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SUMMARY:Trans Poets Will Burn Your House Down
DESCRIPTION:A night of trans poetry and possible pyromania to celebrate the launch of Issue 2 of the Zine of the Trans Poets Workshop NYC. Come for the incandescent performers\, stay for the cool beer served by the Bureau’s charming staff. And don’t worry about your house\, as long as we’re too busy with poetry\, it’ll be just fine. \nKay Ulanday Barrett\nOlympia Perez\nTyler Vile\nCharles Theonia\nLilith Latini\nStephen Ira\nSasha Alexander\nVivien J Ryder\nTai Maag\nSuneela Mubayi\nMya Adriene Byrne \nHosted by Cat Fitzpatrick  \nBGSQD is wheelchair accessible via an elevator. There is no cover charge but the exciting new poetry zine will be on sale. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/trans-poets-will-burn-your-house-down/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150307T190000
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SUMMARY:We Are Here: Young Activists Talk HIV/AIDS
DESCRIPTION:HIV/AIDS remains one of the biggest public health crises worldwide. In the United States\, new infection rates continue to be high\, particularly among younger Black and Latino men. Four HIV/AIDS activists under 30 have been invited to share stories of the work they’re doing\, offering a deeply personal look at this health crisis through a mixture of activist successes and larger social and political challenges. Though these individuals approach activism in different ways\, they are united by a deep commitment to targeted educational and community-based projects that target racially and economically diverse populations. \nThis event also marks the launch of events for Our Viral Lives\, an on-going educational project and online digital archive of HIV/AIDS stories focusing on diverse perspectives from an under 30 crowd. By balancing historical remembrance with stories that confront structural and social problems\, the project hopes to combat stigma and misinformation around HIV/AIDS. In the process\, it hopes to open up opportunities for activists everywhere to create sex positive prevention solutions and strengthen treatment opportunities. \n  \n  \n \nKyle Bella is currently serving as the Office Manager at Open mHealth\, an organization devoted to pursuing mobile healthcare solutions that improve patient and clinician outcomes. He is also pursuing an M.A. in Social Innovation and Sustainability through Goddard College\, where he has launched the Our Viral Lives project. Previous writing on HIV/AIDS has been published in Colorlines Magazine\, POZ Magazine\, Huffington Post\, Buzzfeed LGBT\, nomorepotlucks\, and Jacket2. He spent last summer in Europe researching contemporary artists including Keith Haring\, David Wojnarowicz\, Felix Gonzalez-Torres\, and Isaac Julien. \n  \n \nMathew Rodriguez is currently the community editor for TheBody.com\, the web’s complete HIV/AIDS resource. He is an award-winning journalist and essayist whose work has appeared in Slate\, The Advocate Magazine\, the Huffington Post and the International Business Times. He is also a celebrated speaker who has spoken at The Apollo Theater\, Times Square\, the New York Public Library\, the International AIDS Conference and the US Conference on AIDS. You can follow him on twitter at @mathewrodriguez. \n  \n \nCharlie Ferrusi is currently pursuing his MPH in Community Health at New York University. He received his BS in School and Community Health Education from SUNY Brockport. Charlie is a Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES) and holds NYS Teaching Certification in Health Education. He currently works as a Graduate Assistant at the NYU LGBTQ Student Center\, and serves on the steering committee for the LGBT HealthLink. In 2014\, Charlie was honored in the 2014 POZ 100\, and gave a TED Talk at TEDxHudson. Charlie is interested in research and causes related to HIV prevention\, transgender health\, LGBTQ youth\, and health education. \n  \n \nMartez Smith is an MSW candidate at Long Island University Brooklyn and a Research Assistant at CHEST (Center for HIV Educational Studies and Training. Holding a bachelor’s degree in social work from The Ohio State University\, Martez has dedicated his life to identifying and promoting strategies that will prevent the spread of HIV and improve the lives of people living with HIV. Working with CDC-funded DEBI programs\, as well as the AIDS Clinical Trials Group has provided Martez with knowledge and insight into the needs of MSM of color. In addition to his work with formal organizations and institutions\, Martez is a participant and leader among the house/ball community. His insight and knowledge of the AAMSM community has lead to the creation of a community level intervention entitled Elements of Vogue\, a multidisciplinary behavioral intervention for young black and latino MSM involved in house/ball culture which aims to improve coping skills and overall wellness. Martez envisions having a role in the incorporation of sexual health education into high school curriculums\, and community-based programs in geographical areas heavily affected by HIV infection. Specifically\, his hope is to make policy recommendations through research that would in turn lead to the implementation of sexual health education curriculums in places with the highest burden of HIV transmission. \n  \n \nKia LaBeija (AKA Kia Michelle Benbow) is a multi-disciplinary artist working in photography\, performance and installation. A member of the Iconic House of LaBeija\, Kia’s work explores the intersections of fantasy\, nightlife\, community\, politics and fine art. In 2014\, she received the Visual AIDS Vanguard award for her work as an artist and activist\, was featured in the POZ 100 list of groundbreaking public figures\, won Grand Prize in Women’s Vogue Performance at the GMHC’s Latex Ball\, and had her photography prominently featured in the La MaMa exhibition “Ephemera As Evidence.” As an activist and founding member of the GrenAIDS Collective\, her work is focused on HIV/AIDS awareness -specifically in relation to youth- by educating and creating space for new conversations. She is frequently invited to speak and give workshops on performance\, voguing and activism at various arts and academic institutions around NYC\, and regularly performs in theaters\, galleries and nightclubs all over the world. A native New Yorker\, she is an alumni of the Juilliard School and the Ailey School\, where she trained in music and dance at a young age. Currently\, Kia is finishing her degree at The New School University. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/we-are-here-young-activists-talk-hivaids/
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SUMMARY:Gay Men and The New Way Forward: Book Launch Party and Reading
DESCRIPTION:  \n\n\n\nCelebrate the official launch of Raymond L. Rigoglioso’s anticipated new book\, Gay Men and The New Way Forward. Organized around 14 Distinct Gay Male Gifts\, this book takes an open-hearted look at gay men’s differences. It presents a comprehensive and updated framework that shows how gay men make critical and evolutionarily significant contributions to society. It proposes that\, when we understand how we contribute to the health and vitality of society\, LGBT people can make an entirely new case for equality and begin an important new era in our movement. Written as an invitation to self-discovery\, Gay Men and The New Way Forward contains a self-assessment to help the reader discover how he serves and heals humanity\, reinvents manhood\, and frees and enriches the human spirit. Raymond will read from his book and invite questions and discussion.\n \nGay Men and The New Way Forward continues the inquiry about gay men’s purpose\, advanced by gay writers\, thinkers\, and leaders throughout the years. Come celebrate the latest entry into this genre\, and explore what it means to be a gay man today. \n\n\n \n \n\n  \nRaymond L. Rigoglioso is the founder of Gay Men of Wisdom. Through this project\, he has led dozens of discussions and programs exploring gay men’s purpose and gifts. He has presented his work at New York’s LGBT Center\, Easton Mountain\, the Rowe Labor Day Retreat\, online\, and at groups throughout the northeastern United States. He is a certified life coach and has a professional background that includes more than two decades as a writer and editor for nonprofit organizations. This is his first book.\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n\n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/gay-men-and-the-new-way-forward-book-launch-party-and-reading/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150305T200000
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SUMMARY:Adult Contemporary Presents Ariel Schrag\, Malik Gaines\, and Ethan Philbrick
