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SUMMARY:Launch Party for VYM\, the drag magazine!
DESCRIPTION:  \nCelebrate the art of drag with the launch of VYM Magazine! \nVYM\, the drag magazine\, celebrates its inaugural issue with an evening of readings and performances! VYM is a love letter to the art that exists in (and is inspired by) the world of Drag. Editors Johnny and Sasha Velour believe that a wonderful concept\, such as drag\, deserves an artful forum dedicated to all its incarnations — from camp and humor\, fashion and art\, to politics and theory. This new 100 page magazine features comics\, essays\, illustrations\, interviews\, photography\, poetry\, and more from more than 20 of todays most talented independent artists. To start with a bang\, Johnny and Sasha asked their contributors to define the indefinable\, “What is Drag?” Their answers are as varied and valid as the art itself\, and their work reminds that there is no “right way” to do drag. \n  \n\nThe evening will feature readings and performances by many of the issue’s contributors including: Crimson Kitty\, Lady Winifred\, Didi Panache\, K. James\, Wo Chan\, Donald C. Shorter\, Jr.\, and more! \n  \n\nJohnny Velour (Editorial Director) (a.k.a. John Jacob Lee) is a theatre artist and choreographer who has spent most of his career in one form of drag or another. He has toured internationally with Cats and The Wedding Singer. \nSasha Velour (Artistic Director) (a.k.a. Sasha Steinberg) is a comics artist\, designer\, and drag queen. Sasha holds a BA in Literature from Vassar College\, an MFA in Cartooning from CCS\, and studied queer arts on a Fulbright Fellowship in Moscow\, Russia. He is the creator of the Stonewall comic series. ahsasha.com \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/launch-party-for-vym/
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SUMMARY:DEADLINE: Works-in-Progress from Cutting-Edge Queer Artists: June 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 June edition of DEADLINE will feature: \n\nGeoffrey Bridgman – Literature\n\n\nLauren Schleider – Visual Art\n\nJamila Reddy – Multi-DisciplinaryPerformance Art\n\nKyle Rogers – Theater\n  \n\n\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-june-edition/
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SUMMARY:Queer Collage Party
DESCRIPTION:  \nSpring time is the right time to make collages! We provide the glue sticks and paper\, you provide the pictures. Everyone who attends should bring at least one magazine or book or a bunch of pictures that you’ll contribute to the group. Each person can make their own collage(s)\, or team up with others! You can keep your own collage(s)\, but don’t expect to walk away with your magazine intact! The spirit here is fun and sharing. Attend for part or all of the evening. You are encouraged but not required to bring a little snack to share — chips\, tangerines\, grapes\, hummus\, whatever. We’ll have music playing (not live\, though). \nFacilitated by Paul VanDeCarr \n  \n \nPaul VanDeCarr is an arts and nonprofit writer in NYC\, more info at www.paulvdc.com. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/queer-collage-party/
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SUMMARY:book release and book signing party of the book Internal Landscapes by John Ollom MFA
DESCRIPTION:  \nInternal Landscapes is the culmination of fourteen years of movement research\, movement technique classes and personal introspection that have created the revolutionary methodology of Internal Landscapes. John Ollom’s practice is defined as archetypal movement that leads to art creation. \nMany dancers\, actors\, performance artists and non-performers have come to work with John Ollom\, the creator of the Internal Landscapes methodology and his company of Ollom Movement Artists. Peer into a book that not only educates but tells personal stories of unbelievable honesty. Issues of rape\, homosexuality\, and survival through trauma have been addressed in this methodology. Artists that have dared to have the courage to create art that is poignant and revelatory have found John Ollom’s practice to be the key to their process. \n  \n \nCome join us on Sunday June 7th at 6pm for this exciting book release and book signing party with John Ollom MFA. \n  \nThe Vice President of Winning Writers\, Jendi Reiter said\, \n“John Ollom is a healer.  He binds up the internalized wounds of oppression that split body form soul\, male from female\, humanity from the natural world.  His medicine is dance.  But it’s a kind of dance you may have never seen before\, arising from each performer’s inner truth rather than enforced conformity to an external ideal.” \n  \n \nJohn Ollom MFA is the author of the book Internal Landscapes. \nJohn received his MFA from Goddard College and his BFA in Ballet from Texas Christian University where he trained under Stephanie McFarlane Rand\, Li Chou Cheng of Beijiing Ballet and Fernando Bujones of American Ballet Theatre and the Royal Ballet. \n  \nHe has been teaching in New York City and around the country since 2000. His methodology has been taught at the Eastern Michigan University\, Kalani Retreat Center in Hawaii\, Atmananda Yoga Sequence\, Baruch College\, CUNY Hostos\, CUNY in the Heights\, Easton Mountain Retreat Center and every summer at the Ollom Movement Art Summer Program at Smith College. \n  \nIn 2010-2011\, John Ollom was chosen as the Artist in Residence at the Eastern Michigan University Dance Department. Since 2002\, John has served as the Artistic Director of Ollom Art/Prismatic Productions Inc./ where he has choreographed such works as The Catalyst\, Love and Longing\, The Journey\, John Ollom’s The Journey\, Anatomy of Woman\, Dido and Aeneas\, The Other Species\, Love Stories\, Internal Landscapes\, Man of War\, M.U.D. (Men Under Dirt)\, Kuan Yin’s Compassion\, Nemetona\, The Portal\, and Prisoner of My Projection. His choreography and direction can also be seen in the film “Karpos and Kalamos”. \n  \nJohn’s work has been the subject of three documentary films: “Late Bloomers” by Annette Cyr\, Professor of Art at the National University in San Diego; “The Making of M.U.D.: An Exploration of the Work of John Ollom and Ollom Movement Art” by Robert Kazmayer\, MA; and\, “There’s Something about John” by Emma McCagg. \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/internal_landscapes/
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SUMMARY:ASSARACUS: A Journal of Gay Poetry—A Reading to Celebrate Issue 18
