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New Work from Amy Hoffman, Estela González & Christopher Anstee (in person & live-streaming)
2022-06-05 15:00 - 16:30 (America/New_York) | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
Kick off your LGBTQ Pride Month with this reading from three newly published books. Christopher Anstee will read from his memoir Polish the Crown, about growing up queer in a coal-mining town in Wales; Estela González will read from Arribada, about the intersections of family, sexuality, and environmental preservation; and Amy Hoffman will read from Dot & Ralfie, about a lesbian couple facing the physical, emotional, and relationship challenges of aging.
This event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center, 208 W. 13th St., NYC, 10011.
Registration is not required. Seating is first come, first served.
Also live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel

Safety protocol
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19:
If you have any symptoms associated with COVID-19 in the days leading up to the event, we ask you to please stay home.
Please note that masks are required at all times inside The LGBT Community Center, where the Bureau is located.

These books are also available for purchase at the Bureau’s physical store.
Thank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us!

Suggested donation $10 to benefit the Bureau’s work.
All are welcome to attend, with or without donation.
We will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event, but we can also take credit card donations at the register.

Christopher Anstee is an author and poet from Wales, U.K. Christopher is passionate about storytelling and the celebration of ordinary lives in art and literature. The eradication of LGBTQ+ bullying is very close to Christopher’s heart, along with youth empowerment and the healing power of true self expression. Christopher is a fiery, strong, vulnerable, compassionate freedom fighter and a lover of life, art and people. A dreamer, always searching for new adventure and yet hopeful that one day he will be the eccentric old man who lives down the street, with a thousand books, 5 dogs and a million stories.

A binational and bilingual writer from Mexico, Estela González tells stories from both sides of the border in English and Spanish. Her work about race, sexuality, gender, and environmental justice is featured in the Barcelona Review, Best of Solstice, Coal Hill, Flash Frontier, Latino Book Review, LatineLit, Revista de Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea, Sinister Wisdom, Feminine Rising, and Under the Volcano. Arribada was a finalist for Feminist Press’s Louise Meriwether Award. Estela divides her time between Mazatlán, Mexico, and Vermont, where she teaches Latin American literature, culture, and creative writing in Spanish.

Amy Hoffman has published two novels: Dot & Ralfie and The Off Season; and three award-winning memoirs: Hospital Time; An Army of Ex-Lovers: My Life at the Gay Community News; and Lies About My Family. Her articles have appeared in the Boston Review, the Gay & Lesbian Review, and many other journals. She was the longtime editor of Women’s Review of Books, and teaches in the Solstice low-residency MFA program. When she is not writing, she enjoys working for social justice; reading; cooking for her honey, Roberta Stone; biking with friends; and playing the violin.

TELL 81: FIRED! Postponed to June 4th! (IN PERSON)
2022-06-04 19:00 - 21:00 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
TELL is an evening of story telling from the mouths and minds of queers in NYC hosted by Drae Campbell at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division since February 2014.
FIRED! is the theme of the 81st TELL, on Saturday, June 4, 2022, 7 PM IN PERSON at the Bureau! Featuring: Heather Lynn Johnson, Elizabeth Koke, & Justin Sayre.
Safety protocol:
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19:
Please bring proof of vaccination with you.
You will need to show proof of vaccination and a photo id in order to attend the event.
Please note that masks are required at all times inside The LGBT Community Center, where the Bureau is located.
If you have any symptoms associated with COVID-19 in the days leading up to the event, we ask you to please stay home.

Suggested donation of $10 to benefit the Bureau and the storytellers.
We will pass a bag at the start of the event. Thank you for supporting the Bureau and TELL!
All are welcome to join, with or without a donation.
Photograph by Grace Chu
Drae Campbell is an actor and performer who has appeared on stages all over NYC and on the internet, movies and tv. She’s been spotted on the tv shows New Amsterdam and Bull and on the web series Dinette directed by Shaina Feinberg. She can also be found online on Refinery29, IFC.Com and BRICTV to name a few. Some fave stage acting credits: Only You Can Prevent Wildfires, Ricochet Collective, Non-Consensual Relationships With Ghosts, La Mama, My Old Man, Dixon Place, Oph3lia at HERE, The Nosebleed at The Public Theatre. Drae also appeared as a radical lesbian in Taylor Mac’s 24 Decade History Of Popular Music at St. Ann’s Warehouse. Drae’s been hosting and curating TELL at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division for 7 plus years. If you like queer stories, TELL is also a Podcast! www.draecampbell.com

Elizabeth Koke is a writer, performer, and organizer from NYC. She has participated in readings and performances at Dixon Place, Wild Project, Brooklyn Museum, Joe’s Pub, and other assorted venues, backyards, and dive bars. She is currently Creative Director for Housing Works where she enjoys a healthy balance of thrift shopping and hell raising. She lives in the Lower East Side where she spends time at her favorite local bar, the Parkside Lounge, with her rescue dog, Onyx.

Justin Elizabeth Sayre is a playwright and performer who Michael Musto called, “Oscar Wilde meets Whoopi Goldberg.” Sayre is a fixture of the Downtown Cabaret Scene in New York, first with their long-running variety show, The Meeting (Bistro Award-winning & 2 MAC nominations). They are currently in residency at Joe’s Pub at the Public with their new variety show, Assorted Fruit. As a playwright, Sayre’s work has appeared at Dixon Place, The Wild Project, The Celebration Theatre, Dynasty Typewriter, and La MaMa Experimental Theatre. Their 12-part-epic Ravenswood Manor, a Camp-Horror-Soap-Opera, called “a sharply written and well-acted exemplar of the horror-comedy genre,” by the LA Times and is currently being developed with Sony Television and Rupaul. Sayre has written a series of YA Novels, Husky, Pretty, and Mean, released by Penguin Books, and the book, From Gay to Z: A Compendium of Queer Culture just released by Chronicle Books. Sayre has written for Television, working with Michael Patrick King on his Hit CBS comedy, 2 Broke Girls and Fox’s The Cool Kids. Sayre also appeared on HBO’s The Comeback with Lisa Kudrow.

Heather Lynn Johnson is an artist and poet living in Brooklyn whose work is characterized by its lyricism and cultural critique. Heather’s formal approach to the narrative, whether visual or poetic, is distinguished by her willingness to lay bare her own existence. Centered around Black American liberation and culture with an emphasis on objectification and lost histories, Heather uses an autobiographical framework and considers her work self-portraits, imbued by her lived experience as a butch Black lesbian. The 2019 Leslie-Lohman Museum Fellow and 2017 Literary Fellow for Queer|Art|Mentorship, Heather is the author of “The Survival Guide For Queer Black Youth” (Inpatient Press, 2017).

Nicole Melleby in conversation with A.J. Sass (in person & live-streaming)
2022-06-02 18:00 - 19:30 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
Join author Nicole Melleby as she discusses her new novel, THE SCIENCE OF BEING ANGRY, in conversation with author A.J. Sass.
From the acclaimed author of Hurricane Season, an unforgettable story about what makes a family.
Eleven-year-old Joey is angry. All the time. And she doesn’t understand why. She has two loving moms, a supportive older half brother, and, as a triplet, she’s never without company. Her life is good. But sometimes she loses her temper and lashes out, like the time she threw a soccer ball—hard—at a boy in gym class and bruised his collarbone. Or when jealousy made her push her (former) best friend (and crush), Layla, a little bit too roughly.
After a meltdown at Joey’s apartment building leads to her family’s eviction, Joey is desperate to figure out why she’s so mad. A new unit in science class makes her wonder if the reason is genetics. Does she lose control because of something she inherited from the donor her mothers chose?
The Science of Being Angry is a heartwarming story about what makes a family and what makes us who we are from an author whose works are highly praised for their presentation of and insights into the emotional lives of tweens.
This event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center, 208 W. 13th St., NYC, 10011.
Registration is not required. Seating is first come, first served.
Also live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel

Safety protocol
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19:
If you have any symptoms associated with COVID-19 in the days leading up to the event, we ask you to please stay home.
Please note that masks are required at all times inside The LGBT Community Center, where the Bureau is located.

Purchase Nicole Melleby’s The Science of Being Angry (Algonquin Young Readers, 2022, hardcover, $16.95) from the Bureau’s online store.

Purchase A. J. Sass’s Ellen Outside the Lines (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2022, hardcover, $16.99) from the Bureau’s online store.
These books are also available for purchase at the Bureau’s physical store.

