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SUMMARY:Tom Daley Visits the Bureau!
DESCRIPTION:Come get a copy of Tom Daley‘s new memoir\, Coming Up for Air\, and have Tom sign it for you! \nTom Daley is one of the most beloved athletes of our time\, having competed as a diver in four Olympics\, garnering medals and finally\, in 2021 in Tokyo\, winning gold. But few people know the realities of his life beyond the pool–his struggles\, his secret triumphs and the mindset he needed to cultivate to become a champion. \nA deeply personal and inspiring memoir from the celebrated Olympic gold medal diver and LGBTQ+ advocate \nPlease note that if you purchase Coming Up for Air online and you’d like to have Tom sign it for you\, we must receive the order BEFORE 2:30 PM on Wednesday\, May 18th. Please enter your name exactly as you’d like Tom to sign it in the comments section when you check out. \nIf you’d like us to hold a copy for you at the Bureau\, please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/tom-daley-visits-the-bureau/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:From Gay to Z Booksigning with Justin Elizabeth Sayre (in person & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:With their new book\, From Gay to Z\, playwright and performer Justin Elizabeth Sayre brings a funny and far-reaching take on Queer Culture. Based on their series of shows\, The gAy-BC’s\, the new book is a huge accomplishment. A witty and wise take on the queer culture that has come before and the culture that may yet to be. \nSayre will be joined in conversation by Shane O’Neill! \nThe Bureau is thrilled to welcome these dear friends back to our space! \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nFrom Gay to Z: A Queer Compendium (Chronicle Books\, 2022\, hardcover\, $24.95) is also available for purchase at the Bureau. \nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us! \n  \nJoin this event in-person at the Bureau \nOR watch the live-stream of the event on the Bureau’s YouTube channel. \nRegistration is not required. Seating is first come\, first served. \n  \nSuggested donation $10 to benefit the Bureau’s work. \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without donation. \nWe will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event\, but we can also take credit card donations at the register. \n  \nSafety protocol (for those joining in person) \nIn an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19: \nIf you have any symptoms associated with COVID-19 in the days leading up to the event\, we ask you to please stay home. \nPlease note that masks are required at all times inside The LGBT Community Center\, where the Bureau is located. \n  \nJustin Elizabeth Sayre is a playwright and performer who Michael Musto called\, “Oscar Wilde meets Whoopi Goldberg.” Sayre is a fixture of the Downtown Cabaret Scene in New York\, first with their long-running variety show\, The Meeting (Bistro Award-winning & 2 MAC nominations). They are currently in residency at Joe’s Pub at the Public with their new variety show\, Assorted Fruit. As a playwright\, Sayre’s work has appeared at Dixon Place\, The Wild Project\, The Celebration Theatre\, Dynasty Typewriter\, and La MaMa Experimental Theatre. Their 12-part-epic Ravenswood Manor\, a Camp-Horror-Soap-Opera\, called “a sharply written and well-acted exemplar of the horror-comedy genre\,” by the LA Times and is currently being developed with Sony Television and Rupaul. Sayre has written a series of YA Novels\, Husky\, Pretty\, and Mean\, released by Penguin Books\, and the book\, From Gay to Z: A Queer Compendium\, just released by Chronicle Books. Sayre has written for Television\, working with Michael Patrick King on his Hit CBS comedy\, 2 Broke Girls and Fox’s The Cool Kids. Sayre also appeared on HBO’s The Comeback with Lisa Kudrow. \n  \nShane O’Neill is a reporter for the Styles desk at The New York Times. During his tenure at the Times he has profiled “Jeopardy!” champion Amy Schneider\, produced the short documentary “Who Threw The First Brick at Stonewall?”\, produced and edited the internet culture series “Internetting With Amanda Hess\,” covered the Black trans community’s response to the Black Lives Matter movement\, and edited the pop music video series “Diary of a Song.” He starred in the animated short documentary “The Shawl” which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2020.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/from-gay-to-z-booksigning-with-justin-elizabeth-sayre-in-person/
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SUMMARY:Book Launch - Sleeptalking by Antonio Addessi (in person & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the launch of Antonio Addessi‘s Sleeptalking (Rebel Satori Press). Addessi will be joined by poet Daniel W.K. Lee. \nThis event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division\, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center\, 208 W. 13th St.\, NYC\, 10011. \nRegistration is not required. Seating is first come\, first served. \nAlso live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel \n  \nSafety protocol \nIn an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19: \nIf you have any symptoms associated with COVID-19 in the days leading up to the event\, we ask you to please stay home. \nPlease note that masks are required at all times inside The LGBT Community Center\, where the Bureau is located. \n  \nSuggested donation $10 to benefit the Bureau’s work. \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without donation. \nWe will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event\, but we can also take credit card donations at the register. \nCopies of Antonio Addessi’s Sleeptalking and Daniel W.K. Lee’s Anatomy of Want will be available for purchase at the event. \n  \nAntonio Addessi is a poet and writer living in New York City. He received his BA in English from the University of Maine(‘15) and his MFA in Creative Writing Poetry from Columbia University(‘20). You can follow him on instagram @zaurdo \n  \nDaniel W.K. Lee (李華強) is a third-generation refugee\, queer\, Cantonese American born in Kuching\, Malaysia. He earned his Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at The New School(USA)\, and his debut collection of poetry\, Anatomy of Want\, was published by QueerMojo/Rebel Satori Press. Daniel lives in New Orleans with his head-turning whippet Camden. Find out more about him at danielwklee.com for follow him: @strongplum on Instagram / @danielsaudade on Twitter.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/book-launch-sleeptalking-by-antonio-addessi-in-person-live-streaming/
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SUMMARY:Poetry Reading Walter Holland & Jaime Manrique\, Moderator Christopher Bram (in-person & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:  \nWalter Holland celebrates his new book of poems “Reconstruction” from Finishing Line Press and Jaime Manrique will read from his two previous collections “My Night with Federico Garcia Lorca” and “Tarzan/ My Body/ Christopher Columbus\,” as well as his uncollected poems. Christopher Bram will moderate a brief conversation with Holland and Manrique about their gay boyhoods\, their cultural experiences and their eventual moves to New York City. Both poets share in a complexity of romance and nostalgia for societies which ultimately they were drawn to leave\, and both have addressed the brightness and shadow of their memories and the problematic in the lyric imagination.\n\n  \n“Reconstruction” is a work for our American present. It speaks to the present conflicts over race and privilege. It is a work of complicated poetic reconciliation. Weaving both vivid lyric language into short narrative poems\, Holland reconstructs a flawed yet nostalgic past. Uprooted northerners\, Holland\, his sisters\, and his parents sought the bucolic charm and unfettered economic opportunity of 1950s Virginia. Middle-class and affluent\, Holland went to ballroom lessons\, piano lessons\, lived in a home attended to by a maid\, and grew into a society\, on the one hand as an outsider—northern born\, Catholic\, liberally inclined\, studying modern dance and performing in community theater—and on the other felt obliged upon to take a date to her debutante party\, attend the cotillions\, hunt on one occasion\, and obediently comply with the rules of segregation.\n\n\n  \nWalter Holland is the author of four books of poetry: “Reconstruction\,” “Circuit\,” “Transatlantic\,” and “A Journal of the Plague Years: Poems 1979-1992\,” as well as a novel\, “The March.” Some of his poetry credits include: “Antioch Review\,” “Art and Understanding\,” and “Barrow Street\,” as well as many anthologies. He previously taught American Poetry part-time at the New School for ten years before retiring. He has reviewed books\, written a libretto\, had his short fiction and scholarly articles published in many journals and holds a PhD in English from CUNY Graduate Center. He lives in New York City. For more information visit walterhollandwriter.com.\n\n  \nJaime Manrique is a celebrated novelist\, essayist\, and poet. Some of his critically acclaimed novels include “Latin Moon in Manhattan\,” “Twilight at the Equator\,” “Cervantes Street\,” “Our Lives Are the Rivers\,” and “Like This Afternoon Forever.” His much-praised non-fiction book “Eminent Maricones: Arenas\, Lorca\, Puig\, and Me\,” won him a Guggenheim Fellowship. His poetry books include “Scarecrow\,” “My Night with Federico Garcia Lorca” and “Tarzan/My Body/Christoper Columbus.” John Ashbery writes of Manrique’s 1995 “My Night with Federico García Lorca”: “Memories of an ecstatic childhood—walks by the sea\, ‘a happy mambo\,’ eating deceptive tropical fruits—merge with those of recent loves in these luscious\, incantatory poems.”\n\n  \nChristopher Bram is the author of nine novels\, including the book that became the movie “Gods and Monsters.” He also wrote “Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America.” He teaches at the Gallatin School of New York University.\n\n  \nJoin this event in-person at the Bureau \n(Registration is not required. Seating is first come\, first served.) \nOR watch the live-stream of the event on the Bureau’s YouTube channel \n  \nSuggested donation $10 to benefit the Bureau’s work. \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without donation. \nWe will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event\, but we can also take credit card donations at the register \n  \nBooks by Holland\, Manrique\, and Bram are available for purchase at the Bureau. \n  \nSafety protocol (for those joining in person): \nIn an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19: \nIf you have any symptoms associated with COVID-19 in the days leading up to the event\, we ask you to please stay home. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/poetry-reading-walter-holland-jaime-manrique-moderator-christopher-bram/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Town of Babylon: When Home Isn't Community (in-person & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:In Alejandro Varela’s debut novel\, The Town of Babylon\, a queer Latinx professor returns to his suburban hometown to care for his ailing father. While there\, he attends his 20 year high school reunion\, an event that precipitates a reckoning with characters from his youth\, as well as with the insular community that both shaped him and inspired him to flee in search of a home that would accept and embrace him. \nVarela will be joined by New Yorker staff writer Julian Lucas for a conversation about literature\, community\, public health\, queer love\, and chosen families. Stick around after the conversation for a book signing and refreshments. \n  \nJoin this event in-person at the Bureau \nOR watch the live-stream of the event on the Bureau’s YouTube channel. \nRegistration is not required. Seating is first come\, first served. \nSuggested donation $10 to benefit the Bureau’s work. \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without donation. \nWe will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event\, but we can also take credit card donations at the register. \n  \nSafety protocol (for those joining in person) \nIn an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19: \nIf you have any symptoms associated with COVID-19 in the days leading up to the event\, we ask you to please stay home. We ask all attendees to wear a mask. \n  \nPurchase Alejandro Varela‘s The Town of Babylon (Astra House\, 2022\, hardcover\, $27) from the Bureau’s online store (click on title). \nCopies of The Town of Babylon are also available at the Bureau’s physical store. \nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us! \n  \nAlejandro Varela (he/him) is based in New York. His work has appeared in The Point magazine\, Boston Review\, Harper’s Magazine\, The Rumpus\, Joyland Magazine\, The Brooklyn Rail\, The Offing\, Blunderbuss Magazine\, Pariahs (an anthology\, SFA Press\, 2016)\, the Southampton Review\, and The New Republic. He is a 2019 Jerome Fellow in Literature and his graduate studies were in public health. \n  \nJulian Lucas is a staff writer at The New Yorker\, where he writes about books\, art\, video games\, and the representation of history. He is also a contributing editor at The Ballot and an editor-at-large at Cabinet. \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/the-town-of-babylon-when-home-isnt-community-in-person-live-streaming/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:Poetry Reading with Jameson Fitzpatrick\, Monica McClure\, and Angelo Nikolopoulos (in person & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:Poetry Reading with Jameson Fitzpatrick\, Monica McClure\, and Angelo Nikolopoulos \nThis event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division\, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center\, 208 W. 13th St.\, NYC\, 10011. \nRegistration is not required. Seating is first come\, first served. \nAlso live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel \nSafety protocol \nIn an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19: \nIf you have any symptoms associated with COVID-19 in the days leading up to the event\, we ask you to please stay home. \nPlease note that masks are required at all times inside The LGBT Community Center\, where the Bureau is located. \nSuggested donation $10 to benefit the Bureau’s work. \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without donation. \nWe will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event\, but we can also take credit card donations at the register or you can donate in advance on this page. \nJameson Fitzpatrick is the author of the poetry collection Pricks in the Tapestry (Birds\, LLC\, 2020)\, a finalist for the 2021 Thom Gunn Award\, and the chapbooks Mr. & (Indolent Books\, 2018) and Morrisroe: Erasures (89plus/LUMA Publications\, 2014). She teaches expository writing at New York University. \nMonica McClure is the author of the poetry collection\, Tender Data (Birds\, LLC\, 2015) and the chapbooks\, Concomitance (Counterpath Press\, 2016)\, Boss Parts 1& 2 (If A Leaf Falls Press\, 2016)\, Mala (Poor Claudia\, 2014)\, and Mood Swing (Snacks Press 2013).  \nAngelo Nikolopoulos is the author of Obscenely Yours and PLEASURE (Four Way Books\, 2022). He teaches at Hunter College.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/poetry-reading-with-jameson-fitzpatrick-monica-mcclure-and-angelo-nikolopoulos/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:2022 Publishing Triangle Awards Reading (second night) (online event)
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the second of two nights of readings by eight finalists for the 2022 Publishing Triangle Awards taking place online! \nRegister on Eventbrite to join this event on Zoom \nOR visit the Bureau’s YouTube channel at 7 PM on Tuesday\, May 10th\, to watch the live-stream. \nSuggested donation of $5 to benefit the Bureau. \nYou can make a donation when you register on Eventbrite. Thank you for supporting the Bureau! \nAll are welcome to join\, with or without a donation. \nOnce you have registered on Eventbrite you will receive an email with the link you need to join the event on Zoom – or you can simply return to Eventbrite and click on “Access the event.” But you will only be able to access this AFTER you have registered. \nBooks by all the readers are available on the Bureau’s online store and our physical store. Please support the Bureau by purchasing books from us. Thank you for your support! \nReaders:\n(click on any title to view on the Bureau’s online store) \nNawaaz Ahmed\, Radiant Fugitives \nFinalist for The Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction \n  \nRosie Stockton\, Permanent Volta \nFinalist for the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry \n  \nAlex Torres (reading for Anthony Veasna So)\, Afterparties \nFinalist for the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction \n  \nRajiv Mohabir\, Antiman: A Memoir \nFinalist for the Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction \n  \nJeanne Thornton\, Summer Fun \nFinalist for the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction \n  \nC. Winter Han\, Racial Erotics: Gay Men of Color\, Sexual Racism\, and the Politics of Desire \nFinalist for the Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction \n  \nMinnie Bruce Pratt\, Magnified \nFinalists for the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry \n  \nCallum Angus\, A Natural History of Transition \nFinalist for the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction \n  \nThe 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. The two nights of virtual readings by finalists for the 34th annual Triangle Awards will be hosted by the Bureau on Monday\, May 9th\, and Tuesday\, May 10th. Winners will be announced virtually on Wednesday\, May 11. \nThese prizes\, which honor the best LGBTQ fiction\, nonfiction\, poetry\, and trans literature published in 2021\, are highly anticipated in both the publishing and queer communities. The Publishing Triangle\, the association of LGBTQ people in publishing\, began honoring a writer for their body of work a few months after the organization was founded in 1989. It has since partnered with the Ferro-Grumley Literary Awards to present an impressive array of awards each spring. \nTo view the full list of finalists and details about the prizes please click here.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/2022-publishing-triangle-awards-reading-second-night-online-event/
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SUMMARY:2022 Publishing Triangle Awards Reading (first night) (online event)
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the first of two nights of readings by nine finalists for the 2022 Publishing Triangle Awards taking place online! \nRegister on Eventbrite to join this event on Zoom \nOR visit the Bureau’s YouTube channel at 7 PM on Monday\, May 9th\, to watch the live-stream. \nSuggested donation of $5 to benefit the Bureau. \nYou can make a donation when you register on Eventbrite. Thank you for supporting the Bureau! \nAll are welcome to join\, with or without a donation. \nOnce you have registered on Eventbrite you will receive an email with the link you need to join the event on Zoom – or you can simply return to Eventbrite and click on “Access the event.” But you will only be able to access this AFTER you have registered. \nBooks by all the readers are available on the Bureau’s online store and our physical store. Please support the Bureau by purchasing books from us. Thank you for your support! \nReaders:\n(click on any title to view on the Bureau’s online store) \nRobert Jones\, Jr.\, The Prophets \nFinalist for The Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction \n  \nZoe Playdon\, The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes \nFinalist for the Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature \n  \nEddy Boudel Tan\, The Rebellious Tide \nFinalist for the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction \n  \nClaire Cox\, Silver Beach \nFinalist for The Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction \n  \nJeremy Atherton Lin\, The Gay Bar: Why We Went Out \nFinalist for the Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction \n  \nMelissa Broder\, Milk Fed \nFinalist for the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction \n  \nPhillip B. Williams\, Mutiny \nFinalist for the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry \n  \nAlison Bechdel\, The Secret to Superhuman Strength \nFinalist for the Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction \n  \nBrian Broome\, Punch Me Up to the Gods \nFinalist for the Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction \n  \nThe 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. The two nights of virtual readings by finalists for the 34th annual Triangle Awards will be hosted by the Bureau on Monday\, May 9th\, and Tuesday\, May 10th. Winners will be announced virtually on Wednesday\, May 11. \nThese prizes\, which honor the best LGBTQ fiction\, nonfiction\, poetry\, and trans literature published in 2021\, are highly anticipated in both the publishing and queer communities. The Publishing Triangle\, the association of LGBTQ people in publishing\, began honoring a writer for their body of work a few months after the organization was founded in 1989. It has since partnered with the Ferro-Grumley Literary Awards to present an impressive array of awards each spring. \nTo view the full list of finalists and details about the prizes please click here.
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SUMMARY:Affirmative Laughter (in person only!)
