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Entangled States: A Life According to Quantum Physics
2026-05-20 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
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Join us for a discussion with debut author Karmela Padavic-Callaghan and Seven Rasmussen about Entangled States: A Life According to Quantum Physics.
About the Book:
“I see physics everywhere,” Karmela Padavic-Callaghan writes. “It offers itself to me when I try to make sense of all the paths my life did and did not take, it reassures me when I try to reconcile all the identities that I feel describe me.”
Now a science writer in New York, Karmela uses physics to meditate on building a life in a new country, on being nonbinary in a field dominated by cishet men, and on cause, effect, future, and destiny. Each chapter examines a moment in Karmela’s life through the lens of a physics concept. Padavic-Callaghan writes conversationally about seeing themselves in Freddie Mercury’s queer masculinity and power, what it means to be a queer teacher to young people, and overall how “Queerness, as I have come to understand it, is always future-oriented, always a state of becoming.”
About the Author:
Karmela Padavic-Callaghan is a scientist, a journalist, and an educator based in New York City. A staff writer at New Scientist, they report on physics, materials science, and quantum technology. They hold a PhD in theoretical condensed matter physics and atomic, molecular and optical physics from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Their research has been published in peer-reviewed journals, including Physical Review Letters and New Journal of Physics. Their popular science writing has been featured in such publications as Wired, Scientific American, Aeon, Slate, and MIT Technology Review.
About the Moderator:
Seven Rasmussen is an astrobiologist, author, and science communicator whose work has been featured widely in the media, including Popular Science, Wired, Nature, Scientific American, Inside Higher Ed, Science, and Space.com. Their next book, Cloudy With a Chance of Starships, comes out from Princeton University Press in August.

BOOK LAUNCH – Pretend You're Dead And I Carry You
2026-05-29 18:30 - 20:30
Join us at The Bureau for a night of reading, conversation, and Q&A to celebrate the launch of Julián Delgado Lopera’s new novel PRETEND YOU’RE DEAD AND I CARRY YOU. Julian will be joined in conversation by Angie Cruz, author of HOW NOT TO DROWN IN A GLASS OF WATER.
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Isolated in a dreary Bogotá apartment, Ignacio’s light has dimmed, leaving his teenage daughter Valentina to raise herself in the wake of her mother’s death. Valentina longs to discover the details of her mother’s drowning and for Ignacio to snap out of his depression—his listless afternoons spent smoking cigarettes in long blonde wigs, telenovelas humming in the background, haunted by memories of the young man he loved and betrayed.
From Ignacio’s dark past emerges the luminous Mamadora Eléctrica, the wise travesti who introduced Ignacio to the city’s queer scene years prior. Stepping into a maternal role for Valentina, Mamadora fears the worst: that Ignacio’s self-loathing may have unleashed a curse on them all. A profound and irreverent story about coming undone, PRETEND YOU’RE DEAD AND I CARRY YOU affirms Julián Delgado Lopera as a brilliant and singular voice in global literature.
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Julián Delgado Lopera is the author of The New York Times acclaimed novel Fiebre Tropical (Feminist Press 2020), the winner of the 2021 Ferro Grumley Award and a 2021 Lambda Literary award; a finalist of the 2020 Kirkus Prize in Fiction and the 2021 Aspen Literary Prize. Julián is also the author of ¡Cuéntamelo! (Aunt Lute 2017) an illustrated bilingual collection of oral histories by LGBT Latinx immigrants which won a 2018 Lambda Literary Award and a 2018 Independent Publisher Book Award.
Julián is the former executive director of RADAR Productions and one of the founders of Drag Queen Story Hour. Julián has been curating Latinx history projects for over 10 years in partnerships with places such as the GLBT Historical Society, SF Public Library, El/la Para Translatinas, Galería de la Raza and Brava Theatre. Born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia, Julián currently resides in Brooklyn where he is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing and Contemporary Latine Literature at CUNY.
Angie Cruz is a novelist and editor. Her most recent novel How Not To Drown in A Glass of Water (2022) was a finalist for the 2024 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, shortlisted for The Aspen Words Literary Prize, winner of the Gold Medal, Latino Book Award/The Isabel Allende Most Inspirational Book Award, longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Literary Prize and chosen for The New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2022 and The Washington Post 50 Notable Works of Fiction. Her novel, Dominicana was the inaugural book pick for GMA book club and shortlisted for The Women’s Prize, longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction, a RUSA Notable book and the winner of the ALA/YALSA Alex Award in fiction. It was named most anticipated/ best book in 2019 by Time, Newsweek, People, Oprah Magazine, The Washington Post, The New York Times, and Esquire. Cruz is the author of two other novels, Soledad and Let It Rain Coffee and the recipient of numerous fellowships, residencies and awards including the 2025 USA Fellowship, The Poets & Writers /Writers For Writers Award, and the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature. She’s the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the award winning literary journal, Aster(ix) and teaches at Columbia University.

