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SUMMARY:Closed for New Year's Eve
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151228T190000
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SUMMARY:Union Square Slam presents MCKENDY FILS-AIME and the HOLIDAY WHAT? Theme Slam
DESCRIPTION:  \nUnion Square Slam presents MCKENDY FILS-AIME and the HOLIDAY WHAT? Theme Slam. \nNeed a break from all that Holiday Cheer? Got some choice words for the streetcorner Santa incessently ringing that tinny bell? Come on down to Union Square Slam for our Holiday What? theme slam\, with none other than the brilliant boss McKendy Fils-Aime\, hosted by Joanna Hoffman!! \n(Please note: the Bureau is closed on Mondays. We open at 6 PM on Mondays for the Union Square Slam.)  \n6pm: Free Writing Workshop with Sara Emily Kuntz\n7:00: Sign-ups\n7:30: Open Mic\n8:00pm: Feature\n8:30pm: Slam \n  \nBureau of General Services-Queer Division\n(located in the LGBT Center\, 208 W 13th St\, #210)\n$5 // ALL AGES // 18 and under FREE\n \nAbout our Feature: \nMckendy Fils-Aime hails from Manchester\, NH. He is the author of three self-published books of poetry and is currently working on a fourth. He is one of the organizers behind Slam Free or Die\, NH’s most popular poetry open mic. The only thing Mckendy likes as much as poetry is his sneaker collection. \n  \nAbout our Slam: \nFor many of us\, holiday season make us have ALL THE FEELINGS. Here’s a mic: let’s hear it!!! Dust off all your praise poems\, odes\, rants\, gripes\, celebrations\, durges\, toasts and bones to pick with the holidays\, and bring them all to us! Or write some new ones! Or make them up on the spot! \nAll slammers who are competing to represent Union Square Slam nationally in 2016 and beyond\, at either IWPS\, WOWPS\, or as part of the Union Square Slam Nationals Team\, MUST participate in BOTH a New Shit Slam and a Theme Slam at any point during the slam season. (9/14/15 – 4/28/15). You may compete in any or all of these slams\, whether or not you intend to go out for the team\, however\, preference may be given to competitors that have qualified for Semis or Finals.\n \n::THEME SLAMS:: \nWe have a variety of Theme Slams\, meant to introduce different artistic elements\, challenges\, and inspiration to our work. Points will be recorded for the sake of naming a “winner”\, however\, these points do not count towards your total score for the quarter. Your participation in one Theme slam meets your requirement for Final Stage Participation. All theme slams will take up to 8 competitors\, and will be ranked in an 8-5-3 cumulative fashion. Each round has a 3 min time limit unless otherwise stated. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/uss-12282015/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20151224
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20151226
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SUMMARY:Closed for Christmas
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151221T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151221T213000
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SUMMARY:Union Square Slam presents SARAEVE and Open Slam 2.1
DESCRIPTION:  \nUnion Square Slam is delighted to welcome SaraEve to feature at our first open slam of the second quarter!! \n6:00pm: Free Writing Workshop\n7:00pm: Sign-ups for Open Mic and Slam\n7:15pm: Open Mic\n7:35pm: Feature\n8:00pm: Open Slam \nBureau of General Services-Queer Division\n(located in the LGBT Center\, 208 W 13th St\, #210)\n$5 // ALL AGES // 18 and under FREE \nAbout our Feature: \nSaraEve is a performance poet and epilepsy advocate from New Jersey. A 2015 Best of the Net nominee\, she has performed for both local and national events\, including the 2013 Women of the World Poetry Slam and for the Greater Los Angeles Epilepsy Foundation 2015 Care and Cure Benefit to End Epilepsy in Children. The Editor in Chief of Wicked Banshee Press and a Contributing Editor for Words Dance Magazine\, her work can be found or is forthcoming in GERM Magazine\, Words Dance Magazine\, Drunk in a Midnight Choir and the University of Hell Anthology We Can Make Your Life Better: A Guidebook to Modern Living \,among others. Her first full length book\, View From The Top of the Ferris Wheel\, will be published be Emphat!c Press in 2015. She believes in the power of foxes and self publishing. Learn more here: https://saraeve41.wix.com/saraevepoet \nAbout our Slam: \nIn order to represent Union Square Slam at any National Competition\, you must meet the following requirements: \nBe 18 years old or older (if you are under 18\, you can still slam! We just can’t take you to national events)\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 BOTH one New Shit Slam AND one Theme Slam during the current season (those going for IWPS may complete this requirement during the summer quarter) \n::Union Square Slam National Team Competition:: \nThere are 3 quarters of competitive poetry slam\, each culminating in a Semifinal. Each quarter consists of six open slams (one or more of which is a New Shit slam — competition in New Shit slams counts towards your total points!) \nEach open slam will :\nconsist of up to 8 poet competitors\nhave a 3 min time limit for each round with a 10-second grace period\nwill 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)\nbe scored cumulatively — the winner of the night will have the highest cumulative score from all three rounds. \nAt the end of each quarter\, the poets with the 8 highest cumulative scores FOR THE QUARTER\, are invited to compete in Semifinals. If a qualified poet opts out\, then the next highest ranking poet qualifies. Semifinals are run using the same rules as the Open Slams. The top two highest ranked poets in each Semifinals bout will advance to Finals Stage\, along with the top two winners of the Last Chance slam. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/uss-12212015/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151219T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151219T220000
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SUMMARY:Valerie Geffner
DESCRIPTION:  \nValerie Geffner will give a performance of original poetry and song.\nCreatrix. vessel of expression . authentic. intense . super sensitive. soul full. powerful Valerie Geffner is excited to celebrate and honor 2015 and to the upcoming wonderful year.\n\nValerie Geffner is a graduate of the Juilliard School. classic theatre. has been on the stage her entire life. since elementary school\, starring in musical theatre then going to a high school of performing arts\, in long island. years later she taught performance coaching there and she still coaches people  to free their voice and themselves and to authentically sing\, share and be.\n\nthis show is dedicated to shamanic living miracle: Domonique Echeverria.                                                                   soulmate. genuis. artist. fashion designer . icon.  nighttime show girl.\nDomonique recently survived a tragic accident  and thank Good she is alive and miraculous healing.\n\n\nValerie Geffner will be wearing a green lace gown that Domonique hand made her and gifted her\n(images of it on patrickmcmullan.com) \n\n\n\nDomonique introduced Valerie to the Bureau\, when Domonique had a fashion show/installatioin at Strange Loop Gallery\, the Bureau’s first home. Valerie was a model for the live installation fashion show.\n\n\nValerie Geffner is now excited to be performing her original song and poetry at the Bureau. \nfor studio visits of The Valerie Galerie in soho: email: valeriegeffner@gmail.com\nValerie is on Facebook and instagram \nSuggested donation of $5 for the performer. \n  \n\n  \n \nValerie Geffner is a multifaceted artist. The Creatrix. Based in NYC\, she has recently completed her album “antenna” which she both wrote and produced. A graduate of The Juilliard School\, Valerie has a background in theatre\, film and tv. She is a magnificent artist\, producing paintings and drawings as well as clothing and bags. Able to engage audiences everywhere\, Valerie has been declared “a commanding presence” by the LA Times. She can deliver the classics as effectively as contemporary\, pop\, and avante garde electronica. interviewed by Deepak Chopra : https://soundcloud.com/valeriegeffner/deepak-chopra-and-valerie \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/valerie-geffner/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151218T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151218T213000
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SUMMARY:What's Normal Anyway book release party and comic reading
DESCRIPTION:  \nA couple of the first thoughts Morgan Boecher had when coming out as a trans guy were: \n1. Can I still have a happy life? \n2. Well\, I now have a cool story to tell. \nAfter that\, he wrote a comic. Morgan\, creator of What’s Normal Anyway: a comic about being trans male\, reads funny and heartfelt scenes from his comic\, published by Kickstarter and now Scout Publishing\, at this book launch party. What’s Normal Anyway discusses the trans male experience through the story of Mel\, who takes the big risk of being himself and transitions from female to male. Stick around for a discussion and author signing after the performance! \nSuggested donation of $5 to benefit the Bureau. No one turned away for lack of funds. \n  \nMorgan Boecher has been making comics about all sorts ever since he was a youngster in Florida. His educational focuses were in anthropology\, social work\, and traveling the world. Now living in the New York City area\, he uses his learning to market music festivals and create art. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/whats-normal-anyway/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151217T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151217T213000
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SUMMARY:Wonder (Wo)man
DESCRIPTION:  \nQuestioning identity\, sexuality\, society\, and reality: Dresden Castle invites all humanity to a night of art and wonderment featuring a very special preview screening of the incipient video diary A Doge’s Life\, episode 1. A fundraiser for the future of fantasy\, this event will open your eyes to the truth of your true power. \nReception to begin at 7:00pm \nPerformance at 7:30\, followed by screening and Q&A. \nFrivolity throughout. \nSuggested donation of $5 to benefit the Bureau. No one turned away for lack of funds. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/wonder-woman/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151216T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151216T213000
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SUMMARY:Celestial Body 3—Opening the Closed Doors: BDSM\, Underground Sexuality  . . . and God.
