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SUMMARY:POZ - a fundraiser for {Your Name Here} A Queer Theater and Bureau of General Services-Queer DIvision
DESCRIPTION:Come support {Your Name Here} A Queer Theater Company and the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division\, two of the most exciting institutions in the Queer NYC scene\, by attending a star-studded reading of a new play: POZ\, by Michael Aman and directed by Michael Bush. \nThe star studded cast is to include: Veanne Cox\, Christian Coulson\, Penny Fuller\, Randy Harrison\, Lou Liberatore\, and Jay Rogers. The reading will be directed by Michael Bush.\n  \nAccording to press notes\, POZ concerns “a young man in 2003 with tuberculosis discovers that if he was HIV+ he would be covered by insurance for chemo.  He meets an HIV+ man with the idea of being infected.  The play examines an unconventional love between the two men and an odd family of characters\, each dealing with their own demons: an aging actress who struggles with asthma\, an eccentric woman who speaks with angels\, a middle aged flamboyant queen with a dying father\, and a young man who died of AIDS early in the health crisis.“\n  \nThe Playroom Theater is located at 151 West 46th Street\, 8th Floor.\n  \nTickets are a suggested donation of $20 and can be purchased in advance at https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/517519.\n  \nFor more information on the companies please visit {Your Name Here} – www.yournamehereqtc.org\nand Bureau of General Services-Queer Division – www.bgsqd.com\n  \nCONTACT- Jeremy Bohmstein  jeremy@yournamehereqtc.org   908-227-907\n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/poz-a-fundraiser-for-your-name-here-a-queer-theater-and-bureau-of-general-services-queer-division/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131209T180000
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SUMMARY:Opening Reception for Queen of Hearts\, an Exhibition of Photographs by Quito Ziegler
DESCRIPTION:Queen of Hearts\nQ.Z. @ the Bureau \nDecember 9\, 2013\nOpening reception 6 to 9 PM\nSlideshow + stories at 7:30\n\n\nDecember 19th\nreading + zine release party\n  \n\n \n  \nAfter one year of photography and three years of wandering\, pieces of this hermit work are now beginning to surface. \n\n\nDarkly glam and quietly intense\, The Queen of Hearts\, Quito’s upcoming book of photography and writings\, is set in the nightclubs and fire escapes of Brooklyn before dawn.\nThe images were shot over one year\, 2010/11\, as a collection of queer artists and performers coalesced in the dark–contributing to the cultural explosion we are living through now. Relying on the moon and the disco ball for light\, the images are grainy and seductive\, dreamy and tender. B&W prints were subsequently hand-painted\, hand-sewn\, and are presented in hand-made frames. \nThe writings attempt to articulate the wordlessly complicated evolution from person to tranimal and the lessons one learns in the process. The writings and layered prints were carefully constructed in shadowy corners and private haunts of Brooklyn and Berlin\, Vermont and Tennessee.\n\n\nA limited-edition zine will be released in conjunction with this exhibition on the evening of Thursday\, December 19th.\n  \n  \n \nQuito Ziegler is an urban faerie\, a radical tranimal\, an activist pirate explorer of worlds. Quito is known for their moonlight beach parties\, Pony adventures and producing the occasional art/performance/community happening like the Forest of the Future (2013) or the MIXploratorium (2011). This spring they will be organizing an intergenerational mentorship program with the queer youth at Sylvia’s Place. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/opening-reception-for-queen-of-hearts-an-exhibition-of-photographs-by-quito-ziegler/
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SUMMARY:Bureau offsite event: Perry Halkitis presents his new book The AIDS Generation at the Center
DESCRIPTION:Join the Bureau for a presentation by Perry Halkitis of his new book The AIDS Generation: Stories of Survival and Resilience at the Second Tuesday Lecture Series at the LGBT Center. The Bureau will sell copies of the book before and after the presentation. \nThe AIDS Generation: Stories of Survival and Resilience examines the strategies for survival and coping employed by these HIV-positive gay men\, who together constitute the first generation of long-term survivors of the disease. Through interviews conducted by the author\, it narrates the stories of gay men who have survived since the early days of the epidemic; documents and delineates the strategies and behaviors enacted by men of this generation to survive it; and examines the extent to which these approaches to survival inform and are informed by the broad body of literature on resilience and health. \nThe stories and strategies detailed here\, all used to combat the profound physical\, emotional\, and social challenges faced by those in the crosshairs of the AIDS epidemic\, provide a gateway for understanding how individuals cope with chronic and life-threatening diseases. Halkitis takes readers on a journey of first-hand data collection (the interviews themselves)\, the popular culture representations of these phenomena\, and his own experiences as one of the men of the AIDS generation. \nThis riveting account will be of interest to health practitioners and historians throughout the clinical and social sciences — or to anyone with an interest in this important chapter in social history. \n \nPerry N. Halkitis\, PhD\, MS\, MPH is Professor of Applied Psychology and Public Health (Steinhardt School)\, and Population Health (Langone School of Medicine)\, Director of the Center for Health\, Identity\, Behavior & Prevention Studies\, and Associate Dean (Global Institute of Public Health) at New York University. Dr. Halkitis’ program of research examines the intersection between the HIV epidemic\, drug abuse\, and mental health burden in LGBT populations\, and he is well known as one of the nation’s leading experts on substance use and HIV behavioral research. Dr. Halkitis hold degrees in psychology\, education\, and public health. \nFor more information about the evening click here. \nThe Second Tuesday Lecture Series is the longest running program at The LGBT Center. Since 1985\, more than 140 speakers have made presentations in the arts\, academia\, and politics. Speakers representing every major cultural award\, including the Pulitzer Prize\, the Grammy Award\, the Academy Award (The Oscars)\, Broadway’s Tony Awards\, the Lambda Literary Award\, and the National Book Award\, as well as the UK Booker Literary Award\, have made presentations. Through this program\, Larry Kramer spoke about the plight of the AIDS Crisis in March 1987\, thus beginning ACT-UP\, the largest direct action AIDS organization in the world. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/bureau-offsite-event-perry-halkitis-presents-his-new-book-the-aids-generation-at-the-center/
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SUMMARY:Penny Arcade and Alexander Alvina Chamberland Perform at the Bureau
DESCRIPTION:Penny Arcade has invited performance artist and writer Alexander Alvina Chamberland to New York City from Sweden and they will be performing together on the 12th of December at BGSQD. Join us for a very special evening of reading and performing. Penny will be doing a reading of excerpts from her forthcoming memoir in progress or whatever strikes her at the moment. Alexander Alvina will be reading from their forthcoming transfemme-inist gurlesque novel with the working title “Bitchslutcuntfaggotladyboy” – a satirical parody of the genre of novels about growing up. They will also be reading a few selected poems from their collections “The revolutionary audacious fruition…” (2012) and “Too Intense Femme-inist Poetry Pornography (Texten är jättejaget)” (Due for release: January 2014) and doing another toomuchtoointenseinyerface-performance monologue & song with lots of tears and shouts (twists and shout)\, and trans-femme ways in and out – AS WELL AS an Olympic Figure Skating Competition for AMATEURS because PROFESSIONALS are not allowed to compete in the olympics! \n  \nPhoto credit: Alex Oliveira.\nABOUT ALEXANDER ALVINA CHAMBERLAND: \nAlexander Alvina Chamberland is a 27 year old performance artist and writer based in Stockholm\, Sweden but born and raised north of San Francisco in California. They completed their bachelors degree in gender studies at Lunds University in the spring of 2011. \nAlexander Alvina is co-founder of The Queertopia Festival and has had article’s publicized in many of Sweden’s largest newspapers (DN\, Aftonbladet\, Svenska Dagbladet\, Göteborgs Posten and Sydsvenska Dagbladet etc) as well as more specialized academic & activist-oriented magazines such as Bang and Ottar. Chamberland has also taken part in tv- and radio-programs like Lantz i P1\, Ligga med P3\, Studio Ett\, Generation Z\, SVT Debatt\, Aktuellt and SVT:s morning program\, where they once arrived dressed as a Black Swan. As a lecturer they have spoken at venues such as Uppsala University\, the swedish parliament and the anarchist space Café 44. \nTheir solo-production ”In Burning – In Bashing Back – In Burning\,” a one person performance play on surviving and processing rape\, premiered at Stockholm City Theatre in August of 2011 and toured around Sweden\, Europe and the United States from 2011-2013. In 2012 ”The Revolutionary Audacious Fruition…” (35-word title all in all) an audio collection of 21 of their poems was released on spotify\, itunes and Amazon. Alexander Alvina has performed on stages in Berlin\, Paris\, New York\, San Francisco\, London\, Stockholm\, Gothenburg\, Manchester\, Malmö\, Istanbul\, Copenhagen\, and Amsterdam and had their first film-role in the Berlin-movie ”Performance” which is in production and scheduled for release in 2014. Much of their performance work focuses on their experiences of oppression & empowerment as femme and genderqueer/trans\, as well as failure as a means of resistance to obligatory capitalist success. They have been a member of the performance group TIR since the autumn of 2012. \nAt the moment they have just finished recording their second audio poetry collection called “Too intense femme-inist poetry pornography (texten är jättejaget)” and is working on a novel. \nLink to the spotify album and youtube clips of