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SUMMARY:Lesbian Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Co-founded by lesbian book lovers Judi Komaki and Piper Olsen\, the Lesbian Book Club reads 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.  \nFor our September 12th meeting\, we’ll read Jules Wernersbach’s novel\, Work to Do. Registration is not required. \nThe Bureau of General Services—Queer Division is Manhattan’s only queer bookstore\, located on the second floor of the LGBT Center. We’re open Tuesday-Sunday from 1-7pm. Our cafe\, The Bureau Café\, is open Tuesday-Sunday from 9am-7pm.
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SUMMARY:Summer Sweat Series: Queer Erotica Writing Workshop
DESCRIPTION:BGSQD and Hive Mind Books invite writers of all levels and backgrounds to join author Christian Pan in a Queer Erotica Writing Workshop! \nRSVP TO THIS EVENT \n\n\n\n\nDo you have fantasies\, desires\, an over-active imagination? Have you ever wanted to put some of that into a short story? Do you like reading erotica\, and ever thought\, “Yeah\, I could do that!” Do you feel like your particular kind of YUM is not showing up in the LGBTQIA+ lit out there? \nThen grab pen & paper (or a laptop)\, come to the Bureau\, and let´s sweat it out onto the page. \nOver the course of 5 in-person sessions\, this workshop will provide prompts\, tools\, readings\, and discussion of how each of us can bring your erotic story to life. We´ll talk character\, dialogue\, place\, and ways to activate the senses. We´ll read excerpts from other people´s work\, and welcome you to submit excerpts to be workshopped by the class. We will try to get you as close as possible to finishing a draft of that story by the end of the workshop. Participants will also be invited to read an excerpt from their work to invited guests at the Bureau at the end. \nSound like fun? Cost is only $15 per session\, or $50 for all 5 if you pay in advance. This fee will go to support the bookstore as well as to pay Christian for his time. \nClass size is capped at 15. \n*** \nChristian Pan is the author of over 20 books of erotic fiction which often center bisexual characters\, identity\, and experience. His writing has been published by Cleis Press\, Incision Press\, Folly\, Rebel Satori Press\, the Indie Authors Collective\, and the Erotica Consortium; he´s co-authored numerous titles with Jenna Citrus and Olivia Lawless; and his books have received recognition from the Passionate Plume Awards\, the Golden Pigtails\, and The International Impact Book Awards. He is the editor and publisher of The Best Bi Erotica of the Year anthology series\, whose 3rd volume will appear on Bi Visibility Day this September 2026; was Patreon’s A Club Captain for the Queer Erotic Content Creators Club from 2022-25; and hosts the Pulse Session for the Podcast All the Filthy Details. He lives in New York City.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/summer-sweat-series-queer-erotica-writing-workshop-5/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:35+ Queer Speed Friending
DESCRIPTION:RSVP TO THIS EVENT HERE \nQueer Speed Friending is an intimate event for queers ages 35 and older. Hosted by @queerfriending\, expect a night of one-on-one and group conversations\, optional question cards\, and a connections display board.    \nThe Bureau Cafe\, located in the lobby\, will be open until the start of the event at 7pm. The Bureau will be open during the duration of the Speed Friending. There is a 1 drink or 1 purchase minimum. Limited tickets available\, please purchase online before the event. No tickets sold at the door. \nThe Bureau of General Services—Queer Division is Manhattan’s only queer bookstore\, located on the second floor of the LGBT Center. We’re open Tuesday-Sunday from 1-7pm. Our cafe\, The Bureau Café\, is open Tuesday-Sunday from 9am-7pm.
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: The Shape of Grace
DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate the launch of Sara Elliott’s sapphic romance\, THE SHAPE OF GRACE.  \nRSVP TO THIS EVENT HERE \nFrom She Writes Press comes a later-in-life lesbian love story centered around one woman’s journey through love\, self-discovery\, and fixing up a historic home\, which may prove to be the simplest of her tasks.  \nAfter the launch there will be time for Sara to sign copies of The Shape of Grace\, which will be available for purchase at the Bureau!  \nSara Elliott is a queer fiction author and a divorced mom of three grown daughters. She writes with a focus on authenticity and resilience and finding the courage to live your best queer life in the realities of today’s world. Native to Southern California\, she draws inspiration from her home state as well as her life in Columbus\, Ohio\, where she currently resides.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/book-launch-the-shape-of-grace/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:Postponed: Ambient Reading Night
DESCRIPTION:POSTPONED: This event is being rescheduled for October. Stay tuned for the new date. Thank you for your understanding!  \n/////////////////////////////////////// \nTurn some pages with us while we turn down the vibe for a chill night of quiet reading at the queer bookstore.  \nJoin us for an hour of quiet solo reading time set to low key\, queer ambient music. We’ll shift the energy in the Bureau with calm lighting and relaxing vibes. (Don’t worry\, it won’t be too dark to read.) Let this be a way to wind down after work.  \nBring your own book or find one on our bookshelves. All books are 10% off for those who participate.  \nPadded folding chairs and a few small tables will be provided. Yoga mats and pillows are welcome. After we read\, there will be time for people to share what they’re reading\, though this socializing is not required. This night is hosted by Bureau booksellers and music lovers.  \nFree to attend\, but please RSVP so we know what to expect.  \nThe Bureau is Manhattan’s queer bookstore\, located inside of the NYC LGBT Center. Founded in 2013\, the Bureau regularly hosts queer author events\, community programming\, and art exhibits.  \nSubway: F M 1 2 3 L to 14th St and 6 Ave
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SUMMARY:Turn Me On: Selections from The Bureau’s Erotic Writing Workshop
DESCRIPTION:RSVP TO THIS EVENT HERE \nEnjoy a reading by the attendees of the Summer Sweat Series\, an erotic writing workshop led by Christian Pan. Over the course of five sessions\, these writers expanded their craft to activate the senses and set our hearts and desires aflame. Come in\, the water is warm.  \nChristian Pan is the author of more than 20 books of erotic fiction which often center bisexual characters\, identity\, and experience. His writing has been published by Cleis Press\, Incision Press\, Folly\, Rebel Satori Press\, the Indie Authors Collective\, and the Erotica Consortium. He is the editor and publisher of The Best Bi Erotica of the Year anthology series; was Patreon’s A Club Captain for the Queer Erotic Content Creators Club from 2022-25; and hosts the Pulse Session for the Podcast All the Filthy Details. \nThe Bureau of General Services—Queer Division is Manhattan’s only queer bookstore\, located on the second floor of the LGBT Center. We’re open Tuesday-Sunday from 1-7pm. Our cafe\, The Bureau Cafe\, is open Tuesday-Sunday from 9am-7pm.