DESCRIPTION:  \n“Is our often-censored urge towards sex and our great\, undeniable urge towards a union with God  . . . the same urge?” Perry Brass\, The Substance of God. \nCELESTIAL BODY 2 was a huge hit. More than 50 people came to discuss the link between sexuality and spirituality\, between the body and the sacred. To talk about: What core feelings link queer sexuality\, the outsider regions of BDSM and spirituality? Is submission spiritual? Is sexuality at its deepest point prayer? Does it link us directly to the God-force\, part of a universal glue holding human feelings together? \nThe 3rd and final session of Celestial Body will talk about opening the closed doors in your psychic house—the doors leading to your Deeper Self\, the authentic Self that loves you and stays with you your entire life. \nPerry Brass (The Manly Pursuit of Desire and Love\, Belhue Press)\, hosts this discussion leading to the question: “Is God a lot kinkier than you thought?” Celestial Body is about finding depth\, honesty\, and truth in your life. \nAttendance at previous two sessions not required—all are welcome. \nJoin us in this fascinating\, life-expanding conversation. \nGuest speakers include writer Donna Minkowitz on sex and God; trans and polyamory activist Kyle Applegate on submission to self\, and others to be announced. \nWednesday\, Dec. 16\, 2015 7 PM (half-hour mixer). \nProgram begins at 7:30 @ the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division\, at the Lesbian\, Gay\, Bisexual\, and Transgender Community Center\, 208 West 13th Street\, New York\, NY 10011. \nFor more info: belhuepress@earthlink.net \nSuggested donation of $5 to benefit the Bureau. No one turned away for lack of funds. \n  \n  \n  \n \nPerry Brass has published 19 books\, including poetry\, novels\, short fiction\, science fiction\, plays\, and bestselling advice books (How to Survive Your Own Gay Life\, The Manly Art of Seduction\, The Manly Pursuit of Desire and Love). Active in the movement toward lgbt rights (gay equality) since 1969\, Brass’s work continuously deals with issues of sexual freedom\, personal authenticity\, and personal politics coming out of his involvement with the movement for gay liberation. He is especially interested in that connection between sexuality and spirituality; with the world of the body\, the mind\, and a deeper “soul” consciousness connecting the two. Aside from his books\, poetry\, plays\, and essays\, he also regularly blogs for the Huffington Post. For more information: www.perrybrass.com \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/celestial-body-3/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151214T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151214T213000
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SUMMARY:Union Square Slam presents PORSHA O and the Women of the World Poetry Slam FINALS
DESCRIPTION:  \nUnion Square Slam presents PORSHA O and the Women of the World Poetry Slam FINALS \n(Please note: the Bureau is closed on Mondays. We will open at 6 PM on Mondays for the Union Square Slam.) \nWe are quaking in our boots with excitement as we welcome our feature\, the legendary Porsha O\, and buckling our seatbelts for Union Square Slam’s first Women of the World Poetry Slam Finals!!! \nThere will be FOUR ROUNDS of competition tonight. Each poet will read in the 4 minute round and the 1 minute round. We will then cut to 5 poets to read in the 2 minute round. The Final Round is the top three poets reading a 3 minute poem. \nBecause of the length of competition tonight\, we will be substituting our open mic with a few brief spotlight poets. \n6:00pm: Free Writing Workshop\, hosted by Sara Emily Kuntz\n7:00pm: Spotlight Artists\n7:30pm: Feature\n8:00pm: Women of the World Poetry Slam Finals (invite only) \nAbout our Feature: \nPorsha Olayiwola is the 2014 Individual World Poetry Slam Champion and the 2015 National Poetry Slam Champion. Black\, poet\, dyke-goddess\, hip-hop feminist\, womanist\, friend: Porsha separates herself from the field of issue-based performance poets by applying advanced political analysis to examine injustice while providing perspective on concrete solutions A native of Chicago\, Porsha now resides in Boston where she writes and teaches. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/uss-1214/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151213T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151213T190000
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SUMMARY:After Meth: Rebuilding Your Life\, Intimacy and Sex
DESCRIPTION:  \nJoin psychotherapist and sex therapist Dr. David Fawcett as he shares selections from his new book Lust\, Men\, and Meth: A Gay Man’s Guide to Sex and Recovery and outlines a post-meth pathway to healthy sex and intimacy. \nBased on years of clinical research and practice\, Lust\, Men\, and Meth explains the perils of the “perfect storm” of methamphetamine\, high-risk sex\, and HIV\, and how it has created an epidemic within the gay community. Fawcett will reveal how the drug commandeers desire by fusing an altered state with heightened sexuality. Most important\, Lust\, Men\, and Meth offers hope\, by describing a clear path to recovery and the restoration of healthy sex and intimacy. \nFollowing a brief presentation\, the author will have a discussion with audience members. Refreshments will be served and David will sign copies of his book. \nSuggested donation of $5 to benefit the Bureau. No one turned away for lack of funds. \nTo reserve a copy of Lust\, Men\, and Meth: A Gay Man’s Guide to Sex and Recovery please write to contact@bgsqd.com\nJoin us for a reception afterwards in Room 201B\, from 5:30 to 7:00 PM catered by Richard Ferrara Event Planning & Catering \n \nDavid Fawcett\, PhD is a psychotherapist and writer in Fort Lauderdale\, Florida. He specializes in gay men’s health and has worked with addictions and recovery for over thirty years. His writing about substance use\, mental health\, and HIV appears in TheBody.com and other journals\, and he is a highly praised speaker and trainer\, frequently presenting workshops both in the United States and internationally. \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/after-meth-rebuilding-your-life-intimacy-and-sex/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151212T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151212T213000
