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SUMMARY:Opening Reception for It Will End in Tears. Charlie Welch
DESCRIPTION:The Bureau is proud to present It will end in tears.\, a solo exhibition of collages by Charlie Welch. \nIt will end in tears. will be on view at the Bureau from February 10 through April 9\, 2023. \nCharlie will host a collage party at the Bureau on Saturday\, March 11th. Details forthcoming.\n  \nArtist’s statement:\n  \n“The collages included in It Will End in Tears. began as meditations\, typically created first thing in the morning. I have multiple sources that I use for references\, as well as many folders of images that I’ve been saving for many years. One day I started playing with layering and cropping of images in order to tell different stories\, unrelated to their original contexts\, and usually those stories are about desire.”\n  \nCharlie Welch received a BFA\, with a focus on photography\, from Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design in Los Angeles in 1989. After graduating he moved to New York where he worked as a photo assistant for Josef Astor and David Seidner. In 1994 he began working in window displays at Barneys\, Bergdorf Goodman and Ralph Lauren. In 1998 he began assisting as a prop stylist and set designer and went solo three years later. In 2006 he moved to Barcelona to continue his art studies at Metàfora International Workshop focusing on sculpture\, installation and public intervention. At the end of 2008 he returned to New York and resumed working as a prop stylist\, set designer and photographer\, while also putting more focus on his personal work. \nHis experience from commercial work comes into play with his fine art. Photography is his main medium\, but he also incorporates sculpture and collage. Constructed environments and playful sets are signatures of his work\, which conveys narratives about identity formation\, public and private selves\, and how we navigate daily life. \nCharlie is a co-founder of the NY Queer Zine Fair and co-organizer from 2015-2018. He also was part of the Queer Action Figures collective (1994-96) and one half of KNOWSGAY\, along with Paul Anthony Moreno. Charlie’s projects include short films\, collage\, photography\, limited edition stickers\, t-shirts\, posters\, objects and zines. He draws his inspiration from dirty sailors\, fancy desserts and sad pop songs.  \nHe is also an award-winning pie baker. \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/it-will-end-in-tears-charlie-welch-opening/
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SUMMARY:CELEBRATING OLD\, QUEER & KICKING! (in person event & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:Jonathan Ned Katz talks about his art & history\, work & life. \nFor his 85th birthday\, historian\, and visual artist Jonathan Ned Katz celebrates old queers. \nThis event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division\, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center\, 208 W. 13th St.\, NYC\, 10011. \nRegistration is not required. Seating is first come\, first served. \nAlso live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel \n  \nSuggested donation $10 to benefit the Bureau’s work. \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without donation. \nWe will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event\, but we can also take credit card donations at the register or on Venmo @bgsqd. \n  \nJonathan Ned Katz is a historian activist\, and visual artist. He has published five books on the history of sexuality and intimacy\, most recently The Daring Life and Dangerous Times of Eve Adams (2021). He founded the free US LGBTQ public history website OutHistory.org (2008). In 2013 a solo exhibit of Katz’ visual art was held at the Leslie-Lohman Museum\, NYC and Katz published a memoir\, Coming of Age in Greenwich Village. That show was curated by Jonathan David Katz (no relation).
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Sexuality Beyond Consent by Avgi Saketopoulou (in person event & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:Join queer and feminist psychoanalyst Avgi Saketopoulou on Wednesday\, Feb. 8th at 7:00pm (ET) for the launch of her new book\, SEXUALITY BEYOND CONSENT. Avgi Saketopoulou will be in conversation with professor Joshua Takano Chambers-Letson. The event will consist of a reading\, discussion\, Q&A\, and signing\, followed by a short reception with food and drink.  \nAbout SEXUALITY BEYOND CONSENT:  \nArguing that we have become culturally obsessed with healing trauma\, Sexuality Beyond Consent calls attention to what traumatized subjects do with their pain. The erotics of racism offers a paradigmatic example of how what is proximal to violation may become an unexpected site of flourishing. Central to the transformational possibilities of trauma is a queer form of consent\, limit consent\, that is not about guarding the self but about risking experience. Saketopoulou thereby shows why sexualities beyond consent may be worth risking-and how risk can solicit the future.  \nMoving between clinical and cultural case studies\, Saketopoulou takes up theatrical and cinematic works such as Slave Play and The Night Porter\, to chart how trauma and sexuality join forces to surge through the aesthetic domain. Putting the psychoanalytic theory of Jean Laplanche in conversation with queer of color critique\, performance studies\, and philosophy\, Sexuality Beyond Consent proposes that enduring the strange in ourselves\, not to master trauma but to rub up against it\, can open us up to encounters with opacity. The book concludes by theorizing currents of sadism that\, when pursued ethically\, can animate unique forms of interpersonal and social care. \nCopies of Sexuality Beyond Consent  will be available for purchase at the event. \nYou can also pre-order the book from our online store: \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us!  \nThis event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division\, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center\, 208 W. 13th St.\, NYC\, 10011. \nRegistration is not required. Seating is first come\, first served. \nAlso live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel \n  \nSuggested donation $10 to benefit the Bureau’s work. \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without donation. \nWe will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event\, but we can also take credit card donations at the register or on Venmo @bgsqd. \n  \nDr. Avgi Saketopoulou (she/her) is an award-winning psychoanalyst living and working in NYC. She is a member of the faculty of NYU’s Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. Her interview on relational psychoanalysis is part of the permanent collection of the Freud Museum in Vienna and in 2021\, she co-chaired the first US-based conference dedicated to the work of Jean Laplanche.  \nJoshua Takano Chambers-Letson (he/him) is Associate Professor of Performance Studies at Northwestern University\, author of “After the Party: A Manifesto for Queer of Color Life” (2018)\, and co-editor of the “Sexual Cultures Series\,” NYU Press.
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SUMMARY:Satanic Panic Book Launch (in person and live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Sunday\, February 5th\, at 3 pm\, the final day of Catalina Schliebener Muñoz‘s exhibition at the Bureau\, Satanic Panic\, for the launch of their book on the Satanic Panic series. \nCata will be joined in conversation by artist and activist Avram Finkelstein. \nThis series references the moral panic that originated in the US in the 1980s\, spreading through many parts of the world in the late 1990s\, including their home country of Chile. This collective hysteria drew on cold war mythologies\, misogynist ideas surrounding care work\, racist tropes about outsiders\, and conservative responses to the AIDS crisis. As a queer\, brown\, South American immigrant living in the US and working in the field of early childhood education\, Schliebener Muñoz is particularly interested in the fact that many of those accused of crimes tied to this moral panic were queer and/or BIPOC childcare workers. \nThe Satanic Panic series comprises two primary types of work: large-format collages/murals\, and installations of juxtaposed objects such as porcelain figurines and articulated plastic characters from different Disney/Pixar movies. The collages combine fragments of Disney books published in the 1990s with portions of pedagogical books created in the 1960s and 70s. Questions raised by the work center how the activities and games outlined in these books replicate the gender\, sexuality\, race\, and class stereotypes of the adult world\, and how those interact with the equally regulated fantasy world of Disney. In this series\, Schliebener Muñoz explores the possibility of creating third images that in a subtle way bring all the narratives depicted in the original material into question. \n  \nTo reserve a copy of the book ($25)\, please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com. \nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us! \n  \nThis event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division\, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center\, 208 W. 13th St.\, NYC\, 10011. \nRegistration is not required. Seating is first come\, first served. \nWatch a live-stream of the event at youtube.com/@bgsqd \n  \nSuggested donation $10 to benefit the Bureau’s work. \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without donation. \nWe will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event\, but we can also take credit card donations at the register or on Venmo @bgsqd. \n  \n \nThe exhibition Satanic Panic was made possible through a Visual Grant from the Café Royal Cultural Foundation. \n  \n  \n  \nCatalina Schliebener Muñoz\, is a Sudamerican\, Chilean-born visual artist who works primarily with collage\, installation\, and murals. Their work draws on images\, objects\, and narratives associated with childhood and explores gender\, sexuality\, and class. Their work has been exhibited in Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (Santiago\, Chile)\, Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art (New York\, NY)\, Bronx Museum of the Arts (New York\, NY)\, Children’s Museum of Manhattan (New York\, NY)\, Boston Center for the Arts (Boston\, MA)\, Centro Cultural de España (Santiago\, Chile)\, Centro Cultural Recoleta (Buenos Aires\, Argentina)\, Center for Books Arts (New York\, NY)\, Catalyst Arts (Belfast\, Northern Ireland)\, Tiger Strikes Asteroid (Brooklyn\, NY)\, Hache Galería (Buenos Aires\, Argentina)\, Galería Jardín Oculto (Buenos Aires\, Argentina)\, Galería Metropolitana (Santiago\, Chile)\, and Bureau of General Services—Queer Division (New York\, NY)\, among others. A recipient of multiple FONDART Grants (Cultural and Arts Development Fund of the Government of Chile)\, Schliebener Muñoz also received grants from DIRAC (Board of Cultural Affairs\, Ministry of Foreign Relations of Chile) and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts (New York\, NY). They also received a Queer Artist Fellowship from the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art (2017)\, and an Artist in the Marketplace (AIM) Fellowship from the Bronx Museum of the Arts (2018). \nIn addition\, Schliebener Muñoz has extensive teaching experience\, from early childhood education to undergraduate education\, on topics ranging from philosophy and art theory to art instruction in schools\, studios\, and museum settings. They are currently working as a teaching artist with the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art and The Queens Museum\, and they facilitate gender and sexuality trainings for the Early Childhood Professional Development Institute at the City University of New York (CUNY). They received a Bachelor of Philosophy and a Bachelor of Visual Arts from the Universidad de Arte y Ciencias Sociales (ARCIS; Santiago\, Chile). \n\n  \nAvram Finkelstein is a founding member of the Silence=Death and Gran Fury collectives. His work has shown at and is in the permanent collections of MoMA\, the Whitney\, the New Museum\, the Metropolitan Museum of Art\, the Victoria and Albert Museum\, and the Brooklyn Museum. He is featured in the artist oral history project at the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art\, and his book for UC Press\, After Silence: A History of AIDS Through its Images was nominated for the Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ Nonfiction\, and an International Center Of Photography Infinity Award in Critical Writing And Research. He has written for frieze\, BOMB\, OnCurating\, and Art21\, been interviewed by the New York Times\, Artforum\, NPR\, Slate\, and Interview\, and spoken at Harvard\, Yale\, Columbia\, Princeton and NYU. He is a recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant.