DESCRIPTION:🚨🚨AWWWWWSHEEEEIT!!!🚨🚨 \nAffirmative Laughter is back and better than ever! Back from a 4 yr hiatus\, host Elsa Eli Waithe is ready to shake the cobwebs off and bring the funny. Come join us at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division as we celebrate our return with a killer line up: \nJoanna Briley \nCarolyn Castiglia \nDara Jemmott \nVeronica Garza \nand presenting GOLD Comedy alum Chrissy Carroll! \n  \nDoors at 6pm\, Show at 7pm and as always $5 suggested donation to benefit the Bureau and the performers! \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without donation. \nWe will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event\, but we can also take credit card donations at the register. \n  \nSafety protocol \nIn an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19: \nIf you have any symptoms associated with COVID-19 in the days leading up to the event\, we ask you to please stay home. \nAll attendees required to wear masks.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/affirmative-laughter-5/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220507T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220507T150000
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SUMMARY:Minoritarian Liberalism: A Travesti Life in a Brazilian Favela (online)
DESCRIPTION:Normative liberalism has promoted the freedom of privileged subjects\, those entitled to rights—usually white\, adult\, heteronormative\, and bourgeois—at the expense of marginalized groups\, such as Black people\, children\, LGBTQ people\, and slum dwellers. In this visceral ethnography of Rocinha\, the largest favela in Rio de Janeiro\, Brazil\, Moisés Lino e Silva explores what happens when liberalism is challenged by people whose lives are impaired by normative understandings of liberty. He calls such marginalized visions of freedom “minoritarian liberalism\,” a concept that stands in for overlapping\, alternative modes of freedom—be they queer\, favela\, or peasant. \nLino e Silva introduces readers to a broad collective of favela residents\, most intimately accompanying Natasha Kellem\, a charismatic self-declared travesti (a term used in Latin America to indicate a specific form of female gender construction opposite to the sex assigned at birth). While many of those the author meets consider themselves “queer\,” others are treated as “abnormal” simply because they live in favelas. Through these interconnected experiences\, Lino e Silva not only pushes at the boundaries of anthropological inquiry\, but also offers ethnographic evidence of non-normative routes to freedom for those seeking liberties against the backdrop of capitalist exploitation\, transphobia\, racism\, and other patterns of domination. \nIn her endorsement of the publication\, Wendy Brown (political theorist) states: “Lino e Silva’s remarkable book fulfills its ambition to decolonize the freedom at liberalism’s heart. Equal parts erudite political theory and delicate anthropology\, it roams a favela in Rio for stories and imaginaries across Blackness\, queerness\, gender and class\, where it discovers everywhere the bubbling of minoritarian desires and practices of freedom. This beautifully written work does nothing less than bring liberalism–as theory and practices– into the 21st century.” \n  \nRegistration on Eventbrite required in order to gain access to the Zoom link. \nSuggested donation of $5 to benefit the Bureau. \nYou can make a donation when you register on Eventbrite. Thank you for supporting the Bureau! \nAll are welcome to join\, with or without a donation. \nOnce you have registered on Eventbrite you will receive an email with the link you need to join the event on Zoom – or you can simply return to the page on Eventbrite and click on “Access the event.” But you will only be able to access this AFTER you have registered. \n  \nPurchase Moisés Lino e Silva‘s Minoritarian Liberalism: A Travesti Life in a Brazilian Favela (University of Chicago Press\, 2022\, paperback\, $27.50) from the Bureau’s online store by clicking on the title. \nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us! \n  \nMoises Lino e Silva is tenured faculty at the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA)\, which is located in Brazil. His field of focus is that of political anthropology\, with a specialty in the ethnographic study of liberty and authority. This is examined in relation to issues such as poverty\, sexuality\, race\, and religion. His initial in-field research considered the aspects and issues of freedom as experienced and perceived by slum dwellers in Rio de Janeiro. More recent work has studied the cultivation of Afro-Brazilian power and the nature of freedom and partial freedom after formal slavery\, using ethnographic research to understand the current power dynamics between Latin America and West Africa. He is also the editor\, with Huon Wardle\, of Freedom in Practice: Governance Autonomy and Liberty in the Everyday (Routledge 2017). Lino e Silva was appointed a World Social Science Fellow by the International Social Science Council. \n  \nJack 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\, out in 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.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/minoritarian-liberalism-a-travesti-life-in-a-brazilian-favela-online/
LOCATION:online event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220506T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220506T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T140804
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SUMMARY:Bogus Bite Mark Evidence and Homophobia: A Criminal Combination (in-person & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:Hear from two innocence litigators as they describe the harmful yet tantalizing power of faulty forensic evidence\, and how it has been used to wrongly convict queer people of violent crimes. Queer author Valena Beety will discuss her book Manifesting Justice: Wrongly Convicted Women Reclaim Their Rights\, in conversation with Innocence Project Strategic Litigation Director Chris Fabricant about his book Junk Science and the American Criminal Justice System. This night will be sure to take a bite out of crime… by exposing criminal falsehoods. \n  \nJoin this event in-person at the Bureau \nOR watch the live-stream of the event on the Bureau’s YouTube channel. \nRegistration is not required. Seating is first come\, first served. \n  \nSuggested donation $10 to benefit the Bureau’s work. \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without donation. \nWe will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event\, but we can also take credit card donations at the register. \n  \nSafety protocol (for those joining in person): \nIn an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19: \nIf you have any symptoms associated with COVID-19 in the days leading up to the event\, we ask you to please stay home. \n  \nValena Beety is a former federal prosecutor and innocence litigator who represented Leigh Stubbs in post-conviction. She has successfully exonerated wrongfully convicted clients\, obtained presidential grants of clemency for drug offenders\, served as an elected board member of the national Innocence Network\, and was appointed commissioner on the West Virginia Governor’s Indigent Defense Commission. She is currently a Professor of Law at Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law and the Deputy Director of the Academy for Justice\, a criminal justice center at the law school that connects research with policy reform. Previously\, she founded and directed the West Virginia Innocence Project at the West Virginia University College of Law and practiced as a Senior Staff Attorney at the Mississippi Innocence Project\, representing clients on death row. Author Photo Credit Tavis Daniel. \n  \nCHRIS FABRICANT is the Innocence Project’s Director of Strategic Litigation and one of the nation’s leading experts on forensic sciences and the criminal justice system. Fabricant is featured in the Netflix documentary The Innocence Files and his public commentary has been published in virtually every major media outlet. A former public defender and clinical law professor\, Fabricant brings to his writing over two decades of experience ranging from litigating death penalty cases in the Deep South to misdemeanors in the South Bronx. Born in New York City and raised in Sedona\, Arizona\, Fabricant has lived in Brooklyn since graduating from George Washington University Law School in 1997.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/bogus-bite-mark-evidence-and-homophobia-a-criminal-combination/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220505T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220505T191500
DTSTAMP:20260403T140804
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SUMMARY:Circumcision: The Long and Short of It (online event)
DESCRIPTION:The ancient practice of circumcision is a hot-button\, global controversy. This event brings together artists\, activists\, and experts for a wide-ranging conversation on circumcision psychologically\, poetically\, cinematically\, and politically. \n  \nRegistration on Eventbrite required in order to gain access to the Zoom link. \nSuggested donation of $5 to benefit the Bureau. \nYou can make a donation when you register on Eventbrite. Thank you for supporting the Bureau! \nAll are welcome to join\, with or without a donation. \nOnce you have registered on Eventbrite you will receive an email with the link you need to join the event on Zoom – or you can simply return to the Eventbrite page and click on “Access the event.” But you will only be able to access this AFTER you have registered. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\nPurchase A.W. Strouse’sForm and Foreskin: Medieval Narratives of Circumcision (Fordham University Press\, 2021\, paperback\, $25) from the Bureau’s online store by clicking on the title or visit our physical store to purchase a copy. \n  \nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us! \n  \nAidan Kaye is a New York City-based camera operator\, photographer\, and experimental filmmaker. Graduating with a BFA in Film from SUNY Purchase in 2020\, he has worked on several award-winning documentaries\, including Alex Gibney’s Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine\, Mr. Dynamite: The Rise Fall of James Brown. In 2019\, he won an award for best experimental film at the SUNY Wide Film Festival and best student film at Peekskill Film Festival for his film Read @12:35AM. Instagram: @aidanpkaye \n  \nRon Lowis the inventor of the world’s leading brand of foreskin restoration device with over 50\,000 clients since 2003. \n  \nJordan Ossermanis a lecturer in psychosocial and psychoanalytic studies at the University of Essex (UK)\, a trainee psychoanalyst and author ofCircumcision on the Couch: On the Cultural\, Psychological\, and Gendered Dimensions of the World’s Oldest Surgery(Bloomsbury\, 2022). He is based in London. \n  \nA.W. Strouseis the author ofForm and Foreskin: Medieval Narratives of Circumcision(Fordham University Press\, 2021).
