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SUMMARY:Radical Queer Reading Group: Abolitionist Intimacies
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we read radical leftist texts with a focus on queer liberation\, anti-capitalism\, and anti-colonialism. For September 9th\, we’re reading Abolitionist Intimacies by Eithne Luibheid.\n—\nWe’ll meet on Wednesday\, September 9th\, at The Bureau\, in room 210 of The LGBT Community Center in the West Village\, 7-8 PM.\n—\nCopies of Abolitionist Intimacies are available to purchase at the Bureau. Purchase the book before July 12th and receive 15% off. Just mention the Radical Queer Reading Group when you check out.\n—\nThank you for supporting The Bureau by purchasing books from us!
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/radical-queer-reading-group-abolitionist-intimacies/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:Summer Sweat Series: Queer Erotica Writing Workshop
DESCRIPTION:BGSQD and Hive Mind Books invite writers of all levels and backgrounds to join author Christian Pan in a Queer Erotica Writing Workshop! \nRSVP TO THIS EVENT \n\n\n\n\nDo you have fantasies\, desires\, an over-active imagination? Have you ever wanted to put some of that into a short story? Do you like reading erotica\, and ever thought\, “Yeah\, I could do that!” Do you feel like your particular kind of YUM is not showing up in the LGBTQIA+ lit out there? \nThen grab pen & paper (or a laptop)\, come to the Bureau\, and let´s sweat it out onto the page. \nOver the course of 5 in-person sessions\, this workshop will provide prompts\, tools\, readings\, and discussion of how each of us can bring your erotic story to life. We´ll talk character\, dialogue\, place\, and ways to activate the senses. We´ll read excerpts from other people´s work\, and welcome you to submit excerpts to be workshopped by the class. We will try to get you as close as possible to finishing a draft of that story by the end of the workshop. Participants will also be invited to read an excerpt from their work to invited guests at the Bureau at the end. \nSound like fun? Cost is only $15 per session\, or $50 for all 5 if you pay in advance. This fee will go to support the bookstore as well as to pay Christian for his time. \nClass size is capped at 15. \n*** \nChristian Pan is the author of over 20 books of erotic fiction which often center bisexual characters\, identity\, and experience. His writing has been published by Cleis Press\, Incision Press\, Folly\, Rebel Satori Press\, the Indie Authors Collective\, and the Erotica Consortium; he´s co-authored numerous titles with Jenna Citrus and Olivia Lawless; and his books have received recognition from the Passionate Plume Awards\, the Golden Pigtails\, and The International Impact Book Awards. He is the editor and publisher of The Best Bi Erotica of the Year anthology series\, whose 3rd volume will appear on Bi Visibility Day this September 2026; was Patreon’s A Club Captain for the Queer Erotic Content Creators Club from 2022-25; and hosts the Pulse Session for the Podcast All the Filthy Details. He lives in New York City.
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LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: The Shape of Grace
DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate the launch of Sara Elliott’s sapphic romance\, THE SHAPE OF GRACE.  \nRSVP TO THIS EVENT HERE \nFrom She Writes Press comes a later-in-life lesbian love story centered around one woman’s journey through love\, self-discovery\, and fixing up a historic home\, which may prove to be the simplest of her tasks.  \nAfter the launch there will be time for Sara to sign copies of The Shape of Grace\, which will be available for purchase at the Bureau!  \nSara Elliott is a queer fiction author and a divorced mom of three grown daughters. She writes with a focus on authenticity and resilience and finding the courage to live your best queer life in the realities of today’s world. Native to Southern California\, she draws inspiration from her home state as well as her life in Columbus\, Ohio\, where she currently resides.
