BGSQD

trans liberation history gathering (in person workshop)
2023-11-04 11:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
In this workshop we will discuss and share stories, materials, and memories with one another to expand the hirstory of trans, Two-Spirit, non-binary, and gender diverse communities and individuals in North America during the 20th century.
This project is based on the belief that our hirstory is key to healing our communities from the scars of transphobia. We heal when we connect with ancestors and learn more about ourselves through them. We heal when we receive testament to our continued existence in this world. We heal when given the opportunity to repair the scars of past conflicts. Finally, we heal when we are able to grow from the wisdom of passing time. Gathering around oral histories and physical materials offers us the opportunity to engage with all these modes of healing.
In this workshop, we will work collectively against our erasure from society’s memory. We will reflect on the progress that has been won over the last fifty years and the many challenges that remain. During the first hour we will share stories of trans* and queer individuals, movements, and moments that hold power for us. After a break we will discuss our shared hirstory, focusing on where we have each found or not found community or conflict.
Trans communities have always taken care of ourselves when others would not. We have formed houses and families, birthed movements, underwritten research, built learning networks, and shaped culture. This workshop continues this legacy by helping us narrate a trans hirstory in which our movements are powerful, autonomous, and coalitional, so that we can continue the work to build a liveable trans present and future.
Space is limited to 20 participants
Register here
Facilitator Bios
Sky Syzygy is a white queer trans femme filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist, a racial and gender justice facilitator, and a data scientist. In 2021, Sky launched gender.network, an archive of flyers, photos, artwork, cartoons, letters, poems, and other media by trans*, Two-spirit, nonbinary, and trans-adjacent activists, organizers, and artists.
Malcolm Shanks is an activist, political educator, and consultant who works to gather people and power among marginalized groups. Malcolm has created and led hundreds of trainings with thousands of students, activists, non-profit workers, and artists. Malcolm is a co-creator of the zine Decolonizing Gender: A Curriculum, an interactive workbook that examines the relationship between transphobia, white supremacy, and European colonialism from a personal-political perspective.

Ungendering Fashion: Queer Style as Visual Activism and Self Love (in person & live-streaming)
2023-11-05 15:00 - 16:30 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
Queer style is systemically rooted in dismantling heteronormative gender binaries created by the patriarchy and systematically employed as a means of social control, both symbolically and literally, to limit freedom of expression. Queer style is a fashion revolution; a tool of our liberation and a means of self-affirmation and self-love.
Through the 1940s, 50s, and 60s, police weaponized “masquerade laws,” old codes that prohibited “costumed dress,” to punish queer and trans people wearing articles of clothing that didn’t correspond with the gender they were assigned at birth, Ryan, the author of “When Brooklyn Was Queer,” wrote in History.com.
Among LGBTQ+ people, these laws were called the “three-article rule”: an individual had to be wearing three articles of clothing of the gender they were assigned at birth or else they’d be arrested. If you were assigned female at birth but caught wearing pants and a shirt, you could be arrested for failing to wear three articles of women’s clothing.
While this rule became part of the queer lexicon, a law citing a specific number of articles didn’t actually exist on the books. According to historians, calling it the “three-article rule” may have originated as a way for queer and trans people to warn each other about the police or served as an “informal rule of thumb,” Ryan wrote.
The so-called three article-rule meant that anyone with gender variance could be punished for wearing clothing that made them feel good; a night out with friends turned political with fashion.
Given that queer and trans identities (use of restrooms, drag performances, gender affirming care) are being used by the far right to mobilize their voters and are both politicians and those who want to see us completely erased are leveraging their political power to dismantle our democracy and rollback rights for all U.S. citizens, I think this angle needs to be taken front and center for all pitches when it is pitched to an outlet that is more hard news or even for potential spots on political shows (I know that Jacob Tobia was on the Daily Show speaking about this very topic). Queer style has emancipatory potential for all members of society right now and is critical to cover and understand as it pertains to policies that matter to many people right now.
Join dapperQ: Ungendering Fashion author Anita Dolce Vita in conversation with book photographer The Street Sensei and one of the 30 book models, Cory Wade, as they explore queer style as visual activism and self-love.

Reserve a copy of dapperQ: Ungendering Fashion (Harper, 2023, hardcover, $35) by writing to us at contact@bgsqd.com with “please reserve a copy of dapperQ” in the subject line.

Thank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us!

This event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center, 208 W. 13th St., NYC, 10011.

Registration is not required. Seating is first come, first served.

Also live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel:
youtube.com/@bgsqd

Suggested donation $10 to benefit the Bureau’s work.
All are welcome to attend, with or without donation.
We will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event, but we can also take credit card donations at the register or on Venmo @bgsqd

Anita Dolce Vita is the owner of dapperQ – one of the world’s most widely read digital queer style magazines and preeminent voices in queer fashion – and the author of dapperQ Style: Ungendering Fashion. She is the executive producer behind some of the world’s largest celebrations of queer style, including the annual New York Fashion Week queer runway show at Brooklyn Museum, the annual Target Youth Pride fashion show for NYC Pride, and queer fashion shows at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston and the Museum of Fine Arts/Boston. Anita also produced the first queer fashion panel to be featured at South by Southwest and has been a keynote speaker for DEI events for global retails brands such as Abercrombie & Fitch. Her work has been featured in Vanity Fair, the New York Times, Teen Vogue, and Out Magazine, to name a few.

Kim, aka The Street Sensei, is a photographer and videographer known for their streetstyle work with celebrities and their advertorial work with several high fashion brands and is the official photographer of dapperQ’s debut print book dapperQ Style: Ungendering Fashion published by HarperCollins.

Cory Wade is a multi-medium entertainer and activist, most well known for competing and placing third on cycle 20 of America’s Next Top Model. Cory has used the social platform garnered through their reality TV stint to help facilitate conversations around queer inclusion and LGBTQPIA+ equality across America. He has toured the US to speak at multiple colleges & universities on effective allyship, inclusion, equality and human understanding. Cory is also a fiercely talented musician. Their debut album, “UNIFY” (independently released in 2017) was produced by Alan Glass who has produced iconic records from the likes of Aretha Franklin, The Temptations, Jennifer Holiday and more!

Gen X Tropes: Dale Corvino (BONDS & BOUNDARIES) & Michael Bullock, editor, I COULD NOT BELIEVE IT (in person & live-streaming)
2023-11-09 19:00 - 21:00 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
Launch event for BONDS & BOUNDARIES, the debut short story collection by Dale Corvino, from Rebel Satori Press. Dale is in conversation with Michael Bullock, co-editor of I COULD NOT BELIEVE IT: THE 1979 DIARIES OF SEAN DELEAR from Semiotext(e). They will discuss the queer Gen X tropes raised by each work, followed by readings of select excerpts and a Q&A. Both titles are available for sale from the Bureau.

To reserve a copy of Dale Corvino’s Bonds & Boundaries (Queer Mojo, 2023, paperback, $16.95) and/or I Could Not Believe It: The 1979 Diaries of Sean DeLear (Semiotext(e), 2023, paperback, $16.95) please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com.
Thank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us!

This event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center, 208 W. 13th St., NYC, 10011.

Registration is not required. Seating is first come, first served.

Also live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel:
youtube.com/@bgsqd

Suggested donation $10 to benefit the Bureau’s work.
All are welcome to attend, with or without donation.
We will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event, but we can also take credit card donations at the register or on Venmo @bgsqd

Michael Bullock is a Brooklyn-based writer, editor, and political organizer. He’s the author of Roman Catholic Jacuzzi (2012) and the editor of Peter Berlin: Artist, Icon, Photosexual (2019). In 2020 he founded the political crowdfunding platform WeeklySenator.org, of which he is the director. Bullock also holds the position of associate publisher for PIN–UP magazine and contributing editor for Apartamento.

A 2021 Lambda Literary Emerging Fellow in nonfiction, Dale Corvino found his confessional voice at the East Village queer underground literary salon “Dean Johnson’s Reading for Filth,” recounting his youth as an object of longing and later interactions with sex work. In 2018, he won the Gertrude Press Fiction contest, judged by Whiting Award recipient Brontez Purnell. Recent nonfiction includes a profile of Chilean writer Pedro Lemebel for the Gay & Lesbian Review, an essay on queer longing in the digital era for Matt Keegan’s 1996, and a chapter on sex worker representation for the 2021 Routledge Handbook of Male Sex Work, Culture, and Society.

Double Take Poetry Reading (in person only)
2023-11-10 19:00 - 20:30 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
Please join us for a poetry reading with Paloma Yannakakis, Izzy Casey, and Amy Klein to celebrate the release of Double Take.
Between arrival and disappearance, between the longed-for and the long forgotten, what remains intact across time? Parsing the distance ‘in all directions’ and taking inventory, this collection explores states of exile and recognition. The poems move across quotidian public squares, the memory of lost homelands, and pastoral landscapes.
Copies of Paloma Yannakakis‘s Double Take will be available for purchase.
PLEASE NOTE: THE CENTER WILL NOT OPEN UNTIL 5 PM ON FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10TH, IN OBSERVANCE OF VETERANS DAY.
THE BUREAU WILL OPEN AT 5 PM AND WILL REMAIN OPEN FOR THIS EVENT, WHICH WILL BEGIN AT 7 PM.

