The 3rd Annual Rebel Satori World AIDS Day Book Release and Reading (in person & live-streaming)
2024-12-01 15:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
The 3rd Annual Rebel Satori World AIDS Day Book Release and Reading: the Rebel Satori imprint, The Library of Homosexual Congress, is honored to reprint the first American novel about the AIDS crisis, Facing It: A Novel About AIDS, by Paul Reed, from 1984. In addition to reading from Facing It, we will celebrate our initial World AIDS Day releases with memorial readings from Invisible History: The Collected Poems of Walta Borawski, edited by Micheal Bronski and Philip Clark, winner of the 2023 Thom Gunn Award for Poetry, and Allen Barnett’s classic short story collection, The Body and Its Dangers, from 1990.
Featuring readings by:
CHRISTOPHER BRAM
GERARD CABRERA
RON CALDWELL
PHILIP CLARK
PHILIP F. CLARK
DALE CORVINO
SCOTT HIGHTOWER
JP HOWARD
JERRY ROSCO

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

The Bureau will solicit donations at the beginning of the event—we especially encourage donations from those who do not plan to purchase any books.
All are welcome to attend, with or without a 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 Academy-Award-winning 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.
Ron Caldwell is a writer, editor, and educator who was born in Texas and studied English literature at Rice University. He received a Master’s 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.
Philip Clark is the co-editor of Invisible History: The Collected Poems of Walta Borawski, 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.
Philip F. Clark is the author of the poetry collection, The Carnival of Affection (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2017). He received his M.F.A. in Creative Writing from City College in 2016, where he was an Adjunct Assistant Professor. His work is included in ‘On Becoming A Poet’, published by Marsh Hawk Press, 2020, and he has been published in various journals and anthologies.
Dale Corvino’s essays have appeared in Salon, the Rumpus, and the Gay & Lesbian Review. Bonds & Boundaries, his debut short story collection, was published in 2023 by Rebel Satori Press. His memoir of sex work, Afterlife of a Kept Boy, won the C&R Press Nonfiction Prize and is scheduled for publication in March 2025.
Scott Hightower’s newest collection of poems, Imperative to Spare, is from Rebel Satori, New Orleans. Part of the Bargain, his third book won the 2004 Hayden Carruth Award. Hightower lives in Manhattan and teaches at New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study.
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
Jerry Rosco is author of the biography Glenway Wescott Personally and editor of the Wescott journals Continual Lessons and A Heaven of Words.

Journals and Diaries: Life, Privacy, and Literature: 4 week Brooklyn Institute for Social Research Course (in person only - registration required)
2024-12-03 18:30 - 21:30 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
The December 3 class will be the third of four meetings.
See registration details below.
In 1973, Susan Sontag wrote in her diary: “In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.” What is the relationship between a writer’s lived experience and the works they present, crafted and bound, to the public? For Virginia Woolf, the diary was a place to reckon with the “oil well” of stories bubbling up inside her; for Roland Barthes, a space apart to wrestle with private loss and grief; for Annie Ernaux, the diary harbored the “raw and dark” material behind her fictions; and for Anaïs Nin, the distinction between fiction-writing and diary-keeping was difficult even to discern. On what sort of terms, then, can we take the writer’s diary? What kinds of insight does it promise—regarding literary craft, literary politics, artistic scenes, and creative processes? And how shall we approach this literary object—as a genre unto itself, distinct from other forms of life-writing such as autobiography, memoir, and auto-fiction?
In this course, we will read selections from writers’ diaries, beginning in the early 20th century and closing with Sheila Heti’s recent experimental work Alphabetical Diaries. Moving through time and space—from Woolf and Franz Kafka to Barthes and Nin to Sontag and Ernaux, with forays into Augustine’s 5th century Confessions and Rousseau’s 18th century work of the same name—we will ask how writers utilize their diaries in both their fiction and their criticism. Avoiding the “reduction” to which Sontag is rightly averse, we will explore how the diary—taken on its own terms—at once encourages and works against linear narrativization, and how it, perhaps uniquely, articulates anxieties of remembrance just as much as it does the fear of being forgotten.
Instructor: Danielle Drori
Course Schedule
Tuesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
November 12 — December 10, 2024
4 sessions over 5 weeks
Class will not meet Tuesday, November 26th
$335.00
Click here to register for this course
Classes will meet at the
Bureau of General Services—Queer Division
Room 210 of The LGBT Community Center
208 West 13th Street
NY, NY 10011

Publishing Triangle OUTSpoken Series Special: Gary Indiana (in person & live-streaming)
2024-12-04 19:00 - 21:00 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
Come join The Publishing Triangle as we read, reminisce, and admire the wide-ranging work of legendary gay writer, critic, and artist, Gary Indiana.
Featuring readings by Brian Alessandro, Christopher Bollen, Jason Napoli Brooks, Michael Bullock, Tobi Haslett, Sam McKinniss, Dale Peck, Nicole Rudick, and Christopher Stoddard.

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

The Bureau will solicit donations at the beginning of the event—we especially encourage donations from those who do not plan to purchase any books.
All are welcome to attend, with or without a 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

Brian Alessandro has written for Interview Magazine, Newsday, PANK (co-founded by Roxanne Gay), Huffington Post, Galerie (Wes Anderson’s cult film streaming app), Lambda Literary, The Gay & Lesbian Review, Kirkus Reviews, and The Florida Review, and has recently co-adapted Edmund White’s A Boy’s Own Story into a graphic novel for Top Shelf Productions. Additionally, Brian co-edited Fever Spores: The Queer Reclamation of William S. Burroughs, an anthology of essays and interviews about Burroughs for Rebel Satori Press. Brian is also the co-founder and editor in chief of the literary journal, The New Engagement. His first novel, The Unmentionable Mann, was published in 2015 by Cairn Press and his first feature film, Afghan Hound, was produced by Maryea Media in 2011, and is streaming on Plex, Tubi, and Amazon. His second novel, Performer Non Grata, was published in 2023. Julian’s Debut, his new novel, will be published by Rebel Satori Press in March 2025. Brian also has a feature film and a limited series in development with an Academy Award-winning producer.

Christopher Bollen is a writer and editor based in New York City. He is the author of six novels, including his most recent, Havoc, out December 2024 from Harper. He contributes frequently to a number of publications, including Interview, Vanity Fair, and the New York Times.

