BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//BGSQD - ECPv6.15.18//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:BGSQD X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.bgsqd.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for BGSQD REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20220313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20221106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230930T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230930T163000 DTSTAMP:20260403T162637 CREATED:20230817T211740Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230913T143032Z UID:13342-1696086000-1696091400@www.bgsqd.com SUMMARY:Author Donald Mengay reading and in conversation with photographer Hrvoje Slovenc (in person & livestreaming) DESCRIPTION:Join author Donald Mengay and photographer Hrvoje Slovenc for a reading and conversation about Mengay’s debut novel\, The Lede to Our Undoing.  The work explores the challenges of being queer in the American Midwest or Rust Belt––so-called flyover America. The narrative is set in the 1970s\, but it speaks to the broad retrenchment of rights occurring today: It presents the challenges for queer people in MAGA America\, though before it got the name. It also explores the stifling effects of evangelical religion on queer identity\, relationships\, and culture. After a short reading\, conversation\, and Q&A\, the author will sign copies for purchase at the event. \nCopies of The Lede to Our Undoing  (Saddle Road Press\, 2023\, paperback\, $25) will be available for purchase at the event. To reserve a copy\, please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com with “reserve a copy of The Lede to Our Undoing” in the subject line. \nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us! \n  \nThis 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. \nRegistration is not required. Seating is first come\, first served. \nAlso live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel: youtube.com/@bgsqd \n  \nSuggested donation $10 to benefit the Bureau’s work. \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without donation. \nWe will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event\, but we can also take credit card donations at the register or on Venmo @bgsqd. \n  \nDonald Mengay grew up in a suburb of Cleveland\, Ohio\, where he worked in a factory for a time and managed a bookstore. He began writing fiction in his early twenties while pursuing a degree in Psychology at Metropolitan State University in Denver. He earned a Masters in English Lit at the University of Denver and a Ph.D. in Comparative Lit from NYU. He taught Queer and Post-Humanist Lit at the City University of New York for over thirty years\, as well as English at the University of Paris\, Nanterre.  During his years teaching he published several articles of queer criticism in academic journals that include among others Genders\, Genre\, and Minnesota University Press. He has also published a book entitled Dis/Inheritance: New Croatian Photography\, from Ikon Press. The Lede to Our Undoing is his debut novel\, the first in a trilogy.  He lives in Santa Fe\, New Mexico. \nHrvoje Slovenc (b. Zagreb\, Croatia\, 1976) is a Croatian/American photographer based in New York. He holds MFA in Photography from Yale University School of Art (2010) and MS in Biochemistry from University of Zagreb\, Croatia (2000). Selected exhibitions include Traversing the Past\, Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago; Biennial\, the Bronx Museum of the Arts; Past is Now\, Munchner Stadtmuseum in Munich\, Germany; Marble Hill\, Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb\, Croatia; New Media\, Sex\, and Culture in the 21st Century\, Museum of New Art in Detroit; New Acquisitions 2003-2013\, Museum of Arts and Crafts in Zagreb\, Croatia; and Young Artists’ Biennial in Bucharest\, Romania. His work is in the permanent collections of Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago\, as well as Museum of Contemporary Art and Museum of Arts and Crafts in Zagreb\, Croatia. \n  \n  URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/donald-mengay/ LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.bgsqd.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/September-30-Mengay-flyer-3-PM-jpg.webp ORGANIZER;CN="Bureau of General Services%E2%80%94Queer Division":MAILTO:contact@bgsqd.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230921T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230921T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T162637 CREATED:20230908T151154Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230918T183429Z UID:13649-1695322800-1695330000@www.bgsqd.com SUMMARY:My Purpose For Dying / A Reading with Author Clyde Jeanette Shore (in person & live-streaming) DESCRIPTION:North Carolina author\, Clyde Jeanette Shore\, has published My Purpose For Dying. Her work of non-fiction has been years in completing and much awaited by many in the LGBTQ+ community\, friends\, and family. The Bureau of General Services—Queer Division will host a book reading on Thursday\, September 21\, 2023\, beginning at 7:30 pm. The evening will include a meet-and-greet with Clyde Jeanette Shore at 7 PM\, a reading at 7:30 PM\, Q&A to follow\, with a book signing. \nIn My Purpose For Dying\, Jeanette opens a heart-felt door by honoring a promise made to her youngest brother\, Ricky Frederick Shore\, to write his life story. A LGBTQ work of non-fiction\, it’s the story of Ricky’s fierce life spirit since birth\, his journey coming to terms with being gay\, and eventually contracting AIDS during the height of the 1980’s pandemic. \nJeanette found inner peace\, forgiveness\, and the strength to write Ricky’s story by penning an unedited manuscript titled\, Chicken Bridge Road. Here\, she focused on her mother’s tragic story taking place in the early to mid-twentieth century. Her first attempt at writing proved a powerful cathartic journey for Jeanette in-light-of disclosing her mother’s battle with lifelong hardships brought on by domestic abuse\, and the society steeped for centuries in rampant misogyny. It also brought to the forefront the complete lack of justice for Women’s Rights. Chicken Bridge Road is soon to be Jeanette’s second book. \nIt can be said that Jeanette has spent over twenty-five years on the production in writing these two\, prominent family stories\, and is thrilled to finally share her achievements. She credits her family\, who have been instrumental in supporting her healing and writing over the past years. \n“I couldn’t have accomplished My Purpose For Dying without the tremendous love and support from my daughter\, Angela\, and friends\,” Shore said. Also\, to Anthony Dronchi for signing on as my creative editor. “I value the good work of GMHC\, that they continue to provide those living with HIV/AIDS today in the community.” \nThe event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division\, the independent\, all-volunteer queer bookstore and cultural center located in room 210 of The LGBT Community Center\, 208 W. 13th St. New York City. Reading begins at 7:30 PM. \nAlso live-streaming at 7:30 PM on the Bureau’s YouTube channel: youtube.com/@bgsqd \nThe Bureau is open Wed-Sat\, 1pm-7pm.  You may purchase My Purpose For Dying directly from the Bureau\, and we will have plenty of copies available at this event. \nTo reserve a copy\, please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com with “please reserve My Purpose for Dying” in the subject line. Thank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us! \nThe Bureau is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas\, a non-profit arts service organization. Please consider donating online. For more information\, please visit: bgsqd.com/donate. \n  \nMore About the Author \nClyde Jeanette Shore\, named after her father and paternal grandmother\, grew up on a tobacco farm situated on Chicken Bridge Road\, located in Chatham County\, Pittsboro\, N.C. Jeanette is well traveled\, appreciates innovative cuisine\, enjoys rock n’ roll\, gospel\, folk and blues music. You can find Jeanette writing in the early morning hours. Shore\, a native of North Carolina\, resides in Greensboro\, N.C. \nMedia Contact:\nAngela Shore\n(646) 298-7234 angela@clydejeanetteshore.com URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/my-purpose-for-dying/ LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.bgsqd.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/September-21-My-Purpose-for-Dying-flyer-jpg.webp ORGANIZER;CN="Bureau of General Services%E2%80%94Queer Division":MAILTO:contact@bgsqd.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230920T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230920T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T162637 CREATED:20230830T153419Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230908T142942Z UID:13421-1695236400-1695241800@www.bgsqd.com SUMMARY:It's All A Mystery To Me: H.N. Hirsch in conversation with J.M. Redman (virtual event) DESCRIPTION:Join author H.N. Hirsch discussing Fault Line\, the sequel to Shade\, of his Bob and Marcus Mystery series along with award-winning author J.M. Redmann\, who is celebrating the release of her eleventh Mickey Knight mystery\, Transitory. They will each read from their books\, discuss their lives as mystery writers and what it is like to write a mystery series. \nThis event will take place online only. \nIn order to join the event on Zoom\, please register on the event page on Eventbrite: \nClick here to register\nAlso live-streaming at YouTube.com/@bgsqd \nSuggested donation of $5 to benefit the Bureau. \nYou can make a donation when you register on Eventbrite. \nThank you for your support! \nAll are welcome to join\, with or without a donation. \n  \nH.N. Hirsch grew up in Chicago and graduated with highest honors from the University of Michigan in 1974. He received a PhD in politics from Princeton in 1978 and then was appointed an assistant professor at Harvard\, where he published his first book\, The Enigma of Felix Frankfurter\, which the New York Times called “brilliant” and which received widespread critical attention. In 1986 he moved to a tenured appointment at the University of California at San Diego\, where he served a board member of the ACLU and a board member and president of Diversionary Theatre\, one of the oldest and most highly acclaimed LGBT theaters in the country. \nIn 2000\, he moved to an endowed chair at Macalester College in Minnesota\, and in 2005 was appointed Dean of the Faculty at Oberlin College in Ohio\, where he continued to teach until his retirement in 2021. In 2016\, he published a memoir about his academic life and his life as a gay men\, Office Hours\, which one critic called “wistful and well crafted.” \nA voracious reader of fiction\, he realized a life-long ambition to publish his own mystery novel\, Shade\, in 2022\, and then his current work\, Fault Line\, both featuring a gay couple as the main characters. \n  \nJ.M. Redmann has published ten novels featuring New Orleans PI Micky Knight. Her first book was published in 1990\, one of the early hard-boiled lesbian detectives. Her books have won three Lambda Literary awards. THE INTERSECTION OF LAW & DESIRE was an Editor’s Choice of the San Francisco Chronicle and a recommended book by Maureen Corrigan of NPR’s Fresh Air. Two books were selected for the American Library Association GLBT Roundtable’s Over the Rainbow list and WATER MARK won a ForeWord Gold First Place mystery award. She is the co-editor with Greg Herren of three anthologies\, one of which\, NIGHT SHADOWS: QUEER HORROR\, was shortlisted for a Shirley Jackson award. Her books have been translated into German\, Spanish\, Dutch\, Hebrew and Norwegian. She lives in New Orleans. \n  URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/h-n-hirsch-in-conversation-with-jean-redman/ LOCATION:Online event\, New York\, NY\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.bgsqd.