DESCRIPTION:ADULT CONTEMPORARY is an experimental non/fiction salon series featuring readings\, lectures\, performances and interviews with and by established and emerging writers. We seek out first person perspectives characterized by the urgent and the everyday; true stories that connect us to the big by way of the small\, uneventful\, and unexpected. Readings will be followed by informal conversations. \nOrganized by Katherine Brewer Ball and Svetlana Kitto. \nThe March 5th installment of Adult Contemporary will feature Ariel Schrag\, Malik Gaines\, and Ethan Philbrick. \n  \n \nAriel Schrag is the author of the novel Adam (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) and the graphic memoirs Awkward\, Definition\, Potential\, and Likewise (Simon & Schuster). She was a writer for the HBO series How To Make it in America and the Showtime series The L Word. She lives in Brooklyn. \n  \n \nMalik Gaines is an artist and writer based in New York. He has performed and exhibited extensively with the group My Barbarian\, with recent projects at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art\, Goethe-Institut New York\, and the 2014 Whitney Biennial; and with the newer collaboration\, Courtesy the Artists\, with recent projects at The Kitchen and the Studio Museum in Harlem. Gaines has written about art and performance for magazines\, exhibition catalogues\, artist monographs\, and journals including Art Journal\, Women & Performance and e-flux. His first book\, Excesses of the Sixties: Performance\, Gender Eccentricity\, and the Black Transnational Imagination\, is currently in the publication process with NYU Press. He is assistant professor in the department of Art & Art History at Hunter College\, CUNY. \n  \n  \n \nEthan Philbrick is a scholar and performer based in Brooklyn.  He is currently a PhD candidate in Performance Studies at New York University completing a dissertation on the shifting conditions of collective artistic and political praxis in the 1970s.  He has previously served as the assistant editor of TDR: The Drama Review and is currently a member of the Women and Performance editorial collective.  He has performed in New York at SculptureCenter\, BRIC\, NYU Performance Studies\, and Sophia Cleary’s Rehearsal at Cage. \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/adult-contemporary-presents-ariel-schrag-malik-gaines-and-ethan-philbrick/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150304T190000
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SUMMARY:Canceled! Ex-Gays & Tapeworms in NYC. Comedy & Stories by Peterson Toscano & Glen Retief
DESCRIPTION:Tonight’s event\, Ex-Gays & Tapeworms in NYC. Comedy & Stories by Peterson Toscano & Glen Retief\, has been canceled due to the coming snow–Peterson and Glen would have had to drive for a few hours through the snow. So we’ll have to reschedule for another time. Stay tuned! \n  \nPeterson Toscano spent nearly 20 years trying to de-gay himself for Jesus in NYC and beyond. Glen Retief suffered during Apartheid South Africa where his bullies tried to beat the gay out of him so that he could be a strong white South African empowered to oppress others. \nBoth Peterson and Glen dramatically escaped the oppression they faced and turned to art and writing to speak truth to power. They also fell in love with each other. Peterson is internationally renowned for his hilarious and profound one-person plays including Doin’ Time in the Homo No Mo Halfway House\, I Can See Sarah Palin from my Window\, and Transfigurations\, which explores gender non-conformists in the Bible. Glen is the author of the Lambda award winning book\, The Jack Bank: A Memoir of a South African Childhood\, and working on a novel called\, The Tapeworm Chronicles. They will speak and perform sharing their personal journeys\, performing old and new work\, and what it is like to be two radical queer Quakers dab smack in the middle of Pennsylvania Amish Country. \nwww.petersontoscano.com\nwww.glenretief.com \nSuggested donation of $5\n(no one turned away for lack of funds) \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/ex-gays-tapeworms-in-nyc-comedy-stories-by-peterson-toscano-glen-retief/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150301T180000
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SUMMARY:Varied Lives: A Play for Six Men\, by Patrick Thomas McCarthy: A Sit-Down Reading
DESCRIPTION:Talk back to follow the sit down reading. Refreshments available.\n\nVARIED LIVES (C) 2014 by Patrick Thomas McCarthy ptmc.\nA sit down reading of a play “modelled” upon Shakespeare’s MERRY WIVES of WINDSOR. \nIt’s 1930 in the American Heartland… when adoption ruled as an alternative to marriage…. a visitor from Milwaukee\, striving for more than just a weekend in the country\, throws Mr. Fenton Philip Ford’s estate and its VARIED LIVES into chaos. \nSIX MEN: Modell “Moddy” Terrence Smith. 20s; Mr. Fenton Philip Ford 40s/50s; Turner\, the butler 40s/50s; Satchel Baggins 20s; Mr. Princeton Percival Page 40s/50s; Mr. Donald John Falstaff\, a Milwaukee brewer 50s \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/varied-lives-a-play-for-six-men-by-patrick-thomas-mccarthy-a-sit-down-reading/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150228T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150228T220000
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SUMMARY:Raji Bathish: Queer Writing in Palestine Today
DESCRIPTION:  \nA leading figure in the current generation of Palestinian writers\, Raji Bathish comes to us straight from Nazareth to read from his genre-defying\, provocative texts that unsettle both liberal Zionists and Palestinian nationalists.\n  \nFacilitator and translator: Suneela Mubayi\n \n  \nA Palestinian poet\, novelist\, screenplay writer and queer cultural activist born and raised in Nazareth\, Raji Bathish’s work has been widely published across the Arab and Israeli-Palestinian worlds. He has published eight books of poetry and short stories\, of which the best-known is A Room in Tel-Aviv in 2007. He is co-editor of the radical literary page anboob that seeks to promote a Palestinian and Arabic literature without the imposition of patriarchal borders of genre or nationality.\n \n  \nSuneela Mubayi is a graduate student in Arabic Literature at NYU and counts translation amongst her interests. She hopes one day to be able to call herself a poet.\n \n \n \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/raji-bathish-queer-writing-in-palestine-today/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150227T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150227T220000
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SUMMARY:Group reading of Shelley Marlow's new novel TWO AUGUSTS IN A ROW IN A ROW
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a group reading of Shelley Marlow‘s new novel Two Augusts in a Row in a Row\, NO. 007 FELLOW TRAVELERS SERIES\, PUBLICATION STUDIO with PENNY ARCADE\, STEPHEN BOYER\, MICHELLE HANDELMAN\, GEOFF HENDRICKS\, DOUGLAS MARTIN\, DEBBIE NADOLNEY\, RENO\, LOLLO ROMANSKI\, RAFAEL SANCHEZ\, BUZZ SLUTSKY\, PAMELA SNEED\, TONY TORN+LEE ANN BROWN\, JACK WATERS\, PLUS SPECIAL SURPRISE GUESTS \nAbout Two Augusts In a Row In a Row:\nA new entry in Publication Studio’s Fellow Travelers Series is always cause for delight. The series\, devoted to works of sexual and political adventure that interdict the demands of the market\, is perfect for Shelley Marlow and her beautiful\, picaresque\, Two Augusts In a Row In a Row. I’ve been dying for something first rate and innovative and have found this in Marlow’s writing. Marlow creates an unforgettable array of characters in “old New York\,” for the book takes place at the turn of this century when I suppose NYC changed forever. Her hero\, Phillip\, a gender subversive\, is the most enchanting and elusive central character in a novel since Cassandra in Dodie Smith’s I Capture the Castle. While many have compared Marlow to the late Jane Bowles\, I would agree if only there was a loving and empathetic Jane Bowles\, and now there is and here is her book. \n—Kevin Killian\, author of Spreadeagle \n  \nMarlow gives us that rare thing—a sad and humorous but character-driven narrative that is rife with life\, with wisdom. \n—Jeffery Renard Allen\, author of the novels Song of the Shank and Rails Under My Back \n  \nShelley Marlow’s writing and visual work is published in several publications including LTTR\, AlLuPiNiT\, Drunk­en Boat\, saint-lucy.com\, The Literary Review\, Zingmagazine\, New Observations\, and Log Illustrated. Notes in Kyzyl\, published in the St. Petersburg Review\, describes traveling to meet shamans in Siberia. Shelley Marlow is the fiction editor for Ping Pong Magazine out of the Henry Miller Library in Big Sur. Marlow wrote the lyrics to a musical\, UnKnot Turandot\, performed at La Mama Theater\, and presented International Witch Stories at the Italian Pavilion for the 48th Venice Bien­nial. \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/shelley-marlows-two-augusts-in-a-row-in-a-row/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150226T183000
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SUMMARY:Bi Book Club: Recognize: The Voices of Bisexual Men
DESCRIPTION:The 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 February we’ll be reading the sections on Liminality & Institutions. 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-3/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150225T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150225T220000
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SUMMARY:Prelude to a Film: Confederitis
