio documentary My Big Fat Documentary was made BBC Radio 4’s Documentary of the Week. He also writes a weekly column for Vice’s i-D channel. \nScottee is not easily definable; artist\, troublemaker\, loudmouth\, showoff and attention seeker. His work is live\, brash\, clumsy and will often leave you covered in confetti. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/are-queers-ageist/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160924T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160924T210000
DTSTAMP:20260404T061934
CREATED:20160828T191027Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160828T191030Z
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SUMMARY:Book launch for Candyass by Nick Comilla
DESCRIPTION:  \nArsenal Pulp Press and the Bureau present the book launch of CANDYASS\, the debut book by Brooklyn’s Nick Comilla: a coming of age novel about what it means to be young and queer today: “So young\, so contemporary\, so thoughtful and skillful in dissecting the exquisite corpse of gay life today.” —Edmund White; “A queer Casanova travelogue for the modern age that’s both bold and bittersweet.” —Slava Mogutin. \nFeaturing special guest Tommy “Teebs” Pico. \n  \nNick Comilla is a graduate of the Creative Writing program at Concordia University in Montreal\, and completed his MFA in poetry and fiction at The New School in New York. His work has appeared in Lambda Literary\, Poetry Is Dead\, Assaracus\, and elsewhere. Candyass is his first book. He lives in Brooklyn. \n  \nTommy “Teebs” Pico is author of IRL (Birds\, LLC\, 2016)\, Nature Poem (forthcoming 2017 from Tin House Books)\, and the zine series Hey\, Teebs. He was a Queer/Art/Mentors inaugural fellow\, 2013 Lambda Literary fellow in poetry\, 2016 Tin House summer poetry scholar\, and has poems in BOMB\, Guernica\, and the Offing. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/nick-comilla/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160923T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160923T213000
DTSTAMP:20260404T061934
CREATED:20160915T192650Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160915T192743Z
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SUMMARY:Bi Visibility Day Open Mic!
DESCRIPTION:  \nBi Writers & Poets\, Musicians & Singers\, Artists & Photographers\, & Comedians: express yourself & be visible! Everyone else is invited to listen in. Bring friends. Themes are bi visibility and celebrating bisexuality\, so be your fierce bi self! Sign up sheet to perform at the door: first come\, first serve. Everyone has 5 minutes. Host Sheela Lambert is director of the Bisexual Book Awards and the Bi Writers Association\, the event sponsors. She is the editor of Best Bi Short Stories\, the only book of bisexual short stories in the world. Best Bi Short Stories got the triple whammy: shortlisted by the Lammys\, Rainbow Book Awards and Bisexual Book Awards. She also runs the Bi Book Club which meets monthly at the Bureau. \nEquipment: If you need anything besides a mic\, contact Sheela at the Bi Writers Assoc. as soon as possible and let me know what equipment you need and why. \nRSVP: Bi Meetup Performers can post a comment about what they’ll perform on Bi Meetup too. \nNote: Our definition of bi or bi+ includes bisexual\, pansexual\, fluid and many other identity words that imply emotional and/or sexual attraction to more than one gender. Questions? Write us. \n@BiBookAwards https://www.facebook.com/biwriters \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/bi-visibility-day-open-mic-16/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160922T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160922T213000
DTSTAMP:20260404T061934
CREATED:20160831T222216Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160905T174554Z
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SUMMARY:TELL 27: PEACE/EQUINOX
DESCRIPTION:  \nTELL is an evening of story telling from the mouths and minds of queers in NYC hosted by Drae Campbell at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division since February 2014. \nPeace/Equinox is the theme of the twenty-seventh installment of TELL. Featuring Miss Crimson Kitty\, Laila\, Ronnie Mae Painter\, and Gabe Scelta. \n  \n$10 suggested donation – no one turned away for lack of funds \n  \n \nDrae Campbell is a writer\, actor\, director\, story teller\, dancer\, and nightlife emcee. Drae has been featured on Late Night with Conan O’Brien and on stages all over NYC. Drae’s directing work has appeared in Iceland\, NYC\, Budapest and in the San Francisco Fringe Festival. The short film Drae wrote and starred in with Rebecca Drysdale\, YOU MOVE ME won the Audience Award for Outstanding Narrative Short at OUTFEST 2010 and has been shown in festivals globally. Drae won the grand prize at the first annual San Miguel De Allende Storytelling Festival in Mexico. She once reigned as Miss LEZ and also got dubbed “the next lezzie comedian on the block” by AfterEllen.com for her comedic stylings on the interwebs. Campbell hosts and curates a monthly queer storytelling show called TELL at BGSQD. Check her out online!  