Music Pop-Up for the Trans Community Fund
2026-05-30 14:00 - 15:30 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
A music pop-up show at The Bureau featuring tunes by Déa, Lour, Prachi, and Christian Kidd. Come do your book browsing and buying, hear inspiring music and catch a reading from Cecilia Gentili’s Faltas.
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Suggested donation of $7-10, which will contribute to a $400 fundraising need.
All proceeds will be distributed by the Trans/Queer Community Fund to neighbors in Texas, Colorado, Kentucky and New York City.

Doing The Work
2026-06-08 19:00 - 21:00 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
A conversation about Art and Activism.

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Join debut authors Rachel León, Radhika Singh, and Jules Wernersbach at The Bureau for a discussion about using literature as a vehicle to tell stories about the work that is to be done – how to roll up your sleeves, translate practice into prose, and envision (and enact) liberatory futures through writing.
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Rachel León (she/they) is a writer, editor, and social worker, who has worked in child welfare for nearly two decades. She serves as Managing Director for Chicago Review of Books. They are the author of the novel, How We See the Gray.
Radhika Singh lives, writes and teaches in Queens, New York. Her fiction speculates on the presence of magic in this world, the connection to spirit and consciousness, and the power of the people to organize for collective liberation. Her novel Earthly Playing Field connects ongoing People’s movements against global imperialism through a queer, Sufi love story. Her novel Weirdly Tuned Antennae, winner of the 2025 Sukenick Prize for Innovative Fiction, is forthcoming from FC2 Press.
Jules Wernersbach is a writer and bookseller in Brooklyn. Their debut novel, Work To Do, released April 7, 2026 from University of Iowa Press. Their short fiction has been published in Bennington Review, Heavy Feather Review, and other journals. They are the author of Vegan Survival Guide to Austin and The Swimming Holes of Texas. Jules is co-founder of Hive Mind Books, a queer independent bookstore and coffee shop in Bushwick, Brooklyn, and the new owner of The Bureau, Manhattan’s last queer bookstore.. They have been a bookseller for a long time and also served as literary director of the Texas Book Festival.

SIGNING: Polaroid Encounters: 1998–2009
2026-06-12 19:00 - 21:00 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
Music industry legend and photographer Michael Alago signs POLAROID ENCOUNTERS – his love letter to Analog Lust and Masculinity
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Polaroid Encounters: 1998–2009 is the fourth monograph published by music industry legend and photographer Michael Alago. Like his previous books, Rough Gods, Brutal Truth, and Beautiful Imperfections, Polaroid Encounters is a sexy, self-contained shrine to macho masculinity in all its flexing, flirting, full-frontal glory.
Join Michael at the Bureau of General Services – Queer Division as he signs copies of Polaroid Encounters to raise funds and awareness for The Bureau – Manhattan’s last queer bookstore.
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Polaroid Encounters is a love letter to analog lust. As pioneering author, editor, and former lover of Robert Mapplethorpe, Jack Fritscher puts it in the book’s introduction: “The two hundred Polaroid images pop like poppers because the instant gratification of his page-turning collection creates an old-school nostalgia for cruising gyms the way guys hunted before dating apps.”
Starkly framed across 142 pages are candid and posed Polaroids shot in New York, Dallas, New Orleans, Los Angeles and San Francisco between 1998 and 2009 — the same year gay porn magazine Mandate ceased publication amid the rise of the internet. Subjects include tricks, friends, models, bodybuilders, tattooed roughnecks, and ex-con boyfriends in various settings and stages of undress and arousal. Adding to the tantalizingly intimate vibe, many were shot in Alago’s own Chelsea apartment.

