Generations of Queer Activism
2021-04-23 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | Online event, New York, NY, United States
Exploring new and enduring tactics, strategies and methods of LGBTQIA2S+ activism, organizers from across generations will address how they push forward towards Queer liberation. Topics include: combating institutional racism and systemic marginalization; the challenges and openings from the COVID Pandemic, organizing online and the impact of the George Floyd protests of 2020, ….. and what we all can do to work towards a more just and equitable society.
Featuring panelists Leslie Cagan, Mx. Je’Jae Cleo Daniels, ABilly Jones-Hennin, Dwreck Ingram, & Jay W. Walker, Generations of Activism is the second in a series of five virtual events presented by Reclaim Pride Coalition and the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division in the weeks leading up to the Queer Liberation March, on Sunday, June 27th, 2021. In conjunction with these events, the Bureau’s online store now features a section devoted to titles recommended by Reclaim Pride Coalition members.​
A recording of this event can be viewed on the Bureau’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVdnCnardhc
Panelists’ biographies:
LESLIE CAGAN has worked in social justice and peace movements for over 50 years: from lesbian/queer liberation to nuclear disarmament, the wars in Vietnam and Iraq to racism at home, fighting sexism to working against U.S. military intervention. Her coalition-building and organizing skills have mobilized hundreds of thousands of people in many of the nation’s largest demonstrations and too many other protests to count. In 2019 Leslie was part of the core organizer team for the first Queer Liberation March in NYC. Leslie is currently the coordinator of the People’s Climate Movement-NY, serves on the leadership body of NY Renews (statewide climate coalition). She’s worked on several progressive electoral campaigns, including serving as the Field Director in the 1988 Dinkins NY Mayoral race.

MX. JE’JAE CLEO DANIELS, (they/them/Queen) is a Mizrahi Enby organizer, producer, and writer in NYC. They’re the founder of “NYC Queer Activists” and “Trans Writers Collective” two coalitions of activists, writers, and artists focusing on underrepresented folks in the queer community. Mx Cleo was nominated in 2021 for a year long fellowship as part of Equality NY & Pride Network’s “advocacy institutes” – a fellowship which includes rapid protest response, community arts programming, grants, and mobilizing virtual campaigns for city/state justice. They are a long time member of Voices4, Stonewall Dems, Audre Lorde Project, and of course Reclaim Pride Coalition as well as a long standing volunteer at local initiatives, such as Arts & Acceptance, Reelworks, and the Anti-Violence Project. From building sustainable farms through Americorps in NYCHA settlements, to building media literacy in public schools, to advancing youth programming as an out Nonbinary Community Board 3 member, Mx Cleo’s call to “tikkun olam” — repairing their home city — persists flamboyantly! You can follow their writing at https://mxenigmatic.tumblr.com/​ or @Mx. Enigma

ABILLY JONES-HENNIN is a bisexual+ activist in a same gender relationship for 44 years with his Bi+ partner, Christopher. A founding member of the National Coalition of Black Lesbians & Gays (NCBLG) and DC Gay/Bi Married Men Association (GAMMA), he is currently active with the National Association of Black & White Men Together (BWMT) and DC Disability Community.

DWRECK INGRAM is a Haitian American activist and co-founder of social advocacy group, Warriors in the Garden- a Collective of nonviolent activists dedicated to protect our community from all forms of systematic oppression.

JAY W. WALKER has been involved in activism surrounding LGBTQ+ and HIV/AIDS issues for over 20 years. In 1998, he helped form the October 19th Coalition which used direct action activism to raise awareness of hate crimes targeting LGBTQ communities. He also volunteered with GMHC’s NY Citizens AIDS Network legislative public policy initiative. A founding member of Gays Against Guns, Rise and Resist, Sing Out, Louise, March for the Dead, and a co-founder of the Reclaim Pride Coalition and The Queer Liberation March, over the last 20 years, Jay has conceived, produced and co-produced numerous fundraising events, public awareness campaigns, rallies, marches, and direct action protests focusing on hate crimes, Gun Violence Prevention, HIV/AIDS, Anti-fascism, Resistance to the trump administration, and, now, rebuilding our democracy in its wake. Jay recognizes the crucial role that intersectionality plays effective activism and resistance to the current political regime in Washington, DC. Much of his work within the organizations he belongs to has been in trying to develop synergies among them to work in concert.

Too Bright To See: Hal Schrieve in conversation with Kyle Lukoff
2021-04-25 11:00 - 12:00 | Online event, New York, NY, United States
A recording of this event can be viewed on the Bureau’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4pfo7RZuPw
Please join Kyle Lukoff as he introduces his debut middle grade novel Too Bright To See with librarian and young adult author Hal Schrieve.

Registration on Eventbrite is required in order to receive the Zoom link on the day of the event.
Closed-captioning will be available.
Suggested donation to benefit the Bureau: $5.
All are welcome to join, with or without a donation.
You can make a donation when you register on Eventbrite.

Click here to register

Pre-orderToo Bright To See before or on Sunday, April 25th, 2021, and receive 25% off!

Too Bright To See will be released on April 20th. Shipments to customers will go out as soon as copies are available.

Kyle Lukoff is the Stonewall-award winning author When Aidan Became A Brother, as well as other picture books like Call Me Max, Explosion at the Poem Factory, and the forthcoming If You’re A Kid Like Gavin.

Hal Schrieve is the author of Out of Salem, longlisted for the National Book Award, and is a librarian at the NYPL.

We Keep Us Safe: Prison Abolition and Transformative Justice
2021-05-07 18:00 - 19:30 | Online event, New York, NY, United States
Join Chidi Adeyemi, Lydia Brown, Nomi Isaac, Vicky Osterweil, Matthew Perry, & Jennifer Love Williams to talk prison abolition & transformative justice.
The prison industrial complex harms us all. The United States uses mass incarceration, policing, judicial practices, and fines to control Black and Brown communities and to profit from their pain. In this panel, activists and organizers will explore abolitionist imaginations of a world without incarceration and state violence. Transformative justice seeks to solve the problem of violence at a grassroots level, without relying on punishment, incarceration, or policing. It allows us to build a world dependent on community, mutual aid, harm reduction, and transformative justice-informed violence intervention—not cops and cages—to deliver safety and justice. In this panel, we’ll explore the history of this radical movement, how panelists address and fight the devastating impacts of the carceral system on Queer and Trans people of color (QTPOC), and how we imagine a future where we keep us safe.
We Keep Us Safe: Prison Abolition and Transformative Justice is the third in a series of five virtual events* presented by Reclaim Pride Coalition and the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division in the weeks leading up to the Queer Liberation March, on Sunday, June 27th, 2021.
FREE event!
You can livestream this event on the Bureau’s or Reclaim Pride Coalition’s Facebook pages or YouTube channels. You’ve got options!
Watch on Reclaim Pride Coalition’s Facebook page
Watch on the Bureau’s Facebook page
Watch on RPC’s YouTube channel
Watch on the Bureau’s YouTube channel
Advance registration is not required to join this event.
In conjunction with these events, the Bureau’s online store now features a section devoted to titles recommended by Reclaim Pride Coalition members–click here to view recommended books on prison abolition and transformative justice.
Panelists’ biographies:
Chidi Adeyemi (they/them) is a Black nonbinary babe currently organizing with the Reclaim Pride Coalition (RPC), a collection of LGBTQIA2S+ folks organizing our third annual Queer Liberation March with no corporate sponsors and no NYPD control. They are also a volunteer operator with Trans Lifeline, a peer-support crisis hotline for trans callers that emphasizes harm-reduction and sharing resources, and does not allow nonconsensual active rescue. Chidi believes police place people at risk, especially callers who are poor, people of colour, sick and/or diabled; and that laying the groundwork for support without the risk of nonconsensual intervention saves lives. For three years, Chidi was a leader of Queer Union (an NYU activist organization), where they worked to support trans and GNC communties with campaigns for trans inclusive healthcare and classrooms, All Gender Clothing Swaps, and QTBIPOC Wellness events. In their free time, Chidi loves to care for their plants, drink endless cups of tea, and read the pick for their weekly book club, The Reading Rainbow Revolution.
Lydia X. Z. Brown (they/them/no pronouns) is an advocate, educator, and attorney addressing state and interpersonal violence targeting disabled people living at the intersections of race, class, gender, sexuality, faith, language, and nation. Lydia is Policy Counsel for Privacy & Data at the Center for Democracy & Technology, focused on algorithmic discrimination and disability, as well as Director of Policy, Advocacy, & External Affairs at the Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network. They are founding director of the Fund for Community Reparations for Autistic People of Color’s Interdependence, Survival, & Empowerment. Lydia is adjunct lecturer/core faculty in Georgetown University’s Disability Studies Program, and adjunct professorial lecturer in American Studies at American University’s Department of Critical Race, Gender, & Culture Studies. They serve as a commissioner on the American Bar Association’s Commission on Disability Rights, chairperson of the ABA Civil Rights & Social Justice Section’s Disability Rights Committee, board co-chair of the Disability Rights Bar Association, and representative for the Disability Justice Committee to the National Lawyers Guild’s National Executive Committee. Lydia is currently creating their own tarot deck, Disability Justice Wisdom Tarot. Often, their most important work has no title, job description, or funding, and probably never will.
Nomi Isaac (awaiting bio)
Vicky Osterweil (she/her) is a writer, editor and agitator based out of Philadelphia. Her book In Defense of Looting: A Riotous History of Uncivil Action was released in 2020 by Bold Type Books. She is the co-host of the podcast Cerise and Vicky Rank the Movies, where they are ranking all the movies ever made.
Matthew Perry (he/they) currently organizes with the Richmond Community Bail Fund (RCBF), a non-hierarchical volunteer-run nonprofit they helped to start in 2017 which posts bail for anyone who needs it in the Richmond, VA region, and broadly works to reduce the life-destructive harm caused by pretrial incarceration. RCBF engages with bail fund work through an abolitionist lens, which means posting bail for people regardless of their charge, and recognizing that ending cash bail alone isn’t enough because the anti-black, anti-poor, anti-trans violence it reflects will not end until systems of policing and incarceration themselves are overthrown.
Matthew understands abolition as the work of building a world where we rely on mutual aid, harm reduction, and transformative justice-informed violence intervention—not cops and cages—to deliver safety and justice, and thinks bail funds can be a great way to begin materializing this world. They are leaving RCBF at the end of this summer to pursue an MA in Experimental Humanities at NYU, and can’t wait to get re-involved with the vast (and growing) amount of abolitionist organizing happening in New York. When they’re not doing bail fund work, they love reading novels, playing soccer, and petting cats.
Jennifer Love Williams (she/her) is a formerly incarcerated black transwoman, an Entertainer and an Activist. She’s the Foundress the Jen Love Project and serves as Co-Chair of the formerly incarcerated subgroup of the National LGBT/HIV Criminal Justice Working Group. She also does work with The National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls. (Photo credit: Jose Ramon Photography)
*Watch recordings of the previous two panels on the Bureau’s YouTube channel:
No Place to Call Home: Queer and Trans Houselessness, 2021, took place on April 15, 2021.
Generations of Queer Activism took place on April 27, 2021.
The prison industrial complex harms us all. The United States uses mass incarceration, policing, judicial practices, and fines to control Black and Brown communities and to profit from their pain. In this panel, activists and organizers will explore abolitionist imaginations of a world without incarceration and state violence. Transformative justice seeks to solve the problem of violence at a grassroots level, without relying on punishment, incarceration, or policing. It allows us to build a world dependent on community, mutual aid, harm reduction, and transformative justice-informed violence intervention—not cops and cages—to deliver safety and justice. In this panel, we’ll explore the history of this radical movement, how panelists address and fight the devastating impacts of the carceral system on Queer and Trans people of color (QTPOC), and how we imagine a future where we keep us safe.