Jason Napoli Brooks is an award-winning fiction writer and essayist whose work has appeared in various journals, anthologies, and media outlets in the U.S. and abroad. He was the author of the queer-spy-fiction zine Cock of the Walk (2011-2013, currently being translated into Spanish for publication in Mexico) and the multimedia play Soundstage (2018, directed by Rob Roth and starring Rebecca Hall). With author Jim Freed, he is the co-founder of the long-running reading series Enclave, which took place at various Manhattan nightlife venues from 2006 to 2020. Brooks is currently at work on his serialized novel, Paranoid Lines, the first issue of which will be released in January 2025. @jasonnapolibrooks

Michael Bullock is a Brooklyn-based writer, editor and documentary filmmaker focused on art, design and queer culture. He is the author of Roman Catholic Jacuzzi (Karma 2012) the editor of Peter Berlin: Artist, Icon, Photosexual (Damiani 2019), and co-editor of I Could Not Believe It: The 1979 Teenage Diaries of Sean Delear (Semiotext(e) 2023). Bullock serves as associate publisher of PIN–UP and The Whitney Review of New Writing and is a contributing editor to apartamento. For PIN–UP he co-directed Dream Homes, a commisioned work for the Cooper Hewitt’s Design Triennial, Making Home, currenlty on view through August 2025.

Tobi Haslett is a writer currently living in Berlin.

Sam McKinniss is an artist in New York and Connecticut. His paintings have been exhibited widely both stateside and abroad. His work has been written about everywhere, including an ARTFORUM cover story penned by Gary Indiana in 2019. McKinniss’s painting “Chrysanthemums (after Fantin-Latour)” graces the cover of Indiana’s novel Depraved Indifference, reissued by Semiotext(e) in 2020. In 2021, “Cop Car in Brooklyn” was used as cover art for Indiana’s collection Fire Season: selected essays 1984-2021 published by Seven Stories Press. The two men were close friends.

Dale Peck is the author of fourteen books, including Martin and John, Hatchet Jobs, Sprout, and Visions and Revisions. He first wrote about Gary Indiana in 2015, when Gary released the memoir I Can Give You Anything but Love, and published a tribute to him in the Baffler on the occasion of his death. He was Gary’s neighbor in the East Village for almost twenty years, and once played Cards Against Humanity with him. It wasn’t as salacious as you might think.

Nicole Rudick is the author of What Is Now Known Was Once Only Imagined: An (Auto)biography of Niki de Saint Phalle (Siglio) and the editor, most recently, of Joanna Russ: Novels and Stories (Library of America) and Spiral and Other Stories by Aidan Koch (New York Review Comics). Her writing has appeared in The New York Review of Books, Apollo, The New Yorker, and The New York Times, and in exhibition catalogues for the Drawing Center; the New Museum; the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design; and Gagosian gallery. She was managing editor of The Paris Review for nearly a decade.

Christopher Stoddard is the founding editor of Itna Press, notable for first reintroducing Gary Indiana’s literary works to contemporary audiences, including the acclaimed novel Do Everything in the Dark. Stoddard is also the author of four novels, including At Night Only (2018), which garnered praise from Kirkus Reviews and The Paris Review. He lives in Los Angeles.

Journals and Diaries: Life, Privacy, and Literature: 4 week Brooklyn Institute for Social Research Course (in person only - registration required)
2024-12-10 18:30 - 21:30 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
The December 10 class will be the fourth of four meetings.
See registration details below.
In 1973, Susan Sontag wrote in her diary: “In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.” What is the relationship between a writer’s lived experience and the works they present, crafted and bound, to the public? For Virginia Woolf, the diary was a place to reckon with the “oil well” of stories bubbling up inside her; for Roland Barthes, a space apart to wrestle with private loss and grief; for Annie Ernaux, the diary harbored the “raw and dark” material behind her fictions; and for Anaïs Nin, the distinction between fiction-writing and diary-keeping was difficult even to discern. On what sort of terms, then, can we take the writer’s diary? What kinds of insight does it promise—regarding literary craft, literary politics, artistic scenes, and creative processes? And how shall we approach this literary object—as a genre unto itself, distinct from other forms of life-writing such as autobiography, memoir, and auto-fiction?
In this course, we will read selections from writers’ diaries, beginning in the early 20th century and closing with Sheila Heti’s recent experimental work Alphabetical Diaries. Moving through time and space—from Woolf and Franz Kafka to Barthes and Nin to Sontag and Ernaux, with forays into Augustine’s 5th century Confessions and Rousseau’s 18th century work of the same name—we will ask how writers utilize their diaries in both their fiction and their criticism. Avoiding the “reduction” to which Sontag is rightly averse, we will explore how the diary—taken on its own terms—at once encourages and works against linear narrativization, and how it, perhaps uniquely, articulates anxieties of remembrance just as much as it does the fear of being forgotten.
Instructor: Danielle Drori
Course Schedule
Tuesday, 6:30-9:30pm ET
November 12 — December 10, 2024
4 sessions over 5 weeks
Class will not meet Tuesday, November 26th
$335.00
Click here to register for this course
Classes will meet at the
Bureau of General Services—Queer Division
Room 210 of The LGBT Community Center
208 West 13th Street
NY, NY 10011

Episode 7 of Revisioning Democracy: Resisting Project 2025 and Trump 2.0 (in person & live-streaming)
2024-12-12 19:00 - 20:30 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
A conversation with The New Republic journalist and author Nina Burleigh and podcast cohosts Anne-christine d’Adesky and Jay W. Walker of Stop The Coup 2025. Burleigh also has a new book out, They’ll discuss how Project 2025 may be implemented on “Day One” of the new Trump administration, what attacks are most likely, what Trump’s first Cabinet picks reflect, and how US progressives are mobilizing to resist Project 2025 radical Christian nationalist agenda. The conversation will also focus on US and global lessons in grassroots resistance and community survival.
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

Nina Burleigh is a US journalist, best-selling author, documentary producer, and publisher of a substack on politics called American Freakshow. A contributing editor at The New Republic and frequent contributor to the New York Times and New York Magazine, her journalism has been published widely including in translation in the Norwegian and Italian press. She’s also the author of eight books on an array of topics including archaeological forgery, scientists in 18th-century Egypt, James Smithson, Amanda Knox in Italy, and the Trump women, which were reviewed, excerpted or covered in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Nation, New York Magazine, BBC, ABC, MSNBC, and other media outlets.
She was born and educated in the Midwest, has been based in Washington, D.C., New York, Norway, Paris and Italy, traveled and reported extensively in the Middle East. She is an adjunct professor at NYU’s Arthur J. Carter Journalism Institute and Google Scholar says her work has been cited in hundreds of scholarly articles. She is a supporter of secular humanism and known for her support of women’s rights. Her latest book is Zero Visibility Possible (2024). She’s also written articles about Project 2025 for New York Magazine and The New Republic.

