Lucy Jane Bledsoe presents her new novel Tell the Rest (in person event & live-streaming)
2023-04-06 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
Stonewall Award winning author Lucy Jane Bledsoe presents her new novel, Tell the Rest, which follows the lives of two estranged childhood friends who find themselves on parallel paths to return to the site of the conversion therapy camp that tore them apart.
Lucy will be joined in conversation by author Kirstin Valdez Quade, author of the award-winning novel The Five Wounds and the short story collection Night at the Fiestas.

Copies of Tell the Rest (Akashic Books, 2023, hardcover $28.95) are available at the Bureau’s physical and online stores.

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 at 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.

LUCY JANE BLEDSOE is the author of several works of fiction, including A Thin Bright Line, which was a Lambda Literary Award and Ferro-Grumley Award finalist. She is the winner of an American Library Association Stonewall Award, a Yaddo Fellowship, a California Arts Council Fellowship in Literature, two National Science Foundation Artists & Writers Fellowships, and a finalist for the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association Fiction Award. A native of Portland, Oregon, she now lives in Berkeley, California. Tell the Rest is her latest work.

Kirstin Valdez Quade is the author of The Five Wounds, which won the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize and the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award and the Lambda Literary Award. Her story collection, Night at the Fiestas, won the John Leonard Prize from the National Book Critics Circle, the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a “5 Under 35” award from the National Book Foundation. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Best American Short Stories, The O. Henry Prize Stories, The New York Times, and elsewhere. She teaches at Princeton and in September will join the faculty of the Stanford Creative Writing Program. (Author photo by Holly Andres)

Couplets & Friends (in person event & live-streaming)
2023-04-07 19:00 - 20:30 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
Beep beep! Come celebrate the last stop on the COUPLETS book tour with readings from four NYC poets: Kay Gabriel, Elisa Gonzalez, Kyle Carrero Lopez, and Maggie Millner. Come for the sonnets, stay for the quips. No, wait—come for the outfits, stay for the rhymes. Or come for the horny verse, stay for the horny vers! Whatever you want, babe. Just come . . . and then stay.
Millner’s Couplets, Gabriel’s A Queen in Bucks County, and Lopez’s Muscle Memory will all be available for purchase at the event. To reserve a copy of any of these titles, please email us at contact@bgsqd.com.
Both Millner’s and Gabriel’s books are also available on our online store:

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 at 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.

Kay Gabriel is a poet and essayist. With Andrea Abi-Karam, she co-edited WE WANT IT ALL: AN ANTHOLOGY OF RADICAL TRANS POETICS. She’s also the author of the poetry collections KISSING OTHER PEOPLE OR THE HOUSE OF FAME and A QUEEN IN BUCKS COUNTY.

Elisa Gonzalez is a poet, an essayist, and a fiction writer. Her work appears in The New Yorker and elsewhere. She is the author of GRAND TOUR, forthcoming from FSG in 2023, and the recipient of a 2020 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award.

Kyle Carrero Lopez was born to Cuban parents in northern New Jersey and is the author of MUSCLE MEMORY, the chapbook winner of the 2020 [PANK] Books Contest. Among other subjects, his work centers power, social life, and Afro-Cuban histories.

Maggie Millner is the author of COUPLETS. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, BOMB, and elsewhere. She is a Lecturer at Yale and a Senior Editor at The Yale Review.

Opening reception: Slava Mogutin: Analog Human Studies
2023-04-12 18:00 - 20:00 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
Please join us for the opening reception of Slava Mogutin: Analog Human Studies, on Wednesday, April 12, 6 to 8 PM.

Slava Mogutin: Analog Human Studies is on view at the Bureau from April 12 through June 4, 2023.

On Sunday, April 23rd, at 3 PM, Slava will screen a project called Gay Propaganda at the Bureau. More details soon.

Analog Human Studies is an ongoing project that covers two decades of Slava Mogutin‘s film photography, from the outtakes from his first monograph Lost Boys (2006) to most recent commission and editorial work, portraits and nudes taken in NY, LA, Berlin and beyond. Based on Mogutin’s new book published by MenOnPaperArt (London), the show features a series of works on fabric, as well as photo collages from Polaroid Rage, another ongoing project documenting queer communities around the world.

Born in Siberia, Slava Mogutin is a Russian-American artist, author and activist exiled from Russia for his outspoken queer writing and activism. A third-generation writer and self-taught photographer, he became the first Russian to be granted political asylum in the US on the grounds of homophobic persecution. Informed by his bicultural dissident and refugee experience, Mogutin’s work examines the notions of displacement and identity, pride and shame, devotion and disaffection, love and hate. Mogutin is the author of seven books of writings in Russian, three monographs of photography and two illustrated collections of poetry published in the US, as well as numerous artist editions. He’s the winner of Andrei Bely Prize for poetry and the Tom of Finland Foundation Award for artistic achievement.
Copies of Analog Human Studies (MenOnPaper, softcover, 160 pages, 210 x 297 mm / 8.25 x 11.75 inches, $50) will be available for purchase at the Bureau.

BETTINA APTHEKER ON COMMUNISTS IN CLOSETS: QUEERING THE HISTORY 1930s-1990s, WITH SARAH SCHULMAN (in person event & live-streaming)
2023-04-14 19:00 - 20:30 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
Bettina Aptheker in a rare New York live appearance, will be discussing her fascinating new book about queer people and the Communist Party: Communists in Closets: Queering the History, 1930s-1990s. The book transforms our understanding of the roots of many crucial aspects of queer liberation, tracing their foundations to rejection by the party and analysis and organizing skills learned in the party. Subjects include Harry Hay and the creation of Mattachine, Lorraine Hansberry and the Broadway production of Raisin In The Sun, Alix Dobkin and the creation of lesbian separatism and women’s music, the founding of Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays, and Angela Davis’s role in and influence by the Communist Party.
Bettina will be interviewed by Sarah Schulman, Kessler Prize awardee by the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies.
A limited number of copies of Communists in Closets: Queering the History, 1930s-1990s (Routledge, 2023, paperback) will be available for purchase at the event at the discounted price of $30 (regularly $48.95). To reserve a copy, 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 at 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.