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SUMMARY:TELL\, a queer storytelling show
DESCRIPTION:RSVP FOR THIS EVENT HERE \nHosted and curated by Drae Campbell\, join us at The Bureau for an evening of queer storytelling. This month’s theme is “Constance/Constants”. Joined by comic Calvin Cato\, artist and prison abolitionist Léoh Hailu-Ghermay\, and theatre artist Gagarin\, come hear the chaos and the comedy that unites us in our queerness. We’ve all got those stories. Let’s tell them.  \n* \nNamed one of Time Out New York’s LGBTQ Comics of Color to Watch Out For\, Calvin S. Cato has dazzled audiences around the world. His on-air and radio appearances include Oxygen\, Netflix\, Sirius XM\, RISK!\, WIRED Magazine\, and an unaired pilot for Vice Media called Emergency Black Meeting. His comedy has been featured in numerous festivals and events including San Francisco Sketchfest\, Edinburgh Fringe Festival\, Gotham Storytelling Festival\, Brooklyn Pride\, and FlameCon. In early 2021\, Calvin was published in Kweendom\, an anthology of essays by queer comedians and entertainers. In 2022\, Calvin concluded a 3 month run hosting a daily talk show on RushTix. Be sure to catch Calvin’s latest comedy album Disney Single\, releasing in September 2026! \nLéoh Hailu-Ghermay is a Black\, Tigrayan\, first generation American\, queer artist\, prison abolitionist and reluctant/begrudging/suffering law student. They are talking\, laughing\, loving\, breathing\, fighting\, fucking\, etc. on occupied Canarsie and Munsee-Lenapehoking. They believe that storytelling is the catalyst for literally anything remotely good ever happening and doing it strengthens the fight for liberation of all oppressed people everywhere.  \nGagarin (they/them) is a theatre artist whose work lives at the intersection of dance\, clown & kink. They seek to create art that brings audiences & artist to a primal place from which we can reencounter ourselves and our world. Previous credits include: Who’s Your Daddy (Brick AUX)\, The World’s Tiniest Twink (BAH)\, Body Unredacted (Blessed Unrest)\, Tango Palace (Theatre MITU). \nDrae Campbell (she/they) is an actor\, comedian and storyteller who has performed in every medium. Drae was nominated for a Lucille Lortel Award for her 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. Her 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. Drae has been hosting and curating a queer storytelling show for 12 years called TELL\, which has been made into a SILVER Signal Award winning podcast. @draebiz @tellqueerz \nThe Bureau of General Services—Queer Division is Manhattan’s last queer bookstore\, located on the second floor of the LGBT Center. We’re open Tuesday-Sunday from 1-7pm. Our cafe\, The Bureau Café\, is open daily from 9am-5pm.
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SUMMARY:Off Site at Church of the Village: Susan Stryker & Jack Halberstam - Changing Gender
DESCRIPTION:This event will be live streamed on our YouTube channel beginning at 7pm. Watch the livestream.  \n  \n***NEW LOCATION*** \nDue to the significant interest in this event\, BGSQD\, the hosting queer indie bookstore\, is moving it to a larger venue. BGSQD will now host this conversation with Susan Stryker and Jack Halberstam at Church of the Village (201 W 13th St\, New York\, NY 10011)\, on the corner of 7th Avenue and 13th Street\, across the street from the NYC LGBT Community Center. The date and time remain the same.  \nChurch of the Village is an accessible venue. There is a side door that opens to an elevator that takes people up to the sanctuary\, where the event will take place. Accessibility seating will be reserved. \nAs a result of this venue change\, we’ve updated the registration process. Please read all of the details below. \nImportant Registration Information: \n\nIf you already RSVP’d for this event via Eventbrite\, you’re all set. You’re on the list to get in.\nThis event is free and open to the public. Advance registration is required. \nRegister via Eventbrite. \nIf you’d like\, you can pre-order a copy of Stryker’s new book\, Changing Gender\, when you register for the event. \nPre-ordered books will be available to pick up at Church of the Village the evening of the event. \nStryker and Halberstam will sign books after the talk.\nThis venue costs $800. We’re taking donations via Eventbrite and donations via GoFundMe to help us pay for this\, so that we can keep the event free and open to the public and not lose our shirts. More info below.\n\n***A CALL TO THE COMMUNITY*** \nIt’s important to us that as many people as possible have access to this conversation. We are not requiring a ticket purchase to attend. Learning from each other\, especially through trans and queer intergenerational exchange\, shouldn’t be gate kept. We’re keeping it free. \nAs mentioned above\, this venue will cost our queer indie bookstore $800 for the four hours we’ll need for set up\, doors\, show\, book signing\, and breakdown. \nWe’re taking donations from attendees via the Eventbrite page to help us cover the cost of the venue. Anything you chip in will make this event free for the entire community.  \nIf you cannot attend the event\, but would like to donate to the venue cost\, please make a donation through our GoFundMe page. (Do not donate through Eventbrite if you’re not attending\, because you’ll be taking a seat from someone.) \nIt’d mean a lot if we could share this cost so that all of us can share this experience.  \n~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ \nAbout This Event \n\nJoin Susan Stryker and Jack Halberstam at the Bureau for the launch of Susan’s provocative\, genre-bending new book\, CHANGING GENDER. \n\nRSVP TO THIS EVENT \n\n\n\n\nThat gender is a hotly contested topic becomes ever clearer as antigender ideology continues to be mobilized by the far right and transgender people’s lives are increasingly targeted. But what are we talking about when we talk about gender? Where did the concept itself come from\, and where might it go? \nIn Changing Gender\, the leading trans scholar Susan Stryker invites readers to ride along on her lifelong quest to uncover what gender means and does. She traces the gender concept’s roots in grammar and tells the story of how it transformed into a battleground of the culture wars. From the origins of “Yankee Doodle” to acid trips in Joshua Tree National Park\, from nineteenth-century phrenology to present-day anti-trans conspiracy theorists\, Stryker finds surprising places to tune in to the origins\, idiosyncrasies\, and generative possibilities of the gender concept. Along the way\, she weaves stories drawn from her lifetime as a pathbreaking historian\, filmmaker\, activist\, and founding figure of transgender studies. \nPoignant and deeply researched\, lyrical and authoritative\, Changing Gender is a book for our fraught time\, exposing limiting assumptions about gender across the political spectrum and imagining what life might look like if some of those limitations were lifted. Ultimately\, Stryker argues\, to change gender is to change what it means to be human—and to change reality itself. \nAfter the event there will be time for Susan (and Jack) to sign copies of their respective books\, which will be available for purchase at the Bureau. \n*** \nSusan Stryker’s historical research\, theoretical writings\, media-making\, activism\, and academic field-building activities have helped shape the conversation on trans issues since the early 1990s. Stryker retired from the University of Arizona in 2020 and currently holds a distinguished visiting appointment at Stanford University’s Michelle Clayman Institute for Gender Research. She is the author of many academic and general audience works\, including Transgender History. She lives in San Francisco. \nJack Halberstam is the David Feinson Professor of The Humanities at Columbia University. Halberstam is the author of seven books including: Female Masculinity (Duke UP\, 1998)\, The Queer Art of Failure (Duke UP\, 2011)\, and\, a short book titled Trans*: A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variance (University of California Press) among others. Halberstam’s new book is Anarchitecture After Everything: A Trans Manifesto\, which will be published by MIT Press in August 2026. Halberstam was recently the subject of a short film titled “So We Moved” by Adam Pendleton. Halberstam was recently named a 2024 Guggenheim Fellow.