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/circumcision-the-long-and-short-of-it-online-event/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220430T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220430T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T140804
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SUMMARY:Queer Pleasure: A Poetry Reading (in-person & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:Queer Pleasure: A poetry reading featuring Julia Guez\, Timothy Liu\, Ricardo Maldonado\, & Angelo Nikolopoulos. \nBooks by all of the readers are available for purchase at the Bureau. \n  \nJoin this event in-person at the Bureau \nOR watch the live-stream of the event on the Bureau’s YouTube channel. \nRegistration is not required. Seating is first come\, first served. \n  \nSuggested donation $10 to benefit the Bureau’s work. \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without donation. \nWe will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event\, but we can also take credit card donations at the register. \n  \nSafety protocol (for those joining in person): \nIn an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19: \nIf you have any symptoms associated with COVID-19 in the days leading up to the event\, we ask you to please stay home. \n  \nJulia Guez is a writer and translator based in New York City. Four Way Books released her first full-length collection\, In An Invisible Glass Case Which Is Also A Frame\, in 2019. They will release her next book\, The Certain Body\, in 2022. Guez has been awarded the Discovery/Boston Review Poetry Prize\, a Fulbright Fellowship\, and the John Frederick Nims Memorial Prize in Translation as well as a Translation Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. She teaches creative writing at New York University and Rutgers.  \n  \nTimothy Liu has taken early retirement after 24 years. After taking some time off\, he will be joining the faculty at SUNY New Paltz in the fall. In the meantime\, he has put the icing on his latest multi-layered cake\, Under Lockdown AKA Trickle-Down Bedside Bottom-Feeder Blues. He gives tarot readings at the Omega Institute for Holistic Studies in Rhinebeck and lives year-round in Woodstock\, NY.  \n  \nRicardo Alberto Maldonado was born and raised in Puerto Rico. He lives in New York\, where he serves as managing director at 92Y’s Unterberg Poetry Center. Maldonado is the author of The Life Assignment (Four Way Books). \n  \nAngelo Nikolopoulos is the author of Obscenely Yours and PLEASURE (Four Way Books\, 2022). He teaches at Hunter College.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/queer-pleasure-a-poetry-reading/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220429T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220429T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T140804
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SUMMARY:Bespoke for the Bureau (in-person & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:This April 29\, 2022\, Bespoke Next Gen event will (we hope) be our first in-person event since 2019 and will feature four readers\, including poet/writer Shayla Lawz\, writer/comedian Nikki Palumbo\, as well as poets Sahar Romani and poet Dan Schapiro plus a brief audience Q&A. The event will be FREE to the public both in person and live-streamed via the Bureau’s YouTube channel\, and in the spirit of selecting an organization to fundraise on behalf of for every event\, we will collect donations for our beloved host\, the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division\, an organization and bookstore that celebrates and supports an abundance of queer artists and writers (including us). \nWe will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event\, but we can also take credit card donations at the register. \nSafety protocol (for those joining in person) \nIn an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19: \nIf you have any symptoms associated with COVID-19 in the days leading up to the event\, we ask you to please stay home. \n  \nReaders: \nSHAYLA LAWZ is a writer and interdisciplinary artist from Jersey City\, NJ. She works at the intersection of text\, sound\, and performance and has received fellowships from Cave Canem\, Jack Jones Literary Arts\, The Center for African American Poetry and Poetics (CAAPP)\, and The Digital Studies Center at Rutgers-Camden (DiSC). Her work appears in McSweeney’s Quarterly\, Catapult\, and The Poetry Project\, among others. Her debut poetry collection speculation\, n. was chosen by Ilya Kaminsky for the 2020 Autumn House Poetry Prize. She lives in BK and teaches in the Dept of Humanities & Media Studies at Pratt. @shaylalawz  \n  \nNIKKI PALUMBO is a writer\, comedian\, and Italian based in Brooklyn. Nikki currently writes TikToks for Barbie (yes\, that one) and American Girl. Previously\, Nikki wrote on the inaugural MTV TV & Movie Awards: Unscripted\, hosted by Nikki Glaser\, and worked as a story producer on the YouTube Originals weekly music show\, RELEASED. Nikki has contributed writing to The New Yorker’s Daily Shouts\, McSweeney’s\, Reductress\, and the Google Assistant. @nikkipal  \n  \nSAHAR ROMANI is a poet and educator. Her poems appear with the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day\, Yale Review\, Los Angeles Review\, The Believer\, Guernica\, The Poetry Society of America\, Adroit Journal\, The Offing\, The Margins and elsewhere. She  received support from Millay Arts and Hedgebrook for writing residencies as well as fellowships from Asian American Writers’ Workshop\, Poets House\, and New York University\, where she earned an MFA. She currently teaches expository writing as a Clinical Assistant Professor at NYU. @saharromani  \n  \nDAN SCHAPIRO is an HIV+ disabled poet and the author of a book of images and illness entitled HOLEPLAY (Nueoi Press\, 2020). His work has appeared in LESTE\, Bæst Journal\, Verse Dot Press\, FEELINGS\, No Issue\, Paintbucket\, Protean Magazine\, and elsewhere. His book has been recommended and reviewed in the likes of POZ Magazine and Full Stop Magazine.  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/bespoke-for-the-bureau/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220428T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220428T204500
DTSTAMP:20260403T140804
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SUMMARY:Craft Class & Poetry Reading with Patricia Spears Jones (online class)
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a Virtual Craft Class & Reading with Patricia Spears Jones \nCraft Class will run from 6:30 PM-8:30 PM EDT. Followed by a reading from 8:30 PM-8:45 PM. \nRegistration on Eventbrite required in order to gain access to the Zoom link. \nSuggested donation to benefit the instructor: $10 \nAll are welcome to join\, with or without a donation. \nOnce you have registered on Eventbrite you will receive an email with the link you need to join the event on Zoom – or you can simply return to the Eventbrite page and click on “Access the event.” But you will only be able to access this AFTER you have registered. \n  \nWorking Words \nThis workshop focuses on expanding the writer’s word choice. Poets often use a few words over and over. One way to break this pattern is to use different words–ones that have not been used. This workshop uses an exercise to generate new poems and as a tool that the students can take with them. Participants will review a prompt\, write\, and discuss their vocabulary choices. \n  \nPatricia Spears Jones is a poet\, educator\, cultural activist\, anthologist\, and recipient of 2017 Jackson Poetry Prize and is author of A Lucent Fire New and Selected Poems and three full-length collections and five chapbooks. She coedited the groundbreaking anthology Ordinary Women: An Anthology of New York City Women (1978) and THINK: Poems for Aretha Franklin’s Inauguration Day Hat (2009). Her poems are widely anthologized\, most notably in Of Poetry and Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin: BAX: Best American Experimental Writing\, 2016\, WORD: An Anthology by A Gathering of Tribes\, African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song\, and Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry. Jones’s poems have appeared in many print and online journals\, such as the New Yorker\, the Brooklyn Rail\, Persimmon Tree: An Online Magazine of the Arts by Women\, Cutthroat Journal\, and Plume. Her essays\, blogs\, colloquies\, and interviews have been published in the collections Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry and The Whiskey of Our Discontent: Gwendolyn Brooks as Conscience and Change Agent; they have also appeared in print and online journals\, including The Black Scholar\, Bomb\, Mosaic\, the Harriet blog on poetryfoundation.org\, Pangyrus\, The Poetry Project Newsletter\, The Rumpus\, and The Writers Chronicle. https://psjones.com \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/craft-class-poetry-reading-with-patricia-spears-jones-online-class/
LOCATION:online class
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220428T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220428T130000
DTSTAMP:20260403T140804
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SUMMARY:The Digital Closet: LGBTQIA+ Censorship Online (online event)
DESCRIPTION:Heteronormative bias is deeply embedded in the internet\, hidden in algorithms\, keywords\, content moderation\, and more. In fact\, the internet has become largely straight by suppressing everything that is not\, forcing LGBTQIA+ content into increasingly narrow channels—rendering it invisible through strategies of digital overreach. The Digital Closet author Alexander Monea joins the Bureau to present a short talk about growing LGBTQIA+ censorship online. Following this presentation\, he will be joined by Shaka McGlotten to discuss additional points\, including how LGBTQIA+ content online blurs lines between SFW and NSFW\, why LGBTQIA+ porn is important\, and more. The conversationalists will close by opening the floor to audience discussion and Q&A. \n  \nRegistration on Eventbrite required in order to gain access to the Zoom link. \n  \nSuggested donation of $5 to benefit the Bureau. \nYou can make a donation when you register on Eventbrite. Thank you for supporting the Bureau! \nAll are welcome to join\, with or without a donation. \nOnce you have registered on Eventbrite you will receive an email with the link you need to join the event on Zoom – or you can simply return to the Eventbrite page and click on “Access the event.” But you will only be able to access this AFTER you have registered. \n  \nPurchase Alexander Monea‘s The Digital Closet: How the Internet Became Straight (MIT Press\, 2022\, hardcover\, $29.95) from the Bureau’s online store by clicking on the title. \nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us! \n  \nAlexander Monea is Assistant Professor serving jointly in the English Department and Cultural Studies Program at George Mason University whose research focuses on the historical and cultural impact of computation and fairness\, accountability\, transparency\, and ethics. He is the author of The Digital Closet: How the Internet Became Straight (MIT Press) and co-author of a forthcoming book The Prisonhouse of the Circuit: A New Politics of Control (University of Minnesota Press). \n  \nShaka McGlotten is Professor of Media Studies and Anthropology at Purchase College-SUNY\, where they also serve as Chair of the Gender Studies and Global Black Studies programs. An anthropologist and artist\, their work stages encounters between black study\, queer theory\, media\, and art. They have written and lectured widely on networked intimacies and messy computational entanglements as they interface with qtpoc lifeworlds.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/the-digital-closet-lgbtqia-censorship-online-online-event/
LOCATION:online event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220424T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220424T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T140804
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SUMMARY:NYC Queer Comics Fair (in-person at the Bureau!)
DESCRIPTION:The NYC Queer Comic Fair is BACK! After a 2-year hiatus due to covid-19\, Doable Guys is taking the helm and bringing back the fun! \nWe’ll be in the Bureau\, located in The LGBT Community Center\, on the second floor and we have about 15 creators lined up! \nSo mark your calendars for the weekend of April 23-24\, 1-7pm both days! FREE ADMISSION!  \n  \nVendors: \nDoable Guys @doableguys \nWabiSabiZinez @Wabi_Sabi_Zinez \nPatrick J. Reilly @NotPatReilly \nIt’s Alive Comics @itsalivecomicsnyc \nJames Dillenbeck @Jamesdillenbeck \nEdward Ficklin Ig: @papertiger74 \nSquareBears @squarebears \nGiles Crawford @gilesdraws \nQueer Lobster Shop @queer.lobster.shop \nMichael Shirey @bouquetBoys \nTony Ortega @drtonyortega \nDaniel Stalter @danielstalter \nLucky Sanford @luckysanford \n\nYOU DO NOT NEED TO REGISTER ON EVENTBRITE OR ANYWHERE ELSE TO JOIN THIS EVENT. \nAll are welcome to join! \nPlease note that masks are required at all times within The LGBT Community Center\, where the Bureau is located.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/nyc-queer-comics-fair-in-person-at-the-bureau-2/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services—Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220423T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220423T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T140804
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SUMMARY:NYC Queer Comics Fair (in-person at the Bureau!)