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: "Alice and Fay\, A Fairy Adventure" by Mare Davis (in person event)
DESCRIPTION:Author Mare Davis will be reading from her new children’s book Alice and Fay\, A Fairy Adventure. Along with the reading\, there will be a fun activity for families to share. \nFor kids ages 4 and up! \nCopies of Alice and Fay\, A Fairy Adventure will be available at the Bureau and will be available for purchase at the event.  \nYou can also purchase the book from our online store: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us! \n  \nThis event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division\, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center\, 208 W. 13th St.\, NYC\, 10011. \nSuggested donation $10 to benefit the Bureau’s work. \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without donation. \nWe will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event\, but we can also take credit card donations at the register or on Venmo @bgsqd. \nA former contributor to both Just Out Portland (Oregon’s biweekly LGBTQ newspaper) and Options (Providence’s LGBTQ monthly)\, writer Mare Davis has previously published three books of poems: Twenty-eight Days\, My Father’s House\, and Dangerous Kisses. She holds a Ph.D. in English Literature and currently teaches college composition at Johnson & Wales University. Alice and Fay\, A Fairy Adventure is her first book for children – albeit of all ages – inspired in part by her many visits to the South of France where she owns a home with a group of friends.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/book-launch-alice-and-fay-a-fairy-adventure-by-mare-davis/
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SUMMARY:Uranus Comics Reading (in person event & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:Come to our comic book anthology reading with creators Jennifer Camper\, Ivan Monforte\, Katie Fricas\, Jack Waters\, Mike Diana & Carlo Quispe. We are celebrating almost 20 years of making underground experimental comics together with the release of Uranus Comics 3: Uranus Attacks! Narratives of alien invasions\, disaster and monster scenarios reveal our deeper concerns regarding the pandemic\, ongoing colonialism and nuclear war.  \nThis event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division\, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center\, 208 W. 13th St.\, NYC\, 10011. \nRegistration is not required. Seating is first come\, first served. \nAlso live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel \n  \nCopies of Uranus Comics 3: Uranus Attacks! are available for purchase at the Bureau and can be purchased at the event. To reserve a copy\, please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com. \nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us! \n  \nSuggested donation $10 to benefit the Bureau’s work. \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without donation. \nWe will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event\, but we can also take credit card donations at the register or on Venmo @bgsqd. \n\nParticipants’ bios:\n  \nJennifer Camper’s books include “Rude Girls and Dangerous Women” and “subGURLZ”\, and she edited two “Juicy Mother” comics anthologies. Her work appears in numerous publications and she was the founding director of the Queers & Comics Conferences.\n  \nMike Diana born in Upstate New York moved to Florida with his family when young.  He was convicted in court for creating obscene material due to his handmade fanzine called Boiled Angel.\n  \nKatie Fricas is a queer cartoonist and library worker in NYC. Her first graphic novel\, Checked Out\, is forthcoming from Drawn & Quarterly in 2024.\n  \n\nIván Monforte (he/they) is a New York City-based artist who uses conceptual strategies to explore themes of race\, class\, gender\, stigma\, and the pursuit of love. They are the recipient of a UCLA Art Council Award\, a Lambent Fellowship in the Arts from the Tides Foundation\, and an Art Matters grant for research in Samoa and have participated in residencies at Sidestreet Projects\, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture\, Lower East Side Printshop\, Center for Book Arts\, and Smack Mellon.\n\n  \nCarlo Quispe is a Peruvian born\, Brooklyn based Queer cartoonist\, creator of Uranus Comics\, (originally published by Printed Matter in 2010).\n  \n\nJack Waters is an artist\, film maker\, performer\, and cofounder of Allied Productions\, Inc.’s Le Petit Versailles community garden. Follow Jack’s Pestilence Project pestilenza.tumblr.com/
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/uranus-comics-reading/
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SUMMARY:Finding Your Voice Through Self-Publishing (in person event & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:Join a conversation about self-publishing and finding your voice\, hosted by the Bureau of General Services – Queer Division. The speakers are Fashion Photographer and author of NAKNA and Face of Beauty\, Mikael Shultz; and illustrator and author of A Visual Diary\, and Jojoba\, Anthony Amiewalan. They will discuss their process of self-publishing their books\, share their respective works through reading and photo essays\, and the influence their gay identities has in their art. Darius Somers\, Pratt University professor\, and architect\, will guide the discussion\, revealing the various themes that shape the presenters’ work. \nThis event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division\, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center\, 208 W. 13th St.\, NYC\, 10011. \nRegistration is not required. Seating is first come\, first served. \nAlso live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel \n  \nSuggested donation $10 to benefit the Bureau’s work. \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without donation. \nWe will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event\, but we can also take credit card donations at the register or on Venmo @bgsqd. \n  \nBooks by Mikael Shultz and Anthony Amiewalan will be available for purchase at the event.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/finding-your-voice-through-self-publishing/
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SUMMARY:Two Novels About Complicated Friendships: Randi Triant and Ann Wadsworth (in person event & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:Join authors Randi Triant and Ann Wadsworth on Friday\, January 27th at 7 PM ET\, for a reading and conversation about their latest novels\, What We Give\, What We Take and Libretto\, two stories of complicated relationships and grief and loss around HIV/AIDS.  \nRandi Triant’s latest LGBTQ+ novel\, What We Give\, What We Take\, was selected for Parade Magazine’s “20 Best LGBTQ+ Books of 2022 We Love.” Foreword Reviews said\, “At once tender\, cruel\, sensitive\, and raw\, What We Give\, What We Take is a searing novel in which wounded people make hard decisions in order to survive.” In 1967\, Fay Stonewell\, a water tank escape artist in Florida\, leaves for Vietnam to join the Amazing Humans—a jerry-rigged carnival there to entertain the troops—abandoning her disabled teenage son\, Dickie\, to the care of an abusive boyfriend. Decades later\, Dickie is forty\, living in Massachusetts with a man who’s dying of AIDS\, and doing everything he can to escape his past.  \nIn Ann Wadsworth’s Libretto\, freelance journalist Allyn Crosbie\, whose reporting concentrates on musical theater and opera production\, arrives in central Italy in pursuit of a quick story about a new production that’s in danger of falling apart. In the ancient city of Perugia she becomes entangled with the lives of Elaine Bishop\, a brilliant but troubled stage director\, and Vincent Norrie\, a composer who’s battling a life-threatening illness. Ally joins them — and a colorful cast of local characters — in their efforts to head off the opera’s librettist\, who’s attempting to sabotage Elaine’s premiere. Although Allyn falls for Elaine\, the novel “excels at depicting the complicated love between Ally and Vincent\, two queer characters whose intimacy is vivid and authentic.” The book is “a leisurely\, moving tale of intimacy and art\, with a lovingly drawn Italian setting.” (Quotes from the starred Kirkus Review) \n  \nThis event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division\, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center\, 208 W. 13th St.\, NYC\, 10011. \nRegistration is not required. Seating is first come\, first served. \nAlso live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel \n  \nSuggested donation $10 to benefit the Bureau’s work. \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without donation. \nWe will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event\, but we can also take credit card donations at the register or on Venmo @bgsqd. \n  \nRandi Triant is the author of three LGBTQ novels\, What We Give\, What We Take\, A New Life\, and The Treehouse. Her short fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The Gay & Lesbian Review\, Art & Understanding\, Christopher Street\, and two anthologies of writing about HIV/AIDS: Art & Understanding: Literature from the First Twenty Years of A & U and Fingernails Across the Chalkboard: Poetry and Prose on HIV/AIDS from the Black Diaspora. She has taught writing at Boston College and Emerson College. \n  \nAnn Wadsworth is the author of two novels\, Libretto and Light\, Coming Back. Light\, Coming Back was short-listed for the Ferro-Grumley Prize\, the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction\, and the Stephen Crane First Fiction Award. German and French translations are available with the title Mrs. Medina.  Her short stories have appeared in several publications\, including Christopher Street and Blithe House Quarterly. She has been a MacDowell Colony Fellow and the recipient of a Wellspring Grant from the Boston Athenaeum. She lives in Boston.