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

Suggested donation $10 to benefit the Bureau’s work.
All are welcome to attend, with or without donation.
We will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event, but we can also take credit card donations at the register.

Nicole Melleby, a New Jersey native, is the author of highly praised middle-grade books, including the Lambda Literary finalist Hurricane Season. She lives with her wife and their cat, whose need for attention oddly aligns with Nicole’s writing schedule. (Author photo: Elizabeth Welch)

A. J. Sass (he/they) is the author of Ana on the Edge and Ellen Outside the Lines. A. J. is the co-author of Camp QUILTBAG* (Algonquin, 2023) and a contributor to anthologies such as This Is Our Rainbow (Knopf Books for Young Readers) and Allies (DK/Penguin Random House). When he’s not writing, A. J. figure skates and travels as much as possible. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his partner and two cats who act like dogs. Visit him online at sassinsf.com and follow him @matokah on Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok. (Author photo: Deven Sass-Cao)

Precocious Queer Politics: Sodomy Law Reform in Early 19th c. Britain (in person only)
2022-06-01 19:00 - 20:30 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
The first parliamentary debates over the immorality of the death penalty for sodomy occurred in Britain in the early nineteenth century, as part of a fragmented and largely forgotten political effort to lessen the penalties for sex between men. This talk explains how a form of queer politics was possible before modern homosexual identity, recounting the new discoveries published in “Beyond the Law”: The Politics Ending the Death Penalty for Sodomy in Britain (Temple University Press, 2021). Jeffrey Weeks, author of the first landmark works of LGBTQ history for nineteenth century Britain, has called this research “a triumph of historical detective work… [that] is genuinely breaking new ground.” Join the author, Charles Upchurch, and eminent historian of LGBTQ history, Jonathan Ned Katz, for an illustrated presentation and discussion of this new research.
This event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division, in room 210 of The LGBT Community Center, 208 West 13th Street.
Registration is not required. Seating is first come, first served.
Suggested donation $5 to benefit the Bureau’s work.
All are welcome to attend, with or without donation.
We will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event, but we can also take credit card donations at the register.

Safety protocol (for those joining in person)
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19:
If you have any symptoms associated with COVID-19 in the days leading up to the event, we ask you to please stay home.
Please note that masks are required at all times in The LGBT Community Center, where the Bureau is located.

Purchase Charles Upchurch’s “Beyond the Law”: The Politics Ending the Death Penalty for Sodomy in Britain (Temple University Press, 2021, paperback, $35.95) from the Bureau’s online store (click on title).
Copies of “Beyond the Law”: The Politics Ending the Death Penalty for Sodomy in Britain are also available at the Bureau’s physical store.
Thank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us!

Charles Upchurch is an Associate Professor of British history at Florida State University. His latest book, “Beyond the Law”: The Politics of Ending the Death Penalty for Sodomy in Britain, was published 2021 by Temple University Press, and recounts the previously untold story of the parliamentary effort to end the death penalty for sodomy in the early nineteenth century. His first book, Before Wilde: Sex Between Men in Britain’s Age of Reform, explores the ways in which family and class influenced the interpretation of same-sex desire in the period between 1820 and 1870. He has served as a Distinguished Academic Patron of LGBT History Month in the United Kingdom, and he is currently the President of the Southern Conference on British Studies.

Jonathan Ned Katz is an Independent Scholar, history activist, and visual artist. He has published five books on the history of sexuality and intimacy and a brief memoir, Coming of Age in Greenwich Village (2013). His most recent book is The Daring Life and Dangerous Times of Eve Adams (2021). Earlier books are Love Stories: Sex Between Men Before Homosexuality (2001); The Invention of Heterosexuality (1995); Gay/Lesbian Almanac (1983), and Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the U.S.A. (1976).

Sweat: A Decades Long Convo on the Queer Body (in-person & live-streaming)
2022-05-28 18:30 - 20:00 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
Celebrating the publication of Lucy Jane Bledsoe‘s NO STOPPING US NOW and Alison Bechdel‘s THE SECRET TO SUPERHUMAN STRENGTH, the two will continue their decades-long conversation about what it means to live, play, work, and be an activist in a queer body.
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Registration is not required. Seating is first come, first served.
Suggested donation $10 to benefit the Bureau’s work.
All are welcome to attend, with or without donation.
We will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event, but we can also take credit card donations at the register.

Purchase Lucy Jane Bledsoe’s No Stopping Us from the Bureau.

Purchase Alison Bechdel’s The Secret to Superhuman Strength from the Bureau.
Both books are also available at our physical store and will be available at the event.
Thank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us!

Safety protocol (for those joining in person):
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19:
If you have any symptoms associated with COVID-19 in the days leading up to the event, we ask you to please stay home.

Lucy Jane Bledsoe‘s newest novel, NO STOPPING US NOW, is based on her own experience bringing her hometown into compliance with Title IX. She’s the author of several novels, including A THIN BRIGHT LINE, and the recent story collection, LAVA FALLS. Her fiction has won a California Arts Council Fellowship in Literature, an American Library Association Stonewall Award, a Yaddo Fellowship, and two National Science Foundation Artists & Writers Fellowships. She’s a three-time finalist for the Ferro-Grumley Award and a six-time finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction. Ms. called her work “fabulous feminist fiction” and the New York Times said her work “triumphs as an intimate and humane evocation of day-to-day life under inhumane circumstances.”

Alison Bechdel is the author of the beloved comic strip, DYKES TO WATCH OUT FOR, and the graphic memoir, FUN HOME: A FAMILY TRAGICOMIC, which Time magazine named the Best Book of 2006. The book was adapted into a musical by the playwright Lisa Kron and the composer Jeanine Tesori. It opened on Broadway at the Circle in the Square Theater on April 19, 2015, and won five Tony Awards, including “Best Musical.” Her most recent book, THE SECRET TO SUPERHUMAN STRENGTH, is about her lifetime relationship to the spiritual, philosophical, and physical challenges of fitness. The Atlantic called the book “quietly astonishing.” She has been awarded Guggenheim and MacArthur Fellowships.

GAYS IN HOLLYWOOD IN THE GOLDEN AGE - A Talk by Felice Picano in-person
2022-05-22 15:00 - 16:30 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
A talk by author, Felice Picano, with many vintage photos from Ansel Adams’ estate as well as numerous Hollywood Studio promotional photos and theatre cards showing the surprising dominance of LGBT film actors, writers, & directors in the 1930’s through 1950.
Better known as a novelist and memoirist, Felice Picano was called to Hollywood in 1977 to work for Cary Grant’s Brut Productions. Between writing novels in New York, Picano lived and worked in L.A., writing film and TV scripts for various directors. An out gay man, he soon met the cream of Hollywood LGBT set, and when he moved there “The Brassy Old Dames of Hollywood,” all of whom told him what Queer Life and work was like.
Books by Felice Picano are available for purchase at the Bureau!

Registration is not required. Seating is first come, first served.
Suggested donation $10 to benefit the Bureau’s work.
All are welcome to attend, with or without donation.
We will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event, but we can also take credit card donations at the register.

Safety protocol
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19:
If you have any symptoms associated with COVID-19 in the days leading up to the event, we ask you to please stay home.
Please note that masks are required at all times inside The LGBT Community Center, where the Bureau is located.

Office Hours Poetry Spring 2022 Showcase Reading (online only)
2022-05-20 19:00 - 20:30 | Online event, New York, NY, United States
Join us Friday May 20th at 7:00 PM EDT for the Office Hours Spring 2022 (Virtual) Showcase Reading! Our current fellows will give a brief reading in celebration of another strong semester of poetry making, community building, and surviving in difficult creative times.
Suggested donation to benefit Office Hours Poetry Workshop: $5 – $10
All are welcome to join, with or without a donation.
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All are welcome to join, with or without a donation.
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Abba Belgrave is an avid writer based in Brooklyn. She is also a recent graduate of the Juniper Summer Writing Program at University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Danielle Cowan is an electoral organizing fellow born and raised in New York City. You can find her foraging for free lectures, queer feminist theater and great cake, or, on a healthier day, a hiking trail she can conquer with her cane.

Laura Cresté is the author of You Should Feel Bad, winner of a 2019 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship. A 2021-2022 writing fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, her poems appear or are forthcoming in The Kenyon Review, The Yale Review‘s “Poem of the Week” series, Bennington Review, Poetry Northwest, Cero Magazine and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from New York University.

J. Freeborn is a social worker and the anthology books managing editor at The Poetry Society of New York. They have recent work in Impossible Archetype, Stone of Madness, Voicemail Poems, and elsewhere.