some of their past performances: \nhttps://open.spotify.com/artist/355npkjuVjCWWiGnKBBuwa \nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duiz5ku__NQ\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73vLPO9rxkE \nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HYfRAqMcw8 \nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9V7_pcmk1w \n  \nPhoto credit: Timothy Greenfield Sanders\nABOUT PENNY ARCADE: \nPenny Arcade is one of the most influential performance and theatre artists in the world and her work has influenced several generations of artists seeking to bring their own voice to the stage. She is also a respected poet and essayist. As a writer she has written aboutDavid Wojnarovich\, Jack Smith and Marilyn Monroe. \nPenny Arcade is one of America’s most prolific\, articulate and outspoken independent artists. She is also a tireless artist’s advocate and an outspoken advocate of free speech and all the quintessential democratic and anarchist American values. Penny Arcade’s contributions to American experimental theatre began in her teens and she has left her mark on every decade from the 1960’s to the 2000’s. \nHer work has long focused on the ‘other’ and the outsider in society and her work has long given voice to those marginalized by society. Her decades long focus on the creation of community and inclusion as the goals of performance and her efforts to use performance as a transformative act mark her as a true original in American theatre and many of her theatrical innovations have passed into the mainstream of both American and international theatre and performance. Known for her wit and aphorisms\, many of her one liners and bon mots have entered into popular usage. \nBorn to immigrant Italians in the factory town of New Britain\, Connecticut\, she ran away from home at 13 and wrote her first play at 14 while incarcerated at Sacred Heart Academy for Wayward Girls. At 17 she came to NY and entered into the downtown art scene debuting at 18 in John Vaccaro’s explosive Playhouse of the Ridiculous\, the seminal\, glam and glitter\, rock and roll\, political theater that influenced everyone from Charles Ludlam to Hair to Rocky Horror Show to David Bowie.At 18 Penny Arcade became a teenage superstar for Andy Warhol’s Factory featured in the Morrissey/Warhol film “Women In Revolt” now available in video. Penny Arcade worked with and collaborated with many of the greats of American experimental theatre including Vaccaro\, Jack Smith\, Taylor Mead\, Charles Ludlam\, H.M.Koutoukas and Tom O’Horgan among others. HM Koutoukas refers to Ms Arcade as “The Little Sister of The Avant-garde” because of her long apprenticeship to the major architects of the counter culture and American experimental theater. \nAfter her 15 year apprenticeship in the work of other major theatre makers\, Arcade began creating her own solo work in 1983 and becoming one of the most original voices in contemporary theatre and one of a handful of New York artists who defined performance art in the 80’s and 90’s. She began creating group work in 1989. She has written 10 full length performance plays\, numerous solo shows as well as poems\, spoken word pieces and essays “BITCH !DYKE! FAGHAG! WHORE!’ Her 1990 sex and censorship show began as an audit for a solo fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts during the Helms-NEA censorship crisis in 1990. The initial four day run at Performance Space 122 segued into two months which by public demand went on to a year long run (1992-1993) at the legendary Village Gate. “B!D!F!W!” a blend of political humanism\, freedom of expression and erotic dancing\, has toured the world twice as both an international festival and commercial hit in 25 cities around the world including two tours of Australia and left an international burlesque movement in it’s wake that still looks to Arcade as the master of combining political content and erotica\, never stooping to the vulgar or sensationalistic. In 2012 she completed 46 highly praised\, high profile performances of Bitch!Dyke!Faghag!Whore! in London Penny Arcade’s theatre writing has been commissioned by Austria\, Germany\, England\, Brazil\, and Mexico. \nIn the early 90’s Quentin Crisp publicly named Ms Arcade as his soul mate and anima figure in the London Telegraph Magazine. Their friendship then become professional as Ms Arcade undertook a series of interviews with the legendary Edwardian raconteur and they performed together many times. Penny Arcade created “The Last Will and Testament Of Quentin Crisp” in 1996 which they performed together up to his death in 1999. In 2011 Cynthia Nixon star of “Sex in The City“ portrayed Penny Arcade in the film Englishman IN NY about their relationship at the end of Mr. Crisp’s life. \nPenny Arcade has a long history as a Lower East Side activist beginning in her teens working with The Hog Farm\, UATWMF and with Abby Hoffman in the Yippies at the Lower Eastside Suicide Hotline (1967) and all the way to the present having spent August 1996 thru January of 1998 hosting a 3 hour radio show for the Lower Eastside pirate radio station Steal this Radio 88.7. She continues to lend her artistry to numerous socio- political endeavors. \nIn 1989\, shortly after the death of performance great Jack Smith of AIDS\, Penny Arcade\, who had served Mr. Smith during his last illness\, created and formed the Jack Smith Archive\, fulfilling Mr. Smith’s death bed directive. \nIn 1990 The Plaster Foundation\, the complete archive of Mr. Smith’s work was founded with the help of Village Voice film critic J. Hoberman. Mr. Hoberman and Ms Arcade worked tirelessly for 2 decades to preserve and promote Mr. Smith’s legacy. \nIn 1997 she was given the complete works of photographer Sheyal Baykl before Ms Bayka’s death and formed The Sheyla Baykal Archive to preserve and promote the work of Sheyla Baykal. \nSince 1992 she has collaborated with former architect video artist and producer Steve Zehentner\, who works with her as a dramaturge\, co-designs set\, sound\, video and as a co-director. \nIn 1999 Penny Arcade and Steve Zehentner formed The Lower East Side Biography Project\, “Stemming The Tide Of Cultural Amnesia \, a much emulated video oral history project that broadcasts every Wednesday at 11 pm on channel 34 Time /Warner as well as on RCN . It also cybercasts at the same time at www.mnn.org. They currently have 4 new works in various states of pr-production. For weekly updates see and subscribe to \nhttps://www.facebook.com/LowerEastSideBiographyProject?ref=nf \nPenny Arcade is a gifted\, committed lecturer in performance\, live art\, memoir and writing from oral history. She also works as a mentor and coach. Penny Arcade welcomes communication from all by personal email at mspennyarcade@gmail.com. Subscribe to her Facebook Page for updates: pennyarcadesuperstar. Follow her on Twitter at pennyarcadenyc. \nPenny’s website: www.pennyarcade.tv \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/penny-arcade-and-alexander-alvina-chamberland-perform-at-the-bureau/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131213T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131213T183000
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SUMMARY:Launch of David Eye's chapbook of poems Rain Leaping Up When a Cab Goes Past
DESCRIPTION:Join us at the Bureau for the launch of David Eye‘s chapbook of poems Rain Leaping Up When a Cab Goes Past. \n \nDavid Eye left New York City and a 17-year career in the theatre in the fall of 2005 to earn an MFA in Creative Writing at Syracuse University. Since graduating in 2008\, his poems have appeared in in Bloom\, Cider Press Review\, Consequence Magazine (finalist\, 2010 Consequence Prize for Poetry)\, Lambda Literary\, The Louisville Review\, Puerto del Sol\, Stone Canoe\, among other journals and anthologies. His short collection of poems\, Rain Leaping Up When a Cab Goes Past\, has just been published by Seven Kitchens Press. As an actor\, in addition to Off-Broadway productions (and even more Off-Off‑)\, David appeared in the Broadway tour of Cats\, and on television in Law and Order and Special Victims Unit. Before moving to New York\, he was an officer in the U.S. Army\, stationed at Fort Sam Houston\, Texas. David has taught at Syracuse University\, St. John’s University\, Manhattan College\, and Cazenovia College\, where he now teaches academic writing. David grew up in rural Virginia. \n  \nFollowing the launch of David Eye’s Rain Leaping Up When a Cab Goes Past\, please stay for the discussion of The Missing Myth: A New Vision of Same-Sex Love with the author\, Gilles Herrada\, at 7 PM. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/launch-of-david-eyes-chapbook-of-poems-rain-leaping-up-when-a-cab-goes-past/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131213T190000
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SUMMARY:Gilles Herrada Discusses His Book The Missing Myth: A New Vision of Same-Sex Love
DESCRIPTION:What is gay spirituality? And is it a crucial or even relevant question anyway? Gilles Herrada\, author of The Missing Myth: A New Vision of Same-Sex Love\, argues that spirituality is the context in which any other type of knowledge (like science) and self-knowledge (like psychology) unfolds. Tonight Herrada will engage in a conversation about the different forms and meanings that gay spirituality can take\, the various paths that have been pursued since gay liberation\, and the alternative vision that he offers in his book The Missing Myth. \n  \n \nGilles Herrada\, Ph.D.\, is a research scientist\, a writer\, and life coach at LifeAsacreation. He has worked at the universities of Nice\, Paris\, Columbia\, and Harvard and is published internationally. While at Harvard\, he discovered a large family of genes involved in the detection of pheromones\, those “secret” odors that trigger animal sexual and social behaviors. \nGilles also attended and facilitated programs in what is commonly labeled as “personal development.” These workshops gave him the rare opportunity to discuss with homophobic men in an open and intimate setup. This offered him a unique chance to inquire into the mechanisms of homophobia empathically\, that is from a homophobic standpoint. \nPart of his research work regarding homosexuality’s history was presented at the First Integral Theory Conference in 2008 and will soon be published in an anthology titledEmerging Visions of Women and Men: An Integral Exploration of Sex\, Gender and Spirituality at the SUNY Press. \nToday Gilles Herrada lives in New York City. \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/gilles-herrada-discusses-his-book-the-missing-myth-a-new-vision-of-same-sex-love/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131216T180000