www.draecampbell.com. \n  \n  \nPhoto by David Ayllon\nCalled the female-on-female drag pioneer by Time Out New York\, Miss Crimson Kitty is taking drag culture by storm one perfected lip-synch at a time! The drag daughter of Rebecca Glasscock of Rupaul’s Drag Race The Lost Season\, she has created a haven for other queens at LADYQUEEN which is NYC’s only all female drag revue and created an education revolution by creating LadyQueen University; A 6 week workshop designed to turn any Lady into a LadyQueen! \nCrimson has been featured in the press such as the Huffington Post\, Oyxgen\, Time Out\, and Next Magazine for her gender illusionist skills and is known both nationally and internationally as one of the top reigning queens in her field. As a title holder for Dragnet and nominated for many nightlife awards\, she is representing a realm of drag much overlooked in the community and aims to change the perception of drag solely based on gender. \nPhoto by David Ayllon \n  \n  \n \nLaila is an Arab-American Chef de Cuisine. When not experiencing commuter rage\, this queer Brooklynite can be found across NYC in someones kitchen whipping up deliciousness. Laila believes we are humans first and has a strong passion for social justice and feminism. She adores long and low dogs such as Dachshunds and Corgis and is an avid list maker. \n  \n  \n \nA native New Yorker born and raised in Astoria\, Queens\, Ronnie Mae Painter is a Brooklyn-based artist who’s primary media are painting on canvas and works on paper. She is also a published author and poet. Her literary works can be found in the anthology “Are Italians White”\, edited by Jennifer Guglielmo and Salvatore Salerno. Painter’s experiences growing up as a woman of African-American and Italian-American biracial descent during the 1970s are transcended through both her visual and literary works in energetic movements and a shouting tone. \n  \n  \n \nGabe Scelta is a painter\, writer\, and woodworker. He grew up in Williamsburg\, moved everywhere else\, and now lives just across the bridge in the Lower East Side. You can find more of his work at www.gabescelta.com \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/tell-27-peace/
LOCATION:Online event\, New York\, NY\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160921T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160921T210000
DTSTAMP:20260404T061934
CREATED:20160908T203731Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160912T160025Z
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SUMMARY:Queer Poetry Powerhouse: Jasmine Gibson\, NM Esc\, Andrea AK\, Che Gosset\, Melissa Buzzeo
DESCRIPTION: \nQueer poetry extravaganza with Jasmine Gibson\, Andrea Abi-Karam\, NM Esc\, Che Gosset & Melissa Buzzeo slinging feelings & slaying language.\n \nChe Gossett is Black trans femme writer and para academic theory queen. They are the recipient of the 2014 Gloria E. Anzaldúa Award from the American Studies Association and the 2014 Sylvia Rivera Award in Transgender Studies from the Center for Gay and Lesbian Studies at the City University of New York. They have published work on blackness and animality on the Verso Press blog and have also contributed to Queer Necropolitics\, The Trans Studies Reader Volume II\, Captive Genders and forthcoming anthologies.\n \nMelissa Buzzeo‘s fourth book The Devastation published by Nightboat Books was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award in Poetry in 2016. She teaches feminism\, the poetics of healing and poetry and sexuality at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. Currently she is working on a memoir called Writing.\n \nAndrea Abi-Karam is a mixed race genderqueer punk poet writing on the art of killing bros\, the intricacies of cyborg bodies\, trauma & delayed healing. They recently completed the manuscript EXTRATRANSMISSION a book length piece against how patriarchy and US militarism produce the hypergendered subject. Andrea is both a writer\, printer\, & publisher whose founding small press project Mess Editions seeks to publish emerging writing from queers\, people of color\, and those involved in social movements yet uninvolved in poetry & art scenes.\n \nNM Esc is a first-generation New York-grown brain-in-a-jar\, floating in viscous queer soup. They write about how displacement shapes identity\, dissociation and hyper-embodiment\, cyborgs and ghosts\, intimacy and technology. Between Ghosts\, their latest chapbook and fourth project in their Reno Dakota series\, co-written with SJ Lee\, is available through Mess Editions. They recently completed a residency at Villa Magdalena K where they’ve been working on a project about wolf semiotics. In their day-to-day they’re a collective member at all-ages art space The Silent Barn where they organize events and cohost a monthly reading series called TFW.