Bureau closed on Sundays: August 9th - September 6th
2015-09-06 | NY
The Bureau will be closed on Sundays until after Labor Day Weekend: August 9th, 16th, 23rd, 30th, and September 6th. We will resume Sunday hours beginning on September 13th.

WRITE QUEER!
2015-09-08 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | NY
Write Queer! is an ongoing open-ended weekly writing workshop for those who identify as both Queer and Writer. Come read a variety of work by queer artists, generate new writing, and workshop with your peers. All experience levels and writing backgrounds are welcome.
Starting September 8th, classes meet every Tuesday from 7pm-9pm at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division.
Please note that the Bureau is closed on Tuesdays—we will open from 7 to 9 PM on Tuesdays for this event.
$20 per class to benefit the facilitators and the Bureau. Limited sliding scale and scholarship available. Contact Cecily at sumthn.else@gmail.com for details.

20Something Monthly Manhattan Meetup
2015-09-09 20:00 - 22:00, 2015-10-14 20:00 - 22:00 | NY
If you are new to the city, recently out, just looking for friends, or whatever experiences brought you to us – we offer a safe space where we can mingle and talk about our experiences as an LGBT person in New York City. We hold our meetings on the second Wednesday of every month from 8-10 PM at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division. We recommend this 20Something Meetup to anyone who is looking for a more casual space to explore their sexual/gender identity. There will be light refreshments. Bring friends!

20Something is the largest social events organization for young lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people in New York City, aged 21 to 30. We hold a monthly social, and two monthly icebreaker/discussion groups at the Brooklyn Pride Center and at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division, the queer cultural center and bookstore on the second floor of The LGBT Community Center, in Manhattan. With more than 2,500 members, we engage young adults across all 5 boroughs with a safe, confidential, and respectful platform to meet other LGBT folk. Many of our members have made long lasting friendships, relationships, and have been connected to important LGBT services and resources. Whether you are new to the city, recently out, or just looking to make friends – 20Something offers a space for you to pave the way to your own adventures in New York City – and make living here a little easier. Become a member: meetup.com/20SomethingNYC

KNOWSGAY No. 5 - Heroes and Role Models
2015-09-10 18:00 - 21:30 | NY
The Bureau is happy to announce our next exhibition: KNOWSGAY No5 – Heroes and Role Models
Reception: Thursday, September 10 from 6:00-9:30pm
The exhibition will run from September 10 – November 15

Three part exhibition:
• Presentation of KNOWSGAY No5
• Timeline Exhibition of all previous issues of KNOWSGAY
• Exhibition of original artwork related to KNOWSGAY created by Charlie Welch and Paul Moreno

30% of all KNOWSGAY sales during the exhibition will go to New Alternatives*
*New Alternative’s mission is to provide skills and opportunities that will allow homeless LGBT youth to obtain the stable, meaningful employment that is necessary in order to obtain and maintain permanent housing. Services provided will include life skills training, case management, and supported transitional employment.
KNOWSGAY

Launch of Mouthquake by Daniel Allen Cox, with Sarah Schulman
2015-09-12 19:00 - 22:00 | NY
Please join Daniel Allen Cox and Sarah Schulman for the launch of the novel Mouthquake (Arsenal Pulp Press). Both authors will read from their work.
Copies of Mouthquake will be available for purchase.
Reception at 7, readings at 7:30
Suggested donation of $5 to benefit the Bureau. No one turned away for lack of funds.
About Mouthquake: Montreal, 1979. A boy’s speech starts to fracture along with the cement of le Stade olympique. Do they share a fault line? Daniel Allen Cox’s unconventional fourth novel tells the story of a boy with a stutter who grows up and uses sound to remember the past. A coming-of-age tale that telescopes through time like an amnesiac memoir, Mouthquake finds its strange beat in subliminal messages hidden in skipping records, in the stutters of celebrities, and in the wisdom of The Grand Antonio, a suspicious mystic who helps the narrator unlock the secret to his speech. This is a loudly exclaimed book of innuendo, rumours, and the tangled barbs of repressed memory that asks: How do you handle a troubling past event that behaves like a barely audible whisper? Written with a poetic bravado and in a structure that mimics a stutter, the elegiac Mouthquake is speech therapy for the bent: the signal is perverted and the sounds are thrilling.
From the Afterword by Sarah Schulman:
“Art both tells and transforms life. And it is through the juxtaposition of evocative, surprising language with intellectual awareness and the sharing of open consciousness that this process is conveyed with soul as long as the form emerges from the emotional center of the work. Daniel finds these connections and innovations within himself, partially through commitment, partially through instinct. It’s that thing we call talent.”