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Septembe-20-Hirsch-and-Redman-flyer-updated-jpg.webp ORGANIZER;CN="Bureau of General Services%E2%80%94Queer Division":MAILTO:contact@bgsqd.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230915T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230915T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T162637 CREATED:20230830T210041Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230908T210505Z UID:13444-1694804400-1694809800@www.bgsqd.com SUMMARY:Queer Ecologies: Writers on science\, nature\, queerness\, and the spaces in between (in person and live-streaming) DESCRIPTION:How many animal species are actually gay? What can whale falls teach us about relationships and rebirth? How can queer communities find and create safe spaces in the outdoors? How can queerness help us adapt to a changing climate? \nJoin us at the Bureau for Queer Ecologies\, an evening of readings by authors writing about queerness\, science\, and nature. Molly Adams\, Sabrina Imbler\, Eliot Schrefer\, and Elizabeth Weinberg will read from new and recent work. \nCopies of Adams’ Birding for a Better World\, Imbler’s How Far the Light Reaches\, Schrefer’s Queer Ducks (and Other Animals)\, and Weinberg’s Unsettling will be available for purchase. To reserve a copy of any of these titles please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com with “reserve book for Sept. 15th event” in the subject line. \n\n\nPLEASE WEAR A MASK FOR THIS EVENT. WE WILL HAVE SOME AVAILABLE AT THE REGISTER. THANKS! \nThis 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. \n\n\n\n\nRegistration is not required. Seating is first come\, first served. \n\n  \nSuggested donation to benefit the Bureau: $10. \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without a donation. \n  \n\nAlso live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel: \nyoutube.com/@bgsqd \n  \nMOLLY ADAMS is the founder of the Feminist Bird Club and co-author of the upcoming book Birding For A Better World: A Guide to Finding Joy and Community in Nature. She has an M.A. in Marine Conservation and Policy from Stony Brook University and lives in the Catskill Mountains with her spouse\, their cat Rocky\, and their dog Shelly. \n  \nSABRINA IMBLER is a writer for Defector\, a sports and culture site\, where they write about creatures and the natural world. Their first full-length book\, How Far the Light Reaches\, won a 2022 LA Times Book Prize. Their chapbook Dyke (geology) was selected for the National Book Foundation’s Science + Literature program. Sabrina lives in Brooklyn with their partner\, a school of fish\, and their two cats\, Sesame and Melon. \n  \nELIOT SCHREFER is a New York Times-bestselling author\, has twice been a finalist for the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature\, received the Stonewall Honor for best LGBTQIA+ teen book\, and received the Printz Honor for best young adult book from the ALA. In naming him an Editor’s Choice\, the New York Times has called his work “dazzling… big-hearted.” His science writing has appeared in Discover\, Sierra\, USAToday\, Nautilus\, and The Washington Post Magazine. He has an M.A. in Animal Studies from NYU\, is on the faculty of the Fairleigh Dickinson and Hamline MFAs for creative writing\, and lives with his husband in New York City. \n  \nELIZABETH WEINBERG is a queer essayist\, science communicator\, and nature nerd\, and the author of Unsettling: Surviving Extinction Together. Her writing has appeared in Identity Theory\, The Rumpus\, The Toast\, American Wild Magazine\, SEVENSEAS\, and other publications\, and she holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Washington. She has supported science communication efforts for scientific organizations\, U.S. federal agencies\, and nonprofits. She lives in Portland with her spouse and their dog Pigeon. URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/queer-ecologies/ LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bgsqd.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/SEP-15-Queer-Ecologies.png ORGANIZER;CN="Bureau of General Services%E2%80%94Queer Division":MAILTO:contact@bgsqd.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230914T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230914T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T162637 CREATED:20230815T192332Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230815T192332Z UID:13327-1694714400-1694721600@www.bgsqd.com SUMMARY:I Cannot Begin to Tell You How Angry I’ve Been: Ryan Wilks\, Opening Reception DESCRIPTION:The Bureau is pleased to present I Cannot Begin to Tell You How Angry I’ve Been\, a solo exhibition of work by Ryan Wilks. \nOpening reception: September 14\, 2023\, 6-8 PM \nExhibition dates: September 14 – November 19\, 2023 \nRyan Wilks is an artist working out of Kansas City. They delight in the dirty-schoolboy-like quality of drawing crude and beautifully executed illustrations of their deepest perversions. Though much of their work contains phallic imagery\, the execution and delicacy used to construct the human figure leads way to pause after a quick laugh. But the themes of Wilks’ work are much more thoughtful than a dick and fart joke. Their bodies of work weave in and out from themes of sexual celebration to the rampant Christian opposition to queer existence in America\, from prayer to\, most recently\, rage. \nThis body of work titled\, I Cannot Begin to Tell You How Angry I’ve Been\, is a visual meandering of ire. As we all approach the collapsing ecology of the world\, what does it mean to be heartbroken or to grieve the loss of a planned future? How do we hold and pursue our ambition while holding the prognosis of climate change\, warnings of global crop failure\, and no clean water by 2040? It feels trivial to hope for artistic success during a struggle for survival\, and yet here they are\, striving. This work is a space holder for both realities. Hope and Despair. URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/ryan_wilks_opening/ LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.bgsqd.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Ryan-Wilks-poster-scaled.webp ORGANIZER;CN="Bureau of General Services%E2%80%94Queer Division":MAILTO:contact@bgsqd.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230913T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230913T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T162637 CREATED:20230901T152305Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230912T165609Z UID:13455-1694631600-1694638800@www.bgsqd.com SUMMARY:Further From Heaven book launch (in person only) DESCRIPTION:New York City book launch at the Bureau for Candystore’s nonfiction debut\, Further From Heaven (Smutburger Editions)—“the smart and smutty journey of a budding genderfuck.” \nFurther From Heaven is a confrontational\, autobiographical work tracing a decade’s worth of profile photos\, anecdotes\, chat histories\, screenshots\, dick pics\, and poems shared by way of gay hookup apps. In juxtaposing the hyperreal invention of self in the digital world with the formation of the author’s fluctuating gender and erotic identifications\, Further From Heaven incites a queer ethos toward sex\, love\, play\, and desire on and offline. \nAlso on display\, 647-723-CNDY\, an infomercial-inspired erotic video (dir. Mike Feswick) and sexy dial-up hotline. Call now\, operators are standing by! \nReception begins at 7:00 PM with DJ Gay Panic. \nAt 7:30 PM\, Candystore will be in conversation with writer and artist Savannah Knoop with book signing to follow. \n\nThis event will take place in person (no live-stream) 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.\n\nRegistration is not required. Seating is first come\, first served.\n\n\nSuggested donation $10 to benefit the Bureau’s work. \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without donation. \n\nWe will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event\, but we can also take credit card donations at the register or on Venmo@bgsqd. URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/further-from-heaven-book-launch/ LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.bgsqd.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/September-13-Further-from-Heaven-flyer-updated-jpg.webp ORGANIZER;CN="Bureau of General Services%E2%80%94Queer Division":MAILTO:contact@bgsqd.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230912T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230912T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T162637 CREATED:20230905T144829Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230905T145141Z UID:13479-1694543400-1694548800@www.bgsqd.com SUMMARY:Second Tuesday at the Bureau: Disorderly Men by Edward Cahill\, with Charles Kaiser DESCRIPTION:Please join The Center for the kick off of the 2023 – 2024 season of The Center’s long running Second Tuesday lecture series. This month features a conversation with Ed Cahill in conversation with Charles Kaiser at the Bureau. \nTo RSVP please email rmorales@gaycenter.org \nCopies of Disorderly Men (Fordham University Press\, 2023\, hardcover\, $28.95) are available for purchase at the Bureau and can be purchased at the event. \nTo reserve a copy of Disorderly Men\, please write to the Bureau at contact@bgsqd.com with “Please reserve Disorderly Men” in the subject line. \nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us! \n  \nABOUT DISORDERLY MEN \nRoger Moorhouse is a Wall Street banker and Westchester family man with a preciously guarded secret. As the shouting begins and flashlights blaze in his face\, the life he’s carefully curated over the years—a fancy new office overlooking lower Broadway\, a house in Beechmont Woods\, his wife and children—is about to come crashing down around him. \nColumbia literature professor Julian Prince lives a comparatively uncloseted life when he finds his first committed relationship tested to its limits. How could he explain to Gus\, a fearless young artist\, that he couldn’t stay with him that weekend because the woman who was still technically Julian’s fiancée would be visiting? But when Gus is struck unconscious by a police baton\, Julian comes out of hiding to protect him\, even if exposure means losing everything. \nFor Danny Duffy\, an Irish kid from the Bronx with a sassy mouth and diverse group of friends\, the raid is a galvanizing\, Spartacus moment. Danny doesn’t have too much left to lose; his family has just disowned him. But once his name appears in the newspaper\, he’ll be fired from his job at Sloan’s Supermarket\, where he’s risen to assistant manager of produce\, and begin a journey that veers between political enlightenment and violent revenge. \nThe three men find themselves in a police wagon together\, their hidden lives threatened to be revealed to the world. Blackmail\, a private investigator\, Gus’s disappearance\, and Danny’s quest for retribution propel Disorderly Men to its piercing conclusion\, as each man meets the boundaries of his own fear\, love\, and shame. The stakes for each are different\, but all of them confront a fundamental question: how much happiness is he allowed to have … and what share of it will he lay claim to? \n  \nBios \nEdward Cahill is a Professor of English at Fordham University\, where he’s taught since 2005. He earned a Ph.D. from Rutgers University\, specializing in the literature of British America and the early US republic. He has published numerous articles in such journals as American Literature\, Early American Literature\, Early American Studies\, and ELH. His monograph\, Liberty of the Imagination: Aesthetic Theory\, Literary Form\, and Politics in the Early United States\, was published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 2012. More recently\, Cahill has been teaching modern and contemporary fiction and writing novels. Some of his favorite authors to teach are Jane Austen\, Henry James\, James Baldwin\, Toni Morrison\, Alan Hollinghurst\, Jennifer Egan\, Ben Lerner\, Tommy Orange\, Ocean Vuong\, Patricia Lockwood\, and Rachel Kushner. His debut novel\, Disorderly Men\, will be published by Empire State Editions for Fordham University Press in September 2023. It will be the press’s first original literary fiction release. Cahill lives on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. \n  \nCharles Kaiser is the author of three books including the New York Times Notable Book of the Year and Lamba Literary Award-winner The Gay Metropolis: The Landmark History of Gay Life in America. He has been a reporter for the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal\, and a press critic at Newsweek. He has also written for Vanity Fair\, New York\, Los Angeles Times\, and the Washington Post. He was a founder and former president of the New York chapter of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association\, and has taught journalism at Columbia and Princeton. He lives in New York City. URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/second-tuesday-at-the-bureau-disorderly-men-by-edward-cahill-with-charles-kaiser/ LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.bgsqd.