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SUMMARY:TELL\, a queer storytelling show
DESCRIPTION:RSVP FOR THIS EVENT HERE \nHosted and curated by Drae Campbell\, join us at The Bureau for an evening of queer storytelling. This month’s theme is “Constants”. Joined by comic Calvin Cato\, artist and prison abolitionist Léoh Hailu-Ghermay\, and theatre artist Gagarin\, come hear the chaos and the comedy that unites us in our queerness. We’ve all got those stories. Let’s tell them.  \n* \nNamed one of Time Out New York’s LGBTQ Comics of Color to Watch Out For\, Calvin S. Cato has dazzled audiences around the world. His on-air and radio appearances include Oxygen\, Netflix\, Sirius XM\, RISK!\, WIRED Magazine\, and an unaired pilot for Vice Media called Emergency Black Meeting. His comedy has been featured in numerous festivals and events including San Francisco Sketchfest\, Edinburgh Fringe Festival\, Gotham Storytelling Festival\, Brooklyn Pride\, and FlameCon. In early 2021\, Calvin was published in Kweendom\, an anthology of essays by queer comedians and entertainers. In 2022\, Calvin concluded a 3 month run hosting a daily talk show on RushTix. Be sure to catch Calvin’s latest comedy album Disney Single\, releasing in September 2026! \nLéoh Hailu-Ghermay is a Black\, Tigrayan\, first generation American\, queer artist\, prison abolitionist and reluctant/begrudging/suffering law student. They are talking\, laughing\, loving\, breathing\, fighting\, fucking\, etc. on occupied Canarsie and Munsee-Lenapehoking. They believe that storytelling is the catalyst for literally anything remotely good ever happening and doing it strengthens the fight for liberation of all oppressed people everywhere.  \nGagarin (they/them) is a theatre artist whose work lives at the intersection of dance\, clown & kink. They seek to create art that brings audiences & artist to a primal place from which we can reencounter ourselves and our world. Previous credits include: Who’s Your Daddy (Brick AUX)\, The World’s Tiniest Twink (BAH)\, Body Unredacted (Blessed Unrest)\, Tango Palace (Theatre MITU). \nDrae Campbell (she/they) is an actor\, comedian and storyteller who has performed in every medium. Drae was nominated for a Lucille Lortel Award for her work in The Nosebleed at Lincoln Center Theater. Drae’s first performance was at age 5 in a nightclub as the opening act for a punk band. Her career in theater and in gender joy started when she was cast as John Henry in The Member Of The Wedding in a local San Francisco production at age 9. Drae has a BFA in Theater from The University of the Arts. Drae has been hosting and curating a queer storytelling show for 12 years called TELL\, which has been made into a SILVER Signal Award winning podcast. @draebiz @tellqueerz \nThe Bureau of General Services—Queer Division is Manhattan’s last queer bookstore\, located on the second floor of the LGBT Center. We’re open Tuesday-Sunday from 1-7pm. Our cafe\, The Bureau Café\, is open daily from 9am-5pm.
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SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH: CHANGING GENDER
DESCRIPTION:Join Susan Stryker and Jack Halberstam at the Bureau for the launch of Susan’s provocative\, genre-bending new book\, CHANGING GENDER. \nRSVP TO THIS EVENT \n\n\n\n\nThat gender is a hotly contested topic becomes ever clearer as antigender ideology continues to be mobilized by the far right and transgender people’s lives are increasingly targeted. But what are we talking about when we talk about gender? Where did the concept itself come from\, and where might it go? \nIn Changing Gender\, the leading trans scholar Susan Stryker invites readers to ride along on her lifelong quest to uncover what gender means and does. She traces the gender concept’s roots in grammar and tells the story of how it transformed into a battleground of the culture wars. From the origins of “Yankee Doodle” to acid trips in Joshua Tree National Park\, from nineteenth-century phrenology to present-day anti-trans conspiracy theorists\, Stryker finds surprising places to tune in to the origins\, idiosyncrasies\, and generative possibilities of the gender concept. Along the way\, she weaves stories drawn from her lifetime as a pathbreaking historian\, filmmaker\, activist\, and founding figure of transgender studies. \nPoignant and deeply researched\, lyrical and authoritative\, Changing Gender is a book for our fraught time\, exposing limiting assumptions about gender across the political spectrum and imagining what life might look like if some of those limitations were lifted. Ultimately\, Stryker argues\, to change gender is to change what it means to be human—and to change reality itself. \nAfter the event there will be time for Susan (and Jack) to sign copies of their respective books\, which will be available for purchase at the Bureau. \n*** \nSusan Stryker’s historical research\, theoretical writings\, media-making\, activism\, and academic field-building activities have helped shape the conversation on trans issues since the early 1990s. Stryker retired from the University of Arizona in 2020 and currently holds a distinguished visiting appointment at Stanford University’s Michelle Clayman Institute for Gender Research. She is the author of many academic and general audience works\, including Transgender History. She lives in San Francisco. \nJack Halberstam is the David Feinson Professor of The Humanities at Columbia University. Halberstam is the author of seven books including: Female Masculinity (Duke UP\, 1998)\, The Queer Art of Failure (Duke UP\, 2011)\, and\, a short book titled Trans*: A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variance (University of California Press) among others. Halberstam’s new book is Anarchitecture After Everything: A Trans Manifesto\, which will be published by MIT Press in August 2026. Halberstam was recently the subject of a short film titled “So We Moved” by Adam Pendleton. Halberstam was recently named a 2024 Guggenheim Fellow.
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LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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