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SUMMARY:Chasers: Stephen Ira\, Liam O’Brien\, Kay Gabriel\, Caspar Heinemann (in person event)
DESCRIPTION:Stephen Ira\, Kay Gabriel\, Liam O’Brien\, Caspar Heinemann: old leftist trans poet friends together at the reading podium for the first time. O’Brien\, Ira\, and Gabriel\, former editors of the landmark trans poetry magazine Vetch\, come together with their friend Heinemann as he arrives from across the Atlantic from Glasgow. Together\, they’ll read poems\, reminisce\, and celebrate the recent release of Ira’s chapbook Chasers on New Michigan Press.\n\n\n\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. \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\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. \n  \nStephen Ira is a poet and performer raised in LA and living in New York. His chapbook Chasers recently came out on New Michigan Press. Favorite appearances include Poetry (Chicago)\, the Sundance Film Festival\, and the American Poetry Review. \n  \nLiam O’Brien grew up on a small island outside Seattle. He has recent work in New South and Electric Literature\, and is a co-founder of Vetch: A Magazine of Trans Poetry and Poetics. He received his MFA at the Iowa Writer’s Workshop.  \n  \nKay Gabriel is a poet and essayist. With Andrea Abi-Karam\, she co-edited We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics (Nightboat\, 2020). She’s the author of Kissing Other People or the House of Fame (Rosa Press\, 2021) and A Queen in Bucks County (Nightboat Books\, 2022).  \n  \nCaspar Heinemann is a poet\, artist\, and academia-adjacent independent researcher based in Glasgow. Their research interests include critical mysticism\, gay biosemiotics\, illegitimate communisms\, and professional irreverence.
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SUMMARY:Book Launch--Sex Is as Sex Does: Governing Transgender Identity (in person & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the launch of Sex Is as Sex Does: Governing Transgender Identity. Author Paisley Currah will be joined by Kendall Thomas\, the Nash Professor of Law and the Director of the Studio for Law and Culture at Columbia University\, for a discussion of the book. Every government agency in the United States\, from Homeland Security to Departments of Motor Vehicles\, has the authority to make its own rules for sex classification. Many transgender people find themselves in the bizarre situation of having different sex classifications on different documents. Whether you can change your legal sex to “F” or “M” (or more recently “X”) depends on what state you live in\, what jurisdiction you were born in\, and what government agency you’re dealing with. In Sex Is as Sex Does\, noted transgender advocate and scholar Paisley Currah explores this deeply flawed system\, showing why it fails transgender and non-binary people.  \nCo-sponsored by the Department of Women’s\, Gender\, & Sexuality Studies\, Barnard College \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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nSex Is as Sex Does: Governing Transgender Identity (New York University Press\, 2022\, hardcover\, $28) is available for purchase from our online store. \nSex Is as Sex Does is also available for purchase at the Bureau’s physical store. \nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us! \n  \nSuggested donation $5 to benefit the Bureau’s work. \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without donation. \nWe will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event\, but we can also take credit card donations at the register. \n  \nPaisley Currah is a Professor of Political Science and Women’s & Gender Studies at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Currah has written widely on transgender issues\, including on topics such as discrimination\, sex reclassification\, and the transgender rights movement. He is the co-founder of the leading journal in transgender studies\, TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly. Currah has advocated for transgender rights at all levels of government. He was a founding board member of the Transgender Law and Policy Institute\, served on the founding board of directors of Global Action for Trans Equality\, and sat on the advisory board of Human Rights Watch’s LGBT Program.  \n  \nKendall Thomas is the Nash Professor of Law and the Director of the Studio for Law and Culture at Columbia University\, where he has been a member of the faculty since 1984. He teaches and writes about law and culture\, gender\, sexuality and law\, and critical race theory. He is a co-editor of Critical Race Theory: Key Writings that Founded the Movement (New Press\, 1995). A scholar-activist\, Thomas is a co-founder of Amend the 13th\, a social justice literacy initiative allied with the movement to amend the 13th Amendment and end enforced prison labor. Thomas is also a vocalist who has performed in several solo shows at Joe’s Pub at the New York Public Theater and at MoMA PS 1 (the New York Museum of Modern Art).  \n 