This event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center, 208 W. 13th St., NYC, 10011.

Registration is not required. Seating is first come, first served.

Suggested donation $10 to benefit the Bureau’s work.
All are welcome to attend, with or without donation.
We will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event, but we can also take credit card donations at the register or on Venmo @bgsqd

Paloma Yannakakis’ poems have appeared in Denver Quarterly, Lana Turner, Washington Square, Afternoon Visitor, and elsewhere, and are forthcoming in various anthologies. She is the author of the chapbook, Double Take. She serves on the editorial board of House Mountain Review and enjoys collaborating with artists in other media.

Izzy Casey’s poems have been published in or Gulf Coast, Black Warrior Review, BOAAT, Bennington Review, the Volta, the Yale Review, the Columbia Review, NY Tyrant, and elsewhere. She received her MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and was the recipient of a fellowship from the Poetry Foundation.

Amy Klein is a poet, writer, and songwriter. Her poetry has appeared in Prelude, Salt Hill, and the Harvard Advocate, and she is the recipient of an Academy of American Poets Prize. Her essays and journalism have been published in The Believer and the Best Music Writing book series and have been highlighted as essential reading by NPR. She has released three albums of original songs on the punk label Don Giovanni Records and performs regularly with her band AK & the Hallucinations.

Closed for Veterans Day
2023-11-11 | NY
Please note that in observance of Veterans Day, The Center will open from 5 PM to 9 PM on both Friday, November 10th, and Saturday, November 11th.
The Bureau will open at 5 PM on Friday, November 10th, and will remain open for our 7 PM event: Double Take Poetry Reading (in person only).
The Bureau will be closed on Saturday, November 11th.

Reclaiming the Past: LGBT Historical Fiction (in person & live-streaming)
2023-11-12 15:00 - 17:00 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
Authors Stephanie Cowell, Lance Ringel, and Sebastian Dureaux-Russell read from their novels, each set in a different decade of the early 20th century, and all focusing on relationships between gay male protagonists.
Copies of Cowell’s The Boy in the Rain, Ringel’s Flower of Iowa, and Dureaux-Russell’s Burning with a Blue Flame will all be available for purchase at the event. To reserve a copy of any of these books please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com with “Please reserve book for November 12 event” in the subject line.
Thank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us!

This event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center, 208 W. 13th St., NYC, 10011.

Registration is not required. Seating is first come, first served.

Also live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel:
youtube.com/@bgsqd

Suggested donation $10 to benefit the Bureau’s work.
All are welcome to attend, with or without donation.
We will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event, but we can also take credit card donations at the register or on Venmo @bgsqd

Stephanie Cowell has been an opera singer, balladeer, founder of Strawberry Opera and other arts venues including a Renaissance festival in NYC. She is the author of Nicholas Cooke, The Physician of London, The Players: a novel of the young Shakespeare, Marrying Mozart, Claude & Camille: a novel of Monet and The Boy in the Rain. Her work has been translated into nine languages and made into an opera. Stephanie is the recipient of an American Book Award. She has lived in NYC all her life.

Lance Ringel is a two-time Lammy nominee whose novels and plays bring gay history to life through vividly realized characters and meticulously researched detail. His debut novel, Flower of Iowa, about an American soldier and a British soldier who fall in love on the Western Front in World War 1, received multiple literary accolades, including the Foreword Indies Book of the Year Award for War and Military Fiction. Floridian Nights, his second novel, is an intense, multifaceted love story that unfolds against the backdrop of the AIDS epidemic of the late 1980s. In consecutive years, each of these novels was named as a Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Gay Romance.
Ringel’s plays include In Love with the Arrow Collar Man, about famed illustrator J.C. Leyendecker and his model, muse and lover Charles Beach; and Flash/Frozen, a drama based on true events about two champion male skaters whose lives fatefully intersect around the tragic 1961 plane crash that killed the entire U.S. Figure Skating World Team. Both plays have enjoyed successful runs, to considerable acclaim, in New York.

Sebastian Dureaux-Russell was educated at Duke Ellington School of the Arts and The International Center of Photography. An award-winning photographer and speaker, his images traveled the globe in the 9/11 exhibition “Here is New York: A democracy of photographs.” He has penned for: Where Magazine, In New York, City Guide, Travel Weekly, City Info, and The New York Times. Burning with a Blue Flame is the first novel by Sebastian Dureaux-Russell. Instagram: Sebastian_Photographs.

The Publishing Triangle OUTspoken Reading Series (in person & live-streaming)
2023-11-16 19:00 - 20:30 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
The Publishing Triangle presents its monthly OUTspoken Reading Series as host Rob Byrnes welcomes Christian Baines, Jim Berg, Mary Burns, JP Howard, Michael Klein, Sean Patrick Mulroy, and Mecca Jamilah Sullivan. Join us as in-person or remotely to hear from some of queer literature’s most dynamic established and up-and-coming voices.

This event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center, 208 W. 13th St., NYC, 10011.

Registration is not required. Seating is first come, first served.

Also live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel:
youtube.com/@bgsqd
Suggested donation to benefit the Bureau: $10.
All are welcome to attend, with or without a donation.

“Eden’s Garden - A Road of Triumph and Battle”: Intimate Conversations (in person & live-streaming)
2023-11-17 19:00 - 21:00 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
The pre-promotion tour has started for the upcoming book release of Eden’s Garden – A Road of Triumph and Battle, which will be available in 2024.
Seven King’s memoir takes a vulnerable look into the experience of a young independent who went through a maze to fulfill an idea that was bestowed upon him. The idea came during one of the toughest moments in his life and came with mockery, tests, and gossip even in his own community. Being a passionate individual and fighter, he overcame all tests that would have set the average person back. However, this idea catapulted him into the seasoned and well-skilled creative director he evolved into.
This book will be a three-part manuscript: an autobiography of the experience of developing the project, an advice column for those transitioning or thinking about it, and a fictional novel. The book is a piece to give the true insight, wisdom, motivation, and creativity of the brand of Eden’s Garden and more understanding to the man behind the vision. Please join Seven for a night of pre-celebration through intimate conversation and the reading of the first 5 pages of the novel and Q&A with the director.
There will be open and honest dialogue with Seven while considering the questions many of us wrestle with: How do we build a project from scratch? How can we discover strength and community inside our differences? What tools do we use to address feelings of self-doubt vs purpose? What do we do when it all starts to feel like too much? Why is it important to follow your own gut when reaching for your goals? These will be some of the topics discussed at the promotional book tour stop for Eden’s Garden. Come join us for two hours of reflection, conversation, and celebration for Eden’s Garden – A Road of Triumph and Battle.

This event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center, 208 W. 13th St., NYC, 10011.
Registration is not required. Seating is first come, first served.
Also live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel:
youtube.com/@bgsqd
Suggested donation to benefit the Bureau: $10.
All are welcome to attend, with or without a donation.

Malachi King, known as Seven, stands as the visionary force behind The Nile Creatives and Seven King Productions. With a lineage rooted in the legendary hip-hop ensemble Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five—his father’s legacy—Seven effortlessly embraces the entertainment realm. Opting to forge his distinct path to greatness, he emerged as a film director, producer, author, screenwriter, motivational speaker, and a steadfast advocate for the trans community.
Malachi’s educational journey led him to Clark Atlanta University, where he adeptly mastered various hands-on programs within Mass Media, ultimately ascending to the role of Mass Media Department President. Amidst these formative years, he lensed music videos for fellow students, igniting his creative spark and birthing engaging vlogs. This initial foray gradually evolved, culminating in the inception of his own short films and the groundbreaking web series, “Eden’s Garden.” This audacious creation garnered immense traction, amassing over 2 million YouTube views and propelling him into the spotlight—earning recognition as one of Ryan Murphy’s top emerging directors, affording him the coveted opportunity to shadow the prolific creator on set.
Presently, Malachi’s production company thrives, a crucible for diverse visual arts encompassing feature films, web series, dynamic social media content, and evocative documentaries. His unwavering mission revolves around imbuing narratives with visceral impact, transcending mere sight to evoke profound emotional resonance. Rooted in a distinct and contemporary vision, his projects beckon viewers to re engage, repeatedly immersing themselves in narratives that authentically mirror the communities and social causes that resonate deeply within him.
This burgeoning luminary has already etched an indelible mark upon his community, poised for an even more remarkable trajectory. Anticipate a wealth of forthcoming endeavors from Seven King Productions, a revitalized incarnation of his viral sensation, “Eden’s Garden,” poised for an exciting resurgence in the summer of 2022.

TELL 88: Bathrooms (in person & live-streaming)
2023-11-18 19:00 - 21:00 | Bureau of General Services—Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
TELL 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.
The theme of the 88th TELL is Bathrooms. Featuring storytellers Micah Brown, Glace Chase, & Fred Brown, Jr.