DESCRIPTION:The NYC Queer Comic Fair is BACK! After a 2-year hiatus due to covid-19\, Doable Guys is taking the helm and bringing back the fun! \nWe’ll be in the Bureau\, located in The LGBT Community Center\, on the second floor and we have about 15 creators lined up! \nSo mark your calendars for the weekend of April 23-24\, 1-7pm both days! FREE ADMISSION!  \nVendors: \nDoable Guys @doableguys \nWabiSabiZinez @Wabi_Sabi_Zinez \nPatrick J. Reilly @NotPatReilly \nIt’s Alive Comics @itsalivecomicsnyc \nJames Dillenbeck @Jamesdillenbeck \nEdward Ficklin Ig: @papertiger74 \nSquareBears @squarebears \nGiles Crawford @gilesdraws \nQueer Lobster Shop @queer.lobster.shop \nMichael Shirey @bouquetBoys \nTony Ortega @drtonyortega \nDaniel Stalter @danielstalter \nLucky Sanford @luckysanford \nYOU DO NOT NEED TO REGISTER ON EVENTBRITE OR ANYWHERE ELSE TO JOIN THIS EVENT. \nAll are welcome to join! \nPlease note that masks are required at all times within The LGBT Community Center\, where the Bureau is located.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/nyc-queer-comics-fair-in-person-at-the-bureau/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services—Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:THREE POETS\, THREE VOICES: Scott Hightower\, John Keene\, Elaine Sexton (in-person & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:Join us in celebrating two new books and new work by three queer poets in celebration of National Poetry Month\, and in support of the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division. Elaine Sexton will read from Drive\, just out this month with Grid Books (April ‘22). MacArthur Fellow John Keene’s Punks: New & Selected Poems is from The Song Cave\, (Dec. ‘21). Poet\, translator\, and literary matchmaker Scott Hightower rounds out this roster of three poets reading new work. \n  \nThis event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division\, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center\, 208 W. 13th St.\, NYC\, 10011. \nRegistration is not required. Seating is first come\, first served. \nAlso live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel \n  \nSafety protocol \nIn an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19: \nIf you have any symptoms associated with COVID-19 in the days leading up to the event\, we ask you to please stay home. \nPlease note that masks are required at all times inside The LGBT Community Center\, where the Bureau is located. \n  \nSuggested donation $10 to benefit the Bureau’s work. \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without donation. \nWe will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event\, but we can also take credit card donations at the register or you can donate in advance on Eventbrite. \n  \nBooks by John Keene\, Elaine Sexton\, and Scott Hightower will be available for purchase at the event. \nPurchase Elaine Sexton’s Drive (Grid Books\, 2022\, paperback\, $16) from the Bureau’s online store (click on the title). \nPurchase John Keene’s Punks: New and Selected Poems (The Song Cave\, 2021\, paperback\, $20) from the Bureau’s online store (click on the title). \nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us! \n  \nJOHN KEENE is the author of Punks: New and Selected Poems (The Song Cave\, 2021)\, a 2022 Lambda Lit Award finalist\, as well as several other works of poetry\, fiction and translations. Keene is the recipient of numerous honors—most notably a MacArthur Genius Award\, a Windham-Campbell Prize\, and a Lannan Award for Fiction. A Graduate Fellow of the Cave Canem Writers Workshops\, he teaches and chairs at Rutgers University-Newark. \n  \nELAINE SEXTON‘s newest book is Drive (GRID\, 2022). Work from this book also appears in three forthcoming anthologies: Treelines (Grayson Books)\, I Wanna Be Loved By You (Milk & Honey Press)\, and Stronger Than Fear (Cave Moon Press). Her book\, Causeway\, was a finalist for the Audre Lorde/ Publishing Triangle Award. She is a member of the National Book Critics Circle\, and teaches at the Sarah Lawrence College Writing Institute. \n  \nSCOTT HIGHTOWER is the author of four books of poetry in the US and two bilingual collections published in Madrid. He lives in Manhattan and teaches at New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/three-poets-three-voices-scott-hightower-john-keene-elaine-sexton/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services—Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:TELL 80: RELEASE PARTY FOR SEASON 2 OF TELL! A BRIC PODCAST (IN PERSON!)
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThe 80th TELL will serve as the release party for season 2 of TELL! Podcast\, produced by BRIC\, on Saturday\, April 16\, 2022\, 6:30 PM IN PERSON at the Bureau! Featuring: Becca Blackwell\, Joey Kipp\, and Fernando Vieira. \nFREE EVENT!  \nFree snacks & drinks provided by BRIC! \n  \nSafety protocol: \nIn an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19:  \nPlease bring proof of vaccination with you.\nYou will need to show proof of vaccination and a photo id in order to attend the event.\nIf you have any symptoms associated with COVID-19 in the days leading up to the event\, we ask you to please stay home. \nRegistration is not required. Seating is first come\, first served. \n  \nPhotograph by Grace Chu\nDrae Campbell is an actor and performer who has appeared on stages all over NYC and on the internet\, movies and tv.  She’s been spotted on the tv shows New Amsterdam and Bull and on the web series Dinette directed by Shaina Feinberg. She can also be found online on Refinery29\, IFC.Com and BRICTV to name a few. Some fave stage acting credits: Only You Can Prevent Wildfires\, Ricochet Collective\, Non-Consensual Relationships With Ghosts\, La Mama\, My Old Man\, Dixon Place\, Oph3lia at HERE\, The Nosebleed at The Public Theatre. Drae also appeared as a radical lesbian in Taylor Mac’s 24 Decade History Of Popular Music at St. Ann’s Warehouse. Drae’s been hosting and curating TELL at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division for 7 plus years. If you like  queer stories\, TELL is also a Podcast! www.draecampbell.com \n  \nPhoto credit: Eric McNatt\nBecca Blackwell is an NYC-based trans actor\, performer and writer. Existing between genders\, and preferring the pronoun “they\,” Blackwell works collaboratively with playwrights and directors to expand our sense of personhood and the body through performance. Some of their collaborations have been with Young Jean Lee\, Half Straddle\, Jennifer Miller’s Circus Amok\, Richard Maxwell\, Erin Markey\, Sharon Hayes\, Theater of the Two Headed Calf and Lisa D’Amour. Film/TV includes: “High Maintenance\,” “Ramy\,” “Marriage Story\,” “Shameless\,” “Deadman’s Barstool\,” and “Jack in the Box.” They have toured their solo shows They\, Themself and Schmerm and Schmermie’s Choice across the US. Blackwell was a recipient of the Doris Duke Impact Artist Award\, the Franklin Furnace award and the Creative Capital Award. Photo credit: Eric McNatt \n  \nJoey Kipp is an NYC Dancer and performer. \n  \n \nFernando 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. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/tell-80-podcast-2-launch/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:Histories of Gay Liberation: Samuel Huneke and Lisa Duggan in Conversation (in-person & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a conversation between Professor Lisa Duggan and Professor Samuel Huneke about queer liberation movements across history and Huneke’s new book States of Liberation: Gay Men between Dictatorship and Democracy in Cold War Germany. States of Liberation traces the paths of gay men in East and West Germany from the violent aftermath of the Second World War to the thundering nightclubs of present-day Berlin. Following a captivating cast of characters\, from gay spies and Nazi scientists to queer politicians and secret police bureaucrats\, it tells the remarkable story of how the two German states persecuted gay men – and how those men slowly\, over the course of decades\, won new rights and created new opportunities for themselves in the heart of Cold War Europe. \n  \nThis event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division\, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center\, 208 W. 13th St.\, NYC\, 10011. \nAlso live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel \n  \nSafety protocol \nIn an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19: \nIf you have any symptoms associated with COVID-19 in the days leading up to the event\, we ask you to please stay home. \nPlease note that masks are required at all times inside The LGBT Community Center\, where the Bureau is located. \n  \nSuggested donation $10 to benefit the Bureau’s work. \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without donation. \nWe will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event\, but we can also take credit card donations at the register. \n  \nHuneke’s States of Liberation: Gay Men between Dictatorship and Democracy in Cold War Germany (University of Toronto Press\, 2022\, paperback\, $38.95) will be available for purchase at the event. To reserve a copy\, please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com. \n  \nSamuel Clowes Huneke is Assistant Professor of History at George Mason University. His research focuses on the social and political history of twentieth-century Germany. His first book\, States of Liberation: Gay Men between Dictatorship and Democracy in Cold War Germany (University of Toronto Press\, 2022)\, examines gay persecution and liberation in Germany during the Cold War. He has written widely on the history of sexuality in modern Germany\, publishing in scholarly journals including Central European History\, New German Critique\, and Journal of Contemporary History. He also writes regularly for public venues including Boston Review\, The Point\, and Los Angeles Review of Books. \n  \nLisa Duggan is a journalist\, activist\, and Professor of Social & Cultural Analysis at New York University. She is author of Sapphic Slashers: Sex\, Sensationalism and American Modernity; Twilight of Equality? Neoliberalism\, Cultural Politics and the Attack on Democracy\, and Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and Neoliberal Greed.