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SUMMARY:Get HARD with Wayne Hoffman
DESCRIPTION:  \nAuthor Wayne Hoffman reads from his steamy and comic debut novel\, HARD\, newly republished this month by Bear Bones Books. HARD follows a group of young AIDS activists trying to get laid and fight City Hall during NYC during the 1990s crackdown on gay businesses. Publishers Weekly called it “an intriguing exploration of politics and psyche\,” while another reviewer quipped: “Think Woody Allen meets ACT UP.” Wayne will also give us a quick peek at AN OLDER MAN\, the sequel to HARD\, which is due out in June. \n  \nphoto credit Frank Mullaney\nWayne Hoffman is the author of three books—HARD\, SWEET LIKE SUGAR (winner of the Stonewall Book Award)\, and the forthcoming AN OLDER MAN. His essays and short stories have appeared in such collections as BEST GAY STORIES 2010\, FRESH MEN 2\, and MAMA’S BOY. As a cultural reporter\, he has written for the Washington Post\, Village Voice\, The Nation\, Billboard\, and Instinct magazine; he is currently executive editor of Tablet magazine. He lives in the West Village and the Catskills. \n  \n  \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Four Poets Celebrate Lyricism from a 21st Century Perspective
DESCRIPTION:  \nAustin Alexis\, Charlie Bondhus\, Dean Kostos\, & Lynn McGee read from their recent books. \n  \n \nAustin Alexis is the author of one full-length collection: Privacy Issues\, published by Lotus Press (Wayne State University Press\, distribution).  It was selected by California’s poet laureate emeritus\, Al Young\, to receive the Naomi Madgett Poetry Award.  His two chapbooks\, both published by Poets Wear Prada\, are Lovers and Drag Queens and For Lincoln & Other Poems.  One of his poems is included in a song cycle entitled Love Poems by composer David Morneau\, recorded by Naxos.  His plays have been performed and/or read at The Samuel French Short Plays Festival\, Vineyard Theater\, the NYC LGBT Center\, Performance Space 122 and elsewhere.  His short fiction\, essays and poetry have appeared or are forthcoming in The Ledge: Poetry and Prose\, Paterson Literary Review\, Home Planet News\, Poetry Pacific (Canada)\, The Long-Islander and the anthology Rabbit Ears: TV Poems\, the first anthology of poetry about television. \n  \n  \n \nCharlie Bondhus’s second poetry book\, All the Heat We Could Carry\, won the 2013 Main Street Rag Award and the Publishing Triangle’s 2014 Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry. His work appears or is set to appear in numerous journals\, including Poetry\, The Gay & Lesbian Review\, CounterPunch\, The Alabama Literary Review\, and Midwest Quarterly. He is the poetry editor at The Good Men Project (goodmenproject.com). \n  \n  \n \nDean Kostos’s collections include This Is Not a Skyscraper (recipient of the Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award\, selected by Mark Doty\, forthcoming from Red Hen Press in April of 2015)\, Rivering\, Last Supper of the Senses\, The Sentence That Ends with a Comma\, and Celestial Rust. He co-edited Mama’s Boy: Gay Men Write about Their Mothers and edited Pomegranate Seeds: An Anthology of Greek-American Poetry (its debut reading was held at the United Nations). He translated and compiled a suite of Ancient\, Byzantine\, and Modern Greek poems for an event sponsored by Rockefeller Foundation. \nHis work has appeared in over 300 journals\, including The Bangalore Review (India)\, Boulevard\, Chelsea\, Cimarron Review\, The Cincinnati Review\, Mediterranean Poetry (Sweden)\, The Same\, Southwest Review\, Stand Magazine (UK)\, Vanitas\, Western Humanities Review\, on Oprah Winfrey’s website Oxygen.com\, and elsewhere. His libretto\, Dialogue: Angel of War\, Angel of Peace\, was performed by Voices of Ascension. His literary criticism has appeared on the Harvard UP Web site and Talisman. A multiple Pushcart-Prize nominee\, and a finalist for the Gival and Jot Speak (UK) awards\, he has taught at Wesleyan\, The Gallatin School\, and CUNY. His poem “Subway Silk” was translated into a film and screened in Tribeca and at San Francisco’s IndieFest. He is currently working on another collection of poems and a memoir. \n  \n  \n \nLynn McGee recently won the Bright Hill Press manuscript contest and her chapbook\, Heirloom Bulldog\, is forthcoming in late Spring 2015. Her full-length manuscript\, Sober Cooking\, is forthcoming from Spuyten Duyvil Press in January 2016. Her poems appear in recent or current issues of Storyscape\, the American Poetry Review\, Sensitive Skin magazine\, Right Hand Pointing\, Hawai’i Review\, The Same and many other journals. With poet Gerry LaFemina\, she co-curates the Lunar Walk Poetry Series in Brooklyn\, and she works as a news writer for a CUNY college. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/four-poets-celebrate-lyricism-from-a-21st-century-perspective/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150508T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150508T210000
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SUMMARY:Queers Abroad: Poets Jee Leong Koh and John Marcus Powell Read
DESCRIPTION:Two expatriate poets who have lived in New York long enough to consider themselves New Yorkers read their recent work. \n  \n \nJee Leong Koh is the author of four books of poems\, most recently “The Pillow Book” (Math Paper Press). His work has been anthologized in “New Poetries V” (Carcanet Press) and “Villanelles” (Everyman’s Library). He lives in New York City. \n  \n  \n \nJohn Marcus Powell is a poet who is also an actor. He is Welsh and for the past 25 years has lived in New York. Before that he lived in London\, Paris\, Rome\, and Oran. Harold Pinter\, his favorite writer and a great influence\, directed him in The Man in the Glass Booth\, encouraged his writing\, and helped him get his short stories published in Joe McCrindle’s Transatlantic Review. He flirts with any anarchic poet he meets and at the moment is romantically involved with Whitman\, Rimbaud\, and Borges. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/queers-abroad/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150507T190000
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SUMMARY:Andrea Cohen\, Patrick Donnelly\, and Paul Lisicky: A Poetry Reading
DESCRIPTION:  \nPhotograph by Francesca G Bewer\nAndrea Cohen’s poems and stories have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly\, The New Republic\, The New Yorker\, Poetry\, The Threepenny Review\, and elsewhere. Her previous poetry collections include The Cartographer’s Vacation\, winner of the Owl Creek Poetry Prize\, Long Division\, and Kentucky Derby. She has received a PEN Discovery Award\, Glimmer Train’s Short Fiction Award\, and several residencies at The MacDowell Colony. She directs the Blacksmith House Poetry Series in Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, and the Writers House at Merrimack College. Her new collection\, Furs Not Mine\, will be released by Four Way Books in March. \n  \n \nPaul Lisicky is the author of LAWNBOY\, FAMOUS BUILDER\, THE BURNING HOUSE\, and UNBUILT PROJECTS. His work has appeared in CONJUNCTIONS\, DENVER QUARTERLY\, FENCE\, THE IOWA REVIEW\, PLOUGHSHARES\, TIN HOUSE\, and elsewhere. His awards include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the James Michener/Copernicus Society\, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. He has twice been a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Gay Men’s Fiction and in Autobiography. He teaches in the MFA Program at Rutgers University-Camden\, in the low residency program at Sierra Nevada College\, and at the Juniper Summer Writing Institute. He is the editor of STORYQUARTERLY and serves on the Writing Committee of the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. A memoir\, THE NARROW DOOR\, is forthcoming from Graywolf Press in January 2016. \n  \n \nPATRICK DONNELLY’s books of poetry are The Charge (Ausable Press\, 2003\, since 2009 part of Copper Canyon Press) and Nocturnes of the Brothel of Ruin (Four Way Books\, 2012)\, the latter book a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award\, and the former book a 2004 finalist for The Publishing Triangle Award for Gay Male Poetry. Donnelly is director of the Poetry Seminar at The Frost Place (Robert Frost’s old homestead in Franconia\, NH\, now a center for poetry and the arts)\, and an associate editor of Poetry International. With his spouse Stephen D. Miller\, Donnelly translates classical Japanese poetry and drama\, including the Japanese poems in The Wind from Vulture Peak: The Buddhification of Japanese Waka in the Heian Period (Cornell East Asia Series\, 2013). In 2013\, Donnelly received a U.S./Japan Creative Artists Program award to fund a 3-month residency in Japan during 2014. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/andrea-cohen-patrick-donnely-and-paul-lisicky-a-poetry-reading/
