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SUMMARY:TELL: A Queer Storytelling Show (MESSINESS)
DESCRIPTION:Join TELL\, The Bureau’s longest-running recurring show\, for a night of queer storytelling! \nRSVP HERE \nThis month’s Pride show’s theme is MESSINESS\, with stories from: \nHeather Glynis\n\nYifan\n\nTallie Medel\n\nDennis Yueh-Yeh Li\n\nand\nHosted and curated by Drae Campbell\n\n$10 suggested donation\n\n—\nHeather 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\n\nYifan (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.\n\n\nTallie 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.\n\n\nOriginally 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.\n\n\nDrae 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
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SUMMARY:Radical Queer Reading Group: The Wretched of the Earth
DESCRIPTION: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.\n—\nWe’ll meet on Wednesday\, July 8th\, at The Bureau\, in room 210 of The LGBT Community Center in the West Village\, 7-8 PM.\n—\nCopies 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.\n—\nThank you for supporting The Bureau by purchasing books from us!
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LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:Reading & Signing: Gareth Carter
DESCRIPTION:Join the Queer Librarian as he discusses his “over-the-top gay…sendup of the secret-agent genre” \nRSVP HERE \n\n\n\n\nGareth 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. \nIn 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.
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LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:Lesbian Book Club: July Edition
DESCRIPTION: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. \n\n\nFor our July 11th meeting\, we’ll read Joan Schenkar’s book\, The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith \n\nThis 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. \nRegistration is not required.
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LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:Histories of the Queer 90's
DESCRIPTION:Join authors Valena Beety\, Maryam Ahranjani\, Libby Adler\, 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. \nRSVP TO THIS EVENT \n— \nA 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. \nMaryam Ahranjani is an experienced law professor at the University of New Mexico (UNM)\, where she teaches in the areas of constitutional\, criminal\, and education law. She is also a textbook author\, rule of law and human rights consultant\, program manager and evaluator\, and curriculum designer. She is the editor of Women in Criminal Law: A Guide for Inclusive and Thriving Workplaces. Her newest work\, Governing the Terrain Called Beauty: The Queerness of Political Economy in Cuba and the United States\, releases in July. \nLibby Adler is Professor of Law and Women’s\, Gender\, & Sexuality Studies at Northeastern University in Boston. She is the author of Gay Priori: A Queer Critical Legal Studies Approach to Law Reform (2018) as well as numerous articles on lgbtq legal issues. She serves as a commissioner on the Massachusetts Commission on LGBTQ Youth. \nHugh 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. \nHis 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.
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LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:IN CONVERSATION: Terrell J. A. Winder & Theo Greene
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a discussion on the value of Black Queer Placemaking in shaping belonging and community in an era of shifting gay geographies. \nRSVP HERE \n\n\n\n\nJoin Terrell J. A. Winder (Shameless: The Making of Black Gay Identities in LA) and Theo Greene (Not in My Gayborhood: Gay Neighborhoods and the Rise of the Vicarious Citizen) for a conversation on Blackness\, Queerness\, visibility\, and their intersections. \n— \nTerrell J. A. Winder received his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California\, Los Angeles in 2017. An urban ethnographer\, Dr. Winder’s research areas include race & ethnicity\, sexuality & sexual health\, qualitative & quantitative research methods\, and education. His current research examines stigma response processes among stigmatized populations negotiating more than one stigma simultaneously. His research has been published in Qualitative Sociology\, AIDS Patient Care & STDs\, the Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities\, and the Journal of Medical Internet Research. His work on mobile applications as a health intervention has also been covered in the Los Angeles Times. His book\, Shameless: The Making of Black Gay Identities in LA\, is a multi-method examination of anti-gay stigma response among young Black gay men in Los Angeles. \nTheo Greene is an Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of Sociology at Bowdoin College. His research and teaching interests focus on the intersection of sexuality\, urbanism\, and culture. Greene’s research broadly explores how sexual communities help us understand how urban redevelopment shapes and redefines how individuals think about\, identify with\, and participate in local communities. His book\, Not in MY Gayborhood! Gay Neighborhoods and the Rise of the Vicarious Citizen recently received the 2026 Outstanding Book Award in Community and Urban Sociology from the American Sociological Association. In addition to his ongoing work on gay neighborhoods and queer placemaking in Maine\, Theo is currently Chair-Elect of the Community and Urban Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association and serves on several boards that support LGBTQ communities in Portland\, Maine\, including the Frannie Peabody Center and the Equality Community Center.
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