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SUMMARY:Queer Film Summer Camp: Andrew Durbin Presents The Nomi Song
DESCRIPTION:For the seventh installment of Queer Film Summer Camp Andrew Durbin will introduce Andrew Horn‘s The Nomi Song (2004) \nIMDB page for The Nomi Song \nAndrew Durbin co-edits Wonder\, an open-source publishing and events platform for poetry and new media art. He is the author of Reveler (Argos Books 2012) and The Standard (Insert Blanc Press 2014). He curates the Queer Division reading series at the Bureau of General Services–Queer Division on the Lower East Side\, and lives in New York. \nQueer Film Summer Camp\, a series devoted to queer films or films viewed queerly\, is proudly presented by the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division and Peter M. Hargrove\, President of Hargrove Entertainment\, Inc. Queer Film Summer Camp will take place at the Bureau on eight consecutive Saturday evenings in July and August. An exciting array of film critics and historians along with other queer and queer-friendly NYC-based arts professionals will introduce each film with a brief lecture. \nSaturdays\, July 6\, 13\, 20\, 27\, August 3\, 10\, 17\, 24 \nSuggested donation of $10 \nDrinks will be served at 7 PM \nThe introductory lectures will begin at 8 PM \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/queer-film-summer-camp-andrew-durbin-presents-the-nomi-song/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130813T190000
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SUMMARY:Contributors to Sensual Travels: The Best of Gay Travel Erotica Read at the Bureau
DESCRIPTION:Dominic Ambrose\, Michael Luongo (editor)\, and Michael Mele will read. \nSensual Travels: The Best of Gay Travel Erotica \nEdited by Michael Luongo \nBruno Gmünder May 2013 \nWhether traversing desert sands\, steamy jungles\, or the urban playground: these are the erotic encounters told by men willing to roam. The stories in Sensual Travels pack a sexual punch\, and carry with them the resonance and character of their locales. The writers in this book got to relish and relive their adventures\, revisiting them in their minds as they wrote them down for these stories. For the reader\, each chance encounter described by the writers is brand new\, as fresh and exciting as they were on the day they happened years ago on continents far away. \nEdited by renowned travel writer Michael Luongo\, Sensual Travels includes contributions from Felice Picano\, Lawrence Schimel\, Michael Mele (reading)\, Dominic Ambrose (reading)\, Sebastian V\, Jesse Archer\, Trebor Healey\, and many others\, writing on destinations as diverse as Spain\, Japan\, Lebanon\, Brazil\, Russia\, Thailand and other regions. \nBruno Gmünder Website listing for the Book: \nhttps://www.brunogmuender.com/products/details/id/7424_Sensual_Travels \n  \nBIOS \n \nDOMINIC AMBROSE is a writer with a transatlantic vocation. He has written two novels with gay themes\, Nickel Fare\, set in New York in the 1970s\, and The Shriek and the Rattle of Trains\, set in Romania in the 1990s. His work has appeared in various publications\, such as Van Gogh’s Ear and Inverses (in France) as well as read on BBC World Service. “Croatian Heat” will eventually be included in a personal memoir of the Balkans. He now lives in New York City. \n \nMICHAEL MELE has published the children’s book\, A Gift for the Contessa\, illustrated by Ron Paolillo\, with Pelican Publishing. His poetry has appeared in The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide\, and his gay travel stories have been published in Haworth Press’s Between the Palms\, edited by Michael Luongo. He is the director of the travel company Il Chiostro\, Inc. which organizes arts-related workshops (painting\, writing\, photography\, cooking) in Italy (www.ilchiostro.com). Michael and his partner Andy travel a lot between New York; Tuscany; Bucks County\, Pennsylvania; and the island of Vieques\, Puerto Rico. \n  \n \nMICHAEL LUONGO is the editor of Sensual Travels\, published by Bruno Gmünder in May 2013. Michael was senior editor for Haworth Press’s Out in the World series on gay and lesbian travel literature\, where a version of this book was originally to be published as Between the Palms\, Volume II: Put It in Your Hands Again\, a follow-on to the 2004 original Between the Palms\, before Haworth’s takeover by Routledge. His travel writing has appeared in Conde Nast Traveler\, The New York Times\, the Chicago Tribune\, National Geographic Traveler\, CNN\, Bloomberg\, Out Traveler\, Gay City News\, Passport\, and many other publications. Michael is a native of New Jersey who grew up near the fabled Jersey Shore and now lives in Manhattan. He has been to over eighty countries and all seven continents\, with Latin America and the Middle East his favorite areas. His most challenging work has been the post-9/11 Middle East\, including Iraq\, Gaza\, and Afghanistan on both gay and mainstream topics\, including the killing of gay men in Iraq for Gay City News which was nominated for a 2010 Pulitzer. He pioneered bringing gay tourism into the academic world by coauthoring with his professor Dr. Briavel Holcomb an article in the Annals of Tourism Research. In 2002\, he also coedited Continuum Press’s Gay Tourism: Culture\, Identity and Sex\, the first academic book on the gay travel industry\, with Dr. Stephen Clift and Carry Callister. Other books include Haworth’s Gay Travels in the Muslim World in 2007\, the only gay American book translated into Arabic. In 2007\, Alyson Books published his debut novel The Voyeur\, about a gay sex researcher in New York during the Giuliani era. Luongo also writes the Frommer’s Buenos Aires guidebook. He is one of America’s most award-winning gay journalists\, having won the LGBT Journalist of the Year Sarah Pettit Memorial Award in 2011 from the National Lesbian and Gay Journalist Association; the 2010 Grand Prize in Travel Journalism Award from the North American Travel Journalists Association; and in 2012 the first writers award from IGLTA\, the International Gay and Lesbian Travel Association. He also teaches travel writing at New York University. Visit him at www.michaelluongo.com. \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/contributors-to-sensual-travels-the-best-of-gay-travel-erotica-read-at-the-bureau/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130810T190000
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SUMMARY:Queer Film Summer Camp: Jim Fouratt Introduces To Die Like a Man
DESCRIPTION:For the sixth installment of Queer Film Summer Camp Jim Fouratt will introduce João Pedro Rodrigues‘s To Die Like a Man (2009) \nTo Die Like a Man is a look at the the dance between desire\, subjectivity\, nature and heterosexual definitions of gender expression. Add religion\, body modification options\, queens colliding\, gender illusion\, bad boys\, ageism and drugs to mix and you get a very contemporary look at the dialectics of gender expression. And it’s beautifully shot and respectful of the world it inhabits. Hard questions\, no easy answers. A NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL selection. \nQueer Film Summer Camp\, a series devoted to queer films or films viewed queerly\, is proudly presented by the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division and Peter M. Hargrove\, President of Hargrove Entertainment\, Inc. Queer Film Summer Camp will take place at the Bureau on eight consecutive Saturday evenings in July and August. An exciting array of film critics and historians along with other queer and queer-friendly NYC-based arts professionals will introduce each film with a brief lecture. \nSaturdays\, July 6\, 13\, 20\, 27\, August 3\, 10\, 17\, 24 \nSuggested donation of $10 \nDrinks will be served at 7 PM \nThe introductory lectures will begin at 8 PM \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/queer-film-summer-camp-jim-fouratt-introduces-to-die-like-a-man/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130808T190000
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SUMMARY:Teaser of The Drifts Live\, Queer. Southern. Gothic. with Thom Vernon
DESCRIPTION:Queer. Southern. Gothic. William Faulkner meets Flannery O’Connor meets Carson McCullers. A trans-dad\, a pregnant housewife\, her cheating husband\, his butch lover and a calf fight their sex in a mean Arkansas blizzard. Thom Vernon (performer/writer) teases his @fringenyc stint of The Drifts Live: the novel onstage with performance\, readings and talk on gender and mattering.  The Drifts (Coachhouse Books) was called ‘Magnificent’ (Globe & Mail); audiences have said the performances are “Hilarious and harrowing…stricken with a dangerous poetry.” \nthedriftslive.com \nFree. All donations go to Future Perfect: Build the Bureau\, the Bureau’s fundraising campaign to establish a permanent location on the Lower East Side. \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/thomvernon/
LOCATION:NY
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SUMMARY:Future Perfect: Build the Bureau\, a Fundraiser for the Bureau at The Pyramid Club