This event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center, 208 W. 13th St., NYC, 10011.
Registration is not required. Seating is first come, first served.
Also live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel:
youtube.com/@bgsqd

Suggested donation to benefit the storytellers and the Bureau: $10.
All are welcome to attend, with or without a donation.

DRAE CAMPBELL’s first performance was at age 5 in a nightclub opening for a punk band. Drae has a BFA in Theater from The University of Arts in Philadelphia. Some Theater credits include: The Nosebleed (Lincoln Center Theater), Only You Can Prevent Wildfires (Ricochet Collective), Non-Consensual Relationships with Ghosts (La MaMa), My Old Man (Dixon Place), Oph3lia(HERE). TV includes “New Amsterdam,” “Bull ” and “Dinette ” (web series, directed by Shaina Feinberg). Drae has been hosting and curating TELL for more than 9 years which is now a SILVER Signal Award-winning podcast of the same name. www.draecampbell.com

Micah Brown is a transsexual butch queen from New York City. They are a Sociologist, multi-media artist, and tragically self-aware. They tell stories loosely, and would like to remind you to take everything with several grains of salt, and also completely seriously.

Fred Brown, Jr. is a New York Emmy-nominated tv producer and Culture journalist. In his current role at BRIC TV Brooklyn, Fred has produced over 20 documentary packages with social justice and human interest themes.
Fred helped develop and supervise the packaging of over 90 minutes of original documentary content, reflecting the diverse stories and experiences of New York’s vibrant and resiliant LGBTQ+ community. In 2019, Fred’s short doc titled “WERK!: Behind The Ball”, premiered at Times Square AMC Theater during the UrbanWorld Film Festival.
In a career now spanning 30 years, Fred has held professional stints at CNN, C-Span, The Washington Post, The Smithsonian Institute, The National Association of Black-Owned Broadcasters, PBS and The New York Times Advertising Group.

Glace Chase most recently starred in 3 return seasons of Nora Burn’s play The Village at Dixon Place and is a fixture of NYC & Australia’s queer comedy scene & multi-hyphenate & award-winning “trans-queen” / comedienne / performer / screenwriter / playwright / ho. Glace wrote & starred in Sydney Theatre Company/Queensland Theatre’s hit play Triple X, earning rave reviews & nightly standing Os. Triple X was shortlisted for both the Susan Smith Blackburn Award and Nick Enright Prize. While in Oz, Glace also starred in All My Friends Are Racist and ArtWorks on ABC. She’s attached to numerous tv projects that will probably go nowhere. She’s currently developing her new one-woman Outback Adventure Glace’s Big Things. It opens with group sex & closes riding a wombat, so it’s the #1 must-see of the Off-Off-Off Broadway Slutty Trans Storytelling Comedy genre and is coming to a Living Room near you. Outcalls only. #youtoo

Closed for Thanksgiving, November 23 and 24
2023-11-23 - 2023-11-24 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
The Bureau will be closed on Thursday, November 23, and Friday, November 24.

Allen Barnett’s The Body and Its Dangers and Other Stories World AIDS Day Celebration (in person only)
2023-12-01 19:00 - 20:00 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
The Library of Homosexual Congress is proud to reissue Allen Barnett’s 1990 collection The Body and Its Dangers and Other Stories. Among the finest short stories in the gay literary cannon in particular, and American fiction in general, Barnett’s record of the then-burgeoning AIDS crisis is unparalleled in its poignant humor amidst compounding loss. Please join an array of writers on World AIDS Day as we celebrate the return of Allen Barnett’s work to print for the first time in decades.
Copies of The Body and Its Dangers and Other Stories (Rebel Satori Press, 2023, paperback, $19.95) will be available for purchase.
To reserve a copy, please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com with “please reserve a copy of The Body and Its Dangers for Dec. 1 event” in the subject line.
Thank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us!

This event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center, 208 W. 13th St., NYC, 10011.

Registration is not required. Seating is first come, first served.

Suggested donation $10 to benefit the Bureau’s work.
All are welcome to attend, with or without donation.
We will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event, but we can also take credit card donations at the register or on Venmo @bgsqd

Christopher Bram is the author of twelve books including the novel that became the movie Gods and Monsters. He teaches at the Gallatin School of New York University.
Gerard Cabrera is the author of short fiction, poems, and the novel, Homo Novus, published by Rattling Good Yarns Press in 2022. His writing has appeared in literary journals such as the Acentos Review, JONATHAN, Kweli, Apricity, Digging Press, and Angel Rust. A naturalized Brooklynite, Gerard hails from the Puerto Rican community of Springfield, Massachusetts, the birthplace of Dr. Seuss, basketball, and the first American dictionary. He is a member of the Publishing Triangle Board of Directors.
JP Howard is a poet, educator, literary activist, curator, and community builder. JP is a Learn with Lambda Literary 2023 workshop facilitator and was the Spring 2023 Brooklyn College Tow Mentor-in-Residence. Her debut poetry collection, SAY/MIRROR (The Operating System), was a Lambda Literary finalist. She is also the author of bury your love poems here (Belladonna*), Praise This Complicated Herstory: Legacy, Healing & Revolutionary Poems (Harlequin Creature) and co-editor of Sinister Wisdom Journal Black Lesbians–We Are the Revolution! JP has received fellowships and grants from Cave Canem, VONA, Lambda Literary Foundation, and Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC). She curates Women Writers in Bloom Poetry Salon and her poetry is widely anthologized. JP is a general Poetry Editor for Women’s Studies Quarterly and Editor-At-Large of Mom Egg Review VOX online. http://www.jp-howard.com
Walter Holland is the author of four books of poetry “Reconstruction” (Finishing Line Press, 2022), “Circuit” (Chelsea Station Editions, 2010), “Transatlantic,” (Painted Leaf Press, 2001), “A Journal of the Plague Years: Poems 1979-1992” (Magic City Press, 1992) as well as a novel, “The March” (Chelsea Station Editions, 2011). Some of his recent poetry credits include: “Exquisite Pandemic,” “HIV Here and Now,” “Cutbank Literary Journal,” “About Place Journal,” and “Mollyhouse.” His reviews appear regularly in “Rain Taxi,” both print and online editions. A three-part essay series on queer, Black, millennial poetry is forthcoming online on the “Lambda Literary Review” website. He lives in New York City. For more information visit: www.walterhollandwriter.com.
Ron Caldwell is a writer, editor, and educator who was born in Texas and studied English literature at Rice University. He received a Masters degree in Creative Writing: Poetry from Boston University, where his teachers were George Starbuck, Christopher Ricks, and Nobel laureate Derek Walcott. Ron has taught at Parsons School of Design since 1996, and is currently the coordinator of Integrative Seminar in the First Year program. He lives in Allen Barnett’s apartment.

Writing About, With, and Through AIDS (in person & live-streaming)
2023-12-02 15:00 - 16:30 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
As part of this year’s World AIDS Day programming, explore the continuing literary legacies of the AIDS crisis with us through readings of their own works and the poems of the late Haitian-born poet, Assotto Saint, whose Sacred Spells: Collected Works was recently published in August 2023, and the late working-class Italian-Polish-American poet, Walta Borawski, whose Invisible History: The Collected Poems of Walta Borawski won the Publishing Triangle 2023 Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry.
How is rage, loss, grief, humor, love, and survival expressed? How does race, class, language, religion, and national origin play out in these works? How do we preserve the collective knowledge and experiences of our diverse communities? How do we define “survival” today?
Featuring Gerard Cabrera, Philip Clark, Reginald Harris, Charles Rice-González, and Steven Riel.
Co-Sponsored by The Publishing Triangle OUTSpoken Series

This event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center, 208 W. 13th St., NYC, 10011.

Registration is not required. Seating is first come, first served.

Also live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel:
youtube.com/@bgsqd

Suggested donation $10 to benefit the Bureau’s work.
All are welcome to attend, with or without donation.
We will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event, but we can also take credit card donations at the register or on Venmo @bgsqd

Gerard Cabrera is from Springfield, Massachusetts, the birthplace of the first American dictionary, Dr. Seuss, and basketball. His debut novel, Homo Novus, was published in October 2022, by Rattling Good Yarns Press, and was supported by the Bread Loaf Writers Conference and a Bread Loaf Bakeless Foundation fellowship at The Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France. Other writing has appeared in Gay Community News, Acentos Review, Angel Rust, Apricity, JONATHAN, Kweli, and Digging Press. An attorney, he lives and works in New York City. Visit him at www.gerardcabrera.com.

Philip Clark is the co-editor of Invisible History: The Collected Poems of Walta Borawski (Rebel Satori, 2022), winner of the 2023 Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry. His previous books are Persistent Voices: Poetry by Writers Lost to AIDS and In the Empire of the Air: The Poems of Donald Britton. The recipient of a MacDowell Fellowship, he is completing a biography of H. Lynn Womack, a pioneering gay publisher from the late 1950s to the early 1970s. He lives near Washington, D.C.