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SUMMARY:Examining the Gay Rights Movement: Its History and Possible Future Direction
DESCRIPTION:  \nWalter Frank will examine the history of the modern gay rights movement in the United States and will also discuss the upcoming Supreme Court case on same sex marriage and what the impact of a favorable or unfavorable decision might be on the future direction of the movement. \nWalter Frank’s most recent book\, Law and the Gay Rights Story: The Long Search for Equal Justice in a Divided Democracy (Rutgers University Press\, 2014) will be available for purchase. \n  \nWalter Frank retired from his position as Chief of Commercial Litigation for The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey in April 2005. Since then he has explored the relationship of constitutional law and democracy in several law review articles. His book\, Making Sense of the Constitution\, was named one of the outstanding university press books for the year 2012. His most recent book\, Law and the Gay Rights Story: The Long Search for Equal Justice in a Divided Democracy\, has received a number of favorable reviews\, including in the New York Review of Books\, the Gay and Lesbian Review\, Publishers Weekly Online and the Lambda Literary Review. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/examining-the-gay-rights-movement-its-history-and-possible-future-direction/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150503T180000
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SUMMARY:Strange NYC
DESCRIPTION:​ \nThree local speculative fiction writers– Richard Bowes\, Robert Levy\, and Sam J. Miller— read stories of the weird\, the queer\, and the otherworldly. \n  \n \nRichard Bowes is nominated for a 2015 Nebula Award. His most recent novel\, DUST DEVIL ON A QUIET STREET was on the 2014 World Fantasy and Lambda Awards short lists. His publications include six novels\, four story collections\, seventy short stories. He has won two World Fantasy\, the Lambda\, Million Writers and IHG awards. Recent and forthcoming appearances include: Datlow’s The Doll Collection\, Tor.com\, XIII\, Farrago’s Wainscot\, Uncanny\, F&SF\, Interfictions\, “Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror 2015”\, “In the Shadow of the Tower.” \n  \n \nRobert Levy is an author of unsettling stories and plays whose work has been seen Off-Broadway. A Harvard graduate subsequently trained as a forensic psychologist\, his first novel\, the contemporary dark fairy tale THE GLITTERING WORLD\, was published worldwide in February by Gallery/Simon & Schuster. Robert can be found in his native realm of Brooklyn\, as well as online at TheRobertLevy.com. \n  \n \nSam J. Miller is a writer and a community organizer. His fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Lightspeed\, Apex\, Asimov’s\, Electric Velocipede\, Strange Horizons\, The Minnesota Review\, and The Rumpus\, among others. He is a nominee for the Nebula Award\, a winner of the Shirley Jackson Award and a graduate of the Clarion Writer’s Workshop. He lives in New York City\, and at www.samjmiller.com \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/strange-nyc/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150502T190000
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SUMMARY:Speak OUT with Speaking OUT: Queer Youth in Focus
DESCRIPTION:  \nSpeaking OUT –Open Mic story telling and experience sharing \nJoin the photographer/author Rachelle Lee Smith\, co-host Sam LaRoche\, and subjects from the new book Speaking OUT: Queer Youth in Focus while they speak OUT about their experiences in the book and beyond. \nSubjects will discuss how they have changed alongside the change in society and today’s political climate and reflect upon their hand-written stories from over the last decade. There will be audience participation and you are encouraged to share your stories! \nIt is a powerful experience to have our voices strengthened by joining one collective voice. We are more significant together than we are alone. While the stories we share may differ\, ranging from experiences with homophobia to youthful bravado and everywhere in between\, together they create the narrative of growing up queer. \n \nRachelle Lee Smith is an award winning and nationally and internationally shown and published photographer and the author of the recently published Speaking OUT: Queer Youth in Focus. \nSpeaking OUT is a decade long collaborative photographic essay that explores a wide spectrum of experiences told from the perspective of a diverse group of young people\, ages fourteen to twenty-four\, identifying as queer (i.e.\, lesbian\, gay\, bisexual\, transgender\, or questioning).\nThe body of work has been published in magazines such as The Advocate\, School Library Journal and showcased by the Equality Forum\, the Human Rights Campaign\, National Public Radio\, The Huffington Post\, World Pride and the U.S. Department of Education.\nThe ongoing photographic essay was published this year by PM Press and Reach & Teach with a foreword and afterword by HRC’s Candace Gingrich and Graeme Taylor. \n“Rachelle Lee Smith has created a book that is not only visually stunning but also gripping with powerful words and even more inspiring young people! This is an important work of art! I highly recommend buying it and sharing it!”\n—Perez Hilton\, blogger and television personality \nBook published by PM Press and Reach and Teach \n  \n\nSam LaRoche is a spoken word poet\, musician and artist. Find out more about Sam by following her on Instagram @blacksheepmixtape. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/speak-out-with-speaking-out-queer-youth-in-focus/
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SUMMARY:NYC Launch of My Body Is Yours by Michael V. Smith and Nothing Looks Familiar by Shawn Syms