DESCRIPTION:In conjunction with the Bureau’s Indiegogo fundraising campaign\, Future Perfect: Build the Bureau\, we will host a fundraiser party at \nThe Pyramid Club on Wednesday\, August 7th\, from 8 PM on \nDonors of $10 or more to our Indiegogo crowd-funding campaign will receive a ticket to this event. Donate $100 or more and receive two tickets. $15 at door. \nDonate here \nMaster of Ceremonies\, Justin Sayre \n \nFeaturing some of the best Queer Performers in New York today! \nPerformances will start at 9pm with A Special Return for Jack Waters and Peewee Nyob\, also with performances by Dan Fishback and Reginald M Lamar \nAt 10pm\, a Special Hour Curated by Earl Dax and PUSSY FAGGOT!\, Hosted by Penny Arcade \nAt 11 We continue the line up with Performances by Brett Every\, Max Steele\, Linda Simpson\, Jonathan Dalin\, and Karl Marks! \nAt 12 Shane-Shane and his amazing party\, FANCY Present Music and Merriment with Chris Tyler\, Valerie Geffner\, and Paul Leopold. \n  \nSome of NYC’s Best DJs will spin both upstairs and downstairs! \nGio Black Peter\nAsh Wood\nDandylion\n& Spank Magazine‘s DJ Will Automagic & DJ Sean B \nDonors of $10 or more to our Indiegogo crowd-funding campaign will receive a ticket to this event. Donate $100 or more and receive two tickets. $15 at door. We will print out a list of donors\, so no need to print anything out. We’ve got it covered. \nDONATE HERE \nStay tuned for announcements about additional performers and other details. \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/future-perfect-build-the-bureau-a-fundraiser-for-the-bureau-at-the-pyramid-club/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130803T190000
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SUMMARY:Queer Film Summer Camp: Shade Rupe Introduces Love Is The Devil: Study For A Portrait Of Francis Bacon
DESCRIPTION:For the fifth installment of Queer Film Summer Camp Shade Rupe will introduce John Maybury‘s Love Is The Devil: Study For A Portrait Of Francis Bacon (1998)  \nIMDB page for Love Is The Devil \nShade Rupe\nFilmmaker\, writer\, festival programmer\, and lover of outsider life is the author of the acclaimed interview collection DARK STARS RISING: CONVERSATION FROM THE OUTER REALMS (Headpress Books\, 2011)\, featuring Divine\, Alejandro Jodorowsky\, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge\, Udo Kier\, Dennis Cooper\, Gaspar Noe\, and other pioneers of individuated lifestyles\, which Robert Ebert declared as “the most fearsome creatures in the transgressive cinema.” His 2011 short film T IS FOR TRICK elicited queer author Clive Barker’s praise: “That was an elegantly shot\, sharply edited and strongly conceived and directed four minutes of filmmaking. Colour me impressed.” Shade produced and directed the live recording of Teller (Penn & Teller) and Todd Robbins’ off-Broadway spookshow PLAY DEAD\, which premiered at Montreal’s Fantasia Film Festival in 2012\, with further plays at the AFI Center in Washington DC and the American Cinemathque in Los Angeles\, which Marilyn Manson praised by commenting “PLAY DEAD reminds me of my early years as a spiritual terrorist.” 2013 Shade was a guest at the Off Plus Camera film festival in Kraków\, Poland\, bringing several films based around Dark Stars Rising\, including a 35mm print of Andy Warhol’s Dracula\, which was introduced with live running commentary by festival judge Udo Kier. \nQueer Film Summer Camp\, a series devoted to queer films or films viewed queerly\, is proudly presented by the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division and Peter M. Hargrove\, President of Hargrove Entertainment\, Inc. Queer Film Summer Camp will take place at the Bureau on eight consecutive Saturday evenings in July and August. An exciting array of film critics and historians along with other queer and queer-friendly NYC-based arts professionals will introduce each film with a brief lecture. \nSaturdays\, July 6\, 13\, 20\, 27\, August 3\, 10\, 17\, 24 \nSuggested donation of $10 \nDrinks will be served at 7 PM \nThe introductory lectures will begin at 8 PM \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/queer-film-summer-camp-shade-rupe-introduces-love-is-the-devil-study-for-a-portrait-of-francis-bacon/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130730T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130730T210000
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SUMMARY:ANGELS AND DEMONS AT PLAY: Poetry Readings by Steve Koenig and Robin Small McCarthy
DESCRIPTION:ANGELS AND DEMONS AT PLAY \nPoetry Readings by Steve Koenig and Robin Small McCarthy \n  \n \nSteve Koenig\, a third generation Brooklynite\, writes about growing up queer in NYC and the cultural and racial spirits of Mexico\, jazz\, and everyday shamans. He is a poet\, educator\, music journalist\, and Editor of the arts and culture magazine  www.AcousticLevitation.org\, as well as co-founder of the Acoustic Levitation music collaborative and record label (.com). He has been a queer activist since his teens\, and co- founded the Baruch College Gay Students Association in 1977.  Much of Steve’s poetry has been in collaboration with painters\, sculptors\, and improvising musicians from around the world\, especially Mexico City.  His poetry volume Among The Powder will be followed by the forthcoming Collected Poems: Ants Eating Through Brick and CD release It Was The Fingers.  Steve has been published in Sensations Magazine\, Diseased Pariah News\, Poetry In Performance\, Brooklyn Day Of The Poet\, Unbearable Assembling\, Q Review\, planetAUTHORity. and Outside. \n  \nRobin Small-McCarthy\, a transplanted New Yorker\, lives in Pelham Parkway (the Bronx)\, teaches in Midtown\, and performs and plays in the Village. She writes about the fluidity of racial\, cultural\, gender\, and sexual identity–embracing the interconnectivity of all life. She is a well-known poet and performing artist in the New York City underground poetry and music scene.  She is the author of two books of poetry and song\, Love During Wartime and Cold Winter Days and Dark Nights of the Soul: The Madison Chronicles.  Robin has been a featured performer in such venues as the Bowery Poetry Club\, the Cornelia Street Café\, the Green Pavilion\, the KGB Bar\, Bluestockings\, and the Yippie Museum Cafe.  Robin is the founder and co-host of Kairos Poetry Café.  She has adjudicated poetry slams in Madison\, Wisconsin. Her writing–poetry and literary criticism–has been published in numerous journals\, including the Journal of Cultural Studies\, Discourse\,Nomad’s Choir Poetry Journal\, and The WisCon Chronicles.  She has performed on two CDs:  Kairos Poetry Café Presents Selections of Poetry and Music (AB Film Productions) and Beauty Keeps Laying ItsSharp Knife Against Me (Logochrysalis Productions).  Robin has taught and directed theatre at Syracuse University\, the University of Illinois\, Technical Career Institutes\, the BRLT Actor’s Workshop\, and City Lights Youth Theatre.  Her play\, Starseed: The Journey Home\, is currently in production. Robin is also an English instructor at Technical Career Institutes and the New York Institute of Technology.  A compassionate activist and cultural worker at heart\, in all that she creates and wherever her journey finds her\, Robin’s ultimate goal and hope is to be a conduit of peace\, love\, and social justice. \nwww.linkedin.com/in/robinsmallmccarthy \nwww.facebook.com/robinsmallmccarthyinstructorpoetperformingartist \nwww.facebook.com/JazzMassStJohnsOnChristopherStreet \nwww.facebook.com/kairospoets \nhttps://www.acousticlevitation.org/robinsmallmccarthy.html \nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOak1fAsA9Q \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/angels-and-demons-at-play-poetry-readings-by-steve-koenig-and-robin-small-mccarthy/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130727T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130727T230000
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SUMMARY:Queer Film Summer Camp: David Noh Presents Riptide
DESCRIPTION:For the fourth installment of Queer Film Summer Camp David Noh will introduce Edmund Goulding‘s Riptide (1934) \nIMDB page for Riptide \nDavid Noh\, born in Hawaii and living in Manhattan\, is a film critic who has written for FILM JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL\, THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER\, BACKSTAGE\, OPERA NEWS and other publications. He also writes a regular culture column for GAY CITY NEWS and has a blog\, WWW.NOHWAY.WORDPRESS.COM. He is happy to be part of this wonderful film series\, and hopes that his choices will be enjoyed\, as well as a fresh discovery for those unfamiliar with them. \nQueer Film Summer Camp\, a series devoted to queer films or films viewed queerly\, is proudly presented by the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division and Peter M. Hargrove\, President of Hargrove Entertainment\, Inc. Queer Film Summer Camp will take place at the Bureau on eight consecutive Saturday evenings in July and August. An exciting array of film critics and historians along with other queer and queer-friendly NYC-based arts professionals will introduce each film with a brief lecture. \nSaturdays\, July 6\, 13\, 20\, 27\, August 3\, 10\, 17\, 24 \nSuggested donation of $10 \nDrinks will be served at 7 PM \nThe introductory lectures will begin at 8 PM \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/queer-film-summer-camp-david-noh-presents-riptide/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130726T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130726T210000