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SUMMARY:Cruising Pavilion Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:RSVP FOR THIS EVENT HERE \nFrom the team behind the international Cruising Pavilion project comes the book of the same name. Cruising Pavilion brings together artists\, architects\, writers\, and researchers to look at cruising as a queer spatial and social practice. How have queer people occupied\, invented\, and transformed parks\, streets\, public restrooms\, bars\, bathhouses\, sex clubs\, and\, more recently\, digital spaces? Join us as we discuss the histories of queer communities\, desire\, visibility\, secrecy\, and the right to inhabit the city differently. \nCopies of Cruising Pavilion will be available for purchase.  \nHugo Bausch Belbachir is a curator and writer based between New York and Paris. He has organized exhibitions on artists Moyra Davey\, Adrian Piper\, Tony Cokes\, Cosey Fanni Tutti\, Tom Burr\, Kim Gordon\, Julius Eastman\, Richard Hawkins\, Sung Tieu\, amongst others. His writing has appeared in Flash Art\, Frieze\, Texte zur Kunst\, Cura.\, Spike\, 032C\, and Frog\, and he has collaborated with various international art institutions and publishers on exhibitions\, catalogues\, and public programs.  \nAnn Krsul Ann Krsul is an architect and founder of Ann Krsul Architecture\, a New York and Michigan-based practice focused on residential\, commercial\, and interior architecture. She received her B.A. in architecture and mathematics from Middlebury College and her Master of Architecture from Yale University\, and has worked with César Pelli\, Bernard Tschumi\, Zaha Hadid\, and David Rockwell. In the 1980s\, Krsul was one of four architects who created Lesbian Xanadu\, an exploration of what architecture might look like if it were conceived specifically for lesbians rather than within the heteronormative assumptions embedded in much of the built environment. The project imagined alternative spaces for lesbian life\, community\, intimacy\, and pleasure. Her contribution\, Welcome to the Pleasure Dome\, is included in Cruising Pavilion: Architecture\, Dissident Sex and Cruising Cultures. \nCharles Teyssou and Pierre-Alexandre Mateos are Paris-based curators and writers. They are among the curators of the Cruising Pavilion project\, presented at the Venice Architecture Biennale\, Ludlow 38 in New York and ArkDes in Stockholm. Together\, they have also curated Paris Orbital at the Pinault Collection’s Bourse de Commerce\, launched Stavanger Secession in Norway\, and co-curated the Art Basel Paris Conversations series from 2022 to 2024. \nJohn Lindell is a New York artist and founding member of the AIDS activist art collective Gran Fury. He had a solo exhibition at Shmorévaz in Paris this past June; he is represented by Corvi-Mora\, London.  \nThe Bureau of General Services—Queer Division is Manhattan’s only queer bookstore\, located on the second floor of the LGBT Center. We’re open Tuesday-Sunday from 1-7pm. Our cafe\, The Bureau Café\, is open Tuesday-Sunday from 9am-7pm.
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SUMMARY:Equinoctial: New and Unpublished Work
DESCRIPTION:RSVP TO THIS EVENT HERE \nEquinoctial: New & Unpublished Work celebrates the tilt of the light\, year tipping on its axis\, sky creased at the perfect centre. At the intersection of the autumnal equinox\, harvest moon\, & her 27th birthday\, Topaz Winters (Portrait of My Body as a Crime I’m Still Committing\, Button Poetry) gathers four writers of poetry & prose to share work on the precipice of becoming: jason b. crawford (YEET!\, Omnidawn Publishing)\, Caitlin Conlon (Burning the Ghost Light\, Central Avenue Publishing)\, Kirsten Shu-ying Chen (light waves\, Terrapin Books)\, & Mia Arias Tsang (Fragments of Wasted Devotion\, Quilted Press). Before the light begins its long walk home\, find these writers mid-sentence\, reading pieces still shy of final form. Nothing stays level for long. Join us while the scale still holds. \nThere will be a signing after the event. Copies of the authors’ books will be available for purchase.  \n* \nTopaz Winters is the Singaporean-American author of So\, Stranger (Button Poetry 2022)\, which won the Button Poetry Short Form Contest & was a 2025 Sealey Challenge Pick & LitBowl Best Poetry Book of 2022. Her debut poetry collection\, Portrait of My Body as a Crime I’m Still Committing (Button Poetry 2019 & 2024)\, was a finalist in the Broken River & Gaudy Boy Poetry Book Prizes. Topaz’s poetry\, fiction & nonfiction are published in The Drift\, Waxwing\, Passages North\, Pithead Chapel\, Foglifter\, & others. Her work has received support from the Studios at MASS MoCA\, the Sundress Academy for the Arts\, & the National YoungArts Foundation. She serves as the editor-in-chief at Half Mystic Press & lives between New York & Singapore. \nCaitlin Conlon is the Pushcart-nominated author of Burning the Ghost Light (2025) and The Surrender Theory (2022). She has a BA in English and a Creative Writing Certificate from the University at Buffalo. While there\, she was chosen for the Friends of the University Libraries Undergraduate Poetry Prize\, and the Arthur Axlerod Memorial Prize for Poetry. Her writing and literary reviews have appeared or are forthcoming with Eunoia Review\, Gather\, Anti-Heroin Chic\, and Rust + Moth\, among others. She’s @cgcpoems almost everywhere. \nKirsten Shu-ying Chen was born and raised at the Jersey Shore. She is the author of the poetry collection light waves by Terrapin Books. A MacDowell fellow\, Chen was also a finalist for the Autumn House Press Chapbook Prize and the Tomaz Salamun Chapbook Prize\, among others. Her writing can be found in Adroit Journal\, Bear Review\, Washington Writers Publishing House\, The New York Times\, and more. https://kirstenshuyingchen.com/ \nMia Arias Tsang is a writer based in New York City. Her work explores how queer people try and fail to love each other. Her first collection\, Fragments of Wasted Devotion\, is out now with Quilted Press. She lives in Queens with her cat\, Peanut\, and is working on a novel.  \njason b. crawford is a queer poet. They are the author of YEET! (Omnidawn\, 2025)\, winner of the Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ+ Poetry\, and Year of the Unicorn Kidz (Sundress Publications\, 2022). A Lambda Literary Fellow\, crawford was born in Washington\, D.C.\, and raised in Lansing\, Michigan. \nThe Bureau of General Services—Queer Division is Manhattan’s only queer bookstore\, located on the second floor of the LGBT Center. We’re open Tuesday-Sunday from 1-7pm. Our cafe\, The Bureau Café\, is open Tuesday-Sunday from 9am-7pm. 