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/histories-of-gay-liberation-samuel-huneke-and-lisa-duggan-in-conversation-in-person-live-streaming/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services—Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:NYC Launch Party for Ryan Tracy’s Tender Bottoms (in-person and live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:Come out for the NYC launch of Ryan Tracy’s Tender Bottoms\, a collection of poems inspired by literary modernism’s doyen of queer domestic life\, Gertrude Stein. Ryan will be joined by poets Kyle Carrero Lopez and Nathaniel Rosenthalis\, with special guest Chris Campanioni\, for an evening of tender verses and bottom natures. \n  \nJoin this event in-person at the Bureau \nOR watch the live-stream of the event on the Bureau’s YouTube channel: \nhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzrAvfZMDF_ilmUH0CBn5iA \n  \nCopies of Tender Bottoms ($19.99) will be available for purchase at the event. \n  \nSuggested donation $10 to benefit the Bureau’s work. \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without donation. \nWe will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event\, but we can also take credit card donations at the register or you can donate in advance on Eventbrite. \nSafety protocol (for those joining in person) \nIn an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19: \nIf you have any symptoms associated with COVID-19 in the days leading up to the event\, we ask you to please stay home. \nPlease note that masks are required at all times inside The LGBT Community Center\, where the Bureau is located. \n  \nRyan Tracy‘s poetry and fiction have appeared in Pank (2019 Pushcart Prize nomination for fiction)\, The Hyacinth Review\, Chronogram\, The New Engagement\, K.G.B.\, and The Gay and Lesbian Review\, among others. Essays and criticism have appeared in The American Reader\, The New York Press\, and The Brooklyn Rail. Ryan teaches World Literature at Baruch College and is a PhD Candidate in English at the CUNY Graduate Center. \n  \nKyle Carrero Lopez was born to Cuban parents in northern New Jersey. He co-founded LEGACY\, a production collective by and for Black queer artists\, and is the author of MUSCLE MEMORY\, the chapbook winner of the 2020 [PANK] Books contest. His recent and upcoming publications include The Offing\, Prolit\, Best New Poets 2021\, and Poem-a-Day. \n  \nNathaniel Rosenthalis is a poet whose work appears in The Harvard Advocate\, New American Writing\, Conjunctions\, Denver Quarterly\, and elsewhere. He is the author of several chapbooks\, including 24 HOUR AIR (PANK Books\, April 2022). He is also a singer and actor\, and recently made his Off-Broadway debut. \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/nyc-launch-party-for-ryan-tracys-tender-bottoms/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services—Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:OutWrite: The Speeches that Shaped LGBTQ Literary Culture (in-person and live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:Join editors of OutWrite: The Speeches that Shaped LGBTQ Literary Culture\, Julie R. Enszer and Elena Gross\, contributors Mariana Romo-Carmona and Linda Villarosa\, with interlocutor Reginald Harris to discuss the OutWrite conferences and their enduring legacies. \n  \nJoin this event in-person at the Bureau \nOR watch the live-stream of the event on the Bureau’s YouTube channel: \nhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzrAvfZMDF_ilmUH0CBn5iA \n  \nSafety protocol (for those joining in person): \nIn an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19: \nIf you have any symptoms associated with COVID-19 in the days leading up to the event\, we ask you to please stay home. \nPlease note that masks are required at all times inside The LGBT Community Center\, where the Bureau is located. \n\n\n  \nSuggested donation $10 to benefit the Bureau’s work. \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without donation. \nWe will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event\, but we can also take credit card donations at the register or you can donate in advance on Eventbrite. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nPurchase OutWrite: The Speeches that Shaped LGBTQ Literary Culture (Rutgers University Press\, 2022\, paperback\, $26.95) from the Bureau’s online store by clicking on the title. \nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us! \nCopies of OutWrite: The Speeches that Shaped LGBTQ Literary Culture are also available at the Bureau’s physical store. \n  \nJulie R. Enszer\, PhD\, is a scholar and a poet. Her book manuscript A Fine Bind is a history of lesbian-feminist presses from 1969 until 2009. Her scholarly work has appeared or is forthcoming in Southern Cultures\, Journal of Lesbian Studies\, American Periodicals\, WSQ\, and Frontiers. She is the author of four poetry collections\, Avowed (2016)\, Lilith’s Demons (2015)\, Sisterhood (2013)\, and Hand- made Love (2010). She is editor of The Complete Works of Pat Parker (2016)\, which won the 2017 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry; Sister Love: The Letters of Audre Lorde and Pat Parker 1974– 1989 (2018); and Milk and Honey: A Celebration of Jewish Lesbian Poetry (2011)\, which was a finalist for the 2012 Lambda Literary Award in Lesbian Poetry. She has her MFA and PhD from the University of Maryland. Enszer edits and publishes Sinister Wisdom\, a multicultural lesbian literary and art journal\, and is a regular book reviewer for the The Rumpus and Calyx. Read more of her work at www.JulieREnszer.com. \n  \nElena Gross (she/they) is the Director of Exhibitions & Curatorial Affairs at the Museum of the African Diaspora and an independent writer and culture critic living in Oakland\, California. She received an MA in visual and critical studies from the California College of the Arts in 2016 and her BA in art history and women\, gender\, and sexuality studies from St. Mary’s College of Maryland in 2012. She specializes in representations of identity in fine art\, photography\, and popular media. Elena was formerly the creator and cohost of the arts and visual culture podcast what are you looking at?\, published by Art Practical. Her research has been centered on conceptual and material abstractions of the body in the work of Black modern and contemporary artists. She has presented her writing and research at institutions and conferences across the United States\, including Nook Gallery\, Southern Exposure\, KADIST\, Harvard College\, YBCA\, California College of the Arts\, and the GLBT History Museum. In 2018\, she collaborated with the artist Leila Weefur on the publication Between Beauty and Horror. Her most recent writing can be found in the publication This Is Not a Gun. \n  \nReginald Harris won the 2012 Cave Canem /Northwestern University Press Poetry Prize for Autogeography. A Pushcart Prize Nominee\, recipient of Individual Artist Awards for both poetry and fiction from the Maryland State Arts Council\, and Finalist for a Lambda Literary Award and the ForeWord Book of the Year for 10 Tongues: Poems (2002)\, his work has appeared in numerous journals\, anthologies\, and other publications. A member of the National Book Critics Circle\, he lives in Brooklyn where he is at work on another manuscript. \n  \nMariana Romo-Carmona lost custody of her son when she came out as a lesbian in 1975. She is a novelist and teaches at City College. \n  \nLinda Villarosa is a journalist\, author\, editor\, novelist\, and educator. She is a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine\, covering race\, inequality\, and health. She has won awards from the American Medical Writers’ Association\, the Arthur Ashe Institute\, Lincoln University\, the New York Association of Black Journalists\, the National Women’s Political Caucus\, the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists’ Association\, and the Callen-Lorde Community Health Center. She is the author of\, most recently\, Under the Skin: Race\, Inequality\, and the Health of a Nation. Her other books include Body and Soul: The Black Women’s Guide to Physical Health and Emotional Well-Being and the novel Passing for Black\, released in 2008 and a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award. She teaches journalism and Black studies at the City College of New York.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/outwrite-the-speeches-that-shaped-lgbtq-literary-culture-in-person-and-live-streaming/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services—Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:Poetry of Gender Transformation: Jendi Reiter & Steven Riel (in-person & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:Join poets Jendi Reiter and Steven Riel for a reading from their new books and a conversation about inhabiting different gender personae through art. Reiter’s third poetry collection\, Made Man (Little Red Tree)\, explores female-to-male transition and gay masculine identity through the voices of unusual objects and fictional characters with some aspect that is constructed\, technological\, or hybrid. From a surrealist’s eggbeater discovering feminist consciousness\, or a pastry box enforcing omertà\, to the Nicene Creed as interpreted by Frankenstein\, these startling life studies open up onto a broader consideration of humanity’s relationship with technology and the shadow side of male dominance of nature. Shapeshifting abounds in Edgemere\, Riel’s second collection\, as this pro-feminist gay poet marshals a parade of female personas that includes Senator Elizabeth Dole\, Joan of Arc\, and The Supremes. Riel’s poems zigzag across liminal spaces not just between male/female and human/inhuman\, but between those fallen from AIDS and survivors who grieve them. \nCopies of Jendi Reiter’s Made Man and Steven Riel’s Edgemere will be available for purchase at the event. \nThis event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division\, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center\, 208 W. 13th St.