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SUMMARY:The F from Female: A Discussion about Gynarchy
DESCRIPTION:A performance by Anastasia Papatheodorou \nWhen we hear the word ‘matriarchy\,’ we are conditioned to a number of responses: that matriarchy refers to the past and that matriarchies have never existed; that matriarchy is a hopeless fantasy of female domination\, of mothers dominating children\, of women being cruel to men. Conditioning us negatively to matriarchy is\, of course\, in the interests of patriarchs. We are made to feel that patriarchy is natural; we are less likely to question it\, and less likely to direct our energies to ending it. \nDonations encouraged \nAnastasia Papatheodorou\nAnastasia Papatheodorou was born in Athens. Her performances are a synthesis of voice\, poetry improvisations\, sound effects and cinematic storytelling in an open dramaturgy. She has been performing and living in  Athens – Vienna -Berlin -Paris – and Portugal.\nThe Bureau will launch our fundraising campaign\, Future Perfect: Build the Bureau\, on Friday\, July 26th\, so we hope you’ll come to see Anastasia’s performance and make a donation at the Bureau that night–because donating online can be lonely. So come on down to the Bureau and donate in the company of friends\, lovers\, and friends and lovers whom you have yet to meet.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/the-f-from-female-a-discussion-about-gynarchy/
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:20130723T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130723T210000
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SUMMARY:Launch of issue 2 of Prose & Lore\, the literary journal of the Red Umbrella Project
DESCRIPTION:Featuring readings by Brandon Aguilar\, Dominick\, Essence Revealed\, and Danielle.  The Red Umbrella Project is dedicated to amplifying the voices of people who have current or former experience working in the sex trades.\n \n \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/launch-of-issue-2-of-prose-lore-the-literary-journal-of-the-red-umbrella-project/
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:20130720T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130720T230000
DTSTAMP:20260403T212644
CREATED:20130629T162913Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20130629T182811Z
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SUMMARY:Queer Film Summer Camp: David Noh Presents You Are Not Alone
DESCRIPTION:For the third installment of Queer Film Summer Camp David Noh will introduce Ernst Johansen & Lasse Nielsen‘s You Are Not Alone (1978). \nIMDB page for You Are Not Alone\n \nDavid Noh\, born in Hawaii and living in Manhattan\, is a film critic who has written for FILM JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL\, THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER\, BACKSTAGE\, OPERA NEWS and other publications. He also writes a regular culture column for GAY CITY NEWS and has a blog\, WWW.NOHWAY.WORDPRESS.COM. He is happy to be part of this wonderful film series\, and hopes that his choices will be enjoyed\, as well as a fresh discovery for those unfamiliar with them. \nQueer Film Summer Camp\, a series devoted to queer films or films viewed queerly\, is proudly presented by the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division and Peter M. Hargrove\, President of Hargrove Entertainment\, Inc. Queer Film Summer Camp will take place at the Bureau on eight consecutive Saturday evenings in July and August. An exciting array of film critics and historians along with other queer and queer-friendly NYC-based arts professionals will introduce each film with a brief lecture. \nSaturdays\, July 6\, 13\, 20\, 27\, August 3\, 10\, 17\, 24 \nSuggested donation of $10 \nDrinks will be served at 7 PM \nThe introductory lectures will begin at 8 PM \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/queer-film-summer-camp-david-noh-presents-you-are-not-alone/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130718T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130718T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T212644
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SUMMARY:Davidson Garrett and John J. Trause Read at the Bureau
DESCRIPTION:Davidson Garrett is a native of Shreveport\, Louisiana. He trained for the theater at The American Academy of Dramatic Arts and graduated from The City College of New York with an M.S. in Education. A member of Screen Actor’s Guild/AFTRA and Actors’ Equity\, he has worked in theater\, film and television since 1973. His poetry\, fiction and articles have been published in The New York Times\, The Episcopal New Yorker\, Xavier Review (New Orleans)\, Sensations Magazine\, Third Wednesday\, Marco Polo Arts Mag\, Big City Lit\, the website of The Beat Museum in San Francisco and in Podium\, the online literary journal of the 92nd Street Y.  In 2000\, his chapbook manuscript\, Taxi Dreams\, was a finalist in the Gival Press Chapbook Competition.  In 2006\, that manuscript evolved into his first collection of poetry and prose\, King Lear of the Taxi (Advent Purple Press). Two of the poems from his book were the subject of a short film\, Taxi Driver\, produced by Flashgun Films of Great Britain. The film was screened at the Portobello Film Festival in London in 2008. In 2011\, Davidson was nominated for a Pushcart Prize for his work in the anthology Pears\, Prose and Poetry\, published by Poets Wear Prada.  He was profiled in New York Magazine in July 2012\, in an article about taxi drivers who moonlight in other professions. In August 2012\, Davidso premiered his one-man show\, King Lear of the Taxi: A Poetic Monologue\, for the Boog City Art and Music Festival in Manhattan’s East Village.  In May 2013\, Davidson was invited to read his postry at Joe’s Pub\, presented by the PEN World Voices Festival as part of the Taxi Driver Writers’ Workshop.  Davidson has been a New York City taxi driver\, full time and part time\, for over 35 years to help subsidize his art. \n  \n \nJOHN J. TRAUSE\, said to be the secret love child of Henri Langlois and Mary  Meerson (Or is it Marie Menken and Willard Maas?)\, is  the Director of Oradell Public Library and the author of Eye Candy for Andy: 13 Most Beautiful… Poems for Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests; Inside Out\, Upside Down\, and Round and Round; Seriously Serial; and Latter-Day Litany\, the latter staged Off-Off Broadway.  His translations\, poetry\, and visual work appear internationally in many journals and anthologies\, including the artists’ periodical Crossings\, the Dada journal Maintenant\, the journal Offerta Speciale\, the Uphook Press anthologies Hell Strung and Crooked and -gape-seed-\, and the Great Weather for Media anthology It’s Animal but Merciful.  He has shared the stage with Steven Van Zandt\, Anne Waldman\, Karen Finley\, and Jerome Rothenberg\, the page with Lita Hornick\, William Carlos Williams\, Woody Allen\, Ted Kooser\, and Pope John Paul II\, and the cage with the Cumaean Sibyl\, Ezra Pound\, Hannibal Lector\, Andrei Chikatilo\, and George “The Animal” Steele.  He is a founder of the William Carlos Williams Poetry Cooperative in Rutherford\, NJ\, and the former host and curator of its monthly reading series.  He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize (2009 – 2011).  For the sake of art Mr. Trause hung naked for one whole month in the summer of 2007 on the Art Wall of the Bowery Poetry Club. \n\nPraise for John J. Trause’s EYE CANDY FOR ANDY: 13 Most Beautiful… Poems for Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests \n* Aphorisms… Minimalisms… Trauseisms… More fun with Andy \nTaylor Mead\, writer\, actor\, performer\, poet\, and one of Andy Warhol’s Superstars \n  \n* Brief as the lives on display\, these utterly charming pieces resonate with eroticism\, sentiment\, devilish humor and unexpected editorial comment… fitting testament to one of the key moving image projects of the 20th Century. \nRon Magliozzi\, Associate Curator\, Department of Film\, Museum of Modern Art\, New York \n  \n* sighting by Billy.  i see the poem\, read it\, and find it charming\, one of the 13 most beautiful….. \nBilly Name\, photographer\, filmmaker\, lighting designer\, Warhol Factory Archivist
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/davidson-garrett-and-john-j-trause-read-at-the-bureau/
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:20130717T190000
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SUMMARY:Mario López-Cordero Reads from His Debut Novel Monarch Season\, with guests Martin Wilson and John Stewart Wynne\, author of the new novel The Red Shoes