We Keep Us Safe: Prison Abolition and Transformative Justice is the third in a series of five virtual events* presented by Reclaim Pride Coalition and the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division in the weeks leading up to the Queer Liberation March, on Sunday, June 27th, 2021.
FREE event!
You can livestream this event on the Bureau’s or Reclaim Pride Coalition’s Facebook pages or YouTube channels. You’ve got options! We will post links here and on our social media pages in the days leading up to the event, and we’ll send the links to all who register on Eventbrite. Advance registration is not required to join this event.
In conjunction with these events, the Bureau’s online store now features a section devoted to titles recommended by Reclaim Pride Coalition members–click here to view.

Panelists’ biographies:
Chidi Adeyemi (they/them) is a Black nonbinary babe currently organizing with the Reclaim Pride Coalition (RPC), a collection of LGBTQIA2S+ folks organizing our third annual Queer Liberation March with no corporate sponsors and no NYPD control. They are also a volunteer operator with Trans Lifeline, a peer-support crisis hotline for trans callers that emphasizes harm-reduction and sharing resources, and does not allow nonconsensual active rescue. Chidi believes police place people at risk, especially callers who are poor, people of colour, sick and/or diabled; and that laying the groundwork for support without the risk of nonconsensual intervention saves lives. For three years, Chidi was a leader of Queer Union (an NYU activist organization), where they worked to support trans and GNC communties with campaigns for trans inclusive healthcare and classrooms, All Gender Clothing Swaps, and QTBIPOC Wellness events. In their free time, Chidi loves to care for their plants, drink endless cups of tea, and read the pick for their weekly book club, The Reading Rainbow Revolution.

Nomi Isaac (awaiting bio)

Vicky Osterweil (she/her) is a writer, editor, and agitator and a regular contributor to The New Inquiry. Her writing has also appeared in The Baffler, The Nation, The Rumpus, Real Life, and Al Jazeera America.

Matthew Perry (he/they) currently organizes with the Richmond Community Bail Fund (RCBF), a non-hierarchical volunteer-run nonprofit they helped to start in 2017 which posts bail for anyone who needs it in the Richmond, VA region, and broadly works to reduce the life-destructive harm caused by pretrial incarceration. RCBF engages with bail fund work through an abolitionist lens, which means posting bail for people regardless of their charge, and recognizing that ending cash bail alone isn’t enough because the anti-black, anti-poor, anti-trans violence it reflects will not end until systems of policing and incarceration themselves are overthrown.
Matthew understands abolition as the work of building a world where we rely on mutual aid, harm reduction, and transformative justice-informed violence intervention—not cops and cages—to deliver safety and justice, and thinks bail funds can be a great way to begin materializing this world. They are leaving RCBF at the end of this summer to pursue an MA in Experimental Humanities at NYU, and can’t wait to get re-involved with the vast (and growing) amount of abolitionist organizing happening in New York. When they’re not doing bail fund work, they love reading novels, playing soccer, and petting cats.

Jennifer Love Williams (she/her) is a formerly incarcerated black transwoman, an Entertainer and an Activist. She’s the Foundress the Jen Love Project and serves as Co-Chair of the formerly incarcerated subgroup of the National LGBT/HIV Criminal Justice Working Group. She also does work with The National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls. (Photo credit: Jose Ramon Photography)

*Watch recordings of the previous two panels on the Bureau’s YouTube channel:
No Place to Call Home: Queer and Trans Houselessness, 2021, took place on April 15, 2021.
Generations of Queer Activism took place on April 27, 2021.

Four Authors Celebrate Transgender and Non-Binary Children
2021-05-08 11:00 - 12:00 | Online event, New York, NY, United States
Four authors from Los Angeles, Brooklyn, and Malmö and Stockholm, Sweden respectively will discuss new books they’ve each published for and about trans and non-binary children, and the personal experiences that inspired their creations.

Registration on Eventbrite is required in order to receive the Zoom link on the day of the event.
Closed-captioning will be available.
Suggested donation to benefit the Bureau: $5.
All are welcome to join, with or without a donation.
You can make a donation when you register on Eventbrite.
Click here to register

Purchase any of the following titles before or on Saturday, May 8th, 2021, and receive 25% off!
Camilla Gisslow‘s Perfectly Linus, Perfectly Bella, and Perfectly Charlie, each $11.99 (regularly $15.99 each)
Ris iRAWniQ Anderson‘s Charlie’s Best Work Yet, $12.74 (regularly $16.99)
Jodie Patterson‘s Born Ready: The True Story of a Boy Named Penelope , $13.49 (regularly $17.99)
Marcus Tallberg and Emma Björck’s My Teen Queer Life, $14.24 (regularly $18.99)
Thank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us!

Participant biographies:
Camilla Gisslow: “My journey began when my child came out in 1997 at the age of four and a half. He clearly explained to me one evening that he was not a girl, but a boy,” says Swedish author, transgender and LGBTQ+ rights activist, educator and filmmaker Camilla Gisslow. She is the author of the “Perfectly Me” trans children’s book series, Perfectly Linus, Perfectly Bella, and Perfectly Charlie—three sweet coming out stories in which each child asserts their chosen gender identity, which is then celebrated with a party at school for their new names. In 2018 she directed the documentary, “Save Our Lives,” which shares the lives of three families which have embraced their trans children since they came out. (A link and password to view the film will be shared at the close of the May 8th event.) Camilla is the founder of Trans-Forming, a consulting company that offers trans and LGBTQ+ sensitivity training. She lives in Malmö, Sweden. www.transforming.se

Ris iRAWniQ Anderson (RAW), is the author of Charlie’s Best Work Yet, a beautifully illustrated children’s book about an artistic, androgynous grade school girl, who thanks to a fellow student, discovers and then finds strength in her newfound hero, Grace Jones. RAW is a non-binary masculine-identified author, alternative musician, voice over artist and actor and “momma to my 12 year old shy, yet brilliant boy.” They are based in Los Angeles. More about iRAWniQ here. @irawniq

Jodie Patterson is the author of The Bold World: A Memoir of Family and Transformation and was Family Circle magazine’s Most Influential Mom in 2018. She is the mother of five children, two of whom are self-proclaimed gender nonconformists–one transgender and another genderqueer. Jodie was inspired to write Born Ready: The True Story of a Boy Named Penelope to show how an entire community can be flexible and change for those they love. Jodie raises her family in Brooklyn, New York. www.georgiany.com.

Marcus Tallberg is the founder of Stockholm-based rainbow media publishing company, Tallbergs Förlag, which has released nearly 40 LGBTQ novels, YA and children’s titles, as well as Camilla Gisslow’s “Save Our Lives” documentary. Late 2020/early 2021 the house released eight titles in North America, including Camilla Gisslow’s “Perfectly Me” series and the semi-autobiographical, My Queer Teen Life, by Marcus Tallberg and Emma Björck. Marcus and Tallbergs Förlag is based in Stockholm. www.tallbergsforlag.se

2021 Publishing Triangle Awards Finalists Readings
2021-05-10 19:00 - 21:00 | Online event, New York, NY, United States
The Bureau is thrilled to host two nights of online readings by Publishing Triangle Awards finalists!
On Monday, May 10, and Tuesday, May 11, the Publishing Triangle will hold its seventh Finalists Reading (in two parts), featuring 17 nominees for the Publishing Triangle awards. This sterling batch of LGBT authors will read excerpts from their books, which represent the best in LGBT writing published in 2020, on the nights before our awards are announced.
Readings begin at 7 PM EDT on both Monday, May 10, and Tuesday, May 11.
Registration on Eventbrite is required in order to receive the links you need to join the events. Registration is for BOTH readings.
These virtual readings are FREE, but donations to support the Bureau are always welcome! You can make a donation when you register on Eventbrite. Thank you for your support!
On the mornings of May 10th and May 11th, you will receive an email with the appropriate link for that night’s event on Zoom.*
Click here to register for both readings

All of the Publishing Triangle Awards finalists are available for purchase on the Bureau’s online store. Click on any title below to view or click here to view all finalists by category.
25% off all Publishing Triangle Awards finalists with this code: FGKXL9GEX0YM
This code is good for a single use on Publishing Triangle Awards finalists titles only, but you can purchase as many of these titles as you like! So take advantage of this limited-time offer and fill up your cart! Enter the discount code (below the total) when you check out.
Thank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us!
Monday, May 10
Mark Bibbins, 13th Balloon (Copper Canyon Press) – Finalist for the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry
S. Brook Corfman, My Daily Actions, or The Meteorites (Fordham University Press) – Finalist for the Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature
Jameson Fitzpatrick , Pricks in the Tapestry (Birds, LLC) – Finalist for the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry
Sarah M. Sala, Devil’s Lake (Tolsun Books) – Finalist for the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry
Julia Serano, 99 Erics: A Kat Cataclysm Faux Novel (Switch Hitter Press) – Finalist for the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction
Jenn Shapland , My Autobiography of Carson McCullers (Tin House) – Finalist for the Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction
Ross A. Slotten, Plague Years: A Doctor’s Journey Through the AIDS Crisis (University of Chicago Press) – Finalist for the Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction
Bishakh Som, Apsara Engine (Feminist Press) – Finalist for the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction
Julie Marie Wade, Just an Ordinary Woman Breathing (Mad Creek Books/Ohio State University Press) – Finalist for the Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction

Tuesday, May 11
Ellen Bass, Indigo (Copper Canyon Press) – Finalist for the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry
John Birdsall, The Man Who Ate Too Much: The Life of James Beard (W. W. Norton) – Finalist for the Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction
Tommye Blount, Fantasia for the Man in Blue (Four Way Books) – Finalist for the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry
Eric Cervini, The Deviant’s War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) – Finalist for the Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction
Juliana Delgado Lopera, Fiebre Tropical (Feminist Press) – Finalist for the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction
francine j. harris, Here Is the Sweet Hand (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) – Finalist for the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry
Natalie Diaz, Postcolonial Love Poem (Graywolf Press) – Finalist for the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry
Sophie Yanow, The Contradictions (Drawn and Quarterly) – Finalist for the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction

*If you do not see the email on the day of the event, please check your email settings, your Spam box, and/or your promotions and social tabs. If you’re having any trouble, please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com.

The Publishing Triangle is a group of queer folks who work to further the publication of books and other materials written by LGBTQ authors or with LGBTQ themes.
We come from all types of backgrounds. We are on staff and we’re freelancers. We are editors, agents, and booksellers; we work in sub rights, publicity, sales, design, and production. Many of us are writers. We are also librarians, teachers, booksellers, and even avid readers who don’t work in a publishing-related field.
Our primary method of shining a much-needed light on queer books is through our awards program. We give out ten awards annually (at an awards ceremony, usually in April at the New School in Manhattan), each with a cash prize of between $500 and $3000. Seven of these awards honor the best books published in the previous calendar year in nonfiction, fiction, poetry, and trans/gender-variant literature. There is a lifetime achievement award and an emerging-writer award; and we also honor a book-industry figure each year (not a writer) with our leadership award.
Through our social media and our newsletter—as well as through readings, social networking events, and other programs in the New York City area—we strive to promote a sense of camaraderie in the queer literary community.
Membership dues start at $40 a year for individuals (there are additional levels of membership for families and businesses). For more details, see our membership page.
If you have additional questions about the Triangle and its programs, please email us at info@publishingtriangle.org or write us at the address listed below.

The Publishing Triangle
511 Avenue of the Americas, #D36
New York, NY 10011

2021 Publishing Triangle Awards Finalists Readings
2021-05-11 19:00 - 21:00 | Online event, New York, NY, United States
The Bureau is thrilled to host two nights of online readings by Publishing Triangle Awards finalists!
On Monday, May 10, and Tuesday, May 11, the Publishing Triangle will hold its seventh Finalists Reading (in two parts), featuring 17 nominees for the Publishing Triangle awards. This sterling batch of LGBT authors will read excerpts from their books, which represent the best in LGBT writing published in 2020, on the nights before our awards are announced.
Readings begin at 7 PM EDT on both Monday, May 10, and Tuesday, May 11.
Registration on Eventbrite is required in order to receive the links you need to join the events. Registration is for BOTH readings.
These virtual readings are FREE, but donations to support the Bureau are always welcome! You can make a donation when you register on Eventbrite. Thank you for your support!
On the mornings of May 10th and May 11th, you will receive an email with the appropriate link for that night’s event on Zoom.*
Click here to register for both readings

All of the Publishing Triangle Awards finalists are available for purchase on the Bureau’s online store. Click on any title below to view or click here to view all finalists by category.
25% off all Publishing Triangle Awards finalists with this discount code: FGKXL9GEX0YM
This code is good for a single use on Publishing Triangle Awards finalists titles only, but you can purchase as many of these titles as you like! So take advantage of this limited-time offer and fill up your cart! Enter the discount code (below the total) when you check out.
Thank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us!
Monday, May 10
Mark Bibbins, 13th Balloon (Copper Canyon Press) – Finalist for the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry
S. Brook Corfman, My Daily Actions, or The Meteorites (Fordham University Press) – Finalist for the Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature
Jameson Fitzpatrick , Pricks in the Tapestry (Birds, LLC) – Finalist for the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry
Sarah M. Sala, Devil’s Lake (Tolsun Books) – Finalist for the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry
Julia Serano, 99 Erics: A Kat Cataclysm Faux Novel (Switch Hitter Press) – Finalist for the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction
Jenn Shapland , My Autobiography of Carson McCullers (Tin House) – Finalist for the Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction
Ross A. Slotten, Plague Years: A Doctor’s Journey Through the AIDS Crisis (University of Chicago Press) – Finalist for the Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction
Bishakh Som, Apsara Engine (Feminist Press) – Finalist for the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction
Julie Marie Wade, Just an Ordinary Woman Breathing (Mad Creek Books/Ohio State University Press) – Finalist for the Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction

Tuesday, May 11
Ellen Bass, Indigo (Copper Canyon Press) – Finalist for the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry
John Birdsall, The Man Who Ate Too Much: The Life of James Beard (W. W. Norton) – Finalist for the Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction
Tommye Blount, Fantasia for the Man in Blue (Four Way Books) – Finalist for the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry
Eric Cervini, The Deviant’s War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) – Finalist for the Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction
Juliana Delgado Lopera, Fiebre Tropical (Feminist Press) – Finalist for the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction
francine j. harris, Here Is the Sweet Hand (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) – Finalist for the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry
Natalie Diaz, Postcolonial Love Poem (Graywolf Press) – Finalist for the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry
Sophie Yanow, The Contradictions (Drawn and Quarterly) – Finalist for the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction

*If you do not see the email on the day of the event, please check your email settings, your Spam box, and/or your promotions and social tabs. If you’re having any trouble, please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com.

The Publishing Triangle is a group of queer folks who work to further the publication of books and other materials written by LGBTQ authors or with LGBTQ themes.
We come from all types of backgrounds. We are on staff and we’re freelancers. We are editors, agents, and booksellers; we work in sub rights, publicity, sales, design, and production. Many of us are writers. We are also librarians, teachers, booksellers, and even avid readers who don’t work in a publishing-related field.
Our primary method of shining a much-needed light on queer books is through our awards program. We give out ten awards annually (at an awards ceremony, usually in April at the New School in Manhattan), each with a cash prize of between $500 and $3000. Seven of these awards honor the best books published in the previous calendar year in nonfiction, fiction, poetry, and trans/gender-variant literature. There is a lifetime achievement award and an emerging-writer award; and we also honor a book-industry figure each year (not a writer) with our leadership award.
Through our social media and our newsletter—as well as through readings, social networking events, and other programs in the New York City area—we strive to promote a sense of camaraderie in the queer literary community.
Membership dues start at $40 a year for individuals (there are additional levels of membership for families and businesses). For more details, see our membership page.
If you have additional questions about the Triangle and its programs, please email us at info@publishingtriangle.org or write us at the address listed below.

The Publishing Triangle
511 Avenue of the Americas, #D36
New York, NY 10011

Sexual Hegemony: Max Fox in conversation with Hannah Black and Kay Gabriel
2021-05-13 19:00 - 20:30 | NY
Christopher Chitty’s posthumous Sexual Hegemony: Statecraft, Sodomy and Capital in the Rise of the World System was published in 2020. Join editor Max Fox for a conversation with Hannah Black and Kay Gabriel to discuss its genesis and meaning for the queer marxist project of liberation.

Registration on Eventbrite is required in order to receive the Zoom link on the day of the event.
Closed-captioning will be available.
Suggested donation to benefit the Bureau: $5.
All are welcome to join, with or without a donation.
You can make a donation when you register on Eventbrite.
Click here to register

Purchase Sexual Hegemony before or on Thursday, May 13th, 2021, and receive 25% off!

About Sexual Hegemony: Statecraft, Sodomy and Capital in the Rise of the World System :
In Sexual Hegemony Christopher Chitty traces the five-hundred year history of capitalist sexual relations by excavating the class dynamics of the bourgeoisie’s attempts to regulate homosexuality. Tracking the politicization of male homosexuality in Renaissance Florence, Amsterdam, Paris, and London between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, as well as twentieth-century New York City, Chitty shows how sexuality became a crucial dimension of the accumulation of capital and a technique of bourgeois rule.
Whether policing male sodomy during the Medici rule in Florence or accusing the French aristocracy of monstrous sexuality in the wake of the French Revolution, the bourgeoisie weaponized both sexual constraint and sexual freedom in order to produce and control a reliable and regimented labor class and subordinate it to civil society and the state. Only by grasping sexuality as a field of social contention and the site of class conflict, Chitty contends, can we embark on a politics that destroys sexuality as a tool and an effect of power and open a front against the forces that keep us unfree.
Book cover art: Jesse Mockrin, Some Unknown Power, 2018, Oil on linen, 26 × 18 in (66 × 45.7 cm)

Office Hours Poetry Spring 2021 Showcase Reading
2021-05-14 19:00 - 20:30 | Online event, New York, NY, United States
Join us Friday May 14th at 7:00 PM EDT for the Office Hours Spring 2021 (Virtual) Showcase Reading! 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.
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Carrie Hohmann Campbell is the author of the chapbooks Drawn to Extinction (Finishing Line Press) and incongruent: someday (dancing girl press). She has degrees from Allegheny College and New York University. She and her family live in northwestern Pennsylvania where she precariously balances teaching creative writing at Edinboro University, homesteading, and writing.

Laura Cresté is the author of You Should Feel Bad, which was selected for a 2019 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship. She holds an MFA in Poetry from New York University and her poems have appeared in journals including No Tokens, Tinderbox, Breakwater Review, and Bodega. In Fall 2021, she will be a fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown.