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SUMMARY:Opening Reception for Near Miss: Katja Farin
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the opening reception of Near Miss\, a solo exhibition of Katja Farin‘s paintings curated by Ashton Cooper. \nThursday\, June 9\, 2022\, 6-9 PM \nExhibition dates: June 9 – September 11\, 2022 \nDownload a PDF of the press release \nThe Bureau of General Services—Queer Division is proud to present Near Miss\, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Katja Farin\, curated by Ashton Cooper. In Farin’s paintings\, depictions of physical contact (or the absence thereof) are often the sites of explorations of their relationships to people\, the environment\, and other beings. Hands in particular are used to visualize care and attempts at forging bonds with others or one’s self. They are also emblematic of emotional states\, enacting bodily languages of togetherness\, alienation\, and everything in between. \nIn their repeated emphasis on scenarios wherein touch and physical intimacy are key\, Farin is a chronicler of both human and interspecies relations\, using their works to imagine and work through scenarios of attachments made or missed. Recently they’ve probed circumstances of a “near miss\,” what happens when the possibility of connection is there\, but it doesn’t quite materialize\, like a shot that barely misses its target. In Near Miss\, 2022\, two figures pass on a house-lined street—one turns back toward the other as they walk toward the edge of the frame\, a final separation imminent. Farin’s works speak to the complexity of social interaction\, the improvised performance of self\, the minutiae of observing others and the self\, and the difficulties of observing the self through others. \nIn new works\, Farin moves from what they have described as “relationships and their complexities” to the complexity of one’s relationship with one’s self. Six paintings\, all 2022 and measuring 4 x 6 inches\, isolate the hands in individual vignettes. In each\, a single hand or pair of hands engages in an action—extinguishing a candle\, clutching a set of playing cards\, twisting a tendril of hair\, putting flowers in a vase\, making a shadow puppet\, or wielding scissors. Each is an everyday occurrence infused with theatricality and many are suspended moments of transition\, saturated with the frisson of anticipation: a flame about to be extinguished\, a poker hand lost or won\, a string severed. Others foreground the haptic: the feeling of hair strands between fingers\, flowers’ supple petals and hairy stems\, or the heat of a flame. The various activities of the hands are presented in scenes that allow us to consider the actions\, inactions\, gestures\, and signals that compose our physical and emotional existence in the world. Farin’s work\, at its core\, investigates the formation of the self\, but underpinned by the principle that change is constant and the “I” never arrives fully formed. Often\, understanding yourself feels like a near miss. \nImage: Katja Farin\, Near Miss\, 2022\, Oil on Canvas\, 30 x 40 in. \n  \nKatja Farin (b. 1996) lives and works in Los Angeles. They received a BA in Fine Art from the University of California\, Los Angeles in 2018. They have had solo presentations at Era Gallery (Milan)\, Lubov (New York) and in lieu (Los Angeles) and have been included in group exhibitions at Eve Leibe Gallery (London)\, Wilding Cran (Los Angeles) and Nicodim (Los Angeles). \n  \nAshton Cooper is a writer\, curator\, and Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Art History at the University of Southern California. She has organized exhibitions at the Leslie-Lohman Museum Project Space\, Maccarone\, Jack Hanley Gallery\, Nicelle Beauchene Gallery\, Larrie\, and the Knockdown Center\, all in New York\, and Cooper Cole in Toronto. Her writing has appeared in Artforum\, ArtReview\, Mousse\, Contemporary Art Review LA\, and others. Her in-progress dissertation explores liberation politics and the remaking of painterly expressionism in 1970s New York. \n  \nThe Bureau of General Services—Queer Division is an independent\, all-volunteer queer cultural center\, bookstore\, and event space that opened in New York City in 2012 and has been hosted by The Lesbian\, Gay\, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center since 2014. We aim to foster a community invested in the values of mindfulness\, intellectual curiosity\, justice\, compassion\, and playfulness. The Bureau seeks to excite and educate a self-confident\, sex-positive\, and supportive queer community by offering books\, publications\, and art and by hosting a wide variety of cultural events\, including readings\, performances\, film screenings\, book discussion groups\, and workshops. We provide local and visiting queers and friends with an open and inclusive space for dialogue and socializing. \n 