DESCRIPTION:Mario López-Cordero is a journalist who has spent more than a decade writing about design\, travel\, fashion\, and culture. He is currently the senior editor of Veranda and his writing has also appeared in New York\, Travel + Leisure\, and Martha Stewart Living; he previously held staff positions at Elle Decor\, Harper’s Bazaar\, and House Beautiful. He lives in New York City. \nMonarch Season  \nDevin Santos knows success is in the details: in the furrows of cobblestone abs\, the thread count of Egyptian cotton sheets\, the patina of iron window casements left purposely to rust. Add it all up\, however\, and something’s missing. The cracks are beginning to show in his relationship with domineering i‐banker Charlie Doherty\, and no amount of chalky Venetian plaster can obscure them. When a neighborhood admirer appears alongside his best friend Jude at the Pines ferry terminal\, Devin is at first unimpressed. But Frank Duma is confident\, clever\, and shameless in his pursuit of Devin. The cat‐and‐mouse\, hot‐and‐cold relationship that develops will change both their lives forever. \n  \nPhoto by Kevin McGrath\nMartin Wilson was born in Tuscaloosa\, Alabama. He received a BA from Vanderbilt University and an MFA from the University of Florida\, where one of his short stories received a Henfield/Transatlantic Review Award. His debut novel\, What They Always Tell Us (Delacorte Press\, 2008)\, won the Alabama Author Award for best young adult book. The novel was also a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award\, an Indie Next Selection\, an ALA-ALSC Rainbow List Selection\, and a CCBC Choices Book. He lives in New York City. Visit him at www.martinwilsonwrites.com \n  \n \nJohn Stewart Wynne (aka John Wynne) is an American author of fiction.  He is also a Grammy-nominated producer of spoken word recordings. \nHe is the author of the short story collection The Other World (City Lights)\, which the James White Review called “one of the best books of the decade”\, the novel Crime Wave (John Calder/Riverrun Press)\, and the chapbook The Sighting.  His new novel The Red Shoes will be published by Magnus Books in Summer 2013. \n“His writing has been praised for its audacious originality\, its beautiful imagery\, the astute asides and wry observations of his characters\, and his highly charged but often darkly comic mise-en-scènes. He has been hailed as the heir apparent to the tradition of  ‘outsider art’ exemplified by Tennessee Williams\, Carson McCullers and Truman Capote.” (Wikipedia) \n\nWynne’s controversial narrative poem “Two Struggling Actresses”\, about an actor consumed by the personality of Jayne Mansfield\, appeared in The Paris Review.  His short fiction has been published in High Risk 2 and Christopher Street among numerous publications. \nWynne is also the producer of over one hundred audio books. They range from John Waters reading his Shock Value to F. Murray Abraham reading The Phantom of the Opera to John Kennedy\, Jr. reading his father’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book Profiles in Courage. \nHe wrote the first popular guide to spoken word recordings\, The Listener’s Guide to Audio Books (Simon & Schuster). \nHe is at work on a new novel. \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/mario-lopez-cordero-reads-from-his-debut-novel-monarch-season-with-guests-martin-wilson-and-john-stewart-wynne/
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:20130714T190000
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SUMMARY:Dirty Looks On Location at the Bureau: Lynda Benglis + Harry Dodge
DESCRIPTION:Fantastic Queer Narratives: Lynda Benglis\, The Amazing Bow Wow + Harry Dodge\, The Ass and the Lap Dog \nLynda Benglis\, The Amazing Bow Wow\, video\, 32 min\, 1976\nHarry Dodge\, The Ass and the Lap Dog\, video\, 33 min\, 2013 \nDirty Looks: On Location comes to Bureau of General Services – Queer Division for an evening of fantastic queer narratives\, spanning more than thirty years of video art practice. Made in 1976\, The Amazing Bow Wow is the only fully narrative video Lynda Benglis produced and follows the adventures of a talking\, intersexed dog used by Benglis and her partner in their carnival sideshow act—until Benglis starts to fall for Bow Wow and things take a tragic turn.The Ass and the Lap Dog\, from 2013\, sees Harry Dodge attempting several on-camera interviews only to be bombarded with bizarre\, insanely detailed descriptions of the videos his interviewees would like to make\, to hilarious and hallucinatory effect. \nLynda Benglis was born in Lake Charles\, Louisiana in 1941. An important sculptor for more than three decades\, Benglis also produced a pioneering body of feminist video in the 1970s. Immediate and visceral\, her performance-based video work confronts issues raised by feminist theory\, including the representation of women\, the role of the spectator\, and female sexuality. Her work has been shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art\, Los Angeles; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Tate Modern\, London; The Museum of Modern Art\, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art\, New York; Walker Art Center\, Minneapolis; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum\, New York; Philadelphia Museum of Art; National Gallery of Art\, Washington\, DC; the 39th Venice Biennale; Cheim & Read and Franklin Parrasch galleries in New York\, among many other venues. In 2011\, a retrospective of her work was exhibited at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York. She has taught at the School of Visual Arts\, the University of Arizona\, Yale University\, Princeton University and the California Institute of the Arts\, among other schools. Benglis lives and works in New York. \nHarry Dodge is an artist living and working in Los Angeles who makes shows that include video\, performance\, sculpture\, and drawing. In the early 90s\, Dodge was one of the founders of the now-legendary San Francisco community-based performance space\, The Bearded Lady\, which served as a gathering point for a pioneering\, polysexual\, queer literary and arts scene. In the latter part of 90s\, Dodge wrote\, directed\, edited and starred in (with Silas Howard) a narrative feature film\, By Hook or By Crook\, which premiered at the Sundance Festival in 2002\, and went on to become a cult classic\, garnering five Best Feature awards at various film festivals. Dodge also performed in the 2000 John Waters film\, Cecil B. Demented. Dodge has shown solo and collaborative work at venues including the 2008 Whitney Biennial; the Getty Museum\, Los Angeles; the Hammer Museum\, Los Angeles; PS 1\, Contemporary Art Center; Elizabeth Dee Gallery\, New York; and Wallspace Gallery\, New York\, among many others\, and has work in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art\, New York. Recent activities include a forthcoming book of drawings and a feature-length video\, Camp Is A Tender Feeling (2013). \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/dirty-looks-on-location-at-the-bureau-lynda-benglis-harry-dodge/
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:20130713T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130713T220000
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SUMMARY:Queer Film Summer Camp: Jarman's Sebastiane\, Presented by Genesis Breyer P-Orridge
DESCRIPTION:Genesis Breyer P-Orridge will introduce Derek Jarman‘s Sebastiane (1976)\, the second film in the Queer Film Summer Camp series\, presented by the Bureau and Peter Hargrove (see below). \nIMDB page for Sebastiane \nThe cultural engineer Genesis Breyer P-Orridge is an avant-garde anti-hero whose remarkable body of underground work reminds us that when you believe something\, artistic integrity demands that you live by it too. In 2007 h/er partner Lady Jaye BREYER dropped h/er body. Since that time Genesis continues to represent the amalgam BREYER P-ORRIDGE in the material “world” and Lady Jaye represents the amalgam BREYER P-ORRIDGE in the immaterial “world” creating an ongoing interdimensional collaboration. Their work documents the physical alterations s/he and the late Lady Jaye\, endured within their project Pandrogeny\, about re-union and re-solution of male and female to a perfecting hermaphroditic state. Genesis is one of the most rigorous and relentless agents of the postwar Anglo-American vanguard\, interrogating the meaning and substance of identity in a peerless half-century program of willful reincarnation and shape-shifting. Embracing the body as not simply the vessel but the site of the avant-garde impulse\, BREYER P-ORRIDGE has reinvented and reintroduced h/erself again and again—as Fluxus pioneer\, groundbreaking performance artist\, inventor of industrial music\, “wrecker of civilization\,” essayist and theoretician\, and\, most recently\, as pandrogyne. \nwww.genesisbreyerporridge.com \n  \nThe Bureau of General Services—Queer Division and Peter M. Hargrove\, President of Hargrove Entertainment\, Inc.\, proudly present Queer Film Summer Camp\, a series devoted to queer films\, or films viewed queerly. Queer Film Summer Camp will take place at the Bureau on the nine consecutive Saturday evenings in July and August. An exciting array of film critics and historians along with other queer and queer-friendly NYC-based arts professionals will introduce each film with a brief lecture. \nSuggested donation of $10\nDrinks will be served at 7 PM\nThe introductory lectures will begin at 8 PM
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/queer-film-summer-camp-jarmans-sebastiane-presented-by-genesis-breyer-p-orridge/
LOCATION:NY
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130713T180000
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SUMMARY:Come out and celebrate the launch of The OUTspoken Collection!