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SUMMARY:Situational Junta #3
DESCRIPTION:The Bureau will be on hand to sell books at the third and final installation of Situational Junta: An Unlikely Diplomatic Alliance \nLocation: The Bowery Arts + Science at The Bowery Poetry Club\n \n308 Bowery\, between Bleecker and Houston \nEmcee: Bob Holman \nMusical Guest: Papa Susso \nMain Dish: Willing Participant \nWith: Sparrow\, Violet Snow\, Abigaile Levine\, Dave Ruder\, Chloe Bass\, Wen-Shuan Yang\, Lawman Lynch\, Brian Holloran\, Niki Singleton\, and the Bureau of General Services Queer Division \nTime: 6-8pm [6-6:40 mixing/mingling; 6:40-8pm radio broadcast]\nSuggested Contribution: $10 (no one turned away) \n  \nABOUT THE SERIES \nThe United States Department of Arts and Culture (USDAC) and the Associação Espaço Cultural Lanchonete (aka Lanchonete) are taking over Bowery Poetry for a series of evening encounters and exchanges\, one part happy hour and the other part radio talk show… shaken\, stirred\, and served straight up on the airwaves! For three evenings this Fall\, Situational Junta poses a simple question: If artists are empowered to innovate on a large enough scale to interrupt the status quo\, what would that look like? \nAntonio Gramsci wrote that “The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.” Situational Junta convenes a cast of unlikely midwives to cross borders and spark whimsy as they search for workarounds (or gambiarra) to the present condition and stoke a hunger for something new. Equal parts salon\, happening\, cabaret\, and fireside chat\, Situational Junta is a mash-up of ideas and forms building new alliances and bridging Bowery Poetry’s past to the future. \nDescription: Each evening is designed as a radio talk show\, hosted by an emcee\, and featuring a main guest or guests. In addition to their interview-conversation or performance\, guests may prompt the audience to speak amongst themselves as music takes over the broadcast. A rotating\, intergenerational\, interdisciplinary cast of characters round out the hour through a tightly choreographed sequence of commentary\, artist work\, news flashes\, and ‘commercial breaks’. People and projects emerge in unlikely proximity. Music\, ideas\, and drinks flow and the evening culminates with a soapbox open mic that invites audience members to join the broadcast. The <<main dish>> is surrounded by a sequence of newsflashes\, ‘commercial breaks’\, and urgent interventions by a retinue of creative schemers and artful dreamers.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/situational-junta-3/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131217T190000
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SUMMARY:Mancaster interviews Stephen Boyer and Nicholas Wilson
DESCRIPTION:Join Chad Edmonds and Eddie Cuneo of The Mancaster for interviews with and performances by writer\, performer\, artist\, and activist Stephen Boyer and violinist Nicholas Wilson. The evening will be recorded for a podcast. \nThe Mancaster is a series of podcast interviews with the “mom & pop” business owners\, the behind-the-scenes workers\, the musicians\, the artists\, the drag queens\, the go-go boys\, those who make entertainment possible; hear their voices and listen to their journeys. \n  \nStephen Boyer\, photograph by Amos Mac\nStephen Boyer is a writer\, performer\, curator\, painter\, activist\, etc…. best known for working in porn\, working to compile the Occupy Wall Street Poetry Anthology\, and for their novel Parasite\, available at the Bureau. For more about Stephen\, visit their blog Minor Progression. \n  \n \nNicholas Wilson began studying violin at 10 years old. He studied throughout middle school and in high school was accepted into an arts program called Governor’s School\, which focused its curriculum on each artist’s respective art. \nNicholas earned his Bachelor’s degree from George Mason University\, majoring in Music. During and after his degree the Washington Metropolitan area afforded opportunities in performance and education. Nicholas has been teaching privately for 8 years. \nNicholas moved to NYC 6 months ago and will be applying for his Master’s degree soon. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/mancaster-interviews-stephen-boyer-nicholas-wilson/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131218T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131218T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T162611
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SUMMARY:Mancaster interviews actor\, director\, and nightclub performer Joshua Warr
DESCRIPTION:Join us for Mancaster‘s interview of Joshua Warr \nThe Mancaster is a series of podcast interviews with the “mom & pop” business owners\, the behind-the-scenes workers\, the musicians\, the artists\, the drag queens\, the go-go boys\, those who make entertainment possible; hear their voices and listen to their journeys. \n \nJoshua Warr is an actor\, director\, and nightclub performer who lives in NYC. Joshua most recently directed the NYC premier of David Schulner’s An Infinite Ache which had a limited run downtown at the Access Theatre and garnered rave reviews. He can also be seen in the gay hit web series ‘Hunting Season’ guest starring as “Harris.” He’s a recipient of a 2013 Fruitie Award for his work in the Fresh Fruit Festival premiere of Patrick McCarthy’s Pride River Crossing and is a MAC Award and two time BroadwayWorld Award nominee for his nightclub acts. EntertainmentWeekly.com calls him “wickedly funny”\, watch out\, this Warrior shows no signs of slowing down.  \n  \nFor more information about The Mancaster click here. \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/mancaster-interviews-actor-director-and-nightclub-performer-joshua-warr/
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SUMMARY:Launch Party for Quito Ziegler's Zine THROUGH
DESCRIPTION:In conjunction with the photography exhibition QUEEN OF HEARTS and in the general spirit of Getting Shit Done before the year ends\, Quito Ziegler (recently proclaimed hermit artist of the year by SF’s Museum of Transgender Hirstory & Art) will miraculously complete a zine they’ve been writing for over a year and read selections from it\, along with other stories from the Queen of Hearts. \nIn early 2011 Q.Z. came out as trans\, experienced trauma\, abruptly stopped taking pictures\, became a hermit and hit the road in an unmarked white van called the Pony\, taking occasional breaks to organize large-scale queer art happenings with an amazing cast of characters. Beyond these pretty pops of public glamour\, their time was mostly spent wandering off in an anti-social haze\, generally going through it. \nTHROUGH is the story-behind-the-story of these past three years\, an attempt to articulate their complicated evolution from person to tranimal and the lessons they learned in the process. What begins as an individual story of crisis and resilience evolves into a series of reflections on queer interdependence\, structural transphobia\, physical transition\, and DIY recovery strategies.The writings emerged during travels through dark corners of Brooklyn and Berlin and the sunny meadows of Vermont\, with a stint at the fancy MacDowell Colony in winter. \nReading at 7 PM. \nA limited-edition zine of this story will be available for sale at the event. \nThis event is in support of QUEEN OF HEARTS\, a photography exhibition at the Bureau. \nDarkly glam and quietly intense\, The Queen of Hearts\, Quito’s upcoming book of photography and writings\, is set in the nightclubs and fire escapes of Brooklyn before dawn. \nThe images were shot over one year\, 2010/11\, as a collection of queer artists and performers coalesced in the dark – contributing to the cultural explosion we are living through now. Relying on the moon and the disco ball for light\, the images are grainy and seductive\, dreamy and tender. B&W prints were subsequently hand-painted\, hand-sewn\, and are presented in hand-made frames. \nImages will be on view at the Bureau from December 9 – 31. \nafter-party : punk/queercore/goth/powerpop gala @ Hank’s! \nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/690092554349186/ \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/launch-party-for-quito-zieglers-zine-through/
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SUMMARY:The Mancaster Talks with the Organizers of 20SOMETHING
DESCRIPTION:The Mancaster will be talking with the organizers of the Meetup group Gay 20Somethings of NYC. Listen to their chat about the group’s history and what their plan is for the future! \n20SOMETHING is a social events organization for young lesbian\, gay\, bisexual\, queer\, and transgender people in New York City\, aged 18 to 33. We are focused on providing a safe space at the LGBT Center for the discussion of topics relevant to people in and around their 20s. Topics vary widely\, but the discussion is always lively. While we are based at the LGBT Center\, we also host a plethora of other social activities such as movie outings\, dinners\, coffee\, and bar nights. \nThe Mancaster is a series of podcast interviews with the “mom & pop” business owners\, the behind-the-scenes workers\, the musicians\, the artists\, the drag queens\, the go-go boys\, those who make entertainment possible; hear their voices and listen to their journeys. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/the-mancaster-talks-with-the-organizers-of-20something/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140106T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140106T210000
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SUMMARY:Stories & Queer with Steven Cordova\, Shelley Ettinger\, Christopher Soto\, and Rosebud Ben-Oni