Author photo by Alison Slattery
Daniel Allen Cox is the author of the novels Shuck, Krakow Melt, Basement of Wolves, Mouthquake, and the novella Tattoo This Madness In. He co-wrote the screenplay for Bruce LaBruce’s 2013 film Gerontophilia. Daniel was a 2015 writer-in-residence at the Zvona i Nari Library & Literary Retreat in Ližnjan, Croatia. He lives in Montreal, where he is vice president of Quebec Writers’ Federation. www.mouthquake.com

Sarah Schulman‘s new novel, The Cosmopolitans, will be published in March 2016 by The Feminist Press. Her play Roe Versus Wade, will have a reading on Sunday, September 13, at 7 as part of the Howl Festival at 6 East 1st St between 2nd Avenue and Bowery, directed by Niegel Smith.

The Bureau serves beer, wine, and sparkling water for cash donations.
The Bureau is wheelchair accessible.
Gender-neutral bathrooms are available.

WRITE QUEER!
2015-09-15 19:00 - 21:00, 2015-09-22 19:00 - 21:00, 2015-09-29 19:00 - 21:00, 2015-10-06 19:00 - 21:00, 2015-10-13 19:00 - 21:00, 2015-10-20 19:00 - 21:00 | NY
Write Queer! is an ongoing open-ended weekly writing workshop for those who identify as both Queer and Writer. Come read a variety of work by queer artists, generate new writing, and workshop with your peers. All experience levels and writing backgrounds are welcome.
Classes meet every Tuesday from 7pm-9pm at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division.
Please note that the Bureau is closed on Tuesdays—we will open from 7 to 9 PM on Tuesdays for this event.
$20 per class to benefit the facilitators and the Bureau. Limited sliding scale and scholarship available. Contact Cecily at sumthn.else@gmail.com for details.

Get HARD with AN OLDER MAN: Wayne Hoffman's new books
2015-09-17 19:00 - 22:00 | NY
Author Wayne Hoffman reads from his steamy new novel, AN OLDER MAN, about a gay man struggling to come to terms with getting older, while he searches for love and sex in Provincetown. Jeff Mann (CUB) called the book “as much a touching examination of aging and loneliness as it is a witty tale of sexual shenanigans during Provincetown’s Bear Week.” AN OLDER MAN is a sequel to Wayne’s debut novel, HARD, which he will also read from at the event.

Suggested donation of $5 to benefit the Bureau.
No one turned away for lack of funds.

Wayne Hoffman is the author of three books—HARD, SWEET LIKE SUGAR (winner of the Stonewall Book Award), and AN OLDER MAN. His essays and short stories have appeared in such collections as BEST GAY STORIES 2010, FRESH MEN 2, and MAMA’S BOY. As a cultural reporter, he has written for the Washington Post, Village Voice, The Nation, Billboard, and Instinct magazine; he is currently executive editor of Tablet magazine. He lives in the West Village and the Catskills.

James Baldwin: The Defiant One
2015-09-19 19:00 - 22:00 | NY
Join us for an evening focusing on the life and activism of James Baldwin, organized by James Wright, African-American scholar and union activist.
Poet and author Alicia Dunnigan, writer and librarian Stephan Likosky, union activist Reginald Manning, and James Wright will address the life, work, and activism of James Baldwin.
The evening will also include a screening of I Heard It Through the Grapevine (1982).
“Produced and directed by Dick Fontaine and Pat Hartley, this is a highly personal film essay written by James Baldwin about exactly who and what survived the civil rights movement. It features Baldwin, his brother David, Chinua Achebe, Amiri Baraka, and other friends Baldwin made “on that long, long road’ through the sixties. Music by Stuff and a host of Southern voices.” (https://www.dickfontaine.com/1980page.html)
Suggested donation of $5 to benefit the Bureau. No one turned away for lack of funds.

Bi Visibility Day Open Mic
2015-09-23 19:00 - 22:00 | NY
Bi Writers & Poets, Musicians & Singers, Artists & Photographers: express yourselves & be visible! Everyone else is invited to listen in. Sign up by email or at the door if there is still space. Contact Sheela Lambert at fuscialadybug (at) netzero (dot) com to sign up. Assume you have 5 minutes.
Reception at 7
Open Mic at 7:30
Suggested donation of $5 to benefit the Bureau. No one turned away for lack of funds.