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SUMMARY:TELL 84: "This One Time ..." (in person & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:  \nTELL is an evening of story telling from the mouths and minds of queers in NYC hosted by Drae Campbell at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division since February 2014. \n“This One Time …” is the theme of the 84th TELL\, on Saturday\, January 21\, 2022\, 7 PM IN PERSON at the Bureau! Featuring: Darlinda Just Darlinda\, Veronica Garza\, Fareeha Khan\, and Morgan Sullivan. \n  \nThe event will also be live-streamed at youtube.com/@bgsqd \nSuggested donation of $10 to benefit the Bureau and the storytellers. \nWe will pass a bag at the start of the event. Donations by card can be made at the register or via Venmo @bgsqd with TELL 84 in the message. Thank you for supporting the Bureau and TELL! \nAll are welcome to join\, with or without a donation. \nWe ask that all attendees bring proof of vaccination and wear masks. Thank you!\nPhotograph by Grace Chu\nDrae Campbell is an actor and performer who has appeared on stages all over NYC and on the internet\, movies and tv.  She’s been spotted on the tv shows New Amsterdam and Bull and on the web series Dinette directed by Shaina Feinberg. She can also be found online on Refinery29\, IFC.Com and BRICTV to name a few. Some fave stage acting credits: Only You Can Prevent Wildfires\, Ricochet Collective\, Non-Consensual Relationships With Ghosts\, La Mama\, My Old Man\, Dixon Place\, Oph3lia at HERE\, The Nosebleed at The Public Theatre. Drae also appeared as a radical lesbian in Taylor Mac’s 24 Decade History Of Popular Music at St. Ann’s Warehouse. Drae’s been hosting and curating TELL at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division for 7 plus years. If you like  queer stories\, TELL is also a Podcast! www.draecampbell.com \n  \n\n\nCoined “Mastermind of Bizarre Extravaganza” by The Village Voice\, Darlinda Just Darlinda has been working as an International Performance Artist and Burlesque Performer since 2004. Darlinda is the Creator of the Year in Rainbow. Darlinda has produced shows The New York Times calls “shockingly explicit.” Darlinda has also performed Off Broadway in Year in Rainbow LIVE (Joe’s Pub 2022)\, One Woman Rainbow (Joe’s Pub 2019) and with Taylor Mac in The Lily’s Revenge (Obie 2009) &  24 Decades of Popular Music (Macarthur Award 2016). USA Today says “It’s hard to top Darlinda”  www.darlindajustdarlinda.com \n  \n\nVeronica Garza is a Brookyn-based stand up comedian who is originally from Dallas\, Texas. She performs all over New York City and has been featured on MTV’s “Decoded”\, NPR\, Sirius XM\, and Daily Mail. \n  \n  \nPhoto: Bridget Badore @bridgetbadore www.bridgetbadore.com\nFareeha Khan is a comedian and artist based in Brooklyn. She’s been on Comedy Central’s “Tight Five” presented by Ilana Glazer and has toured her stand up with Man Repeller.  She recently self published a zine she wrote and llustrated\, Is Making Art Under Capitalism Futile?\, which you could cop on her Etsy shop if you felt so inclined: https://www.etsy.com/shop/CoolExistentialZines \n  \n\n\n Morgan Sullivan (he/they) is an NYC-based actor\, screenwriter\, filmmaker and dog dad of two longhaired dachshunds. As a transgender advocate\, many of the projects he works on address topics affecting the LGBTQI+ community. Morgan can be seen in multiple television projects as well as starring in Matthew Puccini’s Sundance-selected film\, Dirty. His own films Here With You and Going Away with collaborator Noah Schamus have screened internationally and at U.S. Festivals including Frameline\, Outfest\, and Newfest.\n\nMorgan is the proud founder of the Trans Film Collective\, a NYC-based collective focused on building community among trans filmmakers and trans film actors. He is also an active member of Room Tone\, a group creating practical solutions for equitable work experiences in the entertainment industry for people of all backgrounds. He believes that accurate representation is key in order for the trans community to thrive\, and is excited to create more work that centers trans narratives. \nMore info: www.morgan-sullivan.com \n\n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/tell-84-this-one-time/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:Jeanne\, Eli\, Felix\, and River read and launch books (in person event & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:Four acclaimed trans authors based in Canada and New York read from their latest works: H. Felix Chau Bradley reads from Personal Attention Roleplay; River Halen reads from Dream Rooms; Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch reads from The Good Arabs; Jeanne Thornton reads from Summer Fun and/or new work. Personal Attention Roleplay is praised by Casey Plett as “a perfect album of stories”; Dream Rooms is described by Gail Scott as “a marvelous confection of the author’s definition of ‘revolution’”; and The Good Arabs as “bold and deeply necessary” by Liz Howard. Summer Fun won the 2022 Lambda Award for transgender fiction.  \nThis event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division\, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center\, 208 W. 13th St.\, NYC\, 10011. \nRegistration is not required. Seating is first come\, first served. \nAlso live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel \nPlease note: masks are required for all attendees. Thank you!\nSuggested donation $10 to benefit the Bureau’s work. \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without donation. \nWe will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event\, but we can also take credit card donations at the register or on Venmo @bgsqd. \n  \nH Felix Chau Bradley is the author of Personal Attention Roleplay\, which was a finalist for the Danuta Gleed Literary Award and the Kobo Rakuten Emerging Writer Prize\, as well as the poetry chapbook Automatic Object Lessons. They are the fiction editor for This Magazine and the host of Strange Futures\, a speculative fiction book club. They live in Tiohtià:ke (Montréal).  \n  \nRiver Halen is an award-winning\, transgender writer of Catalan and Danish descent living in Tio’tia:ke/Mooniyang/Montreal. Their poems and essays dealing with relation\, ecology\, transformation\, and sexuality have been published widely in Canada\, as well as in the U.S.\, Australia\, and in translation in Japan. Their first book\, Match\, was shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry\, and their most recent book\, Dream Rooms\, a collection of essays and poems\, is praised by the Bay Area Reporter as “unique and mesmerizing.”  \n  \nEli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch is a writer living in Tio’tia:ke. Their work has appeared in The Best Canadian Poetry 2018 anthology\, The New Quarterly\, Arc Poetry Magazine\, and elsewhere. They were longlisted for the CBC poetry prize in 2019. Their book\, knot body (2020)\, published by Metatron Press\, was shortlisted for the QWF Concordia First Book Award\, and their second book\, The Good Arabs\, was published by Metonymy Press in September 2021\, and received the honorary mention for the Arab American Book Award for Poetry. They are the non-fiction editor at The Puritan. They are also an acquisitions editor at Metonymy Press. They are currently translating Gabrielle Boulianne-Tremblay’s La fille d’elle-même from the French\, forthcoming Fall 2023. With co-editor Samia Marshy\, they are editing El Ghourabaa\, an anthology of weird and experimental queer and trans writing by Arab and Arabophone writers.  \n  \nJeanne Thornton is the author of Summer Fun (Soho 2021)\, The Black Emerald (Instar 2014)\, and The Dream of Doctor Bantam (OR 2012). She is the copublisher of Instar Books and the editor\, with Tara Madison Avery\, of the Ignatz Award-winning We’re Still Here: An All-Trans Comics Anthology. Her fiction has appeared in n+1\, WIRED\, The Evergreen Review\, and more.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/jeanne-eli-felix-and-river/
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:20230114T190000
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SUMMARY:Gender.Network Launch Party (in person event & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:A hybrid in-person/virtual launch party and conversation about the first installment of Gender.Network\, an interactive digital exhibition of flyers\, photos\, artwork\, cartoons\, letters\, poems\, and other media created by trans\, Two-spirit\, non-binary\, and gender liberation activists\, organizers\, and artists during the 1960s–1990s. \nGender.Network has grown out of ongoing conversations with elders\, researchers\, and activists\, who suggested many of the materials\, events\, and people that are represented in the exhibition. Each person we spoke with helped connect us with others\, who in turn suggested further materials to research and people to contact. \nWe hope that you will do the same! Please join us at this event to share your thoughts both about what is here and what is still missing\, and help shape the future of this project. \nIn collecting and curating these materials\, we honor the activists\, organizers\, and artists who continue to lead the way forward and remember those whose voices\, images\, and energy live on in these materials. \nCurated by Sky Syzygy \nThis event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division\, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center\, 208 W. 13th St.