Linda Harris Dolan is a Brooklyn-based poet, editor, and educator. As a teaching artist at NYU Langone’s Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital, she leads one-on-one writing sessions with pediatric patients. She holds an MFA in Poetry from NYU, where she was a Starworks Creative Writing Fellow, and an MA in English & American Literature from NYU. She is the recipient of fellowships for Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the Ruth Stone House Next Galaxy Retreat. Her work is featured in Bellevue Literary Review, Pigeon Pages, Barrow Street, Brooklyn Review, Cordella, and No, Dear, among others. She can be found online at lindaharrisdolan.com

Emily Hockaday’s first full-length collection, Naming the Ghost, will be out with Cornerstone Press in November 2022. Her second full-length collection, In a Body, is forthcoming from Small Harbor Publishing. She has five chapbooks of poetry—Beach Vocabulary, Space on Earth, What We Love and Will Not Give Up, Starting a Life, and Ophelia: A Botanist’s Guide. Her work has appeared on Radiolab and in a number of literary journals. She was a 2022 poetry resident at Bethany Arts Community and the recipient of City Artist Corps and Cafe Royal Cultural Foundation grants. www.emilyhockaday.com.

Carrie Hohmann Campbell lives in Northwestern Pennsylvania where she teaches creative writing at Edinboro University, writes poetry, raises chickens, daydreams incessantly, gardens, and enjoys a quiet life. She earned her BA in English and Creative Writing from Allegheny College and her MFA in poetry from New York University. Her second chapbook Drawn to Extinction was published by Finishing Line Press in May 2018.

Megan Pinto is a poet living in Brooklyn. Her poems can be found or are forthcoming in Guernica, The Massachusetts Review, Plume, and elsewhere. She has received scholarships and fellowships from Bread Loaf, the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, the Port Townsend Writers’ Conference, and an Amy Award from Poets & Writers. She holds an MFA in Poetry from Warren Wilson.

Sarah M. Sala is the author of Devil’s Lake (Tolsun Books 2020). The founding director of Office Hours Poetry Workshop, and assistant poetry editor for the Bellevue Literary Review, she teaches expository writing at New York University. She has a dapple dachshund named Remy who begs her for food during all her Zoom calls.

Noel Sikorski’s poems and artwork appear in Painted Bride Quarterly, Georgetown Review, Action Spectacle, The American Poet: The Journal of the Academy of American Poets.

Shakeema Smalls is a writer from South Carolina. She has had her work published in various outlets including Free Black Space, Tidal Basin Review, PANK, Rigorous, and Radius Lit, among others.

Launch: Melanie Mitzner's Slow Reveal & Ken Harvey's Book of Casey Adair (on Zoom only!)
2022-05-19 19:00 - 20:30 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
U.S. Launch of queer American/Canadian Authors: Melanie Mitzner‘s novel Slow Reveal, set in 1990s New York and Ken Harvey‘s novel The Book of Casey Adair, set in 1980s Madrid, Boston and New York.
WITH FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE FROM THE CANADA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS THROUGH THE WRITERS’ UNION OF CANADA
Please note that this event will take place on Zoom only.
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Suggested donation $10 to benefit the Bureau’s work.
You can make a donation on the Eventbrite page for this event
Registration not required to attend–only to make a donation.

Purchase Melanie Mitzner’s Slow Reveal (Inanna Publications & Education, 2022, paperback, $22.95) from the Bureau’s online store.

Purchase Ken Harvey’s The Book of Casey Adair (U of Wisconsin Press, 2021, paperback, $18.95) from the Bureau’s online store.

Both books are also available at our physical store as well.
Thank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us!

Melanie Mitzner was awarded an Edward Albee Fellowship for her play Personal Effects. Her screenplay Dodge and Burn was a finalist in the Writers Guild East Foundation Fellowships. In the Name of Love and Out to Lunch were finalists in the Houston Film Festival Screenwriting Competition. She received a fellowship from M.E.T. Theater and fiction grants from Vermont Studio Center and Summer Literary Seminars. An excerpt of her novel Too Good to Be True was published in Harrington Lesbian Quarterly. She’s written for Vol1Brooklyn, Wine Spectator, Hamptons, The Groovy Mind, Society for Curious Thought, Broadcast Week, Millimeter and Bloom. She appeared on Best of Women’s Fiction podcast. You can follow her on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. For more information, visit her website: www.melaniemitzner.com. She lives in Montréal and New York.

Ken Harvey is the author of two award-winning books: a short story collection (If You Were With Me Everything Would Be All Right) and a memoir (A Passionate Engagement). He’s been published in over twenty U.S. and international literary magazines, including The Massachusetts Review, Consequence, and The Buenos Aires Review. He’s read his work on National Public Radio in the United States and in Italy and has been granted writing residencies at the Wurlitzer Foundation and the Millay Colony. A book reviewer for Lambda Literary, Ken holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Bennington College. A native of Boston, he now lives in Toronto with his husband and basset hound, Lily Tomlin.

Let The Record Show (in person only)
2022-05-18 19:00 - 20:30 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
Join author Sarah Schulman to celebrate the launch of the paperback edition of LET THE RECORD SHOW: A POLITICAL HISTORY OF ACT UP NEW YORK, 1987-1993.
In just six years, ACT UP, New York, a broad and unlikely coalition of activists from all races, genders, sexualities, and backgrounds, changed the world. Armed with rancor, desperation, intelligence, and creativity, it took on the AIDS crisis with an indefatigable, ingenious, and multifaceted attack on the corporations, institutions, governments, and individuals who stood in the way of AIDS treatment for all. They stormed the FDA and NIH in Washington, DC, and started needle exchange programs in New York; they took over Grand Central Terminal and fought to change the legal definition of AIDS to include women; they transformed the American insurance industry, weaponized art and advertising to push their agenda, and battled—and beat—The New York Times, the Catholic Church, and the pharmaceutical industry. Their activism, in its complex and intersectional power, transformed the lives of people with AIDS and the bigoted society that had abandoned them.
Based on more than two hundred interviews with ACT UP members and rich with lessons for today’s activists, LET THE RECORD SHOW is a revelatory exploration—and long-overdue reassessment—of the coalition’s inner workings, conflicts, achievements, and ultimate fracture. Schulman, one of the most revered queer writers and thinkers of her generation, explores the how and the why, examining, with her characteristic rigor and bite, how a group of desperate outcasts changed America forever, and in the process created a livable future for generations of people across the world.
No registration required.
Seating is first come, first served.
Suggested donation of $10 to benefit the Bureau.
All are welcome to join, with or without a donation.
We will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event, but we can also take credit card donations at the register.

Safety protocol
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19:
If you have any symptoms associated with COVID-19 in the days leading up to the event, we ask you to please stay home.
All attendees are required to wear masks.

To reserve a copy of the paperback edition of Let The Record Show (released from Picador on May 17, $22), please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com. Copies will be available for purchase at the event.
Or pre-order a copy from our online store to have the book shipped to you after May 17th.

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

Tom Daley Visits the Bureau!
2022-05-18 14:30 - 15:30 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
Come get a copy of Tom Daley‘s new memoir, Coming Up for Air, and have Tom sign it for you!
Tom Daley is one of the most beloved athletes of our time, having competed as a diver in four Olympics, garnering medals and finally, in 2021 in Tokyo, winning gold. But few people know the realities of his life beyond the pool–his struggles, his secret triumphs and the mindset he needed to cultivate to become a champion.
A deeply personal and inspiring memoir from the celebrated Olympic gold medal diver and LGBTQ+ advocate
Please note that if you purchase Coming Up for Air online and you’d like to have Tom sign it for you, we must receive the order BEFORE 2:30 PM on Wednesday, May 18th. Please enter your name exactly as you’d like Tom to sign it in the comments section when you check out.
If you’d like us to hold a copy for you at the Bureau, please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com.

From Gay to Z Booksigning with Justin Elizabeth Sayre (in person & live-streaming)
2022-05-15 18:00 - 20:00 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
With their new book, From Gay to Z, playwright and performer Justin Elizabeth Sayre brings a funny and far-reaching take on Queer Culture. Based on their series of shows, The gAy-BC’s, the new book is a huge accomplishment. A witty and wise take on the queer culture that has come before and the culture that may yet to be.
Sayre will be joined in conversation by Shane O’Neill!
The Bureau is thrilled to welcome these dear friends back to our space!

