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SUMMARY:trans liberation history gathering (in person workshop)
DESCRIPTION:In this workshop we will discuss and share stories\, materials\, and memories with one another to expand the hirstory of trans\, Two-Spirit\, non-binary\, and gender diverse communities and individuals in North America during the 20th century. \nThis project is based on the belief that our hirstory is key to healing our communities from the scars of transphobia. We heal when we connect with ancestors and learn more about ourselves through them. We heal when we receive testament to our continued existence in this world. We heal when given the opportunity to repair the scars of past conflicts. Finally\, we heal when we are able to grow from the wisdom of passing time. Gathering around oral histories and physical materials offers us the opportunity to engage with all these modes of healing. \nIn this workshop\, we will work collectively against our erasure from society’s memory. We will reflect on the progress that has been won over the last fifty years and the many challenges that remain. During the first hour we will share stories of trans* and queer individuals\, movements\, and moments that hold power for us. After a break we will discuss our shared hirstory\, focusing on where we have each found or not found community or conflict.  \nTrans communities have always taken care of ourselves when others would not. We have formed houses and families\, birthed movements\, underwritten research\, built learning networks\, and shaped culture. This workshop continues this legacy by helping us narrate a trans hirstory in which our movements are powerful\, autonomous\, and coalitional\, so that we can continue the work to build a liveable trans present and future. \nSpace is limited to 20 participants \nRegister here\nFacilitator Bios\nSky Syzygy is a white queer trans femme filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist\, a racial and gender justice facilitator\, and a data scientist. In 2021\, Sky launched gender.network\, an archive of flyers\, photos\, artwork\, cartoons\, letters\, poems\, and other media by trans*\, Two-spirit\, nonbinary\, and trans-adjacent activists\, organizers\, and artists.  \nMalcolm Shanks is an activist\, political educator\, and consultant who works to gather people and power among marginalized groups. Malcolm has created and led hundreds of trainings with thousands of students\, activists\, non-profit workers\, and artists. Malcolm is a co-creator of the zine Decolonizing Gender: A Curriculum\, an interactive workbook that examines the relationship between transphobia\, white supremacy\, and European colonialism from a personal-political perspective. \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/gender-network-nyc/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:F.O. Matthiessen in Fact and Fiction: A Conversation with Scott Bane and Patrick E. Horrigan (in person & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:F. O. Matthiessen is one of the most famous people you’ve never heard of. A literature and history professor at Harvard from 1929 to 1950\, he was also a gay man involved in a 20-year relationship with painter Russell Cheney\, and a socialist activist often in association with organized labor. Suffering from depression\, Matthiessen took his own life in April 1950 by jumping from a 12th floor window of a Boston hotel. Patrick E. Horrigan’s novel\, American Scholar\, uses Matthiessen’s scholarship and life as touchstones in his book\, while Scott Bane’s double biography\, A Union Like Ours:  The Love Story of F. O. Matthiessen and Russell Cheney\, traces the arc of Matthiessen and Cheney’s relationship from their meeting in 1924 aboard the ocean liner Paris up until their respective deaths.  Given the far-reaching influence of Matthiessen’s scholarship\, his principled stands for greater socio-economic fairness\, and his personal story that upheld love at the center of his life\, Matthiessen continues to speak to us nearly 75 years after his death. \nTo reserve a copy of Scott Bane’s A Union Like Ours: The Love Story of F. O. Matthiessen and Russell Cheney  (Bright Leaf\, 2022\, paperback\, $24.95) and/or Patrick E. Horrigan’s American Scholar (Lethe Press\, 2023\, paperback\, $20) please write 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. \n\n\n\n\nRegistration is not required. Seating is first come\, first served. \n\nAlso live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel: \nyoutube.com/@bgsqd \nSuggested donation to benefit the Bureau: $10. \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without a donation. \n  \n\nScott Bane’s stories have appeared in Into the Void and Christopher Street. The Boston Globe\, The Huffington Post and Poets & Writers\, among others\, have published his journalism. Down East Magazine\, The New England Journal of History\, and The Gay and Lesbian Review have published his essays. Scott lives in New York City with his husband\, David W. Dunlap. \n  \nPatrick E. Horrigan is the author of the novels Pennsylvania Station and Portraits at an Exhibition; the memoir Widescreen Dreams: Growing Up Gay at the Movies; the play Messages for Gary; and the solo show You Are Confused!\, which he co-authored with his husband\, Eduardo Leanez. His latest novel\, American Scholar\, won the Next Generation Indie Book Award for Best LGBTQ+ Fiction. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/scott-bane-and-patrick-e-horrigan/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:Poly Movie Night: Tove