Bettina Aptheker is Distinguished Professor Emerita, Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz where she taught for more than 40 years, and had over 17,000 students in the course of her career. An activist-scholar she co-led the Free Speech Movement at UC Berkeley in 1964, and the National Student Mobilization Committee To End the War in Vietnam. She was a member of the Communist Party from 1962-1981. She has been part of the LGBT movement since the late 1970s, She has published several books including, The Morning Breaks: The Trial of Angela Davis, Tapestries of Life: Women’s Work, Women’s Consciousness and the Meaning of Daily Experience, and a memoir, Intimate Politics: How I Grew Up Red, Fought for Free Speech & Became A Feminist Rebel that was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award in 2006. She and her wife, Kate Miller, have been together since 1979. They live in Santa Cruz.

Sarah Schulman is the author of more than twenty works of fiction (including The Cosmopolitans, Rat Bohemia, and Maggie Terry), nonfiction (including Stagestruck, Conflict is Not Abuse, The Gentrification of the Mind, Let the Record Show), and theater (Carson McCullers, Manic Flight Reaction, and more), and the producer and screenwriter of several feature films (The Owls, Mommy Is Coming, and United in Anger, among others). Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Slate, and many other outlets. She is a Distinguished Professor of Humanities at College of Staten Island, a Fellow at the New York Institute of Humanities, the recipient of multiple fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, and the New York Foundation for the Arts, and was presented in 2018 with Publishing Triangle’s Bill Whitehead Award. She is also the cofounder of the MIX New York LGBT Experimental Film and Video Festival, and the co-director of the groundbreaking ACT UP Oral History Project. A lifelong New Yorker, she is a longtime activist for queer rights and female empowerment, and serves on the advisory board of Jewish Voice for Peace. (Author photo by Drew Stevens)

TELL 86: My Rainbow (in person & live-streaming)
2023-04-15 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.
My Rainbow is the theme of the 86th TELL, guest-hosted by Darlinda Just Darlinda. Storytellers: Lyssette, Klondyke, and Nadia Iqbal.
The event will also be live-streamed at youtube.com/@bgsqd
Suggested donation of $10 to benefit the Bureau and the storytellers.
We will pass a bag at the start of the event. Donations by card can be made at the register or via Venmo @bgsqd with TELL 86 in the message. Thank you for supporting the Bureau and TELL!
All are welcome to join, with or without a donation.
Photo by Johnel Clemente
Coined “Mastermind of Bizarre Extravaganza” by The Village Voice, Darlinda Just Darlinda has been working as an International Performance Artist and Burlesque Performer since 2004. Darlinda is the Creator of the Year in Rainbow. Darlinda has produced shows The New York Times calls “shockingly explicit.” Darlinda has also performed Off Broadway in Year in Rainbow LIVE (Joe’s Pub 2022), One Woman Rainbow (Joe’s Pub 2019) and with Taylor Mac in The Lily’s Revenge (Obie 2009) & 24 Decades of Popular Music (Macarthur Award 2016). USA Today says “It’s hard to top Darlinda.” darlindajustdarlinda.com

Lyssette is a black queer, artist, activist, and filmmaker. As a former homeless youth and graduate of the Reciprocity Foundation, Lyssette developed a love for yoga and meditation. She credits her first acupuncture treatment as the first time she felt “at home in her body”. Armed with new tools, Lyssette spoke out on the many ways trauma manifests in black and brown LGBTQ homeless youth. Acupuncture treatments, yoga and mental health services have been supportive in speaking and finding the courage to heal.
Inspired by the works of Audre Lorde, Lyssette strives to make self care and healing accessible to those in need and reduce barriers to healing.
Lyssette’s activism has led to many creative endeavors including an Emmy nominated short documentary about the myths and causes related to youth homelessness. They were also named one of the ‘Top Forty Under 40’ by The Advocate magazine and their work was featured on the cover of Gay City News.
Lyssette says, “By prioritizing my healing and my truth I give permission for others to commit to their healing journey and show up authentically.

Klondyke is an alien tragg*t superstar!!! Child of a black hole and a supernova, raised by a 4th dimensional rockstar. Experimental musical theatre composer, Haus of Quench Member, and winner of Cakeboys 2021 Takes the Cake Competition they are here to terrorize norms out of existence through the great unifier: MUUUUSIIIIIC!

Nadia Iqbal is a writer, actress and comedian based in Brooklyn, NY. She is a certified cat lady and an official citizen oral historian for the 1947 partition archive. She is still very mad about colonialism.

Stir Up Magic with House Of Our Queer (in person event & live-streaming)
2023-04-16 15:00 - 16:30 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
We all have access to the magic that can change our lives. In this Book Talk, author Bex Mui, will share about her ever-growing spiritual toolbox including energy work, astrology, tarot, sacred sexuality, and honoring ancestors. Bex is thrilled to be in conversation with Tai, a professional astrologer and co-founder of Novaa Network, a community for spiritual practitioners. Using the framework of her Bex’s new release, House of Our Queer: Healing, Reframing, and Reclaiming Your Spiritual Practice, this moderated conversation will center on the blessing of queerness, and aims to meet participants wherever they are in their energetic and spiritual journeys. If you’re looking for a Sunday energy cleanse and restart for a fresh week, you don’t want to miss this special event.

Copies of House of Our Queer: Healing, Reframing, and Reclaiming Your Spiritual Practice (Purple Palm Press, 2023, paperback, $19.95) will soon be available at the Bureau’s physical and online stores.
Planning to purchase a copy at the event?
We strongly encourage you to reserve a copy in advance so that we can be sure to have enough copies on hand. Please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com with “reserve House of Our Queer” 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 at 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.

Author/presenter:
Bex Mui, M. Ed, she/her is a biracial, first gen, queer witch, spiritual organizer, certified energy worker, and long-time LGBTQ+ advocate. She is also the founder of House Of Our Queer, a spiritual playspace for the queer and trans community. Bex is thrilled to return to NYC where she spent her formative 20s to stir up some magic in powerful queer community.

Moderator:
Tai is an astrologer, brand manager, and globetrotter from Houston, TX. She began her consulting practice in 2018 during her time studying criminology and law in London, England. After traveling the world, she came back to the USA in 2020, where she began developing the idea that is now Novaa Network, a community for spiritual practitioners. Novaa launched with cofounders in 2021, and has hosted in person and virtual classes, workshops, and events with a variety of spiritual creators and practitioners.