From Gay to Z: A Queer Compendium (Chronicle Books, 2022, hardcover, $24.95) is also available for purchase at the Bureau.
Thank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us!

Join this event in-person at the Bureau
OR watch the live-stream of the event on the Bureau’s YouTube channel.
Registration is not required. Seating is first come, first served.

Suggested donation $10 to benefit the Bureau’s work.
All are welcome to attend, with or without donation.
We will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event, but we can also take credit card donations at the register.

Safety protocol (for those joining in person)
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19:
If you have any symptoms associated with COVID-19 in the days leading up to the event, we ask you to please stay home.
Please note that masks are required at all times inside The LGBT Community Center, where the Bureau is located.

Justin Elizabeth Sayre is a playwright and performer who Michael Musto called, “Oscar Wilde meets Whoopi Goldberg.” Sayre is a fixture of the Downtown Cabaret Scene in New York, first with their long-running variety show, The Meeting (Bistro Award-winning & 2 MAC nominations). They are currently in residency at Joe’s Pub at the Public with their new variety show, Assorted Fruit. As a playwright, Sayre’s work has appeared at Dixon Place, The Wild Project, The Celebration Theatre, Dynasty Typewriter, and La MaMa Experimental Theatre. Their 12-part-epic Ravenswood Manor, a Camp-Horror-Soap-Opera, called “a sharply written and well-acted exemplar of the horror-comedy genre,” by the LA Times and is currently being developed with Sony Television and Rupaul. Sayre has written a series of YA Novels, Husky, Pretty, and Mean, released by Penguin Books, and the book, From Gay to Z: A Queer Compendium, just released by Chronicle Books. Sayre has written for Television, working with Michael Patrick King on his Hit CBS comedy, 2 Broke Girls and Fox’s The Cool Kids. Sayre also appeared on HBO’s The Comeback with Lisa Kudrow.

Shane O’Neill is a reporter for the Styles desk at The New York Times. During his tenure at the Times he has profiled “Jeopardy!” champion Amy Schneider, produced the short documentary “Who Threw The First Brick at Stonewall?”, produced and edited the internet culture series “Internetting With Amanda Hess,” covered the Black trans community’s response to the Black Lives Matter movement, and edited the pop music video series “Diary of a Song.” He starred in the animated short documentary “The Shawl” which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2020.

Book Launch - Sleeptalking by Antonio Addessi (in person & live-streaming)
2022-05-15 15:00 - 17:00 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
Join us for the launch of Antonio Addessi‘s Sleeptalking (Rebel Satori Press). Addessi will be joined by poet Daniel W.K. Lee.
This event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center, 208 W. 13th St., NYC, 10011.
Registration is not required. Seating is first come, first served.
Also live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel

Safety protocol
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19:
If you have any symptoms associated with COVID-19 in the days leading up to the event, we ask you to please stay home.
Please note that masks are required at all times inside The LGBT Community Center, where the Bureau is located.

Suggested donation $10 to benefit the Bureau’s work.
All are welcome to attend, with or without donation.
We will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event, but we can also take credit card donations at the register.
Copies of Antonio Addessi’s Sleeptalking and Daniel W.K. Lee’s Anatomy of Want will be available for purchase at the event.

Antonio Addessi is a poet and writer living in New York City. He received his BA in English from the University of Maine(‘15) and his MFA in Creative Writing Poetry from Columbia University(‘20). You can follow him on instagram @zaurdo

Daniel W.K. Lee (李華強) is a third-generation refugee, queer, Cantonese American born in Kuching, Malaysia. He earned his Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at The New School(USA), and his debut collection of poetry, Anatomy of Want, was published by QueerMojo/Rebel Satori Press. Daniel lives in New Orleans with his head-turning whippet Camden. Find out more about him at danielwklee.com for follow him: @strongplum on Instagram / @danielsaudade on Twitter.

Poetry Reading Walter Holland & Jaime Manrique, Moderator Christopher Bram (in-person & live-streaming)
2022-05-14 15:00 - 16:30 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
Walter Holland celebrates his new book of poems “Reconstruction” from Finishing Line Press and Jaime Manrique will read from his two previous collections “My Night with Federico Garcia Lorca” and “Tarzan/ My Body/ Christopher Columbus,” as well as his uncollected poems. Christopher Bram will moderate a brief conversation with Holland and Manrique about their gay boyhoods, their cultural experiences and their eventual moves to New York City. Both poets share in a complexity of romance and nostalgia for societies which ultimately they were drawn to leave, and both have addressed the brightness and shadow of their memories and the problematic in the lyric imagination.

“Reconstruction” is a work for our American present. It speaks to the present conflicts over race and privilege. It is a work of complicated poetic reconciliation. Weaving both vivid lyric language into short narrative poems, Holland reconstructs a flawed yet nostalgic past. Uprooted northerners, Holland, his sisters, and his parents sought the bucolic charm and unfettered economic opportunity of 1950s Virginia. Middle-class and affluent, Holland went to ballroom lessons, piano lessons, lived in a home attended to by a maid, and grew into a society, on the one hand as an outsider—northern born, Catholic, liberally inclined, studying modern dance and performing in community theater—and on the other felt obliged upon to take a date to her debutante party, attend the cotillions, hunt on one occasion, and obediently comply with the rules of segregation.

Walter Holland is the author of four books of poetry: “Reconstruction,” “Circuit,” “Transatlantic,” and “A Journal of the Plague Years: Poems 1979-1992,” as well as a novel, “The March.” Some of his poetry credits include: “Antioch Review,” “Art and Understanding,” and “Barrow Street,” as well as many anthologies. He previously taught American Poetry part-time at the New School for ten years before retiring. He has reviewed books, written a libretto, had his short fiction and scholarly articles published in many journals and holds a PhD in English from CUNY Graduate Center. He lives in New York City. For more information visit walterhollandwriter.com.

Jaime Manrique is a celebrated novelist, essayist, and poet. Some of his critically acclaimed novels include “Latin Moon in Manhattan,” “Twilight at the Equator,” “Cervantes Street,” “Our Lives Are the Rivers,” and “Like This Afternoon Forever.” His much-praised non-fiction book “Eminent Maricones: Arenas, Lorca, Puig, and Me,” won him a Guggenheim Fellowship. His poetry books include “Scarecrow,” “My Night with Federico Garcia Lorca” and “Tarzan/My Body/Christoper Columbus.” John Ashbery writes of Manrique’s 1995 “My Night with Federico García Lorca”: “Memories of an ecstatic childhood—walks by the sea, ‘a happy mambo,’ eating deceptive tropical fruits—merge with those of recent loves in these luscious, incantatory poems.”

Christopher Bram is the author of nine novels, including the book that became the movie “Gods and Monsters.” He also wrote “Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America.” He teaches at the Gallatin School of New York University.

Join this event in-person at the Bureau
(Registration is not required. Seating is first come, first served.)
OR watch the live-stream of the event on the Bureau’s YouTube channel

Suggested donation $10 to benefit the Bureau’s work.
All are welcome to attend, with or without donation.
We will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event, but we can also take credit card donations at the register

Books by Holland, Manrique, and Bram are available for purchase at the Bureau.

Safety protocol (for those joining in person):
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19:
If you have any symptoms associated with COVID-19 in the days leading up to the event, we ask you to please stay home.

The Town of Babylon: When Home Isn't Community (in-person & live-streaming)
2022-05-13 19:00 - 20:30 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
In Alejandro Varela’s debut novel, The Town of Babylon, a queer Latinx professor returns to his suburban hometown to care for his ailing father. While there, he attends his 20 year high school reunion, an event that precipitates a reckoning with characters from his youth, as well as with the insular community that both shaped him and inspired him to flee in search of a home that would accept and embrace him.
Varela will be joined by New Yorker staff writer Julian Lucas for a conversation about literature, community, public health, queer love, and chosen families. Stick around after the conversation for a book signing and refreshments.

Join this event in-person at the Bureau
OR watch the live-stream of the event on the Bureau’s YouTube channel.
Registration is not required. Seating is first come, first served.
Suggested donation $10 to benefit the Bureau’s work.
All are welcome to attend, with or without donation.
We will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event, but we can also take credit card donations at the register.

Safety protocol (for those joining in person)
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19:
If you have any symptoms associated with COVID-19 in the days leading up to the event, we ask you to please stay home. We ask all attendees to wear a mask.

Purchase Alejandro Varela‘s The Town of Babylon (Astra House, 2022, hardcover, $27) from the Bureau’s online store (click on title).
Copies of The Town of Babylon are also available at the Bureau’s physical store.
Thank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us!