DESCRIPTION:Two Canadian queer authors take New York by storm! \n  \n \nImprov artist\, sex radical\, genderqueer uni professor Michael V. Smith launches a memoir\, My Body Is Yours (Arsenal Pulp Press)\, exploring his emancipation from masculinity. In a night of hijinks and stunnery\, you can expect: sexy confessions\, giveaways\, tear-jerking\, and a naughty touch of stand up improv hairyness. \n  \n \nLike Michael\, Shawn Syms is also hairy—and so are the situations described in his debut short-fiction collection Nothing Looks Familiar (Arsenal Pulp Press). With a particular focus on the lives of the downtrodden and marginalized\, the book marries a vivid and distinct sense of place―the sights and smells of a meatpacking plant; a church-basement meeting hall full of sexual abusers―with universal themes such as the nature of friendship and relationships\, and the configuration of the self. Each author will take you to places both dark and light—real\, and imagined. \n  \n  \n \nMichael V. Smith is a writer\, comedian\, filmmaker\, performance artist and occasional clown. His novel\, Cumberland (Cormorant Books\, 2002)\, was nominated for the Amazon/Books in Canada First Novel Award. Smith won Vancouver’s Community Hero of the Year Award and the inaugural Dayne Ogilvie Award for Emerging Gay Writers. He teaches creative writing in an interdisciplinary fine arts department\, Creative Studies\, at the University of British Columbia\, Okanagan. \n  \n  \n \nShawn Syms has written about sexuality\, politics and culture for over 25 years in more than 50 publications. He’s the author of the short-story collection Nothing Looks Familiar\, and he edited the first book of literary fiction about social media\, Friend. Follow. Text. Shawn is currently at work on a novel about the power of dirty money\, fetishistic sex and compulsive gambling. \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/nyc-launch-of-my-body-is-yours-by-michael-v-smith-and-nothing-looks-familiar-by-shawn-syms/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150429T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150429T220000
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SUMMARY:NYC Launch of Best Sex Writing of the Year
DESCRIPTION:Join Cleis Press in launching Best Sex Writing of the Year—a thought-provoking collection that traverses the spectrum of the contemporary sexual landscape.Editor Jon Pressick and contributors David Henry\, Sterry\, Stoya\, and Lux Alptraum will read from their contributions as well as conduct an informal question and answer session exploring the intersections between sex and writing and how those can then be informed and affected by society and our personal selves.\n\nAlways thought provoking\, these passionate yet incisive essays boldly confront the controversies surrounding our most deeply held assumptions about sexuality.\n\n \n \nJon Pressick (SexinWords.ca) is a Toronto-based writer\, editor\, blogger\, radio personality and gadabout specializing in topics related to sex and sexuality for more than fifteen years. \nCurrently\, Jon contributes to Kinkly.com and has been published on/in New York Magazine\, MetAnotherFrog.com\, Xtra\, Quill & Quire and in the books Secrets of the Sex Masters and Best Sex Writing 2013. He primarily publishes to his blog\, Sex in Words\, sharing and contributing analysis of sex-related news stories\, feature interviews and erotic fiction. \nAs one of the hosts and producer of Toronto’s sex radio institution Sex City\, Jon has interviewed some of the sex community’s biggest names\, including Cindy Gallop\, Candida Royalle\, Sunny Megatron\, Susie Bright\, Tristan Taormino\, Kate McCombs\, Reid Mihalko\, Carol Queen\, Dr. Charlie Glickman and many others (including many of the contributors to this collection!). \nWhen he pulls himself away from the keyboard\, Jon occasionally performs burlesque\, DJs\, speaks at sexuality conferences\, acts as a juror for the Feminist Porn Awards\, curates an erotica library and offers prostate pleasure and erotica workshops. \nThroughout the years\, Jon’s efforts have earned him TNT’s Sex Journalist of the Year Award and recognition as one of Broken Pencil‘s “50 People and Places We Love”.\n\n \nLux Alptraum is a writer\, sex educator and consultant specializing in sex technology. Past projects have included gigs as the editor\, publisher\, and CEO of Fleshbot; a sex educator at an adolescent pregnancy prevention program; an HIV pretest counselor and the founder of ThatStrangeGirl\, an alternative porn site\, and Boinkology. \n\n  \nDavid Henry Sterry(davidhenrysterry.com)\, author of sixteen books\, is a performer and activist. His bestselling memoir Chicken Self: Portrait of a Man for Rent has been translated into a dozen languages.Hos\, Hookers\, Call Girls and Rent Boyswas featured on the cover of the Sunday New York Times Book Review.\n\n  \nStoya is an adult performer and writer. She recommends that you refrain from Googling her while at work. Read more of her words at graphicdescriptions.com.\n \n \n 
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SUMMARY:Notes from the Underground – the Cabaret Scene in 1980s Japan
DESCRIPTION:A slideshow presentation by Japanese photographer Kazuo Sumida\, which follows his uncle through the night\, in the gay cabarets and bars of a small-town’s red-light district in the 1980s. \nTosa Late Night Diary\, the book of photographs from which the slide presentation draws\, is available for purchase from the Bureau. \nFeaturing a musical performance by Jarvis Earnshaw. \n  \nKazuo Sumida has been active as a photographer for forty years\, shooting in Japan\, New York\, Russia and France. A visiting lecturer of photography in Manila and Vladivostok\, his publications include Memories of My Father: A Journey to Siberia\, New York Subway Story and Tosa Late Night Diary. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/notes-from-the-underground-the-cabaret-scene-in-1980s-japan/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150425T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150425T220000
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SUMMARY:Live from the Bureau! An Open Mic Night—Hosted by Charles Rice-Gonzalez
DESCRIPTION:LIVE from the BUREAU! An Open Mic Night \nOrganized by Andrew Bell \nLIVE from the BUREAU! is a program featuring the original work of fledgling\, emerging\, established and seasoned live-performers\, poets and visual artists. Come for songs\, burlesque\, spoken word\, diary musings\, violin solos\, puppetry\, and other queer induced happenings\, including a pop-up gallery\, with the overarching theme of: Oppression and Resistance/Fear and Hope. Expect individuals and small gangs\, elders and twinks\, the sacred\, the profane\, the tragic\, the hilarious and everything in between\, and come ready for anything. \n\nThe April installment of Live from the Bureau! is curated by El Museo del Barrio and hosted by Charles Rice-Gonzalez.\n\nFeaturing a special guest performance by RUBYCON.\n\nSIGN UP TO PERFORM AT THE EVENT \nFIRST COME\, FIRST SERVED \n  \n  \n\n \nDrew Bell is a full-time painter and Bureau volunteer happy to be making his contribution as an event organizer. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/live-from-the-bureau-an-open-mic-night-hosted-by-charles-rice-gonzalez/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150424T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150424T220000
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SUMMARY:Tina Horn’s “Love Not Given Lightly” Book Release
DESCRIPTION:  \nCome celebrate this landmark in Tina’s career! Expect glitter\, leather\, refreshments\, and a hot meat injection to your brain. \nLove Not Given Lightly is the first major collection of nonfiction stories from award-winning filmmaker\, journalist\, and advocate Tina Horn. In her vast experience in sexual undergrounds\, Tina has befriended pro-dommes\, porn stars\, kinky fetishists\, rent boys\, and more. Instead of writing a sex worker memoir\, she opted to tell the stories of the people she met along the way. Illuminating human issues of desire\, gender\, beauty\, and ultimately friendship\, the stories in this book will do no less than alter the way you think about modern sexuality in America. \n  \n \nTina Horn is a queer punk writer and professional macho slut. She produces and hosts the sexuality podcast\, “Why Are People Into That?!”\, now in its second season. Her writing on sex worker rights\, dirty talk\, and kink communities has appeared in Vice\, Nerve\, and Best Lesbian Erotica 2015. She has won two Feminist Porn Awards and once sold a golden dildo to Beyonce. Follow her ass (@TinaHornsAss) \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/tina-horns-love-not-given-lightly-book-release/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150423T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150423T203000