DESCRIPTION:Stories & Queer will hold its first event in NYC at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division on Monday\, January 6\, 2014 at 7:00pm (EST).  The event will feature Steven Cordova\, Shelley Ettinger\, Christopher Soto\, and Rosebud Ben-Oni. \nThe live event will be streamed and archived to our YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCR-34__YD3WJ9FTGh_E1pwg?feature= \nThe virtual components of this series are unique and allow us to reach beyond the local borders of the event. \nS&Q is a traveling reading series that aims to provide a space for local & national readers/listeners to connect with queer & queer-friendly writers. Our mission is to provide a space for underrepresented voices to be heard and to connect writers and audiences no matter where they are. This series makes a positive contribution to the literary and LGBTQ community by encouraging all people to tell their stories without shame or fear. \nS&Q is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas\, a non-profit arts service organization. \nPlease note: the Bureau is closed on Mondays\, but we will open at 6 pm for this event.  \n \nSteven Cordova is the 2012 first-place winner of the International Reginald Shepherd Memorial Poetry Prize. His first full-length poetry collection\, Long Distance\, was published by Bilingual Review Press in 2010\, and his poems have appeared in many journals and anthologies. A selection from Long Distance was recently set to music for the AIDS Quilt Songbook. Steven lives in Brooklyn\, New York. \n  \n \nShelley Ettinger‘s work has been published in Nimrod\, Cream City Review\, Liberation Lit\, Blithe House Quarterly\, Lodestar Quarterly and other journals. She has been awarded residencies at the Saltonstall Foundation Arts Colony\, Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies and Norcroft Writing Retreat for Women\, and\, in 2007\, a full scholarship to the first Lambda Literary Foundation Writers’ Retreat. An activist all her adult life\, Shelley is a partisan of political poetry and fiction. She’s currently working on a novel suggested by the famous death and secret lesbian life of Kitty Genovese. \n  \n\nChristopher Soto (aka Loma) is a queer latin@ punk poet who is concerned with dismantling patriarchy and white supremacy.  They are currently curating Nepantla\, an e-journal dedicated to queer poets of color\, in collaboration with The Lambda Literary Foundation. They have work forthcoming from Columbia: A Journal\, Acentos Review\,  Anti-\, Wilde Magazine and more. They are an MFA candidate in Poetry at NYU. \n  \n \nBorn to a Mexican mother and Jewish father\, Rosebud Ben-Oni is a 2013 CantoMundo Fellow. A graduate of the 2010 Women’s Work Lab at New Perspectives Theater\, her plays have been produced in New York City\, Washington DC and Toronto. Her work is forthcoming or appears in American Poetry Review\, Arts & Letters\, Bayou\, Puerto del Sol\, among others. Her debut book of poems SOLECISM was published by Virtual Artists Collective in March 2013. Rosebud is a co-editor for HER KIND (herkind.org) at VIDA: Women in Literary Arts (vidaweb.org). Find out more about her at 7TrainLove.org \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/stories-queer-with-steven-cordova-shelley-ettinger-christopher-soto-and-rosebud-ben-oni/
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SUMMARY:Lonely Christopher's DEATH & DISASTER SERIES Launch with Uche Nduka and Ariana Reines
DESCRIPTION:Monk Books is proud to present the launch event for Lonely Christopher’s debut poetry collection\, Death & Disaster Series. Join Lonely Christopher\, Uche Nduka\, and Ariana Reines for a poetry reading at the Bureau of General Services-Queer Division\, with revelrous partying to follow! \n  \nYOUR READERS: \nUche Nduka was born in Umuahia\, Nigeria. He earned a B.A. in English from the University of Nigeria. His volumes of poetry include Flower Child (1988)\, Second Act (1994)\, The Bremen Poems (1995)\, Chiaroscuro(1007)\, for which he was awarded the Association of Nigerian Authors Poetry Prize\, If Only the Night (2002)\,Heart’s Field (2005)\, Eel on Reef (2007)\, Tracer (2010)\, Ijele (2012)\, and Nine East (2013). His work has been translated into German\, Serbo Croatian\, Romanian\, Spanish\, and Dutch. He is a member of the Association of Nigerian Authors and American PEN. He lived in Germany and Holland for over a decade and was the recipient of a Goethe Institut Fellowship and Heinrich Böll Haus Guest Author Fellowship. He currently lives in Brooklyn. \nAriana Reines is author of The Cow (2006)\, winner of the Alberta Prize from Fence Books\, Coeur de Lion(2007)\, and Mercury (2011). Her play Telephone was produced at the Cherry Lane Theater and won several Obie awards. Her translations include a version of Baudelaire’s My Heart Laid Bare (2009); Jean-Luc Hennig’s The Little Black Book of Grisélidis Réal: Days and Nights of an Anarchist Whore (2009); and Tiqqun’s Preliminary Materials Toward a Theory of the Young-Girl (2012). Reines was 2009 Roberta C. Holloway Lecturer in Poetry at the University of California Berkeley; she has taught master classes at Pomona College\, the University of California Davis\, and the University of Pittsburgh. \nLonely Christopher is a poet and filmmaker. He is the author of the poetry collection Death & Disaster Series(Monk Books\, 2014) and the short story collection The Mechanics of Homosexual Intercourse\, which was a 2011 selection of Dennis Cooper’s Little House on the Bowery imprint of Akashic Books. His plays have been produced in New York City and China. He wrote and directed the feature film MOM (Cavazos Films\, 2013) and his stories have been adapted for the screen in Canada and France. He lives in Brooklyn. \n  \nTHE BOOK: \nLonely Christopher’s debut poetry collection is a sprawling and melancholic confrontation of death in the context of late capitalism. The poet writes through the premature end of his mother’s life and the aftermath\, investigating and raging against tragedy and loss. Infused with grief\, sorrow\, and anger\, the series is a raw and deeply personal reckoning with the romantic and profoundly dark themes that crawl under the surface of quotidian awareness\, waiting to bleed forth in the wake of death and disaster. Arch and penetrating\, these poems collapse attraction and repulsion\, joy and misery\, origination and destruction—ultimately portraying some of the most underlit elements of our human experience with imaginative clarity. \n  \n“Aesthetically and polemically these poems heft joy and grief and fury. Politics\, romance\, wonder suffuse them. Lonely Christopher is a fearless poet par excellence. ‘I am the star of my own truncated privacy’ says the poet. What choice do we have but to heed his appeal: ‘Do not face eternity with your brain.'” – Uche Nduka (author ofIjele and Nine East) \n  \n“OH GOD\, I’ve started this blurb so many times! HOW TO SAY HOW essential this writer Lonely Christopher is for our lives!? It’s all between the words\, this pressure he builds behind the eyes. Stand anywhere you want with this book inside our headache age of information fatigue\, ‘anything in the orange light / of my word for you / anything / to excuse / all the pain.’ DON’T BE STUPID you know as well as I do these poems boil to the top of the gravy!!” – CAConrad (author of The Book of Frank and A Beautiful Marsupial Afternoon) \n  \n“‘I/ don’t belong in America I belong/ in love\,’ says this provocative poet\, but it’s not true: at the same time minimal and raw\, smart-set knowing and uninhibited weird\, Lonely Christopher belongs anywhere that his poetry can be read. He knows too much and wants to reveal it all (fans of Ariana Reines\, or of Eileen Myles\, take note). The lines get rough and bloody\, rehearsing and repurposing queer revolutions. This book lays bare secrets of our time\, halfway between the compression of (say) Robert Creeley and the unmade bed at 3am\, from which he looks out the window at (variously) the blank walls that model his free verse\, the window of the day before\, and the fire across the ledge\, the one he almost ‘started/ as a conduit for my love/ and rage.'” – Stephen Burt (author of Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry)  \n \n \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/lonely-christophers-death-disaster-series-launch-with-uche-nduka-and-ariana-reines/
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SUMMARY:Barry Stewart Levy reads from his book European Son: a novella
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a reading with Barry Stewart Levy from his book European Son: A Novella.                                     \nBarry Stewart Levy is a former English teacher who also worked as a Literary Artist for the Cultural Council Foundation/CETA Artists Project\, co-authoring the topical revue “New Living Newspaper\, Vol. 1\, No. 2” (Playwrights Horizons)\, writing poetry for the anthology “Words to Go” and conducting interviews for the publication Art Workers News. He was a reporter for Gotham Newsmagazine and a freelance game show writer for NBC’s “Shoot for the Stars.” He is the recipient of the Clarence Kline Essay Prize and was a semi-finalist in the Writers Guild of America\, East\, Fellowship Competition. “European Son: a novella” is his first work of fiction.  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/barry-stewart-levy-reads-from-his-book-european-son-a-novella/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140114T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140114T223000
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SUMMARY:Dictionary--Stephen Boyer presents ben rosenberg\, Clara Lipfert\, Chelsea Tadeyeske\, David J. White\, edwin r. perry\, Kayla Morse\, Lara Weibgen\, and Tommy "Teebs" Pico
DESCRIPTION:Dictionary is a reading/performance/film/whatever-yr-medium showcase curated by Stephen Boyer\, hosted by the Bureau of General Services–Queer Division. This month ben rosenberg\, Clara Lipfert\, Chelsea Tadeyeske\, David J. White\, edwin r. perry\, Kayla Morse\, Lara Weibgen\, and Tommy “Teebs” Pico will be sharing their work. \n  \nPlease note: The Bureau will be closed on Tuesday\, January 14th\, but we will open at 8 pm for this event.  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/dictionary-stephen-boyer-presents-ben-rosenberg-clara-lipfert-chelsea-tadeyeske-david-j-white-edwin-r-perry-kayla-morse-lara-weibgen-and-tommy-teebs-pico/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140117T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140117T210000
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SUMMARY:Reading by Elliot DeLine and Musical Performance by Audrey Zee Whitesides