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SUMMARY:Gossamer Wings\, The Harris Sisters & Bambi Lake’s Devour Me\, Again
DESCRIPTION:RSVP TO THIS EVENT HERE \nIn 1972\, 11-year-old Mary Lou\, 13-year-old Eloise\, and 17-year-old Jayne Harris joined their brother Hibiscus—founder of the legendary San Francisco troupe the Cockettes—as he returned to New York to form a new incarnation of the Angels of Light\, bringing glitter\, music\, drag\, and radical liberation to the Off Broadway world.  \nNow\, more than five decades after they first took the stage\, the Harris sisters are sitting down for a rare reunion\, moderated by Executive Director of The LGBTQ History Project August Bernadicou\, editor of Devour Me\, Again (Nightboat\, July 2026)\, the new poetry collection by Angel of Light Bambi Lake. The evening will feature readings from the collection\, which will be available for purchase.  \nThe Bureau of General Services—Queer Division is Manhattan’s only queer bookstore\, located on the second floor of the LGBT Center. We’re open Tuesday-Sunday from 1-7pm. Our cafe\, The Bureau Café\, is open Tuesday-Sunday from 9am-7pm.
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SUMMARY:We Will Always Love You: A Queer\, Literary Tribute to Dolly
DESCRIPTION:RSVP TO THIS EVENT HERE \nAs an early supporter of the LGBTQIA+ community\, and an advocate for childhood literacy\, Dolly Parton leaves behind a legacy as big as her personality. Join Brian D. Kennedy\, author of A Little Bit Country\, and his friends as they celebrate the impact Dolly had on their art and their lives. An evening of performances\, conversation\, and trivia (with bookish prizes!)\, to honor the legend who taught us to “find out who you are and do it on purpose.”    \nA limited number of signed copies of A Little Bit Country will be available for free\, with a suggested donation for the bookstore. \nApril Salazar (she/her) is a writer and storyteller based in New Jersey. She started in radio at Manhattan’s WKCR\, where she held many roles\, including the one closest to her heart—host of The Tennessee Border\, devoted to classic country. More recently\, her work has been featured in The New York Times\, NPR’s Latino USA\, and PRX’s The Moth Radio Hour. \nBrian D. Kennedy (he/him) is the award-winning author of A Little Bit Country and My Fair Brady. Born and raised in Minnesota\, he now lives in New York City with his husband and more books than can reasonably fit into a one-bedroom apartment. When not writing\, he can be found working at an LGBTQ nonprofit and obsessing over all things Dolly Parton. \nJustin Kirkland is a writer and journalist whose work has appeared in GQ\, NYLON\, The Guardian\, and more. Originally from East Tennessee\, his writing often looks at the intersection of culture and politics\, with a focus on queerness\, socioeconomic class\, and the South. He also hosts This Is Not a Weapon–a deconstructionist podcast about growing up Evangelical. He lives in Brooklyn with his husband and two cats\, Jimmy and Puddle. \nMark Sanderlin is a voice actor\, musician\, and author based in New York City. You can hear his voice in over 350 audiobooks. The Washington Post has described his narration as “intellectual\, musical\, knowing…[and] subversive.” Kirkus has awarded him numerous Earphones Awards for Excellence and called his work “a listening masterpiece.” With two Audie Award nominations\, Mark is much lauded for his narration in a variety of genres for every major publisher. You can find Mark’s work anywhere audiobooks are sold\, and later this fall\, you can read or listen to his debut rom-com novella “What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve?” \nFreeda Lay – Freeda Lay has never been on Drag Race. But she has raised over $10\,000 for the LGBT Center with her fundraising drag shows and game nights over the past 3 years. She lives in Chelsea with her partner\, Christian\, and Primrose\, a toy poodle named after the Hunger Games character. She has been to Dollywood so many times that she has stopped counting\, but is very excited to be going back there this Christmas to pay tribute to the Queen in person. \nThe Bureau of General Services—Queer Division is Manhattan’s only queer bookstore\, located on the second floor of the LGBT Center. We’re open Tuesday-Sunday from 1-7pm and accessible by the 6th Ave 1 2 3 L trains and 8th Ave A C E trains. Our cafe\, The Bureau Cafe\, is open Tuesday-Sunday from 9am-7pm.  \n \n 
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SUMMARY:Fatspo Podcast Book Club
DESCRIPTION:RSVP TO THIS EVENT HERE \nDiscussing writing by fat liberation scholars and fat icons\, making new friends with similar values\, and browsing the Bureau’s shelves: Welcome to Fatspo Pod’s NYC book club!\n\nRSVP to help us plan the best experience possible. You’ll also be added to our WhatsApp group where we discuss the book of the month\, anything else we’re reading\, and future NYC fat liberation events. \nOur October pick\, Emma Copley Eisenberg’s Fat Swim\, will be available for purchase. \nKat Lyon is the co-host of Fatspo Podcast and the host of the NYC Fatspo Pod Book Club. Fatspo Podcast dives into the untold histories of fat icons and fat liberation scholars to inform how we embody our fullest selves and support each other\, as media and culture increasingly devalues our very existence. \nThe Bureau of General Services—Queer Division is Manhattan’s only queer bookstore\, located on the second floor of the LGBT Center. We’re open Tuesday-Sunday from 1-7pm. Our cafe\, The Bureau Café\, is open Tuesday-Sunday from 9am-7pm. We are accessible via the F M 1 2 3 L to 14th St and 6 Ave.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/fatspo-podcast-book-club/
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SUMMARY:Florida Man: Text\, Image\, and Multimedia Approach to Self-Publishing and Promoting Autofiction and Memoirs