\n \nJasmine Gibson is a Philly jawn now living in Brooklyn and soon to be psychotherapist for all your gooey psychotic episodes that match the bipolar flows of capital. She spends her time thinking about sexy things like psychosis\, desire and freedom. She has written for Mask Magazine and LIES Vol II: Journal of Materialist feminism and has now published a chapbook\, Drapetomania\, off of Commune Editions. \n \n \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/queer-poetry-powerhouse/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160920T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160920T213000
DTSTAMP:20260404T061934
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SUMMARY:Union Square Slam presents Alain Ginsberg and NPS Qualifier 1.6
DESCRIPTION:  \nUnion Square Slam is super psyched to feature Alain Ginsberg and host our first of six qualifying slams for our 2017 National Poetry Slam Team\, headed to Denver\, CO next August!! \n6pm: Free Poetry Workshop with IS Jones\n7pm: Slam Sign-ups and Socialize\n8pm: Slam (Round One)\n(intermission)\nFeatured Poet: Alain Ginsberg\nSlam (Rounds Two and Three) \n$5 // All Ages // Wheelchair Accessible \nAbout our Feature: \nAlain Ginsberg is an agender writer and performer from Baltimore City\, MD whose work focuses primarily on narratives of gender identity\, exploration\, and performance\, sexuality\, and mental illness and trauma. Their work has been featured or is forthcoming from Public Pool\, Black Heart Magazine\, Shabby Doll House\, Voicemail Poems\, Rising Phoenix Press\, Drunk In A Midnight Choir\, Crab Fat Magazine\, and elsewhere. Alain has competed in the Individual World Poetry Slam (2014)\, Capturing Fire (2014\, finals stage ’15 & ’16)\, Word War VII\, Rouge Roulette Poetry Slam\, 2015 Louder Than A Bomb (College Stage\, 2nd place)\, as well as Baltimore’s slam scene Speak Out: Slammageddon and DC’s Beltway Poetry Slam. Outside of competitive poetry Alain has also been hired by Wesleyan University\, Rowan University\, the Maryland Institute College of Art\, and the Women of The World Poetry Slam to run writing workshops. \nAbout our Slam:\n::Union Square Slam National Team Competition:: \nThere are six opportunities to compete for the Union Square Slam National Team. The top two winners of each Open Slam have secured their spot in Finals. \nEach open slam will : \n– consist of up to 8 poet competitors \n– have a 3 min time limit for each round with a 10-second grace period \n– go from 8 in the first round to 5 in the second round and 3 in the third round (this is subject to change depending on the number of competitors that night — see below) \n– be scored cumulatively — the winner of the night will have the highest cumulative score from all three rounds. \nUnion Square Slam Nationals Qualifiers (Open Slams) are on the following dates: \nSeptember 20th\nOctober 18th\nNovember 15th\nJanuary 17th\nFebruary 21st\nMarch 21st \nUnion Square Slam National Team Selection Finals will be held on April 18th. \nThe National Poetry Slam will be held in Denver\, CO August 7-12th\, 2017. All proceeds and donations to Union Square Slam go directly to funding travel\, lodging and registration fees for representatives of Union Square Slam at national events. \nIn order to represent Union Square Slam at any National Competition\, you must meet the following requirements: \nBe 18 years old or older \nBe an active member of PSI at the time of competition (register at www.poetryslam.com you cover your annual registration fee of $20 — questions? Talk to Cecily or the current slam manager) \nRead\, sign\, and adhere to the PSI Code of Conduct \nParticipate in at least one Specialty Slam during the 2016-7 season. Specialty Slams include WOWPS qualifiers\, Nerd Slams\, Petty Slams\, Iron Poet Slams\, etc. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/uss-9-20/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160920T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160920T170000
DTSTAMP:20260404T061934
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SUMMARY:VideoOut Story Collection Day
