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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
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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
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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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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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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
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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
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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
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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 
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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
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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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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150326T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150326T203000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150325T190000
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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
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150322T210000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150319T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150319T220000
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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
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150318T220000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150315T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150315T210000
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SUMMARY:Que(e)rying Theory #4: After Sex?: On Writing since Queer Theory\, edited by Janet Halley & Andrew Parker
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  \nQue(e)rying Theory #4 will address the book After Sex?: On Writing since Queer Theory\, edited by Janet Halley & Andrew Parker.\n  \nPlease support the Bureau by purchasing your copy from the Bureau! Thank you!\n \n***\n \nIs “queerness” still a politically useful identity\, disposition\, and/or way of theorizing? Why does queer theory encompass more than sex and sexuality\, and should it? Where is queer theory going\, and what new subjects has it tackled? In After Sex?\, some of the most prominent writers in the field of queer studies–including Eve Sedgwick\, José Muñoz\, and Lee Edelman–offer their thoughts on what queer theory is\, and where it might take us. \nWe’ll be using the book to get a sense of the conversations that have shaped queer theory\, past and present. Our conversation will also touch on why queer spaces and organizations like the Bureau often facilitate conversations about seemingly “non-gay” issues\, and what the work of queer theory is. Read as many of the essays in the book as you wish\, and come with your questions and thoughts!\n \nConnor Spencer is a writer living in New York City. He studied English at New York University\, where he conducted bi-coastal archival research on the artists David Wojnarowicz and Gary Fisher. In 2014\, he was a finalist for the Marshall Scholarship. Connor tweets about leftism\, queer politics\, and dog costumes @conneriks. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/queerying-theory-4/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150314T190000
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SUMMARY:Teaching to Transgression: A Film and Reading Series on Queer Logics and Radical Politics in the Classroom
DESCRIPTION:  \nIn this film and reading series we will watch and critique a selection of curated films and movies that depict decidedly queer educational relationships between individuals and institutions while drinking beer/beverages and eating snacks. Some questions we might ask ourselves: What constitutes and forms our relationships to institutions as queer relationships? Do queer people occupy classrooms differently\, why\, and in what ways? To what extent have queer presence and logics existed historically as a rupture in institutionalized educational logics and frameworks? In what state do queer presence and logics present themselves in those spaces now? Why can’t (insert student character) and (insert teacher character) be together and live happily ever after without the cops coming?\n\n  \n“What you call sin\, I call the great spirit of love\, which takes a thousand forms.”\n\n  \nFor the first installment of the series\, we will be watching Mädchen in Uniform (Girls in Uniform); a 1931 German feature-length film based on the play Gestern und heute (Yesterday and Today) by Christa Winsloe and directed by Leontine Sagan. Optionally\, I will be providing the lyrics to Le Tigre’s “Eau’ Du Bedroom Dancing” as a lens through which to consider the film. Please stay for mingling and light discussion after the film.\n  \n\nSynopsis of the film: When Manuela von Meinhardis (Hertha Thiele) is brought to the boarding school for officers’ daughters\, she has difficulty adjusting to the rigid discipline of the institution and its authoritarian head mistress\, Fraülein von Nordeck zur Nidden (Emilia Unda). Manuela is taken under the wing of Fraülein von Bernburg (Dorothea Wieck)\, the most popular and compassionate teacher in the school. Like the other students\, Manuela swoons whenever Fraülein von Bernburg gives her attention or advice. However\, under the pressure and punitive environment of the boarding school\, Meinhardis is driven to attempt suicide.Facilitated by Jordan Martin \n \nJordan Martin went to Cooper Union School of Art and is a musician\, writer\, and artist. She spends a lot of her time writing fan-fiction about lesbian films and making electronic music based off of that fan fiction.\n \nSuggested donation of $3\n \n\nVideo invitation \n \n \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/teaching-to-transgression/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150313T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150313T220000
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SUMMARY:DEADLINE: Works-in-Progress from Cutting-Edge Queer Artists: March 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 March edition of DEADLINE will feature: \nSara Lyons – theatre performance\nDamien Luxe – performance art\nRobert Hyers – essay\nJes Fang – visual art\nHans Rasch– dance\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-works-in-progress-from-cutting-edge-queer-artists-march-edition/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150312T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150312T220000
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SUMMARY:TELL 11: Disaster!
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. \nDisaster! is the theme of the eleventh installment of TELL\, featuring Michelle Brotman\, Katina Douveas\, Sabrina Chap\, and Rachel Bookbinder.\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 \nMichelle Brotman is a radical social worker/community organizer\, and a staffer at Bluestockings Bookstore. TELL will be her first official storytelling engagement; however\, popular consensus holds that Michelle is a magnet for awkward coincidences and absurd encounters–which friends have begun referring to as “Mich-haps”–and she enjoys sharing the sagas of her tragicomedy existence with friends\, the internet\, and just about anyone who will listen. Michelle is also passionate about cats\, knishes\, and karaoke. \n  \n \nKatina Douveas has been scrawling writings to the world from pen and paper or napkin or the back of the hand since forever. born in detroit\, the poet came to brooklyn to chase the embarkings of literal and literary adventure. katina has pounded pavement in new york city as a jack-of-many-trades for over a decade\, and has kept afloat by kidsitting or working as a personal assistant to make free time for passion\, spitting poetry\, writing\, protesting\, loving\, scheming and dreaming of new heights. \n  \n\n​Sabrina Chap is a beautiful disaster. She’s a cabaret artist and editor of Live Through This—On Creativity and Self-Destruction. sabrinachap.com \n  \n  \n\nRachel Bookbinder enjoys old records\, feminism\, Pomeranians\, and carbs. She works in health education and is also a visual artist. Her creative work includes jewelry\, millinery\, photography\, and more. For more information\, please visit www.rachelbookbinderartist.com \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/tell-11/
LOCATION:Online event\, New York\, NY\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150311T190000
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SUMMARY:Queer Loves and Lusts in a Post-DOMA World
DESCRIPTION:(Painting of Jason and Michael by Hillary Broder) \nCelebrating the full range of queer relationship options on the 15th Anniversary of the night Michael Broder hit on Jason Schneiderman \nAn evening of words and deeds honoring the raunchy outlaw roots of LGBTQ love and celebrating the full range of relationship options in the wake of same-sex marriage—hooking up\, dating\, living together\, cheating\, breaking up\, open relationships\, groups\, polyamory\, fetish\, kink—anything and everything we do to express our loves\, lusts\, commitments\, and refusals of commitment in the era of same-sex marriage. It’s more a marathon or a free-for-all than a traditional reading\, but scheduled readers and speakers include: \nJeffery Berg  \nThomas Dooley  \nJameson Fitzpatrick  \nMatthew Hittinger  \nMichael Klein  \nTrace Peterson  \nChristina Quintana  \nPaul Romero  \nSarah Sala  \nSarah Sarai \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/queer-loves-and-lusts/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150308T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150308T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T134613
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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
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150307T220000
DTSTAMP:20260403T134613
CREATED:20150214T203347Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150306T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150306T220000
DTSTAMP:20260403T134613
CREATED:20150213T223035Z
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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
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150305T220000
DTSTAMP:20260403T134613
CREATED:20150216T180257Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20150305T195730Z
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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
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150304T220000
DTSTAMP:20260403T134613
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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
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150301T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T134613
CREATED:20150209T181321Z
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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
DTSTAMP:20260403T134613
CREATED:20150121T214905Z
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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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