Left Turns In Brown Study: A Performative Conversation (in person only)
2024-12-13 19:00 - 20:30 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
In celebration of Sandra Ruiz’s new book Left Turns In Brown Study, we will be joined by an illustrious panel featuring a menagerie of individuals who have appeared in Ruiz’s academic and creative orbit over the past two decades. The conversation will be moderated by downtown diva Dusty Childers. Sandra will also perform selections from the book.
Featuring contributions from: Melody Contreras, Zora Duncan, Erica Gressman, Laura Harris, Jess Kadish, Autumn Knight, Pedro Lopez, Jacqueline Loss, Carlos Sandoval De Leon, Julia Steinmetz, Joshua Takano Chambers-Letson, & Daniel Vernola.
To reserve a copy of Left Turns In Brown Study (Duke University Press, 2024, paperback, $24.95) please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com with “please reserve a copy of Left Turns in Brown Study for Dec. 13 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.

This event will be recorded, and the video will be made available.

The Bureau will solicit donations at the beginning of the event—we especially encourage donations from those who do not plan to purchase any books.
All are welcome to attend, with or without a 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

Sandra Ruiz is an associate professor of English and Theatre at Illinois, and an affiliate faculty member of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, the Program in Comparative World Literature, the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, the Department of Dance, the Department of Asian American Studies, and the Department of Gender & Women Studies. Ruiz, a trained performance studies scholar, is the author of Ricanness: Enduring Time in Anticolonial Performance (NYU Press, 2019) and co-author with Hypatia Vourloumis of Formless Formation: Vignettes for the end of this World (Autonomedia Press, 2020). Ruiz is a co-editor with Shane Vogel and Uri McMillan of the book series Minoritarian Aesthetics (NYU Press, 2020). Currently, Ruiz is completing several writing projects such as Tears for Tears (NYU Press). Ruiz is the co-creator of the Brown Theatre Collective and creator of La Estación Gallery and the Minor Aesthetics Lab.

Dusty Childers (Dust Tea Shoulders/ @duddylynn) is a multi-disciplinary artist and educator who has been director, producer, dramaturgist, costumer, and stylist. Dusty’s body and body of work has graced the likes of The Guggenheim, St. Ann’s Warehouse, The Whitney, BAM, Parsons, The Public Theater, Pratt, Sundance, SXSW, Metrograph, International Center of Photography, Signature Theater, Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia, Town Hall, Joe’s Pub, Abrons Art Center, NY Live Arts, The Wild Project, Dixon Place, Irving Plaza, Sony Music Hall, Bushwig, Judson Memorial Church,The MIX NYC Queer Experimental Film Festival, La MaMa, Gov Ball, Club Cumming, The Edinburgh Fringe Festival, House of Yes and the Soho Playhouse (NY Fringe Festival). He has worked with MacArthur Genius Taylor Mac, cabaret superstar Justin Vivian Bond, performance artist Machine Dazzle, artist Nayland Blake, director Silas Howard, Bitch (of Bitch and Animal), drag artist Charlene Incarnate, performance artist/puppeteer Glenn Marla, director Stephen Winter, choreographer/singer Miguel Gutierrez and burlesque star World Famous *BOB* among others. Dusty and his work have appeared in Art In America, Artforum, OUT Magazine, TimeOut NY, Velour Magazine, Next Magazine, Aljazeera, NY Times and Gayletter.

lesbian book club
2024-12-14 11:00 - 12:00 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
We’ll be reading fiction and non-fiction — classic, contemporary, revealing and visionary. As a group we will decide what to read each month, focusing on lesbian authors and/or related topics. Co-founded by lesbian book lovers Judi Komaki and Piper Olsen.

For our December 14th meeting, we’ll read The Price of Salt/Carol by Patricia Highsmith (W.W. Norton & Company, 2024, paperback, $15.95). To reserve a copy, please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com with “please reserve a copy of The Price of Salt” in the subject line. Purchase the book before December 14th and receive 15% off ($13.56 instead of $15.95).

And for our January 11th meeting, we’ll read No Modernism without Lesbians by Diana Souhami (Head of Zeus, 2021, paperback, $15.95). To reserve a copy, please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com with “please reserve a copy of No Modernism without Lesbians” in the subject line. Purchase the book before January 11th and receive 15% off ($13.56 instead of $15.95).
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.

You Left a Mark on Me Pop-Up Flash Tattoo Event (in person only)
2024-12-14 13:00 - 19:00 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
As part of programming for the You Left A Mark On Me exhibition, we are excited to present a Pop-up Flash Tattoo event. Tattoo artists, Dewey Rice (@good.boy.tattoo), Zyra West (@zyra_west), and Aisha the Goddess (@aisha_thegoddess) will be tattooing at the Bureau! Appointments and walk-ins are welcome (first-come, first-served). Scheduling and prices should be directly arranged with the artists. DM artists on Instagram for details (links above).

This event will take place 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.

OUTspoken: The Publishing Triangle’s Reading Series, December Edition (in person & live-streaming)
2024-12-19 19:00 - 21:00 | 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 Christopher Bram, Joy Ladin, Greg Herren, Christian Baines, Michael McKeown Bondhus, Finnian Burnett, Fiona Riley, and ‘Nathan Burgoine.

Join us as in-person or watch the live-stream 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

The Bureau will solicit donations at the beginning of the event—we especially encourage donations from those who do not plan to purchase any books.
All are welcome to attend, with or without a 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

TELL: Fighting (in person & live-streaming)
2024-12-21 19:00 - 20:30 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
TELL is a monthly queer storytelling show hosted and curated by Drae Campbell. It is the longest running event at the Bureau! 10 years and going. Each month there is a different theme and a different line up of queer artists who tell true stories from their lives on a theme.
The theme for December is Fighting, featuring storytellers Anthony Caronna, KAROLINE, and Fernando Vieira.

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.
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

Drae Campbell is the host and curator of TELL, an award winning podcast that can be found anywhere you listen to podcasts.

Theater: The Nosebleed (Lincoln Center Theater, Woolly Mammoth Theater & National Tour, Lortel Nominated), Jesus Hopped The ‘A’ Train (Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater), Only You Can Prevent Wildfires (Teatro Circulo), My Old Man (Dixon Place), Storm Still (DirectorFest, Drama League), La Cage Aux Folles (Barrington Stage Company).
Film and TV: Senior Escort Service, Blunderpuss, It’s Very Common, TOW.
TV: Bull, New Amsterdam.
BFA, The University Of The Arts
Ig @draebiz and @tellqueerz

Anthony Caronna is a film director and creator known for HBO‘s “Last Call: When a serial killer stalked queer New York.” Caronna goes by they/them pronouns.

KAROLINE is a queer Chinese American actor and writer who goes by a mononym. They can currently be seen in the new Hulu series DEATH AND OTHER DETAILS and in A24’s A DIFFERENT MAN. Their theater credits include THE HARD PROBLEM at Lincoln Center, EXCLUSION at Arena Stage, and the world premiere of [VEIL WIDOW CONSPIRACY], for which The New York Times called them “terrific.” Their short film PIPPI, which they wrote and starred in, traveled the festival circuit to acclaim and is currently on a two year distribution deal. Karoline was born in Shanghai, grew up in Sweden, and raised in South Texas. They went to a pre-med high school, then Harvard, both of which are terrible party facts.