DESCRIPTION:  \nJoin us at the Bureau on September 20th for a Story Collection Day event. The Bureau is partnering with VideoOut\, a new LGBTQ organization that’s building the largest library of coming out stories ever curated. Add your voice\, and help us collect 500 stories before October 11\, National Coming Out Day. \nTo reserve a spot\, check out the website here: https://www.videoout.org/yourstory/ \n  \nVideoOut‘s mission is to share coming out stories with the world and support the LGBTQ community. In short\, we’re a platform where you can share your story your way. VideoOut will exist in at least three phases: collect and share videos\, learn and grow the VideoOut community\, support and deeply engage LGBTQ people. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/videoout-story-collection-day/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160917T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160917T150000
DTSTAMP:20260404T061934
CREATED:20160905T173219Z
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SUMMARY:Queer Conflicts at the Brooklyn Book Festival
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe Bureau of General Services—Queer Division and The Forum @ St. Ann’s present: \nQueer Conflicts \nAs courtroom battles turn into media frenzies and political wrangling\, how are present conflicts redefining attitudes toward the queer experience in America? What conflicts are missing from dominant historical narratives about marriage\, national security\, social media\, and policing of bathrooms\, among others? The panel brings together activists\, writers\, and historians to discuss the changing political and social landscape of conflict in the LGBT community. Panelists include: Alexis De Veaux\, James Downs\, Sarah Schulman\, Mecca Jamilah Sullivan\, Timothy Stewart-Winter; with moderator Hrag Vartanian. \n  \nSaturday\, September 17\, at 1:30 pm \nSt. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church\, 157 Montague Street\, Brooklyn\, New York 11201 \nFree! \nQueer Conflicts is a Brooklyn Book Festival Bookend Event \n \n  \nPlease note: The Bureau will be selling books by the participating panelists at this event. To reserve a copy of any book\, please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com. \n  \n \nCo-Founder of The Center for Poetic Healing\, a project of Lyrical Democracies (lyricaldemocracies.com) with Kathy Engel\, and of the Flamboyant Ladies Theatre Company (with Gwendolen Hardwick)\, ALEXIS DE VEAUX\, Ph. D.\, is an activist and writer whose work in multiple genres is nationally and internationally known. Born and raised in Harlem\, New York City\, Ms. De Veaux is published in five languages-English\, Spanish\, Dutch\, Japanese and Serbo-Croatian. Her work has appeared in numerous anthologies and publications\, and she is the author of Spirits In The Street (1973); an award-winning children’s book\, Na-ni (1973); Don’t Explain\, A Song of Billie Holiday (1980); Blue Heat: A Portfolio of Poems and Drawings (1985); Spirit Talk (1997); An Enchanted Hair Tale (1987)\, a recipient of the 1988 Coretta Scott King Award presented by the American Library Association and the 1991 Lorraine Hansberry Award for Excellence in Children’s Literature. Ms. De Veaux’s plays include Circles\, (1972); The Tapestry (1975); A Season to Unravel (1979); NO (1980); and Elbow Rooms (1986). \nShe also authored Warrior Poet\, A Biography of Audre Lorde (2004). The first biography of the pioneering lesbian poet\, Warrior Poet has won several prestigious awards including the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation Legacy Award\, Nonfiction (2005)\, the Gustavus Meyers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights Outstanding Book Award (2004)\, and the Lambda Literary Foundation Award for Biography (2004). In other media\, Ms. De Veaux’s work appears on several recordings\, including the highly-acclaimed album\, Sisterfire (Olivia Records\, 1985). As an artist and lecturer she has traveled extensively throughout the United States\, the Caribbean\, Africa\, Japan and Europe; and is recognized for her on-going contributions to a number of community-based organizations. She was named “Best Literary Artist” for 2005 by Buffalo’s premier cultural newspaper\, ARTVOICE. In 2007 she was awarded a “Literary Legacy Award” from Just Buffalo Literary Center for her lifetime commitment to literature and literary advocacy. \nMs. De Veaux was a member of the faculty of the University at Buffalo\, Buffalo\, NY\, 1992-2013; teaching\, most recently\, as an associate professor of women’s and gender studies in the Department of Transnational Studies.  Recently back in New York City\, she completed a novella\, Yabo\, published by Redbone Press (2014) and winner of the 2015 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction.  