Lesbian Book Club: June Edition
2026-06-13 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 June 13th meeting, we’ll read Margaret Vandenburg’s book, Craze

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.

OUTspoken Reading Series: Publishing Triangle Award Winners
2026-06-13 16:00 - 18:00 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
The Publishing Triangle’s OUTspoken Reading Series returns with a special panel comprised of 2026 award winners.

Join us on Saturday, June 13, at 4:00 PM at The Bureau, to celebrate The Publishing Triangle 2026 Award winners.
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Featuring:
Scott Hess – Ferro Grumley Award – Drought
Achy Obejas – Audre Lorde award for Lesbian Poetry –The Boy Kingdom / El reino de los varones: Poems / Poemas
Lev AC Rosen – Joseph Hansen Award for LGBTQ+ Crime Writing – Mirage City
Sam Tabet – for their book, Beyond the Lesbian Vampire: Reclaiming the Violent Lesbian in Contemporary Queer Horror
John Birdsall – Amber Hollibaugh Award for LGBTQ+ Social Justice Writing –What is Queer Food?
and hosted by Jim Berg – writer/editor, Publishing Triangle board member
This event will be live-streamed at youtube.com/@bgsqd

READING: The Night Of Swaying Grass
2026-06-14 15:00 - 17:00 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
R. Diskin Black reads from his new collection of memoir poetry, THE NIGHT OF SWAYING GRASS, and sits in conversation with author and activist Benjamin Heim Shepard.
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Black tells a story with his poetry of childhood loss and grief, a story of coming of age and coming out, a story of resilience and reinvention. From the death of his father when he was six years old in 1969 to his involvement in ACT UP decades later, from the events of 9/11 to the COVID pandemic, the 63 poems in this collection reflect all that was lost and all that was gained in the 63 years Black has so far lived.
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Born and raised in northern New Jersey, R. DISKIN BLACK graduated with a BA in History from Lafayette College in Easton, PA. He also went to law school, but nobody wants to hear about that. He has been gainfully employed in the legal profession his entire adult life. He is the author of the novel “Zombie Scout: The Diary of Jack Sullivan”. He currently lives in New York City.
Benjamin Shepard, PhD, is an Professor of Human Service at New York School of Technology/City University of New York. He received his Masters at the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration, PhD at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and training in psychoanalysis from the William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and Psychology in their Intensive Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program. As a social worker he worked in AIDS housing settings from San Francisco to Chicago to New York, where he directed the start ups for two congregate housing programs for people with HIV/AIDS, as well as served as Deputy Director at CitiWide Harm Reduction..
Much of Dr. Shepard’s scholarship is based on the ethnographic study of social services and social movements. He is the author/editor of six books including White Nights and Ascending Shadows: An Oral History of the San Francisco AIDS Epidemic (Cassell, 1997) and From ACT UP to the WTO: Urban Protest and Community Building in the Era of Globalization (co-edited with Ron Hayduck) (Verso, 2002). The latter work was a non-fiction finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards in 2002.