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SUMMARY:Bi Book Club: Recognize: The Voices of Bisexual Men
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe Bi Book Club meets once a month to discuss bi-themed books and the issues they raise. People of all orientations and genders welcome! Dinner after nearby. \nOur current book is Recognize: The Voices of Bisexual Men edited by Robyn Ochs & H. Sharif Williams (Dr. Herukhuti.) We plan to continue reading 2 sections per month of Recognize until we’re done with the book. Pick out some phrases or paragraphs that you’d like to discuss\, that inspired you\, or that struck you because of their elegant turn of phrase or the meaning behind it. If you havent had time to finish the readings\, come anyway because we read passages from the book aloud for discussion. As usual\, we’ll also be using the text as a jumping off point to further discussion of bisexual issues and personal experiences. \nGetting Books: We urge you to purchase your print copy at BGSQD and support the only LGBT bookstore in New York City. Especially since they are hosting us in their space! If you prefer e-books\, just get them your usual way. \nDeciding Books: The group votes on what book to read next. \nThe Bi Book Club meets at the Bureau of General Services-Queer Division on the last Thursday of each month.  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/bi-book-club-recognize-the-voices-of-bisexual-men-4/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150422T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150422T220000
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SUMMARY:Publishing Triangle Awards Finalists Reading
DESCRIPTION:Nine finalists for Triangle Awards will read brief excerpts from their nominated works\, including fiction\, poetry\, and nonfiction. \nThe authors of the following nominated books will read at the Bureau on the eve of the Publishing Triangle Awards Ceremony: \n  \nSideways Down the Sky\, by Barry Brennessel (MLR Press);finalist for the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBT Fiction) \n  \nHow a Mirage Works\, by Beverly Burch (Sixteen Rivers Press);  finalist for the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry \n  \nLittle Reef and Other Stories\, by Michael Carroll (University of Wisconsin Press); finalist for the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction \n  \nWagstaff: Before and After Mapplethorpe\, by Philip Gefter (Liveright/W.W. Norton); finalist for the Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction \n  \nThe End of Eve\, by Ariel Gore (Hawthorne Books); finalist for the Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction \n  \nUnaccompanied Minors\, by Alden Jones (New American Press); finalist for the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction \n  \nI Don’t Know Do You\, by Roberto Montes (Ampersand Books); finalist for the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry \n  \nNew York 1\, Tel Aviv 0\, by Shelly Oria (Farrar\, Straus and Giroux); finalist for the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction \n  \nWhen Everything Feels Like the Movies\, by Raziel Reid (Arsenal Pulp Press); finalist for the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBT Fiction \n  \nThe winners for the book awards will be announced at the awards ceremony on April 23\, 2015 at the Auditorium of the New School in New York City. \nFor more information visit publishingtriangle.org \n \n \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/publishing-triangle-awards-finalists-reading/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150418T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150418T220000
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SUMMARY:Poetry Reading: Michael Klein\, Joan Larkin\, and Tony Leuzzi
DESCRIPTION:  \nPoets Michael Klein\, Joan Larkin\, and Tony Leuzzi will read their poems. Each poet will read old and new poems\, thereby promoting their past publications and generating buzz for their recent work. \n  \nPhotograph by Shef Reynolds\nMichael Klein’s third book of poems\, The Talking Day (Sibling Rivalry Press) was both a Thom Gunn Award Finalist and a Lambda Literary Award Finalist.  His second book\, then\, we were still living (GenPop Books)\, was a Lambda Literary Award finalist and his first book\, 1990\, tied with James Schuyler’s Collected Poems to win the award in 1993.  His new book\, A Life in the Theater will be published in the fall of 2015 by Sibling Rivalry Press.  He also has written a collection of short\, lyric essays\, “States of Independence” which won the 2011 BLOOM Chapbook contest in non-fiction judged by Rigoberto Gonzalez and was published in 2012 and two memoirs Track Conditions (Lambda Literary Award finalist) and The End of Being Known\, both published by the University of Wisconsin Press.  His poems\, essays and interviews with American poets have appeared in Poetry\, American Poetry Review\, Bloom\, Fence\, Tin House\, Ploughshares\, Provincetown Arts\, Poets & Writers and many other publications.  He has taught writing at Sarah Lawrence College\, Binghamton University\, Manhattanville and for the last 20 years has been part of the graduate writing faculty at Goddard College\, in Vermont.  For many years he was on the faculty of the summer program at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown\, where he was a fellow in 1990 and now teaches at Castle Hill Center for the Arts in Truro\, Massachusetts.  He lives in New York City and Provincetown\, Massachusetts and teaches at Hunter College. \n  \nPhotograph by John Masterson\nJoan Larkin’s fifth poetry collection\, Blue Hanuman\, was published in spring 2014 by Hanging Loose Press. Among her previous books\, My Body: New and Selected Poems received the Publishing Triangle’s Audre Lorde Award. Other work includes Lambda Award winner Cold River\, which served as the basis for her play The AIDS Passion; Sor Juana’s Love Poems\, translated with Jaime Manrique; and the twenty-poem chapbook Legs Tipped with Small Claws. Joan was an activist publisher during the feminist literary explosion of the ’70s and ’80s\, coeditor of several anthologies of poetry and prose\, and author of two books in the Hazelden recovery series.  She has taught writing at Brooklyn College\, Sarah Lawrence College\, and the Drew University MFA program in poetry\, among many other places\, most recently serving as Grace Hazard Conkling Writer in Residence at Smith College.  Her honors include the Poetry Society of America’s Shelley Memorial Award\, the Academy of American Poets Fellowship\, and grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. \n  \nPhotograph by J. Alfred\nTony Leuzzi’s third book of poems\, The Burning Door\, was published by Tiger Bark Press in spring 2014.  His previous poetry collection\, Radiant Losses (2010)\, won the 2009 New Sins Editor’s Prize\, judged by Rane Arroyo.  He has authored several chapbooks\, including “Fake Book” (Anything Anymore Anywhere Press 2011) and “40\,000 Crows” (Hank’s Loose Gravel Press 2012).  In fall 2012\, BOA Editions published Passwords Primeval\, Leuzzi’s interviews with 20 leading American poets.  As a visual artist\, Leuzzi has held exhibitions of his collage\, assemblage\, and erasure paintings\, many of which have informed or are informed by his poems.  Currently an Associate Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at Monroe Community College\, in Rochester\, NY\, Leuzzi has earned the Wesley T. Hansen Award for Excellence in Teaching and the State University of New York’s Chancellor’s Award for Creativity and Scholarship.  He also oversees the college’s Creative Reading Series in fiction and poetry.  His poems and interviews have been published or are forthcoming in National Poetry Review\, Sentence\, Great River Review\, Arts& Letters\, Provincetown Arts\, American Literary Review\, and elsewhere.  He is a staff writer of book reviews and literary criticism for The Brooklyn Rail. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/poetry-reading-michael-klein-joan-larkin-and-tony-leuzzi/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150417T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150417T220000