At present she is a member of the U.S. delegation of the “Feminists\, Artists\, Activists\, and Academics: Crossing Black Geographies” dialogues\, co-sponsored by NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study and the Inkanyiso Collective (South Africa). \nFurther information is available on her author website\, alexisdeveaux.com. Follow Ms. De Veaux on Twitter: @AlexisDeVeaux \n  \n  \n \nJim Downs is an Associate Professor of History at Connecticut College where he is also the Interim Director of The American Studies Program. He was recently an Andrew W. Mellon New Directions Fellow at Harvard University\, where he gained training in medical anthropology. While at Harvard\, Downs was also a fellow at The Weatherhead Initiative on Global History. Jim recently published Stand By Me: The Forgotten History of Gay Liberation (Basic Books\, 2016)\, which explains how the outbreak of HIV in the early 1980s caused many historians\, journalists and others to portray the 1970s as a period of unfettered sex in order to explain the outbreak of HIV in the 1980s. Stand by Me corrects this misinterpretation by uncovering forgotten episodes from the decade. He had published articles in New York Times\, New York Daily News\, Vice\, New Republic\, Chronicle of Higher Education\, among others. \n  \n  \n \nSarah Schulman is the author of CONFLICT IS NOT ABUSE: Overstating Harm\, Community Responsibility\, and the Duty of Repair (forthcoming in October) Her most recent novel is The Cosmopolitans\, set in Greenwich Village in 1958. \nPlease note that copies of Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm\, Community Responsibility\, and the Duty of Repair (Arsenal Pulp Press) will be available for purchase at this event. To reserve a copy\, please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com. \n  \n \nMecca Jamilah Sullivan\, Ph.D.\, is the author of the short story collection\, Blue Talk and Love (2015)\, a finalist for the 2016 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction and the 2016 Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction. Her writing has appeared in Best New Writing\, GLQ\, Palimpsest\, American Fiction\, Prairie Schooner\, Callaloo\, The Scholar and Feminist\, Crab Orchard Review\, Robert Olen Butler Fiction Prize Stories\, BLOOM\, TriQuarterly\, Feminist Studies\, Baobab: South African Journal of New Writing and many others. A 2016 Pushcart Prize nominee\, she is the winner of the Charles Johnson Fiction Award\, the Glenna Luschei Fiction Award\, the James Baldwin Memorial Playwriting Award\, and support from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the Social Sciences Research Council\, the Mellon Foundation\, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference\, Yaddo\, the Hedgebrook Writers’ Retreat\, and the Center for Fiction in New York City. Mecca is Assistant Professor of Women\, Gender\, Sexuality Studies at UMass Amherst\, and is currently an American Academy of University Women Fellow and Postdoctoral Fellow in Black Feminisms at Duke University\, where she is completing a book manuscript on difference and poetic form in contemporary women’s literature of the African Diaspora. \n  \n  \n \nHrag Vartanian is editor-in-chief and co-founder of Hyperallergic\, a publication he founded in 2009 as a “forum for serious\, playful and radical thinking”.  He has curated projects\, exhibitions\, and has organized public events. Highlights of his curatorial efforts include exhibitions at BAM\, Storefront Gallery in Brooklyn\, NY\, and #theSocialGraphat Outpost\, the world’s first multi-disciplinary exhibition of social media-related art in 2010. He has visited many universities and colleges as a visiting critic including RISD\, Brooklyn College\, UC Davis\, Pratt\, Columbia and UNLV\, as well as moderated panel discussions and juried exhibitions for various organizations\, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art\, the Brooklyn Museum\, and Chautauqua Institution. He writes and lectures about contemporary art\, performance\, multiculturalism\, politics\, the internet\, literature\, and visual culture. His curatorial interests are focused on theories and practices of decolonization and he prefers to work in unorthodox spaces. Hrag has contributed to numerous online and print publications including the Art:21 news Boldtype\, The Brooklyn Rail\, Huffington Post\, AGBU News Magazine\, Ararat Magazine\, and NYFA Current. He has guest contributed to Al Jazeera\, NPR\, ABC\, and WNYC. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160916T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160916T210000
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SUMMARY:Reading with Steven Gaines
DESCRIPTION:  \nJoin us for a reading with Steven Gaines\, followed by an open mic Q&A. \n  \n \nSteven Gaines is the author of One of These Things First. \nOne of These Things First is a wry and poignant reminiscence of a 15 year old gay Jewish boy in Brooklyn in the early sixties\, and his unexpected trajectory from a life behind a rack of dresses in his grandmother’s bra and girdle store\, to Manhattan’s fabled Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic\, a fashionable Charenton for wealthy neurotics and Ivy League alcoholics. \n  \nTo reserve a copy of One of These Things First\, please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com.  \n  \n 