Fernando Vieira is a New York-based writer, director, and performer. As a multidisciplinary artist, Vieira balances their career as creator of stage and film works. Playwriting work includes the plays Goodbye, Little George (2020) and Anormales (2021). Vieira’s work has been presented at various theatrical companies and institutions such as BAAD!, Repertorio Español, IATI Theater, The Brick Theatre, Teatro Audaz, Chelsea Theater, Prelude Festival, The Tank, among others. Film work includes the documentary Unlabeled (2021) and the experimental short films Frenetic Journey Toward Muddledness (2023) and Las Olas (2024). Vieira earned a Master of Arts degree in Film Studies from CUNY Graduate Center.

Closed for Christmas
2024-12-25, 2024-12-26 | NY
The Bureau will be closed on
Wednesday, December 25th
Thursday, December 26th
and
Wednesday, January 1st.

Happy holidays to all!

Closed for New Years Day
2025-01-01 | NY
The Bureau will be closed on
Wednesday, January 1st.
Happy New Year to all!

Closing Party for You Left a Mark on Me (in person only)
2025-01-05 17:00 - 19:00 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
Join us for the closing party for You Left a Mark on Me on the very last day of the exhibition!
Free and open to all! Free non-alcoholic beverages will be served.
About the exhibition:
The Bureau of General Services—Queer Division presents You Left A Mark On Me, an exhibition highlighting Queer tattoo artists with an art practice outside of their tattoo work; and Queer artists who utilize tattoo imagery in their work. Curated by Zach Grear and Nelson Santos, the exhibition features paintings, drawings, ceramics, and embroidery work by Colton Ackerman, Alexandria Deters, Virginia Elwood, Evan Paul English, Zach Grear, Christian Lord, Dewey Rice, Lancelot Runge, Tamara Santibañez, and Zyra West.
You Left A Mark On Me looks at the close ties that mark-making and queer bodies connect communities and the creative outputs that come from it. The tattoo artists in this exhibition find alternative forms of mark-making beyond the flesh, whether it’s using their hands to mold clay (Christian Lord, Tamara Santibañez), building sculptures and painting with yarn (Virginia Elwood), or making broad and colorful paint strokes (Evan Paul English, Dewey Rice, Zyra West). On the other end of the spectrum, You Left A Mark On Me, brings together queer artists (Colton Ackerman, Alexandria Deters, Zach Grear, and Lancelot Runge) that are influenced by tattoo imagery, and use ink, thread, and found images to mark the body on paper, playing with iconic tattoo graphics and colorful patterns.
The curators, Zach Grear and Nelson Santos are also artists and collectors of tattoos, interested in how these queer communities intertwine and connect. There is often a deep connection when a queer body is marked by another queer body and the way art expresses this queer magic and beauty.

Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis Colloquium with Judith Rustin (co-sponsored by the Program in Trauma Studies)
2025-01-10 19:30 - 21:00 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
Judith Rustin Colloquium: “Beyond the Words: The Implicit Dimension of Psychoanalytic Treatment”
This presentation introduces some basic concepts from infant research and neuroscience. Infant research describes how very early memories are formed and encoded thereby providing access to how they might show themselves from birth onwards. The concepts from neuroscience used in this presentation are simple versions for the non-scientist. They are used to explain some basic functions of how the brain processes information with specific emphasis on memory formation and the mind/body connection. I argue that humans are “mindbodybrains.” Whereas psychoanalysis has privileged “mind” in its theories, this presentation offers additional knowledge and language to link it to “body” and “brains,” and to provide a way to communicate these links to patients. This language expands the clinical repertoire.
Learning Objectives

Be able to describe the three components of the Triune Brain and the function of each
Be able to describe the difference between explicit and implicit communication
Be able to describe the kinds of memories(s) infants are able to encode and how they might be expressed in adulthood
Be able to describe the two components of embodied communication

The Manhattan Institute is a NY State approved provider of continuing education hours for: LCSW, LMSW, LCAT, LMHC and Licensed Psychologists.
For in-person attendance you will receive an E-ticket through Eventbrite.
TICKETS: $50.00
please RSVP here
Students at other Institutes can purchase tickets for $25.00
(Proof of student status required)
MIP candidates can attend for free.
A Zoom link will be sent to everyone who signs up through Eventbrite for those who would like to join remotely.
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.

Judith Rustin, LCSW, is Faculty and Supervisor at The Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity in New York City and a Consultant in the Trauma Certificate Program of Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis. She has authored numerous papers and spoken nationally and internationally on the integration of Intersubjectivity Theory as defined by Robert Stolorow and Collaborators with Infant Research and Neuroscience. She is author of Infant Research and Neuroscience at Work in Psychotherapy: Expanding the Clinical Repertoire (2013) and co-author with B. Beebe, S. Knoblauch and D. Sorter (2005) of Forms of Intersubjectivity in Infant Research and Adult Treatment. Judith is in Private Practice in New York City.

lesbian book club
2025-01-11 11:00 - 12:00 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
We’ll be reading fiction and non-fiction — classic, contemporary, revealing and visionary. As a group we will decide what to read each month, focusing on lesbian authors and/or related topics. Co-founded by lesbian book lovers Judi Komaki and Piper Olsen.

For our January 11th meeting, we’ll read No Modernism without Lesbians by Diana Souhami (Head of Zeus, 2021, paperback, $15.95). To reserve a copy, please write to us at contact@bgsqd.comwith “please reserve a copy of No Modernism without Lesbians” in the subject line. Purchase the book before January 11th and receive 15% off ($13.56 instead of $15.95).

And for our February 8th meeting, we’ll read Courting Justice: Gay Men and Lesbians V. the Supreme Court, by Deb Price and Joyce Murdoch (Basic Books, 2002, paperback, $25.99). Unfortunately the Bureau is unable to offer a discount on this title because our distributor only offers this book at retail price, rather than wholesale. So if you’d like to purchase the book from us, please let us know as soon as possible and we’ll order a copy for you. Email us at contact@bgsqd.com with “please order a copy of Courting Justice for me” 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.

RESISTING PROJECT 2025 PODCAST EPISODE 8: RESISTANCE 2.0: THE EMERGING PLAYBOOK TO FIGHTING PROJECT 2025 & T***P 2.0 (in person & live-streaming)
2025-01-15 19:00 - 20:30 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
Resistance 2.0. What is it? Who is mobilizing? Who is on the frontlines? What’s being done to stop or put a brake on T***p 2.0 and the “Day One” weaponization of Project 2025?
Join us on January 15th at 7-8:30 pm for the official 2025 launch of our rebranded Resisting Project 2025 podcast (formerly Revisioning Democracy). We’re back for year two at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division in NYC and streaming online. We’ve restructured our podcast as an all-team effort and convo with special regular features and special guests — focused on how we build and support community and broad resistance to Project 2025 and T***p 2.0 for the road ahead.
Campaign team: Anne-christine d’Adesky, Jay W. Walker, Sally O’Driscoll, Juno Rosenhaus, Saba Bando, Javier Morales.
Our relaunch takes places five days before the inauguration and three days before the planned People’s March in Washington, DC, on January 18th. We’ll be providing an overview and spotlight updates about what we’ve learned about the current scope and forms of Resistance 2.0 to the planned “Day One” weaponization of Project 2025 – which defines T***p 2.0. We’ll also talk about what our campaign plans for 2025. Tune in for a critical public conversation on resisting authoritarianism and defending our democracy.