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SUMMARY:Rough Night Reading Series presented By Raspa Magazine
DESCRIPTION:  \nRough Nights is a reading series created by Raspa Magazine in attempt to connect our audience and featured authors in way that extends past the page. We believe that through increased visibility and access the relationship between audience and authors can grow moreintimate and help spur understanding amongst ourselves as peers and for those outside our community. \nFeaturing: \nMónica Teresa Ortiz \nCharlie Vasquez\nHeidi Andrea Restrepo\nDan Vera \nRaspa Magazine is a response to the paucity of queer Latino literature readily available to readers. It is a biannual queer literary magazine that focuses on the Latino perspective. Raspa intends to showcase the experience of queer Latino artists\, thereby providing a better understanding for ourselves as peers and for those outside of our community. Raspa Magazine was started in Austin\, Texas by César Ramos in the fall of 2012. \n  \nMónica Teresa Ortiz is a writer and native Texan based in Austin. She holds a B.A. from UT-Austin\, an MFA from UT-El Paso\, and a chapbook called On a Greyhound Straight from the 915. Her work has appeared in Bombay Gin\, Huizache\, Pilgrimage Magazine\, Paso del Rio Grande del Norte\, Borderlands\, As/US\, The Texas Observer\, Autostraddle and Black Girl Dangerous. A two-time Andres Montoya Letras Latinxs Poetry prize finalist  \nCharlie Vasquez is a queer Bronx-born writer of Cuban and Puerto Rican decent and author of the novels\, Buzz and Israel\, and Contraband. He has edited two anthologies of Latino literature The Best of PANIC! (Fire King\, 2010) and From Macho to Mariposa (Lethe\, 2011) with author Charles Rice-González. Charlie is the director of the Bronx Writers Center and is the New York City coordinator for Puerto Rico’s “Festival de la Palabra”. He currently resides in the Bronx. \n  \nHeidi Andrea Restrepo Rhodes is a feminist\, second generation Colombian immigrant\, writer and political activist. Committed to the arts as a practice of creative justice and community healing. Much of her work seeks to act as social documentation\, as well as provocation. Her creative writing has been or is forthcoming in Wilde\, The Progressive\, Yellow Medicine Review\, 2014 National Queer Arts Festival\, and Nepantla. She currently resides in Brooklyn.   \n  \nDan Vera is a writer\, editor\, and literary historian living in Washington\, DC. He is the author of two poetry collections: Speaking Wiri Wiri (Red Hen\, 2013)\, the inaugural winner of the Letras Latinas/Red Hen Poetry Prize\, and The Space Between Our Danger and Delight (Beothuk Books\, 2008). His poetry has been included in the writing curricula at colleges and universities and has appeared in various journals\, including Notre Dame Review\,Delaware Poetry Review\, Gargoyle\, and Little Patuxent Review\, in addition to the anthologies Queer South\, Divining Divas\, and Full Moon On K Street. Named a 2014 Top Ten “New” Latino Author to Watch (and Read) by LatinoStories.com\, he’s edited the gay culture journal White Crane\, co-created the literary history site\, DC Writers’ Homes\, and chairs the board of Split This Rock Poetry. \n  \nOur Name \nThe title Raspa was carefully chosen for its linguistic significance. The word itself is reflective of the progression of the Spanish language. It is an integration of formal Spanish and colloquial speech. Through colloquial usage the traditional word raspar\, which means “to scrape\,” has morphed into raspa\, the rainbow-colored shaved ice many of us grew up enjoying on hot summer days. It is from this current colloquial usage that Raspa draws its visual connotation: The rainbow-colored ice resembles the diversity symbol of the pride flag\, and the cone suggests the inverted triangle that was once used to mark homosexual internment camp victims and is now being reclaimed as a symbol of pride and gay rights. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/rough-night-reading-series-presented-by-raspa-magazine/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150416T190000
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SUMMARY:Poetry Reading with Brent Armendinger\, Julia Bloch\, Maxe Crandall\, and Brian Teare
DESCRIPTION:  \nJoin us for a poetry reading with Brent Armendinger\, Julia Bloch\, Maxe Crandall\, and Brian Teare \n  \n  \n\nBrent Armendinger is the author of The Ghost in Us Was Multiplying\, newly released by Noemi Press\, as well as two chapbooks\, Undetectable and Archipelago. His work has recently appeared in Aufgabe\, Bloom\, Colorado Review\, Denver Quarterly\, and Web Conjunctions. Brent is a recipient of fellowships from Headlands Center for the Arts and Squaw Valley Community of Writers. He lives in Los Angeles and teaches at Pitzer College\, where he is an Associate Professor of English and World Literature. \n \n \n\nJulia Bloch grew up in Northern California and Sydney\, Australia. She is the author of Letters to Kelly Clarkson\, a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award\, and Valley Fever\, both from Sidebrow Books\, and the manuscript in progress Contract Method\, portions of which are forthcoming in Dusie and Little Red Leaves. Other work has appeared recently in Fact-Simile\, The Offending Adam and The Volta. She works as associate director of the Kelly Writers House\, teaches literature and creative writing at Penn\, and coedits the online journal of poetry and poetics Jacket2. \n \n \n\nMaxe Crandall‘s chapbook “Together Men Make Paradigms” was published last summer by Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs. The play premiered at Dixon Place and was shortlisted for the Leslie Scalapino Award. A 2014 Poetry Project Emerge-Surface-Be Fellow and a 2014 Poets House Fellow\, Maxe just published a dance review in Women & Performance\, has a 15-page poem about Cher forthcoming in Vetch\, and is writing a new poets play\, BOCCACCIO ON ICE. \n \n \n\nA former NEA Fellow\, Brian Teare is the recipient of poetry fellowships from the MacDowell Colony\, the Headlands Center for the Arts\, and the American Antiquarian Society. He is the author of four critically acclaimed books—The Room Where I Was Born\, Sight Map\, the Lambda Award-winning Pleasure\, and Companion Grasses\, a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Award. His fifth\, The Empty Form Goes All the Way to Heaven\, will be out from Ahsahta in September. An Assistant Professor at Temple University\, he lives in Philadelphia\, where he makes books by hand for his micropress\, Albion Books. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/poetry-reading-with-brent-armendinger-julia-bloch-maxe-crandall-and-brian-teare/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150415T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150415T220000
DTSTAMP:20260403T170614
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SUMMARY:Vague Wednesday/Mäßiger Mittwoch