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160915T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160915T213000
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SUMMARY:City of Wounded Boys & Sexual Warriors A Slide Lecture by Photographer Mark I. Chester
DESCRIPTION:  \nMark I. Chester is a San Francisco gay radical sex photographer who has documented his life in San Francisco’s gay sexual underground since the late 1970s. In a wide-ranging and visually explosive slide show presentation\, Mark photographically traces his own personal and sexual evolution\, which at the same time documents the men\, women and community with whom he shared these politically\, socially and sexually tumultuous years. Mark will have copies of his self-published photographic monograph\, City of Wounded Boys & Sexual Warriors – a dark explicit diary from San Francisco’s gay sexual underground\, 1977-2015\, for sale. It has been almost 20 years since Mark last gave lectures on his photographic work in New York City. \nDoors open at 7pm and presentation starts at 7:30pm. \nThis is a ticketed event. Tickets are $10 per seat. \nA total of 5 pay-what-you-wish tickets are available to the first 5 customers who claim them. If you select this ticket type you will have the option to make a donation to the Bureau\, but this is not required. \nPurchase tickets \nIf tickets remain available on the night of the event they can be purchased at the door. \n  \nMark I. Chester is a San Francisco gay radical sex photographer who has used the photographic image to record\, document and comment on his own life and the life of his community for nearly 4 decades. His work is politically provocative\, socially aware and artistically taboo. His fine art photographs have been seen in shows in San Francisco\, nationally and internationally. His photographs of Robert Chesley with ks lesions can now be seen in the traveling groundbreaking exhibition\, Art AIDS America\, which is on view at the Bronx Museum of the Arts from July 13 to October 23\, 2016. \nIn addition to exhibiting his own work\, Mark has shown the work of other gay\, radical and sexually underground artists in his guerilla gallery. Mark has also hosted a drawing group for gay men in his studio for the last 29 years. \nCity of Wounded Boys & Sexual Warriors is a 132 page hard cover book with 89 images in both black and white and color. A self-published book produced digital on demand to avoid censorship\, will be sold for the special price of $125 at the event (normally $150). The book may be purchased in advance with a pre-order sale for $115\, with $5 from each sale going to the Bureau of General Services – Queer Division. \nMore examples of Mark’s work can be found at:\nhttps://markichester.com\nfacebook.com/sfphotou\ninstagram.com/sfphotou\n\n\n\n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/city-of-wounded-boys/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160914T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160914T213000
DTSTAMP:20260404T061934
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SUMMARY:20Something Monthly Manhattan Meetup
DESCRIPTION:  \nIf you are new to the city\, recently out\, just looking for friends\, or whatever experiences brought you to us – we offer a safe space where we can mingle and talk about our experiences as an LGBT person in New York City. We recommend this 20Something Meetup to anyone who is looking for a more casual space to explore their sexual/gender identity. There will be light refreshments. Bring friends! \nSuggested donation of $5 to benefit the Bureau and 20Something. No one turned away for lack of funds. \n20Something is the largest social events organization for young lesbian\, gay\, bisexual\, and transgender people in New York City\, aged 21 to 30. We hold a monthly social\, and two monthly icebreaker/discussion groups at the Brooklyn Pride Center and at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division\, the queer cultural center and bookstore on the second floor of The LGBT Community Center\, in Manhattan. With more than 2\,500 members\, we engage young adults across all 5 boroughs with a safe\, confidential\, and respectful platform to meet other LGBT folk. Many of our members have made long lasting friendships\, relationships\, and have been connected to important LGBT services and resources. Whether you are new to the city\, recently out\, or just looking to make friends – 20Something offers a space for you to pave the way to your own adventures in New York City – and make living here a little easier. Become a member: meetup.com/20SomethingNYC \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/20something-monthly-manhattan-meetup-2/
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