\, NYC\, 10011. \nRegistration is not required for those attending in person. Seating is first come\, first served. \nIf you would like to join this event via Zoom\, you will need to register on Eventbrite. \nClick here to register\nOnce you have registered on Eventbrite you will receive an email with the link you need to join the event on Zoom – or you can simply return to the Eventbrite page and click on “Access link” (beneath “When and Where/location/online”). But you will only be able to access this AFTER you have registered. \nClosed-captioning will be available on Zoom. \nAlso live-streaming at youtube.com/@bgsqd \nDeep gratitude to Christian Camacho-Light\, Roxana Fabius\, and the membership of A.I.R. Gallery\, who have provided a home base\, administrative\, fiscal\, and moral support for this project. \nEndless thanks and admiration to our advisory committee: Che Gossett\, Finn Enke\, Jeanne Vaccaro\, Malcolm Shanks\, and Susan Stryker. \nMajor thanks to Ritu Ghiya for her incredible web design. \nThis project would not exist without the many questions\, insights\, anecdotes\, stories\, and conversations that have helped guide and shape our research. Thank you to Aiden Bettine\, Ariel Goldberg\, AJ Lewis\, Charley Burton\, Chelsea Goodwin\, Chris Vargas\, Christina Linden\, Cicely Haggerty\, Daria Dorosh\, Darla Bjork\, Dee Dee Chamblee\, Dee Farmer\, Dena Muller\, Donna Kessinger\, Efrain John Gonzales\, Frances Woods-Baugh\, Gayle Rubin\, Harmony Hammond\, Harrison Apple\, Ignacio Rivera\, Jamison Green\, Jaune Quick-to-see-Smith\, Jessica Xavier\, Joanna Rivera\, Jolene Rickard\, Jonathan Thunderword\, Joshua Burford\, Jude Patton\, Judy Grahn\, Judy Greenspan\, Kai Pyle\, Kaspar Saxena\, Kat Griefen\, Kay Turner\, Kelly Wooten\, Lauren Berke\, Leah DeVun\, Leo Valdes\, Lou McCarthy\, Madsen Minax\, Marisa Richmond\, Martha Wilson\, Minnie Bruce Pratt\, Muriel Miguel\, Nancy Azara\, Pat Califia\, Reneé Imperato\, Sandi Salas\, Shannon O’Neill\, Sharon Day\, Simon Fisher\, Suzanne Iacenza\, Venus de Mars\, Xiomara Niculescu\, and so so many more for your time and energy and brilliance. \nGender.Network is made possible in part by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature; by Humanities New York with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities; with public funds from Creative Engagement\, a regrant program supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and administered by LMCC; and by The Puffin Foundation\, Ltd.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/gender-network-launch-party-in-person-event-live-streaming/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:Author Event: On Learning to Heal by Ed Cohen (in person event & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:Join professor Ed Cohen on Friday\, January 13 at 7:00pm (ET) for the launch of his new book\, ON LEARNING TO HEAL. He will be in conversation with Emily Lim Rogers. \nThe event will consist of a reading\, book talk\, Q&A\, and signing.  \nAbout ON LEARNING TO HEAL: At age thirteen\, Ed Cohen was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease—a chronic\, incurable condition that nearly killed him in his early twenties. At his diagnosis\, his doctors told him that the best he could hope for would be periods of remission. Unfortunately\, doctors never mentioned healing as a possibility. In ON LEARNING TO HEAL\, Cohen draws on fifty years of living with Crohn’s to consider how Western medicine’s turn from an “art of healing” toward a “science of medicine” deeply affects both medical practitioners and their patients. He demonstrates that although medicine can now offer many seemingly miraculous therapies\, medicine is not and has never been the only way to enhance healing. Exploring his own path to healing\, he argues that learning to heal requires us to desire and value healing as a vital possibility. With this book\, Cohen advocates reviving healing’s role for all those whose lives are touched by illness. \nThis event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division\, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center\, 208 W. 13th St.\, NYC\, 10011. \nRegistration is not required. Seating is first come\, first served. \nAlso live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel \n  \nSuggested donation $10 to benefit the Bureau’s work. \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without donation. \nWe will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event\, but we can also take credit card donations at the register or on Venmo @bgsqd. \n  \nEd Cohen is Professor of Women’s\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies at Rutgers University and author of A Body Worth Defending\, also published by Duke University Press. He hosts a therapeutic practice for people interested in healing: healingcounsel.com.  \n  \nEmily Lim Rogers is the Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Disability Studies at Brown University. She writes about chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis\, biomedicine\, and debility. Her work has appeared in Medical Anthropology Quarterly and Somatosphere\, and she is a contributor to the forthcoming anthology Crip Authorship: Disability as Method (NYU Press\, 2023).
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/author-event-on-learning-to-heal-by-ed-cohen/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:OLNY Poly Movie Night: Belle Époque (in person event)
DESCRIPTION:Open Love NY presents Poly Movie Night\, a FREE series of feature films that focus on the portrayal of consensual / ethical non-monogamy in cinema. This month we’ll be IN PERSON at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division.\n  \nPlease join us for Belle Époque (1992)\, directed by Fernando Trueba and starring Fernando Fernán Gómez\, Jorge Sanz\, Maribel Verdú\, and Penélope Cruz.\n  \nWe’ll meet at 6:30 pm at the Bureau (in room 210 of The Lesbian\, Gay\, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center at 208 West 13th Street) for pre-screening socializing and start the movie at 7 pm. The event is free\, although a $5-$10 suggested donation to help fund future events is much appreciated.\n  \nYou can send donations through Venmo to @Open-LoveNY.\n\nSynopsis: During the Spanish Civil War\, a young army deserter is helped by an artist with four daughters\, each of which he has a relationship with. Running time: 1 hour 49 minutes. In Spanish with English subtitles.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/olny-poly-movie-night-belle-epoque/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230102
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SUMMARY:Closed for holidays!
DESCRIPTION:The Bureau will be closed on Christmas Eve\, Christmas Day\, New Year’s Eve\, and New Year’s Day.
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SUMMARY:Closed for holidays!
DESCRIPTION:The Bureau will be closed on Christmas Eve\, Christmas Day\, New Year’s Eve\, and New Year’s Day.
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221217T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221217T210000
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SUMMARY:TELL 83: Space (in person & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:  \nTELL is an evening of story telling from the mouths and minds of queers in NYC hosted by Drae Campbell at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division since February 2014. \nSpace is the theme of the 83rd TELL\, on Saturday\, December 17\, 2022\, 7 PM IN PERSON at the Bureau! Featuring: Renair Amin\, Gabriella Belfiglio\, & MJ Moneymaker. \nThe event will also be live-streamed at youtube.com/@bgsqd \nSuggested donation of $10 to benefit the Bureau and the storytellers. \nWe will pass a bag at the start of the event. Donations by card can be made at the register or via Venmo @bgsqd with TELL 83 in the message. Thank you for supporting the Bureau and TELL! \nAll are welcome to join\, with or without a donation. \nWe ask that all attendees bring proof of vaccination and wear masks. Thank you!\nPhotograph by Grace Chu\nDrae Campbell is an actor and performer who has appeared on stages all over NYC and on the internet\, movies and tv.  She’s been spotted on the tv shows New Amsterdam and Bull and on the web series Dinette directed by Shaina Feinberg. She can also be found online on Refinery29\, IFC.Com and BRICTV to name a few. Some fave stage acting credits: Only You Can Prevent Wildfires\, Ricochet Collective\, Non-Consensual Relationships With Ghosts\, La Mama\, My Old Man\, Dixon Place\, Oph3lia at HERE\, The Nosebleed at The Public Theatre. Drae also appeared as a radical lesbian in Taylor Mac’s 24 Decade History Of Popular Music at St. Ann’s Warehouse. Drae’s been hosting and curating TELL at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division for 7 plus years. If you like  queer stories\, TELL is also a Podcast! www.draecampbell.com \n  \nRENAIR AMIN is an award-winning educator\, international speaker\, coach\, pageant queen\, and four-time published author specializing in the areas of relationship wellness\, empowerment\, and LGBTQ faith-based trauma. Renair has a Master of Arts in Religious Education and Doctor of Ministry degree from New York Theological Seminary. Dr. Amin utilizes her academic journey\, extensive training\, and experiential wisdom to change the lives of people she encounters regionally and globally. She is also a relationship wellness expert who centers her work on helping individuals develop and reinforce self-esteem while enhancing personal and professional relationships in their lives. She began this work in 2014 through her custom Holokeria Coaching practice which has evolved into Pink Love Wellness\, LLC\, through which Renair provides an array of services that holistically address her client’s needs. Dr. Amin is also the founder of LGBTQ Faith Matters\, a platform dedicated to healing spiritual trauma in communities of color\, and the host of the “It’s All About Pink Love” Podcast. Renair believes her purpose is to heal hearts to heal the world. \n\n  \n  \nGabriella M. Belfiglio lives in Brooklyn\, NY with her wife\, five-year-old\, and five cats. She teaches self-defense\, conflict resolution\, and karate. She is the winner of the W.B. Yeats Poetry Award.  She received a fellowship with Saltonstall Arts Foundation.  Her work has been published in many anthologies and journals including The Centrifugal Eye\, Paterson Review\, Avanti Popolo\, Poetic Voices without Borders\, The Potomac Review\, and Lambda Literary Review.  She is part of the activist/poetry trio\, The Ferlinghetti Girls. For more info visit: www.gabriellabelfiglio.info \n  \n \nNot a gimmick\, jus’a name. MJ Moneymaker is a  Chinese-Puerto Rican American\, veteran\, activist\, artist\, writer. Storytelling through any medium\, shares experience\, adds to life.. \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/tell-83-space/
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:20221216T190000
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SUMMARY:Office Hours Poetry Fall 2022 Showcase Reading (virtual event - online only)