Rainbow Book Fair Presents Brian Broome (in person)
2023-04-22 15:00 - 16:30 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
In conjunction with the Rainbow Book Fair 2023, the Bureau is pleased to announce that Brian Broome, who resides in Pittsburgh, will speak at the Bureau at 3 PM, on Saturday, April 22.
BRIAN BROOME’s debut memoir, Punch Me Up to the Gods, is an NYT Editor’s Pick and the winner of the 2021 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction. He is a contributing columnist at The Washington Post. His work has also appeared in Hippocampus, Poets and Writers, Medium, and more. Brian was a K. Leroy Irvis Fellow and an instructor in the Writing Program at the University of Pittsburgh.
He has been a finalist in The Moth storytelling competition and won the grand prize in Carnegie Mellon University’s Martin Luther King Writing Awards. Brian also won a VANN Award from the Pittsburgh Black Media Federation for journalism in 2019. His film, Garbage, won the Audience Choice Award at the Cortada Short Film Festival and was a semi-finalist in the Portland Short Fest. Brian is a 2022 Writer in Residence at St. Mary’s College in Moraga, California.
Copies of Punch Me Up to the Gods (Mariner Books, 2022, paperback, $17.99) will be available for sale and signing by the author. To reserve a copy, please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com with “Please reserve Punch Me Up to the Gods” 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.
More about the Rainbow Book Fair:
The New York Rainbow Book Fair, the largest lgbtq+ book event in the US, will resume once more on Saturday, April 22, from Noon to 6 PM, at The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Community Center, 208 W. 13th Street in the West Village, after a 2-year absence due to Covid-19. The theme of this year’s fair is WEIRD AND QUEER. Showing close to 100 exhibitors with books ranging from kids’ to seniors, this book fair highlights the range, depth, and quality of queer books, their authors, and most importantly, their readers. The popularity of the Rainbow Book Fair shows that books are NOT dead. At all.
Along with an array of books in two large rooms at the Center, the Fair will also host its famous Poetry Salon, curated by Nathaniel Siegel, giving a showcase to close to 50 poets reading briefly, and of course, being poets, talking to each other seriously (but fun, too! Yeah.)
There will also be short readings by 30 authors, and Featured Readings by Curtis Chin, author of the memoir Everything I Learned I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant (Little Brown); Brian Broome, Pittsburgh author of the landmark memoir Punch Me Up to the Gods (Mariner Books), chosen by the NY Times as one of the “100 Notable Books of the Year,” winner Kirkus Non-Fiction Book Award; and West Coast author Felice Picano—The Lure, The Joy of Gay Sex, Like People in History — an original member of the famous Lavender Quill group that included Andrew Holleran and Edmund White.
Plus, exciting panels all day explore queer books and their authors in depth. They include “Weird and Queer: Sci-Fi, Gothic, Horror, and Memoir”; “Librarians and Archivists: Fighting Back Against the Attacks on Queer Books”; “Queering Comics”; and “Queer Histories.” There will also be showcases for outstanding lgbtq+ publishers, including Archer Books, Rebel Satori, and Riverdale Avenue Books.
The Rainbow Book Fair is free to attend, but a voluntary $3 donation is asked at the door. For more information on the RBF, go to rainbowbookfair.com, or rainbowbookfair123@gmail.com; or belhuepress@earthlink.net.

Gay Propaganda: Film Screening and Poetry Reading by Slava Mogutin (in person event)
2023-04-22 17:00 - 19:00 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
In conjunction with the Bureau’s current exhibition, Slava Mogutin: Analog Human Studies, the Bureau is happy to host Slava for a screening of short films and a poetry reading on the day of the Rainbow Book Fair.
Featuring short films by:
Kris Canavan, Christeene, Harry Clayton-Wright, Yves De Brabander, David Hoyle, Dominic Johnson, Brian Kenny, Bruce LaBruce, Mathieu & Leolo, Matt Lambert, Murphy Maxwell, Daniel McKernan, Slava Mogutin, No Bra, Patriarchy, Peaches, PJ Raval, A.L. Steiner, Vaginal Davis, Lex Vaughn and David Wilson

Copies of Analog Human Studies (MenOnPaper, softcover, 160 pages, 210 x 297 mm / 8.25 x 11.75 inches, $50) is available for purchase at the Bureau.

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.

Publishing Triangle Finalists Readings: Two Nights, Hybrid In-Person & Virtual
2023-04-25 19:00 - 20:30 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
Join us for two night’s of hybrid in-person & virtual readings by finalists for Publishing Triangle Awards at the Bureau! Both readings will also stream on the Bureau’s YouTube channel: youtube.com/@bgsqd
Please note: the Bureau is usually closed on Tuesdays, but we will open at 6 pm for this event.
Readers on Tuesday, April 25th:
Wo Chan: Togetherness (Nightboat Books)
Ron Goldberg: Boy with the Bullhorn: A Memoir and History of Act Up (Fordham University Press)
Rage Hezekiah: Yearn (Diode Editions)
Irena Klepfisz: Her Birth and Later Years (Weslyan University Press)
Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué: Madness (Nightboat Books)
Eric Tran: Mouth, Sugar, and Smoke (Diode Editions)
Check out the line up for Wednesday, April 26th!
Books will be available for purchase! To reserve a copy of any title, please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com with Publishing Triangle Finalists Readings in the subject line.
Thank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us!

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

The Publishing Triangle’s 35th Annual Awards Ceremony will take place on Thursday, April 27th, at 7 PM, at The New School’s Tishman Auditorium, 66 West 12th Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. All are welcome to attend!
To see the full list of finalists for each category visit The Publishing Triangle’s website.
The Bureau will sell books at the Awards Ceremony.

The Publishing Triangle is a group of queer folks who work to further the publication of books and other materials written by LGBTQ authors or with LGBTQ themes.
We come from all types of backgrounds. We are on staff and we’re freelancers. We are editors, agents, and booksellers; we work in sub rights, publicity, sales, design, and production. Many of us are writers. We are also librarians, teachers, booksellers, and even avid readers who don’t work in a publishing-related field.
Our primary method of shining a much-needed light on queer books is through our awards program. We give out ten awards annually (at an awards ceremony, usually in April at the New School in Manhattan), each with a cash prize of between $500 and $3000. Seven of these awards honor the best books published in the previous calendar year in nonfiction, fiction, poetry, and trans/gender-variant literature. There is a lifetime achievement award and an emerging-writer award; and we also honor a book-industry figure each year (not a writer) with our leadership award.
Through our social media and our newsletter—as well as through readings, social networking events, and other programs in the New York City area—we strive to promote a sense of camaraderie in the queer literary community.
Membership dues start at $40 a year for individuals (there are additional levels of membership for families and businesses). For more details, see our membership page.
If you have additional questions about the Triangle and its programs, please email us at info@publishingtriangle.org or write us at the address listed below.
The Publishing Triangle
511 Avenue of the Americas, #D36
New York, NY 10011