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

Resisting Project 2025 Core Team
Anne-christine d’Adesky
FOUNDER
An award-winning independent journalist, author, feminist, longtime human rights, LGBTQIA+, gender equality, HIV and immigration activist. ACT UP member; co-founder of the Lesbian Avengers, PotoFanm+Fi in Haiti.
[Photo: Juno Rosenhaus]
Jay W. Walker
SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER
A queer Black leader, community organizer and longtime NYC activist on LGBTQIA+, HIV, and racial justice issues. Founding member, Rise and Resist; President, Gays Against Guns; Co-founder, NYC Queer Liberation March.
[Photo: Ryan McGinley Studios]
Juno Rosenhaus
WEBSITE MANAGER
Activist, artist, feminist, web designer. All things intergenerational, intersectional and Dyke. Founder of the Dyke+ ArtHaus in Philadelphia.
[Photo: Juno Rosenhaus]
Sally O’Driscoll
EDITORIAL TEAM
Writer, editor, and researcher. English literature PhD scholar, writer, feminist, proud lesbian, queer activist on feminism, sexual rights, reproductive health, transgender and other LGBTQ+ issues.
[Photo: Bob Hranichny]
Saba Bando
VOLUNTEER COORDINATOR
Executive and personal coach committed to disability rights, women’s rights, social justice, racial justice; first-generation immigrant, proud mother of a wheelchair-user. She resides in the Chicago-area with her husband and son.
Javier Morales
Latino Mobilization, Spanish translation.
Morales coordinates LATINX+, a US-based network of people of Latin descent living with HIV, fighting criminalization and stigma. He lives in Milford, PA, where he is Artistic Director for Pike Opera, with his husband, Sean Strub, and their dog Alfie.

Opening Reception for What Are You Looking At? (in person only)
2025-01-16 18:00 - 20:00 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
What are you looking at?
An art show in five acts
On view at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division
January 16 – April 20, 2025
Opening Reception: Thursday, January 16, 2025, 6 to 8 PM
Daniel Cavanaugh :: Kelwin Coleman :: Norbert Garcia Jr. ::
Bouﬀant Bouﬀant :: Scott Mabe
There is a fantastic space where no one lives. It exists in between the subject and the artist. These five artists work with the photographic image to present this space—from the extraordinarily faithful to the imagined confessional. A Grecian urn houses the ashes of the dead while their story is festooned on its hide; John Keats asks in “Ode to A Grecian Urn,” What men or gods are these? Portraiture is our modern day Grecian urn. Within these works, masculinity is held inside the shape of loss, though its history remains immortalized upon the exterior. Comparably, Marsden Hartley’s Portrait of a German Officer presents the essence of this ideology. Often the emotional and representational implications of the work are overshadowed by its painterly formal aspects, which creates a disservice to the genre of portraiture. Hartley’s portrait of his lover Karl Von Freyburg, who went to war and died, is depicted through no human form. We see dramatic colors and brushstrokes outline both emotion and explanation. And now, daily, we consume portraits without question and make the absorption digestible, further simplifying the genre. This exhibition asks the viewer to see beyond the obvious. Yes, the artists are queer. Yes, there is queer celebration and contemplation.
Yes, there is sex but what is beyond the exterior?
What are you looking at?

HOMOCATS: Join The Party zine launch + reading (in person & live-streaming)
2025-01-17 18:30 - 20:30 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
Please join artist J. Morrison and special guests for the NYC launch of
“HOMOCATS: Join The Party” at the Bureau!
HOMOCATS are excited to release the thirteenth zine in the series. “Join The Party” is created as a call to action to protest the incoming administration, while striving for community and togetherness in the difficult times we are living through.
The launch will also feature the updated HOMOCATS boxed set containing 12 zines from the series, as well as a selection of screen-printed apparel.
All the zines are created with original physical art and collages, and photocopied by hand by the artist.
Friday, January 17th
Check in at 6:30pm
Readings at 7:00pm

Featured HOMOCATS zine readers:
Dehlia Hennessy Brown
Jorge Clar
Carl Ferrero
Robert Hammond
Donnie Jochum
Lisa Levy
Douglas A. Martin
Eva Mueller
Lloyd Mulvey
Greg Newton
Xavier Smith
Christopher Stout
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
The Bureau will solicit donations at the beginning of the event—we especially encourage donations from those who do not plan to purchase any books.
All are welcome to attend, with or without a 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

Created by Brooklyn artist J. Morrison in 2010, HOMOCATS is a visual art and zine publication connecting the modern popularity of the feline with social politics.
Our mission aims to fight phobias, propose equal rights, combat cultural stereotypes, question social norms, resist T***pism, and make the world a better place.

TELL: Having Fun! (in person & live-streaming)
2025-01-18 19:00 - 20:30 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
TELL is a monthly queer storytelling show hosted and curated by Drae Campbell. It is the longest running event at the Bureau! 10 years and going. Each month there is a different theme and a different line up of queer artists who tell true stories from their lives on a theme.
The theme for January is Having Fun!, featuring storytellers Kelli Dunham, Frankie Vaughan, and Nonye Brown-West.

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.
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

Drae Campbellis the host and curator of TELL, an award winning podcast that can be found anywhere you listen to podcasts.
Theater: The Nosebleed (Lincoln Center Theater, Woolly Mammoth Theater & National Tour, Lortel Nominated), Jesus Hopped The ‘A’ Train (Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater), Only You Can Prevent Wildfires (Teatro Circulo), My Old Man (Dixon Place), Storm Still (DirectorFest, Drama League), La Cage Aux Folles (Barrington Stage Company).
Film and TV:Senior Escort Service, Blunderpuss, It’s Very Common, TOW.
TV: Bull, New Amsterdam.
BFA, The University Of The Arts
Ig @draebiz and @tellqueerz

Kelli Dunham is the nonbinary ex-nun storytelling nurse author trauma-informed comedian so ubiquitous in modern Brooklyn and has appeared on Showtime, BBC4’S Sunday Religion in Culture Program, the Discovery Channel, the Moth Mainstage and the occasional livestock auction. Kelli is the author of seven hilarious books about non-hilarious subjects and speaks frequently (also hilariously) to people with impossible jobs about using humor to combat vicarious trauma, deal with stress, and resolve conflict. But Kelli recently lost some business because of the upcoming political situation, so invite Kelli to speak at your conference!