DESCRIPTION:  \nJillian McManemin‘s caressingly transgressive storytelling and Rbt. Sps.‘ karaoke renditions of 70s/80s Nashville Country legends’ greatest hits present dichotomies of heteronormative and queer culture.  Addressing themes of romance and mischief\, these artists redefine traditional relationships in sultry and charmingly kitsch ways. Prelude to a Film: Confederitis is the first opportunity to view and examine the underbelly of their upcoming feature-film.  Through performance\, selected plot lines\, and screenings\, McManemin and Sps. give the audience a rare glimpse on how their characters found one another.  \n  \nSuggested donation $5 \nReception following performance \nRbt. Sps. will be selling three unique mix tapes from his collection. \n  \n \nRbt. Sps. is a multimedia artist who has been making work in different shitholes in the rural South and sometimes in New York City.  He was a participant in the 2008 Vienna Biennale and has shown work at P.P.O.W. and Interstate Projects in NYC.  He was also included in the 2013 Moving Image Fair in NYC.  He has currently been producing his first collaborative feature with artist Jillian McManemin. \n  \nJillian McManemin is an artist and writer with a focus on film and performance. Her work\, and life\, investigates sexuality and the spectacle though various theatrical personas. She has presented work throughout New York City\, including Anthology Film Archives\, Dixon Place\, and The CUE Foundation. Her current projects include a reimagining of Le Spectre de la Rose ballet with Kinetic Architecture Dance Co. and the experimental feature-film Confederitis with collaborator and soulmate Rbt. Sps. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/prelude-to-a-film-confederitis/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150222T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150222T210000
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SUMMARY:DEADLINE: Works-in-Progress from Cutting-Edge Queer Artists: February 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. \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\nThe February edition of DEADLINE will feature: \n  \nSacha Yanow (live solo performance)\nAlyssa Hartley (poetry)\nBuzz Slutzky (film)\nBeck Heiberg (dance)\nDavid Levesley (theatrical monologue ) \n\n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/deadline-february/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150221T190000
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SUMMARY:Newfangled 5: Robert Siek hosts Wo Chan\, Jake Matkov\, and Jayson Smith
DESCRIPTION:  \n \nJoin us for the 5th installment of Newfangled\, poetry readings by emerging poets hosted by Robert Siek. Newfangled 5 will feature Wo Chan\, Jake Matkov\, and Jayson Smith. \n  \n  \n\nWO CHAN is a queer Fujianese immigrant living in Brooklyn. Wo is the recipient of fellowships from the Asian American Writers Workshop\, Poets House\, Kundiman\, and Lambda Literary. Their work has been published (and forthcoming) in cream city review\, BARZAHK\, the Lambda Literary Fellows Anthology\, and VYM Magazine. Wo is also a member of the Brooklyn-based drag troupe\, Switch n’ Play\, and has performed at venues including Brooklyn Pride\, Princeton\, The Trevor Project\, and the Architectural Digest Expo. \n  \n \n\nJAKE MATKOV received a scholarship to the first grade. He was cast in Annie Get Your Gun as the Gun and has had nightmares ever since. He is an MFA candidate in poetry at LIU Brooklyn\, where he holds a teaching fellowship in the First Year Writing Program. He is one of the cofounding editors of visceral brooklyn\, LIU Brooklyn’s online lit journal. His work has appeared in thosethatthis\, Downtown Brooklyn\, and Brooklyn Paramount; he has publications in Liquid forthcoming. You can find him @ooohjakie. He says hi. \n  \n  \n \nJAYSON SMITH is a writer\, choreographer\, & curator hailing from the Bronx\, NY. His work is published/forthcoming in various journals & anthologies\, including Kinfolks Quarterly\, boundary2: an international journal of literature and culture\, and MUZZLE Magazine. A recent Pushcart Prize Nominee\, Jayson is currently on staff for Union Station Magazine and a curator for Poets in Unexpected Places. \n  \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). His poetry has most recently appeared in The Good Men Project\, Painted Bride Quarterly\, The Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide\, and VACZINE\, as well as the anthology Between: New Gay Poetry. He lives in Brooklyn. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/newfangled-5/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150220T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150220T220000
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SUMMARY:TELL 10: Breakups
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the one-year anniversary of TELL!  \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. \nBreakups is the theme of the tenth installment of TELL\, featuring Tiffani Barbour\, Ryn Hodes\, Glenn Marla\, & Jacqueline Mary.\n \n$5-10 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. Besides winning the 2011 Miss LEZ title\, 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\, YOU MOVE ME won the Audience Award for Outstanding Narrative Short at OUTFEST 2010 and has been shown in fesivals globally. She just won the grand prize at the first annual San Miguel De Allende Storytelling Festival in Mexico. Drae was dubbed “the next lezzie comedian on the block” by AfterEllen.com for her comedic stylings on the interwebs. Campbell throws a monthly party in Brooklyn called PRIME. Check her out online (her reel and her website www.draecampbell.com) and around town. \n  \n  \n \nTiffani Barbour is an actor\, singer\, muscian and all around entertainer. She recently returned from Sundance film festival\, where her short film “Rabbit” garnered rave reviews and generous accolades. She can also be seen smoking cigarettes and staring evilly at people with Liv Tyler on HBO’s “The Leftovers.” Tiffani’s reel. \n  \n\nRyn Hodes is a passionate\, cranky\, skeptical\, hopeful queer femme\, third generation New York Jew\, a social worker\, self-defense teacher\, writer\, and mother. She has been thrilled to read her memoir work at Queer Memoir\, Bluestockings \, Lesbian Herstory Archives and now TELL. Thank you for listening. \n  \n  \n\nGlenn Marla (performer/writer/creative arts therapist) is a Brooklyn-based performance artist\, gender queer superstar and beauty pageant queen (Miss LES 2006 and the reigning Mr. Coney Island). The Portland Phoenix calls Glenn Marla’s work\, “performance art that pushes the envelope without pushing the audience away\,” Time Out New York Calls Glenn a “downtown prophet” and The New York Times calls Glenn “an obese transvestite in tights.” Glenn Marla is a firm believer that if you don’t fit in anywhere you can fit in everywhere. Last spring Glenn finished a graduate program in Art Therapy and Creativity Development and is thrilled to be back on the stages of New York City. \n  \n  \n\nJacqueline Mary is a Brooklyn based smut maker\, video artist and brand new divorcee! Her blend of smarts\, humor\, and a slightly sociopathic nature brings her to the Tell stage! \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/tell-10-breakups/
LOCATION:Online event\, New York\, NY\, United States
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SUMMARY:Book launch of Joon Oluchi Lee’s 94
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the launch of Joon Oluchi Lee’s 94 (Publication Studio).\n \n94 is a cameo of a novel\, a miniature portrait made in relief\, existing daintily between the second and third dimensions. Who sat for the portrait: a 19-year old boy in 1994\, going to college in the South\, gay and Asian\, who will become female by 2014. The Stuff into which the portrait was carved: the feelings aroused by boys he desired\, the feelings he wanted to have; feelings that are historically specific\, that are products of a specific moment in time\, space\, and cultural evolution\, when those days of innocence were actually defined by more manipulation\, heartlessness and cruelty than today.\n \nJoon Oluchi Lee is the author of Lace Sick Bag (Publication Studio Portland\, 2013) and “The Joy of the Castrated Boy” (Social Text\, F/W 2005). His writing and textual performances can be found on girlscallmurder.com and lipstickeater.blogspot.com. He is Associate Professor of Gender Studies and Creative Writing at Rhode Island School of Design.\n \n \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/launch-of-joon-oluchi-lees-94/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150218T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150218T220000
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SUMMARY:EXPLORING QWEER EROS: Fifth and Final Meeting