DESCRIPTION:  \nPlease join us to celebrate the latest issue of the beautiful and sexy gay male poetry magazine Assaracus 18 (Sibling Rivalry Press). Poets look at the world today from San Francisco to Greece and many points between\, at memories brought to life\, at fucking and drag\, love and families\, tricks\, beaches\, bathhouses\, Grindr\, even a god or two. Four widely published gay poets will read\, William Leo Coakley (a New York Poetry Center Discovery series winner)\, Graham Coppin (Brooklyn poet and leadership coach born in South Africa)\, Joseph Harker (Assaracus editor and Poet Blogger)\, and Jee Long Koh (organizer of the NY Singapore Literature Festival and Singapore Poetry website). \nCopies of the magazine are available for purchase at the Bureau. \nCover art by Carmine Santaniello \nPlease support the Bureau by purchasing your copy from the Bureau! Thank you! \nReception at 7\nReading at 7:30 \n  \nRSVP on Facebook \n\n\n \n \nPhotograph by Joseph Batista \nWilliam Leo Coakley\, who recently won the Der-Hovanessian prize for a gay Cavafy translation\, has appeared in many magazines and other publications here and abroad\, including the Paris Review and the Gay and Lesbian Review. He often reads his work on the radio\, at Day without Art programs\, and at venues like the Leslie-Lohman Gay and Lesbian Art Museum. \n  \n \nGraham Coppin is a recovering mathematician and poet now working as a leadership coach and consultant. He was born and raised in South Africa and emigrated to the US just before his homeland’s first democratic elections in 1994. He first lived in Minnesota where he learned to love flannel and hate lutefisk. He currently resides in a not-so-gentrified-yet-thank-God part of Brooklyn. \n  \n \nJoseph Harker is a linguist and poet often found prowling the trains and cafés of the Northeast. Currently\, he edits Assaracus\, a journal of gay male poetry; his own work has appeared in various journals and anthologies\, including Ganymede\, Hobble Creek Review\, qarrtsiluni\, and others. He does the Twitter thing at @JHPoet\, and the blog thing at https://namingconstellations.wordpress.com\, which you are welcome to visit\, if you promise to wipe your feet. \n  \n \nJee Leong Koh is the author of four books of poems. A new collection titled Steep Tea is forthcoming from Carcanet Press in July. The organizer of the Singapore Literature Festival in New York\, he runs the Singapore Poetry website and the Second Saturdays Reading Series. \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Ian Spencer Bell: Geography Solos & Holler
DESCRIPTION:The Bureau of General Services—Queer Division and The Lesbian\, Gay\, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center host dancer\, choreographer\, and poet Ian Spencer Bell in a solo performance of his blend of poetry and dance in room 101 of The Center on Thursday\, June 4\, at 7 PM. \nJoin Ian for a reception following the performance in the Bureau\, room 210 of The Center at 8 PM \nSuggested donation of $5 \nNo one turned away for lack of funds \n  \nBell danced a version of Geography Solos last spring in New York as part of his evening- length work Elsewhere. On March 11\, 2015\, Bell performed a new version of Geography Solos at the Poetry Foundation in Chicago. For the premiere\, Bell added three poems\, “The Apostle\,” “Beards\,” and “For Those Who Come to San Francisco.” On the streets of New York City\, in the hills of LA and San Francisco\, and in a laundromat in Virginia\, Bell contemplates place\, self\, and love. In his long poem Holler\, Bell catalogues the contents of his childhood home near the Shenandoah Valley. This will be the New York premiere of Holler. \nHistorian Michael J. Kramer\, in an essay for CultureRover.net about the Poetry Foundation performance\, wrote that Bell danced “both outside the poems looking in at them and within their poetic and musical infrastructures … he neither merely illustrated his words\, nor only accompanied the poems with dance—but instead lingered in a space between the two.” \nBell has been the recipient of grants and fellowships from Atlantic Center for the Arts\, Lambda Literary\, Summer Stages Dance\, Virginia Commission for the Arts\, and Jacob’s Pillow\, where he performed with his group on the Inside/Out Stage. Bell trained at North Carolina School of the Arts\, School of American Ballet\, and Pacific Northwest Ballet and graduated from Sarah Lawrence College\, where he studied with New York State Poet Marie Howe. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/ian-spencer-bell/
LOCATION:The Lesbian\, Gay\, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 101\, New York\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:Book launch of Patrick E. Horrigan's PORTRAITS AT AN EXHIBITION (Lethe Press)
DESCRIPTION:A party and performance/reading to mark the publication of the novel PORTRAITS AT AN EXHIBITION (Lethe Press) by Patrick E. Horrigan. \n  \n \nPatrick E. Horrigan was born and raised in Reading\, Pennsylvania.  He earned a BA from The Catholic University of America and a PhD from Columbia University.  He is the author of the novel Portraits at an Exhibition (forthcoming May 2015 from Lethe Press)\, the memoir Widescreen Dreams: Growing Up Gay at the Movies\, the play Messages for Gary: A Drama in Voicemail\, and (with Eduardo Leanez) the solo show You Are Confused!  With Mr. Leanez\, he hosts Actors with Accents\, a recurring variety show at Teatro Circulo in the East Village.  He has also written catalogue essays for Ernesto Pujol’s Loss of Faith and Thion’s Limi-TATE: Drawings of Life and Dreams.  In the late 1980s\, he taught as a volunteer at the Harvey Milk High School for Gay and Lesbian Youth.  In 1993 he joined the English Department at LIU Brooklyn\, where he teaches courses on American literature\, pop culture\, LGBT studies\, modernism and Virginia Woolf. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/patrick-e-horrigans-portraits-at-an-exhibition/
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SUMMARY:Trans Poetry Launch: Lilith Latini and Charles Theonia
DESCRIPTION:You are invited to the debut of our first books of poetry!\nHelp us welcome these titles into the world: \nImprovise\, Girl\, Improvise by Lilith Latini  \nand \nWhich One Is The Bridge by Charles Theonia \nHosted by Cat Fitzpatrick and Sybil Lamb! \nWith readings by: \nReina Gossett\nMorgan M Page\nOlympia Perez\nSéverine\nIvana Black \nand others! \nFREE! \n(Author photos by Julieta Salgado ♥ ♥) \nVenue is wheelchair accessible via an elevator \nPlease note that the Bureau is closed on Tuesdays. We will open at 6 PM for this event. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/trans-poetry-launch-lilith-latini-and-charles-theonia/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150531T180000
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SUMMARY:Chapbook Release Party for Claudia Cortese’s Blood Medals
DESCRIPTION:Please join us to celebrate the release of Claudia Cortese’s chapbook Blood Medals. The poems in the book explore a girl named Lucy whom Winter Tangerine Review calls “a shitty little princess that we can’t help but adore.” \n  \nPoets Meghan Privitello\, Aziza Barnes\, and Alexis Pope will help Cortese celebrate her chap by reading their work\, and then Cortese will perform her Lucy poems. The chapbook will be available at the party. \n  \nRSVP on Facebook \n  \nAbout Blood Medals— \n  \nClaudia Cortese’s “Lucy” poems are treacherously alive and important. Cortese navigates Lucy’s interior world with gorgeous starkness\, refusing to be saccharine; rather\, Lucy churns with playful viscera and violent intelligence: she is the kind of girl who “demands Santa stitch her a skin of bees\, that her screams be not sound but solid: a stinger that stings and stings.” These prose poems are raw and fanatically simple\, yet every trope is electric-charged\, hot to the touch. \n—Rusty Morrison\, author of Beyond the Chainlink \n  \n. . . Navigating through the hauntingly sensual language of tumors\, shrieking\, sores\, and knives\, Blood Medals reveals the sinister underbellies of this world while still managing to glitter with the hope of transcendence. Each poem holds you by the skin on the back of your neck and dares you to look at where your own darkness hides. Cortese’s voice is morbidly beautiful\, brutally honest\, and “brighter than fire and cardinal”. Blood Medals will leave you haunted and broken and begging for more. \n—Meghan Privitello\, author of A New Language for Falling out of Love \n  \nClaudia Cortese has two chapbooks—Blood Medals (Thrush Poetry Press) and The Red Essay and Other Histories (forthcoming from Horse Less Press). Her poems and lyric essays have found homes at Black Warrior Review\, Blackbird\, Crazyhorse\, Kenyon Review Online\, and Sixth Finch\, among others. Cortese lives in New Jersey and is the poetry editor for Swarm (swarmlit.com). \n  \nAziza Barnes is blk & alive. Born in Los Angeles\, she currently lives in Bedstuy\, New York. You can find her work currently or forthcoming in PANK\, pluck!