Linda Harris Dolan is a poet, editor, and educator. As a teaching artist at NYU Langone’s Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital, she holds one-on-one writing sessions with pediatric patients. She earned an MFA in Poetry from NYU, where she was a Starworks Creative Writing Fellow, and an MA in English & American Literature from NYU. Her work appears in Barrow Street, The Brooklyn Review, Cordella, and Breakwater Review, among others, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

J. Freeborn is a teacher and the anthology books managing editor at The Poetry Society of New York.

Emily Hockaday is the author of four chapbooks. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals, and, along with Jackie Sherbow, she coedited the anthology Terror at the Crossroads. She can be found on the web at www.emilyhockaday.com and @E_Hockaday.

Paco Márquez is author of Portraits in G Minor (Folded Word Press, 2017). His poems can be found in Fence, Apogee, Live Mag! and Huizache. Originally from León, Mexico, Paco has spent most of his life in Sacramento and the San Francisco Bay Area. Find out more at: pacomarquez.net

Holly Mitchell is a poet from Kentucky, now based in New York. A winner of an Amy Award from Poets & Writers and a Gertrude Claytor Prize from the Academy of American Poets, Holly received an MFA in Creative Writing from New York University. Holly’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Afternoon Visitor, Fence magazine’s digital series Elecment, and No, Dear, among other publications.

James Fujinami Moore‘s debut collection indecent hours is forthcoming from Four Way Books in 2022. His work has appeared or is forthcoming 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, and online at jamesfujinamimoore.com.

Sarah M. Sala 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.

Noel Sikorski is a Senior Lecturer in the Expository Writing Program at NYU. Her poems have appeared in American Poets Magazine, Georgetown Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, and The Bellevue Literary Review.

Avia Tadmor was born in Israel. Her poems appeared in New England Review, the Adroit Journal, Crab Orchard Review, Apogee, Nashville Review, and elsewhere. She received support from the Vermont Studio Center and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Avia holds a BA from Harvard University and an MFA from Columbia University. She lives in New York.

TELL 73: Animals
2021-05-15 18:00 - 19:30 | NY
TELL 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.
Animals is the theme of the 73rd TELL, on Saturday, May 15, 2021, 6 to 7:30 PM (EDT). Featuring: Rawya El Chab, Kenny Hahn, and Fernando Vieira.
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Photograph by Grace Chu
Drae 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

Rawya El Chab is a Brooklyn-based performance artist and theater-maker from Beirut, Lebanon. A multidisciplinary storyteller, Rawya’s career trajectory combines classical training in theatre with contemporary art and community engagement, with extensive experiences in physical, interactive, and street interventions. She has performed in major productions, working with leading theatre and cinema directors in Lebanon. Coming of age in the aftermath of the Civil War in Beirut, she has come to understand and experience theater and art as a critical space and practice where the state of emergency is suspended to give place for social, ethical and aesthetic reflections. Her philosophy and vision emphasize the democratization of the tools of theater as a means to respond and dismantle oppression and the reclaiming of public space as an extension of art-practice. Her process is immersed in ludic practices, engaging with ideas and concepts, and developing performances as a social commentary. Since she moved to New York in 2018, she has joined the Target Margin Theater working on several projects. She’s currently writing, directing and performing a piece, in collaboration with Aline Salloum, titled The Meltdown, that will feature during the Global Forms Festival at the Rattlestick Theater, on the 3d of June 2021.

Kenny Hahn (he/She) is a queer actor, playwright, director, devised theatre-maker, comedian, and passionate pie-maker. His play, Love Me Tender, premiered at the Wild Project Theater in September 2018, he performed at NYWinterfest 2019 and the Prague Fringe Festival 2019 with the show “In The Woods Where the Men Work, and he will be competing in this years YAAASFest Comedy Festival at the Broadway Comedy Club. Her pies can be tasted at any Hahn family dinner, or if she likes you, your family dinner.
Instagram: @kennythehahn

Fernando Vieira is an Ecuadorian born, New York-based writer, director, and performer. Most of his works document the effect of heteronormativity and misogyny on the lives of women and queer individuals. In 2016, he debuted as a playwright with the monologue “Me voy porque puedo,” (I’m leaving because I can), which he also directed. His latest play “Goodbye, Little George,” explores the subject of gender identity and homophobia. He recently debuted a documented performance titled “Unlabeled”, where he discusses life as a queer non-conforming person. Vieira has been part of artistic cohorts at institutions such as NYFA, Creative Capital, and Leslie-Lohman Museum.

Radical Black Love
2021-05-21 18:00 - 19:30 | Online event, New York, NY, United States
Join Francesca Barjon, Jade Bryan, Jaysen Henderson-Greenbey, Anesu Nyatanga, Junauda Petrus, & Hari Ziyad to talk about Radical Black Love
Radical Black love has developed a Black political movement focused on mutual care. Radical Black love requires that we are concerned for and responsible to one another. In an anti-Black world such as this, to choose to love and support Black people is a highly rebellious and potentially dangerous act. In this panel, activists and authors will explore what Radical Black love means to them and how it sparks imaginations of a free world for us all.
Radical Black Love is the fourth in a series of five virtual events* presented by Reclaim Pride Coalition and the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division in the weeks leading up to the Queer Liberation March, on Sunday, June 27th, 2021.
FREE event!
You can livestream this event on the Bureau’s or Reclaim Pride Coalition’s Facebook pages or YouTube channels. You’ve got options! Registration is not required in order to join the event. Click on any of the links below to join us tonight, Friday, May 21, 2021, at 6 PM EDT:
Reclaim Pride Coalition’s FB page: https://www.facebook.com/queermarch/posts/3105235273042357
The Bureau’s FB page: https://www.facebook.com/BGSQD/posts/3956243421137943
The Bureau’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QluJxMrES04
RPC’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2PNybs0Vpg
In conjunction with these events, the Bureau’s online store now features a section devoted to titles recommended by Reclaim Pride Coalition members–click here to view recommended books on radical Black love.

Panelists’ biographies:
Francesca R. Barjon (she/her) is a Haitian-American community organizer and screenwriter based in NY. Francesca’s writing and perspective is informed by her experience as a Black bisexual woman organizing the Queer Liberation March in NYC. She focuses on bridging cultural gaps and facilitating difficult conversations while empowering Black people, LGBTQIATS+ people, disabled people and other marginalized groups. She lives by the tenet “none are free, until all are free” and strives to practice radical empathy in building relationships and community. Lastly, as a healthcare consultant, Francesca has considered how social determinants of health impact the LGBTQIATS+ community and make members vulnerable to various physical and mental health issues.

Jade Bryan (she/her) graduated with a BFA degree in film production from one of the world’s top film schools at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Jade founded DeafVision Filmworks, Inc. and Jade Films and Entertainment, LLC, and has produced and directed such award-winning documentaries as “Listen to the Hands of Our People”, ”On and Off Stage: The Bruce Hlibok Stories”, “9/11 Fear in Silence: The Forgotten Underdogs” and “Reaching Zenith: A Black Deaf Filmmaker’s Journey.”
Jade completed her first feature, “If Your Could Hear My Own Tune”, which toured the festival circuit from 2010-2012. She worked tirelessly on the film for nine (9) years, which she produced in 2001. Jade in talks about producing it into a musical play (staged reading) this summer/fall of 2018. The new title is “Feel My Song.”
“The Shattered Mind” is her most recent feature film she completed in 2014 and toured 47 film festivals around the globe. “The Shattered Mind” won 17 awards; included Best Sound, Audience Award, Special Jury Prize, Best Exhibition Film and Best Narrative Feature and Short.
One of Jade’s projects, “The Two Essences”, a comedy sitcom pilot, will be her first television series. She is also pitching another pilot, “The Innocent Project,” about deaf females hero complex. And she is also working on a documentary, “Black and Deaf in America”, about various issues regarding deaf (African-Americans) who were impacted by police brutality, racism, black erasure and oppression in the educational system.
Jade believes in promoting inclusion, awareness, and positive representation of Deaf Talent of Color in television and film. She created the #DeafTalent® Movement on social media in 2012.

Jaysen Henderson-Greenbey (they/them) is a NYU Gallatin alum and former leader of NYU’s Queer Union, a position they held for three years. Their undergraduate concentration, “Storytelling from the Margins: Black Women’s Narratives,” explored themes of blackness, queerness, and marginality in literature, film, and music. Jaysen is a writer whose work explores the intersections of race, sexuality, and gender.

Anesu Nyatanga (he/him) studied Social & Cultural Analysis at New York University’s college of arts and science, and he believes in using an intersectional framework to support marginalized individuals in a variety of capacities. He worked with the New York City’s Mayor’s Office of Operations and Civic Engagement Commission. Here he coordinated interpretation services for limited-English proficient voters during NYC elections. While at NYU, he served as the Vice-Chair for the Student Senators Council and as a Senator-at-Large for Black and Trans students. He was the inaugural Gender & Sexuality Chair of the Governance Council for Marginalized and Minority Students, which serves to unify and provide a channel of access to institutional bodies between all student organizations and committees in the Global Network. Additionally, he was one of the thought leaders for Shades, a student group for LGBTQ people of color. On his days off, Anesu loves to weight lift, go to the movies, and argue about pop culture icons with his friends.

Junauda Petrus-Nasah (she/her) is a writer, a soul sweetener, runaway witch, and performance artist of Black-Caribbean descent, born and working on unceded Dakota land in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Her work centers around wildness, queerness, Black-diasporic-futurism, ancestral healing, sweetness, shimmer and liberation. Her first YA novel, The Stars and The Blackness Between Them received a Coretta Scott King Honor Award. And she really, really loves to eat and write about delicious food. She is the co-founder with Erin Sharkey of Free Black Dirt, a Black, experimental healing art collective. She is currently working on her second novel Black Circus, set in the 90s about a young, Black woman studying circus with a mysterious elder former circus performer.

Hari Ziyad (they/them) is a screenwriter, the editor-in-chief of RaceBaitr, and the bestselling author of Black Boy Out of Time (2021). They are a 2021 Lambda Literary Fellow, and their writing has been featured in Vanity Fair, Gawker, Out, The Guardian, Huffington Post, Ebony, Mic, Slate and Salon among other publications.