BOOK LAUNCH – Homosexual Intifada: A Queer Palestinian Anthology
2026-06-16 19:00 - 21:00
Celebrate the launch of Homosexual Intifada: A Queer Palestinian Anthology, a groundbreaking new collection amplifying the voices of LGBTQ+ Palestinians across the diaspora and homeland. Join co-editors George Abraham and Hannah Moushabeck, alongside contributor and journalist Afeef Nessouli, for an evening of readings, conversation, and community as they explore themes of identity, resistance, and love.
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This special event offers a rare opportunity to hear directly from the queer Palestinian writers and artists that challenge dominant narratives, confront erasure, and affirm the richness and resilience of queer Palestinian life. A book signing will follow the discussion.
Publisher proceeds of this book will be donated to Palestinian LGBTQ+ human rights groups.

About the Book:
A groundbreaking anthology amplifying queer Palestinian voices through art and storytelling that reclaim identity, resist erasure, and challenge stereotypes.
Homosexual Intifada is a powerful and groundbreaking anthology spotlighting the voices of queer Palestinian writers from both the diaspora and homeland. This first-of-its-kind collection features a dynamic range of LGBTQ+ Palestinian perspectives through deeply personal essays, short stories, poetry, comics, photo essays, and memoir.
Centering queer Palestinian identity and experience, this essential volume explores themes of displacement, assimilation, belonging, and love across geographies—from Jerusalem and Ramallah to New York, Beirut, and beyond. These stories, often silenced or misrepresented in Western media, challenge false narratives, boldly reclaim agency, and dismantle stereotypes.
Contributors include celebrated and emerging queer Palestinian authors such as Noor Hindi, Mejdulene Bernard Shomali, Elias Jahshan, Randa Jarrar, and more.
More than just a literary work, Homosexual Intifada is a radical act of visibility. It challenges the pinkwashing of queer identities in service of imperial agendas and affirms the existence, resilience, and diversity of LGBTQ+ Palestinians worldwide. This collection is a vital contribution to queer literature, Arab identity, and decolonial thought.

George Abraham (they/he) is a Palestinian American poet, essayist, critic, performance artist. They are the author of When the Arab Apocalypse Comes to America (Haymarket, 2026) and Birthright (Button Poetry, 2020), which won the Arab American Book Award and was a Lambda Literary Award finalist. They are the executive editor of Mizna, and co-editor of Heaven Looks Like Us: Palestinian Poetry (Haymarket, 2025). They are a graduate of Northwestern’s Litowitz MFA+MA program, and teach at Amherst College as a Writer-in-Residence.
Hannah Moushabeck (she/her) is a second-generation Palestinian American author and book worker who was raised in a family of publishers and booksellers and learned the power of literature at a young age. Hannah has worked in publishing for over a decade at companies such as Chronicle Books, The Quarto Group, and Simon & Schuster. She now runs Interlink Publishing, the only Palestinian-owned publisher in the United States, alongside her family. Her debut picture book Homeland: My Father Dreams of Palestine (Chronicle Books) won The New England Book Award and The Arab American Book Award. She lives in Amherst, Massachusetts on the homelands of the Pocumtuc and Nipmuc Nations.
Afeef Nessouli is a journalist and host of “With Afeef Nessouli” and is a journalist with The Intercept. He has previously worked for Spotify and The Wall Street Journal, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah and CNN. He focuses on queer and Arab stories. Afeef spent 9 weeks in Gaza as a humanitarian aid worker in 2025, and just came back to the United States from covering the war in Beirut, Lebanon.

Modern Cruising with Leo Herrera & Michael Henry
2026-06-17 19:00 - 21:00 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
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Join us at the Bureau for a stimulating conversation with Leo Herrera, author of the bestselling book analog cruising, and gay stand-up comedian Michael Henry. They’ll have a frank and hilarious chat about modern cruising, gay sex and the viral success of “The Manual.” Co-hosted by Gayletter.

Tickets to this event include a bundle of all three of Leo’s books in special hardcover editions. Tickets are required to attend this event. Please see below for details.

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Leo Herrera is a queer Mexican artist who explores queer and immigrant experiences through the lenses of sex, technology, and history. His work centers on themes of disease and stigma, always searching for utopia in LGBTQ history’s darkest chapters. Herrera is director of Fathers, a multimedia project which imagines the world if AIDS never existed. He is author of Analog Cruising, a manual for modern sex outside of our phones.