Born in Annapolis, Maryland, and raised in Baltimore, poet and librarian Reginald Harris was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award for his first book, 10 Tongues, and won the 2012 Cave Canem /Northwestern University Press Poetry Prize for Autogeography. A member of the National Book Critics Circle and recipient of Individual Artist Awards for poetry and fiction from the Maryland State Arts Council, his work has appeared in numerous journals, anthologies, and online including Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide, Lambda Literary Review, Black Gay Genius: Answering Joseph Beam’s Call, Encyclopedia of Contemporary Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Literature of the United States, The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South and The Spaces Between Us: Poetry, Prose and Art on HIV/AIDS. He and his partner live in Brooklyn.

Charles Rice-González, born in Puerto Rico and reared in the Bronx, is a writer, LGBTQ activist, co-founder of BAAD! The Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance and an Assistant Professor at Hostos Community College. His novel, Chulito, received recognition from the American Library Association and the National Book Critics Circle, he co-edited From Macho to Mariposa: New Gay Latino Fiction, and his play I Just Love Andy Gibb was published in Blacktino Queer Performance: A Critical Anthology. His writing’s been published in nearly a dozen anthologies including Ambientes: New Queer Latino Writing (University of Wisconsin Press 2011), Love, Christopher Street (Vantage Point 2012), QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking (Syracuse University 2016), and his article on Culturally Relevant Pedgogy will appear in Teaching Black (University of Michigan Press 2020). His honors include the Lambda Literary Foundation’s Dr. Betty Berzon Emerging Writer Award in 2014, an award from the New York City Council in 2016, the Men(cion) Award from 100 Hispanic Women in 2017 and a Gay City News Impact Award in 2017 for his activism and contributions to advancing the lives of LGBTQ people, and a Lannan Foundation Fellowship in 2018. He’s the chair of the board for The Bronx Council on the Arts and The National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures, and is on the advisory board of the Macondo Writers’ Workshop.

Steven Riel is the author of two full-length collections of poetry: Edgemere and Fellow Odd Fellow. His chapbook Postcard from P-town was published as runner-up for the inaugural Robin Becker Chapbook Prize. His poems have appeared in The Minnesota Review and International Poetry Review. He edits the Franco-American journal Résonance. Recipient of a Massachusetts Cultural Council grant, Riel was also named the 2005 Robert Fraser Distinguished Visiting Poet at Bucks County (PA) Community College.

Banned Books OUT LOUD Louffa Press 13th Anniversary Louffapalooza (in person & live-streaming)
2023-12-03 15:00 - 17:30 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
This event is a 13th anniversary celebration for Louffa Press and open forum on the epidemic of book-banning, and is hosted by Louffa Press on Sunday, December 3, at 3pm at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division.
Participants* include:
BEATRIZ ALBUQUERQUE, ROBERT ANTHONY GIBBONS, JEE LEONG KOH, MATTHEW LANSBURGH, PACO MARQUEZ, CLAUDIA SEREA, TRIPHOBIA
Curated by DAVID MOSCOVICH
After the readings, we will have a dialogue with the audience centered on the current trend of book-banning, particularly the banning of books by LGBTQ or POC authors; the reason is that 41% of content being banned or challenged is LGBTQ, and 40% of the books have protagonists or prominent secondary characters of color.
We need these your voice to help stop this.
(The source on these statistics and be found at the following link from PEN America: https://pen.org/report/banned-usa-growing-movement-to-censor-books-in-schools/)
*Author books will be available at the event.
This event is made possible in part through funding by Poets & Writers.
LOUFFA PRESS was founded in 2010. Based in Morningside/Harlem, New York City, LOUFFA PRESS is a micropress that focuses on printing limited edition chapbooks using letterpress technology.
THE MISSION behind Louffa Press is to foster a venue for limited edition, collectible, handmade chapbooks and art books by a wide array of authors and artists whose voices must be heard; to introduce new and innovative flash fiction, short stories, poetry, and those forms less easily classified; to put forth into the world precious artifacts that embody in their physical form a meticulously tailored and individualist aesthetic. www.louffapress.net

This event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center, 208 W. 13th St., NYC, 10011.

Registration is not required. Seating is first come, first served.

Also live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel:
youtube.com/@bgsqd
Suggested donation to benefit the Bureau: $10.
All are welcome to attend, with or without a donation.

Beatriz Albuquerque has received numerous awards including the Breakthrough Award for the 17th Biennial Cerveira; Myers Art Prize Award from Columbia University, New York; and the Ambient Performance Series Award, PAC / edge Performance Festival, Chicago. Her written work has been published in Performatus, ArtCapital Magazine, Cerveira Nova Journal, Studies in Digital Heritage Journal, among others. She has been anthologized in several books, such as Internet y Performance, Negociaciones entre Cuerpo, Virtualidad y Telepresencia (2011), Ediciones Al Margen, NIAM Publications; The Growth of Art Anthology (2015) Columbia University Press; Art School Critique 2.0 (2017) Columbia University Press; Performances no Contemporaneo (2019), FLUP Press; O Lado oculto da investigação (2023) ESE Press and RoadWork, which is forthcoming from Columbia University Press. She is the author of four books of research and non-fiction: Art + Internet + Performance = beginning of the 90s, Video Games + Glitch = Learning: Video Games Vs. Teachers, Super Mario World + Glitch = Adult Learning and Game Glitch + Learning = Aesthetics. Design. Preservation. (www.beatrizalbuquerque.com)

Robert Anthony Gibbons has been nominated for a Pushcart for his poem, “a self taught genius” by Great Weather for Media. Robert has been published in hundreds of literary magazines and in several notable anthologies. Recent publication credits includes Killens Review, Tribes, Involuntary Magazine,Peregrine, Expound, Promethean, Turtle Island Quarterly, Killer Whale, and Suisun Valley Review, Voices of Lefferts and the Bronx Memoir Project: Vol. 2 published by the Bronx Council of the Arts. Robert’s first collection, Close to the Tree was published by Three Rooms Press, 2012, and his chapbook, Flight, published by Poets Wear Prada in 2019. His latest is a collaboration between Brooklyn-based artist Amy Williams, titled, Some Little Words (2022). It is a collection of erasure and ekphrastic poems in tribute to Zora Neale Hurston.

Jee Leong Koh is the author of Steep Tea (Carcanet), named a Best Book of the year by the Financial Times in the UK and a Finalist by Lambda Literary in the US. His hybrid work of fiction Snow at 5 PM: Translations of an insignificant Japanese poet won the 2022 Singapore Literature Prize in English fiction. His latest book is Inspector Inspector from Carcanet.

Matthew Lansburgh’s collection of linked stories, Outside Is the Ocean, won the Iowa Short Fiction Award and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction. His fiction has appeared (or is forthcoming) in journals such as One Story, Virginia Quarterly Review, New England Review, and Alaska Quarterly Review, and has been shortlisted in the Best American Short Stories series. He lives in Manhattan and has received fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Yaddo, and MacDowell.

Paco Márquez is a poet based out of Manhattan, author of the chapbook Portraits in G Minor (Folded Word Press, 2017). His poetry has appeared in Fence, The Literary Review, Apogee, Philosophy and Global Affairs and Huizache, among others. As Spanish Editor, he assisted in translating Pablo Neruda’s initial book, Crepuscualrio, for the first time into English as Book of Twilight with William O’Daly (Copper Canyon Press, 2017). Originally from León, México, Paco immigrated with his family to Sacramento, California at age 13. He studied philosophy and literature at UC Berkeley and, after working for over a decade in varied fields, acquired an MFA in creative writing at NYU. His work has been supported by The Center for Book Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and New York University. Paco has served as poetry editor at Washington Square and OccuPoetry, and currently at 128 Lit. www.pacomarquez.net

Claudia Serea is a Romanian-American poet, translator, and editor with work published in Consequence, The Southern Review, Field, New Letters, Prairie Schooner, Oxford Poetry, among others, as well as featured on The Writer’s Almanac. She is the author of seven poetry collections, most recently In Those Years, No One Slept (Broadstone Books, 2023). Serea won a Pushcart Prize, the Joanne Scott Kennedy Memorial Prize from the Poetry Society of Virginia, and the New Letters Readers Award for her poems. She is a founding editor of National Translation Month, serves on the board of The Red Wheelbarrow Poets, and co-hosts their monthly readings.