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/September-12-disorderly-men-jpeg.webp ORGANIZER;CN="The LGBT Community Center":MAILTO:rmorales@gaycenter END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230909T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230909T163000 DTSTAMP:20260403T162637 CREATED:20230811T150219Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230811T150546Z UID:13266-1694271600-1694277000@www.bgsqd.com SUMMARY:Where We Belong: New Gay Fiction (in person event) DESCRIPTION:Join us for an afternoon literary reading featuring authors Brian Alessandro\, Gerard Cabrera\, Tom Cardamone\, and Jonathan Harper. A Q&A will follow. \n  \nBooks by all four authors will be available for purchase at the event. To reserve a copy of any of these books\, please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com \nThis 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. \nRegistration is not required. Seating is first come\, first served. \nSuggested donation $10 to benefit the Bureau’s work. \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without donation. \nWe will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event\, but we can also take credit card donations at the register or on Venmo @bgsqd. \n  \n Brian Alessandro has written for Interview Magazine\, Newsday\, PANK\,  Huffington Post\, Lambda Literary\, The Gay & Lesbian Review\, and has recently co-adapted Edmund White’s A Boy’s Own Story into a graphic novel for Top Shelf Productions. His new novel\, Performer Non Grata\, was released in April by Rebel Satori Press. \n  \nGerard Cabrera’s debut novel\, Homo Novus\, was published in October 2022\, by Rattling Good Yarns Press\, and was supported by the Bread Loaf Writers Conference and a Bread Loaf Bakeless Foundation fellowship at The Camargo Foundation in Cassis\, France. Other writing has appeared in Gay Community News\, Acentos Review\, Angel Rust\, Apricity\, JONATHAN\, Kweli\, and Digging Press. \n  \nTom Cardamone is the editor of Crashing Cathedrals: Edmund White by the Book\, and the author of the Lambda Literary Award-winning speculative novella Green Thumb as well as the erotic fantasy The Lurid Sea and other works of fiction\, including two short story collections. Additionally\, he has edited The Lost Library: Gay Fiction Rediscovered and co-edited Fever Spores: The Queer Reclamation of William S. Burroughs. \n  \nJonathan Harper is the author of the novel You Don’t Belong Here and the short story collection Daydreamers (a Kirkus Indie Book of the Year for 2015). He received his MFA in Creative Writing from American University and his writing can be found in such places like The Rumpus\, The Rappahannock Review\, Chelsea Station\, and in the Best Gay Stories series. URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/where-we-belong-new-gay-fiction/ LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.bgsqd.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/September-9-Where-We-Belong-flyer-jpg.webp ORGANIZER;CN="Bureau of General Services%E2%80%94Queer Division":MAILTO:contact@bgsqd.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230907T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230907T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T162637 CREATED:20230830T201827Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230830T202823Z UID:13436-1694113200-1694118600@www.bgsqd.com SUMMARY:Yasi Alipour & Meg Turner - A talk about photography\, queer collaborations\, and Meg’s new book WET (in person) DESCRIPTION:Yasi Alipour & Meg Turner – A conversation about photography\, queer collaborations\, and Meg’s first photo book WET. \nEditor\, writer and artist Yasi Alipour and long time friend and queer photographer Meg Turner talk about the creation of WET\, published in march 2023 by Burn Barrel Press. Intimitely involved in the creation of WET\, Yasi and Meg discuss collaboration\, publishing and photographic practices. \n\n\n\n\n\nCopies of Meg Turner’s photo book WET will be available for purchase at the event. Meg is one part of the duo PATRICIDE with Courtney Webster currently featured in The Romance Of Entanglement\, on view at the Bureau and closing Sept 10th. \n\n\n\n\n\nThis 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. \n\n\n\n\nRegistration is not required. Seating is first come\, first served. \n\nSuggested donation to benefit the Bureau: $10. \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without a donation. \n  \n\nAlso live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel: \nyoutube.com/@bgsqd \n  \n\n\n\n\nBios: \n Meg Turner (b.1985) is a multi-disciplinary visual artist based in New Orleans Louisiana. Her work employs printmaking\, photography\, sign making\, and installation in a style she refers to as Queer Maximalism. Combining intimate portraiture\, analog printing and a study of economic systems and propaganda\, Meg is focused on confronting/celebrating our expectations of utopia. Meg’s first solo museum show Here & Now opened in New Orleans at The Contemporary Art Center in 2019. Her work has also been exhibited at Arthur Rogers Gallery in New Orleans\, HERE arts center (NYC) the Orkiestra Sinfonia Varsovia in Poland\, The Center for Contemporary Printmaking in Norwalk Ct\, The Museum of The Rhode Island School of Design (Providence\, RI)\, and The Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans and other venues. \n\n\n\n\n\nMeg’s collaborative photographic project with Courtney Webster PATRICIDE received the Robert Giard grant in 2021 and has been shown in New York at The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art\, the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division\, BRIC\, and WildProject. \n\n\n\n\nMeg received her MFA from Columbia University and her BFA from The Rhode Island School of Design. She has been faculty at Parsons School of Design\, Columbia University in New York City\, and Tulane University in New Orleans. \n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\nYasi Alipour is an Iranian artist/writer based in Brooklyn. Her tactile works on paper uses folding to explore mathematics as a language\, with all the historical\, social\, political\, mortal\, and embodied ramifications any language holds. In her writing\, research\, and pedagogical approach\, Alipour focuses on intergenerational conversations that happen through and within histories of erasure. Alipour currently lives in Brooklyn and wonders about paper\, counting\, and silence. She is a recipient of the Luis Comfort Tiffany Grant (2022)\, Sharpe Walentas Studio Program Award (2019/2021)\, Rema Hort Foundation Emerging Artist Nominee (2018/2019)\, and the Triple Canopy Publication Intensive (2018). Her work has been exhibited in the United States and internationally\, spaces including solo exhibitions at Schlomer Haus (2023/SF)\, Bavan Gallery (2022\, Iran)\, 12 Gates Gallery (2022\, PHL) the Geary Contemporary (2021)\, Secca (2020)\, Venice Biennale (2019\, IT)\, Hercules Program (2019\, NY)\, 17 Essex (2019\, NY)\, Limiditi-Temporary Art Project (2018\, MR)\, Practice (2018\, NY)\, Museum of Contemporary Art Vijdovina (2018\, SR)\, Art in Odd Places (2017\, NY)\, and PPOW (2017\, NY). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHer writing has appeared at the Brooklyn Rail\, Spot Magazine\, Asia Contemporary Art Week\, Photograph Magazine\, Volume One/Triple Canopy\, and the Dear Dave. She has been the recipient of MHZ Foundation’s Critics of Color (Curationist) and awarded the Guest Editor of the Brooklyn Rail’s Critic’s Page (November 2021). Her recent featured interviews include Julie Mehretu\, Dorothea Rockburne\, Rirkrit Tiravanija\, Okwui Okpokwasili\, Sanford Biggers\, Yto Barrada\, Hans Haacke\, Mark Dion\, Aliza Nisenbaum\, Jane Benson\, and Kevin Beasley. \nAlipour holds an MFA from Columbia University and has been a Faculty at Parsons\, New School\, RISD\, and SVA. URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/yasi-alipour-meg-turner/ LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.bgsqd.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/sept-7th-Meg-Turner-artist-talk-landscape-flyer-scaled.webp ORGANIZER;CN="Bureau of General Services%E2%80%94Queer Division":MAILTO:contact@bgsqd.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230906T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230906T213000 DTSTAMP:20260403T162637 CREATED:20230830T145654Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230830T150440Z UID:13414-1694025000-1694035800@www.bgsqd.com SUMMARY:OLNY Poly Movie Night: A Home at the End of the World (in person event) DESCRIPTION:Open Love NY presents Poly Movie Night\, a FREE series of feature films that focus on the portrayal of consensual / ethical non-monogamy in cinema. This month we’ll be in person at our regular venue\, the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division.\n \nPlease join us for A Home at the End of the World (2004)\, based on the novel by Michael Cunningham and starring Colin Farrell\, Dallas Roberts\, Robin Wright\, and Sissy Spacek.\n \nWednesday\, September 6 – 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm\nBureau of General Services—Queer Division\n208 W 13th St\, Rm 210\nNew York\, NY 10011\n \nWe’ll meet at 6:30 pm at the Bureau (in room 210 of The Lesbian\, Gay\, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center at 208 West 13th Street) for pre-screening socializing and start the movie at 7 pm. The event is free\, although a $10 suggested donation to help fund future events is much appreciated.\n \nSynopsis: Tragedy leads to a complex and intimate relationship between childhood friends Bobby and Jonathan in 1960’s Cleveland. Their history follows them into adulthood when they reconnect in New York City. Running time: 1 hour 37 minutes.\n  URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/poly-movie-night-a-home-at-the-end-of-the-world/ LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.bgsqd.