\, Muzzle\, Callaloo\, Union Station\, Phantom Limb\, The Rumpus and The Breakbeat Poets\, among other journals and collections. Her first chapbook\, me Aunt Jemima and the nailgun\, was the first winner of the Exploding Pinecone Prize and published from Button Poetry\, available for purchase here: www.buttonpoetry.com She is a poetry & non-fiction editor at Kinfolks Quarterly\, a Callaloo fellow\, a graduate from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts\, and a current candidate for her MFA in Poetry at University of Mississippi. She is a member of The Dance Cartel & the divine fabrics collective. \n  \nMeghan Privitello is the author of A New Language for Falling Out of Love (YesYes Books\, 2015). Poems have appeared in Boston Review\, Kenyon Review Online\, Gulf Coast\, Best New Poets 2012\, Please Excuse This Poem: 100 New Poets for the Next Generation\, & elsewhere. She is the recipient of a 2014 NJ State Council of the Arts Fellowship in Poetry. \n  \nAlexis Pope is the author of Soft Threat (Coconut Books\, 2014)\, as well as three chapbooks. Recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in Bat City Review\, Denver Quarterly\, Poor Claudia\, Powderkeg\, Sink Review\, and The Volta\, among others. Pope lives in Brooklyn\, is a member of the Belladonna* Collaborative\, and teaches at Brooklyn College. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/chapbook-release-party-for-claudia-corteses-blood-medals/
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SUMMARY:Dale Peck in conversation with Jonathon Kyle Sturgeon
DESCRIPTION:Dale Peck discusses his new memoir\, Visions and Revisions\, with critic and editor Jonathon Kyle Sturgeon. Visions and Revisions revisits Peck’s experience as an AIDS activist and writer from 1987\, when ACT UP was founded\, to 1996\, when new treatments dramatically extended the life expectancy of people with AIDS. \n  \nPhotograph by Gregg Evans\nDale Peck is the author of twelve books\, including the novels Martin and John\, Now It’s Time to Say Goodbye\, and Greenville\, and the essay collection Hatchet Jobs. His novel Sprout when the inaugural Lambda Literary Award for young adult literature\, and his stories have been included in the annual O. Henry Award and Pushcart Prize anthologies. Peck was a member of ACT UP in the early 90s and served on the steering committee of Downtown for Democracy\, a arts-baed PAC that raised more than a million dollars for progressive candidates during the 2004 election. He co-founded Mischief + Mayhem\, a publishing collective\, and has taught in the graduate writing program of the New School since 1999. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/dale-peck-in-conversation-with-jonathon-kyle-sturgeon/
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SUMMARY:Newfangled 6: Robert Siek hosts Chase Berggrun\, Tom Capelonga\, & Paul Tran
DESCRIPTION:  \nJoin us for the 6th installment of Newfangled\, poetry readings by emerging poets hosted by Robert Siek. Newfangled 6 will feature Chase Berggrun\, Tom Capelonga\, & Paul Tran. \n  \n \nCHASE BERGGRUN is a genderqueer poet and the author of Discontent and Its Civilizations: Poems of Erasure\, winner of the 2012 jubilat Chapbook Contest judged by Peter Gizzi\, and their work has been published or is forthcoming in Apogee\, No Tokens\, The Cortland Review\, Cutbank\, BOAAT\, Beloit Poetry Journal\, and elsewhere. They are Assistant Poetry Editor at Washington Square Review\, and an MFA candidate in Poetry at NYU. \n  \n  \n \nTOM CAPELONGA is a 27-year-old native of New York City. His work has appeared in FourTwoNine magazine and Podium. He lives in Manhattan. \n  \n  \n \nPAUL TRAN is a Vietnamese American historian and spoken word poet. He won “Best Poet” and “Pushing the Art Forward” at the national college poetry slam\, as well as awards and fellowships from Kundiman\, Poets House\, Lambda Literary\, Napa Valley\, VONA\, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. His work can be found in CURA\, Nepantla\, cream city review\, and RHINO\, which selected him for the 2015 Editor’s Prize. Since 2013\, Paul has taught the Untitlement Project at New Urban Arts in Providence\, Rhode Island\, and coached the Brown University\, Barnard College & Columbia University\, and Providence youth slam teams. He currently lives in New York City\, where he’s writing his first book and working at New York University. \n  \n \nROBERT SIEK is the author of the poetry collection Purpose and Devil Piss (Sibling Rivalry Press\, 2013) and the chapbook Clubbed Kid (New School University\, 2002). He works at a large publishing house in Manhattan and lives in Brooklyn. \n  \n  \n 
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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 our meeting in May we will discuss the final two sections of the book: Section 8: Traveling\, and Section 9: Relationships. 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 haven’t 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-5/
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SUMMARY:Gay in the Great War: A Reading with Music from Flower of Iowa\, in Honor of Memorial Day
DESCRIPTION:  \nGay men have served in our nation’s military since the beginning. Lance Ringel’s historical novel Flower of Iowa centers on the unexpected romance between a young American soldier and his best buddy\, a British soldier\, in 1918 France during the final months of World War I. Ringel and his spouse\, actor Chuck Muckle\, will read selections from the eBook and Muckle will perform music from the Great War. Kirkus Reviews declared Flower of Iowa “accomplished\, touching historical fiction” while Stephen Fry called it “a truly wonderful WW1 novel … so truthful and touching.” \n  \n  \n \nA journalist and writer for four decades\, Lance Ringel has penned five novels and three plays. He served as principal writer for Vassar Voices\, a staged reading honoring Vassar College’s sesquicentennial\, which made its debut at Jazz at Lincoln Center starring Meryl Streep\, Lisa Kudrow and Frances Sternhagen. Ringel also wrote the narrative for At Home in the World\, a music-and-words collaboration directed by John Caird that played across Japan last year and will debut in New York and Washington next month. Flower of Iowa is his first published work. He and Chuck Muckle have been together for 38 years. \n  \n  \n \nChuck Muckle will appear in the feature film X-Mas starring Seth Rogen and Joseph Gordon-Levitt\, to be released this November. His many theater credits include Four Play the Musical (world premiere tour); the solo show At Wit’s End (An Evening with Oscar Levant); Paradise Lost\, directed by Hal Prince with Judy Kaye and John Cullum\, at NYC Opera Workshop Project (music arranger Jonathan Tunick); and The Golden Apple with Howard McGillin and Nancy Opel at Bard Summerscape (music director Jonathan Tunick). He has toured in South Pacific and Camelot with Robert Goulet\, and A Christmas Carol with John Astin. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/gay-in-the-great-war/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150523T190000