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 Tove (2020)\, directed by Zaida Bergroth and starring Alma Pöysti\, Krista Kosonen\, and Shanti Roney. \n \nWednesday\, November 1 – 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: In Finland\, following WWII\, Tove Jansson\, the creator of the Moomins\, struggled to find balance in her relationships and fulfillment in her artistic life. Running time: 1 hour 40 minutes. In Swedish with English subtitles.\n \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/poly-movie-night-tove/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:Hear\, Here Reading Series - Halloween Edition
DESCRIPTION:Hear\, Here is a reading series where people read funny stories. Laugh until you cry. Cry until you laugh. Drink a pumpkin beer. Then do it all again. \nWe’re thrilled to present a star-studded Halloween and scary story extravaganza featuring: \nChloe Caldwell \nI’ll Tell You in Person\, WOMEN\, The Red Zone: A Love Story \nJosh Gondelman \nDesus & Mero\, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel\, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver \nChris Owens \nHuman Parts\, The Memoirist \nAmy Shearn \nNew York Times Modern Love\, Unseen City\, The Mermaid of Brooklyn \n  \nHosted by Harris Sockel and Jay Ludlow Martin\, two verified human beings who are definitely not AI. Come hang out with us\, and laugh in the face of fears. \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. \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 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/hear-here-halloween-edition/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:James Pauley Jr and Louis Flint Ceci In Conversation (online only)
DESCRIPTION:James Pauley\, Jr. surely keeps you turning the pages in Bumpy Rides and Soft Landings stories of coming out\, flying high\, and not learning how to play the piano. As someone whose innate filter doesn’t always work\, Pauley says it exactly as he sees it. Written in his uniquely humorous\, poignant\, sarcastic\, self-deprecating\, honest\, and mildly outrageous style\, he recounts stories of growing up different\, while learning important lessons from even the most unlikely of sources: a chili dog\, a nasty queen\, a cursing coworker\, a Porta-Potty\, a stranger’s judgment\, a sore butt\, a new piano\, a tiny scar\, a grieving widow\, and a hateful bully.  \nLouis Flint Ceci introduce us to Jake\, Joanie\, and Randy who must navigate the minefield of their parents’ mistakes while building their own lives in Croy\, a small Oklahoma town. Jake’s high school nemesis\, Red\, returns from Viet Nam harboring secrets that could make him an ally or a more dangerous foe. Joanie discovers a lost piece of town history\, but a charismatic pastor immediately sets out to destroy it. Randy’s criminal father tries to reconcile with his wife and son\, but risks losing everything in the effort. Past and present collide as old prejudices and new ideas vie for control of Croy’s future. Amid it all\, two boys fall in love in a time and place that threatens not just their dreams but their very lives.  \nBoth authors will read short excerpts from their books and discuss. \n  \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  \nJames Pauley\, Jr. grew up in Edwardsburg\, Michigan\, a small farming community located in the southwestern part of the state\, and earned a bachelor’s degree from Albion College in 1978. With a double major in German and Spanish\, he was fortunate to have studied in both Mexico and Germany during his junior year. This opened his mind to all things foreign and piqued his interest in travel. Pursuing a lifelong dream of seeing the world\, he became a flight attendant shortly after graduating from college. He continued to love the job for almost forty-five years. In June 2023\, he permanently hung up his wings to focus on writing and spending more time with Rich\, his partner of four decades\, at their home in Indiana. \n  \nLouis Flint Ceci was a high school teacher of English and speech in Benton\, Illinois; an assistant professor and chair of the Department of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of Northern Colorado\, Greeley; a commercial actor and freelance science journalist in the Denver-Boulder area; and a software engineer for several companies\, including Skype\, where he helped design and implement a user interface for the blind and visually impaired. \nHis poetry is published in The Colorado-North Review and Impossible Archetype. His scholarly articles on linguistics and poetics have appeared in College English\, Language and Style\, and Literature in Performance. \nHis short stories have appeared in Diseased Pariah News\, Jonathan\, and Trikone Magazine\, and in the anthologies Queer and Catholic\, and Gay City Volume 4: At Second Glance. He has twice been a finalist in the Saints+Sinners: New Stories from the Festival short fiction contest\, and was inducted into the Saints+Sinners Hall of Fame in 2017. \nHe is an avid U.S. Masters swimmer and won two gold and three silver medals at the 2020 International Gay and Lesbian Aquatics World Championships in Melbourne\, Australia. He won the Gold Medal in the Poetic Justice Poetry Slam at the 2002 Gay Games in Sydney\, Australia. \nHe lives in Nevada City\, California.