DESCRIPTION:Join Elliot DeLine and Audrey Zee Whitesides for an evening of stories and songs at the Bureau! \n \nElliott DeLine (born 1988) is an independent writer from Syracuse\, NY. He is the author of the novel Refuse and the novella I Know Very Well How I Got My Name. His work has been featured in several publications\, including the Modern Love essay series of The New York Times (2011)\,The Collection: Short Fiction from the Transgender Vanguard\, and a blog for the magazine Original Plumbing (2012-present). Elliott attended Purchase College and graduated from Syracuse University in 2012 with a BA in English. Elliott currently lives in Syracuse\, where he is involved with several local advocacy groups\, volunteers at a queer youth center\, and is hoping to open a used bookstore/cat cafe. He is the co-founder\, promoter\, and general coordinator of Queer Mart\, an LGBTQ arts and crafts fair. \n  \n \nAUDREY ZEE WHITESIDES is a poet and musician born in Elizabethtown\, Kentucky. Her poetry and cultural writing has appeared in/on Autostraddle\, WONDER\, and Bone Bouquet among others\, and she’s the author of several DIY chapbooks\, most recently i’m the POTE. She also leads Brooklyn trans punk band Little Waist. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/reading-by-elliot-deline-and-musical-performance-by-audrey-zee-whitesides/
LOCATION:NY
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SUMMARY:The Mancaster interviews Bill Thomas\, founder of New York City Gay Craft Beer Lovers
DESCRIPTION:The Mancaster interviews Bill Thomas\, founder of New York City Gay Craft Beer Lovers \n \nBill Thomas is the founder of the New York City Gay Craft Beer Lovers group.  A beer enthusiast who enjoys seeking out local beers where he goes\, he lamented the dearth of quality beers at bars and restaurants catering to LGBT clientele\, so in response he started the group to share his love of beer and create a comfortable\, open and welcoming environment  for beer education and fellowship. \n  \nThe Mancaster is a series of podcast interviews with the “mom & pop” business owners\, the behind-the-scenes workers\, the musicians\, the artists\, the drag queens\, the go-go boys\, those who make entertainment possible; hear their voices and listen to their journeys. \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/the-mancaster-interviews-bill-thomas-founder-of-new-york-city-gay-craft-beer-lovers/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140124T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140124T210000
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SUMMARY:Sean Strub Presents His New Book Body Counts: A Memoir of Politics\, Sex\, AIDS and Survival
DESCRIPTION:The Bureau is proud to host Sean Strub for a reading from his new book Body Counts: A Memoir of Politics\, Sex\, AIDS and Survival (Scribner\, January 14\, 2014). Following the reading\, Strub will engage in a discussion with the audience. \nBODY COUNTS is a powerful report from the front lines\, a deeply personal testament from a veteran AIDS activist. Not merely a nostalgic look backwards\, Strub’s book assesses today’s AIDS epidemic and offers powerful strategies for curbing new transmissions\, while also demanding an end to AIDS criminalization. \nAs personally powerful as Paul Monette’s Borrowed Time and as historically important as Randy Shilts’s And The Band Played On\, Body Counts provides invaluable insight into where we are today in the AIDS epidemic\, how we got there and what must be done next. Body Counts has already drawn plaudits from prominent LGBT community historians Martin Duberman\, John D’Emilio\, and Jonathan Ned Katz\, as well as Gloria Steinem\, Mary Frances Berry\, John Berendt\, Lily Tomlin\, Judith Light\, Bill T. Jones and Rory Kennedy\, among others. \nIn 1976 at the age of 17\, Sean Strub left his native Iowa and arrived in Washington\, D.C.\, to take a patronage job running a “Senators’ Only” elevator in the U.S. Capitol building. He was charming and precociously ambitious. As he explored the corridors of power in D.C.\, he also was drawn to another\, hidden DC: the super-closeted world of powerful gay men in the nation’s capital. The subterfuge was ultimately untenable for an idealist who yearned to live his life openly\, so Strub moved to New York City in 1979. \nAs a Manhattanite\, Strub immersed himself in metropolitan life — from partying at Studio 54 to the liberating demimonde of gay bathhouses. He discusses his swift rise in business circles as a visionary direct-mail marketer and award-winning theatre producer. In BODY COUNTS\, the author fondly recalls the friends and lovers who enriched his days and nights as a New Yorker. Significantly\, Strub recounts the life-changing experience of being one of the first on the scene when John Lennon was murdered at the Dakota in 1980. \nNot long after the first reports of a “gay cancer” surfaced\, Strub launched into action. Strub became a pivotal force in AIDS activism through volunteering and fundraising for organizations. These included GMHC\, the PWA Coalition and ACT UP (The AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power). For the street activist group\, Strub raised crucial funding and took part in their most notorious demonstrations. Strub was involved in putting a giant condom on then-U.S. Senator Jesse Helms’ house (an event funded by David Geffen) and took part in the infamous 1989 protest inside St. Patrick’s Cathedral. He would become\, in 1990\, the first openly HIV- positive person to run for the U.S. Congress\, and later become founder\, publisher\, and executive editor of the groundbreaking POZ magazine. BODY COUNTS documents the author’s own near-death struggle with AIDS and his Lazarus-like recovery in the mid-1990s after the discovery of protease inhibitor therapy. \nWe watch Strub build a life and legacy that sees him crossing paths with a veritable who’s who of prominent gay men\, including Tennessee Williams\, Gore Vidal\, Andy Warhol\, Keith Haring\, Vito Russo and Larry Kramer. \nThe author’s tale names names\, identifying the villains and hypocrites who thrived during this era\, and acknowledges the heroes who battled ignorance and apathy to bring the AIDS epidemic to the forefront. The author spares nobody in his assessment\, offering a candid critique of where America fell short in its vision for ending the epidemic\, including the government\, the gay community and the so-called AIDS\, Inc. \nBODY COUNTS is a portrait of one man driven by passion and principle to make a difference in the world during a tumultuous era of great change and tragedy. \n \nSean Strub is an activist\, writer\, and executive director of the Sero Project\, which combats the criminalization of people with HIV. He founded POZ magazine\, the leading publication providing information about HIV\, and is a frequent speaker about HIV/AIDS\, selfempowerment\, and the intersections of sex\, public health\, and the law. A native of Iowa City\, Strub attended Georgetown and Columbia universities. He and his partner\, Xavier Morales\, live in New York and Milford\, Pennsylvania\, where he co-owns the historic Hotel Fauchère and is active in historic preservation. \n  \nPraise for Body Counts \n“Strub paints a striking picture … A valuable document that gives an insider’s view into AIDS activism.” —Kirkus Reviews \n“Sean Strub has written more than just a memoir. Body Counts pulls back the curtain on a hidden half-century of American history…. The tale of a life lived in high-resolution\, high-intensity\, saturated Technicolor.” —Ari Shapiro\, NPR White House Correspondent \n“Radicalized by the AIDS crisis and plunged into political activism for the LGBT community\, Iowa-born Catholic-raised Strub chronicles the crucial years of AIDS awareness since the early 1980s\, which parallels his own coming-of- age….Strub frankly and openly speaks about these painful and inspiring early years of the gay and lesbian movement\, how the AIDS epidemic devastated the newly emergent community and ushered in a terrible backlash against gays.” —Publishers Weekly \n“Read Body Counts by Sean Strub and share one American’s story of growing up with an instinct for justice\, then finding oneself in an epidemic whose tragedy is multiplied by bias. As a man who survived sexual abuse\, rape and an HIV diagnosis\, Strub embodies the shared interest of women and men who fight for human rights\, and against any government or person intruding on our bodies. By taking us with him on his journey from a conservative family in Iowa to the heart of a global movement for human rights\, Sean Strub gives us ideas\, strength and heart in our own journey.” —Gloria Steinem \n“An absorbing read. It not only vividly recounts the personal odyssey of one man’s struggle with AIDS\, but places it—with remarkable objectivity—within the larger story of those years. Strub is a dispassionate\, reliable guide whose directness and honesty create considerable impact. Anyone would profit from reading this book.” —Martin Duberman\, author of Stonewall  \n“This is the most personally powerful and authentic portrayal of our collective history that I have read since Paul Monette’s On Borrowed Time.” —Judith Light \n“Body Counts is a powerful account of the epidemic’s early years and the subsequent three decades…a page-turner with moving insight and fresh analysis told in a compelling and highly personal style.” —Lily Tomlin \n“Sean Strub’s Body Counts is an important document…fresh and compelling.” —Bill T. Jones \n“This is the compelling life and near-death story of Sean Strub\, of thousands lost to HIV-AIDS\, and thousands more living with it whom his activism helped save. Wow.” —Andrew Tobias\, author of The Best Little Boy in the World \n“This take-no-prisoners memoir has the quality of a suspenseful page-turner\, and will keep you reading until the final sentence.” —John D’Emilio\, author of Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America \n“From early struggles against AIDS to later collective acting up\, Sean Strub’s lively\, gossipy memoir is also deeply moving history.” —Jonathan Ned Katz\, author Gay American History  \n“Strub’s memoir\, like Strub himself\, is an inspiration.” —Richard McCann\, author of Mother of Sorrows  \n“The education and evolution of Sean Strub is a riveting and moving tale that needed to be told\, and has life-lessons for us all. Body Counts is an important document in the history of our era that challenges conventional wisdoms and speaks truth to power.” —Doug Ireland\, veteran political journalist \n“A gripping story of a movement that changed the soul of our world.” —Kathy Boudin\, Columbia University School of Social Work \n“A compelling page-turner… To understand today’s HIV epidemic\, read Body Counts. Sean is a born activist\, widely revered by people with HIV and I’m glad he’s finally told his story.” —Rory Kennedy \n“Elegantly written\, moving and powerful\, this book from one of the most important advocates for people with HIV/AIDS is eye-opening.” —Mary Frances Berry\, Geraldine Segal professor of American Social Thought\, University of Pennsylvania; past Chair U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. \n“This is obviously Sean Strub’s story and a very particular and personal history\, but it’s also our story and our history. He is a wonderful storyteller … I very much admire his writing—how clean and powerful it is.” —Will Schwalbe\, author of The End Of Your Life Book Club \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/sean-strub-presents-his-new-book-body-counts-a-memoir-of-politics-sex-aids-and-survival/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140126T140000