Publishing Triangle Finalists Readings: Two Nights, Hybrid In-Person & Virtual
2023-04-26 19:00 - 20:30 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
Join us for two night’s of hybrid in-person & virtual readings by finalists for Publishing Triangle Awards at the Bureau! Both readings will also stream on the Bureau’s YouTube channel: youtube.com/@bgsqd
Readers on Wednesday, April 26th:
Philip Clark: Invisible History: The Collected Poems of Walta Borawski (Rebel Satori)
Siaara Freeman: Urbanshee (Button Poetry)
David Santos Donaldson: Greenland (Amistad/Harper Collins)
Estela González: Arribada (Cynren Press)
Rachel M. Harper: The Other Mother (Counterpoint)
imogen xtian smith: stemmy things (Nightboat Books)
Alyssa Songsiridej: Little Rabbit (Bloomsbury Publishing)
Mecca Jamilah Sullivan: Big Girl (Liveright/W.W Norton & Co)
Books will be available for purchase! To reserve a copy of any title, please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com with “Publishing Triangle Finalists Readings” in the subject line.
Thank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us!

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

The Publishing Triangle’s 35th Annual Awards Ceremony will take place on Thursday, April 27th, at 7 PM, at The New School’s Tishman Auditorium, 66 West 12th Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. All are welcome to attend!
To see the full list of finalists for each category visit The Publishing Triangle’s website.
The Bureau will sell books at the Awards Ceremony.

The Publishing Triangle is a group of queer folks who work to further the publication of books and other materials written by LGBTQ authors or with LGBTQ themes.
We come from all types of backgrounds. We are on staff and we’re freelancers. We are editors, agents, and booksellers; we work in sub rights, publicity, sales, design, and production. Many of us are writers. We are also librarians, teachers, booksellers, and even avid readers who don’t work in a publishing-related field.
Our primary method of shining a much-needed light on queer books is through our awards program. We give out ten awards annually (at an awards ceremony, usually in April at the New School in Manhattan), each with a cash prize of between $500 and $3000. Seven of these awards honor the best books published in the previous calendar year in nonfiction, fiction, poetry, and trans/gender-variant literature. There is a lifetime achievement award and an emerging-writer award; and we also honor a book-industry figure each year (not a writer) with our leadership award.
Through our social media and our newsletter—as well as through readings, social networking events, and other programs in the New York City area—we strive to promote a sense of camaraderie in the queer literary community.
Membership dues start at $40 a year for individuals (there are additional levels of membership for families and businesses). For more details, see our membership page.
If you have additional questions about the Triangle and its programs, please email us at info@publishingtriangle.org or write us at the address listed below.
The Publishing Triangle
511 Avenue of the Americas, #D36
New York, NY 10011

Queerness & Catholic Imagery (in person event & live-streaming)
2023-04-27 19:00 - 20:30 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
Vince Sgambati, IPPY Award winning author, will read from his latest novel, Sanctuaries––a tender story of caring and personal healing, set against the larger turmoil of the Vietnam War, the Civil Rights Movement, Stonewall, and the lingering ashes of the Holocaust. Gabriel Garcia Roman, artist, craftsman, and creator of the Queer Icon series, will share images from the series. Vince and Gabriel will discuss how Catholic imagery influenced their work and invite participants to join their conversation with questions and comments. Vince will sign copies of Sanctuaries.
Planning to purchase a copy of Sanctuaries (Standing Stone Books, 2023, paperback, $18) at the event?
We strongly encourage you to reserve a copy in advance so that we can be sure to have enough copies on hand. Please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com with “reserve Sanctuaries” 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 at 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.

Vince Sgambati’s debut novel, Most Precious Blood, received an IPPY Award, a KIRKUS star review, was a Foreword Indies Finalist in literary fiction, a Central New York Book Awards Finalist, and was listed as recommended reading by the Working Class Studies Association. His short story collection, Undertow of Memory, includes stories awarded by the Katherine Ann Porter Prize for Fiction and the Saints and Sinners Fiction Contest. His fiction and creative nonfiction have appeared in the anthology Queer and Catholic, North American Review, Nimrod International Journal, Voices In Italian Americana, Saints and Sinners: New Fiction From The Festival, Off the Rocks, The Journal of GLBT Family Studies, and Lavender Magazine where he wrote a Queer parenting column. Sanctuaries is Vince’s second novel.

Gabriel Garcia Roman is a multi-disciplinary artist and craftsman who examines and decodes the politics of identity through intricate and process-based work. His art has been acquired by the International Center of Photography and has been shown at the Museum of Latin American Art (Long Beach, CA), Cathedral of St. John the Divine (New York, NY), the Center for Photography at Woodstock (Woodstock, NY), and numerous other institutions and galleries. He was a 2018 recipient of the National Association of Latino Arts & Culture’s artist grant and in 2019 was commissioned by the Leslie-Lohman Museum to bring his Queer Icons series into the streets for the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots where 100 Queer Icons flags were marched down the World Pride route. In 2022 he was one of 7 artists whose work was featured in collaboration with Target’s Mas Que campaign for Latinx Heritage Month.

Book launch of Patrick E. Horrigan's AMERICAN SCHOLAR (in person event & live-streaming)
2023-04-29 19:00 - 21:00 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
A party and reading to mark the publication of the novel AMERICAN SCHOLAR (Lethe Press) by Patrick E. Horrigan.
Copies of AMERICAN SCHOLAR (Lethe Press, 2023, paperback, $20) are available at the Bureau.
Planning to purchase a copy at the event?
We strongly encourage you to reserve a copy in advance so that we can be sure to have enough copies on hand. Please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com with “please reserve a copy of American Scholar” 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 at 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.
Patrick E. Horrigan is the author of the novels PENNSYLVANIA STATION and PORTRAITS AT AN EXHIBITION, the memoir WIDESCREEN DREAMS: GROWING UP GAY AT THE MOVIES, the play MESSAGES FOR GARY, and the solo sow YOU ARE CONFUSED!, which he co-authored with his husband Eduardo Leanez. Having taught literature for over twenty-five years at LIU Brooklyn, he is currently training to become at docent at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