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Home-at-End-of-World-scaled.webp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230816T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230816T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T162637 CREATED:20230725T175458Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230725T181500Z UID:12816-1692212400-1692219600@www.bgsqd.com SUMMARY:Words & Music: an evening of queer poetry & song with Gregg Shapiro & Jim Andralis (in person & live-streaming) DESCRIPTION:Queer poet Gregg Shapiro reads from his new book Refrain In Light (Souvenir Spoon Book\, 2023). Shapiro will be sharing the stage with queer musician Jim Andralis who will be performing songs from his most recent album I Can’t Stop Trying. \nCopies of both Gregg’s Refrain In Light and Jim’s I Can’t Stop Trying will be available for purchase at the event! \nThis 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. \nRegistration is not required. Seating is first come\, first served.\nAlso live-streaming at YouTube.com/@bgsqd \nSuggested donation $10 to benefit the Bureau’s work. \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without donation. \nWe will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event\, but we can also take credit card donations at the register or on Venmo @bgsqd. \n  \nGregg Shapiro is the author of nine books including Refrain in Light (Souvenir Spoon Books\, 2023). Recent/forthcoming lit-mag publications include San Pedro River Review\, BarBar\, Otherwise Engaged Literature and Arts Journal\, The Penn Review\, RFD\, Gargoyle\, Limp Wrist\, Mollyhouse\, Impossible Archetype\, confetti\, BP Review\, and Panoplyzine\, as well as the anthology Let Me Say This: A Dolly Parton Poetry Anthology (Madville\, 2023). An entertainment journalist\, whose interviews and reviews run in a variety of regional LGBTQ+ and mainstream publications and websites\, Shapiro lives in South Florida with his husband Rick\, and their dog Coco. \n  \nOriginally born and raised in Pennsylvania\, New York City-based Jim Andralis has proudly entrenched himself within the New York music community. He went from member of queer NYC punk band The Isotoners to featured performer in Joe’s Pub monthly variety show\, Our Hit Parade. His 2016 solo debut\, Your Dying Wish Come True\, garnered critical acclaim with The Miami Herald christening it\, “One of the best solo debut discs of the year.” Shut Up Shut Up [2018] and My Beautiful Enemy [2020] integrated lush harmonies courtesy of the Syntonics\, adding layers of humanity and beauty to his tender and (and occasionally rauncy) songs. They had the pleasure of opening for Bikini Kill at Irving Plaza last summer. Among various collaborations\, Andralis teamed up with Bridget Everett [Somebody Somewhere\, Love You More\, Patti Cake$] on “Hit The Ground Fuckin’” and lent his voice to Champagne Jerry’s The Champagne Room alongside the likes of Adam “Ad Rock” Horovitz [The Beastie Boys]\, Erin Markey\, and Murray Hill. In addition\, he works as a trauma-focused psychotherapist in private practice and co-hosts country music variety show Grand Ole Pubry at Joe’s Pub. Andralis is releasing a stripped EP this September\, and with the Syntonics is currently recording Ghosts\, an LP to be released in 2024. \n  URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/words-music-an-evening-of-queer-poetry-song-with-gregg-shapiro-jim-andralis-in-person-live-streaming/ LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.bgsqd.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/words-music-shapiro-andralis-Gregg-Shapiro-jpeg.webp ORGANIZER;CN="Bureau of General Services%E2%80%94Queer Division":MAILTO:contact@bgsqd.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230727T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230727T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T162637 CREATED:20230718T140908Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230726T172836Z UID:12609-1690482600-1690491600@www.bgsqd.com SUMMARY:VIRTUE\, NYC REVIVAL OF LANDMARK QUEER FILM DESCRIPTION:Join us for a screening of VIRTUE (1999)\, the historical experimental queer film\, followed by Q&A with director Camera Obscura\, moderated by August Bernadicou (The LGBTQ History Project). \nA quarter-century after its release\, Virtue reflects the historical moment during the 1990s in S.F. when the two worlds of tech and queer/punk collided. As a result\, Virtue was received as a perplexing anomaly. On the one hand\, it was a campy\, polymorphously perverse satire with music. On the other hand\, it was a scathing critique (exceedingly rare at the time) of Silicon Valley’s techno-utopian vision. Neither fish nor fowl\, the film defied genre. \nThe story\, reminiscent in tone of a Twilight Zone allegory\, involves a strange woman with an odd accent (Hundée) who loses her husband in a graphically depicted scene of auto-erotic asphyxiation. To cope with her loss\, she seeks a virtual-reality substitute (a “man chip” as she calls it). This pursuit leads her into the prurient world of tech addicts who rely on chip pushers (the drug metaphor is obvious). \nThe film is chock full of cameos by bohemian icons of the day\, including The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence\, Jello Biafra\, Elvis Herselvis\, Phillip R. Ford\, and Miss X. Also included are interviews with futurists Timothy Leary\, William Gibson\, R.U. Sirius\, and John Perry Barlow. \nDirector Q/A to follow moderated by August Bernadicou (The LGBTQ History Project) \nThis 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. \nRegistration is not required. Seating is first come\, first served. \nSuggested donation $10 to benefit the Bureau’s work.\nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without donation. \nWe will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event\, but we can also take credit card donations at the register or on Venmo @bgsqd. URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/virtue-nyc-revival-of-landmark-queer-filmvirtue-nyc-premier-screening/ LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bgsqd.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/July-27-VIRTUE-POSTER-final.png ORGANIZER;CN="Bureau of General Services%E2%80%94Queer Division":MAILTO:contact@bgsqd.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230629T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230629T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T162637 CREATED:20230608T145557Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230610T175216Z UID:12566-1688065200-1688070600@www.bgsqd.com SUMMARY:SEX WORKER STORY HOUR (in person only) DESCRIPTION:Scratch the surface of any sizeable gathering of gay men and you will find a number of guys who have engaged in one form of sex work or another at some time in their lives: erotic massage\, escorting\, sacred intimacy\, go-go dancing\, stripping\, camming for cash\, appearing in adult videos (porn)\, OnlyFans/JustForFans\, hosting sex parties\, selling used underwear online\, etc. And we all have stories to tell. What circumstances brought you into sex work\, and what made you cycle out of it? What did you learn about yourself in the process? What were memorable triumphs or debacles for you? \nBring a story to tell\, or let yourself be interviewed by Tomik Dash\, founder and publisher of Fag Rag magazine\, and Don Shewey\, author of the just-published memoir Daddy Lover God: a sacred intimate journey (Joybody Books). Connoisseurs of sex workers also welcome to share. \nCopies of Daddy Lover God will be available for purchase and signing. Copies of Fag Rag NYC will be available free of charge. \nReserve a copy of Daddy Lover God by writing to us at contact@bgsqd.com \nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us!\n \nThis 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. \nRegistration is not required. Seating is first come\, first served.\n \nSuggested donation $10 to benefit the Bureau’s work.\nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without donation.\n \nWe will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event\, but we can also take credit card donations at the register or on Venmo @bgsqd. \n \nBiographies of participants: \nTomik Dash is a Black\, gay\, left-handed\, near-sighted\, outspoken entrepreneur\, writer\, activist\, and sex worker. At least three of those attributes got him scholarships into college. He publishes a regional brand of fine art\, LGBTQ magazines called Fag Rag that currently have editions in NYC\, Fire Island\, and Provincetown. He is also the President of a nonprofit called the Black and Brown Equity Coalition that advocates for Black and transgender equity on Fire Island.\nwww.tomik2point0.com \nInstagram:  @tomik2point0\n \n \nDon Shewey is a writer\, therapist\, and pleasure activist in New York City. As a journalist and critic\, he has published three books about theater and hundreds of articles for the New York Times\, the Village Voice\, and other publications. He has chronicled his psycho-sexual-spiritual adventures in essays for numerous anthologies as well as the book-length The Paradox of Porn: Notes on Gay Male Sexual Culture. An archive of his writing is available online at donshewey.com. \nInstagram: @donsheweynyc \n  \nImages: \nCover of Daddy Lover God \nDon Shewey headshot: Liam Cunningham Photography \nCover of Fag Rag NYC\, featuring art work by Gio Black Peter \nTomik Dash headshot: Erik Carter\n  URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/sex-worker-story-hour-in-person-only/ LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.bgsqd.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/June-29-Don-Shewey-Sex-Worker-Story-Hour.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bureau of General Services%E2%80%94Queer Division":MAILTO:contact@bgsqd.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230628T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230628T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T162637 CREATED:20230529T025930Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230529T030253Z UID:12524-1687980600-1687986000@www.bgsqd.com SUMMARY:We Made It: The Testimony of Black Queer Writers with David Santos Donaldson & Robert Jones\, Jr. (in person & live-streaming) DESCRIPTION:“We Made It: The Testimony of Black Queer Writers”\nA conversation with novelists Robert Jones\, Jr. & David Santos Donaldson about their journeys being Black and queer in the world of publishing\, activism\, and following the legacies of Black queer artists. \nCopies of The Prophets & Greenland will be available for purchase at the event. We strongly encourage you to reserve a copy in advance so that we can be sure to have enough on hand. Please email us at contact@bgsqd.com. \nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us! \nThis 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. \nRegistration is not required. Seating is first come\, first served.\nAlso live-streaming at YouTube.com/@bgsqd \nSuggested donation $10 to benefit the Bureau’s work. \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without donation. \nWe will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event\, but we can also take credit card donations at the register or on Venmo @bgsqd. \nRobert Jones\, Jr. (formerly known as “Son of Baldwin”) is the author of The New York Times bestselling novel\, The Prophets\, which won the 2022 Publishing Triangle Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction\, and was a finalist for the 2021 National Book Award for Fiction. His work has been featured in The New York Times\, Essence\, Variety\, and The Paris Review\, as well as in the critically acclaimed anthologies Four Hundred Souls and The 1619 Project. You can subscribe for free to his newsletter\, Witness\, on Substack. \nDavid Santos Donaldson is the author of the novel Greenland\, a finalist for the 2023 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and the 2023 Publishing Triangle Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction. He was raised in Nassau\, Bahamas\, and has lived in India\, Spain\, and the United States. Donaldson attended Wesleyan University and the Drama Division of the Juilliard School\, and his plays have been commissioned by the Public Theater. His writing has appeared in various magazines including Poets & Writers\, Literary Hub\, Electric Literature\, The Rumpus\, and the German literary magazine Geistesblüten. URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/we-made-it-the-testimony-of-black-queer-writers-with-david-santos-donaldson-robert-jones-jr-in-person-live-streaming/ LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bgsqd.