PGN named Kelli one of “48 LGBT Creative People Of Influence” in 2024 and former NYC mayor Bill DeBlasio once called Kelli “a show off.” To Kelli’s face.
Kelli Dunham, RN BSN

Frankie Vaughan is based in New York, and making new work between here and Berlin. Frankie works with video, sharing his familiar stories — including 3am ER visits, odd jobs he’s worked, and awkward sexual encounters. Using video as a visual language, he draws on his own experiences — familiar, platonic, romantic, and imaginary ones — formulating them to a concise topical material.
Frankie is currently earning his MFA in Visual Art and MA in Art History at Purchase College.

Nonye Brown-West is a New York-based Nigerian-American comedian and writer. She has been featured in the Boston Globe’s Rise column as a Comic to Watch, as well as in NPR, PBS, Amazon Prime, Sway In The Morning, and the New York Comedy Festival.

OUTspoken: The Publishing Triangle’s Reading Series, January Edition (in person & live-streaming)
2025-01-24 19:00 - 21:00 | 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 Michael Thomas Ford, Donna Minkowitz, Carsen Taite, Shawn Stewart Ruff, C. Winter Han, Georgia Beers, Gar McVey-Russell, Anne Laughlin, Chris Shirley, and Rob Osler.

Join us in-person or watch the live-stream 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
The Bureau will solicit donations at the beginning of the event—we especially encourage donations from those who do not plan to purchase any books.
All are welcome to attend, with or without a 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

The Best Bi Erotica of the Year: In-person book launch & reading (in person and live-streaming)
2025-01-25 15:00 - 16:00 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
Organized and edited by erotic author Christian Pan, The Best Bi Erotica of the Year, Volume One features exclusive and sensual stories by fifteen different authors from across the United States and Canada, broadening our understanding of bisexuality and the possibilities within the erotic imagination. Join four of the anthology’s contributing authors as they read excerpts from their stories, followed by a signing. Copies of The Best Bi Erotica of the Year and other titles by the authors will be 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.

Also live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel:
youtube.com/@bgsqd
The Bureau will solicit donations at the beginning of the event—we especially encourage donations from those who do not plan to purchase any books.
All are welcome to attend, with or without a 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

Maeve Blackhead is a poet, painter, and researcher. She lives in New York City.
Eskay Kabba finds the complexity of human nature and creates romantic and erotic love stories. Eskay pens erotic romance novels that celebrate the LGBTQ community, people of color, and interracial relationships. Find her at
www.eskaykabba.com
Candice Leigh is a sex and intimacy coach, somatic sex educator, Erotic Blueprint coach, Somatic Experiencing practitioner and writer in NYC. She uses experiential, trauma informed modalities bridging neo-tantra, sexuality coaching, breathwork, and talk therapy to encourage clients to courageously embrace their vulnerability, body, mind, heart, soul and eros.
https://www.candiceleighcoaching.com/
Christian Pan writes erotic fiction that frequently explores bisexual identity and experience. He is the editor & organizer of The Best Bi Erotica of the Year, Volume One, and his books Reunion and Dirty Words are all available at the Bureau. For more information, please go to linktr.ee/christianpan

Harvard Gender and Sexuality Caucus Author Forum: Michelle Lerner (in person & live-streaming)
2025-01-26 15:00 - 16:30 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
Harvard Gender and Sexuality Caucus NYC presents Michelle Lerner (HLS ’98), author of Ring, a new novel that contemplates loss and the sanctuary between hope and despair. Jonathan Vatner (’01), author of The Bridesmaids Union, will join her in conversation.

To reserve a copy of Ring (Bancroft Press, January 28, 2025, paperback, $23.95) please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com with “please reserve a copy of Ring for Jan. 26 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
The Bureau will solicit donations at the beginning of the event—we especially encourage donations from those who do not plan to purchase any books.
All are welcome to attend, with or without a 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

Michelle Lerner is the author of the poetry chapbook Protection (Poetry Box, 2021) and the novel Ring (Bancroft Press, 2025), and her writing appears in VQR, Shenandoah, Lips, Paterson Literary Review, and many other journals and anthologies.

Jonathan Vatner is the author of The Bridesmaids Union (St. Martin’s Press, 2022) and Carnegie Hill (Thomas Dunne Books, 2019). His fiction has earned praise from People, Town & Country, The New York Post, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. He is the managing editor of Hue, the magazine of the Fashion Institute of Technology, and teaches fiction writing at New York University and the Hudson Valley Writers Center.

Giddy Up! Celebrating Cowboy Park by Eduardo Martínez-Leyva (in person only)
2025-01-30 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 a dynamic evening at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division as we celebrate the debut poetry collection, Cowboy Park, by Eduardo Martínez-Leyva. Immerse yourself in poems that explore self-acceptance and self-discovery along the U.S.-Mexico border. The event will also feature readings by LGBTQ poets River 瑩瑩 Dandelion, Seth Leeper, and Francisco Márquez. Don’t miss this opportunity to connect with the world of Latinx literature and support the LGBTQ community.
To reserve a copy of Cowboy Park (Wisconsin University Press, November 2024, paperback, $17.95), please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com with “please reserve a copy of Cowboy Park for Jan. 30th 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.
The Bureau will solicit donations at the beginning of the event—we especially encourage donations from those who do not plan to purchase any books.
All are welcome to attend, with or without a 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

Eduardo Martínez-Leyva was born in El Paso, TX to Mexican immigrants. His work has appeared in Poetry Magazine, The Boston Review, The Adroit Journal, Frontier Poetry, The Hopkins Review, Best New Poets, and elsewhere. He’s received fellowships from CantoMundo, The Frost Place, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the Lambda Literary Foundation, a teaching fellowship from Columbia University, where he earned his MFA, and was the writer-in-residence at St. Albans School for Boys in Washington D.C. His debut poetry collection, Cowboy Park, was selected by Amaud Jamaul Johnson for the 2024 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry and is part of The Wisconsin Poetry Series published by the University of Wisconsin Press.

River 瑩瑩 Dandelion (he, him, keoi 佢) walks with his ancestors. He is a practitioner of ancestral medicine through writing, teaching, energy healing, and creating ceremony. As a poet, he writes to connect with the unseen and unspoken so we can feel and heal. River is the winner of the 2024 Lambda Literary Award for Exceptional New LGBTQ Writers. He is the author of remembering (y)our light, a debut chapbook on honoring matriarchs and ancestors across generations.