\, NYC\, 10011. \nIf you can’t join us in person\, watch the live-stream of the event on the Bureau’s YouTube channel. \nSafety protocol \nIn an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19: \nIf you have any symptoms associated with COVID-19 in the days leading up to the event\, we ask you to please stay home. \nPlease note that masks are required at all times inside The LGBT Community Center\, where the Bureau is located. \nSuggested donation $10 to benefit the Bureau’s work. \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without donation. \nWe will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event\, but we can also take credit card donations at the register or you can donate in advance on Eventbrite. \n  \nJendi Reiter is the author of the novel Two Natures (Saddle Road Press\, 2016)\, the short story collection An Incomplete List of My Wishes (Sunshot Press\, 2018)\, and four poetry books and chapbooks\, most recently Bullies in Love (Little Red Tree\, 2015). Their awards include a Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship for Poetry\, the New Letters Prize for Fiction\, the Wag’s Revue Poetry Prize\, the Bayou Magazine Editor’s Prize in Fiction\, and two awards from the Poetry Society of America. Two Natures won the Rainbow Award for Best Gay Contemporary Fiction and was a finalist for the Book Excellence Awards and the Lascaux Prize for Fiction. They are the editor of WinningWriters.com\, an online resource site with contests and markets for creative writers. \n  \nSteven Riel is the author of two full-length collections of poetry: Fellow Odd Fellow (Trio House Press\, 2014) and Edgemere (Lily Poetry Review Books\, 2021). His most recent chapbook Postcard from P-town was published as runner-up for the inaugural Robin Becker Chapbook Prize. His poems have appeared in several anthologies and numerous periodicals\, including The Minnesota Review and International Poetry Review. He currently serves as editor-in-chief of the Franco-American literary e-journal Résonance. Author photo: Jamison Wexler \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/poetry-of-gender-transformation-jendi-reiter-steven-riel/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services—Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:Karen Jaime in conversation with Arnaldo Cruz-Malavé\, Regie Cabico\, and Andres Chulisi Rodriguez discussing the queer history and legacy of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe through performance (in-person & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:Join poet and scholar Karen Jaime and scholar Arnaldo Cruz-Malavé\, author of Queer Latino Testimonio\, Keith Haring\, and Juanito Xtravaganza: Hard Tails\, for a conversation about queerness\, poetry and performance\, and Jaime’s new book The Queer Nuyorican: Racialized Sexualities and Aesthetics in Loisaida. From its founding in the early 1970s to the present\, there is a long tradition of queerness—both in terms of sexualities and performance practices—at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. Jaime’s book traces this history and recognizes the work of many of these queer artists\, including Regie Cabico and Andres Chulisi Rodriguez who will perform and discuss their work. \n  \nJoin this event in-person at the Bureau \nOR watch the live-stream of the event on the Bureau’s YouTube channel: \nhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzrAvfZMDF_ilmUH0CBn5iA \n  \nSuggested donation $10 to benefit the Bureau’s work. \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without donation. \nWe will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event\, but we can also take credit card donations at the register \n  \nSafety protocol (for those joining in person): \nIn an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19: \nIf you have any symptoms associated with COVID-19 in the days leading up to the event\, we ask you to please stay home. \nPlease note that masks are required at all times inside The LGBT Community Center\, where the Bureau is located. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nPurchase Karen Jaime’s The Queer Nuyorican: Racialized Sexualities and Aesthetics in Loisaida (NYU\, 2021\, paperback\, $28) from the Bureau’s online store by clicking on the title. \nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us! \nCopies of The Queer Nuyorican: Racialized Sexualities and Aesthetics in Loisaida are also available at the Bureau’s physical store. \n  \nKaren Jaime is Assistant Professor of Performing and Media Arts and Latina/o Studies at Cornell University. Karen is a former Institute for Citizens & Scholars Career Enhancement Junior Faculty Fellow (*formerly the Woodrow Wilson)\, Visiting Scholar at the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics\, a former Rockefeller Foundation Research Fellow and Chancellor’s Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Karen’s monograph\, The Queer Nuyorican: Racialized Sexualities and Aesthetics in Loisaida (NYU Press\, 2021) argues for a reexamination of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe as a historically queer space\, both in terms of sexualities and performance practices. Her critical writing has been published\, or is forthcoming\, in Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory\, e-Misférica\, Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism\, ASAP/J\, TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly and in Performance Matters. Karen is also an accomplished spoken word/performance artist who served as the host/curator of the Friday Night Poetry Slam at the world-renowned Nuyorican Poets Cafe (2003-2005). As a published poet\, her writing is included in The Best of Panic! En Vivo From the East Village\, Flicker and Spark: A Queer Anthology of Spoken Word and Poetry\, in a special issue of Sinister Wisdom: A Multicultural Lesbian Literary and Art Journal\, “Out Latina Lesbians\,” and in the anthology Latinas: Struggles and Protest in 21st Century USA. \n  \nArnaldo M. Cruz-Malavé is professor of Spanish and comparative literature and associate director of Fordham’s Latin American and Latinx Studies Institute. He is the author of Queer Latino Testimonio\, Keith Haring\, and Juanito Xtravaganza: Hard Tails (Palgrave\, 2007)\, a book about the relationship between art and Latinx popular culture in the gentrifying New York of the 1980s; El primitivo implorante (Rodopi\, 1994)\, a study of the intersections of nationalism and queer sexuality in the prose fiction of the Cuban author José Lezama Lima; editor of the anthology of short stories by the Puerto Rican queer diasporic author\, Manuel Ramos Otero: Cuentos (casi) completos (Havana: Casa de las Américas\, 2019) and coeditor\, with Martin Manalansan\, of Queer Globalization: Citizenship and the Afterlife of Colonialism (NYU\, 2002). He has been the recipient of the NEH and the Ford Foundation fellowships\, a visiting professor at Harvard\, and a former member of the Board of Directors of the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies of CUNY’s Graduate Center and Fordham University Press. \n  \nRegie Cabico is a spoken word pioneer having won The Nuyorican Poets Cafe Grand Slam and later taking top prizes in three National Poetry Slams. Mr. Cabico received his BFA at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and is a 2006 NYU Asian Pacific American Studies Artist In Residence. Television credits include 2 seasons of HBO’s Def Poetry Jam\, NPR’s Snap Judgement & a TEDx Talk. His work appears in over 30 anthologies including Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Café\, Spoken Word Revolution & The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry. Mr. Cabico received the 2006 Writers for Writers Award from Poets & Writers for his work teaching at-risk youth at Bellevue Hospital. As a theater artist\, he received three New York Innovative Theater Award Nominations for his work in Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind with a win for Best Performance Art Production. Mr. Cabico will be a featured poet at the 2022 Whitney Biennial and resides in Washington\, DC where he produces Capturing Fire Press and Capturing Fire Slam. \n  \nAndres Chulisi Rodriguez is a poet\, author\, writer and actor. Brooklyn born Harlem living. Working on 2nd book and 4th One Man Show- Prototype Of An Unmothered Maricon. \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/poet-scholar-karen-jaime-discusses-the-queer-nuyorican/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services—Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:Book Launch for Madness by Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué (ONLINE EVENT)
DESCRIPTION:Please join us online for the launch of Madness by Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué\, now out from Nightboat Books! Accompanying Ojeda-Sagué are the great poets Alli Warren and Ricardo Alberto Maldonado\, who will read from recent work. Madness takes the form of a selected poems of a fictional poet\, Luis Montes-Torres\, a gay Cuban exile who makes a name for himself in the world of poetry before the contours of his ordinary life become overwhelming\, stilted\, and impossible. The poems and biographical commentary reveal the unpredictable wavering between anxiety and attachment\, between the political and the personal\, that accompanies any American life marked by difference. Madness is a study in how pleasure\, crisis\, wonder\, disappointment\, love\, and fantasy are written into our forms for living. \n\nRegister on Eventbrite to join this event on Zoom\n \n\nOR\n\n\nwatch the live-stream on the Bureau’s YouTube channel\n  \nOnce you have registered on Eventbrite you will receive an email with the link you need to join the event on Zoom – or you can simply return to the Eventbrite page and click on “Access the event.” But you will only be able to access this AFTER you have registered. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nPurchase Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué‘s Madness (Nightboat Books\, 2022\, paperback\, $17.95) from the Bureau’s online store by clicking on the title. \nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us! \n  \nGabriel Ojeda-Sagué is a poet and writer living in Chicago. He is most recently the author of _Losing Miami_ (The Accomplices\, 2019) and co-editor of _An Excess of Quiet: Selected Sketches by Gustavo Ojeda\, 1979-1989_\, both of which were finalists for Lambda Literary Awards. His fourth poetry book\, _Madness_\, is out from Nightboat Books. He is currently a PhD student in English at the University of Chicago where he works in the study of sexuality. \n  \nAlli Warren‘s most recent book is _Sundial_ (Nion Editions\, 2021). Previous books include _Little Hill_ (City Lights\, 2020)\, _I Love It Though_ (Nightboat Books\, 2017)\, and _Here Come the Warm Jets_ (City Lights\, 2013). Her writing has appeared in numerous publications\, including Harpers\, Poetry\, The Brooklyn Rail\, and BOMB. She has lived and worked in the Bay Area since 2005. \n  \nRicardo Alberto Maldonado was born and raised in Puerto Rico. He is the co-editor of Puerto Rico en mi corazón (Anomalous Press) and the translator of Dinapiera Di Donato’s Collateral / Colaterales (Akashic Press / National Poetry Series). His first collection of poems is The Life Assignment (Four Way Books)\, a finalist for the Norma Faber First Book Prize and one of Remezcla’s 2020’s Best Books by Latine or Latin American Authors. A recipient of fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts\, Queer|Arts|Mentorship and CantoMundo\, he serves as the 92Y Unterberg Poetry Center’s Managing Director.