DESCRIPTION:The OUTspoken Collection collaborates with queer artists to create products that playfully subvert the words/slander/euphemisms that coalesce into an [often-false] identity for men who have sex with men.  In short\, we undefine ourselves.\n\nOur first product is a tank top created by Minneapolis-based artist\, Joe Sinness\, based on Faggot.  The illustration is his interpretation of the traditional meaning of the word juxtaposed with its modern\, hate-filled connotation.  Sinness’s expresses multiple levels of meaning through the arrangement objects found in the word’s history and combines them with gay ephemera (flowers\, sex toys\, etc).  Also\, it looks really bad ass.\n\nWear your tank if you have one\, purchase one at www.outspokencollection.com \, or buy one at the event!\n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/outspoken/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130712T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130712T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T212644
CREATED:20130704T142040Z
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SUMMARY:Katrina del Mar - Shorts\, presented by Strange Loop Gallery
DESCRIPTION:Sweating Gasoline\, reaching for a match – Katrina del Mar \nKatrina del Mar’s defiantly queer videos offer an exuberant\, hyper-stylized sexuality\, an unapologetic feminist voice\, and often guerilla-style production tactics. \nShe uses her Lower East Side friends and lovers as punk heroines; and within her girl gang movies a world of strictly female population. \nKatrina triumphs in the underground\, revels in the grit and lathers on the beauty in these short films. \nwww.katrinadelmar.com \nOn Friday July 12th \nStrange Loop Gallery will be hosting 40 minutes of short films – event starts at 7pm \nsuggested donation $6 \n\n   
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/katrina-del-mar-shorts-presented-by-strange-loop-gallery/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130711T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130711T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T212644
CREATED:20130602T194237Z
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SUMMARY:NYC Book Launch for Thomas Glave's Among the Bloodpeople: Politics and Flesh
DESCRIPTION:Thomas Glave will read from his new book Among the Bloodpeople: Politics and Flesh (Akashic Books\, 2013). Glave will be introduced by author David McConnell\, who will moderate the discussion following the reading. \n \nThomas Glave has been admired for his unique style and exploration of taboo\, politically volatile topics. The award-winning author’s new collection\, Among the Bloodpeople\, contains all the power and daring of his earlier writing but ventures even further into the political\, the personal\, and the secret. \nEach essay in the volume reveals a passionate commitment to social justice and human truth. Whether confronting Jamaica’s prime minister on antigay bigotry\, contemplating the risks and seductions of “outlawed” sex\, exploring a world of octopuses and men performing somersaults in the Caribbean Sea\, or challenging repressive tactics employed at the University of Cambridge\, Glave expresses the observations of a global citizen with the voice of a poet. \nWith an introduction by Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa. \n“A profound compassion for racial and sexual minorities\, the oppressed\, and the colonized\, informs [Glave’s] searing\, beautifully evocative collection of essays . . . He captures the languor and seductiveness of Jamaica . . . A graceful and original stylist\, Glave highlights the marginalized—calling on the descendants of people who toiled for the Empire as slaves and colonial subjects to never forget their past\, and\, in effect\, to those who profit from that past to acknowledge their complicity. Ultimately\, his work is critical\, yet filled with generosity and compassion.”\n—Publishers Weekly\, starred review \n  \n  \n \nDavid McConnell is the author of the acclaimed novels The Silver Hearted (a finalist for Lambda and Ferro-Grumley awards) and Firebrat. His short fiction and journalism have appeared widely in magazines and anthologies\, including the Literary Review (UK)\, Granta\, and Prospect magazine (UK). He is the former cochair of the Lambda Literary Foundation\, and lives in New York City. McConnell’s most recent book is American Honor Killings: Desire and Rage Among Men (2013)\, an investigation of recent murders of gay men in the U.S. \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/nyc-book-launch-for-thomas-glaves-among-the-bloodpeople-politics-flesh/
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:20130710T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130710T210000
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CREATED:20130629T174730Z
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SUMMARY:Celebration of Annie Lanzillotto's Schistsong
DESCRIPTION:Book blast party & reading for Annie Lanzillotto‘s book of poems\, Schistsong with introduction by Rosette Imperato. Come toast the book. \nAnnie is joined by special guests: Emily Kunkel\, Rose Imperato on Sax. \nMembers of Annie’s class\, LITERARY OUTLAWS FOR LIBERATION\, will also read. \nALL WELCOME\nBRING YOUR FRIENDS\nWE WILL SING AND DANCE \nL IS FOR LION\nand\nSCHISTONG\nwill be available \n  \n  \nSCHISTSONG \nby Annie Rachele Lanzillotto \nAn urban songline of New York. From the author\nof the memoir L is for Lion\, comes a panegyric of\nthe geology of Manhattan. ese poems glitter.\nManhattan schist is rendered as a template for the\nskyline and characters of New York. Grit and stardust\ncollide in this debut collection of poetry and song.\ne book begins with the bright re ective quality of\nMica and ends with the gentri ed vision of the city\nwhere “New York is nine millions doors\, and you have\nnot one key.” In between are stories of urban icons:\niceman\, sh peddler\, heart butcher\, meter maid\, San\nGennaro\, the magic of grandmothers’ hands\, the\nvision of the oldest living tree in the city\, immigrants\nwho fell out windows and died in explosions\, Italian\nphrases that link the essence of the sun to a rose to a\nheart\, crushed tomatoes\, sunsets\, supermarkets\, the\nglory of hot tar\, the lessons of marines and lesbians.\nYou will learn history and geology\, Italian American\nheroes\, and spiritual imperatives\, through the syllables\nof this one poet’s soul. \n  \n“Stunning in its originality\, Annie Lanzillotto’s poetic voice is musical\, energetic\, wise\, and compassionate. In Schistsong\, Annie Lanzillotto creates a rhythmic love letter to New York with vivid\, evocative poems that showcase unforgettable people\, while encompassing history\, science\, geography\, medicine\, and geology.” \n— MARIA FAMÀ\, Author of Mystics in the Family\, and Looking For Cover \n  \n“Schistsong\, Annie Lanzillotto’s astounding collection of poems is big and dense and speaks in a New York accent forged in the bedrock that predates the history of this great city\, the metamorphic rock that is older than New York\, older than Italy\, many millions of years old. ‘Find your inner schist\,’ your bedrock\, this poet urges. Sprinkled with liberal handfuls of shiny mica\, these poems are meant to kick and stomp and make sure you know they’re here. They come direct from the ‘heel of the boot’ as it was planted in the Bronx\, New York.” \n— ROSETTE CAPOTORTO\, Author of Popbeads\, and Bronx Italian \n  \n“A cacophony of bold urban verse\, where we hear the barking fish vendors and shaky war veterans\, the bitter iceworkers and lustful dykes looming on the docks. Lanzillotto’s witty slang cuts over the traffic\, it whistles\, sings; this is her testimony of a place and time where L’America beckons out immigrant Bronx soul windows\, where words and rhythms are constructed of that glittering truth that makes the concrete mountains of Manhattan possible –schistpoetry!” \n–TIM Z. HERNANDEZ\, American Book Award winning poet and novelist\, Author of Natural Takeover of Small Things \n  \n“Lanzillotto’s words’ skin can be tough as the leather used by immigrant shoemakers\, and ring metallically as her father’s iceman tongs. At the core of it all is the tenderness of ripe\, fresh crushed tomatoes. A seasoned performer as well as poet\, Lanzillotto’s poetry appeals to the ear as well as the eye\, intellect\, and heart. These poems\, all 15\,164 words of them\, are without a doubt among the finest I’ve ever read from any literary era.” \n–ROSEMARY PETRACCA CAPPELLO\, Poet\, Writer\, and Editor of Philadelphia Poets \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/2425/
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:20130709T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130709T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T212644
CREATED:20130602T194748Z
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SUMMARY:Book Club Meets to Discuss James Baldwin's Another Country
DESCRIPTION:Book Club meets at the Bureau to discuss James Baldwin‘s Another Country. All are welcome. Beer\, wine\, and sparkling water served\, as always. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/book-club-meets-to-discuss-james-baldwins-another-country/
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:20130707T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130707T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T212644
CREATED:20130617T172503Z
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SUMMARY:Edmund White Presents 4 Poets: Lonely\, Fitzgerald\, Nikolopoulos\, Gerevich