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SUMMARY:Fiction Reading by Paul Russell
DESCRIPTION:  \nPaul Russell will read from his latest novel Immaculate Blue. \n  \nSuggested donation of $5 to benefit the Bureau. No one turned away for lack of funds. \n  \nTo reserve a copy of Immaculate Blue\, please contact us at contact@bgsqd.com. \n  \n \nPaul Russell is the author of seven novels\, including Immaculate Blue\, The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov and The Coming Storm. He is a two time winner of the Ferro-Grumley Award for Fiction. His work has been translated into 14 languages. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/fiction-reading-by-paul-russell/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151211T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151211T220000
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SUMMARY:TELL 19: Family
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. \nFamily is the theme of the nineteenth installment of TELL. Featuring Austin Hernandez\, Poison Ivory\, Tommy Pico\, and Linda Saegert. \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  \n \nAustin Hernandez is an esé from SA. As a Tejano living in Brooklyn\, his quest for decent tacos is never ending. His creative work is strongly influenced by his mom’s second-wave feminist leanings\, working-class origins\, riot grrrl\, and complicated love of hip hop. A product designer by day and DJ by night\, Austin is a recent recipient of The White House LGBTQ Tech and Innovation Fellowship for his work teaching and empowering low-income LGBTQ youth to learn programming skills. He spends his free time with headphones on\, creating playlists and dancing on the subway. \n  \n  \nKevin Blumenthal Photography\nCrowned Miss Starlet Burlesque at the Hollywood Burlesque Festival and winner of the Pennsylvania Burlesque Festival’s coveted Crystal Corset Award\, Poison Ivory is a New York based burlesque performer who is beginning to make her mark. With a background in theater and dance\, Ivory’s combination of thoughtful musicality\, sultry expression and sensual movements always leaves her audience wanting more. (Pronounced I-vo-ree\, Like the soap.) \n  \n  \n \nTOMMY “TEEBS” PICO is the author of absentMINDR (VERBALVISUAL\, 2014)—the first chapbook APP published for iOS mobile/tablet devices—was a Queer/Art/Mentors inaugural fellow\, 2013 Lambda Literary fellow in poetry\, and has poems in BOMB\, Guernica\, and [PANK]. Originally from the Viejas Indian reservation of the Kumeyaay nation\, he now lives in Brooklyn and co-curates the reading series Poets With Attitude (PWA) with Morgan Parker. @heyteebs \n  \n \nLinda Saegert is a butch who currently works in sales. Being a Gemini\, has had many careers: social worker\, nurse\, retail store manager and French Chef! In love with the woman of their dreams\, they have 6 dogs! Linda also has 2 grown sons. Linda considers themself Genderqueer. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/tell-19-family/
LOCATION:Online event\, New York\, NY\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151210T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151210T213000
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SUMMARY:Apogee Issue 6 Launch
DESCRIPTION:  \nJoin us in celebrating the launch of Apogee Issue 06 with a reading featuring Derrick Austin\, Chase Berggrun\, Victoria Brown\, Rowan Hisayo Buchanan\, Soyini Ayanna Forde\, Leila Ortiz\, and Nina Puro.    \nSuggested donation of $5 to benefit the Bureau. No one turned away for lack of funds. \n  \nDerrick Austin is the author of Trouble the Water\, selected by Mary Szybist for the 2015 A. Poulin\, Jr. Prize (BOA Editions\, Spring 2016). A Cave Canem fellow\, he earned his MFA from the University of Michigan. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Best American Poetry 2015\, Image: A Journal of Arts and Religion\, New England Review\, Callaloo\, Crab Orchard Review\, The Paris-American\, Memorious\, and other journals and anthologies. He is the Social Media Coordinator for The Offing. \n  \nChase Berggrun is a genderqueer poet and the author of Discontent and Its Civilizations: Poems of Erasure\, winner of the 2012 jubilat Chapbook Contest. Their work has been published or is forthcoming in inter|rupture\, No Tokens\, Cosmonauts Avenue\, Cutbank\, BOAAT\, Beloit Poetry Journal\, the anthology Time You Let Me In: 25 Under 25\, and elsewhere. They are Poetry Editor at Washington Square Review\, and an MFA candidate in Poetry at NYU. \n  \nVictoria Brown is the author of Minding Ben (Hyperion 2011)\, which was released in paperback as Grace in the City (2012). Her writing has appeared in The Guardian\, New York Magazine\,NBCnews.com\, Sunday Salon\, Moko Caribbean Arts and Letters\, and in Perigee\, Apogee Journal’s online blog. Her work is also forthcoming in Caribbean Quarterly.She teaches at the City University of New York and is currently at work on her second novel. \n  \nRowan Hisayo Buchanan is a Japanese-Chinese-British-American writer with an MFA from University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is a fellow at the Asian American Writers Workshop. Her work has been published in TriQuarterly\, NPR’s Selected Shorts\, The Tin House Open Bar\, and The Indiana Review. \n  \nSoyini Ayanna Forde is an island grrl in Florida. She has poems and fiction included in MokoMagazine\, SX Salon\, The Caribbean Writer\, Tongues of the Ocean\, The Guidebook\, St. Somewhere Journal and Black Renaissance Noire. Her poetry chapbook Taste of Hibiscus was published by Dancing Girl Press. She is very interested in West Indian identity and culture\, diasporic connections\, and what she can learn from the resilience of strong women. \n  \nLeila Ortiz is a poet and social worker in NYC public schools. Leila grew up in Park Slope\, Brooklyn\, and now resides in Bay Ridge. Her poems can be found in No\, Dear Magazine\, Referential Magazine\, Stone Canoe\, and The Ledge. She received her MFA in Poetry from the Queens College Program in Creative Writing and Literary Translation. \n  \nNina Puro’s work can be found in Guernica\, H_ngm_n\, the PEN Poetry Series\, and other places. A member of the Belladonna* Collaborative; the author of two forthcoming chapbooks (Argos Books and dancing girl press); and the recipient of fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and Syracuse University. Nina cries and works in Brooklyn.