DESCRIPTION:RSVP TO THIS EVENT HERE \nThe “Florida Man” archetype of the mid-twentieth century lives on through the lively subversion of rigid gender expectations torn apart by the counterculture—an era when resistance turned to campy rainbow colors\, blinding Anita Bryant’s bullhorn-fueled preaching. \nJoin author and photojournalist Matthew Bamberg for an evening of queer historical quirks\, outrageous storytelling\, and a National Enquirer-style drama-orama of love-ins\, drug cartels\, and the dawn of the occult New Age. \nA gay Florida Man belts out the “Floridaesque” landscape of 1970s Miami during a burgeoning counterculture that cracked open sultry closet doors to let in fresh air. Drawing on his popular essays and composite novel Coconut Grove Chronicles\, Bamberg explores the bizarre\, vibrant collision of gay\, Cuban\, and Jewish cultures in Coconut Grove—a scene that made San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury look second-rate. \nWhat to Expect: \n\nRetro Party: Journey back to 1972 to experience life as a suburban working boy selling orgy butter\, bongs\, and coke spoons in a head shop facing the back patio of The Hamlet\, one of Coconut Grove’s first gay bars.\nThe Psychological Closet: Take a deep dive into the internal realities of growing up in the closet while navigating the cosmic auroras of an astrologer mother who charted planets for cartel wives.\nThe Independent Publishing Masterclass: Beyond the wild memoir\, Bamberg—an experienced educator—outlines the modern book publishing process\, sharing how to harness platforms like IngramSpark to transform personal history into compelling\, professionally produced autofiction.\n\nPart quirky history lesson\, part retro multimedia masterclass\, and part storytelling hour\, this event connects personal narrative to broader cultural resistance. Come for the “Florida Man” debauchery; stay for the blueprint on how to write and publish your own story. \nThe Bureau of General Services—Queer Division is Manhattan’s only queer bookstore\, located on the second floor of the LGBT Center. We’re open Tuesday-Sunday from 1-7pm and accessible by the 6th Ave 1 2 3 L trains and 8th Ave A C E trains. Our cafe\, The Bureau Cafe\, is open Tuesday-Sunday from 9am-7pm.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/florida-man-text-image-and-multimedia-approach-to-self-publishing-and-promoting-autofiction-and-memoirs/
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SUMMARY:The Death of the Clinic: Benoît Loiseau in conversation with Sarah Schulman
DESCRIPTION:RSVP TO THIS EVENT HERE \nWeaving together biography\, memoir and cultural history\, The Death of the Clinic is a groundbreaking exploration of five experimental clinics in recent Western history: a sex clinic housed in a stately mansion in Weimar Berlin; a preventive health centre in pre-NHS London; a post-war institute of psychiatry and medical philosophy in a French château; a feminist health centre born from the women’s liberation movement in Geneva; and a grassroots research initiative featuring clinical trials run by and for people with AIDS in 1980s–90s New York.  \nLoiseau’s investigation is anchored in his own encounters with medical care and in the quiet influence of one health worker who shaped his life: his mother. In moving and reflective interludes addressed to her\, Loiseau illuminates the emotional and ethical stakes of medicine. Reframing Michel Foucault’s seminal book\, Loiseau’s The Death of the Clinic is a radical invitation to rethink the clinic – not as a fixed institution but as a living\, evolving practice rooted in care\, resistance and collective imagination. \nThere will be a signing after the event. Copies of the book will be available for purchase. \nBenoît Loiseau is a writer\, critic and scholar of French and comparative literature. A founding editor of queer anthology The BitterSweet Review\, he has written for ArtReview\, frieze\, the Guardian\, the New York Times and The White Review. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow at New York University and Paris 8 University. The Death of the Clinic (Fitzcarraldo Editions / Yale University Press\, 2026) is his first book. His next book\, provisionally titled The Queer Art of Autofabulation: Disobedient Self-Fictions After HIV/AIDS\, is forthcoming with NYU Press. \nSarah Schulman is a novelist\, playwright\, screenwriter\, nonfiction writer\, and AIDS historian. She teaches creative writing at Northwestern University and is on the advisory board of Jewish Voice for Peace. Her 21st book is The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity.  \nThe Bureau of General Services—Queer Division is Manhattan’s only queer bookstore\, located on the second floor of the LGBT Center. We’re open Tuesday-Sunday from 1-7pm and accessible by the 6th Ave 1 2 3 L trains and 8th Ave A C E trains. Our cafe\, The Bureau Cafe\, is open Tuesday-Sunday from 9am-7pm.  \nAdvance Praise \n‘…Benoît Loiseau offers us a different way through twentieth-century queer and trans histories… This is a stunning book that juxtaposes fine-grained histories of medicine\, anarchy\, psychiatry and resistance.’—Jack Halberstam\, author of Anarchitecture After Everything: A Trans Manifesto \n‘…an inspiring\, essential book.’ —Chris Kraus\, author of The Four Spent the Day Together \n‘…this is a book of a generation with the potential to make\, and remake\, the world.’ — Joseph Osmundson\, author of Spawning Season: An Experiment in Queer Parenthood \n‘Intimate and erudite\, breathtaking in its historical analysis and philosophical range…’ — Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore\, author of Terry Dactyl
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SUMMARY:Rooted in the Work: a reading
DESCRIPTION:RSVP TO THIS EVENT HERE \nJoin us for an intimate evening of storytelling\, conversation\, and community featuring two original short stories written and shared by formerly incarcerated men. Their stories move through childhood\, family\, violence\, incarceration\, Rikers Island\, survival\, institutional power\, freedom\, and the complicated experience of building a life after it all. \nThis isn’t a panel or a lecture about incarceration. It’s an opportunity to hear directly from people who have lived through systems that are so often discussed\, studied\, funded\, and interpreted by everyone except the people who experienced them. As one of the writers says\, “For all the institutions that capitalized from us…” this evening creates space for them to tell their own stories\, in their own voices\, and on their own terms. \nThere will be two readings followed by a conversation and time to connect with one another. Some of what you’ll hear is heavy\, some of it is funny\, some of it may be uncomfortable\, and all of it comes from people who have something worth saying about survival\, incarceration\, family\, community\, and what happens after you come home. \nMost importantly\, this is meant to feel like a room you can actually be in. Come listen\, talk\, meet people\, support the work\, and kick it with us. As the brothers put it themselves\, “Relax\, we got plenty for you to see.” \nHosted in Partnership with Rooted in the Work  \nRooted in the Work is an organization working at the intersection of prison education\, storytelling\, and lived experience. Founded by Vidya Dwarakanath\, author of We Survived Rikers Island\, RTW brings together people directly impacted