DESCRIPTION:Join us at the Bureau as acclaimed author Edmund White (A Boy’s Own Story) presents four of his favorite young and emerging queer poets: Lonely Christopher (Death & Disaster Series); Adam Fitzgerald (The Late Parade); Angelo Nikolopoulos (Obscenely Yours); and special guest\, all the way from Hungary\, Andras Gerevich (Tiresias’s Confession). Introductions by Edmund White. After party with dancing and revelry surely to follow at the bar Home Sweet Home (131 Chrystie Street). \n  \nLonely Christopher is a poet and filmmaker. He is the author of the short story collection The Mechanics of Homosexual Intercourse\, which was a 2011 selection of Dennis Cooper’s Little House on the Bowery imprint of Akashic Books. His forthcoming film credits include the feature length MOM\, which he wrote and directed\, and the shorts We Are Not Here\, Petit Lait\, and Life of the Misanthrope. His first poetry collection\, Death & Disaster Series\, will be released this year by Monk Books. He lives in Brooklyn. \n  \nAdam Fitzgerald’s first book of poems\, The Late Parade has just been published by Norton/Liveright. He teaches poetry at Rutgers University and Marymount College\, and is the founding editor of Maggy and Monk Books. His poems and interviews have appeared or are forthcoming in The Agricultural Reader\, Boston Review\, The Brooklyn Rail\, Poetry\, Los Angeles Review of Books and elsewhere. He lives in the East Village. \n  \nAngelo Nikolopoulos‘ first book of poems is Obscenely Yours\, winner of the 2011 Kinereth Gensler Award (Alice James Books 2013). His poems have appeared in Best American Poetry 2012\, Best New Poets 2011\, Boston Review\, Fence\, The Los Angeles Review\, The New York Quarterly\, Tin House\, and elsewhere. He is a winner of the 2011 “Discovery” / Boston Review Poetry Contest and the founder of the White Swallow Reading Series in Manhattan. He teaches at Rutgers University\, New Brunswick and lives in New York City. \n  \nAndras Gerevich was born in Budapest\, Hungary in 1976. He is just finishing his fourth book of poems in his native Hungarian\, due out this fall. A book of his poetry in English translation\, Tiresias’s Confession\, came out in 2008. He has also published widely in journals and his work is translated into over a dozen languages. He has been a guest at a number of international literary and poetry festivals\, and several artists’ residencies\, including the legendary Yaddo in New York and the Akademie Solitude in Germany. Besides writing poetry Gerevich scripted several prize-winning short animations produced in the UK\, and his plays were performed in Budapest and read in London. He also published essays and stories\, and translated a number of English-speaking poets into Hungarian\, including Seamus Heaney and Frank O’Hara\, and a book by the filmmaker David Lynch. He was editor for two literary journals: Kalligram in Budapest and Chroma in London\, an assistant producer for the radio program Poetry by Post for the BBC World Sevice\, and was also the President of the József Attila Kör\, the Hungarian young writers’ association from 2006 for a three year term. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/edmund-white-presents-4-poets-lonely-fitzgerald-nikolopoulos-gerevich/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:Queer Film Summer Camp: Pasolini's Salò\, Presented by Newton
DESCRIPTION:The Bureau of General Services—Queer Division and Peter M. Hargrove\, President of Hargrove Entertainment\, Inc.\, proudly present Queer Film Summer Camp\, a series devoted to queer films or films viewed queerly.  Queer Film Summer Camp will take place at the Bureau on eight Saturday evenings in July and August. An exciting array of film critics and historians along with other queer and queer-friendly NYC-based arts professionals will introduce each film with a brief lecture. \nTo open the series we will present Pier Paolo Pasolini‘s Salò\, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975). Greg Newton\, the Bureau’s Minister of Propaganda\, will introduce the film. \nSuggested donation of $10\nDrinks will be served at 7 PM\nThe introductory lectures will begin at 8 PM \nLink to IMDB page on Salò \nGreg Newton recently abandoned a dismal career in academia to co-found\, with his partner Donnie Jochum\, the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division\, where he serves as Minister of Propaganda.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/queer-film-summer-camp-pasolinis-salo-presented-by-newton/
LOCATION:NY
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SUMMARY:Queer Division VI: Cecilia Corrigan\, Evan Kennedy\, CAConrad
DESCRIPTION:Andrew Durbin presents: \nQueer Division VI: Cecilia Corrigan\, Evan Kennedy\, CAConradCAConrad is the son of white trash asphyxiation whose childhood included selling cut flowers along the highway for his mother and helping her shoplift. He has five full-length poetry collections\, the most recent is A Beautiful Marsupial Afternoon (Wave Books\, 2012). The Book of Frank (Wave Books) has been translated into German\, Spanish\, and most recently Swedish. He is a 2011 Pew Fellow\, a 2013 Banff Fellow\, a 2013 MacDowell Fellow\, and a 2012 and 2013 visiting faculty member for the Summer Writing Program of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University. You can find his poems here. \nEvan Kennedy is a poet and bicyclist who lives in San Francisco. He is the author of Shoo-Ins to Ruin (Gold Wake Press) and Us Them Poems (BookThug). Terra Firmament is forthcoming from Krupskaya. \n  \nCecilia Corrigan lives in New York. Her first book Titanic was awarded the Plonsker Prize\, and will be published by &Now Books in 2014. Her current research interests include Alan Turing\, immaturity\, Ludwig Wittgenstein’s adolescence\, Alice James\, Buffy the Vampire Slayer\, and therapeutic cosmetics. Her work has appeared in The Journal\, Death and Life of American Cities\, O’Clock Press\, The Awl\, The Nicola Midnight St. Claire\, Glitterpony\, and Emergency Index. She wrote for HBO’s show Luck. \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/queer-division-vi-cecilia-corrigan-evan-kennedy-caconrad/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:SHIT HITS FAN
DESCRIPTION:SHIT HITS FAN\n44 years ago shit hit the fan when the patrons of the Stonewall Inn resisted the police harrassment that had been routine up until that point. Come join the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division and Shane Shane in celebration of this historic moment of resistance! \nFeaturing: \nJanTina \nGabe Gonzalez \nDJ Timothy Allen Living \nMax Steele \nShane Shane \n \nJanTina is a Singer/Song writer\, Spoken Word Artist & Burlesque Preformer. With a Master’s in Fine Art’s Jantina uses her gift of poetics coupled with burlesque to illuminate the world of Exotic dance. She performs for you tonight an excerpt from her semi autobiographical graduate thesis turned Off Broadway Musical “Silhouettes”. \n  \nPhotograph by Amos Mac\nMax Steele is a performer and writer. He has presented work at the New Museum\, Rapture Cafe\, Deitch Projects\, Envoy Enterprises\, and the Queens Museum of Art. He writes the psychedelic porno poetry zine Scorcher\, and is an Artist in Residence at Brooklyn Arts Exchange. \n  \n\nDJ TIMOTHY ALLEN LIVING is a Brooklyn-based DJ behind the decks at Shane Shane’s FANCY\, as well as dancefloors\, bars\, and living rooms across NYC. He loves mixtapes\, twelve inch vinyl\, and early house music. \n  \n \nGabe Gonzalez is a filmmaker\, performer\, and writer currently living Brooklyn\, where he excels at smoking\, growing facial hair\, and looking like he’s over it. On weekdays he works as an editor and videographer for a porn company\, and in his free time collaborates on comedy sketches with a couple of NY-based groups. Before moving to NYC\, he spent some time studying at The Second City in Chicago and tripping balls with Radical Faeries in Oregon. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/shit-hits-fan/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:Readings by contributors to Our Naked Lives: Essays from Gay Italian American Men
DESCRIPTION:Confirmed readers: Michael Carosone\, George de Stefano\, Joseph Anthony LoGiudice\, and Michael Luongo. \nAdditional readers to be announced \nComplete list of contributors to Our Naked Lives: Essays from Gay Italian American Men: \nMichael Carosone\, Editor\nJohn D’Emilio\nCharles Derry\nGeorge De Stefano\nJoseph A. Federico\nJoseph Anthony LoGiudice\, Editor\nMichael Luongo\nDavid Masello\nTommi Avicolli Mecca\nJoe Oppedisano\nFelice Picano\nFrank Anthony Polito\nMichael Schiavi\nFrank Spinelli\nTony Tripoli \n“The best of these essays are filled with a warmth\, humor\, and vitality I associate with the Italian spirit.  Although they express the difficulty gay men have had in reconciling their sexuality with the Italian American identity\, they testify over and over again to how familial love ultimately trumps the prejudices of religion and the tyranny of tradition.  The embrace of family bonds may be slow in coming\, but all the more passionate for the wait.” \n–David Bergman\, Author of Gay American Autobiography: Writings from Whitman to Sedaris\, and Professor of English\, Towson State University \n  \n“Gay Italian-American voices have often been marginalized\, but here they’re assembled in all their passion\, humor\, poignancy\, and personal vision. Mangia!” \n–Michael Musto\, Columnist for The Village Voice \n  \n“An amazing collection of essays that finally addresses an experience so many of us share. Evocative\, moving\, and entertaining\, Our Naked Lives brings forth the stories of so many of us who’ve often felt left out in gay culture as well as in Italian-American culture\, while simultaneously celebrating the richness of both.” \n–Michelangelo Signorile\, Editor-at-Large of The Huffington Post Gay Voices and SiriusXM Radio Host \n  \n“Our Naked Lives made me laugh and cry\, sometimes at the same time. The essays include history\, humor\, religion; they are memoirs infused with poetry. These stories are poignant\, timeless\, and brutally honest. An enjoyable read and a welcomed addition to Italian American Studies and the LGBTQI community.” \n–Teri Ann Bengiveno\, Professor of History and Women’s Studies\, Las Positas College \n  \n“In a community where queerness is celebrated and bonds have often been enhanced by choice of friendship rather than by birth and blood\, cultural heritage has been woefully overlooked. The men of Our Naked Lives come out as loud and proud—of their identification as gay and Italian American. This collection of essays and reflections shows the strength and beauty of our family trees\, whose stubborn roots push beyond the paved path and reach up to wave flags of their own.  