Yarrott Benz reads from his memoir The Bone Bridge: A Brother’s Story
2015-09-24 19:00 - 22:00 | NY
Yarrott Benz reads from his recently published memoir The Bone Bridge: A Brother’s Story. This is the harrowing account of teenage brothers, as different as night and day, trapped together in a dramatic medical dilemma—a modern miracle and a modern nightmare. Despite painful and violent conflicts, Yarrott, gay, must bear the full responsibility of keeping his straight, homophobic brother alive. The only case like it in history, the story unfolds over thirteen years as the two brothers navigate through their enmeshed lives with all that they feel for each other: hatred and love, rejection and acceptance, disdain and respect. In our world of the individual, where careerism, ego, and personal gain are key, The Bone Bridge describes a vastly different human situation and also one in which the reader invariably asks, What would I have done?

Christopher Bram will introduce Yarrott Benz.

Suggested donation of $5 to benefit the Bureau
(No one turned away for lack of funds.)

Artist, memoirist, and essayist Yarrott Benz has written about architecture’s seminal role in art history and the psychology of visual trends. Having taught for many years in New York City and in Los Angeles, he now lives on a farm outside Lexington, Kentucky.

Christopher Bram is the author of, among others, FATHER OF FRANKENSTEIN, which was adapted in the film GODS AND MONSTERS. His recent book EMINENT OUTLAWS: THE GAY WRITERS WHO CHANGED AMERICA, shows how central gay literature is in the American canon.

TELL 16: Crisis/Opportunity
2015-09-25 19:30 - 22:00 | Online event, New York, NY, 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.
Crisis/Opportunity is the theme of the sixteenth installment of TELL. Featuring The World Famous *BOB*, Liz Glazer, Molly McCloy, and Ronnie Mae Painter.

$5-10 suggested donation – no one turned away for lack of funds

Drae Campbell is a writer, actor, director, story teller, dancer, and nightlife emcee. Drae has been featured on Late Night with Conan O’Brien and on stages all over NYC. Drae’s directing work has appeared in Iceland, NYC, Budapest and in the San Francisco Fringe Festival. The short film Drae wrote and starred in with Rebecca Drysdale, YOU MOVE ME won the Audience Award for Outstanding Narrative Short at OUTFEST 2010 and has been shown in festivals globally. Drae won the grand prize at the first annual San Miguel De Allende Storytelling Festival in Mexico. She once reigned as Miss LEZ and also got dubbed “the next lezzie comedian on the block” by AfterEllen.com for her comedic stylings on the interwebs. Campbell hosts and curates a monthly queer storytelling show called TELL at BGSQD. Check her out online! www.draecampbell.com

Photograph by Marie Baronnet
The World Famous *BOB*, known for her over the top blonde bombshell image and incredible ability to mix martinis in her cleavage, has captivated audiences all over the world with her unique burlesque stylings, humorous performance art, and MC skills.
She has been photographed by hundreds of photographers including Patrick McMullan, Mario Testino, and David LaChapelle. *BOB* appears in several books including Hotel LaChapelle, New Burlesque, Striptease: From Gaslight to Spotlight, Burlesque: The New Bump and Grind, The Brooklynites, The Velvet Hammer Burlesque., Domestic Burlesque as well as The Burlesque Handbook. A collection of photos by Amy Touchette was recently published by UnGyve Press entitled Shoot the Arrow- A Portrait of The World Famous *BOB*. Believing that television is “the theatre for the poor” *BOB* is a huge fan of the boob tube and has appeared on A&E’s The History of Cleavage as well as HBO’s Real Sex. She has graced the pages of over 50 national & international publications including The New York Times. The big screen suits *BOB* as well, with screen credits including John Cameron Mitchell’s film Shortbus and Beth B.’s EXPOSED.
World Famous *BOB* is a regularly scheduled guest speaker at NYU and has performed and appeared at over 20 US Universities including Harvard, Yale, and Bard.
She has performed all over the world and recently co-created and starred in Young Jean Lee’s; Untitled Feminsit Show. From NYC’s Dance Theatre Workshop, to Taylor Mac’s The Lily’s Revenge, to Stockholm’s Sodra Teatern, World Famous *BOB* has brought crowds together by pointing out what we all have in common- the need for love and creating that with her art in the moment. *BOB* continues her life in the spotlight and is also an Ultimate Self Confidence! Coach for people worldwide. She is currently co-hosting CAMPFIRE! Queer Storytime at Dixon Place Lounge.
For more info and to see if she is coming to your town visit www.theworldfamousbob.com

Liz Glazer used to be a tenured law professor but recently gave that up to do standup, tell stories, act, sing, dance, and write about her own life. She hosts a free weekly show called Say Everything on Thursdays from 7-9 at Paddy Reilly’s Music Bar, 519 2nd Avenue at 29th Street, and co-stars as Sizzle in the web series “Sizzle and Izzle.”