DESCRIPTION:Join us Friday\, December 16th\, at 7:00 PM EDT for the Office Hours Fall 2022 Showcase Reading\, a virtual event taking place online only. Our current fellows will give a brief reading in celebration of another strong semester of poetry making\, community building\, and surviving in difficult creative times. \nReaders:\nAbba Belgrave\nCarrie Hohmann Campbell  \nRyan Dzelzkalns \nAshley Harris  \nEmily Hockaday\nJames Fujinami Moore \nSarah Sala\nShakeema Smalls \nAvia Tadmor\nAnnie Wei\n\n  \nSuggested donation to benefit Office Hours Poetry Workshop: $5 – $10 \nYou can make a donation when you register on Eventbrite. \nAll are welcome to join\, with or without a donation. \nRegistration on Eventbrite required to join this event on Zoom. \nOnce you have registered on Eventbrite you will receive an email with the link you need to join the event on Zoom – or you can simply return to the Eventbrite page and click on “Access link” (beneath “When and Where/location/online”). But you will only be able to access this AFTER you have registered. \nClosed-captioning will be available. \nClick here to register\nAlso live-streaming at youtube.com/@bgsqd \n  \nEmily Hockaday’s [in person reader] first full-length collection\, Naming the Ghost\, is out from Cornerstone Press. Her second collection In a Body is scheduled for October 2023 with Harbor Editions. She has had work in a variety of anthologies and print and online journals. She tweets @E_Hockaday. \n  \nShakeema Smalls [virtual reader] is from Georgetown\, South Carolina.  Her work has been published in a variety of outlets including Blackberry: A Magazine\, Radius Lit\, Free Black Space\, Vinyl Poetry and Prose\, and Rigorous\, among others\, with upcoming work in Hayden’s Ferry and Emergent Literary. She was a Tin House 2022 Winter Workshop participant and a 2022 PEN Emerging Voices Fellow. \n  \nCarrie Hohmann Campbell [virtual reader] lives on a small farm in northwest Pennsylvania with her family. Her second chapbook Drawn to Extinction was published by Finishing Line Press. She teaches creative writing as an Assistant Professor of English at PennWest University. Contact her at carriehohmanncampbell.com.  \n  \nJames Fujinami Moore‘s [virtual reader] debut collection is Indecent Hours (Four Way Books\, 2022). His work has appeared in Barrow Street’s 4×2\, The Brooklyn Rail\, Guesthouse\, The Margins\, the Pacifica Literary Review\, and Prelude. He has received support from Poets House\, Bread Loaf\, and the Frost Place\, and received his MFA from Hunter College in 2016. He lives in Los Angeles. \n  \nAvia Tadmor [in person reader] was born in Jerusalem. Her poetry received support from Yaddo\, the Rona Jaffe Foundation/ Bread Loaf\, the Vermont Studio Center\, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in The New Republic\, New England Review\, The Adroit Journal\, Iowa Review\, and elsewhere. Avia was named a 2022 Gregory Djanikian Scholar by the Adroit Journal. \n  \nAshley Harris [virtual reader] is from Manassas\, Virginia. Her work has been published in  Aquas de pozos\, Yellow Chair Review and Cartridge Literary magazine. She currently has a chapbook entitled “If the Hero of Time was Black”\, published by Weasel Press. Her work was also present in the anthologies  For all the songs we sing and The Future of Black: Afrofuturism\, Black Comics\, and Superheroes.  \n  \nRyan Dzelzkalns [virtual reader] has poems appearing with Catapult\, DIAGRAM\, The Offing\, The Shanghai Literary Review\, Tin House\, and others. He received an MFA from New York University and a BA from Macalester College where he was awarded the Wendy Parrish Poetry Prize. His writing has been translated into Latvian (the language of his grandparents) and has been anthologized in a handful of collections. He was recently a Fulbright scholar in Tokyo\, where he still lives. Read more at RyanDz.com \n  \nSarah M. Sala [in person reader] is a queer poet of Polish-Lebanese descent. Her debut collection\, Devil’s Lake is now out from Tolsun Books. She is the founder of the free poetry workshop\, Office Hours\, and Co-Poetry Editor at the Bellevue Literary Review. Her work appears in BOMB\, the Southampton Review\, and the Los Angeles Review. Visit her at sarahsala.com and @sarahmsala. \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/office-hours-poetry-fall-2022-showcase-reading/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:WMN Pop Up at the Bureau
DESCRIPTION:Come visit the WMN pop up shop at the Bureau on Thursday\, December 15\, 2022\, from 5 to 7 PM! Issues of WMN and merch will be available for purchase. \n  \nAbout WMN: \nVenezuelan designer/artist Florencia Alvarado\, American photographer Jeanette Spicer and Swedish designer Sara Duell\, are the dykes behind WMN – a publication of lesbian art and poetry. We have individually come to identify ourselves as lesbian in different ways and at various times\, but found commonality between our love for WMN\, and interest in art and representation of marginalized communities. \nWhen thinking of our own identifications\, we realized that the term lesbian was in ways a signifier of the past\, and could even be considered radical. This awareness sparked our inspiration and desire to gather and share work of other people identifying as lesbian\, in order to create a conversation around different terms of identification\, and how and why we use them. This zine is meant to provide a much needed space to show the intimacy\, struggle\, wonder and everything in between\, of what it means to be a lesbian in this political climate and time. \nWMN – lesbian art and poetry publication was founded in May 2019 in Brooklyn NY. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/wmn-pop-up-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:Poetry and Fiction from the End of the World (in person event & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:Monica McClure\, S. Galvin and Alexandrine Ogundimu read poetry and prose from recent years of life on Earth. Galvin and Ogundimu are also celebrating their recent moves to Brooklyn from Seattle and Chicago\, respectively. \nThis event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division\, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center\, 208 W. 13th St.\, NYC\, 10011. \nRegistration is not required. Seating is first come\, first served. \nAlso live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel \n  \nSuggested donation $10 to benefit the Bureau’s work. \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without donation. \nWe will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event\, but we can also take credit card donations at the register or on Venmo @bgsqd. \n  \n* Monica McClure is a writer and performer based in New York. She is the author of Tender Data (Birds LLC\, 2015) and chapbooks Mala (Poor Claudia\, 2014) and Mood Swing (Snacks Press\, 2013). \nHer poetry and critical writing can be found in Tin House\, The Claudius App\, Jubilat\, Lambda Literary Review Spotlight Series\, Emily Books\, The Hairpin\, The Huffington Post\, The Awl\, Spork Press\, The Los Angeles Review\, Intercourse Magazine\, The Lit Review\, and CultureStrike / The Margins. \nMcClure is a poetry and fiction editor for The Atlas Review. In 2014\, she was chosen by Dorothea Lasky as the Summer Literary Seminar contest winner for Poetry. She has performed at Cage Gallery\, Pioneer Works\, Dixon Place Theatre\, The Silent Barn\, and &Now 2015. \n  \n* Sarah Galvin is a poet and essayist from Seattle who moved to Brooklyn a mere three months ago. They are the author of The Three Einsteins (Poor Claudia) The Best Party of Our Lives (Sasquatch) and Ugly Time (Gramma Poetry) now to be found in Black Ocean’s catalogue. Galvin has recently completed a yet-unnamed manuscript which they will be reading from at this event. \nGalvin is a contributor to The Stranger\, The Guardian\, and Vice Magazine. Their poems have appeared in Anarchist Review of Books\, WIDMA\, The American Poetry Society\, New Ohio Review\, Pinwheel\, and io. \nThey are the author of a series of reviews of food found on the ground called The Pedestretarian. Galvin was nominated for a James W. Ray Distinguished Artist Award and considered for what would have been Washington State’s first Radio Flyer Wagon DUI. \n  \n*Alexandrine Ogundimu is a writer from New Jersey and Indiana. She lives in the zeitgeist.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/poetry-and-fiction-from-the-end-of-the-world/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:Holding Space: Life and Love Through a Queer Lens with Ryan Pfluger (in person event & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:Photographer Ryan Pfluger will talk about his new book\, Holding Space: Life and Love Through a Queer Lens. Throughout 2020 and 2021\, during a time of intense personal and political upheaval\, Pfluger set out to capture intimate images of queer\, interracial couples\, along with personal insight into their relationships in today’s world. Featured together for the first time in Holding Space\, this unique collection of modern love in its many forms across the spectrum of race\, sexuality\, and gender identity and gives space to these couples to share short\, revealing stories about their relationships. \nCopies of Holding Space: Life and Love Through a Queer Lens are available for purchase at the Bureau. To reserve a copy\, please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com. \nCopies are also available on our online store: \n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us! \n  \nThis event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division\, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center\, 208 W. 13th St.\, NYC\, 10011. \nRegistration is not required. Seating is first come\, first served. \nAlso live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel \n  \nSuggested donation $10 to benefit the Bureau’s work. \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without donation. \nWe will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event\, but we can also take credit card donations at the register. \n  \nRyan Pfluger is an artist and photographer\, whose work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine\, Time\, Rolling Stone\, and elsewhere. Ryan lives in Los Angeles\, California\, with their dog\, Sarah Connor. Born and raised in New York\, they received an MFA in Photography at School of Visual Arts. (Portrait photograph by Travis Chantar) \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/holding-space-life-and-love-through-a-queer-lens-with-ryan-pfluger-in-person-event-live-streaming/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221201T190000