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LOCATION:Online event\, New York\, NY\, United States
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SUMMARY:Emanuel Xavier Love(ly) Child Book Launch/Interview with Hugh Ryan (in person & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:Love(ly) Child is a thought-provoking collection of poetry that delves into themes of identity\, love\, and self-discovery. Each poem is a journey into the complexities of the human experience navigating sensitive topics with honesty and vulnerability. With a unique blend of personal anecdotes and social commentary\, Love(ly) Child offers a captivating exploration of life’s highs and lows\, leaving a lasting impact on those who immerse themselves in its pages. \nJoin poet Emanuel Xavier as he reads from the poetry collection followed by an interview with Hugh Ryan and a book signing. \n\n\nTo reserve a copy of Emanuel Xavier’s Love(ly) Child (Queer Mojo\, 2023\, paperback\, $14.95) please write 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. \n\n\n\n\nRegistration is not required. Seating is first come\, first served. \n\nAlso live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel: \nyoutube.com/@bgsqd \n\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  \nWithout so much as passion and perseverance\, a former homeless hustler from the Paris is Burning ball/House community became an LGBTQ+ Icon\, as proclaimed by The Equality Forum. Emanuel Xavier has given voice to his unique experiences and tackled politics\, sexuality\, and religion with poetry books like Pier Queen\, Americano\, If Jesus Were Gay\, Nefarious\, Radiance\, Selected Poems of Emanuel Xavier and his new poetry collection\, Love(ly) Child.  \n  \nHugh Ryan is an award-winning historian\, curator\, and author. He wrote The Women’s House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison and When Brooklyn Was Queer. Support him on Patreon! \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/emanuel-xavier-lovely-child/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231022T150000
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SUMMARY:What Our Friends Left Behind: Grief and Laughter in a Pandemic  - Book Launch (IN PERSON)
DESCRIPTION:Grieving a friend is hard. \nGrieving a friend during a pandemic is even harder. \nJoin writer\, speaker and activist Victoria Noe and writer/performer Charles Sanchez\, openly living with HIV\, for a conversation about her new book\, What Our Friends Left Behind: Grief and Laughter in a Pandemic. We’ll talk about the challenges we faced during COVID as we struggled to nourish our friendships\, and adapt to new ways of grieving. Has your appreciation of friendship changed since 2020? What lessons have we learned from HIV long-term survivors in their second pandemic about resilience and loving our friends? And how do we find new ways to cherish those friendships? \nCopies of What Our Friends Left Behind: Grief and Laughter in a Pandemic 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 What Our Friends Left Behind” 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 \n  \nDeep into her fourth career\, St. Louis native Victoria Noe is a Chicago-based award-winning author\, speaker and activist with two degrees in theater. Her Friend Grief series – the result of a promise she made to a dying friend – recognizes the importance of friendships in shaping our lives and illuminates an often disrespected form of grief. Noe’s long-time HIV/AIDS activism then led her to write F*g Hags\, Divas and Moms: The Legacy of Straight Women in the AIDS Community\, the groundbreaking book that honors the women who changed the course of the epidemic. An accomplished public speaker\, she has presented to a wide variety of organizations and events\, including ACT UP/London\, Mt. Sinai Hospital\, the Muse and the Marketplace\, BookExpo America\, and Open Hand/San Francisco\, as well as libraries and bookstores around New York state and the Midwest. During COVID\, she led workshops for Let’s Reimagine and Global Grief Network\, and led writing groups online for Honoring Our Experience. Noe’s newest book\, What Our Friends Left Behind: Grief and Laughter in a Pandemic\, shares the challenges faced by people who grieved a friend during COVID. Try to keep up with her at victorianoe.com. \n  \nCharles Sanchez is very busy being good at a lot of things\, especially being gay. A writer openly living with HIV\, he is a contributing editor for TheBody.com\, and his work has been featured in leading publications like POZ Magazine\, HuffPost’s Queer Voices\, PositivelyAware.com\, Them.us\, and more. Charles’ ground-breaking web series\, Merce – a musical comedy about a person who is living with HIV and isn’t sick\, sad\, or dying – garnered him several awards including Best Actor in a Web Series at the Official Latino Short Film Festival. He also created the hilarious HIV public service campaign\, “The More You Can Ho.” His lifelong dedication to the arts and activism has been recognized on Healthline.com‘s List of HIV Honors: The Most Influential Voices and POZ Magazine‘s POZ 100. When he’s not busy writing\, performing\, baking\, or generally making the world a better place\, Charles can be seen charming audiences and his guests on “At Home With\,” his popular Instagram Live talk show featuring prominent members of the HIV and LGBTQ+ community. \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/what-our-friends-left-behind/
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SUMMARY:TELL 87: SMUT (in person & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:TELL is back! After a bit of a break\, we’re thrilled to welcome this fabulous event back to the Bureau! \nTELL is an evening of story telling from the mouths and minds of queers in NYC hosted by Drae Campbell at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division since February 2014. \nThe theme of the 87th TELL is SMUT! Featuring storytellers Diana Lobontiu\, Rudy Ramirez\, & Renée Imperato \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  \nRegistration is not required. Seating is first come\, first served. \nAlso live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel: \nyoutube.com/@bgsqd \nSuggested donation to benefit the storytellers and the Bureau: $10. \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without a donation. \n  \n\nDRAE CAMPBELL’s first performance was at age 5 in a nightclub opening for a punk band. Drae has a BFA in Theater from The University of Arts in Philadelphia. Some Theater credits include: The Nosebleed (Lincoln Center Theater)\, Only You Can Prevent Wildfires (Ricochet Collective)\, Non-Consensual Relationships with Ghosts (La MaMa)\, My Old Man (Dixon Place)\, Oph3lia(HERE). TV includes “New Amsterdam\,” “Bull ” and “Dinette ” (web series\, directed by Shaina Feinberg). Drae has been hosting and curating TELL for more than 9 years which is now a SILVER Signal Award-winning podcast of the same name. www.draecampbell.com \nDiana Lobontiu is a Romanian American playwright\, actor\, administrator\, and educator based in Brooklyn. Diana holds a Playwriting MFA from Brooklyn College\, graduated from Wellesley College with a BA in Theatre Studies and Psychology. In addition\, they are an Adjunct Professor in creative writing and playwriting at Brooklyn College and NJIT\, respectively. They are interested in exploring the intersections of masculinity\, power\, failure\, oppression\, absurdity\, and an ongoing fixture of the human condition: loneliness. Diana was named a 2023-24 MacDowell Fellow\, a 2023 Jane Hoppen Resident with Paragraph Workspace for Writers\, and received the 2023 Puffin Grant for My Cousin Nelu Is Not Gay. Recent writing includes My Cousin Nelu Is Not Gay (The Brick Theater 2023\, Ars Nova’s ANT Fest 2022)\, and Rentabutch(Bushwick Starr Reading Series Finalist 2023). Diana has performed their solo show Sfânta: Hell Bent on Heaven\, about a teenage wannabe Russian Orthodox saint\, at the Minneapolis\, Philadelphia\, Kalamazoo\, Oregon\, and Orlando Fringe Festivals. \nRudy Ramirez is a director\, writer and teaching artist specializing in the development of new work and new artists. They have directed and developed work for a number of organizations around the country\, including the Contemporary American Theater Festival\, The Lark\, Latino Theater Company\, National Queer Theater\, New York Theatre Workshop\, New York University\, Octopus Theatricals\, The Playwrights’ Center\, Signature Theatre\, and the University of Texas at Austin. They are the Associate Artistic Director of The VORTEX in Austin\, TX\, where they were named Best Director of 2017 in the Austin Chronicle Readers Poll. They have written and performed two autobiographical shows\, Promised Land: A Radical Queer Revival and Footnotes for People Who Don’t Speak Spanish. They have an MA in Performance Studies from the University of Texas at Austin and an MFA in Directing from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. They are currently the Benedetti Resident Artist at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts where they will be working on their musical about the life of Emma Goldman\, Emma When You Need Her. \nRenée Imperato is a Stonewall Era Veteran\, a Chairperson of the SAGE Advisory Council\, and a member of the People’s Power Assembly. \n 
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SUMMARY:Fear and Loathing in London: New Writing from British Gay Authors (virtual event)
DESCRIPTION:Meet contemporary UK authors Barry Stewart Hunter and William Jackson reading from Republic of North London: 3 Novellas and Satan’s Lamp\, respectively. Q&A follows. \nThis event will take place ONLINE ONLY \nRegister on Eventbrite to join on Zoom \nClick here to register.\nOr  visit the Bureau’s YouTube channel to watch the livestream (typically starts a few minutes after scheduled time\, so please be patient): \nYouTube.com/@bgsqd \n  \nSuggested donation of $5 to benefit the Bureau. \nYou can make a donation when you register on Eventbrite. Thank you for your support! \nAll are welcome to join\, with or without a donation. \n  \nBorn in Aden\, Barry Stewart Hunter grew up in the Middle East and Scotland. A novelist\, short story writer and screenwriter\, he lives in London.  \n  \nWilliam Jackson is a British author of gay horror fiction. He cites his influences as Richard Laymon\, Dennis Wheatley and Fred Mustard Stewart. His fiction has been described as “Hammer horror for the 21st Century.” \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/fear-and-loathing-in-london/
LOCATION:Online event\, New York\, NY\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231015T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231015T163000
DTSTAMP:20260403T184206
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SUMMARY:The Gay Liberation Front: Making History (in person & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:Many myths have been spawned about Stonewall and the rise of the modern LGBTQ movement. This afternoon a few of the surviving founders of the Gay Liberation Front\, first and most radical LGBTQ organization directly after Stonewall\, will present a true history as they witnessed it. First Martha Shelley will read from her memoir\, WE SET THE NIGHT ON FIRE. She’ll talk about the pre-Stonewall days\, when she was one of a handful of lesbians out in public\, then about the Gay Liberation Front where she and others of her sisters and brothers worked and succeeded in changing US society and the world. A panel discussion will follow\, after which the audience will be invited to participate. \nMartha Shelley will be joined in conversation by fellow Gay Liberation Front Founders Perry Brass\, Mark Segal\, Dr. Flavia Rando\, Mark Horn\, & John Knoebel. \n  \n\n\nTo reserve a copy of Martha Shelley’s We Set the Night on Fire: Igniting the Gay Revolution (Chicago Review Press\, 2023\, hardcover\, $28.99) please write 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. \n\n\n\n\nRegistration is not required. Seating is first come\, first served. \n\nAlso live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel: \nyoutube.com/@bgsqd \nSuggested donation to benefit the Bureau: $10. \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without a donation. \n\n  \nMartha Shelley organized the first gay protest march after Stonewall and was a co-founder of the Gay Liberation Front. In addition to her work on radical newspapers and feminist presses\, she produced the world’s first lesbian radio program at WBAI-FM. She is the author of four books of poetry\, three novels and\, most recently\, the memoir We Set the Night on Fire. \nPerry Brass joined the Gay Liberation Front in 1969 and co-founded the Gay Men’s Health Project Clinic. He is the author of 13 books as well as a journalist\, playwright\, poet\, and essayist. \nMark Segal was a participant at Stonewall and one of the founding members of the Gay Liberation Front. He is the author of And Then I Danced\, and the publisher of the award-winning newspaper\, Philadelphia Gay News. \nDr. Flavia Rando joined the Gay Liberation Front in 1969. She is an art historian and editor\, teaches Lesbian\, Women’s and Gender Studies\, and serves as a curator of the Lesbian Herstory Archives. \nMark Horn joined both the Gay Liberation Front and Gay Activists Alliance in 1970. A lifelong gay activist\, he is author of Tarot and the Gates of Light and has taught at both the Jewish Theological Seminary and the Readers’ Studio International Tarot Conference. \nJohn Knoebel participated in GLF men’s living collectives\, the Weinstein Hall sit-in\, the 1970 Village Riot\, GLF’s outreach to the Black Panthers and many other GLF actions. He subsequently pursued a 35-year career as a senior executive with The Advocate and OUT magazines.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/the-gay-liberation-front/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231014T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231014T163000
DTSTAMP:20260403T184206
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SUMMARY:TRANSPOETHICALBODY: A Sensory Invitation (hybrid in-person & virtual event)
DESCRIPTION:Welcome to an extraordinary literary gathering\, TRANSPOETHICALBODY: A Sensory Invitation. This remarkable event offers an immersive experience where literature\, translation\, and LGBTQ+ issues converge. Prepare to embark on a captivating journey as you connect with the esteemed author and publisher\, delve into the intricacies of translation politics\, and indulge in a mesmerizing recitation of tantalizing poetry in both English and Portuguese. \nImmerse yourself in profound conversations with the author\, exploring the poetic realm while gaining insights into their lived experience as a Transman in Brazil. Engage in thought-provoking discussions that shed light on the current political and cultural climate surrounding trans* and LGBTQ+ issues in Brazil\, expanding your awareness and fostering empathy. \nAt this event\, you will bear witness to the unveiling of a groundbreaking literary work—the first\, if not one of the few\, books of translated Trans* erotic poetry\, and translated Black erotic poetry. Discover the delicate dance of translation politics and celebrate the power of artistic expression across borders. \nTRANSPOETHICALBODY: A Sensory Invitation beckons you to an evening of intellectual stimulation\, cultural exploration\, and a celebration of diverse voices. Join us on this unforgettable odyssey that will ignite your senses and provoke profound contemplation. \nJoin us in person for this event at the Bureau\, \nroom 210 of The LGBT Community Center\, \nOR \nwatch the live-stream at youtube.com/@bgsqd \nTiely\, the author of TRANSPOETHICALBODY\, will join us virtually. \nDr. Tanya L. Saunders\, the founder and editor-in-chief of Améfrica Press\, will join us in person at the Bureau. \nCopies of TRANSPOETHICALBODY (Améfrica Press\, 2023\, paperback\, $14.99) are available for purchase at the Bureau and can be purchased at the event. \nTo reserve a copy\, please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com with “reserve a copy of TRANSPOETHICALBODY” in the subject line. \nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us! \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  \nTiely is a pioneering Transman rapper\, writer\, and activist from São Paulo\, Brazil. With a career spanning over three decades\, he has made significant contributions to the arts and LGBTQIAP+ advocacy\, challenging societal norms through his work. Tiely’s thought-provoking poetry and unwavering commitment to social justice continue to inspire and empower audiences worldwide. \nTiely is a multi-talented artist and activist from São Paulo\, Brazil\, with a career spanning over 38 years. He began his artistic journey as an actor\, dancer\, and photographer\, eventually venturing into music as a rapper in renowned rap groups. Tiely has made significant contributions to Brazilian rap as the country’s first Transman rapper. In addition to his achievements in music\, Tiely has also explored various artistic disciplines\, including literature\, filmmaking\, theater\, and television. \nThroughout his career\, Tiely has been actively involved in cultural\, social\, and sports projects\, advocating for LGBTQIAP+ rights\, women’s rights\, and diverse identities. He uses his artistic platform to address and raise awareness about societal issues and promote inclusivity. Tiely’s commitment to creating meaningful change extends beyond his solo work\, as he collaborates with other artists and organizations to amplify his message and fight for respect and acceptance of differences. \nDespite the challenges posed by the pandemic\, Tiely has continued to engage with audiences through virtual and hybrid performances\, participating in festivals\, seminars\, and debates. In 2021\, he published his collection of Trans Black erotic poetry\, titled “TransCorpoÉtico\,” showcasing his literary talents. Tiely’s recent accomplishments also include coordinating the “Território Hip Hop” program and working on his upcoming novel\, “Deusa Pagã.” Through his artistic endeavors and activism\, Tiely remains dedicated to creating a more inclusive and accepting society. \n  \nDr. Tanya L. Saunders is a sociologist interested in the ways in which the African Diaspora throughout the Americas uses the arts as a tool for social change. As a 2011-2012 Fulbright scholar in Brazil\, Dr. Saunders began work on their current project about Black Queer Artivism in Brazil. Dr. Saunders is the founder and editor-in-chief of Améfrica Press. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/transpoethicalbody/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231013T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231013T193000
DTSTAMP:20260403T184206
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SUMMARY:AiOP 2023: DRESS "Walk & Talk" (in person & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:“Walk & Talk” is an intimate runway presentation of six projects from Art in Odd Places (AiOP) 2023: DRESS festival curated by Gretchen Vitamvas. The selected artists will walk the runway and discuss their work. \nAiOP 2023: DRESS is the eighteenth edition of the iconic public visual and performance art festival taking place along 14th Street in Manhattan\, October 13-15. The 35 participating artists’ projects explore the many facets of ‘dress’ with projects examining clothing production and colonialism\, fast fashion and waste\, transformation and gender identity (and intolerance)\, cultural identity\, work and labor\, censorship\, the passage of time and its traces\, beauty\, disability\, status\, armor\, joy and grief. \nFeatured artists:\nVanessa Fairfax Woods presenting The F Word\nMolly Jae Vaughan presenting Project 42\nReid Arowood presenting NeXXXa\nClare Charnley & Farah Naz Moon presenting Ever Given Neelkuthi\nDaniela Fabrizi presenting Garbagia\nJuliet Johnson presenting Styling Sick \nPhoto credit: Gretchen Vitamvas\, Camouflage Promenade\, AiOP 2008: Pedestrian (photo by Jonathan Bumble) \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\nAlso live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel: youtube.com/@bgsqd \nRegistration is not required. Seating is first come\, first served. \nThis event is free and open to all! \nBut donations to support the Bureau’s work are welcome! \n  \nAiOP is an annual festival that presents visual and performance art in public spaces along 14th Street in Manhattan\, NYC from Avenue C to the Hudson River each October. Active in New York City since 2005\, founded and led by NYC artist Ed Woodham\, AiOP aims to stretch the boundaries of communication in the public realm by presenting artworks in all disciplines outside the confines of traditional public space regulations. AiOP reminds us that public spaces function as the epicenter for diverse social interactions and the unfettered exchange of ideas. Using 14th Street as a laboratory\, this project continues AiOP’s work to locate cracks in public space policies and to inspire the popular imagination for new possibilities and engagement with civic space. \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/aiop-2023-dress-walk-talk/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231012T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231012T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T184206
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SUMMARY:The Publishing Triangle OUTspoken Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:The Publishing Triangle launches its monthly OUTspoken Reading Series at the Bureau! \nOUTspoken was presented last June as a joint program with the East Midtown Partnership as part of that organization’s Pride celebration\, but now we’re making it monthly and moving it to the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division.  \nThis edition will feature: \nJeffery Berg \n‘Nathan Burgoine (joining us remotely from Ottawa\, Ontario) \nDale Corvino \nAllen Ellenzweig \nMichael Thomas Ford (joining us remotely from Ohio) \nRobyn Gigl (joining us remotely from New Jersey) \nNina Kennedy \nWilliam Christy Smith \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\nAlso live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel: \nyoutube.com/@bgsqd \nSuggested donation to benefit the Bureau: $10. \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without a donation.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/publising-triangle-outspoken-reading-series/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231008T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231008T163000
DTSTAMP:20260403T184206
CREATED:20230913T195555Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230915T150745Z
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SUMMARY:Notes: Past\, Present and Time (in person & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:Writers Quenton Baker (Ballast)\, Anastacia-Renee (Side Notes From The Archivist) and Marcus Scott (Damn Near Might Still Be Is What It Is) share a night of onion peeling notes from the past\, present and time as they use poetry and prose to be in conversation with moderator Naa Akua\, each other and the audience. \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  \nAlso live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel: youtube.com/@bgsqd \nRegistration is not required. Seating is first come\, first served. \n  \nBooks by Quenton Baker (Ballast)\, Anastacia-Renee (Side Notes From The Archivist) and Marcus Scott (Damn Near Might Still Be Is What It Is) will be available for purchase at the event. To reserve a copy/copies please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com\n \nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us! \n \nSuggested donation to benefit the Bureau: $10. \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without a donation. \n  \nQuenton Baker is a poet\, educator\, and Cave Canem fellow. Their current focus is black interiority and the afterlife of slavery. Their work has appeared in The Offing\, Jubilat\, Prairie Schooner\, The Rumpus and elsewhere. They are a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee\, and the recipient of the 2018 Arts Innovator Award from Artist Trust. They were a 2019 Robert Rauschenberg Artist in Residence and a 2021 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow. They are the author of we pilot the blood (The 3rd Thing\, 2021) and ballast (Haymarket Books\, 2023). \n  \nAnastacia-Renee is an award-winning multi-genre writer\, educator\, interdisciplinary artist\, playwright and Speaker. Renee’ is the author of Side Notes from the Archivist\, (v.)\, and Forget It. Here in the (Middle) of Nowhere forthcoming from HarperCollins Amistad March 2024. \nhttps://www.anastacia-renee.com/home \n  \nMarcus Scott Williams is a writer and artist whose other works includes Sparse Black Whimsy: A Memoir (2fast2house 2017). He loves and appreciates you. \n  \nNaa Akua\, is a New York born poet\, actor\, educator\, and sound-word practitioner who is Ghanaian/Bajan and queer. Akua uses the vibratory energy of sound and the intent of word as a vehicle towards healing.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/notes-past-present-and-time/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231007T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231007T160000
DTSTAMP:20260403T184206
CREATED:20230918T175053Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230930T183521Z
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SUMMARY:QUEER FIGURE DRAWING WITH DOABLE GUYS: A New York Queer Zine Fair Program   (in person only)
DESCRIPTION:Join Kyle Anderson of Doable Guys as he leads a one hour figure drawing session with nude models in conjunction with the New York Queer Zine Fair. \nThis event is open to experienced artists as well as beginners. Please bring your own art supplies. Chairs will be provided. \nFacilitator – Kyle Anderson \nPlease note: space is limited to 20 participants\nFirst come\, first served!
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/queer-figure-drawing-with-doable-guys-a-new-york-queer-zine-fair-program-in-person-only/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231007T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231007T140000
DTSTAMP:20260403T184206
CREATED:20230918T174220Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230918T174220Z
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SUMMARY:QUEER COLLAGE WORKSHOP: A New York Queer Zine Fair Program (in person only)
DESCRIPTION:Join us for another queer collage workshop with Charlie Welch in conjunction with the New York Queer Zine Fair. All participants will create one collage that will be turned into a zine\, and everyone will receive a copy. No experience necessary! All are welcome to join! Some materials (magazines\, printed matter\, glue\, cardboard) and tools (scissors) available\, but we encourage you to bring materials and tools to share. Thank you! \nFacilitator – Charlie Welch\nPlease note:  \nSpace is limited to the first 16 people
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/queer-collage-workshop-a-new-york-queer-zine-fair-program-in-person-only/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231006T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231006T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T184206
CREATED:20230815T165812Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231006T160303Z
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SUMMARY:Assotto Saint Sacred Spells Collected Works Publication Party (in person & livestreaming)
DESCRIPTION:ALL SEATS FOR THIS EVENT HAVE ALREADY BEEN RESERVED. PLEASE ADD YOUR NAME TO THE WAITLIST BY CLICKING ON “GET TICKETS” ON THE EVENTBRITE PAGE FOR THIS EVENT.\nClick on “Get Tickets” and you’ll see the option to “join waitlist” at bottom right. \nAT 7 PM ON THE NIGHT OF THE EVENT\, ANY UNCLAIMED SEATS WILL BE OFFERED TO PEOPLE ON THE WAITLIST IN THE ORDER THEY WERE RECEIVED.\nJoin Walter Holland\, Michele Karlsberg\, Jewelle Gomez\, Reginald Harris\, Pamela Sneed\, Gary Paul Wright\, Allen Luther Wright and Guy Mark Foster in an evening of poetry\, essays\, video\, plays and music as we celebrate the collected life-work of the interdisciplinary writer\, performer\, and central figure in the Black Gay cultural arts and AIDS movements.  \nIn this timely collection of poetry\, plays\, fiction\, and performance texts\, Assotto Saint draws upon music and incantation\, his Haitian heritage and a politics of liberation\, to weave together a tapestry of literature that celebrates life in the face of death. Influential to contemporary writers such as Essex Hemphill\, Marlon Riggs\, and Melvin Dixon\, Sacred Spells is Saint’s crucial legacy–five hundred incandescent pages of painful\, lyric writing that exemplifies the visceral\, spiritual dimensions of an artistic practice that’s integral to Black and LGBTQ activist movements worldwide\, both historic and present. \nThis event is co-sponsored by Other Countries \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  \nREGISTRATION REQUIRED TO ATTEND IN PERSON (ALL SEATS HAVE BEEN RESERVED)\nCLICK HERE TO ADD YOUR NAME TO THE WAITLIST ON EVENTBRITE.\nClick on “Get Tickets” and you’ll see the option to “join waitlist” at bottom right. \nRESERVED SPOTS MUST BE CLAIMED BY 7 PM–AT THAT POINT WE WILL OPEN UNCLAIMED SPOTS TO THOSE ON THE WAITLIST. \nAlso live-streaming at YouTube.com/@bgsqd\nPLEASE ALLOW A FEW MINUTES FOR THE LIVESTREAM TO START ON YOUTUBE. WE USUALLY BEGIN ABOUT 10 MINUTES AFTER THE LISTED TIME.\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  \nCopies of Assotto Saint’s Sacred Spells: Collected Works\, edited by Michele Karlsberg (Nightboat Books\, 2023\, paperback\, $22.95)\, are available at the Bureau. \nTo reserve a copy to be purchased at the event\, please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com with “reserve a copy of Sacred Spells” in the subject line. \nTo have a copy shipped to you\, see below: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n  \nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us! \n  \nYves François Lubin (aka Assotto Saint) was a Haitian-born American writer\, performer\, publisher\, and AIDS activist. He heavily contributed to increasing the visibility of contemporary Black queerness in the cultural arts movement of the ’80s and early ’90s. Saint drew upon his Haitian heritage\, music\, incantations\, and radical politics to weave together a tapestry of literature that celebrates life in the face of death\, and embraces politics as a way to change the world. He served as a mentor to an entire generation of up-and-coming gay Black community members. As publisher of Galiens Press\, Saint published two volumes of his own poetry\, Stations and Wishing For Wings\, and edited two seminal anthologies of gay Black writing: the 1991 Lambda Literary Award–winning The Road Before Us: 100 Gay Black Poets and Here To Dare: 10 Gay Black Poets. His chapbook Triple Trouble was published in Tongues Untied (GMP\, London). He was also the author of such plays as Risin’ To The Love We Need\, New Love Song\, Black Fag\, and Nuclear Lovers. In 1990\, he was awarded both the Fellowship in Poetry from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the James Baldwin Award from the Black Gay Leadership Forum. He lived in New York City with Jan Urban Holmgren\, his life partner and co-founder of Metamorphosis Theater and the techno-pop band Xotika. Lubin died June 29\, 1994 of AIDS-related complications. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/assotto-saint-sacred-spells/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231005T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231005T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T184206
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SUMMARY:Office Hours presents: Virtual Craft Class & Reading with Omotara James