Molly McCloy is a a three-time NYC Moth Slam winner with work published in Slate, Nerve, and Swink. She holds an M.F.A. in Nonfiction from The New School. On October 3, Molly will perform her one-woman show, Mad Dog Grudges, at Dixon Place. It is the dark-comic story of a screwed-up family trying to end its legacy of intergenerational violence and substance abuse. Find out more about Molly’s performance and written memoir at mollymccloy.com and https://dixonplace.org/performances/mad-dog-grudges/

A native New Yorker born and raised in Astoria, Queens, Ronnie Mae Painter is a Brooklyn-based artist who’s primary media are painting on canvas and works on paper. She is also a published author and poet. Her literary works can be found in the anthology “Are Italians White”, edited by Jennifer Guglielmo and Salvatore Salerno. Painter’s experiences growing up as a woman of African-American and Italian-American biracial descent during the 1970s are transcended through both her visual and literary works in energetic movements and a shouting tone.

Under the Mink. A Novel of Drag Kings and Queens (and the Mob)
2015-09-26 19:00 - 21:30 | NY
Under the Mink is a historical novel, based on little-known facts about the Mafia’s involvement in a gay entertainment subculture that flourished in mob-owned nightclubs in Greenwich Village in the 1940s-50s. The author was fortunate enough to know some of the performers. A short film opens the program, followed by tall tales, a show of vintage images, and a reading from the novel.
Suggested donation of $5 to benefit the Bureau. No one turned away for lack of funds.

Lisa E. Davis has lived in Greenwich Village for 40 years and loves to write about it. With a PhD in Comparative Literature, she worked for years in SUNY and CUNY, and at the Center for Puerto Rican Studies, Hunter College. Lately, her writing has appeared in anthologies and periodicals dedicated to LGBTQ culture. Her historical novel Under the Mink, about drag kings and queens of yesteryear, grew out of her long-time friendship with some of them. The new edition (2015) has a photo insert with vintage images. A second book in progress, The FBI’s Lesbian, is the true story of a notorious Village lesbian who worked undercover for the FBI in the American Communist Party. Lisa has a daily Iyengar yoga practice.

Queer Zine Fair
2015-10-01 17:00 - 21:30 | NY
In conjunction with the Bureau’s current exhibition, KNOWSGAY No5: Heroes and Role Models, KNOWSGAY brings together various queer zine makers and fans to meet, share and discuss their art and process. Each exhibitor will have their publications for sale as well as speak about their work and participate in a brief Q&A.
Participating artists and zines:
Elvis B.
SELFISH
3-Pack Jack Steven Reigns Darin Klein Christopher Kardambikis
Sherley Olopherne
Anthony Malone
Arno Mokros
Kyle Quinn
Stephen Grebinski
Dave Ortega
Headmaster
Pink Mince
J. Morrison
Le Gros Monsieur
Creeps Annual
FAQNP

To Russia with Love
2015-10-02 19:00 - 21:30 | NY
The project “To Russia with Love” emerged from the realization that the real moral imperative is not to remain passive in the face of hatred and injustice. That’s how a group of Montreal artists and collaborators came together with photographer Damian Siqueiros to make a stand against the recent wave of institutionalized homophobia and the ruthless violence that exists in Russia towards our gender diverse brothers and sisters. “To Russia with Love” portrays iconic and historically relevant gay and lesbian Russians with their respective partners, starting from the 19th century to our time. The project features Pyotr Tchaikovsky (composer) and his long time companion Aleksey Sofronov; Anna Yevreinova and Maria Feodorova (renowned lawyer and writer respectively from the 19 century); Sergei Diaghilev (founder of the Ballets Russes in Paris) and Vaslav Nijinsky; a contemporary fictional lesbian couple made of a police woman and an Olympic athlete; and lastly a male couple impersonating Stalin and Putin.
Writer Ivan Savvine will speak about the photographs and soprano Tatiana Poletskaya will sing from Tchaikovsky’s repertoire.
Suggested donation of $5 to benefit the Bureau. No one turned away for lack of funds.