A Reading by Queer Poets janan alexandra & Emma Wynn (in person event & live-streaming)
2023-04-30 15:00 - 16:30 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
Join queer poets janan alexandra (she/her) and Emma Wynn (they/them) for a joint reading and the NYC book launch of Emma’s first full-length collection, The World is Our Anchor. The event will consist of readings, a Q&A, and book signing.
Copies of The World Is Our Anchor (Futurecycle Press, 2023, paperback, $15.95) are available at the Bureau. To reserve a copy, 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 at 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.
janan alexandra was born in Nicosia, Cyprus to a Lebanese mother and an American father. She received her MFA in Poetry from Indiana University. A 2021-2022 Creative Research Fulbright Scholar, janan currently teaches English at the Hotchkiss School in CT. You can find her work in Gulf Coast, Ploughshares, Mizna, Muzzle, The Adroit Journal and elsewhere.
Emma Wynn received their MTS from Harvard Divinity School and teaches Philosophy, Religious Studies, Psychology, and LGBTQI+ U.S. History at the Hotchkiss School in CT. They have been published in a variety of online and print journals and nominated for a Pushcart Prize twice. Their first book, The World is Our Anchor, was published in February by FutureCycle Press.

OLNY Poly Movie Night: Professor Marston and the Wonder Women
2023-05-03 18:30 - 21:00 | 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 and celebrating 7 years of Poly Movie Night!

Please join us for Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (2017), written and directed by Angela Robinson and starring Luke Evans, Rebecca Hall and Bella Heathcote. The movie was widely praised as one of the most positive portrayals of polyamory in modern American film to date.

Wednesday, May 3 – 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: Based on the true story of the creator of the character Wonder Woman, Harvard psychologist Dr. William Marston’s polyamorous relationship with his wife and their lover was more provocative than any adventure he had ever written. Running time: 1 hour 48 minutes

Past and Future Queers: Mary Ann Cherry in conversation with Mike Albo (in person & live-streaming)
2023-05-06 15:00 - 16:45 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
In celebration of their new books — a nonfiction biography and a speculative Young Adult novel — authors Mary Ann Cherry and Mike Albo will discuss uncovering queer facts and creating queer fictions. Cherry’s Morris Kight: Humanist, Liberationist, Fantabulist is “a story of gay rights and gay wrongs” that traces the life of a LGBTQ pioneer. Albo’s Another Dimension of Us, a “speculative romance” follows queer kids from the past and future who travel to the astral plane to save the ones they love. It has been called “Lucid and thought-provoking” by Booklist.
Copies of Morris Kight: Humanist, Liberationist, Fantabulist and Another Dimension of Us are available at the Bureau. To reserve a copy, 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 at 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.
Mary Ann Cherry (she/her) has been based in Los Angeles for 45 years, is a writer with a diverse background in network and syndicated television and independent documentary films. Cherry has worked with non-profit organizations, most recently created the historical archive for AIDS Healthcare Foundation. She befriended and worked with Morris Kight during the last decade of his life which led to Kight giving his blessing for Cherry to write his biography. They shared a friendship and a passion for social justice and activism. She enjoys a second career as an in-demand specialized yoga therapist. maryanncherrywriter.com
Mike Albo is the author of three novels: Hornito, considered one of the 50 Essential LGBT Works of Fiction by Flavorwire, the cult classic The Underminer: The Best Friend Who Casually Destroys Your Life (written with Virginia Heffernan) and Another Dimension of Us, released in 2023. His other works include the The Junket and Spermhood: Diary of a Donor. He has written for the The New Yorker, New York Magazine, TED, Town and Country and numerous other outlets. He has performed nine solo and comedy shows across the US, Canada, and UK. His solo shows include “Spermhood: Diary of a Donor” and “The Junket” which ran Off-Broadway at the Lynn Redgrave Theater in 2014. Mikealbo.net

Author Appearance and Book Signing with Adaryll Moore
2023-05-07 15:00 - 17:00 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
Come meet author Adaryll T. Moore at the Bureau on Sunday, May 7th, from 3 to 5 pm. She will have copies of her books I Bring the Glitter Everywhere and God, Forget the Wheel, Please Take the Whole Damn Vehicle for sale and signing.
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.

East-coast-based Adaryll T. Moore is a Transgendered Female, born leader, advocate for the LGBTQ community, creator, educator, scholar with two degrees in Elementary Education and a Reading minor, mentor, motivational speaker, poet, published award-winning author of five books, with so many other gifts and talents. With her heart of gold, Adaryll strongly desires to liberate others, especially LGBTQ+ children, through her literary works and victim-to-victor life story. Find out more on her website: www.amooreenterprises.org

Queer Science: Neil Theise on Notes on Complexity (in person & live-streaming)
2023-05-10 19:00 - 20:30 | NY
Neil Theise and Bureau co-founder Greg Newton in conversation about Neil’s new book, Notes on Complexity.
We strongly encourage you to reserve a copy of Notes on Complexity: A Scientific Theory of Connection, Consciousness, and Being (Spiegel & Grau, May 9, 2023, hardcover, $27) if you plan on purchasing it at the event. Please email us with “Please reserve Notes on Complexity” in the subject line: contact@bgsqd.com
Or purchase a copy from our online store to have a copy shipped to you:

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

About Notes on Complexity: A Scientific Theory of Connection, Consciousness, and Being:
An electrifying introduction to complexity theory, the science of how complex systems behave, that profoundly reframes our understanding and illuminates our interconnectedness.
Nothing in the universe is more complex than life. Throughout the skies, in oceans, and across lands, life is endlessly on the move. In its myriad forms—from cells to human beings, social structures, and ecosystems—life is open-ended, evolving, unpredictable, yet adaptive and self-sustaining. Complexity theory addresses the mysteries that animate science, philosophy, and metaphysics: how this teeming array of existence, from the infinitesimal to the infinite, is in fact a seamless living whole; and it investigates what our place, as conscious beings, is within it. Neil Theise takes us to the exhilarating frontiers of human knowledge and, in the process, restores wonder and meaning to our experience of the everyday.
“An extraordinary book that will change the way you understand yourself and the universe.”
—Deepak Chopra
“A must-read instant classic.”—Robert Thurman

Neil Theise is a professor of pathology at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine and a pioneer of adult stem cell plasticity. He is also a longtime student of Zen Buddhism. He lives in New York.