by incarceration\, educators\, artists\, and communities to create conversations and experiences rooted in what people have actually lived. Through storytelling\, events\, workshops\, and consulting\, Rooted in the Work brings lived experience into rooms where people can listen\, question\, create\, connect\, and imagine what should exist next. \nAngel Santana is a writer\, performer\, and facilitator whose work is grounded in the power of storytelling and human connection. A compelling communicator with a commanding presence\, Angel creates space for reflection\, dialogue\, and meaningful engagement. Across his creative and community-based work\, he brings an ability to focus a room around the ideas and experiences that deserve its attention. \nTony Acevedo is an educator and storyteller who brings warmth\, humor\, and humanity to his work. His approach reflects a belief that meaningful learning and serious conversation can coexist with joy\, curiosity\, and genuine connection. Through education\, writing\, and dialogue\, Tony creates environments where people can engage difficult subjects while remaining connected to one another. \nChristian Gonzalez is an entrepreneur\, creative\, and community builder with a collaborative approach to leadership. His interests span entrepreneurship\, culture\, and creative expression\, and he brings a natural ability to connect people and strengthen the relationships around him. Thoughtful and grounded\, Christian’s work reflects a belief in creating environments where people feel supported\, valued\, and able to contribute. \nThe Bureau of General Services—Queer Division is Manhattan’s only queer bookstore\, located on the second floor of the LGBT Center. We’re open Tuesday-Sunday from 1-7pm and accessible by the 6th Ave 1 2 3 L trains and 8th Ave A C E trains. Our cafe\, The Bureau Cafe\, is open Tuesday-Sunday from 9am-7pm.
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SUMMARY:Queer Kids and Social Violence with Elizabethe Payne and Paisley Currah
DESCRIPTION:RSVP TO THIS EVENT HERE \nJoin us for a reading and conversation with Elizabethe Payne\, editor of Queer Kids and Social Violence: The Limits of Bullying and the founder and director of the Queering Education Research Institute.   \nQueer Kids and Social Violence challenges the mythology surrounding school bullying and offers conversation-shifting interventions to respond to a difficult and frightening political moment for LGBTQ+ youth—the incessant attack on gender-affirming care being one example. Payne is joined by Paisley Currah\, author of Sex Is as Sex Does: Governing Transgender Identity\, in a conversation about what it means to protect queer kids in schools.  \nBullying is social—not anti-social—behavior and the school culture that marks which students will be targeted with violence is part of a larger social dynamic perpetuating systems of marginalization beyond the school. The book explores misconceptions about bullying and the ways these have impacted the lives and experiences of LGBTQ+ students. We are in a critical time to renew our engagement with bullying and connect it to larger political processes. The work of anti-bullying is not exclusive to educational contexts but is part of the broader address of social inequalities experienced by gender and sexual minority people. \nElizabethe Payne is founder and director of the Queering Education Research Institute (QuERI). QuERI is dedicated to bridging gaps between research\, practice\, and policy to create LGBTQ+ affirming school environments. Celebrating twenty years\, 2006-2026.  \nPaisley Currah is Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Women’s and Gender Studies at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center\, CUNY.  He is the author of Sex Is as Sex Does: Governing Transgender Identity (NYU Press). \nThe Bureau of General Services—Queer Division is Manhattan’s queer bookstore\, located on the second floor of the LGBT Center. We’re open Tuesday-Sunday from 1-7pm and accessible by the 6th Ave 1 2 3 L trains and 8th Ave A C E trains. Our cafe\, The Bureau Cafe\, is open Tuesday-Sunday from 9am-7pm.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/queer-kids-and-social-violence-with-elizabethe-payne-and-paisley-currah/
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SUMMARY:NYC launch of Another Anthem of Fabulous Survival
DESCRIPTION:RSVP FOR THIS EVENT \nLike a jukebox of queer history\, T.S. Leonard’s debut poetry collection\, Another Anthem of Fabulous Survival\, unfolds across decades of sound and geographies. Winner of the 2024-2025 Poetic Justice Institute Prize\, Leonard’s poems ask how memory becomes record and how record becomes song. Musical duo DAYS joins Leonard and a coterie of poets—including charles theonia\, Joshua Garcia\, and David Groff—to celebrate the New York launch of his debut poetry collection at Manhattan’s queer bookstore. \nCopies of the book will be available for purchase and the authors will be around for a signing after the event.  \nT.S. Leonard is a poet\, performer\, and educator whose work has been featured in Poetry\, Foglifter\, and Fourteen Poems and in collaborative projects at the Portland Art Museum and Pacific Design Center. Originally from Kansas City\, Missouri\, he lives and teaches in San Francisco.  \ncharles theonia is a poet from Brooklyn. They are the author of Gay Heaven Is a Dance Floor but I Can’t Relax (Archway Editions)\, If a Piece Falls off the Poem\, Keep It (Belladonna*)\, and other writings on zits\, piss\, and disco. \nJoshua Garcia is the author of Pentimento (Black Lawrence Press\, 2024)\, a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award and the Thom Gunn Award. His poems have appeared in Ecotone\, The Georgia Review\, Passages North\, Ploughshares\, and elsewhere. He holds an MFA from the College of Charleston and has received a Stadler Fellowship from Bucknell University\, an Emerge—Surface—Be Fellowship from The Poetry Project\, and support from the Hawthornden Foundation. He lives and writes in Brooklyn\, New York.  \nDavid Groff is an independent book editor and the author of three books of poems: Live in Suspense\, Clay\, and Theory of Devolution. With Philip Clark\, he edited Persistent Voices: Poetry by Writers Lost to AIDS; with Jim Elledge\, he edited Who’s Yer Daddy?: Gay Writers Celebrate Their Mentors and Forerunners. He teaches poetry\, nonfiction\, and publishing in the MFA creative writing program at the City College of New York. David is a cofounder of the Publishing Triangle. www.davidgroff.com \nDAYS is Ethan Philbrick and Ned Riseley\, a band\, a theatrical project\, and a couple that lives in an apartment in Brooklyn. They bring cello and voice together to create mystical songs and uncanny theater. Their latest EP\, “Do I\,” was produced by Kyp Malone and their latest play\, “Internal Audit\,” premiered at The Kitchen in March 2026. \nThe Bureau of General Services—Queer Division is Manhattan’s only queer bookstore\, located on the second floor of the LGBT Center. We’re open Tuesday-Sunday from 1-7pm and accessible by the 6th Ave 1 2 3 L trains and 8th Ave A C E trains. Our cafe\, The Bureau Cafe\, is open Tuesday-Sunday from 9am-7pm.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/nyc-launch-of-another-anthem-of-fabulous-survival/