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SUMMARY:DOOR GIRLS by Max Steele zine launch and reading featuring Doug Keeler\, Justin Allen and Erin Markey
DESCRIPTION:  \nPlease join Max Steele for the release of his new zine DOOR GIRLS at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division for a launch party and reading featuring Doug Keeler\, Justin Allen and Erin Markey. \n  \n \nJustin Allen is a writer from Northern Virginia whose work traces the ways geographies\, both URL and IRL\, shape identity. \n  \nPhotograph by Brett Lindell\nDoug Keeler is a poet\, temptress\, and karaoke queen. He has written for the Helix Queer Performance Network’s Critical Squad (https://helixqpn.org/tagged/doug+keeler)\, and recently participated in the BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange workshop NEEDING IT: Solo Performance in Queer Community. His current projects include the poetry series “reasons to get up in the morning” (https://whyigotup.tumblr.com/) and diatribe blog POP-OFF QUEEN (https://popoff-queen.tumblr.com/). His major influences include José Esteban Muñoz\, Nomi Malone\, and Brent Corrigan. \n  \nPhotograph by Bobby Miller\nErin Markey is a comedic writer/performer\, actress and singer who has shown work at BAM\, Under The Radar Festival\, New Museum\, PS 122\, Lincoln Center Director’s Lab\, New York Comedy Festival\, San Francisco Film Society\, and frequently at Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater. She is currently a 2013-2015 artist-in-residence at Brooklyn Arts Exchange writing a musical\, A Ride On The Irish Cream which will premiere at Abrons Arts Center in January 2016. She is a 2014 Franklin Furnace Fund recipient. \n  \nPhotograph by Dietmar Busse\nMax Steele is a writer and performer. He’s written the psychedelic porno poetry zine Scorcher since 2006 and in 2015 started a new zine\, DOOR GIRLS\, about night life. \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/door-girls/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150522T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150522T220000
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SUMMARY:TELL 13: Crushes
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. \nCrushes is the theme of the thirteenth installment of TELL. Featuring DJ Tikka Masala\, Linda Saegert\, Max Steele\, and Elsa Waithe. \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 \nDJ Tikka Masala has been working in NYC nightlife since 2004\, creating community on the dance floor\, mixing a range of music that spans geographies\, time and genres and responds intuitively to the audience at hand. She’s DJ-ed at the White House\, Performa\, Mass MOCA\, Jacob’s Pillow\, The Brooklyn Museum\, and clubs all over the world. Tikka Masala\, who is also multi-instrumentalist\, composes and produces music for the Obie and Bessie award winning Brooklyn based feminist acrobatic dance company\, LAVA\, and has performed/scored live music at Dixon Place\, The Mix Festival\, BAM and BAX. \nHip Hop\, House\, classic reggae\, global electronic music\, South Asian folk music and classical traditions inspire her sensibilities in the studio and in the nightclub. During the day she works for Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice’s communications team. \n  \n \nLinda Saegert is a butch who currently works in sales. Being a Gemini\, has had many careers: social worker\, nurse\, retail store manager and French Chef! In love with the woman of their dreams\, they have 6 dogs! Linda also has 2 grown sons. Linda considers themself Genderqueer. \n  \n \nMax Steele is a performer and writer living in Brooklyn. He has presented work at Dixon Place\, the New Museum\, Deitch Projects\, BAM\, Joe’s Pub\, Envoy Enterprises\, PPOW Gallery\, UPenn’s Kelly Writers’ House\, the Afterglow Festival and the Queens Museum of Art. He writes the psychedelic porno poetry zine Scorcher\, and his writing has been featured in Dossier Journal\, Spank\, East Village Boys\, Birdsong\, Vice\, Noisey\, and Best Gay Stories 2014. He has been an Artist in Residence at BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange since 2012. \n  \n \nElsa Waithe is a 26 year old comedian from Norfolk\, Va. She’s a 3x winner of the ViRginia Beach Funnybone’s Clash of the Comics. Comedian\, Actor\, Motivational Speaker\, Epicenter of every awesome party\, and Inventor of the Nike Swoosh. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/tell-13-crushes/
LOCATION:Online event\, New York\, NY\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150521T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150521T220000
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SUMMARY:DEADLINE: Works-in-Progress from Cutting-Edge Queer Artists: May 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 May edition of DEADLINE will feature: \n\nLeigh Hendrix – Theater – solo performance piece \nJamie Leo – Theater\nLinda Lafayette – Writing\nJon Weatherman – Fiction \n\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-may-edition/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150520T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150520T220000
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SUMMARY:Queer New York and Beyond: The Social Event Photography of Efrain John Gonzalez
DESCRIPTION:In conjunction with the Bureau’s current exhibition\, A Buried Past\, Forgotten Stories: The Sexual Underground of the Meatpacking District before Gentrification—The Photographs of Efrain John Gonzalez\, we are very pleased to welcome Efrain back to the Bureau for another presentation of his photographs! \nThe presentation will feature Efrain John Gonzalez’s photographs of the events he covered in New York city from the 80’s til the present \nAllana Star Parties\nAnnie Sprinkle Performances\nBlack and Blue Ball\nCave Canum\nThe Clit Club\nCrowbar on 10th st\nDrag kings in East Village\nThe Drag March\nFolsom Street East\nGay Pride march on Fifth Avenue\ngay protests\nGay Cable Network with Lou Maletta\nKate Bornstein\nThe Limelight\nNew York tattoo convention\nPlato’s retreat on 34th St.\nThe Rated x show on 68th St.\nRon Athey\nSMack Parties\nThe Duplex on Grove St.\nThe Sirens\nWigstock in Tompkins Square Park\n…to name a few \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/queer-new-york/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150517T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150517T210000
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SUMMARY:Que(e)rying Theory #5: Leo Bersani's "Is the Rectum a Grave?"