DESCRIPTION:A queer art potpourri featuring Alex Alvina Chamberland\, Beck Heiberg\, & Sara Parkman. \nHosted by the Bureau’s intern from Leipzig\, Mio Proepper! \n \n \nAlexander Alvina Chamberland is a Swedish-American performance artist and writer who is now residing in New York working on their masters thesis on transfeminine sisterhood. Their intense inner life monologues come out/dance out/vomit out in the form of maximalist prose with constant climactic waves both warmandcold as they merge with emotions and thought-feelings and anti-capitalist queer femme politics amongst black swans\, panthers and lionesses. 100 percent vulnerable\, but certainly not fragile. They will be reading from forthcoming litterary projects and purr-haps singing a song or two. \n  \nPhotograph by Mathias Casado Castro\nBeck Heiberg\, b. 1987 in Copenhagen\, is a choreographer and dancer trained in Copenhagen\, Paris and New York\, where he is currently living. \nBeck’s most discussed themes circle around the identity search in gender. He searches the space that lies outside the boxes. He uses an experimental mix of styles to show androgynous\, feminine and masculine sides in his pieces. He has worked a lot in the commercial field of music videos and concerts\, but his heart lies in performance and theater. Most recently he choreographed “Boy or Girl” from the dance theater “Basic emotions” – from which he received great reviews – and dance theater “In Between”\, which toured Europe summer 2013. \nWith his new solo performance “WhoUwantMe2B” he wants to show the strength in submission and discuss gender roles in sensuality. \n  \n  \n \nSara Parkman is a folk musician\, and a lover of traditions. She adores old ladies\, polskas\, words\, trains\, old songs and the radio. She plays the violin and does it wow super mega good. She believes in the revolutionary power of kitchen tables as well as in the power of folk music to spread the word about anti-nationalism and queerfeminism. She will give you the best swedish folk music hits and mix it up with the devils roar and music that is real. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/vague-wednesdaymasiger-mittwoch/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150411T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150411T200000
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SUMMARY:I Wonder What Became of Me
DESCRIPTION:  \nA fun-filled evening of music\, performance art\, spoken word & film with actor\, director\, producer\, mentor\, drag pioneer & original Cockette RUMI MISSABU featuring a gaggle of special guests & surprises from San Francisco & New York to benefit the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division. \nFeaturing:\nDonna Personna\nLady Quesa’Dilla \nPiranha Stasia \nTrangela Lansbury \nJarvis Earnshaw \nMark Galamco \nStephen Boyer\nKoy  \n  \n \nImmediately following the Bureau event Rumi Missabu will present the world premiere of his new theater & dance attraction: THE QUESTIONING OF JOHN RYKENER @ 8:30 pm in Room 101 based on a true tale of a cross-dressing male prostitute in 1395 medieval England dedicated to the memory of trans activist Marsha P. Johnson. \nMore info here. \nmore info: cocketterumi@gmail.com \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/i-wonder-what-became-of-me/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150410T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150410T220000
DTSTAMP:20260403T170614
CREATED:20150327T181353Z
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SUMMARY:TELL 12: QUEENDOM
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. \nQueendom is the theme of the twelfth installment of TELL\, guest-hosted by Lady Quesa’Dilla! Featuring Rumi Misabu\, Donna Personna\, Trangela Lansbury\, Elle Emenopé\, and Boy Doña.\n \n$5-10 suggested donation – no one turned away for lack of funds \n  \n \nLady Quesa’Dilla \n  \n \nRumi Misabu \n  \n \nDonna Personna \n  \n \nTrangela Lansbury \n  \n \nElle Emenopé \n  \n  \n \nBoy Doña \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/tell-12-queendom/
LOCATION:Online event\, New York\, NY\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150403T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150403T220000
DTSTAMP:20260403T170614
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SUMMARY:DEADLINE: Works-in-Progress from Cutting-Edge Queer Artists: April Edition!
DESCRIPTION:Sabrina Chap brings you this works-in-progress series featuring new work from cutting-edge queer artists. Built on the notion that there’s no greater inspiration than a deadline\, this series forces renegade artists to bring new and developing work to an audience for the first time. Part experimentation + part guaranteed failure = 100% awesomeness. \n The April edition of DEADLINE will feature: \nBevin Brandlandingham – personal essay/fiction\nCaleb D Kruzel – performance art\nCandy Feit – documentary photography\nSarah Kilborne – musical reading\n\nInterested in presenting your work in a future installment of Deadline? Fill out the form!\nArtists of any kind are encouraged to submit. \nhttps://goo.gl/forms/Z84O7GgVdB \n  \nCheck out this article on the August edition of Deadline in Next Magazine: “BGSQD’s Deadline Gives Queer Artists Room To Create And Grow” by Chris Hernandez \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n\n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/deadline-april/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150402T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150402T220000
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SUMMARY:A Buried Past\, Forgotten Stories: The Sexual Underground of the Meatpacking District before Gentrification—The Photographs of Efrain John Gonzalez
DESCRIPTION:  \nA Buried Past\, Forgotten Stories: The Sexual Underground of the Meatpacking District before Gentrification—The Photographs of Efrain John Gonzalez is a photographic retrospective of the cultures and people who lived and played in the Meatpacking District from the late 70’s till the turn of the century. The photographs are records of the trans\, gay\, bisexual\, and fetish clubs\, gatherings and events that populated this neighborhood until market forces\, big money and real estate interests washed them all away. The exhibition draws on the film archives of Efrain John Gonzalez\, a photographer who has carefully preserved images of the people and clubs of these neighborhoods and who continues to work to save their unique stories and their precious culture. \n6 PM: Reception\n7 PM: Slide Show and Talk \nA Buried Past\, Forgotten Stories: The Sexual Underground of the Meatpacking District before Gentrification—The Photographs of Efrain John Gonzalez will be on view at the Bureau from April 2 through May 31\, 2015. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/a-buried-past-forgotten-stories/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150329T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150329T190000
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SUMMARY:Final Day of David Lavine: Collage
DESCRIPTION:Image: Detail of David Lavine\, Varoom! Thwroummmm Aieeeee! Bwash Khzzt\, hand-cut paper collage\, 10 panels\, 5 1/4” x 5 1/4” each \n\n  \nSunday\, March 29\, is your final chance to view these beautiful collages by David Lavine. For more information about the exhibition\, click here. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/final-day-of-david-lavine-collage/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150328T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150328T220000
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SUMMARY:Live from the Bureau! An Open Mic Night--Curated by Christopher Atamian