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SUMMARY:Celebrate National Poetry Month with poets Lisa Dordal & Emanuel Xavier (in-person AND live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:Kick off National Poetry Month at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division as two award-winning queer poets\, Lisa Dordal & Emanuel Xavier\, share their poems of wisdom\, struggle\, and transformation. \n  \nIf you can’t join us in person\, watch the live-stream of the event on the Bureau’s YouTube channel:  \nhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzrAvfZMDF_ilmUH0CBn5iA \n\nSafety protocol \nIn an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19: \nIf you have any symptoms associated with COVID-19 in the days leading up to the event\, we ask you to please stay home. \nPlease note that masks are required at all times inside The LGBT Community Center\, where the Bureau is located. \nSuggested donation $10 to benefit the Bureau’s work. \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without donation. \nWe will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event\, but we can also take credit card donations at the register or you can donate in advance on Eventbrite. \nPurchase books from the Bureau’s online store: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nEmanuel Xavier’s Selected Poems of Emanuel Xavier (Queer Mojo\, 2021\, paperback\, $12.95)  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nAlso available in Spanish: Poemas Seleccionados de Emanuel Xavier ($12.95) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nLisa Dordal’s Water Lessons (Black Lawrence Press\, 2022\, paperback\, $16.95) \nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us! \nCopies of these titles are also available at the Bureau’s physical store and can be purchased at the reading. \n  \nLisa Dordal holds a Master of Divinity and a Master of Fine Arts\, both from Vanderbilt University\, and teaches in the English Department at Vanderbilt. She is the author of Mosaic of the Dark\, which was a finalist for the 2019 Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry\, and Water Lessons (April 2022). She is a Pushcart Prize and Best-of-the-Net nominee and the recipient of an Academy of American Poets University Prize\, the Robert Watson Poetry Prize\, and the Betty Gabehart Poetry Prize. Her poetry has appeared in Narrative\, Image\, RHINO\, The Sun\, The New Ohio Review\, Best New Poets\, Greensboro Review\, Ninth Letter\, and CALYX. Her website is www.lisadordal.com \n  \nPoet and activist\, Emanuel Xavier was born in Brooklyn\, New York\, and became involved in the ball scene as a homeless gay teen. Xavier has received recognition as a spoken word artist from national colleges and universities and was named an LGBTQ Icon by The Equality Forum. He has been presented a New York City Council Citation Award\, received International Latino Book Award and Lambda Literary Award nominations and American Library Association Over the Rainbow Books selections for his collections which include: Pier Queen\, Americano\, If Jesus Were Gay\, Nefarious\, and Radiance. He is the recipient of a Gay City Impact Award and The Marsha A. Gomez Cultural Heritage Award. Selected Poems of Emanuel Xavier was a Kirkus Review Best Indie Book of 2021. His website is www.emanuelxavier.org
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/celebrate-national-poetry-month-with-poets-lisa-dordal-emanuel-xavier/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:Queer Rain Pop Up at the Bureau (IN-PERSON)
DESCRIPTION:Pick up the inaugural issue of the Queer Rain magazine from the editors Alma Leppla and Tricia Rainwater\, visiting from San Francisco! \nThe mission of Queer Rain is to celebrate and uplift queer BIPOC femmes and gender-expansive artists. As two queer femmes of color we have individually and collectively felt barriers in the art world. We formed as a collective in February 2021\, hosting workshops and holding space for artists at the intersection of queerness and BIPOC identities. We’re proud to share the launch of our inaugural publication in January 2022\, an anthology showcasing work from 20 queer BIPOC femme and gender-expansive artists. \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/queer-rain-pop-up-at-the-bureau/
LOCATION:NY
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SUMMARY:Wayne Hoffman talks about his true crime memoir\, with Q&A by Larry Flick (in-person AND live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:Award-winning gay novelist Wayne Hoffman (Hard\, An Older Man\, Sweet Like Sugar) makes his nonfiction debut with The End of Her: Racing Against Alzheimer’s to Solve a Murder. \nWayne’s great-grandmother\, a Russian Jewish immigrant\, was brutally murdered in 1913 in Winnipeg’s so-called Hebrew Colony. The crime made headlines across Canada\, in English and Yiddish newspapers\, and her funeral was the largest Winnipeg had ever seen. But the killer was never found. A century later\, Wayne—a veteran journalist—set out to solve this mystery when his mother (named in her slain grandmother’s memory) was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. The result is a family memoir about a gay man caring for his mother as her mental health deteriorates\, interspersed with a historical investigation into the events of a century ago\, as he races to find the answers before his mother loses the ability to understand her own family history. \nReading followed by a Q&A with veteran Billboard editor and Sirius XM radio host Larry Flick\, joining us virtually from Wales. \nJoin Wayne Hoffman in-person at the Bureau OR watch the live-stream of the event on the Bureau’s YouTube channel:  \nhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzrAvfZMDF_ilmUH0CBn5iA \n. \nSafety protocol (for those joining in person): \nIn an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19: \nPlease bring proof of vaccination with you.\nYou will need to show proof of vaccination and a photo id in order to attend the event.\nIf you have any symptoms associated with COVID-19 in the days leading up to the event\, we ask you to please stay home. \nPlease note that masks are required at all times inside The LGBT Community Center\, where the Bureau is located. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nPurchase Wayne Hoffman’s The End of Her: Racing Against Alzheimer’s to Solve a Murder (Heliotrope Books\, 2022\, paperback\, $18) from the Bureau’s online store. \nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us! \nCopies of The End of Her are also available at the Bureau’s physical store. \n  \nSuggested donation $10 to benefit the Bureau’s work. \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without donation. \nWe will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event\, but we can also take credit card donations at the register or you can donate in advance on EVENTBRITE. \n  \nWayne Hoffman is the author of three novels—Hard\, An Older Man\, and Sweet Like Sugar—and his essays have appeared in such anthologies as Mama’s Boy: Gay Men Write About Their Mothers and Best Gay Stories 2010. His cultural reporting has appeared in the Washington Post\, Village Voice\, Billboard\, Out\, The Advocate\, Poz\, and elsewhere; he is currently executive editor of the Jewish online magazine Tablet. \n  \nLarry Flick is a 35-plus year veteran of music and media. He first made his mark at Billboard magazine as a senior editor for 14 years. He then took to the airwaves of SiriusXM as a host and producer for 18 years. He is currently a music curator for VERO Music\, and a writer for publications that include the Telegraph UK and Rival magazine.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/wayne-hoffman-talks-about-his-true-crime-memoir-with-qa-by-larry-flick/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:TELL 79: Chaos (IN PERSON!)
DESCRIPTION:  \nTELL is an evening of story telling from the mouths and minds of queers in NYC hosted by Drae Campbell at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division since February 2014. \nChaos is the theme of the 79th TELL\, on Saturday\, March 19\, 2022\, 7 PM IN PERSON at the Bureau! Featuring: Veronica Garza\, Rexylafemme\, and Zo Tipp. \nSafety protocol: \nIn an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19:  \nPlease bring proof of vaccination with you.\nYou will need to show proof of vaccination and a photo id in order to attend the event.\nPlease note that masks are required at all times inside The LGBT Community Center\, where the Bureau is located. \nIf you have any symptoms associated with COVID-19 in the days leading up to the event\, we ask you to please stay home. \n  \nSuggested donation of $10 to benefit the Bureau and the storytellers. \nWe will pass a bag at the start of the event. Thank you for supporting the Bureau and TELL! \nAll are welcome to join\, with or without a donation. \nPhotograph by Grace Chu\nDrae Campbell is an actor and performer who has appeared on stages all over NYC and on the internet\, movies and tv.  She’s been spotted on the tv shows New Amsterdam and Bull and on the web series Dinette directed by Shaina Feinberg. She can also be found online on Refinery29\, IFC.Com and BRICTV to name a few. Some fave stage acting credits: Only You Can Prevent Wildfires\, Ricochet Collective\, Non-Consensual Relationships With Ghosts\, La Mama\, My Old Man\, Dixon Place\, Oph3lia at HERE\, The Nosebleed at The Public Theatre. Drae also appeared as a radical lesbian in Taylor Mac’s 24 Decade History Of Popular Music at St. Ann’s Warehouse. Drae’s been hosting and curating TELL at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division for 7 plus years. If you like  queer stories\, TELL is also a Podcast! www.draecampbell.com \n  \nVeronica Garza is a Brookyn-based stand up comedian who is originally from Dallas\, Texas. She performs all over New York City and has been featured on MTV’s “Decoded”\, NPR\, Sirius XM\, and Daily Mail. \n  \nREXYLAFEMME (rex renée leonowicz) is a visual + performing artist\, writer\, and songwriter born and raised in NYC. As a working class trans femme\, rex’s work is grounded in a politics of radical resistance\, healing\, and witness. rex blends genders and genres\, often utilizing drag and burlesque\, to critically respond to the relationships people “on the margins” have with our surroundings and each other. rex’s book of poems and illustrations\, when there is no one and there is everyone\, is available from Magic Helicopter Press. S/he was a 2017 EmergeNYC Performance Fellow with the Hemispheric Institute at NYU and has an MFA in Poetry from Mills College. \n  \nZo Tipp (they/he) is a jewish-japanese-american non-binary actor. TV: Dickinson. NewFest 2020: Top and Bottom; Sideways Smile; Dissonance. Apocalyptic Artist’s Ensemble’s feature film Midsummer Night’s Dream (Puck). NY theater: INTAR: Bundle of Sticks; Red Bull: Gallathea; CSC/OSF: Play On! (Laertes\, Mercutio/Prince/Paris…); Rattlestick: Pride Plays; Pan Asian Rep: Incident at Hidden Temple. Concert: Queering the Stage (Ring of Keys\, Birdland); Songs for Our City (Times Square). www.zotipp.com IG @zotipp \n  \n  \n 
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