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/JUNE-28-We-Made-It-The-Testimony-of-Black-Queer-Writers-with-David-Santos-Donaldson-Robert-Jones.png ORGANIZER;CN="Bureau of General Services%E2%80%94Queer Division":MAILTO:contact@bgsqd.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230622T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230622T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T162637 CREATED:20230603T205216Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230613T173048Z UID:12563-1687460400-1687467600@www.bgsqd.com SUMMARY:KNOWSGAY No. 8 Launch Party DESCRIPTION:KNOWSGAY is back to celebrate it’s 10 year anniversary. Please join us to celebrate and pick up a copy of our latest issue. \nKNOWSGAY was created for the Los Angeles Art Book Fair in 2013. An unconventional approach to zine making\, KNOWSGAY exists as a lovingly assembled collection of art/ephemera that memorializes fleeting thoughts\, queer emotions\, and iconic and esoteric queer icons. KNOWSGAY is created by Charlie Welch and Paul Moreno. Charlie and Paul are also the founders of the New York Queer Zine Fair. \nKNOWSGAY 8 will be an edition of 50 and will be for sale exclusively at the Bureau. \nA portion of all sales will benefit the Bureau. URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/knowsgay-no-8-launch-party/ LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.bgsqd.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/KNOWSGAY8_BGSQD-updated-scaled.jpeg ORGANIZER;CN="Bureau of General Services%E2%80%94Queer Division":MAILTO:contact@bgsqd.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230621T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230621T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T162637 CREATED:20230528T165934Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230528T165934Z UID:12518-1687370400-1687377600@www.bgsqd.com SUMMARY:JesusDevil: New York Launch with Alexis De Veaux and J. Wortham (in person & live-streaming) DESCRIPTION:JesusDevil: The Parables\, synthesizes a lifetime of Alexis’s movement through genre\, resulting in her boldest statement on form\, alternate worldmaking\, and black queer life to date. For this New York launch event\, Alexis will read from JesusDevil\, and then join a discussion with writer J. Wortham about the book and its expansive\, black queer imaginings. \nEvocative and experimental\, JesusDevil: The Parables is a nonlinear tale of black life and spiritual expression. Writing in a style she calls “afiction\,” author Alexis De Veaux expands and moves beyond traditional narrative\, following the adventures of Fhill\, a black\, queer spirit who has taken human form. Neither male nor female\, Fhill moves fluidly and disruptively across concepts of identity\, passing through the nine “parables” that comprise this text. Examining aspects of what it means to be black and human—from a nonhuman perspective—Fhill’s liminal nature redefines social and literary categories\, exploring social constructions of blackness as well as themes of desire\, memory\, sex\, revenge\, and more. \nCopies of JesusDevil: The Parables  will be available for purchase at the event. We strongly encourage you to reserve a copy in advance so that we can be sure to have enough on hand. Please email us at contact@bgsqd.com with “Reserve JesusDevil”  in the subject line. \nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us! \nThis 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. \nRegistration is not required. Seating is first come\, first served.\nAlso live-streaming at YouTube.com/@bgsqd \nSuggested donation $10 to benefit the Bureau’s work. \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without donation. \nWe will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event\, but we can also take credit card donations at the register or on Venmo @bgsqd. \nAlexis De Veaux is a black queer feminist independent scholar whose internationally known work is published in six languages. She has been publishing fiction\, poetry\, plays\, memoirs\, and children’s literature since 1973\, and her work is anthologized in numerous collections. De Veaux is the author of Yabo and Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde; and was tenured faculty at the University at Buffalo\, Department of Women’s Studies\, for more than twenty years\, mentoring a new generation of interdisciplinary scholars of black\, feminist\, and queer studies. \nJ Wortham (they/them) is a sound healer\, reiki practitioner\, herbalist\, and community care worker oriented towards healing justice and liberation. They are also a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine\, and co-host of the podcast ‘Still Processing\,’ With Kimberly Drew\, they co-edited Black Futures\, a visual anthology and compendium of radical\, imaginative\, and provocative art by contemporary Black creators. URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/jesusdevil-new-york-launch-with-alexis-de-veaux-and-j-wortham-in-person-live-streaming/ LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bgsqd.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/JUNE-21-JesusDevil-New-York-Launch-with-Alexis-De-Veaux-and-J.-Wortham.png ORGANIZER;CN="Bureau of General Services%E2%80%94Queer Division":MAILTO:contact@bgsqd.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230618T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230618T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T162637 CREATED:20230519T210433Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230618T142741Z UID:12464-1687107600-1687111200@www.bgsqd.com SUMMARY:Book Launch: Drew Pisarra's Periodic Boyfriends (in person & live-streaming) DESCRIPTION:Join author Drew Pisarra for the launch of Periodic Boyfriends\, his new poetry collection inspired by the Periodic Table of Elements and his personal catalog of one- night-stands. A discussion between the author and Capturing Fire Publisher and Nuyorican Poets Café Slam Legend Regie Cabico will follow the reading. \nCopies of Periodic Boyfriends ($20) will be available for purchase at the event. We strongly encourage you to reserve a copy in advance so that we can be sure to have enough on hand. Please email us at contact@bgsqd.com with “Reserve Periodic Boyfriends”  in the subject line. \nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us! \nThis 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. \nRegistration is not required. Seating is first come\, first served.\nAlso live-streaming at YouTube.com/@bgsqd \nSuggested donation $10 to benefit the Bureau’s work. \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without donation. \nWe will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event\, but we can also take credit card donations at the register or on Venmo @bgsqd. \nDrew Pisarra is a grantee of Café Royal Cultural Foundation\, Curious Elixirs: Curious Creators\, and LMCC as well as the author of the poetry collections Periodic Boyfriends (2023) and Infinity Standing Up (2019) [lauded as “brazen and lusty and often amusing” by The Washington Post] and the short story collections You’re Pretty Gay (2021) [excerpted by Ms. magazine] and Publick Spanking (1996). \nRegie Cabico is a spoken word pioneer having won The Nuyorican Poets Cafe Grand Slam and later taken top prizes in three National Poetry Slams. TV credits include TEDx\, two seasons of HBO’s Def Poetry Jam\, and NPR’s Snap Judgement. His new collection of poetry\, A Rabbit in Search of a Rolex will be released Sep. 2023 by Day Eight Press. He is the publisher/producer of Capturing Fire Press and resides in DC. URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/book-launch-drew-pisarras-periodic-boyfriends-in-person-live-streaming/ LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bgsqd.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/June-18-Book-Launch-Drew-Pisarras-Periodic-Boyfriends-1.png ORGANIZER;CN="Bureau of General Services%E2%80%94Queer Division":MAILTO:contact@bgsqd.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230616T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230616T183000 DTSTAMP:20260403T162637 CREATED:20230603T170029Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230603T181810Z UID:12539-1686938400-1686940200@www.bgsqd.com SUMMARY:Deep Moon\, Pluto (in person and live-streaming) DESCRIPTION:Kuba Falk + Zbigniew Bzymek present: Deep Moon\, Pluto \nA body performance with video monitor working with themes of gay masculinity and superimposition and submission to image. \nThe Bureau is hosting the performance Deep Moon\, Pluto in conjunction with the exhibition The Romance of Entanglement (in the era of the Observer’s Paradox)\, an exhibition of new work by eleven queer artists curated by participating artists Courtney Webster and Natalie Woodlock. The exhibition opens June 8 and runs through September 10. \nBio \nKuba Falk and Z Bzymek make up the queer art duo INTERHUMAN – making art that explores the diverging needs of individual spiritual growth and community interconnectedness. \n  \n@interhuman_interform \n@kuba_falk \n@zbi_bzym URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/deep-moon-pluto/ LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.bgsqd.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Romance-June-16.jpeg ORGANIZER;CN="Bureau of General Services%E2%80%94Queer Division":MAILTO:contact@bgsqd.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230615T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230615T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T162637 CREATED:20230502T152740Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230511T180223Z UID:12443-1686855600-1686861000@www.bgsqd.com SUMMARY:Book Launch for GENDER WITHOUT IDENTITY\, by Avgi Saketopoulou and Ann Pellegrini (in person & live-streaming) DESCRIPTION:Join authors Avgi Saketopoulou and Ann Pellegrini as they discuss their new book\, GENDER WITHOUT IDENTITY. They will be in conversation with psychoanalyst Griffin Hansbury. The event will consist of a reading\, discussion\, Q&A\, and signing\, followed by a short reception with food and drink. \nAbout GENDER WITHOUT IDENTITY: At a time of unprecedented legislative attacks on LGBTQ+ people\, with gender-affirmative care for trans youth being outright banned in a growing number of states\, Saketopoulou and Pellegrini offer an innovative and at times unsettling theory of gender formation. Arguing for abandoning the fiction of “core gender identity” and the fantasy that there is something true or authentic about any gender\, Saketopoulou and Pellegrini instead propose that gender is something all subjects (not just trans and queer subjects) acquire. Trauma\, they daringly argue\, sometimes has a share in that acquisition. \nRooted in the work of French psychoanalyst Jean Laplanche and in conversation with bold work in queer and trans studies\, GENDER WITHOUT IDENTITY argues for the ethical urgency of recognizing that wounding experiences and traumatic legacies may be spun into gender. Such “spinning” involves self-theorizations that do not proceed from a centered self\, but are nevertheless critical to psychic autonomy. \nSaketopoulou and Pellegrini\, who are both practicing psychoanalysts\, offer theoretical and clinical resources for working with gender complexity and for complexifying (what is seen as) gender normativity. But\, above all\, GENDER WITHOUT IDENTITY is an impassioned defense of queer and trans life and flourishing. \nCopies of GENDER WITHOUT IDENTITY will be available at the Bureau. To reserve a copy\, please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com. \nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us! \nThis 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. \nRegistration is not required. Seating is first come\, first served.