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SUMMARY:Celebrate the release of Tom Cole’s first book\, CHIMES: A MONOLOGUE
DESCRIPTION:RSVP TO THIS EVENT HERE \nJoin us to celebrate the debut book by our dear friend\, Tom Cole\, Chimes: A Monologue. Tom will appear in conversation with Julia Jarcho. With Jarcho\, author of Throw Yourself Away: Writing and Masochism\, the two writers will discuss ideas of process\, performance\, and the environment that brought Chimes to fruition. After their discussion\, Tom will take questions from the audience and then sign copies of his book.  \nThis event is free to attend. Please RSVP via the link above.  \n________________ \nThe incessant and irritating clang of an out-of-town neighbor’s outdoor wind chime punctuates our narrator’s humorous and obsessive self-examinations. His recounts of shame\, addiction\, and self-destructive behavior swells and snowballs\, taking us through the highs and lows of queer reality today. With Julia Jarcho\, author of Throw Yourself Away: Writing and Masochism\, the two writers will discuss ideas of process\, performance\, and the environment that brought Chimes to fruition.  \nCopies of the book will be available for purchase. The event will be followed by a signing. \nTom Cole is a writer\, performer\, and artist living between the Lower East Side and Kingston\, NY. His work has been presented at Partici­pant Inc\, Thread Waxing Space\, Art on Air\, Dixon Place\, Clock­tower Gallery\, ICA Boston\, Performa\, Howl Arts\, Poetry Project\, and the Boston Center for the Arts. He is a three-time MacDowell Playwriting fellow\, and an Edward Albee Foundation Playwriting fellow. Cole’s writing has been anthologized in Pathetic Litera­ture\, edited by Eileen Myles; Sluts\, edited by Michelle Tea; Flesh and the Word 4\, edited by Michael Lowenthal; This New Breed\, edited by Rudy Kikel\, and Flashpoint\, edited by Michael Bronski. His first book\, Chimes: A Monologue\, will be released by The Song Cave in fall 2026. \nJulia Jarcho is a playwright and theater artist and a scholar of literature\, theater\, and critical theory. Her work across disciplines tends to focus on fantasies about writing itself\, often in relation to pleasure\, violence\, and theatrical performance. She is the author of Throw Yourself Away: Writing and Masochism (University of Chicago\, 2024) and Writing and the Modern Stage: Theater Beyond Drama (Cambridge University Press\, 2017)\, as well as the collection Minor Theater: Three Plays (53rd State\, 2017). Her play Grimly Handsome won a 2013 Obie Award for Best New American Play. She got her PhD in Rhetoric at the University of California Berkeley and has taught in the department of English at NYU and in the TAPS department at Brown\, where she directed the MFA program in Playwriting. She is now a Professor in the Theatre\, Dance and Performance Studies department at Yale.   \nThe Bureau of General Services—Queer Division is Manhattan’s only queer bookstore\, located on the second floor of the LGBT Center. We’re open Tuesday-Sunday from 1-7pm and accessible by the 6th Ave 1 2 3 L trains and 8th Ave A C E trains. Our cafe\, The Bureau Cafe\, is open Tuesday-Sunday from 9am-7pm.
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SUMMARY:Launch Event for The Book of Ecstasy
DESCRIPTION:RSVP TO THIS EVENT HERE \nBlending practical tools\, spirituality\, and decades of embodied experience\, this book offers a fiercely inclusive and radically affirming path to ecstasy—for every body\, in every season of life. In conversation with Kate Bornstein. \nAfter the conversation there will be time for Barbara to sign copies of The Book of Ecstasy\, which will be available for purchase at the Bureau! \nBarbara Carrellas is the founder of Urban Tantra®\, an approach to conscious sexuality that adapts and blends a wide variety of sacred sexuality practices from Tantra to BDSM. She is the author of Urban Tantra: Sacred Sex for the Twenty-first Century—the world’s first LGBTQ+-inclusive Tantric sex book\, Ecstasy is Necessary: A Practical Guide to Sex\, Relationships and Oh So Much More\, and Luxurious Loving. Her books\, workshops\, and lectures are an eclectic mix of sexual and spiritual practices designed to encourage readers and participants of all genders and sexual preferences to expand their capacity for both pleasure and spiritual fulfillment. Barbara is a proud graduate of the Coney Island Sideshow School with a double major in fire eating and snake handling. \nA celebrated pioneer and advocate for the LGBTQ community\, Kate Bornstein is the author of My Gender Workbook: How to Become a Real Man\, a Real Woman\, the Real You\, or Something Else Entirely; Gender Outlaw: On Men\, Women and The Rest of Us; and A Queer and Pleasant Danger: A Memoir. Her plays and performance pieces include Hidden: A Gender\, The Opposite Sex Is Neither\, and Too Tall Blondes In Love. Bornstein lives in New York City with her partner\, Barbara Carrellas. \nThe Bureau of General Services—Queer Division is Manhattan’s only queer bookstore\, located on the second floor of the LGBT Center. We’re open Tuesday-Sunday from 1-7pm and accessible by the 6th Ave 1 2 3 L trains and 8th Ave A C E trains. Our cafe\, The Bureau Cafe\, is open Tuesday-Sunday from 9am-7pm. 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/launch-event-for-the-book-of-ecstasy-2/
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SUMMARY:Radical Queer Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we read radical leftist texts with a focus on queer liberation\, anti-capitalism\, and anti-colonialism. For October 14th\, we’re reading the second half of Abolitionist Intimacies by Eithne Luibheid (chapter 3 through the end).  \nWe’ll meet on Wednesday\, October 14th\, at The Bureau\, in room 210 of The LGBT Community Center in the West Village\, 7-8 PM. \nThank you for supporting The Bureau by purchasing books from us! \nThe Bureau of General Services—Queer Division is Manhattan’s queer bookstore located on the second floor of the LGBT Center. We’re open Tuesday-Sunday from 1-7pm and accessible by the 6th Ave 1 2 3 L trains and 8th Ave A C E trains. Our cafe\, The Bureau Cafe\, is open Tuesday-Sunday from 9am-7pm.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/radical-queer-reading-group/