Poetry Reading: Kevin McLellan, Ed Madden, and Jayson P. Smith (in person & live-streaming)
2023-05-13 16:00 - 18:00 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
Poetry Reading featuring Kevin McLellan, Ed Madden, and Jayson P. Smith, with introductions by Michael Broder.
Copies of Kevin McLellan’s in other words you/ (The Word Works, 2023, paperback, $18) and Ed Madden’s A Pooka in Arkansas (The Word Works, 2023, paperback, $19) will be available for purchase at the event. To reserve a copy of either book, 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 at 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.
KEVIN MCLELLAN is the author of: in other words you/ (selected by Timothy Liu for the 2022 Hilary Tham Capital Collection), Hemispheres, Ornitheology (2019 Massachusetts Book Awards recipient), [box] (in the Blue Star Collection at Harvard University and other special collections), Tributary, and Round Trip. Kevin makes videos under the name, Duck Hunting with the Grammarian. His video Dick won Best Short Form Short Film at the LGBTQ+ Los Angeles Film Festival. It also showed in the Flickers’ Rhode Island Film Festival, the Tag! Queer Film Festival, the Berlin Short Film Festival, and the Vancouver Queer Film Festival. https://kevmclellan.com/
ED MADDEN is the author of four other books and four chapbooks of poetry, most recently Ark, a book about his father’s last months in hospice care, and So they can sing, which won the 2016 Robin Becker Chapbook Prize. He is a professor of English and the former director of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of South Carolina, where he teaches Irish literature, queer studies, and creative writing. Ed served as the poet laureate for the City of Columbia, SC, 2015-2022. He is recipient of an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship and artist residencies at the Hambidge Center in Georgia and the Instituto Sacatar in Itaparica, Brazil.
Jayson P. Smith is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, educator, and curator from the Bronx. Their work has received support from NYFA, The Poetry Project, Poetry Foundation, and Callaloo, among others. Recent performances include Center for Performance Research, Miriam Gallery, and The Guggenheim. In 2016, Jayson founded and continues to host NOMAD Readings. Find them in Brooklyn—listening—or at www.jaysonpsmith.com.

Practices: Running and Raving (in person only)
2023-05-17 19:00 - 21:00 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
Lindsey Freeman, who runs but does not rave, and McKenzie Wark, who raves but cannot run, will read from their books in the new Practices series from Duke University Press. And will talk about queer practices, including the practice of writing.

Copies of Running and Raving are available at the Bureau ($15.95 each). To reserve a copy, 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 at 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.

Lindsey A. Freeman is a writer and sociologist interested in endurance, memory, and poetics. Her most recent book, Running, is about practice, love, queerness, and long distance running (Duke University Press). She is now working on a book about soccer, queer joy, and how hard it is to care about things.

McKenzie Wark is the author, among other things, of Reverse Cowgirl (Semiotexte) and Capital is Dead (Verso). She edited the trans | fem | aesthetics issue of eflux journal and co-edited the Black Rave issue. She teaches at The New School.

Craft Class & Reading with Joan Kwon Glass (virtual)
2023-05-18 18:30 - 20:30 | Online event, New York, NY, United States
Join us for a Virtual Craft Class & Reading with Joan Kwon Glass
Form & Wonder: Led by Joan Kwon Glass, poets will use form to empower and serve curiosity. Looking at examples, we’ll explore how form serves the poem; and with writing prompts, we’ll practice being open to form to help in the process of wondering. Forms we may study include hymn, elegy, epistle, pantoum, and erasure.
Registration on Eventbrite is required in order to access the Zoom link for the class. Click here to register.
To join the class on Thursday, May 18th, at 6:30 PM (EDT), return to the Eventbrite page where you registered and click on “Access link” (under “When and Where” and “Location”).

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. Our Craft Classes are free and open to the public with RSVP.
This event is funded in part by Poets & Writers through public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council.

Office Hours Spring 2023 Showcase Reading (hybrid in-person/virtual)
2023-05-19 19:00 - 21:00 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
Join us Friday, May 19th, at 7:00 PM EDT for the Office Hours Spring 2023 Showcase Reading, a hybrid event (both in person readers & virtual). Our current fellows will give a brief reading in celebration of another strong semester of poetry making, community building, and surviving in difficult creative times.
In person:
Emily Hockaday
Abba Belgrave
Noel Sikorski
Avia Tadmor
Meghan Pinto
Sarah Sala
Paco Márquez

On Zoom:
James Fujinami Moore
Ryan Dzelzkalns
Annie Wei
Shakeema Smalls
Carrie Hohmann
Register on Eventbrite to join the event on Zoom. Click here to register.
To join the event on Zoom (after you’ve registered), on Friday, May 19th, at 7 PM (EDT), return to the Eventbrite page and click on “Access link” (under “When and Where” and “Location”).
If attending in person, no registration is necessary. Seating is first come first served.
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.
This event is funded in part by Poets & Writers through public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council.

Queer Heroes of Myth and Legend with author Dan Jones (in person & live-streaming)
2023-05-21 15:00 - 17:00 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
Join author Dan Jones for the launch of Queer Heroes of Myth and Legend: A celebration of gay gods, sapphic saints and queerness through the ages
A discussion and book signing with author Dan Jones and Joshua Mackey, Assistant Editor, INTO

Copies of Queer Heroes of Myth and Legend (Radar, May 2, 2023, hardcover, $19.99) will be available for purchase at the event.
We strongly encourage you to reserve a copy in advance so that we can be sure to have enough copies on hand. Please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com with “reserve Queer Heroes” 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 at 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.

Dan Jones is a best-selling British author living in New York. A onetime magazine editor (i-D Magazine, Time Out London), Dan writes about fashion, grooming, booze, and queer culture.
Joshua Mackey is an editor, writer, interviewer, and culture/film/tv critic whose writing is at the intersection of Black, queer, and nerdy. The assistant editor for LGBTQ-focused publication INTO, his work can also be found in Nerdist, Huffington Post, and Geeks of Color.