*Watch recordings of the previous three RPC/Bureau panels on the Bureau’s YouTube channel (click on links to view):
No Place to Call Home: Queer and Trans Houselessness, 2021, took place on April 15, 2021.
Generations of Queer Activism took place on April 27, 2021.
We Keep Us Safe: Prison Abolition and Transformative Justice took place on May 7, 2021.

IN WAVES AND WAVES ::: MOVEMENT//MEANING//PRESENCE THROUGH SPACE
2021-05-22 11:00 - 13:00 | Online event, New York, NY, United States
Join the Office Hours Community for a Craft Class and Reading with poet Nicole Wallace. Through a series of generative prompts and readings she’ll guide you to write new work and engage with the world.

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IN WAVES AND WAVES ::: MOVEMENT//MEANING//PRESENCE THROUGH SPACE
A craft writing workshop with Nicole Wallace centering on the possibilities space holds within our writing — through our words, formatting, and language(s) — to expand, disrupt, and transform movement, meaning, and presence. We will consider the ways written work translates into the spoken and vice versa and spend time locating the way our words/work exists in the expanse of space, time, and language.

Nicole Wallace is the author of the chapbook, WAASAMOWIN (IMP, 2019). Most recently, Nicole was the June/July 2020 poetry micro-resident at Running Dog and was a 2019 Poets House Emerging Poets Fellow. They are a member of the Indigenous Kinship Collective and Managing Director of The Poetry Project. Recent work can be read in print in Survivance: Indigenous Poesis Vol. IV Zine and online at Running Dog, A Perfect Vacuum, and LitHub. Originally from Gakaabikaang, located in Minnesota, Nicole is of mixed settler/European ancestry and is a descendent of the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa (Ojibwe). They currently live and make work on unceded, occupied Canarsee and Lenape territory (Brooklyn, NY).

Office Hours Poetry Workshop provides post-MFA poets access to continued support for manuscript-development and everyday writing. The workshop culminates in a public reading each fall and spring to showcase sizzling new work. We welcome all poets, especially people of color, LGBTQ+, and those who are woman-identified. Our name derives from our side hustle. Many of us are freelance, adjunct instructors, who continue to thrive in the margins of academia.

Maurice Sendak in Queer Perspective
2021-05-27 18:00 - 19:00 | Online event, New York, NY, United States
Join Golan Moskowitz as he reads to us from his new book, Wild Visionary: Maurice Sendak in Queer Jewish Context (2020), and converses with leading scholars Jack Halberstam and Kenneth Kidd about the book’s implications for queer studies.
Maurice Sendak (1928–2012), best known for his Where the Wild Things Are (1963), was a fierce, romantic, and shockingly funny truth seeker who intervened in modern literature and culture. Raising the stakes of children’s books, he painted childhood with the dark realism and wild imagination of his own sensitive “inner child,” drawing on the queer and Jewish sensibilities that shaped his singular voice. Interweaving literary biography and cultural history, Wild Visionary follows Sendak from his parents’ Brooklyn home to spaces of creative growth and artistic vision—from neighborhood movie palaces to Hell’s Kitchen, Greenwich Village, Fire Island, and the Connecticut country home he shared with Eugene Glynn, his partner of more than fifty years. Moskowitz analyzes Sendak’s investment in the figure of the endangered child in symbolic relation to collective touchstones that impacted the artist’s perspective—the Great Depression, the Holocaust, and the AIDS crisis.

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Participant biographies:
Jack Halberstam is Professor of Gender Studies and English at Columbia University. Halberstam is the author of seven books including: Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters (Duke UP, 1995), Female Masculinity (Duke UP, 1998), In A Queer Time and Place (NYU Press, 2005), The Queer Art of Failure (Duke UP, 2011), Gaga Feminism: Sex, Gender, and the End of Normal (Beacon Press, 2012), and a short book titled Trans*: A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variance (University of California Press). Halberstam’s latest book, 2020 from Duke UP is titled Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire. Places Journal awarded Halberstam its Arcus/Places Prize in 2018 for innovative public scholarship on the relationship between gender, sexuality and the built environment. Halberstam is now finishing a second volume on wildness titled: The Wild Beyond: Music, Architecture and Anarchy.

Kenneth Kidd is Professor of English at the University of Florida, where he also serves as Associate Director of the Center for Children’s Literature and Culture. He’s the author of three monographs,Making American Boys: Boyology and the Feral Tale;Freud in Oz: At the Intersections of Psychoanalysis and Children’s Literature; and Theory for Beginners: Children’s Literature as Critical Thought. He has co-editedWild Things: Children’s Culture and Ecocriticism; Over the Rainbow: Queer Children’s and Young Adult Literature; Prizing Children’s Literature: The Cultural Politics of Children’s Book Awards; and Queer as Camp: Essays on Summer, Style, and Sexuality. With Elizabeth Marshall he co-edits the Routledge series Children’s Literature and Culture.

Golan Moskowitz is Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies at Tulane University, where he teaches courses on Jewish gender and sexuality, American pop culture, Holocaust studies, and comics and graphic novels. He is the author of Wild Visionary: Maurice Sendak in Queer Jewish Context (Stanford University Press, 2020) and of several publications on intergenerational memory in post-Holocaust family narratives.

Jonathan Ned Katz talks: The Daring Life and Dangerous Times of Eve Adams
2021-05-28 18:00 - 19:30 | Online event, New York, NY, United States
Historian Jonathan Ned Katz discusses his biography of the spirited, resistant, Jewish, lesbian, immigrant, pioneer, deported from the U.S., who experienced the Nazis’ reign of terror. Published May 18, 2021, by Chicago Review Press.

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Jonathan Ned Katz is the author of four pioneering books on the US history of LGBTQ life, sexuality, and intimacy. He is the founder of OutHistory.org, and he has taught and spoken at Yale, Harvard, and Princeton. He is also the recipient of the Magnus Hirschfeld Medal for outstanding contributions to sex research and Yale University’s Brudner Prize, among many accolades.

Jackie Ess In Conversation With Torrey Peters
2021-05-29 19:00 - 20:00 | Online event, New York, NY, United States
Join us for an author talk and Q&A with Jackie Ess and Torrey Peters (Detransition, Baby) to discuss Jackie’s new book, DARRYL.
“Underneath the sharp satire and hilarious sexual irreverence this is a deadly serious book: a brilliant novel of a seeker, like The Pilgrim’s Progress refracted by queer internet culture.” —Torrey Peters, author of Detransition, Baby: a novel

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Jackie Ess is a writer, cultural mischief-maker, and minor internet celebrity. A co-founder of the Bay Area Trans Writers Workshop, her work can be found in Heavy Feather Review, the Zahir, the New Inquiry, Vetch, and the anthology We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics. Darryl is her first novel. Find her on Twitter @Jackie_Ess.

Torrey Peters is an American author. Her debut novel, Detransition, Baby, is one of the first written by a trans woman to be issued by the big-five publishing houses, Penguin Random House, and has received mainstream and critical success. The novel has been nominated for the prestigious 2020 Women’s Prize for Fiction.

LOOKING IN A 50+ YEARS GAY-CENTERED REAR VIEW MIRROR:
2021-05-30 19:00 - 20:30 | Online event, New York, NY, United States
For over a half-century continuously, Don Kilhefner, Ph.D. has been a radical, gay, community organizer and forward-thinking, gay-centered ideologue in Los Angeles, nationally and internationally.
THEN:
Member of the first Peace Corps to go to Ethiopia
Co-founded L.A.’s Gay Community Services Center, the world’s largest
Co-organized L.A.’s first Gay Freedom Day (Pride) marches
Co-founded the Radical Faeries, an international gay-centered spiritual and consciousness movement
Co-founded the Gay Elder Circle of Los Angeles
Organized hundreds of community-based conferences and workshops

NOW:
Gay community-based shaman
Jungian depth psychologist
Writer for LA Progressive
Queer eldering and intergenerational consciousness
Collaborating with his biographer, August Bernadicou, both true homos who have been around every block!

A RARE & EXCITING EVENING OF GAY CONSCIOUSNESS RAISING AND LOWERING
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Craft Class and Reading with Laura Esther Wolfson
2021-06-17 18:30 - 20:30 | Online event, New York, NY, United States
Join the Office Hours Community for a Craft Class and Reading with Laura Esther Wolfson!
Translating a Poem, Translating the World
No foreign language knowledge required. All levels welcome.
In this course, we will look at multiple English translations of an eight-line Russian poem, Я вас любил (“I Loved You”), by Alexander Pushkin, as a jumping-off point to ponder how slight shifts in word choice and emphasis change how the reader perceives a piece of writing and how all writing is a form of translation—of the world. No foreign language knowledge required. All levels welcome.
The course will also include freewheeling excursions into two of Laura’s adjacent obsessions: Russian literature and literary translation.
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Laura Esther Wolfson‘s debut essay collection, FOR SINGLE MOTHERS WORKING AS TRAIN CONDUCTORS, was awarded the 2017 Iowa Prize for Literary Nonfiction and published by the University of Iowa Press in 2018. She is currently working on her second book, entitled SUPER-PRICEY ROYAL BLUE FRENCH LACE BRA.
Her writing has been honored with the 2017 Notting Hill Essay Prize,
published in leading literary venues on both sides of the Atlantic, and cited in The Best American Essays. She is a Fellow at MacDowell (2018) and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (2017). She holds an MFA from the New School and lives in New York City.
She served for many years as the interpreter for Russian-speaking authors at the PEN World Voices Festival and as a PEN prison writing mentor. She has had a long career as an interpreter and translator, working from Russian, French and Spanish to English. Laura translated Stalin’s Secret Pogrom (Yale University Press, 2001), on the events leading up to the Night of the Murdered Poets. The book went on to win the National Jewish Book Award for Eastern European history. https://lauraestherwolfson.com/

LIFELINES: Art, Intimacy, and HIV—an Intergenerational Conversation
2021-06-18 18:00 - 19:30 | Online event, New York, NY, United States
Please join artist Eric Rhein, in conversation with Jonathan Coleman and Paul Michael Brown as they celebrate and reflect upon the themes that run through Eric’s first monograph-memoir, ERIC RHEIN: LIFELINES —which includes a key essay by Paul Michael Brown.
ERIC RHEIN: LIFELINES is the first monograph devoted to the artist. It features intimate photographs taken between 1989 and 2012. These compelling images highlight tenderness and care as lifesaving instincts. Included in the book are related bodies of work: delicate assemblages and wire drawings that often serve as memorials for fallen friends.
Eric, Jon, and Paul will discuss the overlapping contexts in which they came of-age—and how they emerged, matured, and created within an era of crisis.
Eric will show artworks and intimate photographs from LIFELINES; Paul will read from his essay, showing the richness of thought, heart, and history which make the book both an artistic expression and an historic document. Jon will join the conversation
The discussion will be opened to questions from the audience.
“These images affirm the desiring self at a moment when the desire had become dangerous…”
—Mark Doty
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About the participants:
Eric Rhein has gained international recognition as an artist whose work embodies themes of love, sexuality, and identity as explored through his ever-evolving experience with HIV. In 1996 Rhein began his ongoing project Leaves, a memorial honoring the lives of over 300 individuals he knew who died of complications from AIDS. Rhein’s work has been exhibited widely in the United States and abroad. Reviews have appeared in the New York Times, Huffington Post, ARTnews, Vanity Fair, and Art in America. He is included in the Smithsonian Archives of American Art’s Visual Arts and the AIDS Epidemic: An Oral History Project. Rhein currently lives in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City.