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SUMMARY:The Mancaster Interviews Eli Lewis
DESCRIPTION:ELI LEWIS is a New York City-based ballet and contemporary dancer\, porn performer\, blogger\, Rentboy\, and pocket Gaysian. He is originally from the great country of Texas – specifically Austin – and has since toured and collaborated with renowned dance companies and choreographers\, worked in a variety of events from New York Fashion Week to kink and adult performances at Folsom Street Fair and HustlaBall\, go-go danced at some of the hottest bars and clubs around the States\, and writes about how his adventures and sexcapades have shaped him into the man he is today. Whoever said you couldn’t have your cake and eat it too clearly hasn’t met this boy on fire! \n\nThe Mancaster is a series of podcast interviews with the “mom & pop” business owners\, the behind-the-scenes workers\, the musicians\, the artists\, the drag queens\, the go-go boys\, those who make entertainment possible; hear their voices and listen to their journeys. \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/the-mancaster-interviews-eli-lewis/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140128T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140128T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T162611
CREATED:20140123T175528Z
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SUMMARY:The Mancaster Interviews Destiny Devine
DESCRIPTION:Destiny Devine began her career in 2009 when she landed a starring role in a show called “ICONS” in which she impersonated BEYONCE KNOWLES\, JANET JACKSON\,TINA TUNER\, WHITNEY HOUSTON\, RUPAUL\, and NICKI MANAJ. \nThe Show ran in Provincetown Massachusetts for the summer of 2009 and 2010. The show quickly became a huge success\, garnering awards including “Best new show of the summer” and Destiny was re-booked for the 2010 Season of ICONS\, in the fall of 2010 Icons then hit the off-Broadway stage at the SNAPPLE CENTER in New York City. \nDestiny Devine is constantly working on new and fresh projects. \nThe Mancaster is a series of podcast interviews with the “mom & pop” business owners\, the behind-the-scenes workers\, the musicians\, the artists\, the drag queens\, the go-go boys\, those who make entertainment possible; hear their voices and listen to their journeys. \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/the-mancaster-interviews-destiny-devine/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140130T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140130T213000
DTSTAMP:20260403T162611
CREATED:20140112T194657Z
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SUMMARY:When is White Girl – a Public Reading
DESCRIPTION:Hilton Als’s latest book\, White Girls\, is an essay collection (personal and critical) that takes the idea of “white girl” and twists it through the lens of American culture. \n\nIt is a book that defies an easy read\, or contemplation in solitude. Is it a mess\, a mockery\, and brilliant? Is it confusing\, contradictory\, and liberating? Does it serve identity politics to itself on a platter? Is it post racial? Is it fierce? \nJoin curators and artists Malene Dam\, Bridget de Gersigny\, and Ted Kerr for a public conversation on the book. Participants will be invited to read passages that stuck with them and that they want to discuss\, and as a group we will engage in a conversation about the book\, its impacts and possible meanings. \nWhen is White Girl is part of “NO NARRATIVE PRECEDED US” an ongoing collaboration between Dam\, de Gersigny\, and Kerr started in Oct. 2013 with public conversations and performances in New York and at CCS Bard. Using the format of a reading group the collaboration explores the intersections of identity politics with shared queer and feminist histories across time. \nWhite Girls is available for purchase at the Bureau.  \n  \nBios:\nMalene Dam is a Danish born artist and curator currently a student at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College.  She engages in an array of issues related to contemporary society\, most recently with a strong focus on queer temporality\, histories of feminism\, education\, and conflict. Her research-based practice addresses temporal and spatial notions of cultural collectivizations\, inquiring how discourses situate themselves as knowledge. She holds a BFA from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and a MFA in Photography and Media from CalArts. \n  \nBridget de Gersigny is a South African born\, visual artist living and working in Brooklyn\, New York. Her work draws upon political history and technological communications\, often related to shifting ideologies\, through a post-colonial and queer lens. She is a 2014 Queer/Art/Mentorship Fellow and recently completed her MFA at ICP-Bard. She holds a BA degree from the University of Cape Town\, in Psychology and Literature\, and Art History from University of South Africa. \n  \nCanadian born Ted Kerr is a New York based artist\, writer and organizer whose work focuses on queerness\, HIV/AIDS and community. He was the 2011 Artist in Residence at the Institute for Art\, Religion and Social Justice at Union Theological Seminary\, and is currently the programs manager at Visual AIDS. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/when-is-white-girl-a-public-reading/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140131T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140131T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T162611
CREATED:20131230T191901Z
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SUMMARY:Ariel "Speedwagon" Federow Presents Mädchen in Uniform
DESCRIPTION:Friend of the Bureau Ariel “Federow” Speedwagon introduces the 1931 lesbian cult film from Germany  Mädchen in Uniform\, directed by Leontine Sagan. Lively discussion will follow the screening. \nIMDB page for Mädchen in Uniform. \nCheck out B. Ruby Rich’s “Maedchen in Uniform: From Repressive Tolerance to Erotic Liberation\,” published in Jump Cut\, no. 24-25\, March 1981\, pp. 44-50 (copyright Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media\, 1981\, 2005). \n  \nAriel “Speedwagon” Federow is a writer/performer\, dancer\, clown\, and the former Miss JewSA. She’s worked with\, among others\, Jenny Romaine\, Susana Cook\, Katy Pyle\, and Coral Short. Notable stages: Dixon Place\, LaMama\, WoW Theater\, the Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics’ Encuentro in Sao Paulo\, HEY QUEEN!. Company member: Butch Burlesque\, Katy Pyle’s Ballez\, Aftselokhis Spectacle Committee. Ariel is one of the Squirts in Dan Fishback’s Squirts: New Voices in Queer Performance at La Mama\, January 3-12. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/ariel-speedwagon-federow-presents-madchen-in-uniform/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140201T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140201T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T162611
CREATED:20140110T190630Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20140110T202338Z
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SUMMARY:NEWFANGLED
DESCRIPTION:Robert Siek introduces poets Jeffery Berg\, Jerome Murphy\, and Justin Sherwood. \n  \n \nJEFFERY BERG grew up in Six Mile\, South Carolina\, and Lynchburg\, Virginia. He received an MFA from New York University. His poems have appeared in Court Green\,Map Literary\, MiPOesias\, the Gay & Lesbian Review\, and Harpur Palate. He has written reviews for Lambda LiteraryReview and the Poetry Project Newsletter. A Virginia Center of the Creative Arts fellow\, Jeffery lives in New York and blogs at jdbrecords. \n  \n \nJEROME MURPHY received an MFA from New York University\, where he currently acts as Program Administrator at the Creative Writing Program. He assisted Diane Middlebrook in researching Her Husband: Hughes and Plath\, a Marriage. His reviews have appeared in the column Outwords\, which he authored for Next Magazine from 2010 to 2011\, and in The Brooklyn Rail. \n  \n \nJUSTIN SHERWOOD’s poems and essays have appeared in ILK\, H_NGM_N\, The Poetry Project Newsletter\, and New Criticals\, among others. He is a graduate of the New School MFA Creative Writing Program\, where he was selected for the 2012 Paul Violi Prize in Poetry. He lives in Astoria. \n  \n \nROBERT SIEK is a poet who lives in Brooklyn and works as a production editor at a large publishing house in Manhattan. His poems have appeared in journals such as The Columbia Poetry Review\, Court Green\, Mary\, Assaracus\, Chelsea Station\, and The Nervous Breakdown. In 2002\, the New School published his chapbook Clubbed Kid\, and in 2007\, his short story “Sixteen” appeared in the short-fiction anthology Userlands: New Fiction Writers from the Blogging Underground. His first full-length collection of poetry\, Purpose and Devil Piss\, was published by Sibling Rivalry Press in late 2013. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/newfangled/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140205T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140205T210000
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CREATED:20140110T233321Z
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SUMMARY:Frank Spinelli Reads from His Memoir Pee-Shy