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SUMMARY:John Hanning Book Launch - Unfortunate Male
DESCRIPTION:  \nJackson Davidow\, Camilo Godoy\, Ted Kerr\, Kris Nuzzi\, Esther McGowan\, Lucas Michael and Fredric Sinclair will join John Hanning in reading passages from Unfortunate Male – telling the strange tension between the incomprehensibility of medical records and the crispness of Hanning’s articulation of memory. \nSuggested donation of $5 to benefit the Bureau. No one turned away for lack of funds. \n  \nJohn Hanning is a collage and digital artist born in Arkansas. His work has been exhibited in numerous group exhibitions including Queer WAH\, WAH Center\, Brooklyn\, The Queer Feeling of Tomorrow\, Art Gallery Guelph\, Canada; Powerful Babies: Keith Haring’s Impact on Artists Today\, Spritmuseum\, Sweden; Color Dot Connect\, Mixed Greens\, New York; and in alternative spaces throughout New York City. Hanning is also the creator of Cosmo\, his stick-figure-alter-ego and virtual avatar and the author of Unfortunate Male\, his first book. He lives and works in Brooklyn. \n  \n  \n 
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151207T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151207T213000
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SUMMARY:Union Square Slam presents JADE SYLVAN and WOWPS #4
DESCRIPTION:  \nCome on out for the witty lyric honesty of Jade Sylvan and our final WOWPS qualifier!! \nALL AGES!!! $5 cover. No one is turned away due to lack of funds. \n6:00pm: Free Writing Workshop with Sara Emily Kuntz\n7:00pm: Sign-ups\n7:30pm: Open Mic\n8:00pm: Feature\n8:30pm: WOWPS qualifying slam \nAbout our Feature: \nJade Sylvan\, called a “risque queer icon” by the Boston Globe\, is an award-winning author\, poet\, screenwriter\, producer\, and performing artist living in Cambridge\, Massachusetts.\nJade’s most recent book\, Kissing Oscar Wilde (Write Bloody 2013)\, a novelized memoir about the author’s experience as a touring poet in Paris\, received rave reviews\, and was a finalist for the New England Book Award and the Bisexual Book Award. Jade has toured extensively\, performing their work to audiences across the United States\, Canada\, and Europe. They are heavily rooted in the literary and performance community of Cambridge and Somerville\, Massachusetts. \nOver the past decade\, Jade has produced and performed in dozens of acclaimed stage-shows and workshops in collaboration with entities such as The Museum of Fine Arts Boston\, Harvard University\, and Mass Poetry. In 2012\, Jade co-wrote and starred in Sophia Cacciola and Michael J. Epstein’s first feature-film TEN (awarded “Runner-Up” for Best Screenplay and Best Genre Film at the Imaginarium Film Festival)\, and was also commissioned to write the official novelization of the film. Jade has had pieces published in The Washington Post\, BuzzFeed\, The Toast\, PANK\, and many other places. The author has received the Bayou Poetry Prize\, the Write Bloody Renaissance award\, and a grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. \nJade identifies as genderqueer and prefers the pronouns they/them/their [example: “That’s Jade\, they’re the coolest person I know.“]\, unless otherwise specified.\nAbout our Slam: \nWOWPS is: \na) an acronym for Women of the World World Poetry Slam\nb) one of three national poetry slam events put on annually by Poetry Slam\, Inc.\nc) held in Brooklyn\, NY from March 9-12th\, 2016\nd) the second national event to which Union Square Slam is sending a rep \nUnion Square Slam WOWPS Qualifier rules: \nCompetition at WOWps is limited to poets who live their lives as women. Qualified poets include female assigned or identified individuals who are PSi members and are 18+ years of age\, including gender non-conforming individuals. \n8* poets\, 3 rounds. Cumulative Scores. \n4 min (all)\ncumulative – cut to 5 \n1 min (5 poets)\ncumulative all 3 rounds – cut to 3 \n2 min – cumulative score wins the slam \nTop two are in Finals** (December 14th). Finals will be 4 ROUNDS — all cumulative!!! \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/uss_12072015/
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SUMMARY:Screening United in Anger: A History of ACT UP and Q&A with Jim Hubbard and Sarah Schulman
DESCRIPTION:  \nIn conjunction with the Bureau’s exhibition The Uses of Anger\, the Bureau and The LGBT Community Center are proud to present a screening of United in Anger: A History of ACT UP. Following the screening director Jim Hubbard and producer Sarah Schulman will engage the audience in discussion. \n  \nSuggested donation of $5 to benefit the Bureau. No one turned away for lack of funds. \n  \nUNITED IN ANGER: A HISTORY OF ACT UP (2012\, 93 minutes) is a unique feature-length documentary that combines startling archival footage that puts the audience on the ground with the activists and the remarkably insightful interviews from the ACT UP Oral History Project to explore ACT UP (the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) from a grassroots perspective – how a small group of men and women of all races and classes\, came together to change the world and save each other’s lives. The film takes the viewer through the planning and execution of a dozen exhilarating major actions including Seize Control of the FDA\, Stop the Church\, and Day of Desperation\, with a timeline of many of the other zaps and actions that forced the U.S. government and mainstream media to deal with the AIDS crisis. UNITED IN ANGER reveals the group’s complex culture – meetings\, affinity groups\, and approaches to civil disobedience mingle with profound grief\, sexiness\, and the incredible energy of ACT UP. Before there was Occupy Wall Street or the Arab Spring\, there was ACT UP. \n  \nFor more information visit unitedinanger.com \n  \nJim  Hubbard  has  been  making  films  since  1974.  Recently\, he completed United  in  Anger:  A  History  of ACT UP\, a feature length documentary on ACT UP\, the AIDS activist group.  Sarah Schulman and he are continuing  work  on  the  ACT  UP  Oral  History Project\, as well.  One hundred and two interviews from the ACT UP Oral History Project were on view in a 14-monitor installation at the Carpenter Center for  the  Arts\,  Harvard  University  as  part  of  the exhibition ACT UP New York: Activism\, Art\, and the AIDS Crisis\, 1987–1993\, October 15 – December 23\, 2009.  A version with 114 interviews showed at the White Columns Gallery in New York\, September 8 – October 23\, 2010. He\, along with James Wentzy\, created a 9-part cable access television series based on the Project.  Among his 19 other films are Elegy in the Streets (1989)\, Two Marches (1991)\, The Dance (1992) and Memento Mori (1995).  His films have been shown at the Museum of Modern Art\, the Berlin Film Festival\, the London Film Festival\, the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival\, the New York\, San Francisco\, Los Angeles\, Tokyo\, London\, Torino and many other Lesbian and Gay Film Festivals.  His film Memento Mori won the Ursula for Best Short Film at the Hamburg Lesbian & Gay Film Festival in 1995.  He co-founded MIX – the New York Lesbian and Gay Experimental Film/Video Festival.  Under the auspices of the Estate Project for Artists with AIDS\, he created the AIDS Activist Video Collection at the New York Public Library.  He curated the series Fever in the Archive:  AIDS Activist Videotapes from the Royal S. Marks Collection for the Guggenheim Museum in New York.   The 8-program series took place December 1-9\, 2000.  He also co-curated the series\, Another Wave:  Recent Global Queer Cinema at the Museum of Modern Art in New York\, July and September 2006. \n  \nSarah Schulman is a novelist\, nonfiction writer\, playwright\, screenwriter\, journalist and AIDS historian. \nHer plays include: \nCARSON McCULLERS – (Sundance/Playwrights Horizons -2002)\, \nMANIC FLIGHT REACTION (NY Stage and Film/Playwrights Horizons-2005) ENEMIES\, A LOVE STORY\, adapted from IB Singer (Wilma Theater-2007). \nAnd play workshops\, commissions\, readings at: South Coast Rep\, La Jolla Playhouse\, ART\, New York Theater Workshop\, The Roundabout. \nHer nine novels : THE COSMOPOLITANS (The Feminist Press\, 2016)\, THE MERE FUTURE (2009)\, THE CHILD (2007)\, SHIMMER (1998)\, RAT BOHEMIA (1995)\, EMPATHY (1992)\, PEOPLE IN TROUBLE (1990)\, AFTER DELORES (1988)\, GIRLS\, VISIONS AND EVERYTHING (1986)\, THE SOPHIE HOROWITZ STORY (1984) and five nonfiction books: CONFLICT IS NOT ABUSE: Overstating Harm\, Community Responsibility and The Duty of Repair (2016)  ISRAEL/PALESTINE AND THE QUEER INTERNATIONAL (2012). THE GENTRIFICATION OF THE MIND: Witness to a Lost Imagination  (2012)\, TIES THAT BIND: FAMILIAL HOMOPHOBIA AND ITS CONSEQUENCES (2010) STAGESTRUCK: Theater\, AIDS\, and the Marketing of Gay America (1998) MY AMERICAN HISTORY: Lesbian and Gay Life During the Reagan/Bush Years (1995) \nIn film Sarah has collaborated as a screenwriter w/ film director Cheryl Dunye on THE OWLS\, (2010 Berlin Film Festival\,) MOMMY IS COMING\, (Berlinale 2012\,) w/ director Stephen Winter on JASON AND SHIRLEY\, (Brooklyn Academy of Music BAMfest ’15\,)  w/ director Jim Hubbard on UNITED IN ANGER: A History of ACT UP\, (Museum of Modern Art.) With Jim Hubbard\, she is co-founder of the MIX: NY LGBT Experimental Film and Video Festival\, now in its 30th year\, and The ACT UP Oral History Project (www.actuporalhistory.org). \nAwards include a Guggenheim (Playwrighting)\, Fulbright (Judaic Studies)\, Kessler Prize for Sustained Contribution to LGBT Studies\, 3 NY Foundation for the Arts Fellowships (Playwrighting and Fiction) 2 American Library Association Book Awards (Fiction and Nonfiction) and a finalist for the Prix de Rome. Sarah is a Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at The City University of New York\, College of Staten Island\, a Fellow at The New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU and on the advisory board of Jewish Voice for Peace. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/united-in-anger/
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SUMMARY:HEY GIRL\, HOMOCATS DO THE BUREAU!!