DESCRIPTION:EXPLORING QWEER EROS \n  \nThis five week communal exploration of qweer erotic myths and mysteries will utilize the Heart Circle and Plato’s Symposium to explore the unique power of qweer erotic ethos and its importance in our world today. \n  \nThe Symposium was chosen for this workshop because in its five speeches Athenian philosophers at a drinking party express in depth their thoughts concerning erotic love.  Although specific to the time and place – eros between adult men and youth – The Symposium provides an excellent platform for contemporary discussion.  Themes we will cover include the nature of eros\, desire\, attraction\, loss\, coupling\, erotic friendship\, fear\, death and HIV/STIs. We will delve into the connection between eros and psyche\, eros and thanatos\, and eros as a community builder and binder.  Using the Heart Circle approach will allow participants to explore these strong subjects in a safe\, confidential and non-judgmental space. \n  \nThese Heart Circles will be conducted every Wednesday evening\, 7-10 p.m.\, beginning January 21\, ending February 18\, and will be facilitated by Rosie Delicious.  All circles will be held at the Bureau of General Services – Queer Division\, in the LGBT Community Center\, 208 w. 13th St\, NYC. \n  \nThe weekly Heart Circles will integrate this classic text with contemporary practices that integrate mind\, body and spirit in a rejuvenated erotic life for participants.  We will be using Plato’s Erotic Dialogues\, translated/edited by William C. Cobb\, 1993\, SUNY Press.  You may read it online or purchase a hard copy\, available through the Bureau of General Services – Queer Division at the LGBT Community Center. \n  \nIt is advised that participants attend all five weeks as each week will cover different sections of the text.  Pre-registration is encouraged via email to houseofdelicious@gmail.com.  An additional text describing the Heart Circle process will be sent to all registrants. This series is free although we will pass a hat for donations to be shared by the Bureau and the facilitator. \n  \nRosie Delicious\, a Radical Faerie sex magician\, has co-facilitating Sex Magick Workshops in the Radical Faerie tradition since 2000.  This workshop was initiated by Harry Hay and John Burnside in 1990\, and Rosie encountered this most efficacious work in 1996.  Using the Heart Circle technique as a way of exploring these classic texts will enable participants their own unique experience of their qweer sexuality in a safe and confidential environment. \n  \nwww.faeriesexmagick.org \n  \nInterested participants can also register to attend a week-long sex magick retreat using this experience as a cornerstone. \n  \nHarry Hay asked 3 essential questions for qweer men to explore: \n  \nWho are we? \nWhy are we here? \nWhat are we here for? \n  \nHay argued that to answer these questions for ourselves\, each of us needs to dig deep into our consciousness to find our unique narrative\, both for our personal benefit as well as for the gifts that we bring to society at large.  The best way to explore this was through sharing in the Heart Circle practice.  Through the use of a talisman or talking stick\, the Heart (or Talking) Circle is a process that allows each participant to share their experience and perspective in an uninterrupted flow.  Harry gleaned this means of communing from his lifelong study and work with Native Americans.  Heart Circle practice also grew out of the new consciousness movements of the 1960’s and 70’s and has become a hallmark of communing in Radical Faerie circles. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/exploring-qweer-eros-5/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150215T180000
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SUMMARY:Que(e)rying Theory #3: The Queer Child\, by Kathryn Bond Stockton
DESCRIPTION:  \n\n\nQue(e)rying Theory is a discussion group about queer theory and critical theory for thinkers from all contexts. Reading texts both vintage and new\, we will ask questions such as: What is queerness? What do queer politics look like? How do we find the tools for living in a precarious world? And finally\, what can theory mean in our own lives? In dialogue with one another\, we will fearlessly relish in the complexities of theory\, and collectively work towards richer understandings of our past\, present\, and future. Discussions will be moderated by Connor Spencer\, and for a small donation\, wine\, beer\, and sparkling water will be available to help lubricate our conversations.\n \n***\n \nChildren exist in strange temporalities\, as Kathryn Bond Stockton argues in The Queer Child\, in which she examines how children are queered by the very forces that both constrain and produce them. Through inspired readings of film\, novels\, and popular culture\, Stockton describes the ghostly “gay child” that haunts our fictions of childhood and grows “sideways” outside of the linear narrative of straight\, historical time. Stockton’s account of the “gay child” not only complicates ideological configurations of the child\, but also our own experiences in the present as the adults who still feel the haunting touch of queer childhood histories.We’ll encounter notions of time and history over the course of our discussion\, and consider what changes if we think about childhood in terms of “sideways” growth. Come with questions\, thoughts\, and ideas–even if you didn’t have a chance to finish the entire book! \n  \nConnor Spencer is a writer living in New York City. He graduated with a BA in English from New York University\, where he conducted bi-coastal archival research on the artists David Wojnarowicz and Gary Fisher. Recently\, he was a finalist for the Marshall Scholarship. Connor tweets about leftism\, queer politics\, and dog costumes @conneriks.\n  \n\nImage: David Wojnarowicz\, Untitled (One day this kid . . .)\, 1990. Photostat\, 30 × 40 1/8 in. (76.2 × 101.9 cm). Edition of 10. \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/queerying-theory-3-queer-child/
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150215T140000
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SUMMARY:Bureau at Artist Services Day at Brooklyn Arts Exchange with Dan Fishback
DESCRIPTION:The Bureau is very excited to participate in the second annual ARTIST SERVICES DAY at Brooklyn Arts Exchange. Artist Services Day features an array of talks and workshops designed to support working dance\, theater\, performance artists and their supporters. We’ll be joining a conversation led by friend of the Bureau Dan Fishback\, director of THE HELIX QUEER PERFORMANCE NETWORK\n\nDan will discuss Helix’s expansive array of programming for queer artists\, writers and audiences. He’ll be joined by a variety of queer culture-makers\, from people who present performance to people who make their own. All of the panelists make cultural work in a political or activist context\, and our conversation will emerge from that intersection.\nLed by Dan Fishback with Greg Newton\, Donnie Jochum\, T.L. Cowan and Kia LaBeija\n1:00 – 2:00pm\n\nBAX is located at 421 Fifth Avenue (and 8th Street) in Park Slope\, Brooklyn.\nFree and open to the public.\nSuggested contribution $5\nMore info here. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/bureau-at-artist-services-day-at-brooklyn-arts-exchange-with-dan-fishback/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150214T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150214T220000
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SUMMARY:Nerd Love/Nerd Lust and Other Celebrations of Queer Love Beyond Chocolate and Roses
DESCRIPTION:Would you rather be a part of a community rather than just a couple on capitalism’s most manipulative day of the year? We’ve totally got you covered with awesome snacks\, hilarious comedy and storytelling with Kelli Dunham\, Tommy O’ Malley\, Elsa Waithe and a surprise musical guest. Plus we’ll be having a NERD OFF. All participants will have a chance to demonstrate the nerdiest thing they can do (in public)…prizes for the top nerd! \n  \nWe might totally have a silent read in at an otherwise romantic location afterwards\, if we can figure out how to do it. \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/nerd-lovenerd-lust/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150214T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150214T180000
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SUMMARY:Love Prescriptions from Cupid
DESCRIPTION:On February 14th\, 2015 Cupid will be writing free Love Prescriptions at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division. He is acting as Cupid and channeling Freud to become this character. As an authority on Love he is generously listening to each visitor and prescribing advice for desires such as love\, passion and dreams. \nPrescriptions will be written in India ink on parchment. He will be available for consultations from 1pm – 6pm. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/love-prescriptions-from-cupid/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150213T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150213T220000
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SUMMARY:Devils That Have Come to Stay Book Launch Party
DESCRIPTION:Pamela Alex DiFrancesco will read from their new book Devils That Have Come to Stay\, and Mya Byrne will perform music based on the novel that the two co-wrote.\n \nJoining us for this event will be special guests Emma Caterine and Ella Boureau. Emma and Ella are both writers of thoughtful\, intelligent fiction that sometimes falls under the genre fiction label. \n  \nMost of Pamela Alex DiFrancesco‘s life is based around the written word. Pamela Alex has\, in the past\, worked at newspapers\, interned in publishing\, and taught writing in after school programs. Pamela Alex’s short fiction has appeared in literary magazines such as The New Ohio Review and The Carolina Quarterly\, and on the website of Stoned Crow Press\, of which they are a founding member. Pamela Alex also volunteers with homeless LGBTQIA youth and is slowly learning to play the banjo. (Photo Credit: Sam Teichman)\n\n  \n  \n \nMya Adriene Byrne is a poet\, award-winning performing songwriter\, and activist. A proud trans woman\, she established her solo folk career in 2012 after years of performing with roots-rock band\, the Ramblers\, opening for acts such as Levon Helm. Her new album\, “As I Am”\, is out now\, and her writing and music were recently featured in the Advocate. Follow her at @myadriene and listen at www.myabyrne.bandcamp.com. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/devils-that-have-come-to-stay-book-launch-party/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150212T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150212T213000
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SUMMARY:PDF Club: Forgetting ACT UP by Alexandra Juhasz\, Hosted by Theodore Kerr
DESCRIPTION:In her essay “Forgetting ACT UP” (Quarterly Journal of Speech\, 2012)\, filmmaker\, activist and academic Alexandra Juhasz explores the idea that\, “When ACT UP is remembered—again and again and again—other places\, people\, and forms of AIDS activism are disremembered.”\nAt this event we will explore Juhasz’s essay\, as well as discuss what her argument means at this moment when some responses to early AIDS activism are being remembered\, while much of what has happened has yet to be remembered\, reclaimed\, and acknowledged. How does this lack of remembering fit into current discussion and action around #blacklivesmatter and how does it impact work being done presently around HIV/AIDS?  \nEveryone is welcome. People are encouraged to read the essay beforehand. Email the organizer if you do not have access to a copy.\nkerr.theodore@gmail.com \n\nTheodore Kerr is a Canadian born\, Brooklyn based writer and organizer. He was the programs manager at Visual AIDS. He is currently doing his graduate work at Union Theological Seminary.\n  \nTed Kerr writes:\n“On February 12th I will be hosting an event called PDF Club: Forgetting ACT UP by Alexandra Juhasz. To be clear: Alex is not coming. I am sorry if the title is misleading. It was never the plan. Since she wrote the essay I thought it was important her name be in the title. Alex has a full and busy life in California where she is a filmmaker\, academic\, and more. Instead I will be facilitating a conversation where we discuss Juhasz’ 2012 essay where in which—as an early member of ACT UP—she explores the ongoing important and warranted historicization of the activist group by tapping into her own thoughts and feelings and those of others who were not members around the revisitation. A key line of the essay is when she asks: “ When we continue to remember ACT UP\, whom do we forget and how does this feel?” \nNeither the essay nor our event is a slight against ACT UP. Rather both are opportunities to ask questions: Why do histories – if told at all – often get reduced to one story? What is lost when we simplify history? Whose histories are remembered? How does our awareness of the past impact our present? \nTo prepare I have compiled a bookshelf of suggested titles (most of which are currently available at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division) that you may have already read\, or may want to look at before or after the event. \nHead\, Bill Kushner  \nLong Distance\, Steven Cordova \nViral\, Suzanne Parker  \nA few years ago I heard Bill Kushner read his poetry. It was a pleasure to hear a grown man talk about lust\, pain and living. Head is a collection of poems he wrote in the early 80s\, giving a reader a sense of one man’s experience of bodies\, streets and heat in New York City in the years before ACT UP. Fast forward and you get Long Distance\, of which one reviewer said\, “Those who have wondered how to write about AIDS now that it is a treatable disease need only to turn to Steve Cordova’s smart\, funny and haunted poems.” Existing beyond these two moments and beyond is Viral by Suzanne Parker. Dedicated to Tyler Clementi\, it is a collection that explores the webbedness of tragedy. Death has a way of bringing a community together\, as ACT UP illustrates\, but what about those on the margins of what we may understand as community? How does the experience of tragedy move? \n  \nHold Tight Gently: Michael Callen\, Essex Hemphill and the Battlefield of AIDS\, Martin Duberman \nSafe Sex Bang: Buzz Bense Poster Collection\, Alex Fialho \nCheck Your Vernacular\, Dirty Looks\,  \nShade: An Anthology of Fiction by Gay Men of African Descent\, edited by Bruce Marrow and Charles H. Rowell \nWhat does activism look like when it does not including ‘acting up’? Martin Duberman’s Hold Tight Gently is a dual biography of Michael Callen and Essex Hemphill\, figures that loom large in the world of art\, activism and HIV and who were around at the same time as ACT UP\, but were not part of the group. In the Check Your Vernacular catalog\, the fine people of Dirty Looks write about the amazing short film Liberaceón in which Liberace’s attempt at activism around HIV is imagined by filmmaker and star Chris E. Vargas. In Safe Sex Bang\, another catalog\, Alex Fiahlo interviews Buzz Bence about his extensive HIV/AIDS related poster collection. In reading the dialogue one gets an intimate story about the early days of the virus. The publication includes mention of “gay-staching”\, a term coined by Fiahlo that is worth the price to learn it’s meaning. Uncovering other experiences from the time is Shade\, a compilation of short works by African American men published in 1996\, just as AIDS was changing. I think\, in Michael Warner’s sense\, we can understand AIDS as generating publics and counterpublics\, including\, but not limited to\, ACT UP. What these books show us are other ways in which people organized around the virus. How silly of us to try and contain AIDS as a thing of the past\, through the lens of only one group. \n  \nDuets\, Visual AIDS \nMemories Can’t Wait\, edited by Malene Dam\, Bridget de Gersigny\, and Kate Levy \nA few years ago I had the pleasure of interviewing writer David Deitcher about art\, AIDS\, and memory as part of a publication called Memories Can’t Wait. As a member of ACT UP himself Deitcher sheds light on memory\, and how as we live the mind makes sense of the past in ways we need to be attentive to. Also in conversational form is Duets\, a new series from Visual AIDS. Each title is a conversation with or about an artist with HIV. In the first book\, Gregg Bordowitz and Stephen Andrews discuss living long term with HIV\, the universe\, and Frank O’Hara. The second Duets is a conversation between photographer Alice O’Malley and people’s academic Che Gossett discussing the life of artist\, muse and legend Chloe Dzubilo. Getting a sense of Chloe and her impact through the conversation is one thing\, getting to know Chloe through her work is another. These readable pocket-sized volumes are rich with details about life from the early days of the AIDS crisis to now\, and in those stories are things we don’t even know we don’t know. \n  \nThe Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination\, Sarah Schulman \nSafe Space: Gay Neighborhood History and the Politics of Violence\, Christina Hanhardt \nNormal Life: Administrative Violence\, Critical Trans Politics\, and the Limits of Law\, Dean Spade \nAnti-Black Racism and the AIDS Epidemic: State Intimacies\, Adam Geary (unavailable at the Bureau—priced for academic institutions: $90!) \nWhat Matters\, Wrrqshop  \nSarah Schulman’s The Gentrification of the Mind is a must read. She makes clear the ongoing and far reaching impacts HIV has on American life\, not least of which is people choosing a narrow suburban idea of security over anything else. Dealing in similar yet divergent ideas\, written in a different register is Christina Hanhardt’s Safe Space\, which explores the relationship between race\, class\, gender\, sexuality\, activism\, the government and development providing a foundation around which a reader interested in Forgetting ACT UP can see how HIV is exasperated by public policy\, and ideas of whose comfort matters. Safe Space is part of the conversation Dean Spade initiates in his book Normal Life\, which for me includes the take-away message that there is a thing called “administrative violence\,” and when we name it and organize against it we are having a generous and productive conversation not about exclusion or equality but about liberation. Reading Spade’s book is helpful in understanding where Adam Geary is coming from in his book Anti-Black Racism and the AIDS Epidemic. Building on Cindy Patton\, Geary is suggesting that instead of the AIDS movement continuing to focus on queer intimacies in a Spadian way\, we should look at ways the state is responsible for the ongoing AIDS crisis. So enamored am I by Geary’s book I quote it in my contribution to WHAT MATTERS\, the zine complied and created by the fine folks at WRRQSHOP. \n  \nI have not read everything at the Bureau\, and the Bureau can’t possibly have every book known to humanity\, so this is a biased\, non-exhaustive bookshelf. Do you have titles you want to add? Contact us or join us on February 12th and be part of the conversation.” \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/pdf-club-forgetting-act-up/