DESCRIPTION:  \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.\nQue(e)rying Theory #5 will address Leo Bersani‘s  1987 essay  “Is the Rectum a Grave?\,” found in his book Is the Rectum a Grave? and Other Essays (U of Chicago\, 2009). \nLeo Bersani’s infamous essay “Is the Rectum a Grave?” not only launched a critical intervention into conversations about gay male sexuality at the height of the AIDS epidemic\, but also inaugurated a long-standing debate in queer theory about relationality and the social order. We will be revisiting the essay in light of Bersani’s recently published reflection on the piece from After Sex? (Duke UP 2011)\, in which he recants and recalibrates some of his core arguments.\n \nBoth Leo Bersani’s Is the Rectum a Grave? and Other Essays and After Sex? On Writing Since Queer Theory\, edited by Janet Halley and Andrew Parker\, are available for purchase at the Bureau.\n \nPlease support the Bureau by purchasing your copy from the Bureau! Thank you!\n \n \nPDFs of “Is the Rectum a Grave?” are available online\, but please email the organizer if you need a copy of Bersani’s essay in After Sex? \nconnspencer [at] gmail [dot] com \n  \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  \nImage: ACT UP (Gran Fury). Installation view: “Let the Record Show…” November 20 1987 – January 24 1988. Courtesy New Museum\, New York. Photo: Fred Scrutin \n\n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/queerying-theory-5/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150516T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150516T220000
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SUMMARY:Bullied No More
DESCRIPTION:A reading and discussion on gay people and having suffered being bullied by their peers through the years\, in school\, at home\, and even in the workplace with Christopher Rosalie\, Perry Brass\, and Nicholas Bowman. \nReception at 7\nReading at 7:30 \n  \n\n“My name is Christopher Rosalie. My pen name is Christopher Trevor. I’m proud to be a published author with more than thirty-five books to my credit\, books of erotica and suspense mostly. At the end of March my two latest books\, “Owned Men” and “Tickled Mindless” were released. Very soon I will be releasing my first self-published book\, “Masters and Submissives of Subjugation.” I am also a budding photographer and I plan to make some of my stories into short films. \nI’m a versatile writer in that I write a diversity and range of stories of erotica…and I also write about and advocate against gay bullying and all types of bullying. \nWriting is my passion. When it comes to fiction I write the ideas I get that come to me from practically out of nowhere at times. I see that as a true gift that I have been given\, to create stories that I enjoy writing and that others enjoy reading out of thin air. I’ve often said that when I’m writing I need to entertain myself first. \nWhen it comes to writing about bullying I would say that I am fueled by my anger over the injustices that have been perpetrated upon gay people…bullied\, harassed\, bashed\, and even murdered\, all for something that none of us had a choice in\, simply for being who we are. \nGiven the opportunity I would like to write a weekly column on the subject of gay bullying\, because sadly\, from what I see in the media\, this scourge is not going away any time soon. \nWhen I became a writer I never planned to be a writer on the subject of bullying\, but it was when I read about the suicide of Tyler Clementi and the murder of Matthew Shepard that all changed\, it all changed in a heartbeat. \nWhen I read in the newspapers and saw on the news of how Mr. Clementi had been bullied to the point that he committed suicide and of how Matthew Shepard had been so brutally murdered I felt that I had to do something to make my own voice heard where these issues were concerned. \nBecause you see\, after I read about Tyler Clementi’s suicide and the case that evolved from it\, it brought back memories\, many horrible\, horrible memories of how I myself was relentlessly bullied\, starting as far back as in the first grade in school. It was at that time\, many years ago that I first learned the words faggot\, fairy\, queen\, queer\, (before we gay people took that particular word back for ourselves and use it now in an empowering fashion) and a host of other derogatory words that were used to describe gay people. \nBut the bullying didn’t just happen to me and other gay kids in school\, it happened in our own neighborhoods; it was hurled at us from members of our own families\, and sadly it even happened to me and others in the workplace\, which for me personally at my former job turned into a literal living hell. \nAs a writer I work many long hours at my craft. I wake up two hours early every day in order to do some writing and I spend a few hours every night after work writing as well. What I write about\, whether it be my own brands of erotica or the heinous subject of gay bullying\, both subject matters are very important to me. They both speak to me in very informative voices; the two subject matters are a huge part of who I am. My gay peers are very important to me. \nIt is important to me if I can somehow make a positive difference for any gay people being bullied today\, in school\, in their homes\, or even in the workplace. It is important to me to help these people find a voice.\nAgain\, subjects\, erotica and gay bullying are very important to me on a personal and universal level. Thank you.” \n  \n \n  \nPerry Brass has published 19 books\, including How to Survive Your Own Gay Life\, The Manly Art of Seduction\,The Manly Pursuit of Desire and Love\, and his recent novel King of Angels\, a gay Jewish\, Southern coming-of-age novel set in Savannah\, GA\, in 1963\, the year of J.F.K.’s murder. In 1969\, he co-edited Come Out!\, the world’s first gay liberation newspaper published by New York’s Gay Liberation Front. In 1972\, he co-founded the Gay Men’s Health Project Clinic\, New York’s first clinic for gay men\, still operating as the Callen-Lorde Community Health Center. He is a founding coordinator of the New York Rainbow Book Fair.  \n  \nNicholas Bowman is the pseudonym of a semi-retired journalist who publishes erotica in print in anthologies edited by Christopher Trevor and online as Nate Stone on such sites as Katharsis.xxx and MetalbondNYC.com. The Nate Stone stories will be published soon in a book tentatively titled\, My Balls Are Yours\, Sir: 13 Tales of Sadism and Imagination. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/bullied-no-more/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150515T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150515T220000
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SUMMARY:Chicago in New York