DESCRIPTION:  \nJ. Morrison’s HOMOCATS return to the Bureau for a special one-night extravaganza featuring zines\, t-shirts\, screenprints\, and more! \nPlease join the artist and BGSQD in celebrating the new HOMOCATS editions including “Fuck the Internet”\, “What’s the T?”\, “Free Butt Sex”\, the HOMOCATS Cross\, and the Rainbow Cats! \nCome enjoy special surprises\, prices\, and drinks!! \n  \nPhoto: Rebecca Levi\, J. Morrison at NY Art Book Fair 2015. \n  \nBio:\nJ. Morrison is a multidisciplinary Brooklyn-based artist working in print\, performance\, and curatorial projects. \nMorrison first created the HOMOCATS during a 2010 residency at the Anderson Ranch in Colorado. They have since been exhibited at the NY and LA Art Book Fairs\, Transformer Gallery (Washington\, DC)\, Lorem Ipsum (Boston)\, Brooklyn Fireproof Gallery (NY)\, and the BGSQD in 2013. They will be featured at Christopher Stout Gallery in Miami Art Basel and on Transparent’s upcoming Season 2! \n  \n 
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151204T213000
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SUMMARY:JONATHAN at 10
DESCRIPTION:  \nJonathan\, a journal of queer male fiction\, is having its first-ever reading to celebrate its TEN issues! Come join its editor RAYMOND LUCZAK and listen to SEVEN writers read from their work:  \nGERARD CABRERA\nDALE CORVINO\nGREGORY GERARD\nB. V. MARSHALL\nROBERT SMITH\nPHILIP DEAN WALKER\nBRAD WINDHAUSER\n\n  \nSuggested donation of $5 to benefit the Bureau. No one turned away for lack of funds.\nThis event will be ASL interpreted. \nAll 10 issues of Jonathan are available for purchase at the Bureau. To reserve a copy of issue 10\, or any previous issues\, please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com.\n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/jonathan-at-10/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151202T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151202T213000
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SUMMARY:Transgender Defender Zoe Dolan: Book Talk and Signing
DESCRIPTION:  \nZoe Dolan will talk about her new book There Is Room for You: Tales from a Transgender Defender’s Heart\, a memoir of recovery from sex addiction\, gender transitioning\, falling in love\, and handling high-profile terrorism cases as a trial lawyer. \nThis event is co-presented by The LGBT Community Center and the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division. \nSuggested donation of $5 to benefit the Bureau. No one turned away for lack of funds. \nReading at 7:15 PM \n\nPlease purchase your copy of There Is Room for You from the Bureau. To reserve a copy write to us at contact@bgsqd.com.\n  \n  \n \nZoe Dolan is a writer and trial lawyer known for handling high-profile criminal cases\, including the 2014 trial of Suleiman Abu Ghayth\, a son-in-law of Osama bin Laden and the allegedly highest-ranked al-Qaeda suspect to be tried in a civilian court in the United States. Her writing includes the book There Is Room for You: Tales from a Transgender Defender’s Heart (this excerpt appeared in The Guardian in August)\, and a blog on The Huffington Post. Earlier this year\, as part of her Being Transgender – Naked project\, Upworthy presented this video about being transgender. Profiles of Zoe and her work have appeared in The New York Times\, Al Jazeera\, and The Advocate. \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/zoe-dolan/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151130T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151130T213000
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SUMMARY:Union Square Slam presents DESIREE DALLAGIACOMO and Semi-Finals #1 (spotlight feature with Sam Sax)
DESCRIPTION:  \nUnion Square Slam presents Desireé Dallagiacomo and Semi-Finals #1\, a special spotlight feature with Sam Sax\, and our very first Semi-Finals\, hosted by Omar Holman!!! \n  \nCompetitors tonight: \nKearah Armonie\nNoel Quinones\nGuangpyo Hong\nAnthony McPherson\nNkosi Nkululelo\nCecily Schuler\nCarol Brown\nItiola Jones\nChris Rodriguez \n6pm: Free Writing Workshop with Sara Emily Kuntz\n7pm: Sign-ups start (open mic only)\n7:30pm: Open Mic\n8:00pm: Feature\n8:30pm: Slam (invite only tonight) \n  \n*** AT OUR NEW LOCATION *** \nMonday weekly slams will be hosted by the Bureau of General Services – Queer Division \nhoused in the LGBT Center \n208 W 13th St\, Rm 210 \nAll Ages // $5 // 18 and under Free Admission \nPlease note: the Bureau is closed on Mondays. We will open at 6 PM on Mondays for the Union Square Slam. \n  \nAbout our Feature: \nRanking 3rd in at the 2014 Individual World Poetry Slam\, 3rd at the Women of the World Poetry Slam\, and 3rd at the 2014 National Poetry Slam\, Desireé Dallagiacomo is an award-winning writer\, performer\, and educator. She is the program director and a lead teaching artist for Forward Arts Inc\, a literary arts non-profit in Baton Rouge\, LA\, and a 2014 Pushcart Prize nominee. Her work has been featured in The Huffington Post\, The San Francisco Gate\, EverydayFeminism.com\, Upworthy\, Tulane University’s production of The Vagina Monologues\, the New Orleans Fringe Festival\, and Tandem Review. Studying creative writing and women & gender studies\, she is a student at the University of New Orleans– where she is a recipient of the Ryan Chigazola Poetry Scholarship. She has taught and performed at colleges\, universities\, and youth organizations across the country. Desireé enjoys working with student and community populations in middle school\, high school\, college\, and beyond. \nAbout our Slam: \nSemi-Finals is an invite-only slam. The 8 highest ranking poets of the last 6 open slams are competing tonight — the top 2 winners secure spots in our Finals in May 2016. SemiFinals is run just like Open Slams: 3 rounds\, first round has 8 poets in random order\, 2nd round has 5 poets going from high to low ranking\, and 3rd round has 3 poets\, also from high to low. All rounds are cumulative. Each poet has 3 minutes to read a poem\, plus a 10-second grace period. All other PSi Slam Rules apply. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/uss11202015/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151128T193000
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SUMMARY:Nowhere Slow - a reading with Bertie Marshall
DESCRIPTION:  \nA reading from Bertie Marshall’s NOWHERE SLOW- collected writings (1994-2014)… containing poems\, plays\, chapbooks\, memoirs and a reprint of his 1997 debut novel Psychoboys. \nSuggested donation of $5 to benefit the Bureau. No one turned away for lack of funds. \n  \nCheck out Bertie Marshall’s discussion of Nowhere Slow in OutThere. \n  \nPhotograph by Joe Ray\nBertie Marshall is the author of Berlin Bromley (his critically acclaimed memoir about his life as part of The Bromley Contingent- and mid 70s pre punk London) his other books include Psychoboys\, a novel and Nowhere Slow\, collected writings. The British Library have recently acquired Marshall’s archive. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/nowhere-slow/
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SUMMARY:Affirmative laughter: African-American Friday Edition