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SUMMARY:EXPLORING QWEER EROS: Fourth Meeting
DESCRIPTION:EXPLORING QWEER EROS \n  \nThis five week communal exploration of qweer erotic myths and mysteries will utilize the Heart Circle and Plato’s Symposium to explore the unique power of qweer erotic ethos and its importance in our world today. \n  \nThe Symposium was chosen for this workshop because in its five speeches Athenian philosophers at a drinking party express in depth their thoughts concerning erotic love.  Although specific to the time and place – eros between adult men and youth – The Symposium provides an excellent platform for contemporary discussion.  Themes we will cover include the nature of eros\, desire\, attraction\, loss\, coupling\, erotic friendship\, fear\, death and HIV/STIs. We will delve into the connection between eros and psyche\, eros and thanatos\, and eros as a community builder and binder.  Using the Heart Circle approach will allow participants to explore these strong subjects in a safe\, confidential and non-judgmental space. \n  \nThese Heart Circles will be conducted every Wednesday evening\, 7-10 p.m.\, beginning January 21\, ending February 18\, and will be facilitated by Rosie Delicious.  All circles will be held at the Bureau of General Services – Queer Division\, in the LGBT Community Center\, 208 w. 13th St\, NYC. \n  \nThe weekly Heart Circles will integrate this classic text with contemporary practices that integrate mind\, body and spirit in a rejuvenated erotic life for participants.  We will be using Plato’s Erotic Dialogues\, translated/edited by William C. Cobb\, 1993\, SUNY Press.  You may read it online or purchase a hard copy\, available through the Bureau of General Services – Queer Division at the LGBT Community Center. \n  \nIt is advised that participants attend all five weeks as each week will cover different sections of the text.  Pre-registration is encouraged via email to houseofdelicious@gmail.com.  An additional text describing the Heart Circle process will be sent to all registrants. This series is free although we will pass a hat for donations to be shared by the Bureau and the facilitator. \n  \nRosie Delicious\, a Radical Faerie sex magician\, has co-facilitating Sex Magick Workshops in the Radical Faerie tradition since 2000.  This workshop was initiated by Harry Hay and John Burnside in 1990\, and Rosie encountered this most efficacious work in 1996.  Using the Heart Circle technique as a way of exploring these classic texts will enable participants their own unique experience of their qweer sexuality in a safe and confidential environment. \n  \nwww.faeriesexmagick.org \n  \nInterested participants can also register to attend a week-long sex magick retreat using this experience as a cornerstone. \n  \nHarry Hay asked 3 essential questions for qweer men to explore: \n  \nWho are we? \nWhy are we here? \nWhat are we here for? \n  \nHay argued that to answer these questions for ourselves\, each of us needs to dig deep into our consciousness to find our unique narrative\, both for our personal benefit as well as for the gifts that we bring to society at large.  The best way to explore this was through sharing in the Heart Circle practice.  Through the use of a talisman or talking stick\, the Heart (or Talking) Circle is a process that allows each participant to share their experience and perspective in an uninterrupted flow.  Harry gleaned this means of communing from his lifelong study and work with Native Americans.  Heart Circle practice also grew out of the new consciousness movements of the 1960’s and 70’s and has become a hallmark of communing in Radical Faerie circles. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/exploring-qweer-eros-4/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150207T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150207T220000
DTSTAMP:20260403T140517
CREATED:20150118T205657Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20150120T153254Z
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SUMMARY:Reading with Erica Doyle\, Ron Palmer\, and Peter Nickowitz
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a reading with Erica Doyle (Proxy)\, Ron Palmer (Prick Queasy)\, and Peter Nickowitz (Cinema Vernacular). \n  \n \nr. erica doyle was born in Brooklyn to Trinidadian immigrant parents\, and has lived in Washington\, DC\, Farmington\, Connecticut and La Marsa\, Tunisia. Her work has been anthologized in Best American Poetry\, Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Gay and Lesbian Writing from the Antilles\, Gumbo: A Celebration of African American Writing\, Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam\, Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem’s First Decade and Voices Rising: Celebrating 20 Years of Black Lesbian\, Gay\, Bisexual and Transgender Writing. Her poetry and fiction appear in various journals\, including Ploughshares\, Callaloo\, Bloom\, From the Fishouse\, Blithe House Quarterly and Sinister Wisdom. \nHer articles and reviews have appeared in Ms. Magazine\, Black Issues Book Review and on the Best American Poetry and Futurepoem blogs. She has received grants and awards from the Hurston/Wright Foundation\, the Astraea Lesbian Writers Fund\, the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities\, the Humanities Council of DC and Poets and Writers\, and she was a New York Foundation for the Arts Poetry Fellow. Erica is also a fellow of Cave Canem: A Workshop and Retreat for Black Writers. \nIn addition\, she has read her work at the Kennedy Center\, the National Black Arts Festival\, Joe’s Pub\, the Nuyorican\, the Calabash International Literary Festival in Jamaica\, WI and various colleges and universities. Erica received her MFA in Poetry from The New School\, and lives in New York City\, where she is an administrator in the NYC public schools and facilitates Tongues Afire: A Free Creative Writing Workshop for queer women and trans and gender non-conforming people of color. \n \nHer recent book of poetry\, Proxy (Belladonna*\, 2013) was the winner of the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America and a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award. \n  \n\n  \n \nPeter Nickowitz is a poet\, playwright\, and screenwriter. He is the author of Cinema Vernacular (Publication Studio\, 2014) and Rhetoric and Sexuality: The Poetry of Hart Crane\, Elizabeth Bishop\, and James Merrill (Palgrave\, 2006). He lives in New York City and teaches at NYU. \n\n \n \n  \n\n\nPhotograph by Kevin Killlian\n\n  \nRonald Palmer is the author of Prick Queasy (Publication Studio) www.publicationstudio.biz/books/244 and LOGICALOGICS (Counterpoint / Soft Skull Press). He has taught poetry and prose writing at NYU\, Binghamton University and Framingham State University.\n\nHe lives in San Francisco with his fiancé Kevin Rolston.\n  \n\nPrick Queasy was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award \n\n \n \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/reading-with-erica-doyle-ron-palmer-and-peter-nickowitz/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150206T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150206T220000
DTSTAMP:20260403T140517
CREATED:20150106T185609Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20150302T181257Z
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SUMMARY:Opening Reception of David Lavine: Collage
DESCRIPTION:David Lavine\, Sploosh!\, hand-cut paper collage\, 6 1/4” x 6 1/4” \n  \nJoin us for the opening reception of David Lavine: Collage on Friday\, February 6th\, 7 to 10 PM. \nThe exhibition has been extended through Sunday\, March 29!\n \n\nDavid Lavine\, Seascape (Krakt)\, hand-cut paper collage\, 7 5/8” x 6 1/4”. \n  \n\n\nArtist’s Statement: \nAll works are one-of-a-kind paper collages\, hand-cut with scissors and assembled with archival tape and glue. There is no scanning\, reprinting or photocopying\, or any type of digital manipulation. All printed matter is fair game: textbooks\, posters\, magazines\, catalogs\, coloring books\, maps\, comic books\, art books\, etc. Working from a quarry of several thousand cut elements\, form and color relationships serve as a starting point for each collage; eventually narrative threads appear as disparate elements begin to relate. Sometimes the finished collages are explosions of shape and color in hyper-dynamic compositions and seamless spatial interplay\, other times they are minimal landscapes or seascapes resulting from the simple pairing of two cut pieces. \n  \nSelected group exhibitions: \n“Art From The Boros II\,” Denise Bibro Fine Art (New York)\n“Art From The Boros\,” Denise Bibro Fine Art (New York)\n“Green Acres & Simple Pleasures\,” Piermont Straus (Piermont\, NY)\nDealers’ Lounge\, PS Project Space (New York)\n“A Minor Inconvenience\,” Pierro Gallery of South Orange / Montclair Art Museum Young Curators (South Orange\, NJ)\n“Scapes\,” Brooklyn Artists Gym (Brooklyn)\n“Intimate: Small Works\,” Brooklyn Artists Gym (Brooklyn) \nPublication/Web: \n“New Works by David Lavine\,” aarting (aarting.com)\n“David Lavine”\, aarting (aarting.com)\nFeatured work\, Indiewalls (indiewalls.com)\nFeatured work\, The Atomy (theatomy.com)\nFeatured work\, Zealous (www.zealous.co) \nEducation: \nUniversity of Pennsylvania\, BA Fine Arts \n  \ndavidlavinecollage.com \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/opening-reception-of-david-lavine-collage/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150204T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150204T220000