Jonathan Coleman, Ph.D. is the Co-founder and President of Faulkner Morgan Archive, Inc., a nonprofit that saves and shares the LGBTQ history of Kentucky. He was the James Still Fellow at the University of Kentucky, earning his doctorate in history in 2014. He often lectures on queer history and was a consultant for the Kentucky LGBT Heritage Initiative funded by the National Park Service. Coleman’s first book, Anywhere, Together: A Queer History of Kentucky, is forthcoming from the University Press of Kentucky.

Paul Michael Brown is a writer and curator based in Lexington, Kentucky. He is the former direc-tor of Institute 193 and was the recipient of the 2020 Arts Writer’s Grant. His research and writ-ing has included a focus on queer and self-taught practitioners from the American South. Brown curated the 2019 exhibition ERIC RHEIN: LIFELEINES at Institute 193 and 21c Lexington, which served as the inspiration for this book.

TELL 74: Juneteenth
2021-06-19 18:00 - 19:30 | NY
TELL 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.
Juneteenth is the theme of the 74th TELL, on Saturday, June 19, 2021, 6 to 7:30 PM (EDT), with special guest host lea robinson. Featuring storytellers: Letta Neely, Maxine Eloi, and Amanda Shea.
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lea robinson is a queer/transgender/butch/gender non-confirming POC identified actor and writer. lea recently moved to Oakland from NYC, where they were active in both the theater world and film & tv. Lea is currently SAG-AFTRA and AEA and has representation in both L.A. (manager: MadCatch Entertainment) and in San Francisco (MDT). A lover of cats, scary movies and video games.

Letta Neely is an Earthling; she is also a Black Dyke, an Artist, an Activist, a Feminist, and a Mother. In addition to Juba and Here, Letta is the author of the chapbooks When We Were Mud and gawd and alluh huh sistuhs. Her plays: “Hamartia Blues”, “Last Rites”, and “Shackles & Sugar” have been produced in Boston, Philly, and Los Angeles. She is a co-artistic director for Fort Point Theatre Channel and the editor of Ife Franklin’s book, “The Slave Narratives of Willie Mae”. She is also an actor and director, most recently performing with the A.R.T. in the Boston Theatre Marathon Zoom Edition and directing Renita Martin’s “Unmasked” for the Revolution of Values Black Theatre Project. She believes in the interconnectedness of both the struggle and the liberation. Her newest projects: 1) Traces/ Remain:Seed to Harvest with Deen Rawlins can be seen on the Arts Emerson Toshi Reagon’s Parable Path website. 2) Scriptwriter for Ife Franklin’s film “The Slave Narratives of Willie Mae will be presented on Juneteenth at Black Market. and 3) Her newest book Geographies of Power will be available in late 2021.

Maxine Eloi is an actor, writer, director, musician, teaching artist and filmmaker. Classically trained at Boston University and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts (LAMDA), Maxine has continued to pursue her creative passions through film, theater, and music since graduating with a Bachelors of Fine Arts degree. Maxine has a passion for social justice and sparking positive change in the world. In addition to starring in over 15 films (The Broken Swords, Blue Crossing, Roll Pin Punch) she has also created two independent films Sunday Funday and Aghast, that speak on themes from the environment to abuse of power. Sunday Funday was featured in over 10 festivals internationally, including the Berlin Black International Film Festival. Maxine is a company member of Theater Delta, Curious Theatre Collective, and is a teaching artist at North Carolina Theater Conservatory. When Maxine is not working on film or theater she enjoys her other creative passion in music by performing with multiple bands. Maxine is a vocalist, guitarist and songwriter for her indie rock band, Maxine Eloi, as well as punk collaboration Perchance to Dream. She also performs as a vocalist in The Wiley Fosters. Maxine is grateful to pursue her career as an artist and collaborate with others to create engaging and thought-provoking work in film, theatre, music, and TV.

Amanda Shea is an International multidisciplinary artist residing in Boston, Massachusetts. Shea has performed spoken word poetry at numerous venues throughout Boston and globally (including the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Museum of Fine Arts, The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre (NYC), the Peace Institute (D.C.), National Press Club (D.C.), and the Institute of Contemporary Art). She achieved status as an International Artist when she performed virtually in Africa for ArtGlo based in Malawi; as well as the Jos Literary and Arts Festival in Nigeria. Amanda has been published in several articles such as The Boston Globe, WBUR, Boston Magazine, Boston Hassle and appeared on local news station NBC Boston. Shea sat down with Pebbles on HOT96.9 Boston for the “Voices” segment. Most recently, Shea was internationally published in Times Group, a news outlet based in Malawi.
She served as an official host for the 2018 and 2019 Boston Art & Music Soul Festival as well as the 2019 Arts Equity Summit. Shea is a radio host on LFOD Radio, which has been nominated for two Boston Music Awards.
Amanda is a full time educator who facilitates youth workshops for spoken word poetry, visual arts, and public speaking throughout a plethora of schools and non profit organizations in Boston.
Amanda will be embarking on her third tour, to Africa, in 2021 with two other Boston poets. The “Awake” tour seeks to explore the role of art as both a revolutionary and spiritual tool for social justice and human spiritual awakening.

Celebrating Comics! With Random House Graphic
2021-06-21 19:00 - 20:00 | Online event, New York, NY, United States
Let’s celebrate PRIDE together with an evening conversation with Random House Graphic creators Jessi Zabarsky, Jose Pimienta, and Reimena Yee, moderated by Whitney Leopard, Senior Editor at Random House Graphic. The group will discuss creating and publishing graphic novels for kids and their lives as comic creators. After the conversation, they will take questions from the audience! We encourage the audience to ask about craft and process as well as what’s it like to work in the publishing industry.

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Jessi Zabarsky lives in Chicago with her cat and forty three plants. She was raised in the woods and will one day return there. Her first graphic novel, Witchlight, was published by Random House Graphic in 2020, and her upcoming story Coming Back will be published 2021.. You can find her online at @jessizabarsky.

Jose Pimienta was raised in Mexicali, Baja California and now resides in Los Angeles, CA where they work on comics and storyboards for animation and film. Suncatcher was their debut author/illustrator graphic novel. Twin Cities is their first middle-grade graphic novel. In their stories, they focus on the importance of Latinx culture and the experience of growing up on the border.

Reimena Yee is an illustrator, writer, and designer hailing from the dusty metropolis of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. She once was a STEM student, but left to pursue her passion for the world and all of the histories and cultures within it, which she weaves into her art and stories. She is the co-founder of UNNAMED, a comics collective that builds community and resources for visual-literary creators in Southeast Asia.
She is the author-illustrator of the gothic comics The World in Deeper Inspection and the Eisner and McDuffie-nominated The Carpet Merchant of Konstantiniyya. Séance Tea Party was her debut middle-grade graphic novel, to be followed by her upcoming graphic novel My Aunt Is A Monster in 2022.

Project Speak Out Loud! Story Reading & Discussion
2021-06-22 17:30 - 18:30 | Online event, New York, NY, United States
Please join the Project Speak Out Loud Peer Educators (PSOL PEs) for the public debut of a story they’ve written themselves and a guided discussion, hosted by the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division!
A young adult short story with LGBTQIA+ characters and themes, “Lost Souls” is sure to be a tale you won’t forget! Free PDF download of book will be available to those who attend.
Anyone and everyone is welcome to join and celebrate the hard work of these teens/young adults.
Project Speak Out Loud! (PSOL) is a peer education program supported by queer youth of color ages 14-24 and their allies. Peer educators provide free sexuality education workshops that are sex-positive, comprehensive, and inclusive to community members throughout NYC. PSOL’s goal is to build LGBTQ+ cultural competency through a reproductive justice lens and provide safer spaces in NYC for black and brown LGBTQ+ youth to express themselves and be heard!
For more information or to request a workshop with PSOL Peer Educators, please contact Gillian Singer (PSOL Community Educator & Activities Specialist) at gsinger@grandsettlement.org.

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Touch :: Feeling :: Reading
2021-06-23 19:00 - 20:30 | Online event, New York, NY, United States
As the global pandemic persists, we become further estranged from touch. Not only is this estrangement a product of our circumstances, the distance between bodies is integral to the extension of our lives. As we envision a future beyond the pandemic, we are also redefining our relationship to touch, the intimate interaction between bodies, our sociality, our sense of the erotic, and our individual and collective vulnerabilities against the violent mechanisms of late capitalism. If we accept that touch has always possessed radical potential prior to the pandemic, how can we imagine other possibilities of touch in our pandemic present and future?
Inspired by Audre Lorde’s “Uses of the Erotic,” this reading and celebration of Muriel Leung’s IMAGINE US, THE SWARM draws from Lorde’s idea of the “erotic charge.” This political reimagining of touch hopes to transform the way we move and heal during a time of grief and uncertainty.
Purchase Muriel Leung’s Imagine Us, the Swarm from the Bureau on or before June 23, 2021, and receive 25% off!

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This event is funded in part by Poets & Writers through public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council.