DESCRIPTION:  \nAffirmative Laughter is back and we’re reclaiming BLACK Friday. Each month host Elsa Waithe brings you a comedy show dedicated to hilarity and diversity. This month we are taking over the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division (in conjunction with the Bureau’s exhibition The Uses of Anger) and featuring NY’s best QTPOC comics\, plus special guests. \nComics:\nCalvin S. Cato\nWanjiko Eke\nAlex English\nGloria Shantae Butler \nSpecial Guest/Affirmative Hire:\nJoel Palilla \n  \nSuggested donation of $5 to benefit the Bureau. No one turned away for lack of funds. \nWe will also pass a hat to collect donations for the performers. \nPlease note: The Center and the Bureau will open at 5 PM on Friday\, November 27th.  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/affirmative-laughter-african-american-friday-edition/
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SUMMARY:Closed for Thanksgiving Day
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SUMMARY:Rebel Friendships
DESCRIPTION:  \nAuthor Ben Shepard writes: \n     Rebel Friendships: “Outsider” Networks and Social Movements is a book inspired by the world of organizing we have all created\, along with the lovely and messy ways organizers go about creating change through our own invisible committees\, affinity groups\, and networks of comrades. Some of the chapters I’ve been drafting for years now. The work covers my experiences with the first person I know to die of AIDS\, my godfather Fred\, who worked at Keller’s bar on the West Side of Manhattan\, my recollections of towel snapping and high school football\, identify blurring AIDS activism in San Francisco\, drag marches in New York\, anarchist bikers\, Occupiers\, and universal stories of friends still taking care of each other and their friends coping with premature losses\, overdose\, and struggles over what we hope our world can be.\n     Rebel Friendships considers the interplay between individuals and their friendships with social movements. The intersections between individual and community\, the ways we experiment with social change\, explore\, create\, and reduce the harms of modern living are the work of social movements. Yet\, the process is rarely simple. Through auto-ethnographic reflections of experiences with the Beats\, ACT-UP\, Occupy Wall Street\, anti-consumer\, queer rights\, and non-polluting transportation movements Shepard explores the way friendship infuses social movements with the social capital necessary to move bodies of ideas forward. Such innovation is rarely seen in more institutionalized social arrangements. Rebel Friendships offers a new take on the ties between friends who are connected through affinity and efforts aimed at social change. \nTwo ACT UP/NY veterans\, Jay Blotcher and Andrew Velez\, will join Shepard to discuss our experience of the magic of activist friendships and esprit de corps. \n  \nSuggested donation of $5 to benefit the Bureau. No one turned away for lack of funds. \n  \nPraise for Rebel Friendships: \n“A daring and innovative approach to social movements – Shepard’s book is a treasure and tool. Taking on the importance of affect\, friendship\, care and trust in movements he at once teaches the reader and entertains simultaneously. This trailblazing book addresses an area of social movements studies woefully under researched and does a stupendous job of capturing theory\, history and feeling – all the while using a narrative form that makes the reader not want to put down the book.” \nMarina Sitrin\, author of Everyday Revolutions: Horizontalism and Autonomy in Argentina and co-author of – They Can’t Represent Us!: Reinventing Democracy from Greece to Occupy. \n  \n“Rebel Friendships delves deep into a phenomenon that every activist\, and student of activism\, is aware of\, but not enough of us acknowledge: at the core of every collective and at the center of every social movement are individual friendships – radical friendships. Kudos to Benjamin Heim Shepard for writing this perceptive and moving book!” \nStephen Duncombe\, Professor of Media and Culture\, NYU\, and Co-Director\, Center of Artistic Activism\n \n \n“In Rebel Friendships Benjamin Shepard continues and extends the project that has engaged him during the eighteen years of our friendship. That project is an ongoing social activism and a growing body of writing\, a politics and an esthetics. It believes deeply in people as the ultimate repository of worth\, a community but also a collection of frail\, flawed\, uniquely amazing individuals. Both Ben and his writing are good.” \nJim Eigo\n \n \n“Benjamin Shepard book Rebel Friendships is a masterpiece\, weaving together the lived experiences of activists critical to important movements for social justice. In lucid prose\, Shepard vividly details the dialectical interplay among key individuals engaged in activism through friendships – the magical elixir of sustainable movement making. This compelling analysis is a must read!” \nRon Hayduk\, Professor of Political Science\, Queens College/CUNY and rebel friend among activists from global justice to immigrant rights\, Occupy to the Lower East Side Collective \n  \n“Friendship is a central social and psychological force in people’s lives. Yet it also has political dimensions\, as Ben Shepard so vividly demonstrates. Through his own personal stories\, and interviews and biographies of friends\, Shepard gives meaning to the oft-quoted feminist phrase that ‘the personal is political.’ In Rebel Friendships\, we experience the many profound ways friends create community activism\, develop families of choice\, mentor each other\, and perform rituals. This is indeed the book that illustrates the transformative political and personal power of friendships.” \nPeter M. Nardi\, PhD\, author of Gay Men’s Friendships: Invincible Communities \n  \n“Rebel Friendships is a necessary contribution to contemporary radical social movements and the literatures that discuss them. Part memoir\, part scholarly analysis\, and part political assessment\, in this book Ben Shepard reminds us\, earnestly\, that productive struggles from below require the engines of trust\, love\, and mutual aid that define “friendship.” Throughout the case studies and reflections here\, Shepard offers powerful examples of the ways that friendship has played a decisive role in radical social struggles throughout recent history\, and how friendship will be the foundation of our efforts toward building a better future.” \nCraig Hughes\, Team Colors Collective\n \n \n“Shepard’s big-hearted book is a galvanizing reminder that the search for and maintenance of human connections lie at the center of any valid fight for change. Through well-researched historical analysis and engaging personal anecdotes\, Shepard reimagines community organizing by simply reminding us who we have been\, who we are\, and who we can become. This book makes me want to befriend everyone.” \nRev. Micah Bucey\nAssociate Minister\, Judson Memorial Church\n \n \n“A impressively researched and starkly confessional examination of interpersonal bonding at the so-called edges of society — and how the power of friendship can incrementally reframe notions of normality. Ben Shepard delivers exactly the kind of cross-disciplinary study more social science scholars should be engaged with in order to understand the essentially activist components of our evolving human nature.” \nRob Magnuson Smith\, author or The Gravedigger and The Scorper\, teaches English and Creative Writing at Exeter’s Penryn campus in Cornwall.