\nAlso live-streaming at YouTube.com/@bgsqd \nSuggested donation $10 to benefit the Bureau’s work. \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without donation. \nWe will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event\, but we can also take credit card donations at the register or on Venmo @bgsqd. \n  \nAvgi Saketopoulou (she/her) is a Cypriot and Greek immigrant and a psychoanalyst based in New York City. She is on faculty at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis\, and works extensively with trans children and their families. She is also the author of Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk\, Race\, Traumatophilia\, which was published earlier this year by New York University Press. \n  \nAnn Pellegrini (all pronouns) is Professor of Performance Studies & Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University\, and a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City. Their books include “You Can Tell Just By Looking” and 20 Other Myths about LGBT Life and People\, coauthored with Michael Bronski and Michael Amico (Beacon Press\, 2013). Pellegrini is the founding coeditor of the “Sexual Cultures” series at New York University Press. \n  \nSaketopoulou and Pellegrini are the recipients of the first Tiresias Paper Award\, from the Sexual and Gender Diversity Studies Committee of the International Psychoanalytical Association. \n  \nGriffin Hansbury (he/him) is a psychoanalyst in New York City. Under the pen name Jeremiah Moss\, he is the author of Feral City and Vanishing New York. His writing on the city has appeared in the New York Times\, The New Yorker\, The Paris Review\, and the New York Review of Books. URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/book-launch-for-gender-without-identity-by-avgi-saketopoulou-and-ann-pellegrini-in-person-live-streaming/ LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bgsqd.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/June-15-Book-Launch-for-GENDER-WITHOUT-IDENTITY-by-Avgi-Saketopoulou-and-Ann-Pellegrini.png ORGANIZER;CN="Bureau of General Services%E2%80%94Queer Division":MAILTO:contact@bgsqd.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230614T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230614T203000 DTSTAMP:20260403T162637 CREATED:20230428T163415Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230428T165407Z UID:12419-1686769200-1686774600@www.bgsqd.com SUMMARY:Boyslut Book Launch with author Zachary Zane and Jordyn Taylor (in person & live-streaming) DESCRIPTION:Join sex expert and Men’s Health magazine columnist Zachary Zane in celebration of his new book Boyslut: A Memoir and Manifesto at the Bureau on Wednesday\, June 14th at 7pm ET! Zach will be in conversation with Jordyn Taylor\, executive digital editor at Men’s Health and co-author with Zach of Men’s Health Best. Sex. Ever.: 200 Frank\, Funny & Friendly Answers About Getting It On. \nNamed one of Buzzfeed’s Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Books of 2023\, Boyslut is a series of personal and tantalizing essays that articulate how our society still shames people for the sex that they have and the sexualities that they inhabit. Through the lens of his bisexuality and much self-described sluttiness\, Zane breaks down exactly how this sexual shame negatively impacts the sex and relationships in our lives and\, through personal experience\, shares how we can unlearn the harmful\, entrenched messages that society imparts to us. \nFrom stories of drug-fueled threesomes and risqué Grindr hookups to insights on dealing with rejection and living with his boyfriend and his boyfriend’s wife\, Boyslut is reassuring and often painfully funny—but most potently a testimony that we can all learn to live healthier lives unburdened by stigma. \nCopies of Boyslut will be available at the Bureau. To reserve a copy\, please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com. \nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us! \nThis 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. \nRegistration is not required. Seating is first come\, first served.\nAlso live-streaming at YouTube.com/@bgsqd \nSuggested donation $10 to benefit the Bureau’s work. \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without donation. \nWe will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event\, but we can also take credit card donations at the register or on Venmo @bgsqd. \n  \nZachary Zane is a Brooklyn-based columnist\, sex expert\, and activist whose work focuses on sexuality\, culture\, and the LGBTQ community. He’s the co-author of Men’s Health: Best. Sex. Ever. He currently has two columns: “Sexplain It” the sex and relationship advice column at Men’s Health\, and “Navigating Non-Monogamy” at Cosmo\, where he shares all the mistakes he’s made in his polyamory journey\, so you don’t have to. He is also the founder and editor-in-chief of Boyslut zine\, which publishes real sex stories from kinksters worldwide. His work on sexuality and relationships has been published in the New York Times\, Rolling Stone\, The Washington Post\, GQ\, OUT\, and many others. \n  \nJordyn Taylor is the executive digital editor at Men’s Health magazine and the co-author of Men’s Health Best. Sex. Ever.: 200 Frank\, Funny & Friendly Answers About Getting It On. \n  URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/boyslut-book-launch/ LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.bgsqd.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/June-14-Boyslut-flyer.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bureau of General Services%E2%80%94Queer Division":MAILTO:contact@bgsqd.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230611T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230611T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T162637 CREATED:20230528T162833Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230530T223211Z UID:12513-1686495600-1686502800@www.bgsqd.com SUMMARY:Celebrate Transgender and NonBinary people and their families in the book Authentic Selves (in person) DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Sunday June 11\, 2023 at 3:00 p.m. at the Bureau of General Services-Queer Division book store located at 208 West 13th St NY\, NY. – Room 210. We are celebrating the book release of Authentic Selves\, a collection of stories by Trans and Nonbinary People and their families from across the country. \nYou will meet authors Josef Burwell\, Tamira Burns\, Chris Mohn and Jozeppi Angelo Morelli who will discuss their passion for the book and share excerpts from their stories. Our special guest will be Peggy Gillespie Co-Director of Family Diversity Projects and the extraordinary human who interviewed all the authors in the book. \nBook signing will follow. \nCopies of Authentic Selves will be available for purchase at the event. We strongly encourage you to reserve a copy in advance so that we can be sure to have enough on hand. Please email us at contact@bgsqd.com with “Reserve Authentic Selves”  in the subject line. \nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us! \nThis 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. \nRegistration is not required. Seating is first come\, first served. \nSuggested donation $10 to benefit the Bureau’s work. \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without donation. \nWe will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event\, but we can also take credit card donations at the register or on Venmo @bgsqd. \nJosef Burwell is a transgender man\, Physician Associate\, and humanitarian. He currently facilitates a peer support group for trans masculine individuals\, and works professionally providing medical care for First American people in Alaska. \nRev. Tamira Burns is a visible and vocal member of the LGBTQI+ community. She has been a human rights and social Justice advocate-activist for over 3 decades\, working to affect compassionate policy changes at the local and state level for women\, children and the LGBTQI+ community. \nChris Mohn (she/her) is a retired middle school educator\, a mom\, and a human committed to justice for all. I am honored to be a member of Joey’s chosen family\, witnessing and supporting (as I could) his journey to become his authentic self – a proud\, confident man\, and now a passionate activist for the Trans community. \nPeggy Gillespie is the Co-Founder/Director of Family Diversity Projects. She is the Editor-in- Chief of all of Family Diversity Project’s exhibits and books including Authentic Selves\, Love Makes a Family: Portraits of LGBT People and their Families. https://www.familydiversityprojects.org  \nJozeppi Angelo Morelli is a retired law enforcement officer and 911 WTC First Responder. He is an author\, gender educator\, activist and public speaker. He is also currently co-producing A Two Spirit Artist Show opening Oct 9\,2023 in the East Village at La Sala De Pepe\, a gallery and cultural center. URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/celebrate-transgender-and-nonbinary-people-and-their-families-in-the-book-authentic-selves-in-person/ LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bgsqd.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/June-11-Celebrate-Transgender-and-NonBinary-people-and-their-families-in-the-book-Authentic-Selves01.png ORGANIZER;CN="Bureau of General Services%E2%80%94Queer Division":MAILTO:contact@bgsqd.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230610T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230610T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T162637 CREATED:20230531T152847Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230531T152847Z UID:12535-1686423600-1686430800@www.bgsqd.com SUMMARY:Bushwick Book Club Presents New Songs and Art in Response to Gender Queer (in person only) DESCRIPTION:The Bureau of General Services—Queer Division and The Lesbian\, Gay\, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center Host The Bushwick Book Club Presenting New Songs and Art in Response to Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe. \nFeaturing performers: \nJohn S. Hall (New Trout) \nDon Rauf \nSusan Hwang \nBoy Meets Pearl \nYva Las Vegass \nAnni Rossi \nPaula Spiro \nHoni Harlow \nHanuel Lee \nspiritchild \nEndless Arrows \nJason Trachtenburg \nStephanie Larriere \nOksana Horban \n  \nCopies of Gender Queer: A Memoir (Oni Press\, 2019\, paperback\, $19.99) will be available for purchase at the event. To reserve a copy please email the Bureau at contact@bgsqd.com with “please reserve Gender Queer” in the subject line. \nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us! \n  \nSuggested donation $10 to pay the performers \nPlease register on Eventbrite by clicking here.