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SUMMARY:World AIDS Day: Celebrating the Works of Walta Borawski and Robert Ferro (in person event & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:Rebel Satori Press is proud to launch a new imprint\, The Library of Homosexual Congress\, curated by Tom Cardamone and Sven Davisson\, dedicated to preserving and promoting provocative works of gay literature\, with a focus on the AIDS crisis. It’s inaugural title\, Invisible History: The Collected Poems of Walta Borawski\, edited by Philip Clark and Michael Bronski\, is appropriately published on December 1st\, World AIDS Day\, returning the voice of a significant gay poet\, Walta Borawski (1947 -1994) back into the public eye after decades of neglect. \nRobert Ferro’s (1941 – 1988) novel of love and family during the early years of AIDS\, Second Son\, the last of four novels\, was published in 1988 shortly before his death of AIDS\, following the death of his partner\, fellow writer Michael Grumley. This is the first time this seminal novel has returned to print. Anne Rice said “Second Son is transcendently beautiful; exquisitely written\, exquisitely restrained.”  Its publisher\, ReQueered Tales\, is dedicated to restoring to circulation a treasure trove of celebrated LGBTQ fiction\, primarily from the 60s to the 90s\, in new e-book and print editions. \n  \nCopies of Second Son and Invisible History: The Collected Poems of Walta Borawski will be available for purchase at the event. To reserve a copy of either or both books\, please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com. \nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us! \n  \nThis event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division\, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center\, 208 W. 13th St.\, NYC\, 10011. \nRegistration is not required. Seating is first come\, first served. \nAlso live-streaming at youtube.com/@bgsqd \n  \nSuggested donation $10 to benefit the Bureau’s work. \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without donation. \nWe will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event\, but we can also take credit card donations at the register or via Venmo @bgsqd \n  \nCharlotte Abbott is a book publishing professional with over 30 years of experience. She has been an editor for several top houses\, a journalist covering the industry\, and a publishing technology expert. She runs her own consultancy firm\, FutureProof Content. She is also an enthusiastic swimmer. \n  \nMichael Bronski is an independent scholar\, journalist\, and activist who is the author of numerous books including Pulp Friction: The Golden Age of Gay Male Pulps and A Queer History of the United States. He is Professor of the Practice in Activism and Media in the Studies of Women\, Gender and Sexuality at Harvard University. \n  \nGerard Cabrera is a Massarican from Springfield\, Massachusetts\, the birthplace of the first American dictionary\, Dr. Seuss\, and basketball. His writing has appeared in Gay Community News\, Acentos Review\, Angel Rust\, Apricity\, JONATHAN\, and Kweli. His novel\, Homo Novus\, was published in October 2022 by Rattling Good Yarns Press\, and was supported in part by the Bread Loaf Writers Conference and a Bread Loaf Bakeless Foundation fellowship\, along with The Camargo Foundation in Cassis\, France. He lives and works in New York City. \n  \nTom Cardamone is the editor of Crashing Cathedrals: Edmund White by the Book and co-editor of Fever Spores: The Queer Reclamation of William S. Burroughs. He is the author of the Lambda Literary Award-winning speculative novella Green Thumb as well as the erotic fantasy The Lurid Sea and other works of fiction\, including two short story collections. \n  \nPhilip Clark is the co-editor of Persistent Voices: Poetry by Writers Lost to AIDS and In the Empire of the Air: The Poems of Donald Britton. The recipient of a MacDowell Fellowship\, he is currently completing a biography of 1960s gay publisher H. Lynn Womack. He lives near Washington\, D.C. \n  \nPhilip F. Clark is the author of The Carnival of Affection (Sibling Rivalry Press\, 2017).  He currently teaches at City College\, New York\, where he received his M.F.A. in Creative Writing in 2016. His work has been published in Tiferet Journal\, The Marsh Hawk Press Chapter One Series\, Tampa Review\, Vox Populi\, and Lambda Literary. He has conducted poetry classes at the Hudson Valley Writers Center\, and his work has most recently been published in On Becoming A Poet: Essential Information About the Writing Craft (Marsh Hawk Press\, 2020). \n  \nRoz Parr retired recently after almost 40 years in the book industry. She worked as a bookseller at Compendium (London)\, and Womanbooks\, New Morning Books\, and A Different Light (NYC). After stints at Oxford University Press and Viking Penguin\, she spent 22 years with the Knopf division of Penguin Random House. Besides reading\, she enjoys gardening\, walking and keeping up with friends. \n  \nEric Rasmussen is an actor\, director and writer and was a founding member with Tina Ruan and the late Robbie McCauley of the performance group All Three. \n  \nEmanuel Xavier\, Latinx poet and LGBTQ activist\, was born in Brooklyn\, New York. Xavier received a New York City Council Citation for his many cultural contributions to city arts and has also been recipient of an International Latino Book Award\, Lambda Literary Award nominations\, and American Library Association Over the Rainbow Books selections for his collections which include: Pier Queen\, Americano\, If Jesus Were Gay\, Nefarious\, Radiance\, and Selected Poems of Emanuel Xavier. \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/world-aids-day-celebrating-the-works-of-walta-borawski-and-robert-ferro/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: WILDNESS by the Queer Critique Group at Baxter St. (in person event)
DESCRIPTION:On Sunday\, Nov. 27th at 5:30pm (ET)\, the Bureau hosts members of the Queer Critique Group (QCG) at Baxter St. for a presentation and panel discussion of their new publication\, WILDNESS. WILDNESS features work by Chris Berntsen\, Ali Di Luccia\, Liz Liguori\, Michael McFadden\, Ellie Musgrave\, Marc Ohrem-Leclef\, Dr. Picturesque\, Kaz Senju\, Jeanette Spicer\, Bill Travis and Sam Zalutsky\, as well as writing by renowned photographers\, artists and curators Allen Frame\, Katherine Hubbard\, Duane Michals\, Nandita Raman and Drew Sawyer. WILDNESS is inspired by Jack Halberstam’s book Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire. In keeping with the spirit of the text\, the contributors were encouraged to interpret wildness in their own creative ways. Join us for a panel discussion with contributing artists Kaz Senju\, Bill Travis\, and Michael McFadden.   \nCopies of Wildness will be available for purchase at the event. To reserve a copy\, please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com. \nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us! \n  \nThis event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division\, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center\, 208 W. 13th St.\, NYC\, 10011. \nRegistration is not required. Seating is first come\, first served. \n  \nSuggested donation $5 to benefit the Bureau’s work. \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without donation. \nWe will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event\, but we can also take credit card donations at the register or via Venmo @bgsqd \n  \nThe QUEER CRITIQUE GROUP at BAXTER ST: \nBaxter St at CCNY launched a virtual\, queer critique group in June of 2020. This group provides artists the opportunity to obtain critical feedback on lens-based work. It also provides ongoing support to a community of queer artists to learn\, grow\, and share resources. \n 
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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:Closed for Thanksgiving\, November 23-25
DESCRIPTION:We will be open on Saturday\, November 26\, and Sunday\, November 27.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/closed-for-thanksgiving-november-23-25/
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:20221119T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221119T210000
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SUMMARY:TELL 82: Thanks for Nothing (in person & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:  \nTELL is an evening of story telling from the mouths and minds of queers in NYC hosted by Drae Campbell at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division since February 2014. \nThanks for Nothing is the theme of the 82nd TELL\, on Saturday\, November 19\, 2022\, 7 PM IN PERSON at the Bureau! Featuring: Bell\, Tom Cole\, rexylafemme\, & Maya Suess. \nThe event will also be live-streamed at youtube.com/@bgsqd \nSuggested donation of $10 to benefit the Bureau and the storytellers. \nWe will pass a bag at the start of the event. Thank you for supporting the Bureau and TELL! \nAll are welcome to join\, with or without a donation. \nWe ask that all attendees bring proof of vaccination and wear masks. Thank you!\n\nPhotograph by Grace Chu\nDrae Campbell is an actor and performer who has appeared on stages all over NYC and on the internet\, movies and tv.  She’s been spotted on the tv shows New Amsterdam and Bull and on the web series Dinette directed by Shaina Feinberg. She can also be found online on Refinery29\, IFC.Com and BRICTV to name a few. Some fave stage acting credits: Only You Can Prevent Wildfires\, Ricochet Collective\, Non-Consensual Relationships With Ghosts\, La Mama\, My Old Man\, Dixon Place\, Oph3lia at HERE\, The Nosebleed at The Public Theatre. Drae also appeared as a radical lesbian in Taylor Mac’s 24 Decade History Of Popular Music at St. Ann’s Warehouse. Drae’s been hosting and curating TELL at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division for 7 plus years. If you like  queer stories\, TELL is also a Podcast! www.draecampbell.com \n  \nBell is a multidisciplinary artist from Ireland working as a drag performer\, visual artist\, mediator & facilitator in Brooklyn\, NY. They have a background in clown (Gaulier\, Lecoq) and trained in Theatre of the Oppressed at Goldsmiths and with Ulex in Spain. Bell has performed throughout the UK and Europe\, co-creating Womb With A View for Shambala Festival (Unique Festival Arena Award)\, creating and performing Spectrum\, a show about revolutionary thinker and autistic advocate Temple Grandin for Edinburgh Fringe and performing in Dada for Girls where they won Most Outstanding Performance (London Fringe) and Most Groundbreaking Performance (Gothenburg Fringe). They are currently working on a series of portraits called People are the Worst\, tattooing\, performing with their drag / comedy groups Earls 2 Gearls and We’re 4 Men and writing a film. \n  \n \nTom Cole is a writer and artist living in the Lower East Side. His work has been presented at Participant Inc\, Petit Versailles\, Thread Waxing Space\, Art on Air\, Dixon Place\, Clocktower Gallery\, ICA Boston\, Performa\, and the Boston Center for the Arts. He is a three-time MacDowell Playwriting fellow and a 2015 Edward Albee Foundation Playwriting fellow. He heads the New Play Commissioning Program at True Love Productions\, where he has commissioned new work by Heidi Schreck\, Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas\, Craig Lucas\, and Sheila Callaghan\, among others. He co-curates Experiments and Disorders\, a literary series at Dixon Place. He has collaborated extensively with Anohni\, most recently appearing in She Who Saw Beautiful Things at The Kitchen.   