DESCRIPTION:  \nThis reading brings together five poets from Chicago and the Midwest who currently find themselves in New York. Readers include Cortney Lamar Charleston\, H. Melt\, Angel Nafis\, José Olivarez\, and Diamond Sharp. \n  \n  \n \nCortney Lamar Charleston lives in Jersey City\, NJ but originates from South Holland\, IL. He is an alumnus of the University of Pennsylvania’s performance poetry collective\, The Excelano Project\, and a founder of BLACK PANTONE\, an inclusive digital cataloging of black identity. His poetry has appeared\, or is forthcoming\, in Rattle\, Beloit Poetry Journal\, Eleven Eleven\, Folio\, The Normal School\, Chiron Review\, J Journal\, Kweli Journal\, Winter Tangerine Review\, CURA: A Literary Magazine of Art & Action and elsewhere. He has received nominations for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. \n\n\n\n\nH. Melt is a poet and artist who was born in Chicago. Their work proudly documents Chicago’s queer and trans communities. Their writing has been published by Chicago Artist Writers\, Lambda Literary\, and Them\, the first trans literary journal in the United States. It is also forthcoming in the anthology Writing the Walls Down. They are the author of SIRvival in the Second City: Transqueer Chicago Poems and work at the Poetry Foundation. Find more about them at hmeltchicago.com.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAngel Nafis is a Cave Canem Fellow. Her work has appeared in The Rattling Wall\, Union Station Magazine\, MUZZLE Magazine\, Mosaic Magazine and Poetry Magazine. She is an Urban Word NYC Mentor and the founder\, curator\, and host of the quarterly Greenlight Bookstore Poetry Salon reading series. She is the author of BlackGirl Mansion (Red Beard Press/ New School Poetics\, 2012) Facilitating generative writing workshops and reading poems across the United States and Canada\, she lives in Brooklyn.\n  \n  \n \nJosé Olivarez is the son of Mexican immigrants. Originally from Calumet City\, IL\, he lives in the Bronx. He is a graduate of Harvard University\, the Poet-Linc Manager for Lincoln Center Education\, and he is an editor at Painted Bride Quarterly. He has performed and taught at high schools\, universities\, and book festivals across the country\, and his work has been published or is forthcoming inThe BreakBeat Poets\, The Acentos Review\, Specter Magazine\, Side B Magazine\, Union Station Magazine\, and Luna Luna Magazine among other places. His work has also been featured on Yahoo’s Ball Don’t Lie basketball blog\, Chicago Public Radio\, and on Mass Poetry’s PoeTry on the T program. His first book\, Home Court\, is available at https://homecourtpoems.tumblr.com/purchase. \n\n\n\n\n\nDiamond Sharp spends her days being alive\, black\, and missing Chicago. You can read her writing in PANK\, Fjords\, Doll Hospital Journal and others.\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/chicago-in-new-york/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150514T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150514T220000
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SUMMARY:Isherwood's America
DESCRIPTION:  \nChris Freeman\, Christopher Bram\, Bill Goldstein\, David Drake\, and other special guests will read their favorite passages from the work of Christopher Isherwood\, and there will be a discussion of THE AMERICAN ISHERWOOD (2015\, University of Minnesota Press\, edited by Chris Freeman and James Berg). Reception and signing following the discussion. \n  \n \nChris Freeman is professor of English and Gender Studies at the University of Southern California. His first book\, THE ISHERWOOD CENTURY\, won a Lambda Literary Award; he is on the board of the ONE Archives Foundation and the Monette-Horwitz Trust. He is a longtime contributor to THE GAY AND LESBIAN REVIEW. \n  \n  \n  \n \nChristopher Bram is the author of\, among others\, FATHER OF FRANKENSTEIN\, which was adapted in the film GODS AND MONSTERS. His recent book EMINENT OUTLAWS: THE GAY WRITERS WHO CHANGED AMERICA\, shows how central gay literature is in the American canon. \n  \n  \n \nBill Goldstein is former founding editor of the books site of nytimes.com\, book critic for NBC’s “Weekend Today in New York.” As editorial curator for “Times Talks\,” the public speaker series of The New York Times\, he programs and frequently moderates panel discussions on the arts\, culture and politics. His book reviews\, author interviews and coverage of the publishing industry have appeared regularly in The New York Times\, Newsday\, People and other publications \n  \n  \n \nDavid Drake burst onto the scene with his one-man show THE NIGHT LARRY KRAMER KISSED ME twenty years ago. Writer\, actor\, and director\, Drake has appeared on television\, in films\, and on stage in LAW & ORDER\, THE GOOD WIFE\, PHILADELPHIA\, and THE BOYS IN THE BAND. \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/isherwoods-america/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150513T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150513T220000
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SUMMARY:Reading Celebrating Mark Doty's Deep Lane
DESCRIPTION:  \nJoin us for a reading celebrating the long-awaited publication of Mark Doty’s new book of poems\, Deep Lane (W. W. Norton). \nGerald Stern says\, “Mark Doty writes with absolute exactitude\, with one eye on the ideal or absolute and one on the real; the ghost of Walt Whitman on one hand\, and a laundromat on 16th Street in New York on the other. There is not a finer\, more delicate\, more sublime poet writing today in the English language. It’s a poet’s job to show us what we knew but never saw before; and it’s a poet’s job to tell us over and over what love is. Doty is this poet.” \nCopies of Deep Lane will be available for purchase. \nPlease be advised of limited seating! \nHosted by friend of the Bureau Larry Kaplun. \n  \n\n \nMark Doty is the author of nine books of poetry and four books of prose. His many honors include the National Book Award\, National Book Critics Circle Award\, the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction\, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize\, a Whiting Writers’ Award\, and in the UK\, the T. S. Eliot Prize. He serves as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets\, is a Distinguished Professor at Rutgers University\, and lives in New York City. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/reading-celebrating-mark-dotys-deep-lane/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150510T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150510T210000
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SUMMARY:Get HARD with Wayne Hoffman
DESCRIPTION:  \nAuthor Wayne Hoffman reads from his steamy and comic debut novel\, HARD\, newly republished this month by Bear Bones Books. HARD follows a group of young AIDS activists trying to get laid and fight City Hall during NYC during the 1990s crackdown on gay businesses. Publishers Weekly called it “an intriguing exploration of politics and psyche\,” while another reviewer quipped: “Think Woody Allen meets ACT UP.” Wayne will also give us a quick peek at AN OLDER MAN\, the sequel to HARD\, which is due out in June. \n  \nphoto credit Frank Mullaney\nWayne Hoffman is the author of three books—HARD\, SWEET LIKE SUGAR (winner of the Stonewall Book Award)\, and the forthcoming AN OLDER MAN. His essays and short stories have appeared in such collections as BEST GAY STORIES 2010\, FRESH MEN 2\, and MAMA’S BOY. As a cultural reporter\, he has written for the Washington Post\, Village Voice\, The Nation\, Billboard\, and Instinct magazine; he is currently executive editor of Tablet magazine. He lives in the West Village and the Catskills. \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/hard/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150509T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150509T210000
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SUMMARY:Four Poets Celebrate Lyricism from a 21st Century Perspective