Esther Marveta Neff is the founder of PPL. They are a performance-maker, organizer, librettist, and theorist. Publications include operating manual Embarrassed of the (W)Hole (Ugly Duckling Press, 2023) Institution is a Verb (Edited, The Operating System, 2022), Any Size Mirror is a Dictator (BAC/BIPAF, 2015) and many zines. Book chapters have been included in the Routledge Companion to Performance Philosophy (with Yelena Gluzman), The Palgrave Macmillan Handbook of Queer and Trans Feminist Performance Art, In the Wake (LiveArt UK), and various of forms of writing have appeared in PAJ, Paradigm, CAESURA, Ice-Hole, AM Journal of Art and Media Studies, CONTENT, and elsewhere. Neff is currently an adjunct at Hunter College and a member of the group Triphobia with 3dward g sharp and Noah Ortega. https://estherneff.wordpress.com/

David Moscovich is publisher of Louffa Press and author of You Are Make Very Important Bathtime (JEF Books, 2013) and LIFE+70[Redacted], a print version of the single most expensive literary e-book ever to be hacked (Lit Fest Press, 2016.) His novels Blink If You Love Me (2019) and his newest, Manhattan Other (2023), are available from Adelaide Books. www.louffapress.net

Second Tuesday presents: Queer Footprints A Guide to Uncovering London’s Fierce History (online only)
2023-12-12 19:00 - 21:00 | The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center, 208 West 13th Street, Room 101, New York, 10011, United States
The Center in partnership with the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division welcomes Dan Glass to discuss his recently published work Queer Footprints: A Guide to Uncovering London’s Fierce History.
This event will take place online only! To join the event on Zoom, please click on the following link at 7 PM Eastern Standard Time.
Join Zoom Meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82380673724?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 823 8067 3724
Passcode: [REDACTED]

OR WATCH THE LIVESTREAM ON THE BUREAU’S YOUTUBE CHANNEL:
YOUTUBE.COM/@BGSQD.COM

ABOUT THE BOOK
This groundbreaking guide will take you through the city streets to uncover the scandalous, hilarious, and empowering events of London’s queerstory. Follow in the footprints of veteran activists, such as those who marched in London’s first Pride parade in 1972 or witnessed the 1999 bombing of the Admiral Duncan pub in Soho.
Accompanied by a chorus of voices of both iconic and unsung legends of the movement, readers can walk through parts of East, West, South, and North London, dipping into beautifully illustrated maps and extraordinary tales of LGBTQIA+ solidarity, protest, and pride. The shadows of gentrification, policing, homophobia and racism are time and again resisted.
From the Brixton Fairies to Notting Hill Carnival to world-changing protests in Trafalgar Square, Rebel Dykes to drag queen communes, Queer Footprints celebrates the hidden histories of struggle and joy. Including an accessibility guide and a list of these gems for your pleasure – queer spaces, clubs, networks and resources galore.

ABOUT DAN GLASS
​​Dan Glass is an AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) healthcare and human rights activist, performer, presenter, and writer. Dan has been recognized as ‘Activist of the Year’ with the Sexual Freedom Awards and was announced a ‘BBC Greater Londoner’ for founding Queer Tours of London – A Mince Through Time. His book United Queerdom: From the Legends of the Gay Liberation Front to the Queers of Tomorrow was Observer book of the week. Dan recently founded self-defense empowerment program Bender Defenders and Queer Night Pride to confront rising hate crime. Follow him @danglassmincer.

To purchase Dan Glass’s Queer Footprints: A Guide to Uncovering London’s Fierce History (Pluto Press, 2023, paperback, $19.95) from the Bureau, please write to us contact@bgsqd.com with your address and phone number and preferred payment method. We can take payment via Venmo, PayPal, or credit card over the phone.
Thank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us!

Office Hours Fall 2023 Showcase Reading (hybrid in-person AND online event)
2023-12-15 19:00 - 20:30 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
Join us Friday, December 15th, 2023 at 7:00 PM EST for the Office Hours Fall 2023 Showcase Reading, a hybrid event (both in person readers & virtual). In person readers will gather at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division and virtual readers will appear on a screen. Fellows will give a brief reading in celebration of another strong semester of poetry making, community building, and surviving in difficult creative times.
Readers:
Dina Abdulhadi
Abba Belgrave
Ryan Dzelzkalns
J. Freeborn
Ashley Harris
Emily Hockaday
Carrie Hohmann
Holly Mitchell
Sarah M. Sala
Shakeema Smalls
Noel Sikorski
Ryan Dzelzkalns
To join the event on Zoom please click on the following link at 7 PM EST on Friday, December 15, 2023:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84592169421?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 845 9216 9421
Passcode: [REDACTED]
Or you can watch the livestream on the Bureau’s YouTube channel:
youtube.com/@bgsqd

If attending in person, no registration is necessary. Seating is first come first served. Any donations will go to Palestine Legal.
Office Hours Poetry Workshop is a community-based writing workshop for poets who show a demonstrated commitment to writing. The workshop fellowship culminates in a public reading each fall and spring to showcase sizzling new work. We welcome all poets, especially people of color, LGBTQ+, and those who are womxn-identified.

TELL 89: Eating It (in person & live-streaming)
2023-12-16 19:00 - 20:30 | Bureau of General Services—Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
TELL 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.
The theme of the 89th TELL is Eating It. Featuring storytellers Ashil Lee, Phoebe Brooks, Mindy Raf, and Buzz Slutzky.

This event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center, 208 W. 13th St., NYC, 10011.
Registration is not required. Seating is first come, first served.
Also live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel:
youtube.com/@bgsqd

We ask all attendees to please wear a mask at this event. We will provide masks for those who need them. Thank you!

Suggested donation to benefit the storytellers and the Bureau: $10.
All are welcome to attend, with or without a donation.

DRAE CAMPBELL’s first performance was at age 5 in a nightclub opening for a punk band. Drae has a BFA in Theater from The University of Arts in Philadelphia. Some Theater credits include: The Nosebleed (Lincoln Center Theater), Only You Can Prevent Wildfires (Ricochet Collective), Non-Consensual Relationships with Ghosts (La MaMa), My Old Man (Dixon Place), Oph3lia(HERE). TV includes “New Amsterdam,” “Bull ” and “Dinette ” (web series, directed by Shaina Feinberg). Drae has been hosting and curating TELL for more than 9 years which is now a SILVER Signal Award-winning podcast of the same name. www.draecampbell.com

Ashil Lee (they/he/she) NYC-based actor, playwright, and sex educator. Korean-American, trans nonbinary, child of immigrants, and bestie to blind dog Hux. 2023 Lucille Lortel nominee (Outstanding Ensemble: The Nosebleed) Selected acting credits: The Nosebleed (LCT3/Lincoln Center Theater, Woolly Mammoth), world premiere of Gina Femia’s The Virtuous Fall… in rep with Measure for Measure (Spicy Witch Productions), Juliet+Romeo (Pocket Universe), theatrical premiere of Dogville (dir.Robert O’Hara). Playwriting credits: Clubbed Thumb’s 2023-2024 Early Career Writer’s Group. Finalist: Playwright’s Realm Fellowship (23-24). Semi-finalist: Princess Grace Playwriting Fellowship (23-24). Echoes Emerging Writer’s Group 2022-2023 (Primary Stages) and Pataphysics 2020, led by Clare Barron. NYU: Tisch. BFA in Acting, Minor in Youth Mental Health. In their spare time, Ashil squeezes in courses toward their Master’s in Mental Health and Wellness (NYU Steinhardt: 20eventually), with intentions of incorporating mental health consciousness into the theatre industry. www.ashillee.com

Phoebe Brooks is a theatre creature interested in establishing a Theatre of Joy for artists and audiences alike! Recent work includes Charles Ludlam’s Der Ring Gott Farblonjet, LOVE (Among Dreamers) by Greg Nanni and Jyoti’s Bridge by Kanika Vaish. Upcoming Projects: The Fantastical Fellowship: Final Quest for the Crisis Crystal XXVII (Frigid Fest), The Amazing Doctor She Medicine Show (Edinburgh Fringe). Phoebe is also a performer, a dramaturg-about-town, the recipient of a brand new MFA from Columbia University and the Programming Director for Spicy Witch Productions. Check out her interactive Chekhov adventure, Dyadya Vanya: Files From A Dacha With 26 Rooms, featuring Ashil Lee and available online at www.phoebebrooks.com.

Mindy Raf is a comedian, actress, writer and musician based in Brooklyn, New York. Mindy has contributed to MTV’s GIRL CODE, COLLEGEHUMOR, TNT, VH1, The Daily Comedy Network, and is a published author with Penguin Random House. Her critically acclaimed solo comedy show NOT THE ONE: a love story was named an “LGBT Best Bet” by Time OutNew York, “hilariously quirky” by Theatre Is Easy, “Barrier Breaking” by The Edinburgh Reporter, and “cheeky and infectious” by Ed Fest Magazine. Not The One has played to a sold out run Off Broadway at 59E59, garnered 4 star reviews the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and has sold out Brooklyn’s Cloud City as well as its guest production residency at NYC’s Theaterlab.

Buzz Slutzky is a non-binary transgender artist, writer, and performer whose practice incorporates drawing, painting, sculpture, and video. Their visual art and writing often play between autobiographical and historical content. Lately, they’ve been drawing mashups between instructional manuals. As a performer, Buzz has mixed stand-up comedy and musical comedy under the persona Stoni Butchell, among others. They currently teach film and art to 18 year olds at CUNY College of Staten Island and SUNY Purchase College.

Closed on December 24
2023-12-24 | NY
The Bureau will be closed on
December 24 and 31.
Happy holigays!