Fact and Fiction: Transgender Issues In the Real World and Through the Prism of Fiction (in person & live-streaming)
2023-05-25 19:00 - 20:00 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
In 2019, the ACLU of New Jersey, led by attorneys Jeanne LoCicero, Alexander Shalom, and Tess Borden, along with attorney Robyn Gigl of Gluck Walrath LLP, sued the New Jersey Department of Corrections and its officers on behalf of a transgender woman. As part of the settlement of that case, New Jersey adopted a system-wide policy to improve conditions for incarcerated transgender people that included presumptively housing people in custody in line with their gender identity, and not sex assigned at birth. Only a few other states in the nation have such protections in place.
The presentation will feature Jeanne LoCicero, Legal Director of the ACLU-NJ, and Attorney and Author, Robyn Gigl, discussing Doe v. NJ Department of Corrections, the legal strategy, the landmark settlement, and the settlement implications for transgender and non-binary identified people in custody. Robyn will also discuss how her experiences as an attorney and transgender woman have influenced her novels, By Way of Sorrow, Survivor’s Guilt and her most recent novel, Remain Silent, which feature Erin McCabe, a transgender criminal defense attorney and all of which touch on issues involving the incarceration of trans identified characters.
Copies of Robyn Gigl’s Remain Silent(Kensington Publishing, May 23, 2023, hardcover, $27) will be available for purchase at the event (along with earlier titles by Gigl). We strongly encourage you to reserve a copy of any books you plan on purchasing to ensure that we have plenty of copies on hand. Please write to us with “Please reserve a copy of Remain Silent” in the subject line:contact@bgsqd.com.
Thank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us!
This event will take place in person at theBureau 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 atYouTube.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.
Robyn Gigl, the author of the Erin McCabe legal thrillers, is an attorney, speaker and activist who has been honored by the ACLU-NJ and the NJ Pride Network for her work on behalf of the LGBTQ community. Appointed by the New Jersey Supreme Court to the Court’s Committee on Diversity Inclusion and Community Engagement, she’s practiced law for more than 40 years, representing clients in state and federal courts. She is active in the New Jersey State Bar Association where she is a member of the Women in the Profession Section and a Past Chair of the Bar’s LGBT Rights Section. She also is a member of the Board of Directors of Garden State Equality, NJ’s largest LGBTQ+ Civil Rights Organization. A frequent lecturer on diversity issues, she lives in New Jersey and can be found online at RobynGigl.com or on Twitter @RobynGigl.
Jeanne LoCicero is the Legal Director of the American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey. She supervises the litigation program and related advocacy of the ACLU-NJ’s Legal Department and manages its 10+
person staff. Jeanne joined the ACLU-NJ as a staff attorney in 2004 and served as its Deputy Legal Director for ten years prior to becoming legal director in 2018. She has litigated and advocated in a wide range of civil rights and civil liberties cases, with a focus on prison conditions, racial equity, LGBTQ rights, women’s rights, and reproductive health. She recently served on New Jersey’s Transgender Equality Task Force, is a trustee of the Association of the Federal Bar of New Jersey, and serves on other legal and policy committees. Jeanne started her legal career as a legal fellow at the ACLU of Alabama after graduating with highest honors from Rutgers School of Law – Newark. She spent three years in private practice before joining the ACLU-NJ.

WHO NEEDS GAY BARS? Book talk and signing (in person & live-streaming)
2023-05-31 19:00 - 21:00 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
Join author Greggor Mattson and interlocutor Hugh Ryan for a conversation about the past, present, and future of gay bars and LGBTQ+ spaces. Mattson’s new book WHO NEEDS GAY BARS? reports on more than 300 gay bar visits in 39 states and conversations with bar owners and bartenders, drag queens and DJs (Redwood Press May 2023). Samantha Allen, author of Real, Queer America, describes WHO NEEDS GAY BARS? as: “Breathtakingly intimate and yet vast in scope, this passion project balances sharp insights with the kind of lived-in details that make you want to pull up a stool and stay a while.” After a conversation and Q&A, the author will sign copies for purchase at the event.
Copies of WHO NEEDS GAY BARS? will be available at the Bureau. To reserve a copy, 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 at 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.
Greggor Mattson is Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Department at Oberlin College & Conservatory where he teaches courses on sexuality, cities, law, and nightlife. He has been gay since 1974, has conducted research in gay bars since 1999, and has published on them in such venues as Slate, Literary Hub, Urban Studies, and Gender, Place, and Culture. He grew up in small-town Washington and lives in small-town Ohio, and tweets @greggormattson.
Hugh Ryan is a writer and curator, and most recently, the author of The Women’s House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison, which won the American Library Association’s Stonewall Book Award for Nonfiction and the W.A. Percy Foundation’s William Johansson Award. His first book, When Brooklyn Was Queer, won a New York City Book Award, was a New York Times Editors’ Choice, and was a finalist for the Randy Shilts and Lambda Literary Awards. He has been honored with the Allan Bérubé Prize from the American Historical Association, multiple grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Duberman Fellowship at the New York Public Library, and residencies at Yaddo and Watermill. He teaches in the MFA Program at Bennington College.

NYC Queer Comic Fair 2023
2023-06-03 13:00 - 19:00, 2023-06-04 13:00 - 19:00 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
We are BACK! June 3-4, come join us at the Bureau inside the LGBT Center in NYC, where we will be celebrating the wonderful work of local queer comic creators! This year, we have over 30 vendors spanning the entire second floor of the LGBT Center! FREE ADMISSION! 1-7PM, Saturday and Sunday.

Vendors:

Doable Guys
Patrick J. Reilly
Gilesdraws
Miasmatik Art
Slade
Retrosofa
Go Robo Now
Shadow Minis
SquiddySprinkle
DIS PATER
Edward Ficklin
Casey at the Bat
Transoffinland
Lucky Sanford
James Dillenbeck
D De Maglie
Homosuperiorr
Liam Donnelly
Zackery Francis
Greg Lockard
Royal Nightshade Art
Jesse Arbor Illustration
Macspins
Rat Decayy
[GLASS//CUTTER]
Carmen Pizarro
Kate Zimmermann
Vox the devil
Shiny Skunk
The Boy in Pink Earmuffs
Bunnysleepover