DESCRIPTION:  \nAustin Alexis\, Charlie Bondhus\, Dean Kostos\, & Lynn McGee read from their recent books. \n  \n \nAustin Alexis is the author of one full-length collection: Privacy Issues\, published by Lotus Press (Wayne State University Press\, distribution).  It was selected by California’s poet laureate emeritus\, Al Young\, to receive the Naomi Madgett Poetry Award.  His two chapbooks\, both published by Poets Wear Prada\, are Lovers and Drag Queens and For Lincoln & Other Poems.  One of his poems is included in a song cycle entitled Love Poems by composer David Morneau\, recorded by Naxos.  His plays have been performed and/or read at The Samuel French Short Plays Festival\, Vineyard Theater\, the NYC LGBT Center\, Performance Space 122 and elsewhere.  His short fiction\, essays and poetry have appeared or are forthcoming in The Ledge: Poetry and Prose\, Paterson Literary Review\, Home Planet News\, Poetry Pacific (Canada)\, The Long-Islander and the anthology Rabbit Ears: TV Poems\, the first anthology of poetry about television. \n  \n  \n \nCharlie Bondhus’s second poetry book\, All the Heat We Could Carry\, won the 2013 Main Street Rag Award and the Publishing Triangle’s 2014 Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry. His work appears or is set to appear in numerous journals\, including Poetry\, The Gay & Lesbian Review\, CounterPunch\, The Alabama Literary Review\, and Midwest Quarterly. He is the poetry editor at The Good Men Project (goodmenproject.com). \n  \n  \n \nDean Kostos’s collections include This Is Not a Skyscraper (recipient of the Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award\, selected by Mark Doty\, forthcoming from Red Hen Press in April of 2015)\, Rivering\, Last Supper of the Senses\, The Sentence That Ends with a Comma\, and Celestial Rust. He co-edited Mama’s Boy: Gay Men Write about Their Mothers and edited Pomegranate Seeds: An Anthology of Greek-American Poetry (its debut reading was held at the United Nations). He translated and compiled a suite of Ancient\, Byzantine\, and Modern Greek poems for an event sponsored by Rockefeller Foundation. \nHis work has appeared in over 300 journals\, including The Bangalore Review (India)\, Boulevard\, Chelsea\, Cimarron Review\, The Cincinnati Review\, Mediterranean Poetry (Sweden)\, The Same\, Southwest Review\, Stand Magazine (UK)\, Vanitas\, Western Humanities Review\, on Oprah Winfrey’s website Oxygen.com\, and elsewhere. His libretto\, Dialogue: Angel of War\, Angel of Peace\, was performed by Voices of Ascension. His literary criticism has appeared on the Harvard UP Web site and Talisman. A multiple Pushcart-Prize nominee\, and a finalist for the Gival and Jot Speak (UK) awards\, he has taught at Wesleyan\, The Gallatin School\, and CUNY. His poem “Subway Silk” was translated into a film and screened in Tribeca and at San Francisco’s IndieFest. He is currently working on another collection of poems and a memoir. \n  \n  \n \nLynn McGee recently won the Bright Hill Press manuscript contest and her chapbook\, Heirloom Bulldog\, is forthcoming in late Spring 2015. Her full-length manuscript\, Sober Cooking\, is forthcoming from Spuyten Duyvil Press in January 2016. Her poems appear in recent or current issues of Storyscape\, the American Poetry Review\, Sensitive Skin magazine\, Right Hand Pointing\, Hawai’i Review\, The Same and many other journals. With poet Gerry LaFemina\, she co-curates the Lunar Walk Poetry Series in Brooklyn\, and she works as a news writer for a CUNY college. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/four-poets-celebrate-lyricism-from-a-21st-century-perspective/
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SUMMARY:Queers Abroad: Poets Jee Leong Koh and John Marcus Powell Read
DESCRIPTION:Two expatriate poets who have lived in New York long enough to consider themselves New Yorkers read their recent work. \n  \n \nJee Leong Koh is the author of four books of poems\, most recently “The Pillow Book” (Math Paper Press). His work has been anthologized in “New Poetries V” (Carcanet Press) and “Villanelles” (Everyman’s Library). He lives in New York City. \n  \n  \n \nJohn Marcus Powell is a poet who is also an actor. He is Welsh and for the past 25 years has lived in New York. Before that he lived in London\, Paris\, Rome\, and Oran. Harold Pinter\, his favorite writer and a great influence\, directed him in The Man in the Glass Booth\, encouraged his writing\, and helped him get his short stories published in Joe McCrindle’s Transatlantic Review. He flirts with any anarchic poet he meets and at the moment is romantically involved with Whitman\, Rimbaud\, and Borges. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/queers-abroad/
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SUMMARY:Andrea Cohen\, Patrick Donnelly\, and Paul Lisicky: A Poetry Reading
DESCRIPTION:  \nPhotograph by Francesca G Bewer\nAndrea Cohen’s poems and stories have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly\, The New Republic\, The New Yorker\, Poetry\, The Threepenny Review\, and elsewhere. Her previous poetry collections include The Cartographer’s Vacation\, winner of the Owl Creek Poetry Prize\, Long Division\, and Kentucky Derby. She has received a PEN Discovery Award\, Glimmer Train’s Short Fiction Award\, and several residencies at The MacDowell Colony. She directs the Blacksmith House Poetry Series in Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, and the Writers House at Merrimack College. Her new collection\, Furs Not Mine\, will be released by Four Way Books in March. \n  \n \nPaul Lisicky is the author of LAWNBOY\, FAMOUS BUILDER\, THE BURNING HOUSE\, and UNBUILT PROJECTS. His work has appeared in CONJUNCTIONS\, DENVER QUARTERLY\, FENCE\, THE IOWA REVIEW\, PLOUGHSHARES\, TIN HOUSE\, and elsewhere. His awards include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the James Michener/Copernicus Society\, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. He has twice been a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Gay Men’s Fiction and in Autobiography. He teaches in the MFA Program at Rutgers University-Camden\, in the low residency program at Sierra Nevada College\, and at the Juniper Summer Writing Institute. He is the editor of STORYQUARTERLY and serves on the Writing Committee of the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. A memoir\, THE NARROW DOOR\, is forthcoming from Graywolf Press in January 2016. \n  \n \nPATRICK DONNELLY’s books of poetry are The Charge (Ausable Press\, 2003\, since 2009 part of Copper Canyon Press) and Nocturnes of the Brothel of Ruin (Four Way Books\, 2012)\, the latter book a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award\, and the former book a 2004 finalist for The Publishing Triangle Award for Gay Male Poetry. Donnelly is director of the Poetry Seminar at The Frost Place (Robert Frost’s old homestead in Franconia\, NH\, now a center for poetry and the arts)\, and an associate editor of Poetry International. With his spouse Stephen D. Miller\, Donnelly translates classical Japanese poetry and drama\, including the Japanese poems in The Wind from Vulture Peak: The Buddhification of Japanese Waka in the Heian Period (Cornell East Asia Series\, 2013). In 2013\, Donnelly received a U.S./Japan Creative Artists Program award to fund a 3-month residency in Japan during 2014. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/andrea-cohen-patrick-donnely-and-paul-lisicky-a-poetry-reading/
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SUMMARY:Examining the Gay Rights Movement: Its History and Possible Future Direction