\nAbout the Bushwick Book Club: \nThe Bushwick Book Club began in January 2009 on a dare. Songwriter\, Susan Hwang\, dared Goodbye Blue Monday owner Steve Trimboli to let her have a night of new songs inspired by literature. He said\, “Sure.” \nThey started with Kurt Vonnegut’s Breakfast of Champions and now meet monthly employing the talents of local songwriters\, artists and chefs who plumb the depths of a chosen literary gem to create that rare and beautiful thing – a new song (or visual art\, dance\, film or snack). These literature-themed live shows have been inspired by everything from Raymond Carver to Charles Darwin to George R.R. Martin to the thesaurus. \nThe Bushwick Book Club now has several branches all over the world\, including Portland\, Los Angeles\, Seattle\, Santa Barbara\, New Orleans\, Greenville\, London and Malmö\, Sweden. \nThe Bushwick Book Club Podcast includes excerpts from the live shows plus interviews with authors and songwriters. URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/bushwick-book-club-presents-new-songs-and-art-in-response-to-gender-queer/ LOCATION:The Lesbian\, Gay\, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 101\, New York\, 10011\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.bgsqd.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/June-10-Bushwick-Book-Club-Gender-Queer-updated.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230609T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230609T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T162637 CREATED:20230603T175736Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230603T190457Z UID:12544-1686333600-1686337200@www.bgsqd.com SUMMARY:Circuit Party (in person & live-streaming) DESCRIPTION:Circuit Party lays bare the electromagnetic substructure of contemporary relations\, creating a portalic space using sound\, electricity\, astrological magic and the hyperobject of technology. \nThe Bureau is hosting the performance Circuit Party in conjunction with the exhibition The Romance of Entanglement (in the era of the Observer’s Paradox)\, an exhibition of new work by eleven queer artists curated by participating artists Courtney Webster and Natalie Woodlock. The exhibition opens June 8 and runs through September 10. \nBio:\nForrester is based in San Francisco\, CA. Exhibited widely\, in both national and international contexts\, and with a range of aesthetic interests that include: practices of accumulation\, manifestations of power\, diaspora\, noetic science\, new materialisms\, discourses around the transcendent and the material relationship between self and world. These encounter fusion around ideas of regenerative relationships to both and land and people\, collective liberation\, quantum feminisms\, queer theory\, spiritual and occult praxis and ontology and addressing historical trauma as spiritual practice. URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/circuit-party/ LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.bgsqd.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/circuitparty-fb-1.jpeg ORGANIZER;CN="Bureau of General Services%E2%80%94Queer Division":MAILTO:contact@bgsqd.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230608T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230608T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T162637 CREATED:20230530T191043Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230530T191409Z UID:12529-1686247200-1686254400@www.bgsqd.com SUMMARY:The Romance of Entanglement: Opening Reception DESCRIPTION:The Bureau of General Services—Queer Division is proud to present The Romance of Entanglement (in the era of the Observer’s Paradox)\, an exhibition of new work by eleven queer artists. The exhibition opens June 8 and runs through September 10. \nJoin us for the Opening Reception on Thursday\, June 8\, 6-8 PM \nThe Romance of Entanglement presents the work of artists working across photography\, fiber arts\, painting\, printmaking\, drawing and installation. The work in this exhibit has been made in deep collaboration with larger communities and in communication with queer legacies and histories. \nWeaving\, quilting and drag are some of the communal and performative traditions artists draw from. These processes speak back to the collaborative art-making traditions of queer and feminist activism and performance. Working with color\, pattern\, texture and symbols\, much of the work in this show signals ecstatic joy and vibrates with abundance. \nOther work interrogates capitalist systems and the tropes of representation produced by the dominant culture. This work posits queerness as an act of generative disobedience\, offering an alternate lexicon where the erased and invisible become seen\, empowered and celebrated. \nIn an increasingly hostile landscape for LGBTQ+ people\, this exhibition offers a utopian re-envisioning of the present and a portal into the future. It chronicles the ways we are creating safety for ourselves\, conjuring our utopian visions into existence. \nPARTICIPATING ARTISTS \nLiz Collins • Dana Robinson • Natalie Woodlock • Courtney Webster • Meg Turner Voxigma Lo • Whit Forrester • Colin Roberson • Theodora Eliezer Katie Kaplan • Amaryllis DeJesus Moleski URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/romance-of-entanglement-opening/ LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.bgsqd.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/romanceofentaglement-poster-1-2.jpeg ORGANIZER;CN="Bureau of General Services%E2%80%94Queer Division":MAILTO:contact@bgsqd.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230607T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230607T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T162637 CREATED:20230520T211715Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230520T212201Z UID:12471-1686166200-1686171600@www.bgsqd.com SUMMARY:2AM Eternal Book Launch with Eric Kostiuk Williams & Ted Kerr (in person & live-streaming) DESCRIPTION:Come by the Bureau on Wednesday\, June 7 for the launch of 2AM Eternal: A Decade of Queer Nightlife Posters + Comics\, 2012-2022. Your host\, Eric Kostiuk Williams\, captures a decade of nightlife in Toronto’s queer community — with detours to San Francisco and NYC — from basements to the backstage to the back rooms. Collecting one hundred event posters from 2012 to 2022\, along with short comics and write-ups from the author\, the organizers\, the performers\, and the crowd\, 2AM Eternal makes a scene — until last call. The pandemic prompts a series of posters for cancelled events\, and a pivot to digital events in the days of lockdown\, before the manic\, uneasy re-emergence of face-to-face\, wall-to-wall living. \nEric will be joined by author and activist Ted Kerr (We Are Having This Conversation Now: The Times of AIDS Cultural Production) for a discussion touching on nightlife in the 2010s\, Eric’s posters for NYC Inferno and Queer|Art|Film\, and much more. \nPraise for 2AM Eternal:\n“By linking his lived experience to the ebbs and flows of his clubbing community\, Williams creates a unique blend of autobiography and ethnography. A rare feat\, this collection informs\, entertains\, and seduces.” – Publishers Weekly \n“Eric Kostiuk Williams’ work has an incredible sense of physicality. Rooms and bodies live\, pulse\, transform from one thing to another. There’s a fluidity between the tangible and the abstract. At the end of the night\, will we return to the familiar or dissolve into the air? I’m so happy this book exists. Toronto is a city that seems hellbent on scrubbing itself of everything interesting about itself. I don’t think it’s hyperbolic to say that this is an incredibly important document and will probably change a few lives too.” – Jillian Tamaki (Roaming\, Supermutant Magic Academy\, Boundless) \nCopies of 2AM Eternal will be available for purchase at the event. We strongly encourage you to reserve a copy in advance so that we can be sure to have enough on hand. Please email us at contact@bgsqd.com with “Reserve 2AM Eternal”  in the subject line. \nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us! \nThis 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. \nRegistration is not required. Seating is first come\, first served.\nAlso live-streaming at YouTube.com/@bgsqd \nSuggested donation $10 to benefit the Bureau’s work. \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without donation. \nWe will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event\, but we can also take credit card donations at the register or on Venmo @bgsqd. \nEric Kostiuk Williams is a Toronto-based cartoonist and illustrator. His work deploys a fluid\, surreal visual aesthetic to explore ideas surrounding queer culture\, gender expression\, and urban upheaval. Eric has contributed comics to NOW Magazine\, Dazed & Confused\, PEN American\, and The Believer. He has also created murals\, nightlife flyers\, harm reduction campaigns\, editorial illustrations\, album artwork\, and music videos. Eric is an Eisner\, Doug Wright\, and Lambda Literary nominee. Recent illustration clients include Queer|Art|Film\, VICE\, The Poetry Project\, and The Walrus. \nCanadian born Theodore (ted) Kerr is a Brooklyn based writer and organizer whose work focuses on HIV/AIDS\, community\, and culture. In 2022 his book\, We Are Having This Conversation Now: The Times of AIDS Cultural Production \, with co-author\, Alexandra Juhasz\, was published by Duke University Press. His writing has also appeared in Women's Studies Quarterly\, The New Inquiry\, BOMB\, CBC (Canada)\, Lambda Literary\, POZ Magazine\, The Advocate\, Cineaste\, The St. Louis American\, IndieWire\, HyperAllergic\, and other publications. URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/2am-eternal-book-launch-with-eric-kostiuk-williams-ted-kerr/ LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.bgsqd.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/BGSQD-small-Eric-Kostiuk-Williams.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bureau of General Services%E2%80%94Queer Division":MAILTO:contact@bgsqd.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230604T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230604T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T162637 CREATED:20230525T160358Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230525T211523Z UID:12502-1685883600-1685905200@www.bgsqd.com SUMMARY:NYC Queer Comic Fair 2023 DESCRIPTION:We are BACK! June 3-4\, come join us at the Bureau inside the LGBT Center in NYC\, where we will be celebrating the wonderful work of local queer comic creators! This year\, we have over 30 vendors spanning the entire second floor of the LGBT Center! FREE ADMISSION! 1-7PM\, Saturday and Sunday.\n\nVendors: \n\nDoable Guys\nPatrick J. Reilly\nGilesdraws\nMiasmatik Art\nSlade\nRetrosofa\nGo Robo Now\nShadow Minis\nSquiddySprinkle\nDIS PATER\nEdward Ficklin\nCasey at the Bat\nTransoffinland\nLucky Sanford\nJames Dillenbeck\nD De Maglie\nHomosuperiorr\nLiam Donnelly\nZackery Francis\nGreg Lockard\nRoyal Nightshade Art\nJesse Arbor Illustration\nMacspins\nRat Decayy\n[GLASS//CUTTER]\nCarmen Pizarro\nKate Zimmermann\nVox the devil\nShiny Skunk\nThe Boy in Pink Earmuffs\nBunnysleepover URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/nyc-queer-comic-fair2/ LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bgsqd.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/June-3_4-NYC-Queer-Comic-Fair-landscape.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230603T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230603T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T162637 CREATED:20230525T153252Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230525T214300Z UID:12496-1685797200-1685818800@www.bgsqd.com SUMMARY:NYC Queer Comic Fair 2023 DESCRIPTION:We are BACK!  