Damian Siqueiros’s photographs will remain on display at the Bureau on Saturday, October 3, and Sunday October 4.

Damian Siqueiros is a Mexican / Quebecer photographer and multidisciplinary artist. The construction of our gender identity has a central role in his artistic research. Through the images he underlines the importance of equality between the sexes and respect for diversity. The creation of the photographs draws inspiration from the great masters of painting to add an historical perspective to these contemporary topics. Dance and movement are key elements to explore gender as performative experience.
His work has been exhibited in museums and galleries throughout North America and Europe, such as the Art Museum of the Americas, the MOLA and the Gabarron foundation. Damian has received numerous prizes and grants, notably the Prix Coup de Coeur Scotia Bank in 2010. The photographer is most proud of his collaborations with great artists such as Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Margie Gillis, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens and Cas Public.

DIRT, SEX, PASSION!
2015-10-03 19:00 - 22:00 | NY
The Bureau is very pleased to welcome back the one and only Rumi Missabu for Dirt, Sex, Passion! A benefit for the Bureau.
Promises to be nothing short of a fun-filled multi-media romp and
bizarre conversation with actor, director, producer, mentor,
counterculture figure & original Cockette RUMI MISSABU who ruminates
on such subjects as how he went from Disney to soft core porn in a
span of just three short years, what happened when he touched Andy
Warhol, why he kicked Allen Ginsberg out of his house, how he
accidentally snubbed Jean Paul Gaultier in London, why Ethel Merman
called security on him at Macy’s, the pitfalls of having sex with your
stalker and what Rasputin’s daughter told him about her very first job
in America.
All this and much more with a cast of characters with everybody from
Sally Field to Tina Turner to Jackie Curtis to Liberace to Jane
Russell!

DIRT, SEX, PASSION! is a benefit for the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division. A donation of $10 is suggested.
No one turned away for lack of funds.

SHAME MONSTER: Dan Fishback's Queer Jewish Anti-Zionist Trip to Israel/Palestine
2015-10-04 16:00 - 19:00 | NY
Earlier this summer, playwright Dan Fishback traveled to Israel/Palestine to do research for an upcoming theater project. He spent a month meeting with non-violent Palestinian activists, Israeli settlers and others, ending with a surreal visit to Tel Aviv during Pride Week. Throughout his travels, Fishback also “interviewed” many Israeli and Palestinian men on Grindr. In this multimedia talk, he will share stories from his trip, bear witness to the realities of apartheid, and offer thoughts on BDS, censorship and the various ways U.S. Americans engage with the ongoing occupation of Palestine.Fishback’s travels were made possible by a research grant from the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation.

Suggested donation of $5 to benefit the Bureau.
No one turned away for lack of funds.
Dan Fishback has been writing and performing in NYC since 2003. Time Out New York called his play The Material World “the best downtown musical in years,” and named it one of the Top Ten Plays of 2012. He is the director of the Helix Queer Performance Network, through which he curates and produces many series, workshops and public events, including La MaMa’s SQUIRTS. Fishback has released five albums, both solo and with his band Cheese On Bread, which has toured extensively in Europe and North America. Previous performances include “thirtynothing,” “You Will Experience Silence,” “Please Let Me Love You” and “Waiting for Barbara,” most of which have been presented at Dixon Place. He has received grants and residencies from the Doris Duke Charitable Trust, Franklin Furnace, the Six Points Fellowship for Emerging Jewish Artists, Kelly Writers House, the Hemispheric Institute of Performance & Politics, Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center and BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange, where he has been “in residence” in some form or another since 2010. His upcoming play, “Rubble Rubble,” is based on his trip 2015 to Israel/Palestine, which was funded by the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation.