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SUMMARY:New Work from Amy Hoffman\, Estela González & Christopher Anstee (in person & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:Kick off your LGBTQ Pride Month with this reading from three newly published books. Christopher Anstee will read from his memoir Polish the Crown\, about growing up queer in a coal-mining town in Wales; Estela González will read from Arribada\, about the intersections of family\, sexuality\, and environmental preservation; and Amy Hoffman will read from Dot & Ralfie\, about a lesbian couple facing the physical\, emotional\, and relationship challenges of aging. \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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n  \nThese books are also available for purchase at the Bureau’s physical store. \nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us! \n  \nSuggested donation $10 to benefit the Bureau’s work. \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without donation. \nWe will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event\, but we can also take credit card donations at the register. \n  \nChristopher Anstee is an author and poet from Wales\, U.K. Christopher is passionate about storytelling and the celebration of ordinary lives in art and literature. The eradication of LGBTQ+ bullying is very close to Christopher’s heart\, along with youth empowerment and the healing power of true self expression. Christopher is a fiery\, strong\, vulnerable\, compassionate freedom fighter and a lover of life\, art and people. A dreamer\, always searching for new adventure and yet hopeful that one day he will be the eccentric old man who lives down the street\, with a thousand books\, 5 dogs and a million stories. \n  \nA binational and bilingual writer from Mexico\, Estela González tells stories from both sides of the border in English and Spanish. Her work about race\, sexuality\, gender\, and environmental justice is featured in the Barcelona Review\, Best of Solstice\, Coal Hill\, Flash Frontier\, Latino Book Review\, LatineLit\, Revista de Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea\, Sinister Wisdom\, Feminine Rising\, and Under the Volcano. Arribada was a finalist for Feminist Press’s Louise Meriwether Award. Estela divides her time between Mazatlán\, Mexico\, and Vermont\, where she teaches Latin American literature\, culture\, and creative writing in Spanish. \n  \nAmy Hoffman has published two novels: Dot & Ralfie and The Off Season; and three award-winning memoirs: Hospital Time; An Army of Ex-Lovers: My Life at the Gay Community News; and Lies About My Family. Her articles have appeared in the Boston Review\, the Gay & Lesbian Review\, and many other journals. She was the longtime editor of Women’s Review of Books\, and teaches in the Solstice low-residency MFA program. When she is not writing\, she enjoys working for social justice; reading; cooking for her honey\, Roberta Stone; biking with friends; and playing the violin.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/new-work-from-amy-hoffman-estela-gonzalez-christopher-anstee/
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 81: FIRED! Postponed to June 4th! (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. \nFIRED! is the theme of the 81st TELL\, on Saturday\, June 4\, 2022\, 7 PM IN PERSON at the Bureau! Featuring: Heather Lynn Johnson\, Elizabeth Koke\, & Justin Sayre. \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  \n \nElizabeth Koke is a writer\, performer\, and organizer from NYC. She has participated in readings and performances at Dixon Place\, Wild Project\, Brooklyn Museum\, Joe’s Pub\, and other assorted venues\, backyards\, and dive bars. She is currently Creative Director for Housing Works where she enjoys a healthy balance of thrift shopping and hell raising. She lives in the Lower East Side where she spends time at her favorite local bar\, the Parkside Lounge\, with her rescue dog\, Onyx. \n  \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 Compendium of Queer Culture 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  \n \nHeather Lynn Johnson is an artist and poet living in Brooklyn whose work is characterized by its lyricism and cultural critique. Heather’s formal approach to the narrative\, whether visual or poetic\, is distinguished by her willingness to lay bare her own existence. Centered around Black American liberation and culture with an emphasis on objectification and lost histories\, Heather uses an autobiographical framework and considers her work self-portraits\, imbued by her lived experience as a butch Black lesbian. The 2019 Leslie-Lohman Museum Fellow and 2017 Literary Fellow for Queer|Art|Mentorship\, Heather is the author of “The Survival Guide For Queer Black Youth” (Inpatient Press\, 2017).