Alejandro Varela (he/him) is based in New York. His work has appeared in The Point magazine, Boston Review, Harper’s Magazine, The Rumpus, Joyland Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, The Offing, Blunderbuss Magazine, Pariahs (an anthology, SFA Press, 2016), the Southampton Review, and The New Republic. He is a 2019 Jerome Fellow in Literature and his graduate studies were in public health.

Julian Lucas is a staff writer at The New Yorker, where he writes about books, art, video games, and the representation of history. He is also a contributing editor at The Ballot and an editor-at-large at Cabinet.

Poetry Reading with Jameson Fitzpatrick, Monica McClure, and Angelo Nikolopoulos (in person & live-streaming)
2022-05-12 19:00 - 21:00 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
Poetry Reading with Jameson Fitzpatrick, Monica McClure, and Angelo Nikolopoulos
This event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center, 208 W. 13th St., NYC, 10011.
Registration is not required. Seating is first come, first served.
Also live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel
Safety protocol
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19:
If you have any symptoms associated with COVID-19 in the days leading up to the event, we ask you to please stay home.
Please note that masks are required at all times inside The LGBT Community Center, where the Bureau is located.
Suggested donation $10 to benefit the Bureau’s work.
All are welcome to attend, with or without donation.
We will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event, but we can also take credit card donations at the register or you can donate in advance on this page.
Jameson Fitzpatrick is the author of the poetry collection Pricks in the Tapestry (Birds, LLC, 2020), a finalist for the 2021 Thom Gunn Award, and the chapbooks Mr. & (Indolent Books, 2018) and Morrisroe: Erasures (89plus/LUMA Publications, 2014). She teaches expository writing at New York University.
Monica McClure is the author of the poetry collection, Tender Data (Birds, LLC, 2015) and the chapbooks, Concomitance (Counterpath Press, 2016), Boss Parts 1& 2 (If A Leaf Falls Press, 2016), Mala (Poor Claudia, 2014), and Mood Swing (Snacks Press 2013).
Angelo Nikolopoulos is the author of Obscenely Yours and PLEASURE (Four Way Books, 2022). He teaches at Hunter College.

2022 Publishing Triangle Awards Reading (second night) (online event)
2022-05-10 19:00 - 21:00 | online event
Join us for the second of two nights of readings by eight finalists for the 2022 Publishing Triangle Awards taking place online!
Register on Eventbrite to join this event on Zoom
OR visit the Bureau’s YouTube channel at 7 PM on Tuesday, May 10th, to watch the live-stream.
Suggested donation of $5 to benefit the Bureau.
You can make a donation when you register on Eventbrite. Thank you for supporting the Bureau!
All are welcome to join, with or without a donation.
Once you have registered on Eventbrite you will receive an email with the link you need to join the event on Zoom – or you can simply return to Eventbrite and click on “Access the event.” But you will only be able to access this AFTER you have registered.
Books by all the readers are available on the Bureau’s online store and our physical store. Please support the Bureau by purchasing books from us. Thank you for your support!
Readers:
(click on any title to view on the Bureau’s online store)
Nawaaz Ahmed, Radiant Fugitives
Finalist for The Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction

Rosie Stockton, Permanent Volta
Finalist for the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry

Alex Torres (reading for Anthony Veasna So), Afterparties
Finalist for the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction

Rajiv Mohabir, Antiman: A Memoir
Finalist for the Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction

Jeanne Thornton, Summer Fun
Finalist for the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction

C. Winter Han, Racial Erotics: Gay Men of Color, Sexual Racism, and the Politics of Desire
Finalist for the Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction

Minnie Bruce Pratt, Magnified
Finalists for the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry

Callum Angus, A Natural History of Transition
Finalist for the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction

The Publishing Triangle is a group of queer folks who work to further the publication of books and other materials written by LGBTQ authors or with LGBTQ themes. The two nights of virtual readings by finalists for the 34th annual Triangle Awards will be hosted by the Bureau on Monday, May 9th, and Tuesday, May 10th. Winners will be announced virtually on Wednesday, May 11.
These prizes, which honor the best LGBTQ fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and trans literature published in 2021, are highly anticipated in both the publishing and queer communities. The Publishing Triangle, the association of LGBTQ people in publishing, began honoring a writer for their body of work a few months after the organization was founded in 1989. It has since partnered with the Ferro-Grumley Literary Awards to present an impressive array of awards each spring.
To view the full list of finalists and details about the prizes please click here.

2022 Publishing Triangle Awards Reading (first night) (online event)
2022-05-09 19:00 - 21:00 | online event
Join us for the first of two nights of readings by nine finalists for the 2022 Publishing Triangle Awards taking place online!
Register on Eventbrite to join this event on Zoom
OR visit the Bureau’s YouTube channel at 7 PM on Monday, May 9th, to watch the live-stream.
Suggested donation of $5 to benefit the Bureau.
You can make a donation when you register on Eventbrite. Thank you for supporting the Bureau!
All are welcome to join, with or without a donation.
Once you have registered on Eventbrite you will receive an email with the link you need to join the event on Zoom – or you can simply return to Eventbrite and click on “Access the event.” But you will only be able to access this AFTER you have registered.
Books by all the readers are available on the Bureau’s online store and our physical store. Please support the Bureau by purchasing books from us. Thank you for your support!
Readers:
(click on any title to view on the Bureau’s online store)
Robert Jones, Jr., The Prophets
Finalist for The Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction

Zoe Playdon, The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes
Finalist for the Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature

Eddy Boudel Tan, The Rebellious Tide
Finalist for the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction

Claire Cox, Silver Beach
Finalist for The Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction

Jeremy Atherton Lin, The Gay Bar: Why We Went Out
Finalist for the Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction

Melissa Broder, Milk Fed
Finalist for the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction

Phillip B. Williams, Mutiny
Finalist for the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry

Alison Bechdel, The Secret to Superhuman Strength
Finalist for the Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction

Brian Broome, Punch Me Up to the Gods
Finalist for the Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction

The Publishing Triangle is a group of queer folks who work to further the publication of books and other materials written by LGBTQ authors or with LGBTQ themes. The two nights of virtual readings by finalists for the 34th annual Triangle Awards will be hosted by the Bureau on Monday, May 9th, and Tuesday, May 10th. Winners will be announced virtually on Wednesday, May 11.
These prizes, which honor the best LGBTQ fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and trans literature published in 2021, are highly anticipated in both the publishing and queer communities. The Publishing Triangle, the association of LGBTQ people in publishing, began honoring a writer for their body of work a few months after the organization was founded in 1989. It has since partnered with the Ferro-Grumley Literary Awards to present an impressive array of awards each spring.
To view the full list of finalists and details about the prizes please click here.

Affirmative Laughter (in person only!)
2022-05-07 19:00 - 21:00 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
🚨🚨AWWWWWSHEEEEIT!!!🚨🚨
Affirmative Laughter is back and better than ever! Back from a 4 yr hiatus, host Elsa Eli Waithe is ready to shake the cobwebs off and bring the funny. Come join us at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division as we celebrate our return with a killer line up:
Joanna Briley
Carolyn Castiglia
Dara Jemmott
Veronica Garza
and presenting GOLD Comedy alum Chrissy Carroll!

Doors at 6pm, Show at 7pm and as always $5 suggested donation to benefit the Bureau and the performers!
All are welcome to attend, with or without donation.
We will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event, but we can also take credit card donations at the register.

Safety protocol
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19:
If you have any symptoms associated with COVID-19 in the days leading up to the event, we ask you to please stay home.
All attendees required to wear masks.

Minoritarian Liberalism: A Travesti Life in a Brazilian Favela (online)
2022-05-07 14:00 - 15:00 | online event
Normative liberalism has promoted the freedom of privileged subjects, those entitled to rights—usually white, adult, heteronormative, and bourgeois—at the expense of marginalized groups, such as Black people, children, LGBTQ people, and slum dwellers. In this visceral ethnography of Rocinha, the largest favela in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Moisés Lino e Silva explores what happens when liberalism is challenged by people whose lives are impaired by normative understandings of liberty. He calls such marginalized visions of freedom “minoritarian liberalism,” a concept that stands in for overlapping, alternative modes of freedom—be they queer, favela, or peasant.
Lino e Silva introduces readers to a broad collective of favela residents, most intimately accompanying Natasha Kellem, a charismatic self-declared travesti (a term used in Latin America to indicate a specific form of female gender construction opposite to the sex assigned at birth). While many of those the author meets consider themselves “queer,” others are treated as “abnormal” simply because they live in favelas. Through these interconnected experiences, Lino e Silva not only pushes at the boundaries of anthropological inquiry, but also offers ethnographic evidence of non-normative routes to freedom for those seeking liberties against the backdrop of capitalist exploitation, transphobia, racism, and other patterns of domination.
In her endorsement of the publication, Wendy Brown (political theorist) states: “Lino e Silva’s remarkable book fulfills its ambition to decolonize the freedom at liberalism’s heart. Equal parts erudite political theory and delicate anthropology, it roams a favela in Rio for stories and imaginaries across Blackness, queerness, gender and class, where it discovers everywhere the bubbling of minoritarian desires and practices of freedom. This beautifully written work does nothing less than bring liberalism–as theory and practices– into the 21st century.”