We’d be remiss not to take notice and pay homage\, no matter our own orientation or origin.” \n–Bryan Borland\, Editor of Assaracus: A Journal of Gay Poetry \n  \n“Editors Joseph Anthony LoGiudice and Michael Carosone have put together an extraordinary collection of essays on what it’s like to grow up and live one’s life proudly as Italian American and gay.  The two present\, through their own moving stories and the stories of the other talented men who contributed to this volume\, a fascinating glimpse into the households of Italian American families.  This book should be on everyone’s priority reading list\, including members of the LGBT community and the leaders and members of the National Italian American Foundation.” \n–Lou Chibbaro Jr.\, Senior News Reporter of The Washington Blade \n  \n“What a gift these essays are!  They range widely from the most desperate moments of a gay child’s life to the exhilaration of finding the courage and the community to live freely and expansively.  As an Italian American woman\, I found many pieces of myself in these stories\, and they tell me clearly\, with grace\, anger\, and generosity those necessary stories that nobody was supposed to know.  The writers are\, as Ginsberg said of Whitman\, ‘courage teachers.’  May they be widely read!” \n–Geraldine DeLuca\, Writer and Editor of Dialogue on Writing\, and Professor Emerita of English\, Brooklyn College \n  \n“Our Naked Lives moved me with a sense of immediacy while harkening back to the writing of the late Robert Ferro.  Reminiscences by several generations of Italian-American gay men are evocative as the memory of my Aunt Angie’s calamari; yet\, authors do not airbrush struggles for identity\, acceptance\, and love. The essays illuminate\, inform\, and challenge the reader and eschew stereotypes.  Reflections on intersections of gender\, class\, and ethnicity make this collection a must-read for gender and ethnic studies courses.” \n–Mark Gianino\, Clinical Associate Professor\, Boston University School of Social Work \n  \n“These essays do not shy away from tough topics like sexual orientation or racial prejudice in the United States. These voices can be heard throughout all of the pieces\, always present\, always narrating. These are accurate portrayals of what it means to be a cross-section of Italian-American and gay. You hold in your hands a book written by experts. Read it with the knowledge that you will know more today than you did yesterday.” \n–Shaun Knittel\, Associate Editor of Seattle Gay News  \n  \n“The notion of what ‘pride’ means in the 21st century\, and all of the challenges\, complexities\, and possibilities that come with our individual and collective journeys towards it have been exponentially expanded with the publication of these beautiful essays. Our Naked Lives reveals the rich\, diverse identities and experiences of gay Italian-American men\, which\, until now\, have remained almost entirely unknown to the rest of the world.” \n–Noah Michelson\, Editor of The Huffington Post Gay Voices \n  \n“If you are looking for a singular voice in Our Naked Lives\, you might be disappointed. The stories feel connected\, by themes of family\, religion\, class\, and behavior\, but like stories of any community\, things are never simple. Contradictions abound and memories vary. For one storyteller\, a stereotypical Italian male persona is an impossible model to follow; another finds comfort behind a peacock image. One writer finds some traditions smothering\, while another wades through the madding crowd of holidays and family to focus on one person\, as one writer tells us\, a grandmother\, for inspiration and humanity. This collection is like that good grandmother\, who understands the value of certain traditions\, while recognizing that all members of our family must be free.”\n–Louis Pizzitola\, author of Hearst Over Hollywood \n  \n“From Florida to Philly\, from Rome to Bensonhurst\, gay Italian-American writers share their collective experiences to find acceptance with their families and for themselves. While their journeys may differ\, a common bond remains\, forged from heartache and loss\, defiance and love.”\n–Jim Provenzano\, author of the Lambda Literary Award winner Every Time I Think of You \n  \n“This eclectic collection of 14 essays chronicle the navigation of Gay and Italian American identities.  The comings out of these Gay Italian American men\, in all their shapes and sizes\, vividly show the urgency of challenging that long held Italian American belief in what Carosone calls ‘the transformative powers of omerta.’” \n–Paul Schindler\, Editor-in-Chief of Gay City News \n  \n“Our Naked Lives is among the most moving books I have read.  You don’t have to be Italian American\, Catholic\, formerly Catholic\, gay\, or gay-friendly to appreciate this important gem.  Soul-baring\, brave\, and honest\, these gay Italian American men’s stories will resonate with anyone who has ever felt diminished\, ostracized\, marginalized\, humiliated\, embarrassed or ‘other’ simply for being who he was born to be.  Out of the closet and into the classroom\, Our Naked Lives should be required reading in myriad Queer and Ethnic Studies programs.  Thank you\, gentlemen!  You brought me tears of laughter.  You brought me tears of pain.  Basta cosi.  May Our Naked Lives help bring us to a time when no one needs to cry.” \n–Karen Tintori\, author of Unto the Daughters: The Legacy of an Honor Killing in a Sicilian American Family\, St. Martin’s Press \n  \n   \nMichael Carosone is a writer\, a poet\, an adjunct professor and librarian\, and an activist for gay rights\, human rights\, animal rights\, and environmental rights.  He has published poems in Gay City Volume 1\, Gay City Volume 2\, Gay City Volume 3\, and Avanti Popolo: Italian American Writers Sail Beyond Columbus; essays in White Crane\, Strangers to These Shores\, and various anthologies; and articles in Gay City News and The Huffington Post.  He was awarded the Editors’ Poetry Prize for his published work in Gay City Volume 2.  He has given readings and discussions\, and presented papers at conferences.  Michael earned a Bachelor of Arts degree and a Master of Arts degree in English\, Master of Science degree in Education\, and a Master of Science degree in Library and Information Sciences.  He is pursuing his Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) degree in English Education at Teachers College of Columbia University\, and his dissertation will focus on incorporating marginalized literatures and writers—Queer and Italian American—into the English classroom\, in grades K-12 and at the college level.  Michael’s primary interest is studying\, researching\, and writing about marginalized literatures\, voices\, and peoples.  Born and raised in Brooklyn\, New York\, he now lives in the Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan\, with his partner\, Joseph LoGiudice.  For more information on Michael\, please visit his Web site: michaelcarosone.com. \n  \n \nGeorge de Stefano is a New York-based writer specializing in culture\, politics and sexuality. He is the author of An Offer We Can’t Refuse: The Mafia in the Mind of America\, and a contributing author to the collections Mafia Movies: A Reader and The Essential Sopranos Reader.  His writing on gay issues has appeared in The Advocate\, The Nation\, The Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide\, and Gay City News.  He writes features and criticism for online and print publications\, including music and arts criticism for PopMatters and Rootsworld\, book reviews for The New York Journal of Books\, and features\, reviews\, and op-eds for I-Italy and The Italian American Review. \n  \n \nJoseph Anthony LoGiudice\, L.M.S.W.\, is a social worker\, writer\, and an educator.  He is the Senior Consultant of Reasonable Accommodations at the New York City Human Resources Administration/Department of Social Services\, where he trains and consults on disability law\, and determines reasonable accommodations for clients.  He is an adjunct lecturer of social work at New York University’s (NYU) Silver School of Social Work and Touro College’s Graduate School of Social Work\, where he teaches courses on social work policy.  Joseph’s scholarly interests include the intersection of disability and Lesbian\, Gay\, Bisexual\, Transgender\, and Queer (LGBTQ) policies and practices\, and he has presented on these interests at various conferences.  An essay he has written\, “Achievement Motivation of College Students with Disabilities: Implications for Policy and Practice\,” is being published in a textbook on social work policy and practice.  Joseph is a committee member on the Council on Social Work Education’s Council on Disability and Persons with Disabilities. He is a doctoral student at The City University of New York’s Graduate Center\, where he studies and researches issues ranging from the implementation of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)\, mental health policy\, and gay men’s issues.  Joseph received a Master of Social Work degree from NYU’s Silver School of Social Work\, and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Columbia University.  He aspires to become a life-long advocate for those individuals without a “voice” by writing\, presenting\, and teaching about their lives.  He lives with his partner\, Michael Carosone\, in New York City\, and loves his New York City life—a place saturated with eccentric\, witty\, and interesting people. \n  \n  \n \nMichael Luongo is a New York City based freelance writer\, editor and photographer.  His writing and/or photography have appeared in National Geographic Traveler\, Frommer’s Budget Travel\, The New York Times\, The Advocate\, Conde Nast Traveler\, Town & Country Travel\, The Chicago Tribune\, Bloomberg News\, Gay City News\, Out Traveler\, Ambassador Magazine\, and the publication of the National Italian American Foundation.  He co-edited Continuum Press’s 2002 Gay Tourism: Culture\, Identity and Sex.  He was the Senior Editor for Haworth’s Out in the World\, a gay travel literature collection.  His Haworth books include Looking for Love in Faraway Places and Gay Travels in The Muslim World.  His 2007 Alyson novel\, The Voyeur\, is fiction but is based on his several years experience in the HIV prevention and sex research field both in the United States and the United Kingdom. \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/readings-by-contributors-to-our-naked-lives-essays-from-gay-italian-american-men/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:Simon Jacobs\, Basil Papademos\, and Eric Sasson Read at the Bureau