LOCATION:NY
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SUMMARY:Ambient Reading Night
DESCRIPTION:RSVP TO THIS EVENT HERE \nTurn some pages with us while we turn down the vibe for a chill night of quiet reading at the queer bookstore.  \nJoin us for an hour of quiet solo reading time set to low key\, queer ambient music. We’ll shift the energy in the Bureau with calm lighting and relaxing vibes. (Don’t worry\, it won’t be too dark to read.) Let this be a way to wind down after work.  \nBring your own book or find one on our bookshelves. All books are 10% off for those who participate.  \nPadded folding chairs and a few small tables will be provided. Yoga mats and pillows are welcome. After we read\, there will be time for people to share what they’re reading\, though this socializing is not required. This night is hosted by Bureau booksellers and music lovers.  \nFree to attend\, but please RSVP so we know what to expect.  \nThe Bureau is Manhattan’s queer bookstore\, located inside of the NYC LGBT Center. Founded in 2013\, the Bureau regularly hosts queer author events\, community programming\, and art exhibits. We’re open Tuesday-Sunday from 1-7pm. Our cafe\, The Bureau Cafe\, is open Tuesday-Sunday from 9am-7pm.  \nSubway: F M 1 2 3 L to 14th St and 6 Ave
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LOCATION:NY
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: How to Win a Culture War: LGBTQ+ Social Change Through Pop Culture
DESCRIPTION:RSVP TO THIS EVENT HERE \nIn How to Win a Culture War\, sociologist Lisa M. Stulberg explores how LGBTQ+ artists\, athletes\, and entertainment leaders have helped reshape American culture through visibility\, advocacy\, and storytelling. Using examples from television\, film\, music\, sports\, and politics—including the cultural impact of late-2025 breakout series Heated Rivalry—Stulberg shows how today’s progress was built on decades of creative risk-taking and activism. \nDrawing on 14 years of interviews with 170 culture workers\, including Eric McCormack\, Lea DeLaria\, and Greg Louganis\, the book reveals six key strategies used to advance LGBTQ+ social change—from becoming visible to “staying queer.” Rich with behind-the-scenes insight\, How to Win a Culture War offers a timely playbook for changing hearts\, minds\, and culture in the face of ongoing political backlash. \nCopies of the book will be available for purchase and there will be time for a signing after the event.  \nLisa M. Stulberg is associate professor of sociology of education at New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture\, Education\, and Human Development and an affiliated faculty member in the Department of Sociology at NYU. Her research focuses on the politics of race and education\, affirmative action in higher education\, school choice policy and politics\, and LGBTQ+ social change. She is the author of a forthcoming book on the connection between pop culture and LGBTQ+ social change\, entitled How to Win a Culture War: LGBTQ+ Social Change Through Pop Culture\, to be published by the University of Chicago Press in October of 2026. She is also the author of Race\, Schools\, and Hope: African Americans and School Choice after Brown (Teachers College Press\, 2008) and LGBTQ Social Movements (Polity\, 2018).  \nBrian Sims is a civil rights attorney and LGBTQ+ advocate who spent a decade in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as the first openly LGBTQ+ person elected to the state’s General Assembly. Before his time in state office\, he was co-captain of the Bloomsburg University football team\, becoming the first openly gay college football captain on record. He currently serves as a Lecturer in Culture\, Advocacy and Leadership at Vanderbilt University New York City. He also has lectured at more than 150 colleges and universities and has spoken at more than 25 Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 companies and has served in a number of non-profit leadership positions. \nThe Bureau of General Services—Queer Division is Manhattan’s queer bookstore\, located on the second floor of the LGBT Center. We’re open Tuesday-Sunday from 1-7pm and accessible by the 6th Ave 1 2 3 L trains and 8th Ave A C E trains. Our cafe\, The Bureau Cafe\, is open Tuesday-Sunday from 9am-7pm.
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LOCATION:NY
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SUMMARY:Disturb + Enrapture: An ASSARACUS launch reading
DESCRIPTION:RSVP TO THIS EVENT HERE \nJoin Sibling Rivalry Press and the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division for a celebration of Issue 30 of Assaracus: A Journal of Gay and Queer Poetry\, with readings by Assaracus contributors Cheryl Boyce-Taylor\, JP Howard\, Dylan Richmond\, Ethan Richmond\, Steven Riel\, D. A. Schorr\, Robert Siek\, and Isaiah Vianese. \nFounded in 2011 by Sibling Rivalry Press\, Assaracus is a journal devoted to publishing gay and queer poets and documenting the breadth of queer experience. After publishing 25 issues during its original run\, Assaracus returned in 2025 with a renewed commitment to creating space for queer voices across generations\, geographies\, identities\, and aesthetics. Issue 30 marks another milestone in that continuing history\, and additionally includes work by Guillermo Filice Castro\, Brody Parrish Craig\, Randi M. Romo\, Daniel Nathan Terry\, and Emanuel Xavier\, plus features from The Library of Homosexual Congress\, Jerry Wheeler\, Gavin Dillard\, and Ian Young. \nSibling Rivalry Press is an independent publishing house founded in 2010 and based in Little Rock\, Arkansas. For more than fifteen years\, SRP has championed poetry\, fiction\, memoir\, and other work that amplifies LGBTQ+ voices and builds literary community across boundaries. Its mission is to publish work that disturbs and enraptures.   \nCome celebrate the poets\, the journal\, and\, above all\, the queer literary community. \nAdmission is free. \nThe Bureau of General Services—Queer Division is Manhattan’s only queer bookstore\, located on the second floor of the LGBT Center. We’re open Tuesday-Sunday from 1-7pm and accessible by the 6th Ave 1 2 3 L trains and 8th Ave A C E trains. Our cafe\, The Bureau Cafe\, is open Tuesday-Sunday from 9am-7pm.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/disturb-enrapture-an-assaracus-launch-reading/
LOCATION:NY
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