Registration on Eventbrite required in order to gain access to the Zoom link.
Suggested donation of $5 to benefit the Bureau.
You can make a donation when you register on Eventbrite. Thank you for supporting the Bureau!
All are welcome to join, with or without a donation.
Once you have registered on Eventbrite you will receive an email with the link you need to join the event on Zoom – or you can simply return to the page on Eventbrite and click on “Access the event.” But you will only be able to access this AFTER you have registered.

Purchase Moisés Lino e Silva‘s Minoritarian Liberalism: A Travesti Life in a Brazilian Favela (University of Chicago Press, 2022, paperback, $27.50) from the Bureau’s online store by clicking on the title.
Thank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us!

Moises Lino e Silva is tenured faculty at the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), which is located in Brazil. His field of focus is that of political anthropology, with a specialty in the ethnographic study of liberty and authority. This is examined in relation to issues such as poverty, sexuality, race, and religion. His initial in-field research considered the aspects and issues of freedom as experienced and perceived by slum dwellers in Rio de Janeiro. More recent work has studied the cultivation of Afro-Brazilian power and the nature of freedom and partial freedom after formal slavery, using ethnographic research to understand the current power dynamics between Latin America and West Africa. He is also the editor, with Huon Wardle, of Freedom in Practice: Governance Autonomy and Liberty in the Everyday (Routledge 2017). Lino e Silva was appointed a World Social Science Fellow by the International Social Science Council.

Jack Halberstam is Professor of Gender Studies and English at Columbia University. Halberstam is the author of seven books including: Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters (Duke UP, 1995), Female Masculinity (Duke UP, 1998), In A Queer Time and Place (NYU Press, 2005), The Queer Art of Failure (Duke UP, 2011), Gaga Feminism: Sex, Gender, and the End of Normal (Beacon Press, 2012) and, a short book titled Trans*: A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variance (University of California Press). Halberstam’s latest book, out in 2020, from Duke UP is titled Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire. Places Journal awarded Halberstam its Arcus/Places Prize in 2018 for innovative public scholarship on the relationship between gender, sexuality and the built environment. Halberstam is now finishing a second volume on wildness titled: The Wild Beyond: Music, Architecture and Anarchy.

Bogus Bite Mark Evidence and Homophobia: A Criminal Combination (in-person & live-streaming)
2022-05-06 19:00 - 20:30 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
Hear from two innocence litigators as they describe the harmful yet tantalizing power of faulty forensic evidence, and how it has been used to wrongly convict queer people of violent crimes. Queer author Valena Beety will discuss her book Manifesting Justice: Wrongly Convicted Women Reclaim Their Rights, in conversation with Innocence Project Strategic Litigation Director Chris Fabricant about his book Junk Science and the American Criminal Justice System. This night will be sure to take a bite out of crime… by exposing criminal falsehoods.

Join this event in-person at the Bureau
OR watch the live-stream of the event on the Bureau’s YouTube channel.
Registration is not required. Seating is first come, first served.

Suggested donation $10 to benefit the Bureau’s work.
All are welcome to attend, with or without donation.
We will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event, but we can also take credit card donations at the register.

Safety protocol (for those joining in person):
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19:
If you have any symptoms associated with COVID-19 in the days leading up to the event, we ask you to please stay home.

Valena Beety is a former federal prosecutor and innocence litigator who represented Leigh Stubbs in post-conviction. She has successfully exonerated wrongfully convicted clients, obtained presidential grants of clemency for drug offenders, served as an elected board member of the national Innocence Network, and was appointed commissioner on the West Virginia Governor’s Indigent Defense Commission. She is currently a Professor of Law at Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law and the Deputy Director of the Academy for Justice, a criminal justice center at the law school that connects research with policy reform. Previously, she founded and directed the West Virginia Innocence Project at the West Virginia University College of Law and practiced as a Senior Staff Attorney at the Mississippi Innocence Project, representing clients on death row. Author Photo Credit Tavis Daniel.

CHRIS FABRICANT is the Innocence Project’s Director of Strategic Litigation and one of the nation’s leading experts on forensic sciences and the criminal justice system. Fabricant is featured in the Netflix documentary The Innocence Files and his public commentary has been published in virtually every major media outlet. A former public defender and clinical law professor, Fabricant brings to his writing over two decades of experience ranging from litigating death penalty cases in the Deep South to misdemeanors in the South Bronx. Born in New York City and raised in Sedona, Arizona, Fabricant has lived in Brooklyn since graduating from George Washington University Law School in 1997.

Circumcision: The Long and Short of It (online event)
2022-05-05 18:00 - 19:15 | NY
The ancient practice of circumcision is a hot-button, global controversy. This event brings together artists, activists, and experts for a wide-ranging conversation on circumcision psychologically, poetically, cinematically, and politically.

Registration on Eventbrite required in order to gain access to the Zoom link.
Suggested donation of $5 to benefit the Bureau.
You can make a donation when you register on Eventbrite. Thank you for supporting the Bureau!
All are welcome to join, with or without a donation.
Once you have registered on Eventbrite you will receive an email with the link you need to join the event on Zoom – or you can simply return to the Eventbrite page and click on “Access the event.” But you will only be able to access this AFTER you have registered.

Purchase A.W. Strouse’sForm and Foreskin: Medieval Narratives of Circumcision (Fordham University Press, 2021, paperback, $25) from the Bureau’s online store by clicking on the title or visit our physical store to purchase a copy.

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

Aidan Kaye is a New York City-based camera operator, photographer, and experimental filmmaker. Graduating with a BFA in Film from SUNY Purchase in 2020, he has worked on several award-winning documentaries, including Alex Gibney’s Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine, Mr. Dynamite: The Rise Fall of James Brown. In 2019, he won an award for best experimental film at the SUNY Wide Film Festival and best student film at Peekskill Film Festival for his film Read @12:35AM. Instagram: @aidanpkaye

Ron Lowis the inventor of the world’s leading brand of foreskin restoration device with over 50,000 clients since 2003.

Jordan Ossermanis a lecturer in psychosocial and psychoanalytic studies at the University of Essex (UK), a trainee psychoanalyst and author ofCircumcision on the Couch: On the Cultural, Psychological, and Gendered Dimensions of the World’s Oldest Surgery(Bloomsbury, 2022). He is based in London.

A.W. Strouseis the author ofForm and Foreskin: Medieval Narratives of Circumcision(Fordham University Press, 2021).

Queer Pleasure: A Poetry Reading (in-person & live-streaming)
2022-04-30 19:00 - 21:00 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
Queer Pleasure: A poetry reading featuring Julia Guez, Timothy Liu, Ricardo Maldonado, & Angelo Nikolopoulos.
Books by all of the readers are available for purchase at the Bureau.

Join this event in-person at the Bureau
OR watch the live-stream of the event on the Bureau’s YouTube channel.
Registration is not required. Seating is first come, first served.

Suggested donation $10 to benefit the Bureau’s work.
All are welcome to attend, with or without donation.
We will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event, but we can also take credit card donations at the register.

Safety protocol (for those joining in person):
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19:
If you have any symptoms associated with COVID-19 in the days leading up to the event, we ask you to please stay home.

Julia Guez is a writer and translator based in New York City. Four Way Books released her first full-length collection, In An Invisible Glass Case Which Is Also A Frame, in 2019. They will release her next book, The Certain Body, in 2022. Guez has been awarded the Discovery/Boston Review Poetry Prize, a Fulbright Fellowship, and the John Frederick Nims Memorial Prize in Translation as well as a Translation Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. She teaches creative writing at New York University and Rutgers.