Michael Henry is a gay stand up comedian, actor and content creator who has toured all over the USA and internationally. He was featured on his OutTv show “Wish You Were Queer” featuring Trixie Mattel and Tim Murray, was mentioned as a Queer comedian to watch by The New York Times, is a Queerty award winner and has no gag reflex.

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This event will take place in-person at the Bureau of General Services – Queer Division, located in Room 210 on the second floor of The LGBT Community Center, 208 W. 13th St., NYC, 10011. The Center and the Bureau are both fully wheelchair accessible.
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Tickets are required to attend this event. Tickets include hardcover editions of Analog Cruising; Post; and Sentences. Thank you for supporting Leo Herrera and the Bureau!

Rasheed Newson: One Night in Hollywood
2026-06-18 19:00 - 21:00
Rasheed Newson launches his novel There’s Only One Sin in Hollywood
in conversation with actress Cassandra Freeman

Doors: 7:00pm
Event: 7:30pm

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The Bureau and Hive Mind Books Present: One Night in Hollywood

Rasheed Newson, known for his work on The Chi and Bel-Air, launches his novel There’s Only One Sin in Hollywood, which follows a queer, Black Hollywood heartthrob of the Golden Age, Xavier Barlow, and the fixer hired to keep him in the closet. “This novel is my way of reclaiming untold Hollywood history, from a Black and queer perspective,” Newson told People in an interview. He will be in conversation with actress Cassandra Freeman.

This event will be held at The Bureau – 208 W 13th St, New York, NY, Room 210 (inside the LGBT Community Center)
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Rasheed Newson is the author of the national bestseller My Government Means to Kill Me, which was selected as a Lambda Literary finalist for Gay Fiction and was named one of the “100 Notable Books of 2022” by The New York Times. He is also a television drama writer, producer, and showrunner. He codeveloped Bel-Air and worked on The Chi, Animal Kingdom, and Narcos, among other drama series. Newson is a 2025–26 American Library in Paris Visiting Fellow. He currently lives with his husband and their two children in Pasadena.

Cassandra Freeman is an acclaimed actress, producer, and entrepreneur best known for her powerful portrayal of Aunt Viv on Peacock’s Bel-Air. Her film and television credits include Atlanta, Luke Cage, The Last O.G., The Enemy Within, Inside Man, and I Think I Love My Wife, with recent work in Love, Brooklyn, an Andre Holland-led film which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Beyond acting, Freeman is the co-founder of Creatricity, a creative ecosystem supporting artists and innovators across entertainment and media. Freeman is a respected voice in the industry for her work as a creative strategist, thought leader, and advocate for diversity and inclusion and authentic representation. She is represented by the agents of Artium Talent.

TELL: A Queer Storytelling Show (MESSINESS)
2026-06-20 19:00 - 21:00
Join TELL, The Bureau’s longest-running recurring show, for a night of queer storytelling!
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This month’s Pride show’s theme is MESSINESS, with stories from:
Heather Glynis

Yifan

Tallie Medel

Dennis Yueh-Yeh Li

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Hosted and curated by Drae Campbell

$10 suggested donation

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Heather Glynis is a performer, poet, psychotic whore, and tranny-about-town. She is the program assistant at the Poetry Project and hosts Queeraoke at Metropolitan Bar, along with Bottom Behavior with Josh Bondi at Oberon. She is from Jersey, and resides in Bushwick

Yifan (they/them) is a creative community builder who believes in the power of storytelling, shared experiences, and chosen family to bring people together. Passionate about uplifting BIPOC and LGBTQ+ voices, they create welcoming spaces where connection, care, and collective joy can thrive. Guided by curiosity, empathy, and a love of gathering people across communities, Yifan approaches life with an open heart and a deep belief that meaningful relationships are at the center of belonging.