His work has been published in several antholgies\, including Grove Atlantic’s PATHETIC LITERATURE edited by Eileen Myles. \n  \nrexylafemme (aka rex renée leonowicz) is a trans multi-gendered\, multi-genre writer\, visual + drag artist\, performer\, organizer\, and healer from jackson heights\, nyc. as a working class\, gender-abundant femme\, rexy’s work is a love letter to nyc and radical communities grounded in a politics of resistance\, healing\, and resilience. in all of rexy’s creative forms\, s/he explores the power of revolutionary love in the face of loveless political structures. rexy is also a practicing witch and offers workshops and spiritual mentorship in divination\, spellwork\, and building intuition with a focus on healing as a revolutionary practice. \n  \n \n\n\n\nMaya Suess is a performer\, writer and nonprofit arts professional who has worn all the hats. Most recently as the Director of Programs and Fellowship at apexart\, and for many years as Managing Director of the residency and artist’s collective\, Flux Factory. Her work has been shown at galleries\, museums\, film festivals\, bars and more in the US\, Canada\, Europe and Japan. Maya produces and emcees Unprofessional\, a quarterly variety show at the Parkside Lounge. \nShe was born on a small island off the coast of western Canada\, is a member of a coop and ex-squat in the LES\, and is committed to being a part of keeping queer art alive and thriving in New York City and beyond.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/tell-82-thanks-for-nothing/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:Are Bisexuals Just Greedy? Public Book Launch (in person event & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:Come celebrate and enjoy a reading and Q & A with acclaimed author\, Fiona Dawson\, as she launches her nonfiction book\, Are Bisexuals Just Greedy? Animated Answers for All People Who Simply Want to Understand the Spectrum of Being LGBTQ+\, with special guest Hannah Simpson. \nHow is gender identity different from sexual orientation? Do our genitals predict our gender? Why is it important to use a person’s correct pronouns? Fiona Dawson (she/her) answers these questions and more in her candid picture book for people old enough to swear and talk about sex\, Are Bisexuals Just Greedy?. \nThis book will be available for purchase\, and Debi Jackson\, the self-described “conservative Southern Baptist Republican from Alabama” now speaking on behalf of transgender children and their families around the world\, has this to say …. “With compassion and humor\, Fiona has created an easy and direct read for parents wanting to understand their kids’ LGBTQ+ identities. Definitely have this book at home over the holidays.” \nCopies of Are Bisexuals Just Greedy?  will be available for purchase at the event. \nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us! \nThis event is co-sponsored by GLAAD and DIVA Magazine. \nThis event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division\, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center\, 208 W. 13th St.\, NYC\, 10011. \nRegistration is not required. Seating is first come\, first served. \nAlso live-streaming: youtube.com/@bgsqd \n  \nSuggested donation $10 to benefit the Bureau’s work. \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without donation. \nWe will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event\, but we can also take credit card donations at the register. \n  \nFiona Dawson (she/her) is an Emmy®-nominated and award-winning filmmaker\, speaker\, and author who has been advocating for the LGBTQ+ community for over two decades. Her short film “Transgender\, at War and in Love” (2015) for The New York Times and feature documentary “TransMilitary” (2018) helped elevate the stories of active-duty transgender service members to end their ban from the US military. Relating her personal experiences as a cisgender\, gay\, and then bisexual woman\, Fiona dissolves stereotypes to reveal vulnerability\, courage\, and empathy in various media forms through her company\, Free Lion Productions. \n  \nHannah Simpson (she/her) is a nationally-known transgender and pansexual writer and speaker who believes not hiding her past will help others to stop hiding their futures. She has been featured by Refinery29\, the Guardian\, the Advocate\, MSNBC\, Fox 5 News\, and on a segment of The Daily Show with Trevor Noah. Hannah was alongside US Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as the two rally speakers before the 2019 Women’s March Alliance March on New York City. In pandemic times\, Hannah became a nurse’s aide in a COVID ICU\, a morgue tech\, and responded to Hurricane Ida in Louisiana with the Red Cross. Find her running her own business selling pride pins and Judaica on Etsy called ChangedMe\, as in\, “I didn’t change my gender. My gender changed me.”
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/are-bisexuals-just-greedy-public-book-launchin-person-event-live-streaming/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221113T150000
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SUMMARY:WE ARE HAVING THIS CONVERSATION NOW: The Times of AIDS Cultural Production (online event)
DESCRIPTION:Join authors Alexandra Juhasz and Theodore (ted) Kerr\, along with special guests Rev. Michael J. Crumpler\, Cait McKinney\, and Amy Sadao\, for the launch of their book We Are Having This Conversation Now: The Times of AIDS Cultural Production. \nTo participate in the event on Zoom please register on Eventbrite. \nAFTER you’ve registered\, please return to the Eventbrite page at the time of the event and click on “Access link” under “When and Where/location.” \nAlso live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel \nSuggested donation $5 to benefit the Bureau’s work. \nAll are welcome to join\, with or without donation. You can make a donation when you register on this page\, or make a tax-deductible donation on the Bureau’s Fractured Atlas page. Thank you for your support! \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nPurchase We Are Having This Conversation Now from the Bureau’s online store (click on title). \nCopies are also available at our physical store. \nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us! \n  \nPlease note that this event is taking place online only. \nTo participate in the event on Zoom please register on the Eventbrite page. \nAFTER you’ve registered\, please return to the Eventbrite page at the time of the event and click on “Access link” under “When and Where/location.” \nAlso live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel \n  \nAlexandra Juhasz is Distinguished Professor of Film at Brooklyn College\, City University of New York\, author of AIDS TV: Identity\, Community\, and Alternative Video\, and coeditor of AIDS and the Distribution of Crises and Sisters in the Life: A History of Out African American Lesbian Media-Making\, all also published by Duke University Press. \n  \nTheodore Kerr is a writer\, organizer\, artist\, and Lecturer of Interdisciplinary Arts at The New School as well as a founding member of What Would an HIV Doula Do? \n  \nRev. Michael J. Crumpler works as the LGBTQ and Multicultural Programs Director at the Unitarian Universalist Association and is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ. Michael lives in Brooklyn\, NY and is very active in social justice ministry at the historic Judson Memorial Church of New York City\, where he served as President of the Board\, 2016-2018. He is most passionate about intersectional ministry centered in blackness\, queerness\, HIV/AIDS\, economic justice\, and emotional well-being. Michael has been published in two groundbreaking works related to HIV and AIDS\, OnCurating Issue 42: What You Don’t Know About AIDS Could Fill a Museum and Spiritual Care in the Age of #BlackLivesMatter. \n  \nCait McKinney is Assistant Professor in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University and the author of Information Activism: A Queer History of Lesbian Media Technologies (Duke\, 2020)\, winner of the Gertrude Robinson Best Book Prize from the Canadian Communication Association and a Lambda Literary Award Finalist for LGBTQ studies. They co-edited (with Allyson Mitchell) Inside Killjoy’s Kastle: Dykey Ghosts\, Feminist Monsters\, and other Lesbian Hauntings (UBC and AGYU\, 2019)\, and a 2020 special issue of First Monday on HIV/AIDS and Digital Media (with Marika Cifor). \n  \nAmy Sadao is a nonprofit consultant and curator. She is a co-curator of FotoFest 2022’s “If I Had a Hammer” and recent Brooklyn Rail guest critic (July/August 2022). She was the Dietrich Director of ICA Philadelphia from 2012-2019\, and directed Visual AIDS from 2002-2012. She serves on the board of the Leeway Foundation and lives in Philadelphia. \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/we-are-having-this-conversation-now-the-times-of-aids-cultural-production/
LOCATION:Online event\, New York\, NY\, United States
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SUMMARY:Making the Rounds: Defying Norms in Love and Medicine Patricia Grayhall with David Logan (online event)