\n \n \n \nBy day\, Benjamin Shepard\, PhD\, LMSW\, works as an Associate Professor of Human Services at City Tech/CUNY. By night\, battles to keep New York from becoming a giant shopping mall. To this end\, he has done organizing work with the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP)\, SexPanic!\, Reclaim the Streets\, Times UP\, the Clandestine Rebel Clown Army\, Absurd Response\, CitiWide Harm Reduction\, Housing Works\, More Gardens Coalition\, Times UP!\, Right of Way\, and Occupy Wall Street. \nHe is also the author/editor of several books: White Nights and Ascending Shadows: An Oral History of the San Francisco AIDS Epidemic (1997)\, From ACT UP to the WTO: Urban Protest and Community Building in the Era of Globalization (2002)\, Queer Political Performance and Protest (Routledge\, 2009) The Beach beneath the Streets: Contesting New York’s Public Spaces (with Greg Smithsimon\, SUNY Press) and Play\, Creativity\, and Social Movements: If I Can’t Dance\, Its Not My Revolution (Routledge\, 2011)\, and Community Projects as Social Activism: From Direct Action to Direct Services (Sage). \nIn 2010\, he was named to the Playboy Honor Role as one of twenty professors “who are reinventing the classroom.” \nA social worker\, he has worked in AIDS services / activism for two decades\, joining ACT UP Golden Gate in the early 1990’s\, opening two congregate facilities for people living with HIV/AIDS\, serving as deputy director for a syringe exchange program\, all while remaining active in efforts to bridge the gap between direct action and direct services. Today\, he remains involved in organizing efforts around transportation\, HIV/AIDS\, labor\, public spaces and environmental policy. \n  \n  \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:TARNISHED GOLD HOLIDAY KICKOFF PARTY & BOOKSIGNING
DESCRIPTION:  \nIn celebration of TARNISHED GOLD\, Book Two in Ann Aptaker‘s Cantor Gold Crime Series\, an evening of food and entertainment\, featuring a fabulous Tarnished Gold performance and an author signing! \n  \nFeaturing: \n \nAnn Aptaker\, Author of Criminal Gold & Tarnished Gold. \nArnie Mazer\, noted actor (Law & Order\, Swift Justice\, etc). \nProducer Allan Neuwirth\, Producer (What’s the Name of the Dame\, Drawing Home\, etc.) \n  \nSuggested donation of $5 to benefit the Bureau. No one turned away for lack of funds. \nTo reserve a copy of Tarnished Gold please write to contact@bgsqd.com. \n 
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SUMMARY:Opening Reception for The Uses of Anger
DESCRIPTION:  \nDownload a PDF of the press release. \nHow do we use our rage? When confronted with injustice after injustice\, what do we do with our anger? Audre Lorde\, using an excerpt from one of her poems in her 1981 talk “The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism\,” argues \n  \neverything can be used \nexcept what is wasteful \n(you will need \nto remember this when you are accused of destruction.)* \n  \nLorde went on to say “Every woman has a well-stocked arsenal of anger potentially useful against those oppressions\, personal and institutional\, which brought that anger into being. Focused with precision it can become a powerful source of energy serving progress and change.” \n  \nThe Uses of Anger is an exhibition of activist materials born of rage in response to a variety of injustices\, including: physical and psychological violence against lesbians\, gays\, bisexuals\, transgender people\, and others who do not conform to established gender conventions; police violence against people of color; efforts to deny women access to safe and legal abortions; the failures of governmental and medical institutions to adequately address the AIDS/HIV crisis. These posters\, flyers\, tee shirts\, and other materials give voice to the anger that these injustices inspire. The Uses of Anger includes materials from the following groups: \n  \nACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) \nAnonymous Queers \nBlack Lives Matter. NYC Shut It Down: The Grand Central Crew \nCamp Out \nFierce Pussy \nGran Fury \nHomocult \nLesbian Avengers \nOccupy Wall Street \nQueer Nation \nLee Schy – Extended Family series \nWHAM! (Women’s Health Action and Mobilization) \n  \nThe Uses of Anger is organized by Charlie Welch and Greg Newton with help from Elsa Waithe. On view at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division from November 20\, 2015 through January 17\, 2016. \nOpening reception on Friday\, November 20\, 6 to 9 PM. \n  \n*From “For Each of You\,” first published in From a Land Where Other People Live (Broadside Press\, Detroit\, 1973)\, and collected in The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde (W.W. Norton and Company\, New York\, 1997)\, 59. \n“The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism\,” in Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Crossing Press\, Berkeley\, 1984)\, 124-133. \n  \nThanks to the following people for providing materials for the exhibition: \nEd Ball \nAndy Fair \nJoe Ferrari \nAvram Finkelstein \nLisa Guido \nElizabeth Meixell \nEmily Nahmanson  \nElsa Waithe \n  \nThe Bureau will host the following events in conjunction with the exhibition: \n  \nFriday\, November 27\, 7 PM \nAffirmative Laughter: African American Friday Edition \nAffirmative Laughter is back and we’re reclaiming BLACK Friday. Each month host Elsa Waithe (aka Elsa Just Elsa Comedy) brings you a comedy show dedicated to hilarity and diversity. This month we are taking over the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division and featuring NY’s best QTPOC comics\, plus special guests. \nComics:\nCalvin S. Cato\nWanjiko Eke\nAlex English\nGloria Shantae Butler \nSpecial Guest/Affirmative Hire:\nJoel Palilla \n  \nSunday\, December 6\, 6 PM \nScreening of United in Anger: A History of ACT UP (2012\, 93 minutes).  Following the screening director Jim Hubbard and producer Sarah Schulman will engage the audience in discussion.  This event is co-presented by The LGBT Community Center and the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division in room 301 of The Center. \n  \nThursday\, January 7\, 7 PM \nHIV/AIDS activist Kyle Bella reports on his recent visit to South Africa. Details forthcoming. \n  \nFriday\, January 15\, 7 PM \nScreening of Tongues Untied (1989\, 55 minutes). Directed by Marlon Riggs. Followed by a panel discussion led by Sean Apparicio. Details forthcoming. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Launch for THE RISE AND FALL OF THE YELLOW HOUSE