DESCRIPTION:LIVE from the BUREAU! An Open Mic Night \nOrganized by Andrew Bell \nLGBTQ 2015 : Top\, Bottom\, Versatile; This\, That\, Whatever is the theme of the March 28th installment of LIVE from the BUREAU!  \nCurated by Christopher Atamian \nwith a special performance by Music Bear Tony Banks\nFeaturing: \nNancy Agabian\nChristopher Atamian\nChristopher Bram\nAlex Ossola\nLousine Shamamian \nWith Swiss-style chocolates by The Lost Sense and port wine tasting. \nLIVE from the BUREAU! is a program featuring the original work of fledgling\, emerging\, established and seasoned live-performers\, poets and visual artists. Come for songs\, burlesque\, spoken word\, diary musings\, violin solos\, puppetry\, and other queer induced happenings\, including a pop-up gallery\, with the overarching theme of: Oppression and Resistance/Fear and Hope. Expect individuals and small gangs\, elders and twinks\, the sacred\, the profane\, the tragic\, the hilarious and everything in between\, and come ready for anything.\n\nSIGN UP TO PERFORM AT THE EVENT \nFIRST COME\, FIRST SERVED \n  \n  \n \nNancy Agabian is the author of Princess Freak (Beyond Baroque Books\, 2000)\, a mixed genre collection of poems\, short prose\, and performance texts on young women’s sexuality and rage\, and Me as her again: True Stories of an Armenian Daughter (Aunt Lute Books\, 2008) a memoir about the influence of her Armenian family’s history on her coming-of-age. Me as her again was honored as a Lambda Literary Award finalist for LGBT Nonfiction and shortlisted for a William Saroyan International Prize. Her essays have been published in Ararat\, The Brooklyn Rail\, Women Studies Quarterly (The Feminist Press) and the anthologies Homelands: Women’s Journeys Across Race\, Place and Time (Seal Press) andForgotten Bread: First Generation Armenian American Writers (Heyday Books). Collections of her poems appear in the anthologies Birthmark (Open Letter Press) and Deviation (Inknagir). Nancy has also written and performed several one-woman shows\, which have been presented internationally — in Geneva\, Milan and Yerevan.  With Ann Perich\, she formed the folk-punk duo Guitar Boy and released a CD\, Freaks Like Me.   A Fulbright scholar to Armenia for 2006-07\, she is currently working on “The Fear of Large and Small Nations” a novel on the influences of nationalism\, corruption\, and family on personal freedom in post-Soviet Armenia.  As a community writing workshop leader\, she has worked with multicultural groups in Los Angeles\, women writers in Yerevan\, and immigrants & first-generation writers in Queens\, New York\, where she lives. Nancy has an MFA in Nonfiction Writing from Columbia University’s School of the Arts. She teaches creative writing at Queens College\, where she was awarded for excellence in teaching in 2012\, and in the Writing Program at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University.  In 2012\, she founded Heightening Stories\, a series of community-based writing workshops for the personally brave and socially conscious\, online and in Jackson Heights\, Queens. \n\n  \n \nChristopher Atamian is a native New Yorker who writes about different topics of interest in the arts and current events. He has produced and directed videos\, films and plays internationally including the 2006 OBIE Award winning play Trouble in Paradise and was included in the 2009 Venice Biennale for his video “Sarafian’s Desire.” he has written one novel and translated six books. \n  \n \nDrew Bell is a full-time painter and Bureau volunteer happy to be making his contribution as an event organizer. \n  \n \nChristopher Bram grew up in Kempsville\, Virginia (outside Norfolk)\, where he was a paperboy and an Eagle Scout. He graduated from the College of William and Mary in 1974 (B.A. in English). He moved to New York City in 1978. \nHis nine novels range in subject matter from gay life in the 1970s to the career of a Victorian musical clairvoyant to the frantic world of theater people in contemporary New York. Fellow novelist Philip Gambone wrote of his work\, “What is most impressive in Bram’s fiction is the psychological and emotional accuracy with which he portrays his characters. . . His novels are about ordinary gay people trying to be decent and good in a morally compromised world. He focuses on the often conflicting claims of friendship\, family\, love and desire; the ways good intentions can become confused and thwarted; and the ways we learn to be vulnerable and human.” Bram has written numerous articles and essays (a selection is included in Mapping the Territory). He has also written or co-written several screenplays\, including two shorts directed by his partner\, Draper Shreeve. \nHis novel Father of Frankenstein\, about film director James Whale\, was made into the movie Gods and Monsters starring Ian McKellen\, Lynn Redgrave\, and Brendan Fraser. Bill Condon adapted the screenplay and directed. (Condon won an Academy Award for his adaptation.) \nBram was a Guggenheim Fellow in 2001. In May 2003\, he received the Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement. He lives in Greenwich Village and teaches at the Gallatin School of New York University. \n  \n \nAlexandra (Alex) Ossola is a freelance science journalist based in New York City. She writes about a lot of things\, but lately she’s into biology\, tech\, animals and education. Tweet at her with jokes or story ideas at @alexandraossola. Yeah\, she’s holding a frog in that picture. \n  \n \n\nLousine Shamamian‘s professional career started in post-production where she’s been working as a television editor for over 9 years. But\, way before that\, back in the second grade her true love was acting. After being bypassed for the lead role in Pirates of Penzance and getting the role of Ruth\, the older half-blind nursemaid\, Lousine realized she would never get the coveted lead role. Being a plump little girl\, she made note then that the big girls usually didn’t get to be the lead. Almost 30 years later\, Lousine has emerged as a comedian and actor\, producing and writing her own material. Finally\, she’s taken her creative curiosity into her own hands\, performing in comedy clubs in NY as well as making bold webisodes for her series\, Lousine: Lesbian Matchmaker To The Straights. She also recently had her adult acting debut on MTV’s Inside Joke. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/live-from-the-bureau-march-28/
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SUMMARY:JIRAIYA: GAY MANGA AND ART ICON: Signing and Talk
DESCRIPTION:  \nJiraiya is known the world over for his iconic muscular pin-up style photoreal illustrations of Asian men\, as well as for his bestselling Japanese manga. He makes his first ever public appearance in New York at the Bureau to talk a bit about his craft and to sign copies of Massive: Gay Erotic Manga and the Men Who Make It\, as well as “Caveman Guu” comic books and an assortment of merchandise. \n  \n \n*NOTE: Jiraiya is an anonymous figure and while he appreciates meeting fans\, has a strict “no facial photography” rule. We ask that attendants respect his privacy. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/jiraiya-gay-manga-and-art-icon-signing-and-talk/
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SUMMARY:Bi Book Club: Recognize: The Voices of Bisexual Men
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe Bi Book Club meets once a month to discuss bi-themed books and the issues they raise. People of all orientations and genders welcome! Dinner after nearby. \nOur current book is Recognize: The Voices of Bisexual Men edited by Robyn Ochs & H. Sharif Williams (Dr. Herukhuti.) For March\, we’ll be reading the last four pieces of the section on Institutions. Plus the sections on Anger Angst & Critique and maybe a bit of Bodies & Embodiment. We plan to continue reading 2 sections per month of Recognize until we’re done with the book. Pick out some phrases or paragraphs that you’d like to discuss\, that inspired you\, or that struck you because of their elegant turn of phrase or the meaning behind it. If you havent had time to finish the readings\, come anyway because we read passages from the book aloud for discussion. As usual\, we’ll also be using the text as a jumping off point to further discussion of bisexual issues and personal experiences. \nGetting Books: We urge you to purchase your print copy at BGSQD and support the only LGBT bookstore in New York City. Especially since they are hosting us in their space! If you prefer e-books\, just get them your usual way. \nDeciding Books: The group votes on what book to read next. \nThe Bi Book Club meets at the Bureau of General Services-Queer Division on the last Thursday of each month.  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/bi-book-club-march/