DESCRIPTION:Come celebrate the launch of Patricia Grayhall’ s memoir Making the Rounds: Defying Norms in Love and Medicine.   \nPlease note that this event is taking place online only. \nTo participate in the event on Zoom please register on the Eventbrite page. \nAFTER you’ve registered\, please return to the Eventbrite page at the time of the event and click on “Access link” under “When and Where/location.” \nAlso live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel \n  \nDefying expectations of a woman growing up in Arizona in the 1960s\, Patricia Grayhall fled Phoenix at nineteen for the vibrant streets of San Francisco\, determined to finally come out as a lesbian after years of trying to be a “normal” girl. Her dream of becoming a physician drew her back to college\, and then on to medical school in conservative Salt Lake City. \nThough Patricia enjoyed a supportive friendship with a male colleague\, she longed for an equal\, loving relationship with a woman. But her graduate medical training in Boston\, with its emotional demands\, long hours\, lack of sleep\, and social isolation\, compounded by the free-wheeling sexual revolution of the 1970s\, made finding that special relationship difficult. Often disappointed but never defeated\, Patricia—armed with wit and determination—battled on against sexism in her male-dominated profession and against discrimination in a still largely homophobic nation\, plunging herself into a life that was never boring and certainly never without passion. \nA chronicle of coming of age during second-wave feminism and striving to have both love and career as a gay medical doctor\, Making the Rounds is a well-paced and deeply humanizing memoir of what it means to seek belonging and love—and to find them\, in the most surprising ways. \nMore information can be found at www.PatriciaGrayhall.com. \n  \nSuggested donation $5 to benefit the Bureau’s work. \nAll are welcome to join\, with or without donation. You can make a donation when you register on the Eventbrite page\, or make a tax-deductible donation on the Bureau’s Fractured Atlas page. Thank you for your support! \n  \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us! \n  \nReview quotes: \n“The author writes with a sense of blunt reality and warm humanity . . . The struggles\, deeply felt emotions\, and coming-of-age triumphs make this memoir touching and personal\, and it will stir reflection in those who read it.”\n—Kirkus Reviews\, starred review \n  \n“Memoirs like Grayhall’ s are important to us. The larger culture has owned the narrative forever and rendered us inconsequential if not invisible. Our untold stories need to be out there\, and a story like Grayhall’s from a woman of her achievements is a vital contribution to our community and history.”\n—Katherine V. Forrest\, author of Curious Wine and the Kate Delafield Mystery Series \n  \n“Grayhall skillfully depicts the problems confronting any ambitious person in search of stable romantic relationships . . . those professional challenges resonate throughout this fast-paced\, immersive\, and weighty memoir that will resonate with anyone who has experienced the hardships of being true to yourself.”\n—BookLife Reviews \n  \n“Patricia Grayhall has written a vital and thrilling memoir\, the story of a woman figuring out who she is and who she is meant to be.\n—Steve Almond\, New York Times best-selling author of Candyfreak and Against Football \n  \nPatricia Grayhall is a medical doctor and author of Making the Rounds; Defying Norms in Love and Medicine as well as articles in Queer Forty and The Gay and Lesbian Review. After nearly forty years of medical practice\, this is her debut\, very personal\, and frank memoir about coming out as a lesbian in the late 1960s and training to become a doctor when society disapproved of both for a woman. Patricia lives with the love of her life on an island in the Pacific Northwest where she enjoys other people’s dogs and the neighborhood wildlife including otters\, seals\, water birds and black bear.  \n  \nDavid Logan grew up in Cheyenne\, Wyoming and graduated from Harvard College in 1970. He then returned to the west to attend medical school at the University of Utah where he met Patricia. This began a close and loving friendship that has lasted over 50 years. They supported each other through internships and residencies in Boston and eventually their first real jobs in Washington DC. David lives with his life partner on a seven acre wildlife refuge (house included) in Palmetto\, Florida where they enjoy magnificent sunsets and amazing wildlife. \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/making-the-rounds-defying-norms-in-love-and-medicine/
LOCATION:Online event\, New York\, NY\, United States
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SUMMARY:OLNY Poly Movie Night: Angels of Sex (in person event)
DESCRIPTION:Open Love NY presents Poly Movie Night\, a FREE series of feature films that focus on the portrayal of consensual / ethical non-monogamy in cinema. This month we’ll be IN PERSON at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division.\n  \nPlease join us for Angels of Sex/El sexo de los ángeles (2012)\, directed by Xavier Villaverde and starring Astrid Bergès-Frisbey\, Álvaro Cervantes\, and Llorenç González.\n  \nWe’ll meet at 6:30 pm at the Bureau (in room 210 of The Lesbian\, Gay\, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center at 208 West 13th Street) for pre-screening socializing and start the movie at 7 pm. The event is free\, although a $5-$10 suggested donation to help fund future events is much appreciated.\n   \nYou can send donations through Venmo to @Open-LoveNY.\n  \nSynopsis: Student photographer Carla struggles with the change in her relationship to boyfriend Bruno when he falls for another man\, charming dancer/martial artist Rai. Running time: 1 hour 45 minutes. In Spanish with English subtitles.\n\n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/olny-poly-movie-night-angels-of-sex-in-person/
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:20221029T190000
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SUMMARY:HOMO NOVUS BOOK LAUNCH (in person event & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:Join debut novelist Gerard Cabrera and author-musician-journalist Huascar Robles for the book launch of Homo Novus. It’s Holy Week 1987\, and Fr. Linus Fitzgerald has just learned he has AIDS. Orlando Rosario\, the Puerto Rican boy he seduced at fourteen\, is now a man sitting by his bed\, and studying for the priesthood. In alternating chapters\, Linus and Orlando reflect on their desires and dreams\, secrets and sins\, hopes and faith\, and the paths that brought them together. As the narrative progresses\, each character reflects on their lives and how their histories have become inextricably bound together by their shared desires\, secrets\, sins\, and faith. By the end of the story\, the reader comes away with disturbing and powerful history of transgression and hope for redemption. \nCopies of Homo Novus will be available for purchase at the event. \nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us! \n  \nThis event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division\, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center\, 208 W. 13th St.\, NYC\, 10011. \nRegistration is not required. Seating is first come\, first served. \nAlso live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel \n  \nSuggested donation $10 to benefit the Bureau’s work. \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without donation. \nWe will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event\, but we can also take credit card donations at the register. \n  \nSafety protocol \nIn an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19: \nIf you have any symptoms associated with COVID-19 in the days leading up to the event\, we ask you to please stay home. \nPlease note that masks are required at all times inside The LGBT Community Center\, where the Bureau is located. \n  \nGerard Cabrera is a Massarican who moved to New York City from Boston in 1989 with no job\, no apartment\, and no money! It can be done! Over the years he has written for\, and served on\, the board of directors of Gay Community News\, has performed in drag as a member of the United Fruit Company\, helped manage one of the first safe sex programs for people with mental disabilities\, earned his Master’s degree in public health\, competed in the 1994 Gay Games\, and earned a law degree. Gerard has stocked shelves\, washed dishes\, worked in a plastic container factory and on an Old Spice assembly line. He has also represented people in housing court\, family court\, and probate court. Currently he works in the New York City Family Court. He is a past attendee of the Bread Loaf Writers Conference\, The Writers Studio\, and was a Bread Loaf Camargo Foundation Fellow in Cassis\, France. His fiction has appeared in various print and online journals. His novel\, Homo Novus\, has been called “stellar\,” “emotionally bold and always arresting\,” and treats his subject “with rare sensitivity\, empathy\, and intelligence.”  \n  \nHuascar Robles is a Puerto Rican author-journalist-photographer-musician who writes about economic\, social justice and LGBTQ+ issues in Puerto Rico\, the Caribbean and the U.S. His novel Demonios was recently published by Secta de los perros in San Juan\, Puerto Rico. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/homo-novus-book-launch/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:Memories of a Gay Catholic Boyhood: Coming of Age in the Sixties (in person event & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:John D’Emilio will discuss and read from his recently published memoir\, Memories of a Gay Catholic Boyhood. It describes how a boy raised in the Bronx in the 1950s in a politically and religiously conservative Italian family had his life reshaped in the sixties as he came to explore the hidden gay world of Manhattan; became an antiwar activist and conscientious objector while a student at Columbia; and made the decision to research and write U.S. history as a tool for social change. \nCopies of Memories of a Gay Catholic Boyhood: Coming of Age in the Sixties will soon be available on the Bureau’s online store\, and will be available for purchase at the event. \nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us! \n  \nThis event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division\, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center\, 208 W. 13th St.\, NYC\, 10011. \nRegistration is not required. Seating is first come\, first served. \nAlso live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel \n  \nSuggested donation $10 to benefit the Bureau’s work. \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without donation. \nWe will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event\, but we can also take credit card donations at the register. \n  \nSafety protocol \nIn an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19: \nIf you have any symptoms associated with COVID-19 in the days leading up to the event\, we ask you to please stay home. \nPlease note that masks are required at all times inside The LGBT Community Center\, where the Bureau is located. \n  \nA pioneer in the field of LGBTQ studies and the history of sexuality\, John D’Emilio has written or edited almost a dozen books\, including Sexual Politics\, Sexual Communities: the Making of a Homosexual Minority; Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America; and Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/memories-of-a-gay-catholic-boyhood-coming-of-age-in-the-sixties/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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