DTSTAMP:20260403T140517
CREATED:20150107T223347Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20150111T224149Z
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SUMMARY:EXPLORING QWEER EROS: Third Meeting
DESCRIPTION:EXPLORING QWEER EROS \n  \nThis five week communal exploration of qweer erotic myths and mysteries will utilize the Heart Circle and Plato’s Symposium to explore the unique power of qweer erotic ethos and its importance in our world today. \n  \nThe Symposium was chosen for this workshop because in its five speeches Athenian philosophers at a drinking party express in depth their thoughts concerning erotic love.  Although specific to the time and place – eros between adult men and youth – The Symposium provides an excellent platform for contemporary discussion.  Themes we will cover include the nature of eros\, desire\, attraction\, loss\, coupling\, erotic friendship\, fear\, death and HIV/STIs. We will delve into the connection between eros and psyche\, eros and thanatos\, and eros as a community builder and binder.  Using the Heart Circle approach will allow participants to explore these strong subjects in a safe\, confidential and non-judgmental space. \n  \nThese Heart Circles will be conducted every Wednesday evening\, 7-10 p.m.\, beginning January 21\, ending February 18\, and will be facilitated by Rosie Delicious.  All circles will be held at the Bureau of General Services – Queer Division\, in the LGBT Community Center\, 208 w. 13th St\, NYC. \n  \nThe weekly Heart Circles will integrate this classic text with contemporary practices that integrate mind\, body and spirit in a rejuvenated erotic life for participants.  We will be using Plato’s Erotic Dialogues\, translated/edited by William C. Cobb\, 1993\, SUNY Press.  You may read it online or purchase a hard copy\, available through the Bureau of General Services – Queer Division at the LGBT Community Center. \n  \nIt is advised that participants attend all five weeks as each week will cover different sections of the text.  Pre-registration is encouraged via email to houseofdelicious@gmail.com.  An additional text describing the Heart Circle process will be sent to all registrants. This series is free although we will pass a hat for donations to be shared by the Bureau and the facilitator. \n  \nRosie Delicious\, a Radical Faerie sex magician\, has co-facilitating Sex Magick Workshops in the Radical Faerie tradition since 2000.  This workshop was initiated by Harry Hay and John Burnside in 1990\, and Rosie encountered this most efficacious work in 1996.  Using the Heart Circle technique as a way of exploring these classic texts will enable participants their own unique experience of their qweer sexuality in a safe and confidential environment. \n  \nwww.faeriesexmagick.org \n  \nInterested participants can also register to attend a week-long sex magick retreat using this experience as a cornerstone. \n  \nHarry Hay asked 3 essential questions for qweer men to explore: \n  \nWho are we? \nWhy are we here? \nWhat are we here for? \n  \nHay argued that to answer these questions for ourselves\, each of us needs to dig deep into our consciousness to find our unique narrative\, both for our personal benefit as well as for the gifts that we bring to society at large.  The best way to explore this was through sharing in the Heart Circle practice.  Through the use of a talisman or talking stick\, the Heart (or Talking) Circle is a process that allows each participant to share their experience and perspective in an uninterrupted flow.  Harry gleaned this means of communing from his lifelong study and work with Native Americans.  Heart Circle practice also grew out of the new consciousness movements of the 1960’s and 70’s and has become a hallmark of communing in Radical Faerie circles. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/exploring-qweer-eros-3/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150201T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150201T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T140517
CREATED:20150117T230235Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20150117T230313Z
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SUMMARY:regrets4context
DESCRIPTION:__4__ is a series presenting queer and trans words and performance\, curated by Abigail Lloyd and Charles Theonia. \nRegrets: Cat Fitzpatrick is a poet and essayist\, she teaches at Rutgers University- Newark\, she facilitates the Trans Poets Workshop NYC\, and is one of the editors at Topside Press. You can read her work in places like Asylum\, Glitterwolf and\, forthcomingly\, EOAGH. And also in her zine. “At Least It’s Short”\, which she is happy to sell you tonight for anything you are prepared to pay. She lives in New Jersey\, and she is very sorry about\neverything. \nContext: Tommy “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. With Morgan Parker he curates the reading series Poets With Attitude (PWA). \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/regrets4context/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150131T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150131T220000
DTSTAMP:20260403T140517
CREATED:20150112T182636Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20150112T201252Z
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SUMMARY:Live from the Bureau! An Open Mic Night
DESCRIPTION:LIVE from the BUREAU! An Open Mic Night \nOrganized by Andrew Bell \nThe January installment of LIVE from the BUREAU! will be hosted by Ali Dineen and will feature guests from The Love Yourself Project. \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\nSIGN UP TO PERFORM AT THE EVENT \nFIRST COME\, FIRST SERVED \n  \n  \n\n \n\nAli Dineen is a human being\, artist\, musician\, traveler\, activist\, resident of Queens\, eater of pasta and other foods\, listener of music and other sounds\, amongst other things. She hopes sincerely that you’re having a good day.\n  \n \n​The Love Yourself Project exists​ to inspire people to build a strong relationship to the self\, mindfully creating a future with loving regard for all living beings and the environment; ultimately\, manifesting a humanity that declares itself unwavering in its commitment to peace\, loving-kindness\, compassion\, and harmony. \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  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n\n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/live-from-the-bureau-an-open-mic-night-januar/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150129T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150129T220000
DTSTAMP:20260403T140517
CREATED:20141227T200633Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20141227T212232Z
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SUMMARY:NEW YORK WRITER DYKES at BUREAU OF GENERAL SERVICES-QUEER DIVISION
DESCRIPTION:FIVE NEW YORK WRITER DYKES READ FROM THEIR LATEST NOVELS & DISCUSS THE EXPERIENCE OF\nWRITING QUEER FICTION IN THE BIG CITY\n \n  \nAnn Aptaker\nR.G. Emanuelle\nJane Hoppen\nSusan X. Meagher\nCindy Rizzo\n  \n\nTHURSDAY\, JAN. 29TH\, 2015\nREADINGS\, DISCUSSION\, Q & A 7 p.m.\nBOOKSIGNING\, 8 P.M.\n  \n\n\n\n\nNative New Yorker Ann Aptaker has earned a reputation as a respected if cheeky exhibition designer and curator of art during her career in museums and galleries. Taking the approach that what art authorities find uncomfortable the public would likely enjoy\, exhibitions Ann has curated have garnered favorable reviews in the New York Times\, Art in America\, American Art Review\, and other publications.\n \nShe brings the same attitude and philosophy to her first love: writing\, especially a tangy variety of historical crime fiction. Ann’s short stories have appeared in two editions (2003 and 2004) of the noir crime anthology Fedora. Her flash fiction story\, “A Night In Town\,” appeared in the online zine Punk Soul Poet. In addition to curating and designing art exhibitions and writing crime stories\, Ann is also an art writer and an adjunct professor of art history at the New York Institute of Technology. CRIMINAL GOLD is her debut novel.