Timothy Liu has taken early retirement after 24 years. After taking some time off, he will be joining the faculty at SUNY New Paltz in the fall. In the meantime, he has put the icing on his latest multi-layered cake, Under Lockdown AKA Trickle-Down Bedside Bottom-Feeder Blues. He gives tarot readings at the Omega Institute for Holistic Studies in Rhinebeck and lives year-round in Woodstock, NY.

Ricardo Alberto Maldonado was born and raised in Puerto Rico. He lives in New York, where he serves as managing director at 92Y’s Unterberg Poetry Center. Maldonado is the author of The Life Assignment (Four Way Books).

Angelo Nikolopoulos is the author of Obscenely Yours and PLEASURE (Four Way Books, 2022). He teaches at Hunter College.

Bespoke for the Bureau (in-person & live-streaming)
2022-04-29 19:00 - 21:00 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
This April 29, 2022, Bespoke Next Gen event will (we hope) be our first in-person event since 2019 and will feature four readers, including poet/writer Shayla Lawz, writer/comedian Nikki Palumbo, as well as poets Sahar Romani and poet Dan Schapiro plus a brief audience Q&A. The event will be FREE to the public both in person and live-streamed via the Bureau’s YouTube channel, and in the spirit of selecting an organization to fundraise on behalf of for every event, we will collect donations for our beloved host, the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division, an organization and bookstore that celebrates and supports an abundance of queer artists and writers (including us).
We will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event, but we can also take credit card donations at the register.
Safety protocol (for those joining in person)
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19:
If you have any symptoms associated with COVID-19 in the days leading up to the event, we ask you to please stay home.

Readers:
SHAYLA LAWZ is a writer and interdisciplinary artist from Jersey City, NJ. She works at the intersection of text, sound, and performance and has received fellowships from Cave Canem, Jack Jones Literary Arts, The Center for African American Poetry and Poetics (CAAPP), and The Digital Studies Center at Rutgers-Camden (DiSC). Her work appears in McSweeney’s Quarterly, Catapult, and The Poetry Project, among others. Her debut poetry collection speculation, n. was chosen by Ilya Kaminsky for the 2020 Autumn House Poetry Prize. She lives in BK and teaches in the Dept of Humanities & Media Studies at Pratt. @shaylalawz

NIKKI PALUMBO is a writer, comedian, and Italian based in Brooklyn. Nikki currently writes TikToks for Barbie (yes, that one) and American Girl. Previously, Nikki wrote on the inaugural MTV TV & Movie Awards: Unscripted, hosted by Nikki Glaser, and worked as a story producer on the YouTube Originals weekly music show, RELEASED. Nikki has contributed writing to The New Yorker’s Daily Shouts, McSweeney’s, Reductress, and the Google Assistant. @nikkipal

SAHAR ROMANI is a poet and educator. Her poems appear with the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day, Yale Review, Los Angeles Review, The Believer, Guernica, The Poetry Society of America, Adroit Journal, The Offing, The Margins and elsewhere. She received support from Millay Arts and Hedgebrook for writing residencies as well as fellowships from Asian American Writers’ Workshop, Poets House, and New York University, where she earned an MFA. She currently teaches expository writing as a Clinical Assistant Professor at NYU. @saharromani

DAN SCHAPIRO is an HIV+ disabled poet and the author of a book of images and illness entitled HOLEPLAY (Nueoi Press, 2020). His work has appeared in LESTE, Bæst Journal, Verse Dot Press, FEELINGS, No Issue, Paintbucket, Protean Magazine, and elsewhere. His book has been recommended and reviewed in the likes of POZ Magazine and Full Stop Magazine.

Craft Class & Poetry Reading with Patricia Spears Jones (online class)
2022-04-28 18:30 - 20:45 | online class
Join us for a Virtual Craft Class & Reading with Patricia Spears Jones
Craft Class will run from 6:30 PM-8:30 PM EDT. Followed by a reading from 8:30 PM-8:45 PM.
Registration on Eventbrite required in order to gain access to the Zoom link.
Suggested donation to benefit the instructor: $10
All are welcome to join, with or without a donation.
Once you have registered on Eventbrite you will receive an email with the link you need to join the event on Zoom – or you can simply return to the Eventbrite page and click on “Access the event.” But you will only be able to access this AFTER you have registered.

Working Words
This workshop focuses on expanding the writer’s word choice. Poets often use a few words over and over. One way to break this pattern is to use different words–ones that have not been used. This workshop uses an exercise to generate new poems and as a tool that the students can take with them. Participants will review a prompt, write, and discuss their vocabulary choices.

Patricia Spears Jones is a poet, educator, cultural activist, anthologist, and recipient of 2017 Jackson Poetry Prize and is author of A Lucent Fire New and Selected Poems and three full-length collections and five chapbooks. She coedited the groundbreaking anthology Ordinary Women: An Anthology of New York City Women (1978) and THINK: Poems for Aretha Franklin’s Inauguration Day Hat (2009). Her poems are widely anthologized, most notably in Of Poetry and Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin: BAX: Best American Experimental Writing, 2016, WORD: An Anthology by A Gathering of Tribes, African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song, and Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry. Jones’s poems have appeared in many print and online journals, such as the New Yorker, the Brooklyn Rail, Persimmon Tree: An Online Magazine of the Arts by Women, Cutthroat Journal, and Plume. Her essays, blogs, colloquies, and interviews have been published in the collections Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry and The Whiskey of Our Discontent: Gwendolyn Brooks as Conscience and Change Agent; they have also appeared in print and online journals, including The Black Scholar, Bomb, Mosaic, the Harriet blog on poetryfoundation.org, Pangyrus, The Poetry Project Newsletter, The Rumpus, and The Writers Chronicle. https://psjones.com

The Digital Closet: LGBTQIA+ Censorship Online (online event)
2022-04-28 12:00 - 13:00 | online event
Heteronormative bias is deeply embedded in the internet, hidden in algorithms, keywords, content moderation, and more. In fact, the internet has become largely straight by suppressing everything that is not, forcing LGBTQIA+ content into increasingly narrow channels—rendering it invisible through strategies of digital overreach. The Digital Closet author Alexander Monea joins the Bureau to present a short talk about growing LGBTQIA+ censorship online. Following this presentation, he will be joined by Shaka McGlotten to discuss additional points, including how LGBTQIA+ content online blurs lines between SFW and NSFW, why LGBTQIA+ porn is important, and more. The conversationalists will close by opening the floor to audience discussion and Q&A.

Registration on Eventbrite required in order to gain access to the Zoom link.

Suggested donation of $5 to benefit the Bureau.
You can make a donation when you register on Eventbrite. Thank you for supporting the Bureau!
All are welcome to join, with or without a donation.
Once you have registered on Eventbrite you will receive an email with the link you need to join the event on Zoom – or you can simply return to the Eventbrite page and click on “Access the event.” But you will only be able to access this AFTER you have registered.

Purchase Alexander Monea‘s The Digital Closet: How the Internet Became Straight (MIT Press, 2022, hardcover, $29.95) from the Bureau’s online store by clicking on the title.
Thank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us!

Alexander Monea is Assistant Professor serving jointly in the English Department and Cultural Studies Program at George Mason University whose research focuses on the historical and cultural impact of computation and fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics. He is the author of The Digital Closet: How the Internet Became Straight (MIT Press) and co-author of a forthcoming book The Prisonhouse of the Circuit: A New Politics of Control (University of Minnesota Press).

Shaka McGlotten is Professor of Media Studies and Anthropology at Purchase College-SUNY, where they also serve as Chair of the Gender Studies and Global Black Studies programs. An anthropologist and artist, their work stages encounters between black study, queer theory, media, and art. They have written and lectured widely on networked intimacies and messy computational entanglements as they interface with qtpoc lifeworlds.

NYC Queer Comics Fair (in-person at the Bureau!)
2022-04-24 13:00 - 19:00, 2022-04-23 13:00 - 19:00 | Bureau of General Services—Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
The NYC Queer Comic Fair is BACK! After a 2-year hiatus due to covid-19, Doable Guys is taking the helm and bringing back the fun!
We’ll be in the Bureau, located in The LGBT Community Center, on the second floor and we have about 15 creators lined up!
So mark your calendars for the weekend of April 23-24, 1-7pm both days! FREE ADMISSION!