Readers biographies:
MURIEL LEUNG is the author of Imagine Us, The Swarm, forthcoming from Nightboat Books and Bone Confetti, winner of the 2015 Noemi Press Book Award. She is the Poetry Co-Editor of Apogee Journal. She also co-hosts The Blood-Jet Writing Hour podcast with Rachelle Cruz and MT Vallarta. She is a member of Miresa Collective, a feminist speakers bureau. An Andrew W. Mellon Humanities in a Digital World Fellow, she is completing her PhD in Creative Writing and Literature at the University of Southern California. She is from Queens, NY.

JOEY DE JESUS is the author of HOAX (The Operating System, 2021), We Animate the Dream: A Poet’s Run for Public Office (Mount Analog Political Pamphlet Series II, 2021), NOCT- The Threshold of Madness (The Atlas Review, 2019), and co-author, alongside Sade LaNay, of Writing Voice into the Archive vol. 1, edited by Jennifer Tamayo with support from UC Berkeley’s Center for Race and Gender. Joey received a MFA in Poetry from Sarah Lawrence College and a Departmental Fellowship to complete their MA in Performance Studies from New York University. They received the 2019-20 BRIC ArtFP Project Room Commission and 2017 NYFA/NYSCA Fellowship in Poetry for HOAX. Poems have appeared in Poem-A-Day, Artists Space, Barrow Street, Bettering American Poetry, The Brooklyn Rail, Brooklyn Magazine, The New Museum and elsewhere. Joey is a co-editor at Apogee Journal and sits on the advisory board of No, Dear Magazine. Joey lives in Ridgewood where they ran for New York State Assembly.

SARETTA MORGAN is a writer and artist based between Phoenix and Mohave Valley, Arizona. She is author of the chapbooks Feeling Upon Arrival (2018) and room for a counter interior (2017). Her current creative work engages Black migration and ecology in the United States Southwest. As a community organizer she works at intersections of migrant justice, environmental justice, and Black liberation.

CHRISTINA OLIVARES is the author of the books of poetry No Map of the Earth Includes Stars, winner of the 2014 Marsh Hawk Press Book Prize, and Ungovernable, forthcoming from YesYes Books.
Olivares is a queer American-Cuban from the Bronx. She believes in the abolition of poverty and of the carceral state and in the radical project of imagining our liberation. She works as an educator.

CATALINA OUYANG engages object-making, interdisciplinary environments, time-based projects, and relational works to examine themes of desire, subjugation, and dissidence. Ouyang’s practice is an act of searching: through myth, through literature, and through histories both oral and visual, to indicate counternarratives around representation and self-definition. Ouyang’s intuitive use of organic, inorganic, and conceptual material is simultaneously poetic, apocalyptic, primordial, and abject.
Ouyang will have a solo exhibition at No Place Gallery (Columbus, Ohio) in July 2021, followed by their second solo exhibition with Lyles & King in September. Additional solo exhibitions include Real Art Ways, Hartford, US; Knockdown Center, Queens, US; Make Room, Los Angeles, US; and Rubber Factory, New York, US. Ouyang’s work has been included in group exhibitions at SculptureCenter, Queens, US (curated by Katherine Simóne Reynolds); Nicodim, Los Angeles, US; François Ghebaly, Los Angeles, US (curated by Kelly Akashi); BRIC, Brooklyn, US; Helena Anrather, New York, US, and many more. Ouyang is currently a 2020-21 Studio Artist in Residence at Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, US. Ouyang received an MFA from Yale University in 2019. They are represented by Lyles & King, New York, and Make Room, Los Angeles.

ICA SADAGAT is a poet and essayist immersed in textual impact, pleasure/play, and question marks. She’s published in Apogee Journal, Nightboat Books, and TAYO Literary Magazine.
Currently, Ica is a Truman Capote Fellow and MFA candidate at CalArts where they co-created the HYPERLINK reading series in the Creative Writing Program. Ica received her BA at The New School studying Literature, Psychology, Race & Ethnicity, and Gender Studies. A former youth counselor, they’ve performed and/or instructed at The Philippine Center, The New School, Studio Museum 127, Princeton University, Brooklyn Museum, and more. Before and beyond that, Ica surfs.

Aaron S. Lecklider Presents Love's Next Meeting with Emily Hobson
2021-06-24 18:00 - 19:30 | Online event, New York, NY, United States
Join Aaron S. Lecklider as he reads from his new book, Love’s Next Meeting: The Forgotten History of Homosexuality and the Left in American Culture. Lecklider will be in conversation with Emily Hobson, author of Lavender and Red: Liberation and Solidarity in the Gay and Lesbian Left.
Combining rich archival research with inventive analysis of art and literature, Love’s Next Meeting explores the relationship between homosexuality and the Left in American culture between 1920 and 1960. Aaron Lecklider uncovers a lively cast of individuals and dynamic expressive works, revealing remarkably progressive engagement with homosexuality among radicals, workers, and the poor. Leftists connected sexual dissidence with radical gender politics, antiracism, and challenges to censorship and obscenity laws through the 1920s and 1930s. In the process, a wide array of activists, organizers, artists, and writers laid the foundation for a radical movement through which homosexual lives and experiences were given shape and new political identities were forged. Love’s Next Meeting cuts to the heart of some of the biggest questions in American history: questions about socialism, about sexuality, about the supposed clash still making headlines today between leftist politics and identity politics. What emerges is a dramatic, sexually vibrant story of the shared struggles for liberation across the twentieth century.
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Please note: Love’s Next Meeting will be released on June 15th. Shipments will go out as soon as copies are available.
Emily Hobson’s Lavender and Red: Liberation and Solidarity in the Gay and Lesbian Left is also available from the Bureau’s online store.

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Drownings, Accidents, & Murder: Writing Fiction About Loss
2021-06-25 18:00 - 19:00 | Online event, New York, NY, United States
On Friday, June 25th at 6 to 7 PM EDT, please join the Bureau for an online reading and conversation with Randi Triant (A New Life) and Sarah Anne Johnson (The Last Sailor) on writing fiction that’s centered around family grief. While these novels are different genres (psychological suspense vs general/historical fiction) they both deal with the themes of grief and loss after a sibling’s drowning.

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Purchase Randi Triant’s A New Life and/or Sarah Anne Johnson’s The Last Sailor on or before Friday, June 25th, and receive 25% off!

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Randi Triant will read from her new psychological suspense novel, A New Life. Her debut novel, The Treehouse, was selected by the lesbian and bisexual culture site, AfterEllen.com as an “ultimate summer read. The Treehouse reads like a fabulous lesbian soap opera, chock-full of wit and overflowing with heart.”
In addition to The Treehouse, Randi Triant’s short fiction and nonfiction have appeared in literary journals and magazines, including two anthologies of writing about HIV/AIDS, Art & Understanding: Literature from the First Twenty Years of A & U and Fingernails Across the Blackboard: Poetry and Prose on HIV/AIDS from the Black Diaspora. She has taught writing at Boston College and Emerson College. randitriant.com

Sarah Anne Johnson will read from her latest novel, The Last Sailor. Jon Clinch, author of Marley and Finn, says of The Last Sailor, “There is real life in Sarah Anne Johnson’s new book, and genuine family drama too, all grounded in an authoritative evocation of old Cape Cod’s waterways, marshes, and waterfront towns. The Last Sailor is memorable, clearly seen, and deeply felt.”
Sarah Anne Johnson’s previous books are The Lightkeeper’s Wife, The Very Telling, The Art of the Author Interview, and Conversations with American Women Writers. Her interviews appear in The Writer’s Chronicle, Glimmertrain Stories, Provincetown Arts, and The Writer. She has taught writing at Lesley College and Bennington College. sarahannejohnson.com

PRIDE WAS A PROTEST! The Impossible but True Story of Gay Pride
2021-06-26 16:00 - 17:30 | Online event, New York, NY, United States
PRIDE WAS A PROTEST!
The Impossible but True Story of Gay Pride … LA, NYC and Beyond
Facilitated by August Bernadicou
Featuring:
Ellen Broidy: Proposed the idea of the first NYC Pride march; participated in the Lavender Menace Zap
Reverend Troy Perry: Founded the Metropolitan Community Church, the largest LGBTQ Church with over 400,000 members around the world
Martha Shelley: Co-founded the pioneering, gay activist group, the Gay Liberation Front (NYC); participated in the Lavender Menace Zap
Perry Brass: The Gay Liberation Front (NYC); co-founded Callen Lorde, a health network dedicated to providing care to New York’s LGBTQ population; author
Dr. Don Kilhefner: The Gay Liberation Front (LA); co-founded the LA LGBT Center, the largest LGBTQ Center in the world; co-founded the Radical Faeries, an international network dedicated to exploring gay consciousness; Jungian-depth psychologist
Learn history from the original outlaws as they tell their story of fear and running during the first march that became Gay Pride.
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QUEER LIBERATION MARCH 2021
2021-06-27 | NY
From Reclaim Pride Coalition website (posted March 1, 2021)
“The Reclaim Pride Coalition (RPC) will take to the streets on Sunday, June 27th, 2021 to stage the third annual Queer Liberation March. As in 2019 and 2020, this is a People’s March with no regimented contingents, no corporate sponsors, and no NYPD control over decision making or uniformed police marching. The Queer Liberation March revives the goals and spirit of the original Christopher Street Liberation Day March in 1970, born out of the 1969 Stonewall Uprising: social justice, freedom, and access for all!
“Over the last year, the larger Queer and Trans communities have endured extraordinary challenges and difficulties brought on by the pandemic and its economic fallout, continued violent attacks committed by the NYPD on peaceful protesters, murders of Black Trans Women, and the public expressions of anti-Trans bigotry and racism by alleged members of our communities, among many other issues of importance to our intersectional coalition.
“‘We must march and have our voices heard,’ said James Papadopoulos, a march organizer, ‘The struggle for Queer Liberation cannot wait for the passing of the pandemic, as COVID-19 has made surviving even more difficult for far too many of our most marginalized community members.’ As with the 2020 Queer Liberation March For Black Lives and Against Police Brutality, organizers will encourage marchers to wear masks and employ risk reduction strategies. Masks and sanitizer will also be provided at the gathering site and along the March route to keep this a safe event. Spare wheelchairs will also be carried along the March route to be utilized as needed. As with both prior marches, organizers pledge to make the March as accessible as possible: including ASL interpretation for all aspects, attention being paid to accessible subway stations near the gathering spot and end points, and street medics and marshals being positioned throughout the March.
“In recognition of the extraordinary diversity of lived experience among our many Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, Asexual, Two-Spirit, Non-Binary, Gender Non-conforming (LGBTQIA2SNBGNC+) and other communities, RPC organizers have created an online form for folks around the city, the country, and the world to share their struggles, challenges, and needs to inform the planning and messaging for the March.
“‘This is the People’s March,’ said organizer Francesca R. Barjon. ‘We want any and every member of our Queer and Trans family to guide the direction of this March, thereby creating an event that can make a true impact on our lives and our capacity to thrive!'”