2AM Eternal Book Launch with Eric Kostiuk Williams & Ted Kerr (in person & live-streaming)
2023-06-07 19:30 - 21:00 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
Come by the Bureau on Wednesday, June 7 for the launch of 2AM Eternal: A Decade of Queer Nightlife Posters + Comics, 2012-2022. Your host, Eric Kostiuk Williams, captures a decade of nightlife in Toronto’s queer community — with detours to San Francisco and NYC — from basements to the backstage to the back rooms. Collecting one hundred event posters from 2012 to 2022, along with short comics and write-ups from the author, the organizers, the performers, and the crowd, 2AM Eternal makes a scene — until last call. The pandemic prompts a series of posters for cancelled events, and a pivot to digital events in the days of lockdown, before the manic, uneasy re-emergence of face-to-face, wall-to-wall living.
Eric will be joined by author and activist Ted Kerr (We Are Having This Conversation Now: The Times of AIDS Cultural Production) for a discussion touching on nightlife in the 2010s, Eric’s posters for NYC Inferno and Queer|Art|Film, and much more.
Praise for 2AM Eternal:
“By linking his lived experience to the ebbs and flows of his clubbing community, Williams creates a unique blend of autobiography and ethnography. A rare feat, this collection informs, entertains, and seduces.” – Publishers Weekly
“Eric Kostiuk Williams’ work has an incredible sense of physicality. Rooms and bodies live, pulse, transform from one thing to another. There’s a fluidity between the tangible and the abstract. At the end of the night, will we return to the familiar or dissolve into the air? I’m so happy this book exists. Toronto is a city that seems hellbent on scrubbing itself of everything interesting about itself. I don’t think it’s hyperbolic to say that this is an incredibly important document and will probably change a few lives too.” – Jillian Tamaki (Roaming, Supermutant Magic Academy, Boundless)
Copies of 2AM Eternal will be available for purchase at the event. We strongly encourage you to reserve a copy in advance so that we can be sure to have enough on hand. Please email us at contact@bgsqd.com with “Reserve 2AM Eternal” 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 at 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.
Eric Kostiuk Williams is a Toronto-based cartoonist and illustrator. His work deploys a fluid, surreal visual aesthetic to explore ideas surrounding queer culture, gender expression, and urban upheaval. Eric has contributed comics to NOW Magazine, Dazed & Confused, PEN American, and The Believer. He has also created murals, nightlife flyers, harm reduction campaigns, editorial illustrations, album artwork, and music videos. Eric is an Eisner, Doug Wright, and Lambda Literary nominee. Recent illustration clients include Queer|Art|Film, VICE, The Poetry Project, and The Walrus.
Canadian born Theodore (ted) Kerr is a Brooklyn based writer and organizer whose work focuses on HIV/AIDS, community, and culture. In 2022 his book, We Are Having This Conversation Now: The Times of AIDS Cultural Production , with co-author, Alexandra Juhasz, was published by Duke University Press. His writing has also appeared in Women's Studies Quarterly, The New Inquiry, BOMB, CBC (Canada), Lambda Literary, POZ Magazine, The Advocate, Cineaste, The St. Louis American, IndieWire, HyperAllergic, and other publications.

The Romance of Entanglement: Opening Reception
2023-06-08 18:00 - 20:00 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
The Bureau of General Services—Queer Division is proud to present The Romance of Entanglement (in the era of the Observer’s Paradox), an exhibition of new work by eleven queer artists. The exhibition opens June 8 and runs through September 10.
Join us for the Opening Reception on Thursday, June 8, 6-8 PM
The Romance of Entanglement presents the work of artists working across photography, fiber arts, painting, printmaking, drawing and installation. The work in this exhibit has been made in deep collaboration with larger communities and in communication with queer legacies and histories.
Weaving, quilting and drag are some of the communal and performative traditions artists draw from. These processes speak back to the collaborative art-making traditions of queer and feminist activism and performance. Working with color, pattern, texture and symbols, much of the work in this show signals ecstatic joy and vibrates with abundance.
Other work interrogates capitalist systems and the tropes of representation produced by the dominant culture. This work posits queerness as an act of generative disobedience, offering an alternate lexicon where the erased and invisible become seen, empowered and celebrated.
In an increasingly hostile landscape for LGBTQ+ people, this exhibition offers a utopian re-envisioning of the present and a portal into the future. It chronicles the ways we are creating safety for ourselves, conjuring our utopian visions into existence.
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS
Liz Collins • Dana Robinson • Natalie Woodlock • Courtney Webster • Meg Turner Voxigma Lo • Whit Forrester • Colin Roberson • Theodora Eliezer Katie Kaplan • Amaryllis DeJesus Moleski

Circuit Party (in person & live-streaming)
2023-06-09 18:00 - 19:00 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
Circuit Party lays bare the electromagnetic substructure of contemporary relations, creating a portalic space using sound, electricity, astrological magic and the hyperobject of technology.
The Bureau is hosting the performance Circuit Party in conjunction with the exhibition The Romance of Entanglement (in the era of the Observer’s Paradox), an exhibition of new work by eleven queer artists curated by participating artists Courtney Webster and Natalie Woodlock. The exhibition opens June 8 and runs through September 10.
Bio:
Forrester is based in San Francisco, CA. Exhibited widely, in both national and international contexts, and with a range of aesthetic interests that include: practices of accumulation, manifestations of power, diaspora, noetic science, new materialisms, discourses around the transcendent and the material relationship between self and world. These encounter fusion around ideas of regenerative relationships to both and land and people, collective liberation, quantum feminisms, queer theory, spiritual and occult praxis and ontology and addressing historical trauma as spiritual practice.

Bushwick Book Club Presents New Songs and Art in Response to Gender Queer (in person only)
2023-06-10 19:00 - 21:00 | The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center, 208 West 13th Street, Room 101, New York, 10011, United States
The Bureau of General Services—Queer Division and The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center Host The Bushwick Book Club Presenting New Songs and Art in Response to Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe.
Featuring performers:
John S. Hall (New Trout)
Don Rauf
Susan Hwang
Boy Meets Pearl
Yva Las Vegass
Anni Rossi
Paula Spiro
Honi Harlow
Hanuel Lee
spiritchild
Endless Arrows
Jason Trachtenburg
Stephanie Larriere
Oksana Horban

Copies of Gender Queer: A Memoir (Oni Press, 2019, paperback, $19.99) will be available for purchase at the event. To reserve a copy please email the Bureau at contact@bgsqd.com with “please reserve Gender Queer” in the subject line.
Thank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us!

Suggested donation $10 to pay the performers
Please register on Eventbrite by clicking here.
About the Bushwick Book Club:
The Bushwick Book Club began in January 2009 on a dare. Songwriter, Susan Hwang, dared Goodbye Blue Monday owner Steve Trimboli to let her have a night of new songs inspired by literature. He said, “Sure.”
They started with Kurt Vonnegut’s Breakfast of Champions and now meet monthly employing the talents of local songwriters, artists and chefs who plumb the depths of a chosen literary gem to create that rare and beautiful thing – a new song (or visual art, dance, film or snack). These literature-themed live shows have been inspired by everything from Raymond Carver to Charles Darwin to George R.R. Martin to the thesaurus.
The Bushwick Book Club now has several branches all over the world, including Portland, Los Angeles, Seattle, Santa Barbara, New Orleans, Greenville, London and Malmö, Sweden.
The Bushwick Book Club Podcast includes excerpts from the live shows plus interviews with authors and songwriters.