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SUMMARY:Unanswered Prayers—Readings from The Thousand-Petaled Lotus:  Growing Up Gay in the Southern Baptist Church\, by Michael Fields
DESCRIPTION:“When I was eleven years old\, I gave my life to Jesus.  I have no reason to think that he ever gave it back.” \n  \nThus begins The Thousand-Petaled Lotus: Growing Up Gay in the Southern Baptist Church\, Michael Fields’ hilarious and profound recollection of his childhood in Nashville\, Tennessee\, a/k/a The Protestant Vatican.  What does a devout young Baptist do when he finally realizes that the gay cannot be prayed away?  Michael left the church behind\, only to find that leaving his religion was just the first step on a lifelong search for what Jesus called “the Kingdom of Heaven\,” a search that would end many years later in a New York City gym. The Thousand-Petaled Lotus is a classic gay coming-of-age story\, told from a decidedly un-classic point of view\, a spiritual journey that begins on the first day of creation\, and ends with the discovery that the kingdom of heaven is\, indeed\, “spread out on the earth\, but men see it not.” \n  \nReception at 7:00\, Readings at 7:30 p.m. \nMichael will read selections from his book and invite questions and discussion. \n  \n \nMichael Fields was born and raised in Nashville\, Tennessee. His early life and struggles with God and everybody else are chronicled in his moving and piquant memoir\, The Thousand-Petaled Lotus: Growing Up Gay in the Southern Baptist Church. Michael is a graduate of Columbia University and earned his master’s degree in social work at Fordham. These days\, he works as a program director for the Department of Veterans Affairs. Michael lives in New York City with his partner\, now husband\, of thirty-five years. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/unanswered-prayers/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150322T180000
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SUMMARY:Live from the Bureau! An Open Mic Night--Hosted and Curated by Nica Buescher
DESCRIPTION:LIVE from the BUREAU! An Open Mic Night \nOrganized by Andrew Bell \nExpect a troupe of roving artists of every persuasion moving idiosyncratically\, speaking outlandishly\, rapping rhapsodically and doing all sorts of shit you’re not supposed to do indoors. Bring your talent and join the fray. \nHosted and Curated by Nica Buescher \n​Featuring DJ Lisa Shred ​ \nWith Special Guests from the Love Yourself Project \nand \nSara Emily Kuntz \nKait Burrier \nAsha Joanna Sienkiewicz \n  \nLIVE from the BUREAU! is a program featuring the original work of fledgling\, emerging\, established and seasoned live-performers\, poets and visual artists. Come for songs\, burlesque\, spoken word\, diary musings\, violin solos\, puppetry\, and other queer induced happenings\, including a pop-up gallery\, with the overarching theme of: Oppression and Resistance/Fear and Hope. Expect individuals and small gangs\, elders and twinks\, the sacred\, the profane\, the tragic\, the hilarious and everything in between\, and come ready for anything.\n\n \nSIGN UP TO PERFORM AT THE EVENT \nFIRST COME\, FIRST SERVED\n \nSara Emily Kuntz\, BA in English from the University of Pittsburgh and a MFA in Creative Writing from Carlow University. She has been published in 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. \n  \nKait Burrier MFA​ ​Creative Writing from Wilkes University writes poetry\, drama\, journalism\, and to-do lists in New York City\, where she hosts and curates a weekly reading series\, Union Square Slam\n​ ​\n​ \nAsha Joanna Sienkiewicz\, originally from Iowa\, lives her dream in New York City as a professional Dancer\, actress\, Model\, and dance/fitness Instructor. She has danced for numerous well known companies in New York City\, New Jersey\, Vegas\, and tours around the country. \n  \n\n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/live-from-the-bureau-an-open-mic-night-hosted-and-curated-by-nica-buescher/
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SUMMARY:Book reading of Susie Day's Snidelines: Talking Trash to Power (Abingdon Square Publishing\, 2014)
DESCRIPTION:  \nPrepare yourself\, as Susie Day reads from Snidelines: Talking Trash to Power\, a collection of satirical essays that lends a perverse morality to an increasingly amoral world. Join us for readings from the book – including a post-apocalyptic group performance of a sendup of “Sex and the City.” General discussion\, impassioned speeches\, vice squad raid to follow. Come and support your local queer bookstore! \n  \n \nSusie Day writes satire for Gay City News and various lefty publications. She also writes news stories on prison issues. She attends rad-lib demonstrations\, experiences ennui\, and has a day job in New York City\, where she lives with her much cuter and more politically radical partner\, Laura Whitehorn. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/book-reading-of-snidelines/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150318T190000
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SUMMARY:Book Launch of JD: A conversation with Mark Merlis and Christopher Bram about gay history and fiction
DESCRIPTION:  \nChristopher Bram talks with Mark Merlis about Merlis’s new novel JD and how fiction writers use and transform the gay past. \n“JD is a chamber drama about one family\, yet it’s full of windows that look out on the wider worlds of the Vietnam War\, New York literary politics\, and the gay revolution. Mark Merlis is a major writer and this is his best novel yet.”—Christopher Bram \n  \n \nMark Merlis is the author of the novels JD\, American Studies\, An Arrow’s Flight\, and Man About Town\, which have garnered awards including a Los Angeles Times Book Prize\, a Ferro-Grumley Award\, and a Lambda Literary Award. \n  \nPhotograph by Draper Shreeve\n\nChristopher Bram grew up in Kempsville\, Virginia (outside Norfolk)\, where he was a paperboy and an Eagle Scout. He graduated from the College of William and Mary in 1974 (B.A. in English). He moved to New York City in 1978. \nHis nine novels range in subject matter from gay life in the 1970s to the career of a Victorian musical clairvoyant to the frantic world of theater people in contemporary New York. Fellow novelist Philip Gambone wrote of his work\, “What is most impressive in Bram’s fiction is the psychological and emotional accuracy with which he portrays his characters. . . His novels are about ordinary gay people trying to be decent and good in a morally compromised world. He focuses on the often conflicting claims of friendship\, family\, love and desire; the ways good intentions can become confused and thwarted; and the ways we learn to be vulnerable and human.” Bram has written numerous articles and essays (a selection is included in Mapping the Territory). He has also written or co-written several screenplays\, including two shorts directed by his partner\, Draper Shreeve. \nHis novel Father of Frankenstein\, about film director James Whale\, was made into the movie Gods and Monsters starring Ian McKellen\, Lynn Redgrave\, and Brendan Fraser. Bill Condon adapted the screenplay and directed. (Condon won an Academy Award for his adaptation.) \nBram was a Guggenheim Fellow in 2001. In May 2003\, he received the Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement. He lives in Greenwich Village and teaches at the Gallatin School of New York University. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/mark-merlis-christopher-bram/
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