DESCRIPTION:  \nJohn Whittier Treat will speak on his debut novel about the early years of the AIDS epidemic in Seattle\, THE RISE AND FALL OF THE YELLOW HOUSE (Big Table Publishing Company\, 2015). \nReading at 7 PM \nEmail the Bureau to reserve a copy of The Yellow House: contact@bgsqd.com \n  \nSuggested donation of $5 to benefit the Bureau. No one turned away for lack of funds. \nClick here to read the Kirkus Review of The Rise and Fall of the Yellow House \nClick here to read Ted Kerr’s review of The Rise and Fall of the Yellow House on Lambda Literary Review \nCheck out this short essay by John Whittier Treat in Out Magazine\, “Why We Still Need Novels That Tell the Story of AIDS.” \nAuthor photograph by Steve Shelton\nJohn Whittier Treat is Professor Emeritus at Yale University. He is now based in Seattle where he writes fiction about the Pacific Northwest. THE RISE AND FALL OF THE YELLOW HOUSE is his first novel. He is currently at work on FIRST CONSONANTS\, the story of a stutterer who saves the world. \n  \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Celestial Body 2: Entering the secret rooms: BDSM\, Underground Sexuality . . . and God
DESCRIPTION:  \nModerated by Perry Brass (The Manly Pursuit of Desire and Love\, Belhue Press)\, Celestial Body 2 is part two of a three-part series of discussions\, readings\, and even demonstrations on this intriguing\, often controversial topic. Feel free to attend one\, two\, or all three Celestial Body meetings. \nJoining the conversation at Celestial Body 2: the Rev. Steve Parelli (Other Sheep) on submission to God; Craig Cullinane\, honoring the Sacred Intimate (“Cosmic Orgasm”); Christopher Trevor on Deep Fetishes; and Gymnos Alitheia on ecstatic nakedness. \nLet’s separate spirituality from religion and discuss the question: IS GOD STILL A LOT KINKIER THAN YOU THINK\, OR WHAT ARE THE SECRET ROOMS IN YOUR HOUSE? \nThe third and final session will take place on Wednesday\, December 16\, 7 to 9:30 PM. \n  \nPerry Brass’s books are available for purchase at the Bureau.\nFor more information: belhuepress@earthlink.net\, or contact@bgsqd.com.\n  \nSuggested donation of $5 to benefit the Bureau. No one turned away for lack of funds. \n  \n  \n \nPerry Brass has published 19 books\, including poetry\, novels\, short fiction\, science fiction\, plays\, and bestselling advice books (How to Survive Your Own Gay Life\, The Manly Art of Seduction\, The Manly Pursuit of Desire and Love). Active in the movement toward lgbt rights (gay equality) since 1969\, Brass’s work continuously deals with issues of sexual freedom\, personal authenticity\, and personal politics coming out of his involvement with the movement for gay liberation. He is especially interested in that connection between sexuality and spirituality; with the world of the body\, the mind\, and a deeper “soul” consciousness connecting the two. Aside from his books\, poetry\, plays\, and essays\, he also regularly blogs for the Huffington Post. For more information: www.perrybrass.com \n  \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:True Religion: Novelist Christopher Bram in Conversation with J.L. Weinberg
DESCRIPTION:  \nA reading and discussion of True Religion\, J.L. Weinberg‘s debut novel about the supernatural and spirituality in the New Age\, with a distinctly gay twist. \nAn unexpected encounter with an otherworldly spirit at a holiday party in the Orenda Valley sends Seth Davis\, a gay journalist from Manhattan\, on a profound religious journey. Along the way\, Seth stumbles into a quarreling coven of witches in the charming tourist town of Hope Springs\, Pennsylvania\, formerly known as Hell’s Ferry\, and one of the most haunted destinations in America. As Seth learns more of the town’s remarkable history\, he also uncovers his own shocking past\, and in order to seek peace for his troubled soul\, he must determine the fate of the coven\, the town\, and the entire Orenda Valley. True Religion is a genre-bending fusion of paranormal horror\, spiritual therapy\, American history\, and New Age enlightenment. \nSuggested donation of $5 to benefit the Bureau. No one turned away for lack of funds. \nPlease let us know if you would like the Bureau to reserve a copy of True Religion: contact@bgsqd.com \n  \n  \n \nJ.L. Weinberg was born and raised in San Francisco. He moved to New York City to become a film critic\, but was sidetracked by stints as a model and actor. He returned to movie journalism\, writing for New York\, Premiere\, The Village Voice\, Interview\, American Cinematographer\, The Advocate\, and The New York Native. “True Religion” is his first novel. \n  \n \nChristopher Bram is the author of eleven books including the novel that became the movie “Gods and Monsters.” His most recent book is “Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America.” \n  \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Newfangled 8: Robert Siek hosts Peter LaBerge\, Andriniki Mattis\, and Angel Nafis
DESCRIPTION:  \nJoin us for the 8th installment of Newfangled\, poetry readings by emerging poets hosted by Robert Siek. Newfangled 8 will feature Peter LaBerge\, Andriniki Mattis\, and Angel Nafis. \n  \nSuggested donation of $5 to benefit the Bureau. No one turned away for lack of funds. \n  \n \nPETER LABERGE is the author of the chapbook Hook (Sibling Rivalry Press\, 2015). His recent poems appear in Beloit Poetry Journal\, Columbia Poetry Review\, Sixth Finch\, Hayden’s Ferry Review\, Best New Poets 2014\, and Indiana Review\, as a finalist for the 2015 Indiana Review Poetry Prize. He is the recipient of a fellowship from the Bucknell University Stadler Center for Poetry\, the co-editor of Poets on Growth (Math Paper Press\, 2015)\, and the founder and editor-in-chief of The Adroit Journal. He lives in Philadelphia\, where he is an undergraduate student at the University of Pennsylvania. Visit him online at https://www.peterlaberge.com. \n  \nPhotograph by Julieta Salgado\nANDRINIKI MATTIS is a poet from and living in Brooklyn with a BA in Political and Poetic Resistance. Currently they are working on their first book\, Meditations on the Black Body. Andriniki is a 2015 Emerging Poets Fellow at the Poets House. Their work has appeared in Cortland Review and Nepantla and is forthcoming in the Pariahs Anthology. \n  \n \nANGEL NAFIS is a Cave Canem Fellow and Ruth Lilly Dorothy Sargent Finalist. Her work has appeared in The Rattling Wall\, The BreakBeat Poets Anthology\, MUZZLE Magazine\, The Rumpus\, and Poetry. She has represented the LouderArts Poetry Project at both the National Poetry Slam and the Women of the World Poetry Slam in 2011. She is an Urban Word NYC Mentor and the founder\, curator\, and host of the quarterly Greenlight Bookstore Poetry Salon reading series. She is the author of BlackGirl Mansion (Red Beard Press/New School Poetics\, 2012). Facilitating writing workshops and reading poems across the United States and Canada\, she lives in Brooklyn. \n  \n \nROBERT SIEK is the author of the poetry collection Purpose and Devil Piss (Sibling Rivalry Press\, 2013) and the chapbook Clubbed Kid (New School University\, 2002). He works at a large publishing house in Manhattan and lives in Brooklyn. \n  \n  \n 
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