The Bureau is partnering with Reclaim Pride Coalition on a series of five online panels addressing houselessness; transgenerational activism; radical Black love/confronting anti-Blackness; prison/police abolition; and sex work/sex workers’ rights.
The first of these panels, No Place to Call Home: Queer & Trans Houselessness, 2021, will take place on Thursday, April 15, 6 to 7:30 PM EDT online. To register for this FREE event please visit the Eventbrite page.
The Bureau’s online store now features a section devoted to books recommended by Reclaim Pride Coalition!

Reclaim Pride Coalition (RPC) is a New York City-based group of LGBTQIA2S+ activists in alliance with dozens of grassroots community groups, nationally and internationally. RPC’s primary work is organizing the Queer Liberation March. In June 2019, to mark the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, RPC mobilized more than 45,000 people to recreate the original 1970 Christopher Street Liberation Day March route uptown from Stonewall to Central Park. In 2020, under the darkness of the global pandemic, RPC held the Queer Liberation March for Black Lives and Against Police Brutality. The QLM is the annual people’s protest march without corporate funding; corporate floats; politicians’ grandstanding; or police control or involvement.
For Reclaim Pride Coalition’s complete statements of purpose:
RPC March – Why We March
RPC 2020 March – Demands & Safety Info
Website: www.reclaimpridenyc.org
Facebook: @QueerMarch
Twitter: @QueerMarch
Instagram: @QueerMarch

WMN - Lesbian Art and Poetry: Virtual Launch for issue 3 "Taking Space"
2021-07-24 12:00 - 13:30 | Online event, New York, NY, United States
Please join WMN – a lesbian publication of art and poetry for the virtual launch of their third issue Taking Space. This issue features work by dykes who identify as disabled and/or are living with a physical, sensory, cognitive, or chronic illness.
WMN believes in representing sectors of the lesbian community that are not always given the visibility they deserve. WMN wants to support disabled artists and writers as the discourse around disabilities, and representation is lacking particularly within the art world and the lesbian community. Taking space is guest-edited by Zee Monteiro, who is based in London, UK, who is a community organizer, blogger, poet & activist who identifies as neurodivergent.
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Accessibility notes:
– There will be live automated captions for the reading
– The launch and presentations will be in English
– The event will be recorded and available on the Bureau’s YouTube page as well as on the WMN website with a written transcription.
Poetry readings and artist presentations by Taking Space contributors: Aurora Berger, Marlena Chertock, Carson Wolfe, Marisol Brady, Nitika Raj, and Jenna Rowell.
This event is made possible in part by the Queens Council on the Arts with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

Walk Between Worlds Release: Samara Breger with Leah Schnelbach
2021-09-08 18:00 - 19:00 | NY
Celebrate the release of Walk Between Worlds, Samara Breger‘s debut novel, called “the scrappy-sapphic-knight saga we all deserve,” by Tuck Woodstock, host of Gender Reveal. Samara will be joined in conversation by Leah Schnelbach, Senior Staff Writer at Tor.com.

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Leah Schnelbach is the senior staff writer at the pop culture website Tor.com, and a fiction editor for the literary journal NoTokens. Their work has appeared in The Rumpus, Joyland, Electric Literature, Volume 1 Brooklyn, and other estimable places. Turn-ons: espresso, Oreos, well-deployed bi lighting; turn-offs: clickbait, lima beans, the death of the author. You can find them on Twitter @cloudy_vision

Samara Breger is a writer and performer from New York. In her previous life, she was an Emmy-nominated journalist, covering sexual and reproductive health. Now, she writes books about magic and feelings. She has a crush on every character.

Paul Moreno / Problem Areas Reception
2021-09-10 16:00 - 19:00 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
The Bureau of General Services—Queer Division is proud to present Paul Moreno / Problem Areas. This will be Paul’s first solo exhibition and includes a selection of paintings and drawings from 2016 through 2021.
Please join us for the opening reception for Paul Moreno / Problem Areas on Friday, September 10, 2021.
Please note that registration on Eventbrite is required.
In order to limit the number of people in the room at any given time, we are asking visitors to schedule their visits in advance. When registering you will need to select a half-hour slot between 4 and 7 PM. Masks are required throughout The LGBT Community Center, including the Bureau.
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Paul is a self-taught artist who grew up in Sparks, Nevada. Paul studied Literature and Critical Thought at University of San Francisco and NYU. About the title, Problem Areas, Paul states “I took the title from the old adage that art-making is largely a process of problem solving. However, the title is also meaningful in that when I choose subjects for my work, I try to look at something that I have complex or unresolved feelings about. By spending time with the subject, against the background of parsing it into formal elements that serve the picture, I find spiritual resolution can also present itself. In this way, the problem, as it were, is not a negative, but an opportunity to expose the beauty in the subject to myself and hopefully the viewer.”
Paul Moreno / Problem Areas will remain on view at the Bureau through December 31, 2021.

SHORTIES: Scott Alexander Hess & Joe Okonkwo on the Allure of Short Fiction
2021-09-16 18:00 - 19:00 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
Scott Alexander Hess and Joe Okonkwo discuss their latest books. Hess has a volume containing two novellas—The Root of Everything and Lightning. Okonkwo has published a collection of short stories called Kiss the Scars on the Back of My Neck. After reading selections from their books, the authors will engage in a spirited conversation: How does writing short(er) fiction compare to composing full-length novels?
Patrick E. Horrigan, author of Pennsylvania Station, calls Hess’s novellas “Historical fiction at its cutting-edge best,” while noted author William J. Mann has lauded Okonkwo’s collection as “A remarkable examination of the human condition.”

Safety protocol:
In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19, we are limiting the number of attendees to 30. Registration on Eventbrite is required in order to attend.
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If you have any symptoms associated with COVID-19 in the days leading up to the event, we ask you to please cancel your reservation so that others can attend. If all 30 reservations have been claimed and you would like to be placed on a wait list, please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com.
Please note that masks are required at all times inside The LGBT Community Center, where the Bureau is located.

Both Scott Alexander Hess’s The Root of Everything and Lightning: Two Novellas as well as Joe Okonkwo’s Kiss the Scars on the Back of My Neck are available for purchase from the Bureau. Click on either title above to purchase on our online store where you have the option to have books shipped to you or to pick up at our physical store. Books will also be available for purchase at the event.
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Suggested donation of $5 to benefit the Bureau’s work. We will pass a bag at the start of the event.
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Scott Alexander Hess is the author of five novels, including Skyscraper, a Lambda Literary Award Finalist, and The Butcher’s Sons, which was named a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2015. His writing has appeared in HuffPost, Genre Magazine, The Fix, Thema Literary Review, and elsewhere. Hess co-wrote “Tom in America,” an award-winning short film, starring Sally Kirkland and Burt Young. He teaches fiction writing at Gotham Writers Workshop and curates Hot Lit, an LGBTQ+ themed monthly newsletter. Originally from St. Louis, Missouri, Hess lives in New York City with his husband.

Joe Okonkwo’s debut novel Jazz Moon won the Publishing Triangle’s Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction and was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award. His short stories have appeared in Global City Review, The Piltdown Review, The New Engagement, Storychord, Love Stories from Africa, and Strength. His story “Cleo” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Joe served as Prose Editor for Newtown Literary and he edited Best Gay Stories 2017. He is represented by the Baldi Literary Agency.

Jake Hall, Author of Art of Drag, in Conversation with Dominique Morgan
2021-09-22 19:00 - 20:00 | NY
Jake Hall sits down with Dominique Morgan to discuss their latest book Art of Drag (2020) and how drag intersects with queer politics. Morgan is an award-winning TEDx speaker who has partnered her lived experience of being impacted by mass incarceration with a decade of change-making artistry and advocacy. Her book “Sex Ed for System Facing People” will be available early next year. Hall has written for Dazed Digital, i-D, VICE, and British Vogue among others on topics from sustainability in fashion to government crackdowns on queer people. Join us as both authors look at the abolitionist movement through a queer lens, the identity of drag, and what it means to subvert social constructs, hosted on Zoom by the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division in NYC.

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Jake Hall is a freelance writer who has written for Dazed Digital, i-D, VICE, Highsnobiety, INTO, Refinery29 UK, and British Vogue, among others. They have written on topics from sustainability in fashion and body-shaming in queer communities, to government crackdowns on queer people, and intersex genital mutilation. Alongside this work, they are studying for a PhD at the University of Birmingham. Jake’s research aims to illuminate the link between high fashion and queer theory, as well as arguing the potential of clothing to radically challenge and subvert the social constructs of gender, sexuality, and race.

Dominique Morgan (She/Her) is an award-winning artist, activist, and TEDx speaker. As the Executive Director of Black and Pink, the largest prison abolitionist organization in the United States. She works daily to dismantle the systems that perpetuate violence on LGBTQ/GNC people and individuals living with HIV/AIDS. Partnering her lived experience of being impacted by mass incarceration (including 18 months in solitary confinement), with a decade of change-making artistry, advocacy, and background in public health, she continues to work in spaces of sex education, radical self-care, and transformative youth development with intentions of dismantling the prison industrial complex and its impact on our communities. Ms. Morgan is a 2020 Ten Outstanding Young Americans Award recipient, NAACP Freedom Fighter Award recipient, and 2020 JM Kaplan Innovation Prize recipient. Her new album Pisces In E Flat Major is available on all platforms and her book “Sex Ed for System Facing People” will be available January 2022. Find out more about Dominique at www.dominiquemorgan.com.