DESCRIPTION:Part family memoir\, part love story\, PEE-SHY by Frank Spinelli gives readers an inspiring message of empowerment with the page-turning suspense of true crime. \nIn 1978\, eleven-year-old Frank Spinelli’s parents signed him up for Boy Scouts. Soon after\, he was taken under the wing of Scoutmaster Bill Fox\, a cop who sexually and mentally abused him for two years. When Frank told his family\, they were convinced to do nothing. Frank blamed himself for everything. That year he also became pee-shy. \nThirty years later\, Frank has a thriving medical practice and a comfortable home in Manhattan’s gay community\, but still struggles to overcome the physical reminder of his past trauma. Then he learns his former Scoutmaster and abuser has adopted fifteen boys in the decades since they last crossed paths. One adoption had even earned Bill a national Father of the Year Award and a book deal. \nThis shocking discovery gives Frank the opportunity to overturn thirty years of confusion and self-blame—for himself\, and for other boys like him. During the course of the next three years\, he confronts the man who stole his childhood and brings him to justice. \n  \nAdvance praise for Pee-Shy \n“Spinelli deftly portrays his years as a chubby\, awkward adolescent and the complexity of his reaction to the molestation. Spinelli’s refreshing honesty as a protagonist make this memoir an important testament to a reality that is too often concealed by shame or fear.” – Publishers Weekly  \n“Intensely bracing reading…an engrossing memoir about overcoming childhood sexual trauma.” – Kirkus Reviews  \n“With raw honesty [Dr. Spinelli] makes us understand that monsters do exist and a child’s innocence is precious.” – Whoopi Goldberg  \n“A devastatingly heart-breaking look at life after childhood abuse\, with wit and piercing insight that can only come from a place of brutal honesty.” – Josh Kilmer-Purcell\, author of The Bucolic Plague and star of The Fabulous Beekman Boys  \n“This is a memoir about a grown-up boy’s generous—and healing—heart.” – Kevin Sessums  \n  \nFrank Spinelli -Photo Credit Chad Schroer\nDR. FRANK SPINELLI is a licensed and board certified internist and sits on the board of the Gay Men’s Health Crisis Center\, the oldest HIV organization. His memoir\, PEE-SHY\, recounts his childhood of sexual abuse as a young Staten Island Boy Scout\, his decision 30 years later to pursue his abuser\, and how he ultimately had the Scoutmaster who molested him – and many other boys over the years – put in prison. Spinelli is also the author of Advocate Guide to Gay Men’s Health and Wellness (Alyson Books\, 2008)\, was the host of Ask the Doctor on Advocate.com\, and appeared as the medical expert on Threesome on here TV.  Dr. Spinelli has been featured in two documentaries; Positive Youth and the Emmy nominated 30 Years from Here\, and has appeared on several episodes of Sesame Street. Currently\, Dr. Spinelli appears monthly on Sirius Radio’s Morning Jolt. He has made several appearances on ABC News\, NBC Nightly News\, the Today Show\, MTV and Veria TV. For more information\, please visit: www.FrankSpinelliMD.com \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/frank-spinelli-reads-from-his-memoir-pee-shy/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140207T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140207T210000
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SUMMARY:Opening Reception for Manorama - Collages & Drawings by René Smith
DESCRIPTION:Manorama – Collages & Drawings by René Smith \nBureau of General Services—Queer Division \n83A Hester St.\, between Orchard and Allen Sts. \nNY\, NY 10002 \nFriday\, February 7th\, through Sunday\, March 30th Thursday\, April 10th \nJoin us for a discussion with René Smith about her work on Sunday\, March 30th\, at 4 PM \n \n“This body of work is a sincere ode to longing and the beauty of men’s bodies\, but it also contains small jokes\, ideas about history\, and references to our relationship to photography. The project is about men’s bodies seen through a woman’s eyes – the woman’s gaze – the man’s body – the body as landscape with hills and valleys to roam. The collages are made from vintage magazines from the 60’s and 70’s – a time when the male nude in widely circulating publications was new\, and the idea of a woman appreciating the male nude was radical.  The paintings and drawings are based on my own photographs of friends and professional models and take on the same subject – still fairly uncommon from a woman’s point of view.” René Smith \n  \nRené Smith lives and works in Bushwick\, Brooklyn\, New York. She was a Visiting Lecturer in Painting at Chiang Mai University in Thailand\, and has also been an artist in residence at The Gil Society in Iceland and Vermont Studio Center. She has shown her work at The Bangkok Art & Culture Center\, Koi Gallery (Bangkok)\, NoSpace Gallery (Bangkok)\, BKK Art House (Bangkok)\, The Chiang Mai University Art Museum (Thailand)\, and Aljira Contemporary Art Center (New Jersey). René Smith was born in Philadelphia and received her M.F.A. in Painting from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia and Rome and her B.A. in Painting from Bennington College in Vermont. She teaches painting at St. Thomas Aquinas College. \n  \n  \n 
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140209T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140209T210000
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SUMMARY:Poetry Reading with Claudia Cortese\, Joy Ladin\, Trace Peterson\, and Grey Vild
DESCRIPTION:Claudia Cortese\, Joy Ladin\, Trace Peterson\, and Grey Vild share a love of poetry and each other that cannot be contained. They are thrilled to read their work together—please come be their beautiful audience. \n  \n \nTrace Peterson is author of Since I Moved In (Chax Press) and numerous chapbooks. The Editor/Publisher of EOAGH\, she also recently co-edited the anthology Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics (Nightboat Books). She lives in Brooklyn. \n  \n \nClaudia Cortese’s poems have appeared in Best New Poets 2011\, Blackbird\, Crazyhorse\, Kenyon Review Online\, and Rattle\, among others\, and her essays and book reviews have appeared in Devil’s Lake\, Mid-American Review\, and Iowa Review. Her first book of poems—which explores trauma\, myth\, fairy tales\, and girlhood—is currently traveling the land of book contests and has been a semifinalist for prizes from the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry\, Persea Books\, and the University of Wisconsin Press. A recipient of awards from RHINO Poetry\, Baltimore Review\, and Kent State University\, Cortese lives and teaches in New Jersey. \n  \n \nJoy Ladin\, Gottesman Professor of English at Yeshiva University\, has published six books of poetry\, including 2012’s The Definition of Joy\, Forward Fives award winner Coming to Life\, and Lambda Literary Award finalist Transmigration. Her memoir\, Through the Door of Life:  A Jewish Journey Between Genders\, was a 2012 National Jewish Book Award finalist. Her work has appeared in many periodicals\, including American Poetry Review\, Southern Review\, Prairie Schooner\, Parnassus: Poetry in Review\, Southwest Review\, Michigan Quarterly Review\, and North American Review\, and has been recognized with a Fulbright Scholarship. \n  \n \nGrey Vild’s work has been best described as sitting in a closet\, dittling itself\, and\, like\, you know\, frying baloney on a light bulb. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/poetry-reading-with-claudia-cortese-joy-ladin-trace-peterson-and-grey-vild/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140211T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140211T220000
DTSTAMP:20260403T162611
CREATED:20140126T215833Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20140126T215857Z
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SUMMARY:Dictionary: Featuring Amanda Davidson\, Dia Felix\, Kaitlyn Greenidge\, Nick Comilla\, Norhan Hassan\, Oki Sogumi\, Sophy Naess\, and Tennessee Jones
DESCRIPTION:Dictionary is a reading/performance/film/whatever-yr-medium showcase curated by Stephen Boyer\, hosted by the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division. This month Amanda Davidson\, Dia Felix\, Kaitlyn Greenidge\, Nick Comilla\, Norhan Hassan\, Oki Sogumi (skyping in from the Bay Area)\, Sophy Naess\, and Tennessee Jones will be sharing work. \nDictionary will begin promptly at 8pm\, but the bookstore will be open all day so come early\, warm up\, grab a drink\, browse for a new book and save yourself a seat! \nAmanda Davidson never knew how much she could love one small dog. partedinthemiddle.wordpress.com. \nDia Felix is a writer and filmmaker. Areas of interest include romance\, celebrity\, obsession\, decadence\, 2013\, and rock and roll. She has written for many blogs and online channels and self-published some number of booklettes. Her novel “Nochita” will be published through City Lights/Sister Spit in early 2014. She is founder and editor of “Personality Press.”\nFelix has worked for many museums and arts institutions as a digital media producer\, with a particular emphasis in exploring the desires and obsessions which drive extraodinary creative accomplishments.\nShe also works with young people as a filmmaking instructor and mentor.\nBorn and raised in Southern California\, Felix now lives mostly in New York. \nKaitlyn Greenidge is a writer based in Brooklyn. Her work has appeared in American Short Fiction\, The Believer\, At Length Magazine\, Green Mountains Review\, The Feminist Wire\, Out History\, and Afrobeat Journal among other places. She was a 2011 Visiting Emerging Writer at Johnson State College in Johnson\, Vermont and is currently an Artist in Residence at Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Workspace. She is also an editor at the Tottenville Review. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and she has received scholarships to Breadloaf Writers’ Conference. Her interview with Victor LaValle can be found in McSweeney’s Press’s Always Apprentices: The Believer Magazine Presents Twenty-Two Interviews Between Writers. \nNick Comilla: Born on a military base turned ghost town in Rome\, NY\, Nick Comilla currently lives in NYC. His poems have appeared in Assaracus\, Poetry is Dead\, Lambda Literary and HOMO Magazine. He is a poetry/fiction MFA student at The New School where he is currently working on his first book project\, Ghosts of Montreal. \nNorhan Hassan\, a problem child. She goes to the New School for politics and urban design. She makes pamphlets and zines for the streets. She uses performance and writing to further a dialogue about social reproduction and the process of feminizing the body for different forms of labor. \noki sogumi (b. Seoul\, South Korea) watches k-dramas\, writes into small white boxes on the internet\, and stays warm in the Bay Area. Her poems have appeared in Claudius App\, Hi Zero\, and LIES Journal. She is currently working on something like a novel. \nSophy Naess is a painter and diarist based in New York. Her publications are available at Printed Matter and sophynaess.com. She was a 2013 artist in residence at the Shandaken Project. \nTennessee Jones is the author of the Lambda Literary Award nominated collection Deliver Me From Nowhere\, a “cover” of Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska. He is the recipient of awards from the Jacob K. Javits Foundation\, the Christopher Isherwood Foundation and Hunter College\, where he received his MFA in Fiction in 2010. He was also the George Bennett Fellow (Writer in Residence) at Philips Exeter Academy 2010-11\, and the Philip Roth Writer in Residence at Bucknell University (2013). His current novel in progress is about generational trauma in an Appalachian town known for two brutal incidents: the hanging of an elephant and the expulsion of its black population. He grew up in the hollers of East Tennessee and currently lives in Brooklyn. \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/dictionary-featuring-amanda-davidson-dia-felix-kaitlyn-greenidge-nick-comilla-norhan-hassan-oki-sogumi-sophy-naess-and-tennessee-jones/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140212T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140212T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T162611
CREATED:20131226T163018Z
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SUMMARY:Perry Halkitis and Guests Present The AIDS Generation: Stories of Survival and Resilience
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a presentation by Perry Halkitis of his new book The AIDS Generation: Stories of Survival and Resilience. Halkitis will be joined by five of the men he interviewed for this book: Jim Alba\, Erik Bartley\, Sean McKenna\, Lee Raines\, and Steve Schalchlin. After the presentation\, the author and the five interviewees will engage the audience in discussion. \nThe AIDS Generation: Stories of Survival and Resilience examines the strategies for survival and coping employed by these HIV-positive gay men\, who together constitute the first generation of long-term survivors of the disease. Through interviews conducted by the author\, it narrates the stories of gay men who have survived since the early days of the epidemic; documents and delineates the strategies and behaviors enacted by men of this generation to survive it; and examines the extent to which these approaches to survival inform and are informed by the broad body of literature on resilience and health. \nThe stories and strategies detailed here\, all used to combat the profound physical\, emotional\, and social challenges faced by those in the crosshairs of the AIDS epidemic\, provide a gateway for understanding how individuals cope with chronic and life-threatening diseases. Halkitis takes readers on a journey of first-hand data collection (the interviews themselves)\, the popular culture representations of these phenomena\, and his own experiences as one of the men of the AIDS generation. \nThis riveting account will be of interest to health practitioners and historians throughout the clinical and social sciences — or to anyone with an interest in this important chapter in social history. \nThe AIDS Generation: Stories of Survival and Resilience is available at the Bureau. \n  \n \nPerry N. Halkitis\, PhD\, MS\, MPH is Professor of Applied Psychology and Public Health (Steinhardt School)\, and Population Health (Langone School of Medicine)\, Director of the Center for Health\, Identity\, Behavior & Prevention Studies\, and Associate Dean (Global Institute of Public Health) at New York University. Dr. Halkitis’ program of research examines the intersection between the HIV epidemic\, drug abuse\, and mental health burden in LGBT populations\, and he is well known as one of the nation’s leading experts on substance use and HIV behavioral research. Dr. Halkitis hold degrees in psychology\, education\, and public health. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/perry-halkitis-and-guests-present-the-aids-generation-stories-of-survival-and-resilience/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140214T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140214T220000
DTSTAMP:20260403T162611
CREATED:20140207T183944Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20140210T184257Z
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SUMMARY:Anal Magazine at the Bureau
DESCRIPTION:Ricardo Velmor of Anal Magazine is visiting NYC from Mexico City\, and the Bureau is happy to welcome him. Ricardo will talk about Anal Magazine and the work that they do in Mexico at 8 PM. \nAnal Magazine is a printed publication addressed to the gay male community that is interested in getting to know art\, design\, photography\, literature\, fashion\, eroticism\, and many other Mexican and international creative expressions. This magazine is about the work of artists who experiment with masculinity in a wide threshold. Our main goal is to create a solid\, intelligent yet appealing magazine for all our readers. The publication coexists with exhibitions\, videoart shows and parties within the whole Anal universe. \nAnal Magazine Vol. 2\nIn this second issue we feature a text by Pedro Brizuela about the psychological implications of group sex; an essay by Pável Granados that deals with the subtle homoerotic speech in Mexican boleros music; a story by Rob Morris; an interview to Gerardo Delgado\, founder and film director in Mecos Films\, the only mainstream Mexican gay porn company; an essay about the work of Japanese shunga artist Gengoroh Tagame; image portfolios of work by artists Tony Solís\, SUPERM (Brian Kenny & Slava Mogutin)\, Héctor Belloc; and erotica by Christian Castañeda. Plus an intervention by Carlos Amorales made specially for the magazine.\n96 full color pages. Texts in English and Spanish. \nAnal Magazine Vol. 3\nFeatures a fiction by writer and publisher Alfredo Núñez Lanz; an interview by Clarisse Mérigeot & Pauline Magnenant to Alan Charlesworth about his series of a “bear” community; an essay about the work of General Idea and their retrospective solo show at Musée D’art Moderne in Paris; poetry by Sergio Téllez-Pon; image portfolios by painter Taner Ceylan\, videoartist Ricardo Nicolayevsky and photographers Omar Gámez and Rick Castro. Our classic “Chico Anal” erotica series + an illustrated story by Dino Vanko and Ricardo Velmor.\n96 full color pages. Texts in English and Spanish. \nAnal Magazine Vol. 4\nOur newest issue comes in a numbered and certified edition of only 1000 copies. It features and essay by Alfredo Nuñez Lanz about the work of Japanese Samurai Era writer Ihara Saikaku with two of his texts in full version\, both illustrated by Hideki Koh; a fictional story by Wenceslao Bruciaga; art portfolios by artists David Romero\, Rafa Esparza and Luis Marquez Romay; more “Chico Anal” series than in any other issue; a “Colour Me” porn and a Frotispiece specially made for this issue with guys from an open call.\n96 full color pages. Texts in English and Spanish. \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/anal-magazine-at-the-bureau/
LOCATION:NY
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SUMMARY:Undesirable Elements: New York City's Gay Press Before Stonewall\, 1960-1969: A Talk with Ben Miller
DESCRIPTION:Undesirable Elements: New York City’s Gay Press Before Stonewall\, 1960-1969 \nIn July 1969\, readers of the New York Mattachine Newsletter (put out by New York Mattachine\, the city’s largest and oldest formal gay group) found five mimeographed sheets inserted into their copies of the magazine. Titled\, “The Hairpin Drop Heard Around The World\,” the article summarized the events of the Stonewall riots: the 1am bar bust\, the accumulating crowd\, and the decision to fight back\, concluding with the following declaration: “Homosexuals are tired of waiting. After all\, we can’t be put off with the old line that things will improve in the next generation and our children will lead better\, happier lives. Most of us aren’t going to have children\, and we have to struggle to make our own lives better. If the traditional means of winning reform cannot work in this age…then possibly the only place for those of us who care about reform is in the streets.”  How did the gay movement arrive at this point\, and how did periodicals like the New York Mattachine Newsletter aid in the construction of physical communities and constitute communities in themselves? This talk will explore those questions by examining periodicals aimed at gay men in New York City during the 1960s\, discussing how physique magazines cloaked their queer objectives while creating consumer communities\, and how organizations used public and private periodicals to bolster physical communities and create communities of print.\n  \nBen Miller is a New York-based writer and student of history. Current projects include thesis research on early gay activist Harry Hay that has taken him to archives in California and conferences from Pennsylvania to New Mexico\, an adaptation of an early Mozart libretto for performance at Carnegie Hall\, and new short fiction influenced by his historical research. His teachers in history and writing have included Linda Gordon\, K. Kevyne Baar\, Marcelle Clements\, and Jonathan Safran Foer. His academic writing has appeared in Historian\, College Film and Media Studies\, and the Chicago Journal of History; and his short fiction has appeared in Brio\, Studio on the Square\, and West 10th. He is editor or co-editor of several publications\, co-founder of Squid Ink Magazine (launching soon)\, and serves on the communications committee of the New York City Anti-Violence Project. He tweets @benwritesthings. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/undesirable-elements-new-york-citys-gay-press-before-stonewall-1960-1969-a-talk-with-ben-miller/
LOCATION:NY
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