DESCRIPTION:Simon Jacobs is a young writer from Ohio. He curates the Safety Pin Review\, a wearable medium for work of fewer than 30 words\, and his writing has appeared in Weave\, Paper Darts\, Steampunk Magazine\, and The Norton Anthology of Jealous Ass Bitches. \n  \n \nBorn in Toronto in 1957\, Basil Papademos has lived in Montreal\, London\, Athens\, Istanbul\, Vancouver\, New York and Los Angeles. He currently resides in Bangkok. After more than twenty-five years as a narcotics addict and drug retailer\, occasional sex worker and sometime procurer\, Basil went to Thailand in 2011 to clean up and finish writing his novel\, Mount Royal: There’s Nothing Harder Than Love. \nThe treatment worked. He is currently completing his next novel\, How To F*ck Your Psychiatrist\, coming out in the fall of 2013. Basil is a regular contributor to Sabotage Times\, Modern ViewPoint magazine and Open Book Toronto. \n  \n \nEric Sasson writes “Ctrl-Alt\,” a column on alternative culture for the Wall Street Journal. His short story collection\, Margins of Tolerance\, was the 2011 Tartt First Fiction Award runner-up and was published by Livingston Press in May 2012. His stories have been nominated for the Robert Olen Butler prize\, the Pushcart prize\, and one is in The Best Gay Stories 2013. Other recent publication credits include pieces in The New Republic\, Independent Ink. Explosion Proof\, Connotation Press\, BLOOM\, Nashville Review\, The Puritan\, Liquid Imagination\, and THE2NDHAND\, among others. In 2012 he was awarded a Tennessee Williams scholarship to the Sewanee Writers Conference as well as residency fellowships to Ragdale and the Hambidge Center. He received his MA in Creative Writing from NYU and has taught fiction writing at the Sackett Street Writers Workshop in Brooklyn\, where he was born\, bred\, and still resides.\n \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/simon-jacobs-basil-papademos-and-eric-sasson-read-at-the-bureau/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:Randy L. Schmidt on Karen Carpenter’s life and work
DESCRIPTION:Randy L. Schmidt is the author of Little Girl Blue: The Life of Karen Carpenter  (2010) and the editor of Yesterday Once More: The Carpenters Reader (2012)\, both published by Chicago Review Press. Schmidt will read from both books and discuss Karen Carpenter’s life and work. \n \nSchmidt served as creative consultant for several television documentaries on the Carpenters\, including those for E! True Hollywood Story\, A&E’s Biography and VH1’s Behind the Music. He is also a music educator. Schmidt lives near Dallas\,Texas. \nRead Schmidt’s article on Karen Carpenter in The Advocate\, “Karen Carpenter: Unlikely Gay Icon.” This article was published this past February on the 30th anniversary of her 1983 death from anorexia nervosa. \nJoining Schmidt for this special evening of music and memories will be Mary Edwards\, a composer\, musician\, arranger\, producer and sound artist whose projects range from recordings “evocative of epic cinematic soundtracks combined with lyrical intimacy…” (Time Out NY)\, to ambient installations—sound as a spatial form—that create nature\, architecture and cinema for the ear. More info: https://maryedwardsmusic.com/ \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/randy-l-schmidt-on-karen-carpenters-life-and-work/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:Pride by Papercut
DESCRIPTION:In celebration of NYC Pride\, Papercut Press presents an evening of readings\, performances\, and visual art by some of our favorite queer artists and authors. The event will be moderated by Papercut author m. craig. \n\n  \n\nRami Shamir is the author of TRAIN TO POKIPSE and the co-founding editor of Underground Editions. A former Zuccotti Park Occupier with Occupy Wall Street\, Shamir’s writings have appeared in Adbuster’s\, Evergreen Review\, and The Brooklyn Rail. TRAIN TO POKIPSE was the last editorial project for legendary publisher Barney Rosset\, who said “TRAIN TO POKIPSE is a Catcher in the Rye for the new century\, and Rami Shamir is an authentic literary voice for a new lost generation.” Shamir has just concluded a thirty-city\, indie-books distro tour with fellow indie author m. craig. He is a recipient of the 2013 Acker Award for fiction.\n  \n\nJASON NAPOLI BROOKS‘ fiction and essays have appeared in various publications\, including Ninth Letter\, H.O.W.\, El Pais\, and Asymptote. An excerpt of his novel Shelter was the recipient of the The Chapbook Award for Best Fiction of 2007. He is also the author of the internationally-distributed serial Cock of the Walk. In September 2013 Brooks’ play Women at the End of the World\, starring Parker Posey and John Cameron Mitchell\, will debut in Provincetown.\n\n  \n \n\nBuzz Slutzky is a Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary artist\, writer\, and curator. Buzz primarily integrates drawing\, poetry\, and video art with themes of identity\, social interaction\, voyeurism\, and gender performance. A former Curator of the Pop-Up Museum of Queer History\, Buzz currently work as Program Assistant at Laurie M. Tisch Gallery at the JCC Manhattan and will be studying at Parsons in the MFA Fine Arts program. A graduate of Sarah Lawrence College\, Buzz’s work has been shown at La Mama’s SQUIRTS: New Voices in Queer Performance\, The MIX NYC Queer Experimental Film Festival\, Dixon Place\, and Ed. Varie Gallery. Their projects have been written about by Artforum.com\, The Huffington Post\, TimeOut NY\, and NEXT Magazine. Buzz’s collaboration with LJ Roberts The Queer Houses of Brooklyn is the permanent collection of the Renwick Gallery at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.\n\n\n  \n\nSami Nichols is a Virginia-raised\, guitar strumming vagabond who takes inspiration from blues and hip hop to tell stories in song.\n\n\n \n  \nVisual art by: \n\n  \nGiancarlo Corbacho\n\n  \n\n\nNajva Sol\n\n  \n\nGizelle Peters
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/pride-by-papercut/
LOCATION:NY
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SUMMARY:Str8 Boy Div: Schluter\, Kaplan\, Card
DESCRIPTION:Andrew Durbin presents: \nStr8 Boy Div: Schluter\, Kaplan\, Card \n  \n \nKit Schluter is translator of works by Pierre Alferi\, Danielle Collobert\, Gherasim Luca\, Claudio Parmiggiani\, Jaime Saenz\, Marcel Schwob\, and Amandine André\, whom he is translating in collaboration with Jocelyn Spaar. Recent poems of his own are in or forthcoming in Death & Life of Great American Cities\, Interrupture\, Sun’s Skeleton\, and Boston Review. With the Philadelphia poet Andrew Dieck\, he co-edits O’clock Press and its review of writtens\, CLOCK (.pdf’s 0.00 USD @ www.oclockpress.com). \n  \n \nJosef Kaplan is the author of Democracy Is Not for the People (Truck Books\, 2012). \n  \n \nMacgregor Card is the author of Duties of an English Foreign Secretary\, which won the 2009 Fence Modern Poet Series\, and The Archers. From 1997-2005 he co-edited The Germ: A Journal of Poetic Research with Andrew Maxwell. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/str8-boy-div-schluter-kaplan-card/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:NYC Book Launch of The Martin Duberman Reader
DESCRIPTION:Martin Duberman will read from The Martin Duberman Reader\, and he will answer questions from the audience. \nThe Martin Duberman Reader: The Essential Historical\, Biographical\, and Autobiographical Writings (The New Press\, May 2013) chronicles Duberman’s great works: his historical writings\, from the Northern response to slavery to the Stonewall Riots; biographical work such as his writings on Howard Zinn; memoirs on topics such as life in the theatre to the AIDS epidemic; and political and activism issues ranging from the development of gay rights in the United States to American affairs with Cuba. The collection is rich and resonating\, an invaluable piece for any who want expert insight into some of the most tumultuous and crucial social reforms of our time. \nIn the dawn of monumental reforms for gay rights in America and across the world\, Duberman’s meditations have never been more relevant. Artfully written and wonderfully accessible\, The Martin Duberman Reader will appeal to loyal readers as well as those experiencing his work for the first time. \n  \n\nMartin Duberman is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History at the CUNY Graduate School\, where he founded and for a decade directed the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies. The author of more than twenty books\, Duberman has won a Bancroft Prize and been a finalist for both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. He lives in New York City.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/martin-duberman-presents-the-martin-duberman-reader/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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