DESCRIPTION:  \nWalter Frank will examine the history of the modern gay rights movement in the United States and will also discuss the upcoming Supreme Court case on same sex marriage and what the impact of a favorable or unfavorable decision might be on the future direction of the movement. \nWalter Frank’s most recent book\, Law and the Gay Rights Story: The Long Search for Equal Justice in a Divided Democracy (Rutgers University Press\, 2014) will be available for purchase. \n  \nWalter Frank retired from his position as Chief of Commercial Litigation for The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey in April 2005. Since then he has explored the relationship of constitutional law and democracy in several law review articles. His book\, Making Sense of the Constitution\, was named one of the outstanding university press books for the year 2012. His most recent book\, Law and the Gay Rights Story: The Long Search for Equal Justice in a Divided Democracy\, has received a number of favorable reviews\, including in the New York Review of Books\, the Gay and Lesbian Review\, Publishers Weekly Online and the Lambda Literary Review. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/examining-the-gay-rights-movement-its-history-and-possible-future-direction/
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SUMMARY:Strange NYC
DESCRIPTION:​ \nThree local speculative fiction writers– Richard Bowes\, Robert Levy\, and Sam J. Miller— read stories of the weird\, the queer\, and the otherworldly. \n  \n \nRichard Bowes is nominated for a 2015 Nebula Award. His most recent novel\, DUST DEVIL ON A QUIET STREET was on the 2014 World Fantasy and Lambda Awards short lists. His publications include six novels\, four story collections\, seventy short stories. He has won two World Fantasy\, the Lambda\, Million Writers and IHG awards. Recent and forthcoming appearances include: Datlow’s The Doll Collection\, Tor.com\, XIII\, Farrago’s Wainscot\, Uncanny\, F&SF\, Interfictions\, “Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror 2015”\, “In the Shadow of the Tower.” \n  \n \nRobert Levy is an author of unsettling stories and plays whose work has been seen Off-Broadway. A Harvard graduate subsequently trained as a forensic psychologist\, his first novel\, the contemporary dark fairy tale THE GLITTERING WORLD\, was published worldwide in February by Gallery/Simon & Schuster. Robert can be found in his native realm of Brooklyn\, as well as online at TheRobertLevy.com. \n  \n \nSam J. Miller is a writer and a community organizer. His fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Lightspeed\, Apex\, Asimov’s\, Electric Velocipede\, Strange Horizons\, The Minnesota Review\, and The Rumpus\, among others. He is a nominee for the Nebula Award\, a winner of the Shirley Jackson Award and a graduate of the Clarion Writer’s Workshop. He lives in New York City\, and at www.samjmiller.com \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/strange-nyc/
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SUMMARY:Speak OUT with Speaking OUT: Queer Youth in Focus
DESCRIPTION:  \nSpeaking OUT –Open Mic story telling and experience sharing \nJoin the photographer/author Rachelle Lee Smith\, co-host Sam LaRoche\, and subjects from the new book Speaking OUT: Queer Youth in Focus while they speak OUT about their experiences in the book and beyond. \nSubjects will discuss how they have changed alongside the change in society and today’s political climate and reflect upon their hand-written stories from over the last decade. There will be audience participation and you are encouraged to share your stories! \nIt is a powerful experience to have our voices strengthened by joining one collective voice. We are more significant together than we are alone. While the stories we share may differ\, ranging from experiences with homophobia to youthful bravado and everywhere in between\, together they create the narrative of growing up queer. \n \nRachelle Lee Smith is an award winning and nationally and internationally shown and published photographer and the author of the recently published Speaking OUT: Queer Youth in Focus. \nSpeaking OUT is a decade long collaborative photographic essay that explores a wide spectrum of experiences told from the perspective of a diverse group of young people\, ages fourteen to twenty-four\, identifying as queer (i.e.\, lesbian\, gay\, bisexual\, transgender\, or questioning).\nThe body of work has been published in magazines such as The Advocate\, School Library Journal and showcased by the Equality Forum\, the Human Rights Campaign\, National Public Radio\, The Huffington Post\, World Pride and the U.S. Department of Education.\nThe ongoing photographic essay was published this year by PM Press and Reach & Teach with a foreword and afterword by HRC’s Candace Gingrich and Graeme Taylor. \n“Rachelle Lee Smith has created a book that is not only visually stunning but also gripping with powerful words and even more inspiring young people! This is an important work of art! I highly recommend buying it and sharing it!”\n—Perez Hilton\, blogger and television personality \nBook published by PM Press and Reach and Teach \n  \n\nSam LaRoche is a spoken word poet\, musician and artist. Find out more about Sam by following her on Instagram @blacksheepmixtape. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/speak-out-with-speaking-out-queer-youth-in-focus/
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SUMMARY:NYC Launch of My Body Is Yours by Michael V. Smith and Nothing Looks Familiar by Shawn Syms
DESCRIPTION:Two Canadian queer authors take New York by storm! \n  \n \nImprov artist\, sex radical\, genderqueer uni professor Michael V. Smith launches a memoir\, My Body Is Yours (Arsenal Pulp Press)\, exploring his emancipation from masculinity. In a night of hijinks and stunnery\, you can expect: sexy confessions\, giveaways\, tear-jerking\, and a naughty touch of stand up improv hairyness. \n  \n \nLike Michael\, Shawn Syms is also hairy—and so are the situations described in his debut short-fiction collection Nothing Looks Familiar (Arsenal Pulp Press). With a particular focus on the lives of the downtrodden and marginalized\, the book marries a vivid and distinct sense of place―the sights and smells of a meatpacking plant; a church-basement meeting hall full of sexual abusers―with universal themes such as the nature of friendship and relationships\, and the configuration of the self. Each author will take you to places both dark and light—real\, and imagined. \n  \n  \n \nMichael V. Smith is a writer\, comedian\, filmmaker\, performance artist and occasional clown. His novel\, Cumberland (Cormorant Books\, 2002)\, was nominated for the Amazon/Books in Canada First Novel Award. Smith won Vancouver’s Community Hero of the Year Award and the inaugural Dayne Ogilvie Award for Emerging Gay Writers. He teaches creative writing in an interdisciplinary fine arts department\, Creative Studies\, at the University of British Columbia\, Okanagan. \n  \n  \n \nShawn Syms has written about sexuality\, politics and culture for over 25 years in more than 50 publications. He’s the author of the short-story collection Nothing Looks Familiar\, and he edited the first book of literary fiction about social media\, Friend. Follow. Text. Shawn is currently at work on a novel about the power of dirty money\, fetishistic sex and compulsive gambling. \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/nyc-launch-of-my-body-is-yours-by-michael-v-smith-and-nothing-looks-familiar-by-shawn-syms/
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