Tallie Medel (they/them) is an educator, clown, director, and award-winning actor featured in IndieWire, the LA Times and the Boston Globe. Screen credits include EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE (A24) and BROAD CITY (Comedy Central). They founded the ever-popular clown program at Brooklyn Comedy Collective and have taught at NYU, Harvard University, Emerson College, the School of Visual Arts, and at theaters and schools across the country. Stage time includes Upright Citizens Brigade NY & LA, Second City NY, Caroline’s on Broadway, MoMA PS 1, Brooklyn Academy of Music, and London’s SoHo Theatre. They have big, juicy eyeballs.

Originally from Taiwan, Dennis Yueh-Yeh Li is a playwright-director whose work explores themes of diaspora and sexuality. Besides creating theatre works, he also serves as Director of Performance, Storytelling and Community at the Museum of Chinese in America where he develops programs that uplift Asian American performing artists while amplifying Asian American histories, storytelling and visibility.

Drae Campbell (she/they) is an actor, comedian and storyteller who has performed in every medium. Drae was nominated for a Lucille Lortel Award for their work in The Nosebleed at Lincoln Center Theater. Drae’s first performance was at age 5 in a nightclub as the opening act for a punk band. Their career in theater and in gender joy started when she was cast as John Henry in The Member Of The Wedding in a local San Francisco production at age 9. Drae has a BFA in Theater from The University of the Arts and has performed in almost every medium. Drae has been hosting and curating TELL for 13 plus years, TELL has also been made into a SILVER Signal Award winning podcast on all the platforms. @draebiz

Reading & Signing: Gareth Carter
2026-07-09 19:00 - 21:00 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
Join the Queer Librarian as he discusses his “over-the-top gay…sendup of the secret-agent genre”
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Gareth Carter discusses (and signs copies of) The Misadventures of Don Kee Dong & Phillip Mihol, the first in his International Men of Mystery series at a special top secret after hours event at The Bureau.
In addition to signing and reading from his book, he will discuss his journey from being called a Pornographer, simply for stocking LGBT+ themed children’s books at his library, to becoming novelist Gareth Carter.

IN CONVERSATION: Terrell J. A. Winder & Theo Greene
2026-08-09 18:00 - 20:00 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
Join us for a discussion on the value of Black Queer Placemaking in shaping belonging and community in an era of shifting gay geographies.
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Join Terrell J. A. Winder (Shameless: The Making of Black Gay Identities in LA) and Theo Greene (Not in My Gayborhood: Gay Neighborhoods and the Rise of the Vicarious Citizen) for a conversation on Blackness, Queerness, visibility, and their intersections.
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Terrell J. A. Winder received his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2017. An urban ethnographer, Dr. Winder’s research areas include race & ethnicity, sexuality & sexual health, qualitative & quantitative research methods, and education. His current research examines stigma response processes among stigmatized populations negotiating more than one stigma simultaneously. His research has been published in Qualitative Sociology, AIDS Patient Care & STDs, the Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, and the Journal of Medical Internet Research. His work on mobile applications as a health intervention has also been covered in the Los Angeles Times. His book, Shameless: The Making of Black Gay Identities in LA, is a multi-method examination of anti-gay stigma response among young Black gay men in Los Angeles.
Theo Greene is an Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of Sociology at Bowdoin College. His research and teaching interests focus on the intersection of sexuality, urbanism, and culture. Greene’s research broadly explores how sexual communities help us understand how urban redevelopment shapes and redefines how individuals think about, identify with, and participate in local communities. His book, Not in MY Gayborhood! Gay Neighborhoods and the Rise of the Vicarious Citizen recently received the 2026 Outstanding Book Award in Community and Urban Sociology from the American Sociological Association. In addition to his ongoing work on gay neighborhoods and queer placemaking in Maine, Theo is currently Chair-Elect of the Community and Urban Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association and serves on several boards that support LGBTQ communities in Portland, Maine, including the Frannie Peabody Center and the Equality Community Center.