Closed on December 31
2023-12-31 | NY

Touching the Art: MATTILDA BERNSTEIN SYCAMORE IN CONVERSATION WITH MCKENZIE WARK (in person & live-streaming)
2024-01-17 19:00 - 20:30 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
A mixture of memoir, biography, criticism, and social history, Touching the Art is queer icon and activist Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore‘s interrogation of the possibilities of artistic striving, the limits of the middle-class mindset, the legacy of familial abandonment, and what art can and cannot do. For this event, she will be joined in conversation by McKenzie Wark.
Taking the form of a self-directed research project, Sycamore recounts the legacy of her fraught relationship with her late grandmother, an abstract artist from Baltimore who encouraged Mattilda as a young artist, then disparaged Mattilda’s work as “vulgar” and a “waste of talent” once it became unapologetically queer.
As she sorts through her grandmother Gladys’s paintings and handmade paperworks, Sycamore examines the creative impulse itself. In fragments evoking the movements of memory, she searches for Gladys’s place within the trajectories of midcentury modernism and Abstract Expressionism, Jewish assimilation and white flight, intergenerational trauma and class striving.
Sycamore writes, “Art is never just art, it is a history of feeling, a gap between sensations, a safety valve, an escape hatch, a sudden shift in the body, a clipboard full of flowers, a welcome mat flipped over and back, over and back, welcome.”
Refusing easy answers in search of an embodied truth, Sycamore upends propriety to touch the art and feel everything that comes through.

This event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center, 208 W. 13th St., NYC, 10011.

Registration is not required. Seating is first come, first served.

Also live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel:
youtube.com/@bgsqd
Please wear a mask to this event!
We will also have masks available at the Bureau.
Suggested donation $10 to benefit the Bureau’s work.
All are welcome to attend, with or without donation.
We will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event, but we can also take credit card donations at the register or on Venmo @bgsqd

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore is the award-winning author of The Freezer Door, a New York Times Editors’ Choice, one of Oprah Magazine’s Best LGBTQ Books of 2020, and a finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award. Winner of a Lambda Literary Award and an American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book, she’s the author of three novels and three nonfiction titles, and the editor of six nonfiction anthologies, most recently Between Certain Death and a Possible Future: Queer Writing on Growing Up with the AIDS Crisis. Sycamore lives in Seattle, and her new book is Touching the Art, out now from Soft Skull Press.

McKenzie Wark is the author, among other things, of Love and Money, Sex and Death (Verso), Raving (Duke) and Reverse Cowgirl (Semiotexte).

OUTspoken: The Publishing Triangle's Reading Series (in person & live-streaming)
2024-01-18 19:00 - 20:30 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
The Publishing Triangle presents its monthly OUTspoken Reading Series as host Rob Byrnes welcomes Ann Aptaker, Steve Berman, Felice Cohen, Gerard Cabrera, Michael Thomas Ford, and Joe Okonkwo. Join us as in-person or remotely to hear from some of queer literature’s most dynamic established and up-and-coming voices.

This event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center, 208 W. 13th St., NYC, 10011.

Registration is not required. Seating is first come, first served.

Also live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel:
youtube.com/@bgsqd
Suggested donation to benefit the Bureau: $10.
All are welcome to attend, with or without a donation.

The Bars Are Ours: Histories and Cultures of Gay Bars in America, 1960 and After Author Lucas Hilderbrand in conversation with Nerve Macaspac (in person & live-streaming)
2024-01-21 15:00 - 16:30 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
Join The Bars Are Ours author Lucas Hilderbrand and scholar Nerve Macaspac for a conversation about the legacies of gay bars and nightclubs in New York City and nationally. They will discuss bars’ historical role in shaping gay male cultures, spaces, politics, and aesthetics. The New York Times described The Bars Are Ours as “sprawling, playful and rigorous.” Library Journal named it one of the best books of 2023.
Copies of The Bars Are Ours: Histories and Cultures of Gay Bars in America, 1960 and After (Duke UP, 2023, paperback, $32.95) will be available for purchase at the event. To reserve a copy, please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com with “reserve a copy of The Bars Are Ours” in the subject line.
Thank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us!
This event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center, 208 W. 13th St., NYC, 10011.
Registration is not required. Seating is first come, first served.
Suggested donation $10 to benefit the Bureau’s work.
All are welcome to attend, with or without donation.
We will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event, but we can also take credit card donations at the register or on Venmo @bgsqd

Also live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel:
youtube.com/@bgsqd

Lucas Hilderbrand (he/him) is the author of The Bars Are Ours: Histories and Cultures of Gay Bars in America, 1960 and After; Paris Is Burning: A Queer Film Classic; and Inherent Vice: Bootleg Histories of Videotape and Copyright. He is Professor and Chair of Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Irvine.

Nerve V. Macaspac (he/him) is a political geographer, cartographer, and filmmaker. His research focuses on the kinds of work required of marginalized communities in creating spaces of peace, safety, and security amid violence. He has published in Geopolitics, International Peacekeeping, Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence, Geography Compass, and Human Rights Review. He is Assistant Professor of Information Studies at Queens College’s Graduate School of Library and Information Studies and Doctoral Faculty at the Earth and Environmental Sciences at The Graduate Center, CUNY.

Laughter in the Analytic Setting (registration required)
2024-01-26 19:30 - 21:30 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
The Colloquium Series of the Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis
January 26, 2024
Nuar Alsadir: “Laughter in the Analytic Setting”
Beginning with a moment in one of Freud’s case studies in which he bursts out laughing, this talk will explore the ways in which laughter can act as a form of unconscious communication. Because of the positive associations most people have to laughter, its meaning often flies beneath the social—and, often, analytic—radar, even as it has the potential to collapse the alliance between an analyst and an analysand.
Learning Objectives:
1. Participants will be able to identify different forms of laughter and how each communicates outside of language.
2. Participants will learn to identify unconscious communication, countertransference, and enactments.
3. Participants will learn how to use their understanding of laughter’s different modes of communication in the treatment.

CLICK HERE TO PAY AND REGISTER TO ATTEND IN PERSON
For in-person attendance you will receive an E-ticket through Eventbrite.

CLICK HERE TO PAY AND REGISTER TO ATTEND ONLINE
For online attendance you will receive a zoom link after you register.

$50

Free for MIP candidates (RSVP candidates only)

Continuing Education Hours: 2
The Manhattan Institute is a NY State approved provider of continuing education hours for: LCSW, LMSW, LCAT, LMHC and Licensed Psychologists.

Scott Alexander Hess' A Season in Delhi in conversation with author Dana Burnell (in person & live-streaming)
2024-01-28 15:00 - 16:30 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
Scott Alexander Hess will be reading from his new fiction A Season in Delhi, followed by a conversation with author Dana Burnell (The Tame Man). The novella was called “a queer poetic experience that is reminiscent of E.M. Forster’s A Passage to India, but much more erotic! “- Andrew Rimby.
Copies of A Season in Delhi (Rebel Satori Press, 2023, paperback, $14) will be available for purchase at the event. To reserve a copy please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com with “please reserve A Season in Delhi” in the subject line.
Thank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us!

This event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center, 208 W. 13th St., NYC, 10011.
Registration is not required. Seating is first come, first served.
Suggested donation $10 to benefit the Bureau’s work.
All are welcome to attend, with or without donation.
We will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event, but we can also take credit card donations at the register or on Venmo @bgsqd

Also live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel:
youtube.com/@bgsqd

Scott Alexander Hess is the author of seven novels, including Skyscraper, a Lambda Literary Award Finalist, and The Butcher’s Sons, which was named a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2015. His recent fiction The Root of Everything & Lightning is a #1 Amazon Bestseller and A Season in Delhi was released in 2023.

Dana Burnell has written for the London Times Sunday Magazine, The Guardian Weekend Magazine, Time Out New York, Show Business Weekly and others. A former contributing associate for Harvard Review, co-founder of Firewater Films in NYC and arts editor for Inside New York, Dana was awarded a Mellon Foundation Grant for Fiction from Columbia University. Dana lives in New York City, and The Tame Man is her first novel. Her next novel, Remember the Night, about a woman obsessed with film noir star Barbara Stanwyck who finds herself living a noir, will be published in 2025.

The World That Is Coming: A Do'ikayt Teach-in (in person only)
2024-01-31 18:00 - 21:00 | Bureau of General Services—Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
Wednesday January 31st, 6-9 PM, Bureau of General Services—Queer Division, in room 210 of The LGBT Community Center, 208 W 13th St, New York, NY 10011 (doors close at 7 for a protected circle practice, attendance capped at 35, masks required and provided)
The conversation will NOT be recorded or shared publicly, to allow people to share freely, to be courageous, to integrate the new.
Do’ikayt is the yiddish word for “here-ness.” It describes a movement that came into being at the same time as, and in conversation with, the nascent zionist political project in the late 1800s, and it is based on the idea that wherever we are, that is our homeland; that our task as Jews is to build solidarity and fight for liberation in the places where we already live and work.
It’s difficult for many diasporic Jews to imagine a praxis that integrates all of the ancestral trauma that we carry with the drive for peace and justice for all peoples to which we are commanded. Do’ikayt offers as a possibility that tikkun olam (“repairing the world”) will come when ALL borders fall and ALL states dissolve.
We are in a climate of unbearable propaganda; we are being thrown bodily into the memories of generations of screaming ancestors who yearn for sanctuary. This is being crafted intentionally by agents of states who need us to be too dissociated, too triggered, and too terrified to connect across difference so that they can get on with their work of exploitation and domination. Our only job right now is to resist that, to push through the dissociation and the fear and the trauma to reach out for each other, to dismantle the borders and walls and protections that the fear and trauma spring up around us, to remember that we are not each other’s enemy.
When we tear down the walls around our hearts, we are making ourselves into channels through which olam haba’a (“the world to come“) can be born, and when we tear down the walls in the world, letting the sacred peace of Shabbat rush in like undammed water, letting the artificial mechanisms of the state be washed away by a river of solidarity, we are bringing it to pass.
If you want to open yourself to the possibility of do’ikayt as medicine, and want to do it in community, please join us to explore the history, tradition, and possibility of a way of being Jewish that does not accept the violence that we are being asked to tolerate in the name of our own safety.
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Do’ikayt Teach-In: Community Agreements
Please read and agree to these before entering the space.