\n \nAnn can be contacted at writer.aptaker@gmail.com\, on Facebook at Ann Aptaker\, Author\, and on Twitter @AnnAptaker \n  \n  \n  \n \n\nR.G. Emanuelle is from New York City\, and spent more than 20 years as an editor\, writer\, and typesetter. When she was child\, a neighbor called her a vampire because she only came out after dark\, so it’s fitting that her first novel\, Twice Bitten\, is about creatures of the night. When she’s not writing or editing\, she can usually be found cooking or developing recipes\, as she is also a culinary school graduate\, which is what inspired her to write her romantic novella\, Add Spice to Taste\, starring a love-burned chef. She is co-editor of All You Can Eat: A Buffet of Lesbian Erotica & Romance\, Unwrap These Presents\, and Skulls and Crossbones: Tales of Women Pirates\, and her short stories can be found in numerous anthologies.Blog: www.rgemanuelle.com\nEmail: rgemanuelle@gmail.com\nFacebook: R.G. Emanuelle\nTwitter: @Rgemanuelle\n  \n  \n  \n\nJane Hoppen‘s fiction has been published in various literary magazines\, including Story Quarterly\, Western Humanities Review\, Feminist Studies\, The Dirty Goat\, PANK\, and Superstition Review. Her novel\, In Between\, was published by Bold Strokes Books\, December 2013. Her novella\, The Man Who Was Not\, was published as an e-book by Bold Strokes Books\, June 2014. \n  \n  \n  \n \nSusan X. Meagher lives in Brooklyn with her wife\, Carrie. Born in East St. Louis\, Illinois\, she has lived in both Chicago and Los Angeles for significant periods\, but New York fits her very well. She has over thirteen novels in print along with the seventeen and counting novels in the “I Found My Heart in San Francisco” series. Her latest novel is Out of Whack.You can find out more about Susan at her websitewww.susanxmeagher.com All of her books and eBooks are available atwww.briskpress.com\n\n\n  \n  \n \nCindy Rizzo is an author of lesbian fiction. Her first novel\, Exception to the Rule\, won the 2014 award for Best Debut Fiction from Golden Crown Literary Society and was a finalist for the Rainbow Book Awards. In September 2014\, her second novel\, Love Is Enough\, was released. A short story\, The Miracle of the Lights\, appeared in the anthology Unwrap These Presents (Ylva Publishing). Earlier writing includes essays in the anthologies\, Lesbians Raising Sons and Homefronts: Controversies in Non-Traditional Parenting. Cindy was also the co-editor of a fiction anthology\, All the Ways Home\, published in 1995 (New Victoria) in which her story Herring Cove was included.Cindy has worked in philanthropy for many years and has a long history of involvement in the LGBT community. She serves on the boards of Congregation Beit Simchat Torah in New York and Funders for LGBTQ Issues. She lives in New York City with her wife\, Jennifer\, and their two cats. They have two grown sons\, a wonderful daughter-in-law\, and a baby granddaughter. \nYou can contact Cindy by email at cindyt.rizzo@gmail.com\, via Facebookwww.facebook.com/ctrizzo\, through her blog\, www.cindyrizzo.wordpress.com\, or on Twitter @cindyrizzo. \n\n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/new-york-writer-dykes/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150128T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150128T220000
DTSTAMP:20260403T140517
CREATED:20150107T223137Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20150111T224123Z
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SUMMARY:EXPLORING QWEER EROS: Second Meeting
DESCRIPTION:EXPLORING QWEER EROS \n  \nThis five week communal exploration of qweer erotic myths and mysteries will utilize the Heart Circle and Plato’s Symposium to explore the unique power of qweer erotic ethos and its importance in our world today. \n  \nThe Symposium was chosen for this workshop because in its five speeches Athenian philosophers at a drinking party express in depth their thoughts concerning erotic love.  Although specific to the time and place – eros between adult men and youth – The Symposium provides an excellent platform for contemporary discussion.  Themes we will cover include the nature of eros\, desire\, attraction\, loss\, coupling\, erotic friendship\, fear\, death and HIV/STIs. We will delve into the connection between eros and psyche\, eros and thanatos\, and eros as a community builder and binder.  Using the Heart Circle approach will allow participants to explore these strong subjects in a safe\, confidential and non-judgmental space. \n  \nThese Heart Circles will be conducted every Wednesday evening\, 7-10 p.m.\, beginning January 21\, ending February 18\, and will be facilitated by Rosie Delicious.  All circles will be held at the Bureau of General Services – Queer Division\, in the LGBT Community Center\, 208 w. 13th St\, NYC. \n  \nThe weekly Heart Circles will integrate this classic text with contemporary practices that integrate mind\, body and spirit in a rejuvenated erotic life for participants.  We will be using Plato’s Erotic Dialogues\, translated/edited by William C. Cobb\, 1993\, SUNY Press.  You may read it online or purchase a hard copy\, available through the Bureau of General Services – Queer Division at the LGBT Community Center. \n  \nIt is advised that participants attend all five weeks as each week will cover different sections of the text.  Pre-registration is encouraged via email to houseofdelicious@gmail.com.  An additional text describing the Heart Circle process will be sent to all registrants. This series is free although we will pass a hat for donations to be shared by the Bureau and the facilitator. \n  \nRosie Delicious\, a Radical Faerie sex magician\, has co-facilitating Sex Magick Workshops in the Radical Faerie tradition since 2000.  This workshop was initiated by Harry Hay and John Burnside in 1990\, and Rosie encountered this most efficacious work in 1996.  Using the Heart Circle technique as a way of exploring these classic texts will enable participants their own unique experience of their qweer sexuality in a safe and confidential environment. \n  \nwww.faeriesexmagick.org \n  \nInterested participants can also register to attend a week-long sex magick retreat using this experience as a cornerstone. \n  \nHarry Hay asked 3 essential questions for qweer men to explore: \n  \nWho are we? \nWhy are we here? \nWhat are we here for? \n  \nHay argued that to answer these questions for ourselves\, each of us needs to dig deep into our consciousness to find our unique narrative\, both for our personal benefit as well as for the gifts that we bring to society at large.  The best way to explore this was through sharing in the Heart Circle practice.  Through the use of a talisman or talking stick\, the Heart (or Talking) Circle is a process that allows each participant to share their experience and perspective in an uninterrupted flow.  Harry gleaned this means of communing from his lifelong study and work with Native Americans.  Heart Circle practice also grew out of the new consciousness movements of the 1960’s and 70’s and has become a hallmark of communing in Radical Faerie circles. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/exploring-qweer-eros-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150125T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150125T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T140517
CREATED:20150107T231822Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20150108T160236Z
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SUMMARY:Stone Butch Blues Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Whether you loved it\, hated it\, or never even read it\, why not join us for a discussion of Leslie Feinberg‘s Stone Butch Blues (1993)? \nStone Butch Blues is no longer in print\, but the organizer of the event\, Lana Povitz\, will happily send you a free digital copy if you email her at lpovitz at gmail.com.\n\n \n  \n\nFrom Minnie Bruce Pratt’s Obituary in The Advocate: \nLeslie Feinberg\, who identified as an anti-racist white\, working-class\, secular Jewish\, transgender\, lesbian\, female\, revolutionary communist\, died on November 15. She succumbed to complications from multiple tick-borne co-infections\, including Lyme disease. \nFeinberg was the first theorist to advance a Marxist concept of “transgender liberation\,” and her work impacted popular culture\, academic research\, and political organizing. \nHer historical and theoretical writing has been widely anthologized and taught in the U.S. and international academic circles. Her impact on mass culture was primarily through her 1993 first novel\, Stone Butch Blues\, widely considered in and outside the U.S. as a groundbreaking work about the complexities of gender. Sold by the hundreds of thousands of copies and also passed from hand-to-hand inside prisons\, the novel has been translated into Chinese\, Dutch\, German\, Italian\, Slovenian\, Turkish\, and Hebrew (with her earnings from that edition going to ASWAT Palestinian Gay Women). \nFrom 2004-2008 Feinberg’s writing on the links between socialism and LGBT history\, “Lavender & Red\,” ran as a 120-part series in Workers World newspaper. Her most recent book\, Rainbow Solidarity in Defense of Cuba\, was an edited selection of that series. \nFeinberg authored two other non-fiction books\, Transgender Warriors: Making History and Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue\, as well as a second novel\, Drag King Dreams. \nFor more on Leslie Feinberg check out this article by KaeLyn on Autostraddle.\n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/stone-butch-blues-book-club/
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