An evening with RJ Martin reading from his debut novel THE BODY
2015-10-07 19:00 - 22:00 | NY
What happens when the lines between spirit and flesh begin to blur?
In the Adirondack town of Lake Henry, NY, altar boy Jonah Gregory, fifteen, dreams of becoming a priest. Aside from being a spiritual comfort to his fellow man, Jonah pursues his vocation because he knows his special devotion to the Lord is mutual since he believes Christ is gay too. When his older sister, Angie, introduces him to Rusty Kincaid, the handsome, closeted son of a romance novelist and a dead ringer for the messiah, Jonah is thrust into a physical-spiritual love triangle. Jonah knows he must choose between them and the path each one represents, but he can’t look at one without seeing the other, and neither seems willing to give him up.
Jonah is guided on his quest by Rusty’s famous mother, Jace Kincaid, his ill-tempered pastor from Brooklyn, his frustrated parents, and the two men who have captured his heart: Rusty and the Lord.

RJ Martin grew up in the foothills of the Adirondack, attended Skidmore College and Columbia University, and other than a brief stint in Los Angeles, he has been a Brooklynite for most of his adult life. A true Gemini he is as proud of being part of the LGBT community as he is of being a Christian, as happy at a baseball game as a Broadway musical, and as appreciative of a good pinot noir as a frothy IPA. He would never want to be without his dog, faith, books, friends, writing, hamburgers, bike, and family. RJ also blogs for the Huffington Post.

Queercopia: Readings By LGBTQ Comic Creators
2015-10-09 18:30 - 21:30 | NY
In conjunction with New York Comic-Con, Queercopia returns to the Bureau with another line-up of creators whose works focus on LGBTQ content. The event will open with a meet and greet at 6:30, with the presentation starting at 7.
Greg Fox (Kyle’s Bed & Breakfast), Jeff Krell (Jayson), Morgan Boecher (What’s Normal Anyway?), Tara Avery (Gooch, Dirtheads), P. Kristen Enos (Web Of Lives), Carlo Quispe (Uranus), and others will be presenting.

This event serves as a fundraiser for Prism Comics and Bureau of General Services—Queer Division @ The Center. Please note that this event is not officially affiliated with NYCC.

Tickets for this event are $15: click here to purchase.

PISS ELEGANT
2015-10-10 18:00 - 21:00 | NY
STH Editions & BGSQD present: PISS ELEGANT
Saturday, October 10th, 6-9pm
LIVE @ 8pm – SLAVA MOGUTIN
FEATURING: Art & Special Editions by Straight To Hell contributors & comrades
STH (aka, The Manhattan Review of Unnatural Acts) – now in it’s fifth decade of service to the international pervert community – presents an evening of lurid viewing featuring original art & limited editions by: ASSUME VIVID ASTRO FOCUS • MATTHEW BURCAW • STASH BUTTINSKI • WALT CESSNA • DANNY FIELDS • AIKEN FORRET • JOE OVELMAN • SLAVA MOGUTIN • BOB NICKAS • CHRISTOPHER SCHULZ • JAN WANDRAG • WILLIAM WOOD • JIMMY WRIGHT • & others

More about STH HERE

Event cover image: Photograph by Luke Smalley, on the back cover of STH 68

Suggested donation of $5 to benefit the Bureau. No one turned away for lack of funds.

Truvada Revolution: Screening and Q&A
2015-10-15 19:00 - 21:00 | NY
Have you heard of Truvada and PrEP? Do you have questions about the controversial FDA-Approved drug that prevents HIV? Producer and Director Eric Leven will host a screening of his VICE Documentary: Stopping HIV: The Truvada Revolution with a Q & A afterward to answer any questions about the film, filmmaking process and any lingering questions about the medication of Truvada itself.

Suggested donation of $5 to benefit the Bureau. No one turned away for lack of funds.

Eric Leven is a Producer and Director with nearly ten years of experience in the documentary and reality television industry, having produced and directed such show’s as Dual Survival, Strange Medicine, BBQ Pitmasters and Mobwives. Eric is also a social and political activist focusing on such issues as: LGBT Rights, Safer Sex awareness and HIV/AIDS. He is 34 years old and lives in the East Village.

Trans Poets Bloom: A Launch Party For Vetch Poetry
2015-10-17 20:00 - 22:00 | NY
Vetch is a new journal of trans poetry and poetics–one of the first venues that will publish only poems by trans poets. Come out to the first issue launch party to celebrate with us! There will be readings by editors and contributors, as well as an atmosphere of giddy joy.
Reception will begin at 8 PM, readings at 8:30.
Suggested donation of $5 to benefit the Bureau. No one turned away for lack of funds.

Readers:

Kay Gabriel finished her BA at Columbia University in 2013 and won a Euretta J. Kellett fellowship for postgraduate study at Cambridge, which she used to spend a year writing dykily about Sappho. She is currently a PhD candidate in the Princeton University classics department. Her poetry has appeared in Industrial Lunch.