Seth Leeper is a queer poet. His work has appeared, or is forthcoming in Foglifter, Waxing, Poet Lore, Prairie Schooner, OnlyPoems, Salamander, and Sycamore Review . He holds an M.S. in Special Education from Pace University and B.A. in Creative Writing and Fashion Journalism from San Francisco State University. He is a candidate in the Low Residency MFA in Creative Writing Program at Randolph College. His work has been nominated for Best New Poets, Best of the Net, and Pushcart awards. He teaches drop in and virtual workshops for Brooklyn Poets.

Francisco Márquez is a poet from Maracaibo, Venezuela, born in Miami, Florida. His work has been featured in the Y ale Review, the Brooklyn Rail, the Slowdown podcast, and the Best American Poetry anthology. He has received support from the Tin House Writer’s Workshop, The Poetry Project, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, where he was a 2019-2020 Poetry Fellow . He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

(Re) Present (in person only)
2025-01-31 19:00 - 21:00 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
No, Dear Magazine’s (Re)Present Reading Series seeks to pay homage to the New York City poets whose voices are now absent from our lives, especially those voices whose indelible imprint has sustained a revolutionary poetics by connecting us to a history prior to, and in opposition to, mass gentrification and corporate takeover. By collaborating with local poets, our intention is to represent and re-present those poets who are gone and honor how their voices continue to live on within the revolutionary spirit of New York City poetry.
Featuring readings by Kyle Carrero Lopez, Joey De Jesus, Marti Irving, Omotara James, and Kat Rejsek.

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.
The Bureau will solicit donations at the beginning of the event—we especially encourage donations from those who do not plan to purchase any books. All are welcome to attend, with or without a donation. We will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event, but we can also take credit card donations at the event or on Venmo @BGSQD

Kyle Carrero Lopez is the author of the chapbook Muscle Memory, published by PANK Books in 2022. His recent poems appear in The Yale Review, office magazine, and Split this Rock, and his debut full-length collection PARTY LINE is forthcoming from Graywolf Press in 2026. @kylecarrerolopez

Joey De Jesus is the author of HOAX Limited Artist Edition (Operating System, 2022), and chapbooks: We Animate the Dream: A Poet’s Run for Public Oﬃce (Mount Analog Political Pamphlet Series II, 2021) and NOCT- The Threshold of Madness (The Atlas Review, 2019). Joey received the 2019-20 BRIC ArtFP Project Room Commission for HOAX and 2017 NYFA/NYSCA Fellowship in Poetry. Poems have appeared in Poem-A-Day, Barrow Street, Bettering American Poetry, The Brooklyn Rail, The Texas Review, and elsewhere. Joey is senior co-editor at Apogee Journal and lives in Ridgewood where they ran for New York State Assembly District 38. @DeJesusSaves

Marti Irving is a poet and tinkerer living in Brooklyn with three black cats and one grey one. Their poems have appeared in American Chordata, Bodega Mag, Pigeon Pages, and the Yale Review.

Omotara James is the author of the debut poetry collection, Song of My Softening, (Alice James Books, 2024), featured on NPR’s Morning Edition and The Washington Post Book Club. Her work has received support from the Poetry Foundation, the New York Foundation of the Arts, the 92Y Unterberg Poetry Center, Cave Canem Foundation, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Lambda Literary and the Academy of American Poets. She writes, teaches andedits poetry in New York City. @omotarajames

Kat Rejsek is a poet and filmmaker. They have an MFA and are the co-author of a chapbook called Aside from my everyday desires and also my more exceptional ones. Their work has also been featured in other small presses and publications. Kat works as an editor and lives in Brooklyn. @letsgetadog

OUTspoken: A tribute to Nikki Giovanni (in person & live-streaming)
2025-02-01 18:00 - 20:00 | The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center, 208 West 13th Street, Room 101, New York, 10011, United States
In celebration of Black History Month, The Publishing Triangle in collaboration with the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division, presents a special OUTspoken Reading Series event celebrating the life of acclaimed Black lesbian poet, commentator, activist and educator, Nikki Giovanni.
Presenters will include JP Howard, Reginald Harris, Cheryl Boyce-Taylor, a Drag Queen Story Hour reading by Harmonica Sunbeam, Samiya Bashir, Darrel Alejandro Holnes, and UGBA (Nuyorican Poets Café slam team). The event will be hosted by Emanuel Xavier.
Join us in-person or watch the live-stream to hear some of our community’s most dynamic voices honor the legacy of one of our most acclaimed icons.
This event will take place in person in room 101 of The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center, 208 W. 13th Street, in collaboration with Bureau of General Services—Queer Division.
Registration is not required. Seating is first come, first served.
Also live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel:
youtube.com/@bgsqd
The Bureau will solicit donations at the beginning of the event—we especially encourage donations from those who do not plan to purchase any books. All are welcome to attend, with or without a donation. We will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event, but we can also take credit card donations at the event or on Venmo @BGSQD

Emanuel Xavier’s honors include the Marsha A. Gomez Cultural Heritage Award, a New York City Council Citation, a Gay City News Impact Award, and a Silver Medal in the Juan Felipe Herrera Best Poetry Book Award category at the International Latino Book Awards for his book Love(ly) Child, also a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award. His work has appeared in Latino Poetry: The Library of America Anthology, Poetry, A Gathering of the Tribes, and elsewhere. Emanuel Xavier is on the Board of The Publishing Triangle and is currently working on a memoir and a screenplay based on his 1999 cult novel, Christ Like.

JP Howard is a poet, educator, curator, and literary activist. Her debut poetry collection SAY/MIRROR (The Operating System) was a Lambda Literary finalist. She curates Women Writers in Bloom Poetry Salon.
http://www.jp-howard.com

Reginald Harris has been a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award and the Griot-Stadler prize. He won the 2012 Cave Canem / Northwestern University Press Poetry Prize for Autogeography. His work has appeared in numerous journals, anthologies, and online. Born in Annapolis, Maryland, and raised in Baltimore, he lives in Brooklyn.

Cheryl Boyce-Taylor is the author of seven collections of poetry which include Mama Phife Represents, a verse memoir about the life of her son, Hip Hop Legend, Malik “Phife Dawg” Taylor. Her most recent collection, The Limitless Heart, won the 2024 Firecracker Award for poetry. Cheryl is a graduate of The Stonecoast MFA program.

Harmonica Sunbeam, The Comedy Queen, has been delighting audiences at nightclubs, cabarets, fundraising events and supermarket openings throughout the United States and abroad for over 32 years. She is the North Jersey coordinator of Drag Queen Story Hour and since the inception of DQSH in the New York area, Miss Sunbeam has been featured in the NY Times and interviewed for a now viral video on Buzzfeed.

Samiya Bashir is the author of three poetry collections, most recently Field Theories, winner of the Oregon Book Award. Her fourth, I Hope This Helps, is forthcoming from Nightboat Books in 2025. A sought-after editor, Bashir currently serves as the June Jordan Visiting Scholar at Columbia University.