June 3-4\, come join us at the Bureau inside the LGBT Center in NYC\, where we will be celebrating the wonderful work of local queer comic creators!  This year\, we have over 30 vendors spanning the entire second floor of the LGBT Center!  FREE ADMISSION! 1-7PM\, Saturday and Sunday.\n  \nVendors:\n\n\nDoable Guys\nPatrick J. Reilly\nGilesdraws\nMiasmatik Art\nSlade\nRetrosofa\nGo Robo Now\nShadow Minis\nSquiddySprinkle\nDIS PATER\nEdward Ficklin\nCasey at the Bat\nTransoffinland\nLucky Sanford\nJames Dillenbeck\nD De Maglie\nHomosuperiorr\nLiam Donnelly\nZackery Francis\nGreg Lockard\nRoyal Nightshade Art\nJesse Arbor Illustration\nMacspins\nRat Decayy\n[GLASS//CUTTER]\nCarmen Pizarro\nKate Zimmermann\nVox the devil\nShiny Skunk\nThe Boy in Pink Earmuffs\nBunnysleepover URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/nyc-queer-comic-fair-2023/ LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bgsqd.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/June-3_4-NYC-Queer-Comic-Fair-landscape.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230531T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230531T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T162637 CREATED:20230504T221716Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230504T221716Z UID:12439-1685559600-1685566800@www.bgsqd.com SUMMARY:WHO NEEDS GAY BARS? Book talk and signing (in person & live-streaming) DESCRIPTION:Join author Greggor Mattson and interlocutor Hugh Ryan for a conversation about the past\, present\, and future of gay bars and LGBTQ+ spaces. Mattson’s new book WHO NEEDS GAY BARS? reports on more than 300 gay bar visits in 39 states and conversations with bar owners and bartenders\, drag queens and DJs (Redwood Press May 2023). Samantha Allen\, author of Real\, Queer America\, describes WHO NEEDS GAY BARS? as: “Breathtakingly intimate and yet vast in scope\, this passion project balances sharp insights with the kind of lived-in details that make you want to pull up a stool and stay a while.” After a conversation and Q&A\, the author will sign copies for purchase at the event. \nCopies of WHO NEEDS GAY BARS? will be available at the Bureau. To reserve a copy\, please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com. \nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us! \nThis 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. \nRegistration is not required. Seating is first come\, first served.\nAlso live-streaming at YouTube.com/@bgsqd \nSuggested donation $10 to benefit the Bureau’s work. \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without donation. \nWe will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event\, but we can also take credit card donations at the register or on Venmo @bgsqd. \nGreggor Mattson is Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Department at Oberlin College & Conservatory where he teaches courses on sexuality\, cities\, law\, and nightlife. He has been gay since 1974\, has conducted research in gay bars since 1999\, and has published on them in such venues as Slate\, Literary Hub\, Urban Studies\, and Gender\, Place\, and Culture. He grew up in small-town Washington and lives in small-town Ohio\, and tweets @greggormattson. \nHugh Ryan is a writer and curator\, and most recently\, the author of The Women’s House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison\, which won the American Library Association’s Stonewall Book Award for Nonfiction and the W.A. Percy Foundation’s William Johansson Award. His first book\, When Brooklyn Was Queer\, won a New York City Book Award\, was a New York Times Editors’ Choice\, and was a finalist for the Randy Shilts and Lambda Literary Awards. He has been honored with the Allan Bérubé Prize from the American Historical Association\, multiple grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts\, the Duberman Fellowship at the New York Public Library\, and residencies at Yaddo and Watermill. He teaches in the MFA Program at Bennington College. URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/who-needs-gay-bars-book-talk-and-signing-in-person-live-streaming/ LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bgsqd.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/May-31-Who-needs-gay-bars.png ORGANIZER;CN="Bureau of General Services%E2%80%94Queer Division":MAILTO:contact@bgsqd.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230525T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230525T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T162637 CREATED:20230422T181050Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230422T181050Z UID:12413-1685041200-1685044800@www.bgsqd.com SUMMARY:Fact and Fiction: Transgender Issues In the Real World and Through the Prism of Fiction (in person & live-streaming) DESCRIPTION:In 2019\, the ACLU of New Jersey\, led by attorneys Jeanne LoCicero\, Alexander Shalom\, and Tess Borden\, along with attorney Robyn Gigl of Gluck Walrath LLP\, sued the New Jersey Department of Corrections and its officers on behalf of a transgender woman. As part of the settlement of that case\, New Jersey adopted a system-wide policy to improve conditions for incarcerated transgender people that included presumptively housing people in custody in line with their gender identity\, and not sex assigned at birth. Only a few other states in the nation have such protections in place. \nThe presentation will feature Jeanne LoCicero\, Legal Director of the ACLU-NJ\, and Attorney and Author\, Robyn Gigl\, discussing Doe v. NJ Department of Corrections\, the legal strategy\, the landmark settlement\, and the settlement implications for transgender and non-binary identified people in custody. Robyn will also discuss how her experiences as an attorney and transgender woman have influenced her novels\, By Way of Sorrow\, Survivor’s Guilt and her most recent novel\, Remain Silent\, which feature Erin McCabe\, a transgender criminal defense attorney and all of which touch on issues involving the incarceration of trans identified characters. \nCopies of Robyn Gigl’s Remain Silent(Kensington Publishing\, May 23\, 2023\, hardcover\, $27) will be available for purchase at the event (along with earlier titles by Gigl). We strongly encourage you to reserve a copy of any books you plan on purchasing to ensure that we have plenty of copies on hand. Please write to us with “Please reserve a copy of Remain Silent” in the subject line:contact@bgsqd.com. \nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us! \nThis event will take place in person at theBureau of General Services—Queer Division\, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center\, 208 W. 13th St.\, NYC\, 10011. \nRegistration is not required. Seating is first come\, first served.\nAlso live-streaming atYouTube.com/@bgsqd \n  \nSuggested donation $10 to benefit the Bureau’s work. \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without donation. \nWe will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event\, but we can also take credit card donations at the register or on Venmo@bgsqd. \nRobyn Gigl\, the author of the Erin McCabe legal thrillers\, is an attorney\, speaker and activist who has been honored by the ACLU-NJ and the NJ Pride Network for her work on behalf of the LGBTQ community. Appointed by the New Jersey Supreme Court to the Court’s Committee on Diversity Inclusion and Community Engagement\, she’s practiced law for more than 40 years\, representing clients in state and federal courts. She is active in the New Jersey State Bar Association where she is a member of the Women in the Profession Section and a Past Chair of the Bar’s LGBT Rights Section. She also is a member of the Board of Directors of Garden State Equality\, NJ’s largest LGBTQ+ Civil Rights Organization. A frequent lecturer on diversity issues\, she lives in New Jersey and can be found online at RobynGigl.com or on Twitter @RobynGigl. \nJeanne LoCicero is the Legal Director of the American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey. She supervises the litigation program and related advocacy of the ACLU-NJ’s Legal Department and manages its 10+\nperson staff. Jeanne joined the ACLU-NJ as a staff attorney in 2004 and served as its Deputy Legal Director for ten years prior to becoming legal director in 2018. She has litigated and advocated in a wide range of civil rights and civil liberties cases\, with a focus on prison conditions\, racial equity\, LGBTQ rights\, women’s rights\, and reproductive health. She recently served on New Jersey’s Transgender Equality Task Force\, is a trustee of the Association of the Federal Bar of New Jersey\, and serves on other legal and policy committees. Jeanne started her legal career as a legal fellow at the ACLU of Alabama after graduating with highest honors from Rutgers School of Law – Newark. She spent three years in private practice before joining the ACLU-NJ. URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/fact-and-fiction-transgender-issues-in-the-real-world-and-through-the-prism-of-fiction-in-person-live-streaming/ LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bgsqd.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/May-25-Fact-and-Fiction-Transgender-Issues-In-the-Real-World-and-Through-the-Prism-of-Fiction.png ORGANIZER;CN="Bureau of General Services%E2%80%94Queer Division":MAILTO:contact@bgsqd.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230521T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230521T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T162637 CREATED:20230418T200922Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230420T172946Z UID:12397-1684681200-1684688400@www.bgsqd.com SUMMARY:Queer Heroes of Myth and Legend with author Dan Jones (in person & live-streaming) DESCRIPTION:Join author Dan Jones for the launch of Queer Heroes of Myth and Legend: A celebration of gay gods\, sapphic saints and queerness through the ages \nA discussion and book signing with author Dan Jones and Joshua Mackey\, Assistant Editor\, INTO \n  \nCopies of Queer Heroes of Myth and Legend (Radar\, May 2\, 2023\, hardcover\, $19.99) will be available for purchase at the event. \nWe strongly encourage you to reserve a copy in advance so that we can be sure to have enough copies on hand. Please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com with “reserve Queer Heroes”  in the subject line. \nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us! \n  \nThis 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. \nRegistration is not required. Seating is first come\, first served.\nAlso live-streaming at YouTube.com/@bgsqd \n  \nSuggested donation $10 to benefit the Bureau’s work. \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without donation. \nWe will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event\, but we can also take credit card donations at the register or on Venmo @bgsqd. \n  \nDan Jones is a best-selling British author living in New York. A onetime magazine editor (i-D Magazine\, Time Out London)\, Dan writes about fashion\, grooming\, booze\, and queer culture. \nJoshua Mackey is an editor\, writer\, interviewer\, and culture/film/tv critic whose writing is at the intersection of Black\, queer\, and nerdy. The assistant editor for LGBTQ-focused publication INTO\, his work can also be found in Nerdist\, Huffington Post\, and Geeks of Color. URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/queer-heroes-of-myth-and-legend-with-author-dan-jones/ LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.bgsqd.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/May-21-Queer-Heroes-Dan-Jones-flyer.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bureau of General Services%E2%80%94Queer Division":MAILTO:contact@bgsqd.com END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR