Radical Queer Reading Group: Chain-Gang All-Stars (in person only)
2026-04-08 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
Join us as we read radical leftist texts with a focus on queer liberation, anti-capitalism, and anti-colonialism. For April 8th, we’re reading Chain-Gang All-Stars, by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, January 23, 2024, paperback, $18).

We’ll meet on Wednesday, April 8th, at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division in room 210 of The LGBT Community Center in the West Village, 7-8 PM.

Copies of Chain-Gang All-Stars, by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, January 23, 2024, paperback, $18) are available to purchase at the Bureau. Purchase the book before April 8th and receive 15% off ($15.30 instead of $18). Just mention the Radical Queer Reading Group when you check out.

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

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

Growing Up Golem Relaunch! Donna Minkowitz with Griffin Hansbury (in person & live-streaming)
2026-04-09 19:00 - 20:30 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
Join us for the republication of Donna Minkowitz’s masterful 2013 memoir Growing Up Golem, in which queer journalist Minkowitz “presents herself as a golem, created and controlled by her wacky, needy, and sexually abusive mother” (Julie R. Enszer). Golem, which was shortlisted for both a Lambda Literary Award and for the Publishing Triangle’s Judy Grahn Nonfiction Prize, tells the story of Minkowitz’s attempts to transform from golem to human, and to be “a servant no longer for her mother, her sister, or the women she dates” (Enszer).
The late celebrated novelist Ellis Avery said, “In Growing Up Golem, Donna Minkowitz comes to the unlikely, brilliant conclusion that she must have been her mother’s golem, a manikin formed from clay and garbage and sacred letters… Exciting, startlingly fresh. Donna Minkowitz takes a dazzling leap of fancy and then writes a new bridge into being behind her for the rest of us to follow.”
Copies of the new edition of Growing Up Golem will be available for purchase at the event. To reserve a copy please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com with “please reserve Growing Up Golem for April 9 event” in the subject line.
Thank you for supporting the Bureau by buying books from us!

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

Also live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel:
youtube.com/@bgsqd
The Bureau will solicit donations at the beginning of the event—we especially encourage donations from those who do not plan to purchase any books.
All are welcome to attend, with or without a donation.
We will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event, but we can also take credit card donations at the register or on Venmo @BGSQD

Donna Minkowitz is a writer of memoir, journalism, and fantasy. Back in the day she served as the Village Voice’s main columnist and reporter on queer politics and culture. She is the author of the Lambda Literary Award-winning memoir Ferocious Romance: What My Encounters with the Right Taught Me about Sex, God, and Fury, which was about covering the antigay Christian right undercover as a radical lesbian journalist. She also wrote DONNAVILLE, a novel Chills at Will called “a master class in world-building” and which Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore said “shocks the senses to open the gates between myth and belonging.” She has also written for the New York Times Book Review, The Nation, Slate, Salon, and New York magazine. She is the winner of a GLAAD Media Award.

Griffin Hansbury is the author of Some Strange Music Draws Me In (winner of the Stonewall Award), Feral City (finalist for the Lambda Literary Award), and Vanishing New York, as well as The Nostalgist and Day for Night, a collection of poems. A trailblazer in the field of psychoanalysis, he was also the first analyst to practice and publish as openly transgender.

This Queer Arab Family - NYC Book Launch (in person & live-streaming)
2026-04-19 15:00 - 17:00 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
On 19 April, the Bureau will host journalist & writer Elias Jahshan for the NYC launch of his latest book, THIS QUEER ARAB FAMILY – a celebratory book that explores how queer Arab communities reimagine family beyond traditional expectations. Edited and compiled by Elias Jahshan, the book features ten queer writers from across the Arab world and diaspora, with stories that honour chosen kinship, everyday acts of care and the creativity and resilience that sustain queer Arab communities. In many Arab cultures, family roles are tightly defined, often prioritising unity over individual desire. This Queer Arab Family questions what happens when queer Arabs challenge those norms and build a family on their own terms. Fierce, vibrant and unapologetic, This Queer Arab Family celebrates community, survival and joy against all odds.
Elias Jahshan will be in conversation with Afeef Nessouli, followed by an audience Q&A and author signings. Copies of the book will be available to purchase at the event.

To reserve a copy of This Queer Arab Family (Saqi Books, October 14, 2025, paperback, $21.95) or This Arab Is Queer: An Anthology of LGBTQ+ Arab Writers (Saqi Books, October 18, 2022, paperback, $21.95), both edited by Elias Jahshan, please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com with “please reserve book(s) for April 19 event” in the subject line, and let us know which of the titles in the body of the email.
Thank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us!

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

Also live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel:
youtube.com/@bgsqd
The Bureau will solicit donations at the beginning of the event—we especially encourage donations from those who do not plan to purchase any books.
All are welcome to attend, with or without a donation.
We will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event, but we can also take credit card donations at the register or on Venmo @BGSQD

Elias Jahshan is a Lebanese-Palestinian journalist and writer, and the editor of groundbreaking anthologies THIS ARAB IS QUEER (2022) and THIS QUEER ARAB FAMILY (2025), both published by Saqi Books. This Arab Is Queer was a 2023 Lambda Literary Awards finalist in the USA and shortlisted for the 2023 Bread & Roses Award in the UK, and has been translated into Italian and soon in French. He has had short memoirs published in several anthologies and has been published in The Guardian, The New Arab, Gay Times, Attitude, My Kali, and more. A former editor-in-chief of Star Observer, Australia’s longest-running LGBTQ+ media outlet, Elias was born and raised in Sydney, Australia and now lives in London, UK.

Afeef Nessouli is a journalist and host of “With Afeef Nessouli” a weekly livestream about suppressed news, and monthly interview show featuring journalists and sources. He recently spent nine weeks in Gaza as a humanitarian aid worker with Glia International and as a reporter with The Intercept. He is a recipient of the 2025 FIJ and Pulitzer Center grant awards. Afeef previously worked for Spotify and The Wall Street Journal’s daily news podcast, “The Journal,” The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, CNN, and as a legal adviser to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture. His current reporting focuses on US politics, the Middle East, and queer stories around the world.

First Epistle to the Amphibians: Brazilian Poetry Book Launch (in person only)
2026-04-24 19:00 - 20:30 | Bureau of General Services—Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
Join World Poetry at the Bureau for a reading featuring acclaimed Brazilian poet Ricardo Domeneck and his translator Chris Daniels, joined by James Loop, to celebrate the publication of First Epistle to the Amphibians. In this first selected volume of Domeneck’s work to appear in English, the poet constructs a hyperbolic spiral of artifice, rage, and tenderness, introducing a dense corporeal lyricism salted with camp at its high and low limits into contemporary Brazilian experimental poetry. Brian Teare writes, “Domeneck appears in English as a masterful performer whose use of form, style, tone, and allusion transforms literature into costume.”
The reading will be hosted by World Poetry’s publisher Peter Constantine.

To reserve a copy of First Epistle to the Amphibians (World Poetry Books, April 29, 2026, paperback, $24), please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com with “please reserve First Epistle to the Amphibians for April 24 event” in the subject line, and let us know which of the titles in the body of the email.
Thank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us!

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

Brazilian poet and writer Ricardo Domeneck has published ten collections of poems and two of short prose in Brazil and Portugal. Selected volumes of his poems have appeared in German, Dutch and Spanish, and his most recent poetry collection, Cabeça de galinha no chão de cimento (Chicken Head on a Concrete Floor) won two of Brazil’s most prestigious literary awards, the Prêmio Jabuti and the Prêmio Alphonsus de Guimaraens. Domeneck has lived and worked in Berlin for the past two decades. Working with sound and performance, he has presented work in several museums and galleries such as Museu de Arte Moderna (Rio de Janeiro), Museo Experimental El Eco (Mexico City), Emalin The Clerk (London) and Studio Hanniball (Berlin). First Epistle to the Amphibians is the first book of his poetry to appear in English translation.

Chris Daniels is a feral translator of global Lusophone poetry. He has published seven books of translations: On the Shining Screen of the Eyelids by Josely Vianna Baptista, with artwork by Francisco Faria (Manifest Press); Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro and Collected Later Poems of Álvaro de Campos by Fernando Pessoa (Shearsman); The Hammer by Adelaide Ivánova (Commune Editions); un cuerpo negro / a black body by Lubi Prates (Nueva York Poetry Press), co-translated with Grace Holleran; One Impossible Step: Selected Poems of Orides Fontela (Nightboat); and Sometimes I Wonder If Fred Was Happy Here by Adelaide Ivánova (Tripwire).

James Loop is a writer from Central New York, the author of several chapbooks, and Metronome, his debut poetry collection published by Winter Editions. His work has appeared in the Brooklyn Rail, Harp & Altar, Hot Pink, Hyperallergic, Lambda Literary, Prelude, and elsewhere. He lives in Brooklyn and works as the Publicity Director for World Poetry.

The Past Is a Very Trans Place: a reading and conversation with Aurora Mattia and Cat Fitzpatrick
2026-05-02 19:00 - 21:00 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
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This event brings together Cat Fitzpatrick and Aurora Mattia, contemporary trans writers whose work often draws upon medieval and early modern motifs, forms, genres and styles, to read from their work and discuss transhistorical literary lineages with scholars participating in the Early Modern Trans Studies conference at Queens College (April 30-May 2nd).
Tickets: $0-10 at the door, NOTAFLOF

lesbian book club: May Edition
2026-05-09 11:00 - 12:00 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
We’ll be reading fiction and non-fiction — classic, contemporary, revealing and visionary. As a group we will decide what to read each month, focusing on lesbian authors and/or related topics. Co-founded by lesbian book lovers Judi Komaki and Piper Olsen.

For our May 9th meeting, we’ll read Ntozake Shange’s book, Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo

This event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center, 208 W. 13th St., NYC, 10011.
Registration is not required.

Rainbow Book Fair Readings at the Bureau
2026-05-09 14:00 - 18:30 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
Three featured readers from the Rainbow Book Fair 2026 speaking in-person at the Bureau!
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2PM – Cat Sebastian is an award-winning author of queer romance. Cat’s books include We Could Be So Good and You Should Be So Lucky, and have received starred reviews from Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, and Booklist. We Could Be So Good won a Lambda Literary Award in 2024. In her spare time, she acquires too many houseplants and misplaces things.
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3PM – Lydi Conklin is an Assistant Professor of Fiction at Vanderbilt University. Previously they were the Helen Zell Visiting Professor in Fiction at the University of Michigan. They’ve received a Stegner Fellowship in Fiction at Stanford University, a Rona Jaffe Writer’s Award, four Pushcart Prizes, a grant from the Elizabeth George Foundation, a Creative & Performing Arts Fulbright to Poland, and fellowships from MacDowell, Yaddo, Djerassi, Hedgebrook, Sewanee, Bread Loaf, the James Merrill House, the Vermont Studio Center, VCCA, Millay, Jentel, Lighthouse Works, Brush Creek, Caldera, the Sitka Center, and Harvard University, among others. They were the 2015-2017 Creative Writing Fellow in fiction at Emory University. Their fiction has appeared in The Paris Review, One Story, American Short Fiction, VQR, and elsewhere. They have drawn graphic fiction for Lenny Letter, Drunken Boat, and the Steppenwolf Theater in Chicago and cartoons for The New Yorker and Narrative Magazine. Their story collection, Rainbow Rainbow,was longlisted for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Award and The Story Prize. Their novel, Songs of No Provenance,was longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize.
5PM – Julián Delgado Lopera is the author of The New York Times acclaimed novel Fiebre Tropical (Feminist Press 2020), the Winner of the 2021 Ferro Grumley Award and a 2021 Lambda Literary award; a finalist of the 2020 Kirkus Prize in Fiction and the 2021 Aspen Literary Prize. Julián is also the author of ¡Cuéntamelo! (Aunt Lute 2017) an illustrated bilingual collection of oral histories by LGBT Latinx immigrants which won a 2018 Lambda Literary Award and a 2018 Independent Publisher Book Award.

In Conversation: Chani Nicholas with Molly Crabapple - HERE WHERE WE LIVE IS OUR COUNTRY
2026-05-10 15:00 - 16:30 | The LGBT Community Center Room 301, 208 West 13th Street Room 301, New York, NY, 10011, United States
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UPDATE: This event is now AT CAPACITY. Tickets are no longer available. Tickets are required to attend this event.
Join world-renowned astrologer, co-founder of the CHANI App, and New York Times best-selling author, Chani Nicholas, and artist, activist, and author, Molly Crabapple, for an IRL conversation about her new book and national bestseller, Here Where We Live Is Our Country: the Story of the Jewish Bund. The discussion will focus on what we can learn from this radical movement that has been largely destroyed, and how we can use those lessons to combat the political violence we’re up against today to build a better, more just world.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Here Where We Live Is Our Country: the Story of the Jewish Bund reanimates a band of idealists who broadened our global political imagination. As we once again contend with nationalism, repression, and the struggle for belonging, the Bund’s remarkable story and message—that liberation, dignity, and solidarity must begin where we stand—reaches across time as a guide to our own urgent moment.
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This event will take place in person on the third floor (room 301) of The LGBT Community Center, 208 W. 13th St., NYC, 10011.
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The event will also be live-streamed to the public at YouTube.com/@BGSQD
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A book signing will be held afterwards at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division, in Room 210 on the second floor of the Center. Both Chani Nicholas and Molly Crabapple will sign books.
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This event is free and open to the public. Tickets are required to attend. Three ticket tiers are available: (1) Free General Admission; (2) Book Ticket that includes a copy of Here Where We Live Is Our Country; (3) Donation to the Bureau.
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Molly Crabapple is an artist and writer based in New York. She is the author of three books, Drawing Blood and Brothers of the Gun (with Marwan Hisham), which was long-listed for a National Book Award in 2018, and Here Where We Live is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund. Her reportage is the 2022 winner of the Bernhard Labor Journalism Award, and has been published in The New York Times, New York Review of Books, The Paris Review, Vanity Fair, The Guardian, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker and elsewhere. Her art is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art. Her animations have won two Emmys and an Edward R. Murrow Award. She was a 2024 fellow at the Cullman Center at the New York Public Library researching Here Where We Live is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund, which was published by Random House in April 2026.
Chani Nicholas is the New York Times best-selling author of You Were Born for This: Astrology for Radical Self-Acceptance and the world-renowned astrologer behind the CHANI app. She is known for blending ancient astrological wisdom with mindfulness, psychology, and practical tools that support purpose-driven living, community wellbeing, and mutual aid, giving 5% of her company’s revenue to survivors of gender-based violence. Her weekly podcast, Astrology of the Week Ahead with Chani Nicholas, is top-ranked in the Spirituality/Astrology category, and she has served as the resident astrologer for Oprah Daily and been featured in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, and multiple Netflix series.

Big Gay Send-Off Queer Division
2026-05-13 18:00 - 21:00 | The LGBT Community Center Room 301, 208 West 13th Street Room 301, New York, NY, 10011, United States
Join us for a celebration of the Bureau and a farewell party for Donnie & Greg, who, after 13-plus years of stewarding the Bureau, are soon leaving for the greener and gayer pastures of Portland! There will be eating, there will be drinking, there will be dancing, and there will be a raffle to support Hive Mind Books’ ongoing effort to take over from Donnie & Greg and keep the Bureau alive! And most importantly there will be you all – queer people who love queer culture, queer books, and queer community!
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Radical Queer Reading Group: Let This Radicalize You (in person only)
2026-05-13 19:00 - 20:00 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
Join us as we read radical leftist texts with a focus on queer liberation, anti-capitalism, and anti-colonialism. For May 13th, we’re reading Let This Radicalize You, by Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba (Haymarket Books, May 16, 2023, paperback, $17.95).

We’ll meet on Wednesday, May 13th, at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division in room 210 of The LGBT Community Center in the West Village, 7-8 PM.

Copies of Let This Radicalize You, by Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba (Haymarket Books, May 16, 2023, paperback, $17.95) are available to purchase at the Bureau. Purchase the book before May 13th and receive 15% off ($15.25 instead of $17.95). Just mention the Radical Queer Reading Group when you check out.

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

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

Office Hours Spring 2026 Showcase Reading
2026-05-15 19:00 - 20:30 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
Join us Friday, May 15 at 7:00 PM EDT for the Office Hours Spring 2026 Showcase Reading, a hybrid event taking place online and in-person at thhe Bureau of General Services—Queer Division (208 W. 13TH ST, NYC, ROOM 210).
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Our current fellows will give a sizzling reading in celebration of another strong season of poetry making, community building, and surviving in difficult creative times.
This event will be livestreamed at youtube.com/@bgsqd

BOOK LAUNCH – Queer and Muslim: On Faith, Family, and Healing
2026-05-16 16:00 - 18:00 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
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Celebrating the launch of Queer and Muslim, a powerful collection of works by and for LGBTQ+ Muslims.
Please join us for a special New York City launch of Queer and Muslim, featuring co-editor Rahim Thawer in conversation with moderator Anthony Abd-al Shafi Rosado.
Rahim will be joined by contributor Robbie Ahmed for an evening of readings, reflection, and dialogue. Together, they will celebrate the essays, poems, letters to past and future selves, and more that make up Queer and Muslim. The collection explores the emotional and spiritual dimensions of queer Muslim life and challenges the perception that faith and queerness are inherently incompatible.
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Moderator
Anthony Abd-al Shafi Rosado is an Amefricano Boricua Muslim cultural curator and art historian native to Bushwick, Brooklyn. He curates interactive exhibitions and literary anthologies, calling people to invest in preserving local stories and conserving cultural traditions. Rosado has earned a B.A. in Theater & Dance and an M.A. in American Studies from Trinity College. More here: https://linktr.ee/abdalshafirosado
Co-Editor & Contributor
Rahim Thawer is a queer social worker, psychotherapist, speaker, and writer. His work centers LGBTQ+ experiences and clinical education for therapists and service providers. He teaches full time at The University of Alabama where he is also enrolled in a doctoral program. He is a co-editor and contributor for Queer and Muslim: On Faith, Family, & Healing (University of Regina Press, 2026). More here: https://allmylinks.com/thepoliticizedpractitioner
Contributor
Robbie Ahmed is a New York/Toronto-based songwriter/producer, media writer, educator, and researcher whose work explores cultural studies, music tech, mental health, spirituality, and trans representation in media. Drawing on life across Russia, Saudi Arabia, and Bangladesh, he brings a rich diasporic perspective to art, advocacy, and community conversation. He is currently a Master’s candidate in Music Technology at NYU finishing his research in Global pop and technology. More: https://www.robbieahmed.com
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Books will be available for purchase and signing.
This event is free and open to the public.

Soulmate As A Verb: Poems by Kelsey L. Smoot
2026-05-17 15:00 - 17:00 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
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Poet Kelsey L. Smoot, author of the debut DOPAMINE collection SOULMATE AS A VERB performs his powerful lyrical work and talks with visual artist/performer/print maker and curator Lo Smith about the evolution and lived experience of artistry for Black queer artists across mediums.

Entangled States: A Life According to Quantum Physics
2026-05-20 19:00 - 21:00 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
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Join us for a discussion with debut author Karmela Padavic-Callaghan and Seven Rasmussen about Entangled States: A Life According to Quantum Physics.
About the Book:
“I see physics everywhere,” Karmela Padavic-Callaghan writes. “It offers itself to me when I try to make sense of all the paths my life did and did not take, it reassures me when I try to reconcile all the identities that I feel describe me.”
Now a science writer in New York, Karmela uses physics to meditate on building a life in a new country, on being nonbinary in a field dominated by cishet men, and on cause, effect, future, and destiny. Each chapter examines a moment in Karmela’s life through the lens of a physics concept. Padavic-Callaghan writes conversationally about seeing themselves in Freddie Mercury’s queer masculinity and power, what it means to be a queer teacher to young people, and overall how “Queerness, as I have come to understand it, is always future-oriented, always a state of becoming.”
About the Author:
Karmela Padavic-Callaghan is a scientist, a journalist, and an educator based in New York City. A staff writer at New Scientist, they report on physics, materials science, and quantum technology. They hold a PhD in theoretical condensed matter physics and atomic, molecular and optical physics from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Their research has been published in peer-reviewed journals, including Physical Review Letters and New Journal of Physics. Their popular science writing has been featured in such publications as Wired, Scientific American, Aeon, Slate, and MIT Technology Review.
About the Moderator:
Seven Rasmussen is an astrobiologist, author, and science communicator whose work has been featured widely in the media, including Popular Science, Wired, Nature, Scientific American, Inside Higher Ed, Science, and Space.com. Their next book, Cloudy With a Chance of Starships, comes out from Princeton University Press in August.

BOOK LAUNCH – Pretend You're Dead And I Carry You
2026-05-29 18:30 - 20:30
Join us at The Bureau for a night of reading, conversation, and Q&A to celebrate the launch of Julián Delgado Lopera’s new novel PRETEND YOU’RE DEAD AND I CARRY YOU. Julian will be joined in conversation by Angie Cruz, author of HOW NOT TO DROWN IN A GLASS OF WATER.
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Isolated in a dreary Bogotá apartment, Ignacio’s light has dimmed, leaving his teenage daughter Valentina to raise herself in the wake of her mother’s death. Valentina longs to discover the details of her mother’s drowning and for Ignacio to snap out of his depression—his listless afternoons spent smoking cigarettes in long blonde wigs, telenovelas humming in the background, haunted by memories of the young man he loved and betrayed.
From Ignacio’s dark past emerges the luminous Mamadora Eléctrica, the wise travesti who introduced Ignacio to the city’s queer scene years prior. Stepping into a maternal role for Valentina, Mamadora fears the worst: that Ignacio’s self-loathing may have unleashed a curse on them all. A profound and irreverent story about coming undone, PRETEND YOU’RE DEAD AND I CARRY YOU affirms Julián Delgado Lopera as a brilliant and singular voice in global literature.
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Julián Delgado Lopera is the author of The New York Times acclaimed novel Fiebre Tropical (Feminist Press 2020), the winner of the 2021 Ferro Grumley Award and a 2021 Lambda Literary award; a finalist of the 2020 Kirkus Prize in Fiction and the 2021 Aspen Literary Prize. Julián is also the author of ¡Cuéntamelo! (Aunt Lute 2017) an illustrated bilingual collection of oral histories by LGBT Latinx immigrants which won a 2018 Lambda Literary Award and a 2018 Independent Publisher Book Award.
Julián is the former executive director of RADAR Productions and one of the founders of Drag Queen Story Hour. Julián has been curating Latinx history projects for over 10 years in partnerships with places such as the GLBT Historical Society, SF Public Library, El/la Para Translatinas, Galería de la Raza and Brava Theatre. Born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia, Julián currently resides in Brooklyn where he is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing and Contemporary Latine Literature at CUNY.
Angie Cruz is a novelist and editor. Her most recent novel How Not To Drown in A Glass of Water (2022) was a finalist for the 2024 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, shortlisted for The Aspen Words Literary Prize, winner of the Gold Medal, Latino Book Award/The Isabel Allende Most Inspirational Book Award, longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Literary Prize and chosen for The New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2022 and The Washington Post 50 Notable Works of Fiction. Her novel, Dominicana was the inaugural book pick for GMA book club and shortlisted for The Women’s Prize, longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction, a RUSA Notable book and the winner of the ALA/YALSA Alex Award in fiction. It was named most anticipated/ best book in 2019 by Time, Newsweek, People, Oprah Magazine, The Washington Post, The New York Times, and Esquire. Cruz is the author of two other novels, Soledad and Let It Rain Coffee and the recipient of numerous fellowships, residencies and awards including the 2025 USA Fellowship, The Poets & Writers /Writers For Writers Award, and the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature. She’s the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the award winning literary journal, Aster(ix) and teaches at Columbia University.

Music Pop-Up for the Trans Community Fund
2026-05-30 14:00 - 15:30 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
A music pop-up show at The Bureau featuring tunes by Déa, Lour, Prachi, and Christian Kidd. Come do your book browsing and buying, hear inspiring music and catch a reading from Cecilia Gentili’s Faltas.
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Suggested donation of $7-10, which will contribute to a $400 fundraising need.
All proceeds will be distributed by the Trans/Queer Community Fund to neighbors in Texas, Colorado, Kentucky and New York City.

Doing The Work
2026-06-08 19:00 - 21:00 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
A conversation about Art and Activism.

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Join debut authors Rachel León, Radhika Singh, and Jules Wernersbach at The Bureau for a discussion about using literature as a vehicle to tell stories about the work that is to be done – how to roll up your sleeves, translate practice into prose, and envision (and enact) liberatory futures through writing.
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Rachel León (she/they) is a writer, editor, and social worker, who has worked in child welfare for nearly two decades. She serves as Managing Director for Chicago Review of Books. They are the author of the novel, How We See the Gray.
Radhika Singh lives, writes and teaches in Queens, New York. Her fiction speculates on the presence of magic in this world, the connection to spirit and consciousness, and the power of the people to organize for collective liberation. Her novel Earthly Playing Field connects ongoing People’s movements against global imperialism through a queer, Sufi love story. Her novel Weirdly Tuned Antennae, winner of the 2025 Sukenick Prize for Innovative Fiction, is forthcoming from FC2 Press.
Jules Wernersbach is a writer and bookseller in Brooklyn. Their debut novel, Work To Do, released April 7, 2026 from University of Iowa Press. Their short fiction has been published in Bennington Review, Heavy Feather Review, and other journals. They are the author of Vegan Survival Guide to Austin and The Swimming Holes of Texas. Jules is co-founder of Hive Mind Books, a queer independent bookstore and coffee shop in Bushwick, Brooklyn, and the new owner of The Bureau, Manhattan’s last queer bookstore.. They have been a bookseller for a long time and also served as literary director of the Texas Book Festival.

SIGNING: Polaroid Encounters: 1998–2009
2026-06-12 19:00 - 21:00 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
Music industry legend and photographer Michael Alago signs POLAROID ENCOUNTERS – his love letter to Analog Lust and Masculinity
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Polaroid Encounters: 1998–2009 is the fourth monograph published by music industry legend and photographer Michael Alago. Like his previous books, Rough Gods, Brutal Truth, and Beautiful Imperfections, Polaroid Encounters is a sexy, self-contained shrine to macho masculinity in all its flexing, flirting, full-frontal glory.
Join Michael at the Bureau of General Services – Queer Division as he signs copies of Polaroid Encounters to raise funds and awareness for The Bureau – Manhattan’s last queer bookstore.
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Polaroid Encounters is a love letter to analog lust. As pioneering author, editor, and former lover of Robert Mapplethorpe, Jack Fritscher puts it in the book’s introduction: “The two hundred Polaroid images pop like poppers because the instant gratification of his page-turning collection creates an old-school nostalgia for cruising gyms the way guys hunted before dating apps.”
Starkly framed across 142 pages are candid and posed Polaroids shot in New York, Dallas, New Orleans, Los Angeles and San Francisco between 1998 and 2009 — the same year gay porn magazine Mandate ceased publication amid the rise of the internet. Subjects include tricks, friends, models, bodybuilders, tattooed roughnecks, and ex-con boyfriends in various settings and stages of undress and arousal. Adding to the tantalizingly intimate vibe, many were shot in Alago’s own Chelsea apartment.

Lesbian Book Club: June Edition
2026-06-13 11:00 - 12:00 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
We’ll be reading fiction and non-fiction — classic, contemporary, revealing and visionary. As a group we will decide what to read each month, focusing on lesbian authors and/or related topics. Co-founded by lesbian book lovers Judi Komaki and Piper Olsen.

For our June 13th meeting, we’ll read Margaret Vandenburg’s book, Craze

This event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center, 208 W. 13th St., NYC, 10011.
Registration is not required.

OUTspoken Reading Series: Publishing Triangle Award Winners
2026-06-13 16:00 - 18:00 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
The Publishing Triangle’s OUTspoken Reading Series returns with a special panel comprised of 2026 award winners.

Join us on Saturday, June 13, at 4:00 PM at The Bureau, to celebrate The Publishing Triangle 2026 Award winners.
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Featuring:
Scott Hess – Ferro Grumley Award – Drought
Achy Obejas – Audre Lorde award for Lesbian Poetry –The Boy Kingdom / El reino de los varones: Poems / Poemas
Lev AC Rosen – Joseph Hansen Award for LGBTQ+ Crime Writing – Mirage City
Sam Tabet – for their book, Beyond the Lesbian Vampire: Reclaiming the Violent Lesbian in Contemporary Queer Horror
John Birdsall – Amber Hollibaugh Award for LGBTQ+ Social Justice Writing –What is Queer Food?
and hosted by Jim Berg – writer/editor, Publishing Triangle board member
This event will be live-streamed at youtube.com/@bgsqd

READING: The Night Of Swaying Grass
2026-06-14 15:00 - 17:00 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
R. Diskin Black reads from his new collection of memoir poetry, THE NIGHT OF SWAYING GRASS, and sits in conversation with author and activist Benjamin Heim Shepard.
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Black tells a story with his poetry of childhood loss and grief, a story of coming of age and coming out, a story of resilience and reinvention. From the death of his father when he was six years old in 1969 to his involvement in ACT UP decades later, from the events of 9/11 to the COVID pandemic, the 63 poems in this collection reflect all that was lost and all that was gained in the 63 years Black has so far lived.
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Born and raised in northern New Jersey, R. DISKIN BLACK graduated with a BA in History from Lafayette College in Easton, PA. He also went to law school, but nobody wants to hear about that. He has been gainfully employed in the legal profession his entire adult life. He is the author of the novel “Zombie Scout: The Diary of Jack Sullivan”. He currently lives in New York City.
Benjamin Shepard, PhD, is an Professor of Human Service at New York School of Technology/City University of New York. He received his Masters at the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration, PhD at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and training in psychoanalysis from the William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and Psychology in their Intensive Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program. As a social worker he worked in AIDS housing settings from San Francisco to Chicago to New York, where he directed the start ups for two congregate housing programs for people with HIV/AIDS, as well as served as Deputy Director at CitiWide Harm Reduction..
Much of Dr. Shepard’s scholarship is based on the ethnographic study of social services and social movements. He is the author/editor of six books including White Nights and Ascending Shadows: An Oral History of the San Francisco AIDS Epidemic (Cassell, 1997) and From ACT UP to the WTO: Urban Protest and Community Building in the Era of Globalization (co-edited with Ron Hayduck) (Verso, 2002). The latter work was a non-fiction finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards in 2002.

BOOK LAUNCH – Homosexual Intifada: A Queer Palestinian Anthology
2026-06-16 19:00 - 21:00
Celebrate the launch of Homosexual Intifada: A Queer Palestinian Anthology, a groundbreaking new collection amplifying the voices of LGBTQ+ Palestinians across the diaspora and homeland. Join co-editors George Abraham and Hannah Moushabeck, alongside contributor and journalist Afeef Nessouli, for an evening of readings, conversation, and community as they explore themes of identity, resistance, and love.
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This special event offers a rare opportunity to hear directly from the queer Palestinian writers and artists that challenge dominant narratives, confront erasure, and affirm the richness and resilience of queer Palestinian life. A book signing will follow the discussion.
Publisher proceeds of this book will be donated to Palestinian LGBTQ+ human rights groups.

About the Book:
A groundbreaking anthology amplifying queer Palestinian voices through art and storytelling that reclaim identity, resist erasure, and challenge stereotypes.
Homosexual Intifada is a powerful and groundbreaking anthology spotlighting the voices of queer Palestinian writers from both the diaspora and homeland. This first-of-its-kind collection features a dynamic range of LGBTQ+ Palestinian perspectives through deeply personal essays, short stories, poetry, comics, photo essays, and memoir.
Centering queer Palestinian identity and experience, this essential volume explores themes of displacement, assimilation, belonging, and love across geographies—from Jerusalem and Ramallah to New York, Beirut, and beyond. These stories, often silenced or misrepresented in Western media, challenge false narratives, boldly reclaim agency, and dismantle stereotypes.
Contributors include celebrated and emerging queer Palestinian authors such as Noor Hindi, Mejdulene Bernard Shomali, Elias Jahshan, Randa Jarrar, and more.
More than just a literary work, Homosexual Intifada is a radical act of visibility. It challenges the pinkwashing of queer identities in service of imperial agendas and affirms the existence, resilience, and diversity of LGBTQ+ Palestinians worldwide. This collection is a vital contribution to queer literature, Arab identity, and decolonial thought.

George Abraham (they/he) is a Palestinian American poet, essayist, critic, performance artist. They are the author of When the Arab Apocalypse Comes to America (Haymarket, 2026) and Birthright (Button Poetry, 2020), which won the Arab American Book Award and was a Lambda Literary Award finalist. They are the executive editor of Mizna, and co-editor of Heaven Looks Like Us: Palestinian Poetry (Haymarket, 2025). They are a graduate of Northwestern’s Litowitz MFA+MA program, and teach at Amherst College as a Writer-in-Residence.
Hannah Moushabeck (she/her) is a second-generation Palestinian American author and book worker who was raised in a family of publishers and booksellers and learned the power of literature at a young age. Hannah has worked in publishing for over a decade at companies such as Chronicle Books, The Quarto Group, and Simon & Schuster. She now runs Interlink Publishing, the only Palestinian-owned publisher in the United States, alongside her family. Her debut picture book Homeland: My Father Dreams of Palestine (Chronicle Books) won The New England Book Award and The Arab American Book Award. She lives in Amherst, Massachusetts on the homelands of the Pocumtuc and Nipmuc Nations.
Afeef Nessouli is a journalist and host of “With Afeef Nessouli” and is a journalist with The Intercept. He has previously worked for Spotify and The Wall Street Journal, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah and CNN. He focuses on queer and Arab stories. Afeef spent 9 weeks in Gaza as a humanitarian aid worker in 2025, and just came back to the United States from covering the war in Beirut, Lebanon.

Modern Cruising with Leo Herrera & Michael Henry
2026-06-17 19:00 - 21:00 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
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Join us at the Bureau for a stimulating conversation with Leo Herrera, author of the bestselling book analog cruising, and gay stand-up comedian Michael Henry. They’ll have a frank and hilarious chat about modern cruising, gay sex and the viral success of “The Manual.” Co-hosted by Gayletter.

Tickets to this event include a bundle of all three of Leo’s books in special hardcover editions. Tickets are required to attend this event. Please see below for details.

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Leo Herrera is a queer Mexican artist who explores queer and immigrant experiences through the lenses of sex, technology, and history. His work centers on themes of disease and stigma, always searching for utopia in LGBTQ history’s darkest chapters. Herrera is director of Fathers, a multimedia project which imagines the world if AIDS never existed. He is author of Analog Cruising, a manual for modern sex outside of our phones.

Michael Henry is a gay stand up comedian, actor and content creator who has toured all over the USA and internationally. He was featured on his OutTv show “Wish You Were Queer” featuring Trixie Mattel and Tim Murray, was mentioned as a Queer comedian to watch by The New York Times, is a Queerty award winner and has no gag reflex.

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This event will take place in-person at the Bureau of General Services – Queer Division, located in Room 210 on the second floor of The LGBT Community Center, 208 W. 13th St., NYC, 10011. The Center and the Bureau are both fully wheelchair accessible.
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Tickets are required to attend this event. Tickets include hardcover editions of Analog Cruising; Post; and Sentences. Thank you for supporting Leo Herrera and the Bureau!

Rasheed Newson: One Night in Hollywood
2026-06-18 19:00 - 21:00
Rasheed Newson launches his novel There’s Only One Sin in Hollywood
in conversation with actress Cassandra Freeman

Doors: 7:00pm
Event: 7:30pm

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The Bureau and Hive Mind Books Present: One Night in Hollywood

Rasheed Newson, known for his work on The Chi and Bel-Air, launches his novel There’s Only One Sin in Hollywood, which follows a queer, Black Hollywood heartthrob of the Golden Age, Xavier Barlow, and the fixer hired to keep him in the closet. “This novel is my way of reclaiming untold Hollywood history, from a Black and queer perspective,” Newson told People in an interview. He will be in conversation with actress Cassandra Freeman.

This event will be held at The Bureau – 208 W 13th St, New York, NY, Room 210 (inside the LGBT Community Center)
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Rasheed Newson is the author of the national bestseller My Government Means to Kill Me, which was selected as a Lambda Literary finalist for Gay Fiction and was named one of the “100 Notable Books of 2022” by The New York Times. He is also a television drama writer, producer, and showrunner. He codeveloped Bel-Air and worked on The Chi, Animal Kingdom, and Narcos, among other drama series. Newson is a 2025–26 American Library in Paris Visiting Fellow. He currently lives with his husband and their two children in Pasadena.

Cassandra Freeman is an acclaimed actress, producer, and entrepreneur best known for her powerful portrayal of Aunt Viv on Peacock’s Bel-Air. Her film and television credits include Atlanta, Luke Cage, The Last O.G., The Enemy Within, Inside Man, and I Think I Love My Wife, with recent work in Love, Brooklyn, an Andre Holland-led film which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Beyond acting, Freeman is the co-founder of Creatricity, a creative ecosystem supporting artists and innovators across entertainment and media. Freeman is a respected voice in the industry for her work as a creative strategist, thought leader, and advocate for diversity and inclusion and authentic representation. She is represented by the agents of Artium Talent.

TELL: A Queer Storytelling Show (MESSINESS)
2026-06-20 19:00 - 21:00
Join TELL, The Bureau’s longest-running recurring show, for a night of queer storytelling!
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This month’s Pride show’s theme is MESSINESS, with stories from:
Heather Glynis

Yifan

Tallie Medel

Dennis Yueh-Yeh Li

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Hosted and curated by Drae Campbell

$10 suggested donation

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Heather Glynis is a performer, poet, psychotic whore, and tranny-about-town. She is the program assistant at the Poetry Project and hosts Queeraoke at Metropolitan Bar, along with Bottom Behavior with Josh Bondi at Oberon. She is from Jersey, and resides in Bushwick

Yifan (they/them) is a creative community builder who believes in the power of storytelling, shared experiences, and chosen family to bring people together. Passionate about uplifting BIPOC and LGBTQ+ voices, they create welcoming spaces where connection, care, and collective joy can thrive. Guided by curiosity, empathy, and a love of gathering people across communities, Yifan approaches life with an open heart and a deep belief that meaningful relationships are at the center of belonging.

Tallie Medel (they/them) is an educator, clown, director, and award-winning actor featured in IndieWire, the LA Times and the Boston Globe. Screen credits include EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE (A24) and BROAD CITY (Comedy Central). They founded the ever-popular clown program at Brooklyn Comedy Collective and have taught at NYU, Harvard University, Emerson College, the School of Visual Arts, and at theaters and schools across the country. Stage time includes Upright Citizens Brigade NY & LA, Second City NY, Caroline’s on Broadway, MoMA PS 1, Brooklyn Academy of Music, and London’s SoHo Theatre. They have big, juicy eyeballs.

Originally from Taiwan, Dennis Yueh-Yeh Li is a playwright-director whose work explores themes of diaspora and sexuality. Besides creating theatre works, he also serves as Director of Performance, Storytelling and Community at the Museum of Chinese in America where he develops programs that uplift Asian American performing artists while amplifying Asian American histories, storytelling and visibility.

Drae Campbell (she/they) is an actor, comedian and storyteller who has performed in every medium. Drae was nominated for a Lucille Lortel Award for their work in The Nosebleed at Lincoln Center Theater. Drae’s first performance was at age 5 in a nightclub as the opening act for a punk band. Their career in theater and in gender joy started when she was cast as John Henry in The Member Of The Wedding in a local San Francisco production at age 9. Drae has a BFA in Theater from The University of the Arts and has performed in almost every medium. Drae has been hosting and curating TELL for 13 plus years, TELL has also been made into a SILVER Signal Award winning podcast on all the platforms. @draebiz

Chrysalis Magazine Launch Party
2026-07-02 18:00 - 20:00 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
Chrysalis Magazine, which publishes art and writing by trans youth ages 0-18, is launching our second issue!
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Join us at The Bureau to celebrate, hosted by our managing editor, Jacob Romm, and one of our fiction editors, award-winning author Kyle Lukoff. There will be readings and performances by trans youth, resources and information, and a chance to get your hands on a copy of our brand-new issue!

Radical Queer Reading Group: The Wretched of the Earth
2026-07-08 19:00 - 20:00 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
Join us as we read radical leftist texts with a focus on queer liberation, anti-capitalism, and anti-colonialism. For July 8th, we’re reading The Wretched of the Earth, by Frantz Fanon.
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We’ll meet on Wednesday, July 8th, at The Bureau, in room 210 of The LGBT Community Center in the West Village, 7-8 PM.
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Copies of The Wretched of the Earth are available to purchase at the Bureau. Purchase the book before July 8th and receive 15% off. Just mention the Radical Queer Reading Group when you check out.
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Thank you for supporting The Bureau by purchasing books from us!

Reading & Signing: Gareth Carter
2026-07-09 19:00 - 21:00 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
Join the Queer Librarian as he discusses his “over-the-top gay…sendup of the secret-agent genre”
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Gareth Carter discusses (and signs copies of) The Misadventures of Don Kee Dong & Phillip Mihol, the first in his International Men of Mystery series at a special top secret after hours event at The Bureau.
In addition to signing and reading from his book, he will discuss his journey from being called a Pornographer, simply for stocking LGBT+ themed children’s books at his library, to becoming novelist Gareth Carter.

Lesbian Book Club: July Edition
2026-07-11 11:00 - 13:00 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
We’ll be reading fiction and non-fiction — classic, contemporary, revealing and visionary. As a group we will decide what to read each month, focusing on lesbian authors and/or related topics. Co-founded by lesbian book lovers Judi Komaki and Piper Olsen.

For our July 11th meeting, we’ll read Joan Schenkar’s book, The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith

This event will take place in person at The Bureau, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center, 208 W. 13th St., NYC, 10011.
Registration is not required.

Histories of the Queer 90's
2026-07-14 18:00 - 20:00 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
Join authors Valena Beety, Tina Luongo, and Hugh Ryan for a night of personal histories through the queer 90s, from the US to Cuba, into the working place for women in criminal law, and landing at the criminalization of queer people today. We’ll tie these threads together for a wide-ranging discussion on what gender and identity mean in different places and times, how we can be marginalized and silenced, and what we can do to speak up and not be erased.
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A former federal prosecutor, Valena Beety is the McKinney Professor of Law at Indiana University-Bloomington Maurer School of Law and a co-founder of the Indiana Innocence Project. The author of Manifesting Justice and Pink Crime: Fighting Against the Criminalization of Motherhood, Pregnancy, and Queer Identity (The New Press), she lives in Indiana.
Tina Luongo (they/she) has served as the Chief Attorney of the Criminal Defense Practice since 2014 where they are responsible for the daily operation of all of the practice’s trial, appellate, post-conviction, law reform and parole defense work conducted on behalf of over 200,000 clients. They lead a citywide team of 12 senior managers who, in turn, manage the practice’s over 1100 staff.
Hugh Ryan is a writer, historian, and curator in New York City. With the multi-talented Peppermint, he is also the host of Queer History 101, the bookclub & podcast from Allstora.com.
His most recent book, THE WOMEN’S HOUSE OF DETENTION: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison, is a queer history of the Women’s House of Detention in Greenwich Village. It is the story of one building: the people it caged, the neighborhood it changed, and the resistance it inspired. It is the winner of the 2023 Stonewall Book Award/Israel Fishman Award for Nonfiction from the Publishing Triangle of the American Library Association, as well as the 2022 Warren Johansson Award from the W.A. Percy Foundation.