Darrel Alejandro Holnes is the author of Stepmotherland, winner of an International Latino Book Award and the Andres Montoya Poetry Prize and Migrant Psalms, winner of the Drinking Gourd Poetry Prize. Holnes is the winner of the National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship in Poetry and the C.P. Cavafy Poetry Prize. Holnes is also a recent nominee for the Best of the Net and an award-winning playwright, screenwriter, and director.

UGBA (oog ba) (pronoun inclusive) is a queer poet, rapper, playwright, actor, and activist based out of Brooklyn, NY. UGBA is a former member of the Public Theater’s Emerging Writers Group 2020-2023 cohort, a 2022 MAP Grant recipient, a 2020-2021 BAM Resident, 2024 Nuyorican Poetry Slam member, and former Artistic Director at NY Writers Coalition.

Jill Johnston in Motion: Clare Croft In Conversation with Ksenia Soboleva (in person & live-streaming)
2025-02-06 19:00 - 20:30 | Bureau of General Services—Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
Clare Croft reads from her new book, Jill Johnston in Motion, which focuses on the dance critic turned lesbian provocateur Jill Johnston. Following the reading Croft will be in conversation with Ksenia Soboleva. In conjunction with “Archives Onstage: The Essential Jill Johnston” at NYU Skirball.

To reserve a copy of Jill Johnston in Motion (Duke University Press, October 29, 2024, paperback, $27.95) and/or The Essential Jill Johnston Reader, edited by Clare Croft (Duke University Press, October 29, 2024, paperback, $27.95) please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com with “please reserve a copy of Jill Johnston in Motion and/or Essential Jill Johnston for Feb. 6 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 encouraged, but not required.
Please register here.

Also live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel:
youtube.com/@bgsqd
The Bureau will solicit donations at the beginning of the event—we especially encourage donations from those who do not plan to purchase any books.
All are welcome to attend, with or without a 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

Clare Croft is a writer, a dance historian and theorist, a dramaturg and curator, and someone who dances. She is the author of Jill Johnston in Motion: Dance, Writing, and Lesbian Life and the editor of The Essential Jill Johnston Reader, both published by Duke University Press. She is also the editor of Queer Dance: Meanings and Makings; the founder and curator of the EXPLODE queer dance festival; and the author of Dancers as Diplomats: American Choreography in Cultural Exchange. Clare’s dance criticism has appeared in The Washington Post, the Austin American-Statesman, and The Brooklyn Rail. She is Associate Professor of American Culture at the University of Michigan, and holds a PhD in Performance as Public Practice from the University of Texas-Austin.

Dr. Ksenia M. Soboleva is a New York based writer and art historian specializing in queer art and culture. She holds a PhD from the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, with a dissertation titled “Fragments: Art, AIDS, and Lesbian Identity in the United States.” Her writings have appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, BOMB Magazine, Artforum, frieze, Hyperallergic, as well as various monographs and exhibition catalogues. She has curated exhibitions at Baxter St. Camera Club, Candice Madey Gallery, and La MaMa Galleria. Soboleva was the 2020-2021 Vilcek Curatorial Fellow at the Guggenheim Museum, and the 2022-2024 Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Gender and LGBTQ+ History at the New York Historical Society. Currently, she is working on a book project titled “Friendship as a Way of Art: Queer Identity and Visual Citation,” and co-editing the first monograph on TRIAL BALLOON, a 1990s gallery and project space that highlighted lesbian artists. She teaches at the New School and NYU.

lesbian book club: February edition (in person only)
2025-02-08 11:00 - 12:00 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
We’ll be reading fiction and non-fiction — classic, contemporary, revealing and visionary. As a group we will decide what to read each month, focusing on lesbian authors and/or related topics. Co-founded by lesbian book lovers Judi Komaki and Piper Olsen.

For our February 8th meeting, we’ll discuss Freshwater, by Akwaeke Emezi (Grove Press, 2018, paperback, $18). To reserve a copy, please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com with “please reserve a copy of Freshwater for me” in the subject line.
And for our March 8th meeting, we’ll read Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg (1993). Digital and print editions of the book can be found on Leslie Feinberg’s website. Print editions are also available at the Bureau (see below).
From Feinberg’s website: https://www.lesliefeinberg.net/:
“The 20th Anniversary Author’s Edition of Stone Butch Blues is available in multiple formats:
“Click this link to automatically download your free PDF copy:
Stone-Butch-Blues-by-Leslie-Feinberg.pdf (886745 downloads)
“The at-cost print edition of Stone Butch Blues is once more available through Lulu.com – and at a slightly lower cost because of format re-design.”
And the Bureau sells at-cost print copies of Stone Butch Blues ($14–this covers printing, $12.21, plus shipping). To reserve a copy, please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com with “please reserve a copy of Stone Butch Blues” 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.

The Sexual Evolution: The Inherent Queerness of Animals (in person only)
2025-02-08 15:00 - 16:00 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
In The Sexual Evolution: How 500 Million Years of Sex, Gender, and Mating Shape Modern Relationships, biologist Nathan H. Lents argues persuasively that many of our supposedly modern ideas about gender and human sexuality are, in fact, deeply rooted in our animal ancestors. In this presentation, Lents will show how diverse sexual behavior is not a new development, is not unique to humans, and is most definitely not the product of modern progressive culture. Instead, it’s the product of millions of years of evolutionary experimentation throughout the animal kingdom. One of the greatest truths that biology has revealed is that Diversity Wins.
Author Nathan H. Lents will be joined in conversation by Bureau co-founder Greg Newton.
To reserve a copy of The Sexual Evolution (Mariner Books, February 4, 2025, hardcover, $32) please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com with “please reserve a copy of Sexual Evolution for Feb. 8 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.
The Bureau will solicit donations at the beginning of the event—we especially encourage donations from those who do not plan to purchase any books.
All are welcome to attend, with or without a 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

Nathan H. Lents, Ph.D. is Professor of Biology at John Jay College (CUNY). His research lab studies human genome evolution and he is the author of three popular science books: Not So Different: Finding Human Nature in Animals, Human Errors: A Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes, and The Sexual Evolution: How 500 Million Years of Sex, Gender, and Mating Shape Modern Relationships (2025).

Rainbow Blossoms (in person only)
2025-02-09 11:00 - 12:00 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
A place to talk about growing up, puberty, and related topics for 8-12 year old queer/trans kids and their friends.
We’ll play some games to get to know each other, read some Cory Silverberg books, and discuss topics of interest to the kids.
Want to help facilitate discussion?
Get in touch. Let’s do this together: ellenbaxt@yahoo.com
Please register here
Wheelchair accessible.
Donation or book purchase encouraged!
This is an adult queer space and there may be images with sexual content on view.

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 encouraged, but not required.
Register here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSekUufKML3x_aah1BX0pY8_NxGGYMPDeXQ5FJTldXqY5zjEZw/viewform