We are here to keep each other safe, and to let ourselves be uncomfortable.

“what does safety mean” is one of the things we’ll be exploring, but one of our responsibilities is to learn the difference between discomfort and danger. When we trust ourselves and each other enough to tolerate discomfort and open to the new, it opens up space for us to be brave together. Call for a time-out if you need to, and then try to dare to step back in. By choosing to enter this space, you’re agreeing to do your best to be brave.

Let yourself be guided.

If you are being overtly disruptive of the connections and conversations, a facilitator will ask you to stop. If you’re not able to stop when you’re asked to stop, you’ll be asked to step out or away. By choosing to enter this space, you’re agreeing that you’ll do your best to trust the facilitators and each other, stop when you’re asked to stop, and step out or away if you’re asked to.

We are not each other’s enemy.

You might be feeling angry, afraid, triggered, dissociated, or any of a million other things, and those feelings might make it hard for you to be kind. Whatever you’re feeling is welcome here, but no matter how hard it is, you have to do your best to be kind anyway. By choosing to enter this space, you’re agreeing that you’ll do your best to act with compassion towards the other people in this space no matter how you’re feeling.

Focus on here and now.

As Jews, our ancestral trauma is being intentionally triggered by propaganda machines that need us afraid and dissociated. We can only build a better world if we can distinguish between those triggers and the here-and-now, and we do that by coming back to the body. By choosing to enter this space, you’re agreeing that you’ll do your best to honor your ancestors and your living family by noticing those triggers, honoring them, and then returning to the here-and-now and to the body.

Another world is possible.

It’s okay if this feels distant, maybe even like fantasy. But by choosing to enter this space, you’re agreeing that you’ll do your best to at least be curious about if it’s true.

Psalm 27 ends with the following words: chazak veya’ametz libecha.
Be strong, and strengthen your heart.

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This event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center, 208 W. 13th St., NYC, 10011.

Registration is not required. Seating is first come, first served.

Suggested donation $10 to benefit the Bureau’s work.
All are welcome to attend, with or without donation.
We will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event, but we can also take credit card donations at the register or on Venmo @bgsqd
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Biography of the event organizer and facilitator:
Andy is a Spinozan pantheist weirdo Jew, a time traveling transsexual, and an attorney, mediator, and facilitator of transformative justice processes with fifteen years of experience in protest support and radical lawyering with the National Lawyers Guild. Andy is on the board of their renewal synagogue, Kol Hai, and they live on a tranarchist intentional community in the Hudson Valley. Andy’s work explores the interplay between mystical diasporism, gender antinomianism, sadomasochism, and ancestor veneration with an eye towards the triumph of the forces of faggotry over the state.

Andy recommends the following titles if you want to learn more about the history and practice of radical Judaism and diasporism. Please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com if you’d like to purchase any of these at this event or at any other time and we’ll confirm that we have them in stock.
Thank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us!
The No State Solution: A Jewish Manifesto, Daniel Boyarin (Yale University Press, 2023, hardcover, $30)
Revolutionary Yiddishland, Alain Brossat and Sylvie Klingberg (Verso, 2017, paperback, $19.95)
There Is Nothing So Whole As A Broken Heart, Cindy Milstein, ed. (AK Press, 2021, paperback $23).
Days of Awe: Reimagining Jewishness In Solidarity With Palestinians, Atalia Omer (University of Chicago Press, 2019, paperback $38)
The Colors of Jews: Racial Politics and Radical Diasporism, Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz (Indiana University Press, 2007, paperback, $24.95)
To The Ghosts Who Are Still Living, Ami Weintraub (Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness, 2023, paperback, $20)

OLD, QUEER, & KICKING: Jonathan Ned Katz: A Painter, His Paintings, His Life (in person & live-streaming)
2024-02-02 18:00 - 19:30 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
Celebrating His 86th Birthday, Artist and Historian Jonathan Ned Katz
Discusses His Life-Long Career as a Visual Artist–and Shows the Pictures to Prove It!
Though best known as an award-winning, pioneering historian of LGBTQ US history, Jonathan Ned Katz has also had a life-long career as a visual artist.

This event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center, 208 W. 13th St., NYC, 10011.
Registration is not required. Seating is first come, first served.

Also live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel:
youtube.com/@bgsqd

New York Book Launch: Cuentos "Completos" by Manuel Ramos Otero (in person & live-streaming)
2024-02-03 19:00 - 20:30 | The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center, 208 West 13th Street, Room 101, New York, 10011, United States
Join an all-star lineup for the New York launch of legendary diasporic Puerto Rican writer Manuel Ramos Otero’s Cuentos “completos” in a new Spanish edition published by Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña and Callejón, edited by Arnaldo Cruz-Malavé. With a bilingual reading by authors Giannina Braschi, Gerard Cabrera, Lawrence LaFountain-Stokes, Lina Meruane, Huáscar Robles, and Emanuel Xavier, help celebrate the return of Ramos Otero’s work, after 30 years of being out of print, to the city where he lived, loved, and wrote from his arrival in 1968 at age 20 to his death from AIDS in 1990 at the age of 42.
Planning to purchase a copy of Cuentos “completos” (Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña and Callejón, 2024, paperback, $24.95)? Please reserve a copy by writing to us at contact@bgsqd.com with “please reserve a copy of Cuentos ‘completos'” in the subject line.
This will help us to make sure we have enough copies on hand.
Thank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us!

Planning to attend in person? Please register here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/new-york-book-launch-cuentos-completos-by-manuel-ramos-otero-tickets-801478352327

Hosted by the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division
Co-Sponsored by:
The New York City LGBT Community Center
The Publishing Triangle, OUTSpoken Series
Instituto De Cultura Puertorriqueña, Ediciones Callejón
Center for Puerto Rican Studies – Hunter College/CUNY

This event will take place in person at The LGBT Community Center, 208 W. 13th St., Room 101, NYC, 10011.
Seating is first come, first served.

Also live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel:
youtube.com/@bgsqd

Biographies:
Manuel Ramos Otero (1948-1990) influential Puerto Rican diasporic writer who migrated to New York City in 1968 to pursue advanced studies in theater, literature, and film, and life as an openly gay man. A queer, anticolonial, and feminist writer, Ramos Otero cultivated a self-reflexive, gender and genre-bending prose that was both confessional and historic, poetic and philosophical, campy, witty, and street-savvy. He is the author of the short story collections Concierto de metal para un recuerdo y otras orgías de soledad (1971), El cuento de la Mujer del Mar (1979), Página en blanco y staccato (1987) and Cuentos de buena tinta (1992); the experimental novel La novelabingo (1976), and the books of poetry Invitación al polvo (1991) y El libro de la muerte (1985). In 1990, at age 42, he died of AIDS complications, leaving behind a legacy that continues to grow in influence among the younger generations of Puerto Rican writers.

Giannina Braschi is an iconic Puerto Rican poet and Latinx philosopher who writes in Spanish, Spanglish, and English. She is the author of Empire of Dreams, Yo-Yo Boing!, and United States of Banana. Her forthcoming title is PUTINOIKA.

Gerard Cabrera is a Massarican from Springfield, Massachusetts, the birthplace of the first American dictionary, Dr. Seuss, and basketball. His debut novel, Homo Novus, was published in October 2022. An attorney, he lives and works in New York City.

Arnaldo M. Cruz-Malavé is professor of Spanish and comparative literature at Fordham University. He is the author of Queer Latino Testimonio, Keith Haring, and Juanito Xtravaganza: Hard Tails; coeditor of Queer Globalization: Citizenship and the Afterlife of Colonialism; and editor of Cuentos “completos” de Manuel Ramos Otero (San Juan: Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña and Callejón).

Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes is Professor of American Culture, Romance Languages and Literatures, and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His published fiction includes Uñas pintadas de azul/Blue Fingernails (Bilingual Press, 2009) and Abolición del pato (Terranova, 2013). He is also the author of Queer Ricans: Cultures and Sexualities in the Diaspora (University of Minnesota Press, 2009) and Translocas: The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance (University of Michigan Press, 2021). Larry performs in drag as Lola von Miramar since 2010 and has appeared in several episodes of the YouTube series Cooking with Drag Queens.