DESCRIPTION:Postponed to Thursday\, October 5\, 2023\n  \nJoin us for a Virtual Craft Class & Reading with Omotara James on Thursday\, October 5\, 2023. Craft Class will run from 6:30PM-8:30 PM EST. Followed by a reading from 8:30 PM-8:45 PM. \n  \nDESPERATELY SEEKING EROS: Edna St. Vincent Millay famously wrote “life is a quest and love is a quarrel.” What are your poems arguing against or toward? This workshop will eschew the traditional examinations of love and desire for poems that insist on exploring the existence of love in the less conventional or expected places. We will delve into the intractable relationship between eros and pathos (love and suffering). How can you shape the container of the poem to best articulate experience? What poetry forms most effectively carry the poetics of joy and despair? What does the modern discourse on desire leave out? Come ready to write yourself into the cannon. This experience will be more of a writing lab than a workshop\, so arrive ready to connect\, experiment\, and play! \n  \nRegistration on Eventbrite is required in order to access the Zoom link for the class. All donations go to the instructor.\nOffice Hours Poetry Workshop is a community-based writing workshop for poets who show a demonstrated commitment to writing. The workshop fellowship culminates in a public reading each fall and spring to showcase sizzling new work. We welcome all poets\, especially people of color\, LGBTQ+\, and those who are womxn-identified. Our Craft Classes are free and open to the public with RSVP. All “tip jar” donations go directly to the author. \n  \nThis event is funded in part by Poets & Writers through public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs\, in partnership with the City Council.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/office-hours-presents-virtual-craft-class-reading-with-omotara-james/
LOCATION:online class
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231004T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231004T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T184206
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SUMMARY:Exploring the New Frontier: Author and Activist Dennis Altman Arriving from Australia Live in NYC (in person & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:Join the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division and The LGBTQ History Project for a dialogue between Dennis Altman\, the pioneering gay liberationist and author who played a vital role in the first wave of the Gay Liberation movement\, and August Bernadicou (Executive Director\, The LGBTQ History Project). Dennis was a member of the Gay Liberation Front\, the revolutionary activist group that kick-started gay liberation around the world\, and his insightful contributions to the cause will be at the heart of our discussion\, focusing on the pressing issue of eroding gay rights and the necessity of drawing lessons from our past to prepare for the future. \nThis one-time-only and urgent dialogue aims to highlight the significance of preserving the legacy of the first wave of gay liberationists and providing a platform for their radical perspectives. Understanding struggles and achievements is crucial as we confront the challenges that threaten to undermine the progress made in LGBTQ+ rights. Together\, we can forge a stronger path ahead and foster an environment where diverse voices can freely express their viewpoints\, shaping a more inclusive and empowered future for the LGBTQ+ community. Don’t miss this unique opportunity to engage in an enlightening dialogue that will inspire and empower us all. \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\nAlso live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel: \nyoutube.com/@bgsqd \n  \nSuggested donation to benefit the Bureau AND The LGBTQ History Project: $10. \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without a donation. \n\n  \n\nSince he wrote Homosexual:Oppression and Liberation in 1972\, Dennis Altman has written 15 books including Global Sex\, Unrequited Love: Diary of an Accidental Activist\, and Death in the Sauna. He was President of the AIDS society of Asia and the Pacific (2001-4) and is a Professorial Fellow at LaTrobe University in Melbourne\, Australia. \n  \nAugust Bernadicou is the Executive Director of The LGBTQ History Project\, a nonprofit dedicated to preserving the lives and legacies of LGBTQ activists from the first wave of gay liberation. His career began in 2008 at the age of 13 when he started interviewing alternative counterculture figures for various online and in-print publications. His work primarily appeared in the punk music magazine Punk Globe. At 18\, August began publishing his own “zines” (Teenage News #1\, Teenage News #2\, and August Nation). In 2020\, he co-founded The LGBTQ History Project to archive and share his thousands of recorded interviews and conversations. Through The LGBTQ History Project\, August produces a podcast featuring archival interviews\, hosts LGBTQ history events\, and publishes excerpts from his archive online\, in newsletters\, and on social media. August is driven by his mission to counteract the erasure of history and provide a platform for individuals seeking to reclaim their legacies\, firmly believing that the lessons of the past can pave the way for a better-informed future. \n\n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/exploring-the-new-frontier-dennis-altman/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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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
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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
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230915T190000
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230914T180000
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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
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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
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230909T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230909T163000
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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
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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
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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
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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
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