Vendors:
Doable Guys @doableguys
WabiSabiZinez @Wabi_Sabi_Zinez
Patrick J. Reilly @NotPatReilly
It’s Alive Comics @itsalivecomicsnyc
James Dillenbeck @Jamesdillenbeck
Edward Ficklin Ig: @papertiger74
SquareBears @squarebears
Giles Crawford @gilesdraws
Queer Lobster Shop @queer.lobster.shop
Michael Shirey @bouquetBoys
Tony Ortega @drtonyortega
Daniel Stalter @danielstalter
Lucky Sanford @luckysanford

YOU DO NOT NEED TO REGISTER ON EVENTBRITE OR ANYWHERE ELSE TO JOIN THIS EVENT.
All are welcome to join!
Please note that masks are required at all times within The LGBT Community Center, where the Bureau is located.

THREE POETS, THREE VOICES: Scott Hightower, John Keene, Elaine Sexton (in-person & live-streaming)
2022-04-22 19:00 - 21:00 | Bureau of General Services—Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
Join us in celebrating two new books and new work by three queer poets in celebration of National Poetry Month, and in support of the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division. Elaine Sexton will read from Drive, just out this month with Grid Books (April ‘22). MacArthur Fellow John Keene’s Punks: New & Selected Poems is from The Song Cave, (Dec. ‘21). Poet, translator, and literary matchmaker Scott Hightower rounds out this roster of three poets reading new work.

This event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center, 208 W. 13th St., NYC, 10011.
Registration is not required. Seating is first come, first served.
Also live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel

Safety protocol
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19:
If you have any symptoms associated with COVID-19 in the days leading up to the event, we ask you to please stay home.
Please note that masks are required at all times inside The LGBT Community Center, where the Bureau is located.

Suggested donation $10 to benefit the Bureau’s work.
All are welcome to attend, with or without donation.
We will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event, but we can also take credit card donations at the register or you can donate in advance on Eventbrite.

Books by John Keene, Elaine Sexton, and Scott Hightower will be available for purchase at the event.
Purchase Elaine Sexton’s Drive (Grid Books, 2022, paperback, $16) from the Bureau’s online store (click on the title).
Purchase John Keene’s Punks: New and Selected Poems (The Song Cave, 2021, paperback, $20) from the Bureau’s online store (click on the title).
Thank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us!

JOHN KEENE is the author of Punks: New and Selected Poems (The Song Cave, 2021), a 2022 Lambda Lit Award finalist, as well as several other works of poetry, fiction and translations. Keene is the recipient of numerous honors—most notably a MacArthur Genius Award, a Windham-Campbell Prize, and a Lannan Award for Fiction. A Graduate Fellow of the Cave Canem Writers Workshops, he teaches and chairs at Rutgers University-Newark.

ELAINE SEXTON‘s newest book is Drive (GRID, 2022). Work from this book also appears in three forthcoming anthologies: Treelines (Grayson Books), I Wanna Be Loved By You (Milk & Honey Press), and Stronger Than Fear (Cave Moon Press). Her book, Causeway, was a finalist for the Audre Lorde/ Publishing Triangle Award. She is a member of the National Book Critics Circle, and teaches at the Sarah Lawrence College Writing Institute.

SCOTT HIGHTOWER is the author of four books of poetry in the US and two bilingual collections published in Madrid. He lives in Manhattan and teaches at New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study.

TELL 80: RELEASE PARTY FOR SEASON 2 OF TELL! A BRIC PODCAST (IN PERSON!)
2022-04-16 18:30 - 20:30 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
TELL is an evening of story telling from the mouths and minds of queers in NYC hosted by Drae Campbell at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division since February 2014.
The 80th TELL will serve as the release party for season 2 of TELL! Podcast, produced by BRIC, on Saturday, April 16, 2022, 6:30 PM IN PERSON at the Bureau! Featuring: Becca Blackwell, Joey Kipp, and Fernando Vieira.
FREE EVENT!
Free snacks & drinks provided by BRIC!

Safety protocol:
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19:
Please bring proof of vaccination with you.
You will need to show proof of vaccination and a photo id in order to attend the event.
If you have any symptoms associated with COVID-19 in the days leading up to the event, we ask you to please stay home.
Registration is not required. Seating is first come, first served.

Photograph by Grace Chu
Drae Campbell is an actor and performer who has appeared on stages all over NYC and on the internet, movies and tv. She’s been spotted on the tv shows New Amsterdam and Bull and on the web series Dinette directed by Shaina Feinberg. She can also be found online on Refinery29, IFC.Com and BRICTV to name a few. Some fave stage acting credits: Only You Can Prevent Wildfires, Ricochet Collective, Non-Consensual Relationships With Ghosts, La Mama, My Old Man, Dixon Place, Oph3lia at HERE, The Nosebleed at The Public Theatre. Drae also appeared as a radical lesbian in Taylor Mac’s 24 Decade History Of Popular Music at St. Ann’s Warehouse. Drae’s been hosting and curating TELL at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division for 7 plus years. If you like queer stories, TELL is also a Podcast! www.draecampbell.com

Photo credit: Eric McNatt
Becca Blackwell is an NYC-based trans actor, performer and writer. Existing between genders, and preferring the pronoun “they,” Blackwell works collaboratively with playwrights and directors to expand our sense of personhood and the body through performance. Some of their collaborations have been with Young Jean Lee, Half Straddle, Jennifer Miller’s Circus Amok, Richard Maxwell, Erin Markey, Sharon Hayes, Theater of the Two Headed Calf and Lisa D’Amour. Film/TV includes: “High Maintenance,” “Ramy,” “Marriage Story,” “Shameless,” “Deadman’s Barstool,” and “Jack in the Box.” They have toured their solo shows They, Themself and Schmerm and Schmermie’s Choice across the US. Blackwell was a recipient of the Doris Duke Impact Artist Award, the Franklin Furnace award and the Creative Capital Award. Photo credit: Eric McNatt

Joey Kipp is an NYC Dancer and performer.

Fernando Vieira is an Ecuadorian born, New York-based writer, director, and performer. Most of his works document the effect of heteronormativity and misogyny on the lives of women and queer individuals. In 2016, he debuted as a playwright with the monologue “Me voy porque puedo,” (I’m leaving because I can), which he also directed. His latest play “Goodbye, Little George,” explores the subject of gender identity and homophobia. He recently debuted a documented performance titled “Unlabeled”, where he discusses life as a queer non-conforming person. Vieira has been part of artistic cohorts at institutions such as NYFA, Creative Capital, and Leslie-Lohman Museum.

Histories of Gay Liberation: Samuel Huneke and Lisa Duggan in Conversation (in-person & live-streaming)
2022-04-15 19:00 - 20:00 | Bureau of General Services—Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
Please join us for a conversation between Professor Lisa Duggan and Professor Samuel Huneke about queer liberation movements across history and Huneke’s new book States of Liberation: Gay Men between Dictatorship and Democracy in Cold War Germany. States of Liberation traces the paths of gay men in East and West Germany from the violent aftermath of the Second World War to the thundering nightclubs of present-day Berlin. Following a captivating cast of characters, from gay spies and Nazi scientists to queer politicians and secret police bureaucrats, it tells the remarkable story of how the two German states persecuted gay men – and how those men slowly, over the course of decades, won new rights and created new opportunities for themselves in the heart of Cold War Europe.

This event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center, 208 W. 13th St., NYC, 10011.
Also live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel

Safety protocol
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19:
If you have any symptoms associated with COVID-19 in the days leading up to the event, we ask you to please stay home.
Please note that masks are required at all times inside The LGBT Community Center, where the Bureau is located.

Suggested donation $10 to benefit the Bureau’s work.
All are welcome to attend, with or without donation.
We will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event, but we can also take credit card donations at the register.

Huneke’s States of Liberation: Gay Men between Dictatorship and Democracy in Cold War Germany (University of Toronto Press, 2022, paperback, $38.95) will be available for purchase at the event. To reserve a copy, please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com.

Samuel Clowes Huneke is Assistant Professor of History at George Mason University. His research focuses on the social and political history of twentieth-century Germany. His first book, States of Liberation: Gay Men between Dictatorship and Democracy in Cold War Germany (University of Toronto Press, 2022), examines gay persecution and liberation in Germany during the Cold War. He has written widely on the history of sexuality in modern Germany, publishing in scholarly journals including Central European History, New German Critique, and Journal of Contemporary History. He also writes regularly for public venues including Boston Review, The Point, and Los Angeles Review of Books.

Lisa Duggan is a journalist, activist, and Professor of Social & Cultural Analysis at New York University. She is author of Sapphic Slashers: Sex, Sensationalism and American Modernity; Twilight of Equality? Neoliberalism, Cultural Politics and the Attack on Democracy, and Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and Neoliberal Greed.