Stephen Ira’s poetry and short fiction have appeared in The Collection: Short Fiction from the Transgender Vanguard, Spot Literary Magazine, the St. Sebastian Review, and Specter Magazine, among others. In 2013, he was selected as one of Lambda Literary’s summer fellows in poetry. In 2014, he was featured as a guest star in La Mama’s SQUIRTS: New Voices in Queer Performance. He graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in 2014.

Liam O’Brien grew up on a small island outside Seattle. In 2012, he graduated from Sarah Lawrence College, where he received the Stanley and Evelyn Lipkin Prize for Poetry and the Nancy Lynn Schwartz Prize for Fiction. His work can be found in print in Unsaid Magazine, and online at The Offending Adam, Blackbird VCU, Buffalo Almanack, and Industrial Lunch. He is currently pursuing his MFA at the Iowa Writer’s Workshop.

Grey Vild’s work has appeared in THEM, Elderly, and Hue. He has a chapbook forthcoming from EOAGH and is the happy recipient of the Queer Art Mentorship Fellowship 2014 with Stacy Szymaszek.

Rebecca Bedell is an English major in her junior year at Princeton University, hoping to complete a creative writing certificate in poetry. She fantasizes about further bastardizing the Whitman-Ginsberg poetic lineage to a stark and confessional trans poetics, and hasn’t been able to write about anything other than being trans for a while. Her work was published in a few teen collections which aren’t very relevant since they used her old name.

Bureau Book Club Discusses Times Square Red, Times Square Blue, by Samuel R. Delany
2015-10-18 18:00 - 20:30 | NY
Times Square Red, Times Square Blue combines in 200 brief pages daring and sexy queer encounters in Times Square’s pornographic movie theaters and contemplation on the nature of social relationships in cities. A late-career masterpiece by noted queer Black science-fiction writer Samuel R. Delany, the book is a perfect dip into our fair city’s seedier and sexier past.
Suggested donation of $5 to benefit the Bureau. No one turned away for lack of funds.
Please email the Bureau if you would like to reserve a copy of Times Square Red, Times Square Blue: contact@bgsqd.com

Bureau Book Club is facilitated by Ben Miller.
Ben Miller is a writer and researcher in Crown Heights, Brooklyn who has published short fiction and essays on queer histories and themes. He tweets @benwritesthings, learn more at www.benwritesthings.com

Queer Collage Party
2015-10-21 19:00 - 22:00 | NY
The first Queer Collage Party, organized by friend of the Bureau Paul VanDeCarr, took place at the Bureau in June, and it was such a hit that we’re doing it again! We provide the glue sticks and paper, you provide the pictures. Everyone who attends should bring at least one magazine or book or a bunch of pictures that you’ll contribute to the group. Each person can make their own collage(s), or team up with others! You can keep your own collage(s), but don’t expect to walk away with your magazine intact! The spirit here is fun and sharing. Attend for part or all of the evening. You are encouraged but not required to bring a little snack to share — chips, tangerines, grapes, hummus, whatever. We’ll have music playing (not live, though). Beer, wine, and sparkling water will be available for cash donations.
Facilitated by dear friend of the Bureau David Christie
Suggested donation of $5 to benefit the Bureau. No one turned away for lack of funds.

Bi Book Club: Call It Wonder, by Kate Evans
2015-10-22 18:30 - 20:00 | NY
The Bi Book Club meets monthly to discuss bi-themed books and the issues they raise.
Day/Time: Oct 22 (4th Thursdays), 6:30-8pm. Dinner after nearby (so far, we always go to Village Den.) Nov & Dec dates conflict with the holidays so we are working on alternative dates.
Our book for Oct: Call It Wonder: an odyssey of love, sex. spirit, and travel a new memoir by Kate Evans. (We suggest you buy or order your copy from our host, BGSQD. Write to contact@bgsqd.com
Pick out some phrases, paragraphs or scenes that you’d like to discuss, or just join in on our read-a-long. Give us your critique of the book. What worked, what didn’t, how was bisexuality represented? If you haven’t had time to finish the readings, come anyway because we read passages from the book aloud for discussion. As usual, we’ll also be using the text as a jumping off point to further discussion of bisexual issues and personal experiences.
Suggested donation of $5 to benefit the Bureau. No one turned away for lack of funds.
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