Lina Meruane is a Chilean writer residing in New York City since 2000. Her well recognized works of fiction include two collections of short stories, five novels, five essay books and two plays. She currently teaches creative writing as Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University.

Huáscar Robles is a Puerto Rican author-journalist-photographer-musician who writes about social justice, economic, and LGBTQ+ issues in Puerto Rico, the Caribbean and the U.S. His 2023 debut novel, Demonios, was published by Secta de los perros in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Emanuel Xavier is the author of several poetry books including Pier Queen, Americano, If Jesus Were Gay, Nefarious, and Radiance. His latest collection is Love(ly) Child (Rebel Satori Press, 2023). He is recipient of a New York City Council Citation Award, an International Latino Book Award, and a Gay City Impact Award. His work has appeared in Poetry, A Gathering of the Tribes, and elsewhere.

OLNY Poly Movie Night: Anne+ (in person only)
2024-02-07 18:30 - 21:30 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
Open Love NY presents Poly Movie Night, a FREE series of feature films that focus on the portrayal of consensual / ethical non-monogamy in cinema. This month we’ll be in person at our regular venue, the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division.

Please join us for Anne+ (2021), directed by Valerie Bisscheroux and starring Hanna van Vliet, Jouman Fattal, and Thorn de Vries.

Wednesday, February 7 – 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm
Bureau of General Services—Queer Division
208 W 13th St, Rm 210
New York, NY 10011

We’ll meet at 6:30 pm at the Bureau (in room 210 of The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center at 208 West 13th Street) for pre-screening socializing and start the movie at 7 pm. The event is free, although a $10 suggested donation to help fund future events is much appreciated.

Synopsis: Anne, a young woman living in Amsterdam, struggles with the changes brought on by her partner’s move to Montreal for a job. Running time: 1 hour 34 minutes. In Dutch with English subtitles.

An Evening With Martin Duberman Hosted by Richard Schneider Jr. (virtual event-online only)
2024-02-08 19:00 - 20:30 | Online event, New York, NY, United States
Martin Duberman discusses his latest book THE LINE OF DISSENT: Gay Outsiders and the Shaping of History hosted by Richard Schneider Jr.
To join this virtual event, you have two options:

Join Zoom Meeting at 7 PM EST on Thursday, February 8, 2024
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89415980537?pwd=[REDACTED]

Meeting ID: 894 1598 0537
Passcode: [REDACTED]
2. Or visit the Bureau’s YouTube channel to watch the livestream
(typically starts a few minutes after scheduled time, so please be patient):
YouTube.com/@bgsqd
Purchase The Line of Dissent from the Bureau’s online store:

Thank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us!

Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus at CUNY, Martin Duberman is the author of some two dozen books, including Stonewall, Cures, Paul Robeson, Haymarket, and Jews Queers Germans. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Bancroft Prize, the Vernon Rice Drama Desk Award, three Lambda Literary Awards, a special award from the National Academy of Arts and Letters for his contributions to literature, the 2007 lifetime achievement award from the American Historical Association, and the Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement. He has been a finalist for both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, and has received honorary degrees from Amherst College and Columbia University. He lives in New York City.

Richard Schneider Jr., editor, is the founder and editor-in-chief of The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide (until 2000, The Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review), which he launched in 1994. Taking his doctorate in sociology at Harvard in the early 1980s, he was a university lecturer for the next decade before founding The G&LR as a sideline while working for a Boston consulting firm in the ’90s. The magazine has been his full-time job since 1999. He lives in Boston with his partner Stephen Hemrick.

Peer Review: A Queer Publishing Roundtable Presented by WUSSY MAG and the Bureau (in person & live-streaming)
2024-02-10 15:00 - 17:00 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
Since 2014, WUSSY Mag, a DIY queer arts & culture organization and biannual print publication based in Atlanta, GA, has been a platform for emerging artists, subversive humor, community action, and unhinged digital discourse. In collaboration with the Bureau and their current exhibition Wussies Networking: Some Queer Sensibilities, curated by Tannon Reckling, WUSSY presents a live panel of writers, artists, editors, and organizers working through and beyond the precarious landscape of contemporary independent queer publishing, together in conversation about gay zine culture, collective resilience, industry gossip, the power of smut, and the future of print media.
Featuring:
Mikelle Street, Freelance Writer & Editor
Kamikaze Jones, Art Editor, WUSSY Mag
Sarah Burke, Editor-in-Chief, Them
Tyler Akers, Art Editor, Gayletter
Whitney Mallett, Editor-in-Chief, The Whitney Review of New Writing
Moderated by Rachel Garbus (Editor-in-Chief, WUSSY Mag)

This event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center, 208 W. 13th St., NYC, 10011.
Registration is not required. Seating is first come, first served.
Suggested donation $10 to benefit the Bureau’s work.
All are welcome to attend, with or without donation.
We will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event, but we can also take credit card donations at the register or on Venmo @bgsqd
Also live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel:
youtube.com/@bgsqd

MIKELLE STREET, Freelance Writer & Editor
Mikelle Street is a freelance writer and editor based in New York City. He is a former editorial director for Out and The Advocate magazines and has written for New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Vogue, GQ, New York Magazine, and Harper’s.

SARAH BURKE, Editor-in-Chief, Them
Sarah Burke joined Them in 2021 from VICE where she served as an editor since 2017. There, as special projects editor, Burke helped develop multimedia collaboration across departments and lead multi-format projects including: The Gender Spectrum Collection, an award-winning stock photo library featuring trans and nonbinary models; Queerly Beloved, an Ellie-nominated podcast telling remarkable stories of chosen family; and Transnational, a Peabody and GLAAD award-winning docuseries about transgender rights around the world. She is a queer, mixed Pilipinx and was born and raised on O’ahu. She currently lives in Bed-Stuy with her partner and her cat, Miso.

KAMIKAZE JONES, Art Editor, WUSSY Magazine
Kamikaze Jones is a writer, curator, erotic chanteuse, and regional filth correspondent. His work across mediums, often concerned with underground queer performance legacies and the ghosts of public sex, has been featured by Art Omi, Anthology Film Archives, BBC Radio 4, Black Mountain College Museum, Center For Performance Research, Montez Press Radio, Wave Farm, The Poetry Project, and Onassis USA. His arts & culture writing has been published by X-TRA, Screen Slate, The Brooklyn Rail, and LAMBDA Literary. He was a founding member of the poetry and performance collective The Anchoress Syndicate, and the host of the podcast “Pure Garbage: An Oral Examination of John Waters.” He is the current art editor of WUSSY Magazine.

WHITNEY MALLETT, Editor-in-Chief, The Whitney Review of New Writing
Whitney Mallett is the founding editor of The Whitney Review of New Writing and the co-editor of Barbie Dreamhouse: An Architectural Survey. She contributes to The New York Times, Paris Review, and Interview, and also writes short fiction.

TYLER AKERS, Art Editor, Gayletter
Tyler Akers has served as Art Editor at Gayletter Magazine since 2017. Originally from West Virginia, he received a BFA in Art History from the Savannah of College of Art and Design in Savannah, Georgia, and he graduated with an MFA in Art Writing and Criticism from the School of Visual Arts in New York in 2014. He writes about art regularly, and his interviews, essays, and criticism can be read in Hyperallergic, The Classic, and The Brooklyn Rail.

VISION TWO book launch (in person & live-streaming)
2024-02-11 16:00 - 18:00 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
VISION TWO BOOK LAUNCH

Artist/curator Nathan Rapport in conversation with Paul Soileau (Christeene)

CELEBRATING THE RELEASE OF THE SOPHOMORE VOLUME OF DREAM BROTHER GALLERY’S ONGOING ART BOOK SERIES, VISION, AIMED AT SHOWCASING AND GENERATING FUNDS FOR WORKING QUEER ARTISTS.
FEATURING THE WORK OF EIGHT QUEER VISUAL ARTISTS AND A FOREWORD BY MICHELLE TEA.
COPIES OF VISION ONE AND VISION TWO WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE & SIGNING.
GRAB ONE FOR YOUR SWEETHEART.
FREE ARTIST-MADE VALENTINE WITH BOOK PURCHASE.

This event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center, 208 W. 13th St., NYC, 10011.
Registration is not required. Seating is first come, first served.
Suggested donation $10 to benefit the Bureau’s work.
All are welcome to attend, with or without donation.
We will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event, but we can also take credit card donations at the register or on Venmo @bgsqd

Also live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel:
youtube.com/@bgsqd

Nathan Rapport is a California raised multimedia artist and gallery owner. Guided by formative years in San Francisco, his art celebrates the connectivity between the present experience and queer ancestral history.
Nathan is the founder of DREAM BROTHER GALLERY, a queer art platform dedicated to nurturing and generating funds for working Queer Artists.
Paul Soileau is a performance artist best known for his alter egos CHRISTEENE (christeenemusic.com), a sexually infused sewer of live rap and vile shamelessness, and cabaret crooning Rebecca Havemeyer, an ageless bastard heiress of the boozy bygone Hollywood years.