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SUMMARY:Nicole Melleby in conversation with A.J. Sass (in person & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:Join author Nicole Melleby as she discusses her new novel\, THE SCIENCE OF BEING ANGRY\, in conversation with author A.J. Sass. \nFrom the acclaimed author of Hurricane Season\, an unforgettable story about what makes a family. \n Eleven-year-old Joey is angry. All the time. And she doesn’t understand why. She has two loving moms\, a supportive older half brother\, and\, as a triplet\, she’s never without company. Her life is good. But sometimes she loses her temper and lashes out\, like the time she threw a soccer ball—hard—at a boy in gym class and bruised his collarbone. Or when jealousy made her push her (former) best friend (and crush)\, Layla\, a little bit too roughly. \nAfter a meltdown at Joey’s apartment building leads to her family’s eviction\, Joey is desperate to figure out why she’s so mad. A new unit in science class makes her wonder if the reason is genetics. Does she lose control because of something she inherited from the donor her mothers chose? \nThe Science of Being Angry is a heartwarming story about what makes a family and what makes us who we are from an author whose works are highly praised for their presentation of and insights into the emotional lives of tweens. \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  \nPurchase Nicole Melleby’s The Science of Being Angry (Algonquin Young Readers\, 2022\, hardcover\, $16.95) from the Bureau’s online store. \n  \nPurchase A. J. Sass’s Ellen Outside the Lines (Little\, Brown Books for Young Readers\, 2022\, hardcover\, $16.99) from the Bureau’s online store. \nThese books are also available for purchase at the Bureau’s physical store. \n  \nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us! \n  \nSuggested donation $10 to benefit the Bureau’s work. \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without donation. \nWe will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event\, but we can also take credit card donations at the register. \n  \nNicole Melleby\, a New Jersey native\, is the author of highly praised middle-grade books\, including the Lambda Literary finalist Hurricane Season. She lives with her wife and their cat\, whose need for attention oddly aligns with Nicole’s writing schedule. (Author photo: Elizabeth Welch) \n  \nA. J. Sass (he/they) is the author of Ana on the Edge and Ellen Outside the Lines. A. J. is the co-author of Camp QUILTBAG* (Algonquin\, 2023) and a contributor to anthologies such as This Is Our Rainbow (Knopf Books for Young Readers) and Allies (DK/Penguin Random House). When he’s not writing\, A. J. figure skates and travels as much as possible. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his partner and two cats who act like dogs. Visit him online at sassinsf.com and follow him @matokah on Twitter\, Instagram\, and TikTok. (Author photo: Deven Sass-Cao) 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/nicole-melleby-in-conversation-with-a-j-sass-in-person-live-streaming/
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SUMMARY:Precocious Queer Politics: Sodomy Law Reform in Early 19th c. Britain (in person only)
DESCRIPTION:The first parliamentary debates over the immorality of the death penalty for sodomy occurred in Britain in the early nineteenth century\, as part of a fragmented and largely forgotten political effort to lessen the penalties for sex between men. This talk explains how a form of queer politics was possible before modern homosexual identity\, recounting the new discoveries published in “Beyond the Law”: The Politics Ending the Death Penalty for Sodomy in Britain (Temple University Press\, 2021). Jeffrey Weeks\, author of the first landmark works of LGBTQ history for nineteenth century Britain\, has called this research “a triumph of historical detective work… [that] is genuinely breaking new ground.” Join the author\, Charles Upchurch\, and eminent historian of LGBTQ history\, Jonathan Ned Katz\, for an illustrated presentation and discussion of this new research. \nThis event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division\, in room 210 of The LGBT Community Center\, 208 West 13th Street. \nRegistration is not required. Seating is first come\, first served. \nSuggested donation $5 to benefit the Bureau’s work. \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without donation. \nWe will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event\, but we can also take credit card donations at the register. \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 in The LGBT Community Center\, where the Bureau is located. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nPurchase Charles Upchurch’s “Beyond the Law”: The Politics Ending the Death Penalty for Sodomy in Britain (Temple University Press\, 2021\, paperback\, $35.95) from the Bureau’s online store (click on title). \nCopies of “Beyond the Law”: The Politics Ending the Death Penalty for Sodomy in Britain are also available at the Bureau’s physical store. \nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us! \n  \nCharles Upchurch is an Associate Professor of British history at Florida State University. His latest book\, “Beyond the Law”: The Politics of Ending the Death Penalty for Sodomy in Britain\, was published 2021 by Temple University Press\, and recounts the previously untold story of the parliamentary effort to end the death penalty for sodomy in the early nineteenth century. His first book\, Before Wilde: Sex Between Men in Britain’s Age of Reform\, explores the ways in which family and class influenced the interpretation of same-sex desire in the period between 1820 and 1870. He has served as a Distinguished Academic Patron of LGBT History Month in the United Kingdom\, and he is currently the President of the Southern Conference on British Studies. \n  \nJonathan Ned Katz is an Independent Scholar\, history activist\, and visual artist. He has published five books on the history of sexuality and intimacy and a brief memoir\, Coming of Age in Greenwich Village (2013). His most recent book is The Daring Life and Dangerous Times of Eve Adams (2021). Earlier books are Love Stories: Sex Between Men Before Homosexuality (2001); The Invention of Heterosexuality (1995);  Gay/Lesbian Almanac (1983)\, and Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the U.S.A. (1976).
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/precocious-queer-politics-sodomy-law-reform-in-early-19th-c-britain/
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:20220528T183000
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SUMMARY:Sweat: A Decades Long Convo on the Queer Body (in-person & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:Celebrating the publication of Lucy Jane Bledsoe‘s NO STOPPING US NOW and Alison Bechdel‘s THE SECRET TO SUPERHUMAN STRENGTH\, the two will continue their decades-long conversation about what it means to live\, play\, work\, and be an activist in a queer body. \nJoin this event in-person at the Bureau \nOR watch the event on Zoom:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/89786231161?pwd=7D9NzNI0t59eAU2fFEnPp8iM6HHtZ3.1 \nMeeting ID: 897 8623 1161\nPasscode: 556204\nOne tap mobile\n+16465588656\,\,89786231161#\,\,\,\,*556204# US (New York)\n+13126266799\,\,89786231161#\,\,\,\,*556204# US (Chicago) \nDial by your location\n        +1 646 558 8656 US (New York)\n        +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\n        +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC)\n        +1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose)\n        +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)\n        +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\nMeeting ID: 897 8623 1161\nPasscode: 556204\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kBgi6NCT \n  \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  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nPurchase Lucy Jane Bledsoe’s No Stopping Us from the Bureau. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nPurchase Alison Bechdel’s The Secret to Superhuman Strength from the Bureau. \nBoth books are also available at our physical store and will be available at the event. \nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us! \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 \nLucy Jane Bledsoe‘s newest novel\, NO STOPPING US NOW\, is based on her own experience bringing her hometown into compliance with Title IX. She’s the author of several novels\, including A THIN BRIGHT LINE\, and the recent story collection\, LAVA FALLS. Her fiction has won a California Arts Council Fellowship in Literature\, an American Library Association Stonewall Award\, a Yaddo Fellowship\, and two National Science Foundation Artists & Writers Fellowships. She’s a three-time finalist for the Ferro-Grumley Award and a six-time finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction. Ms. called her work “fabulous feminist fiction” and the New York Times said her work “triumphs as an intimate and humane evocation of day-to-day life under inhumane circumstances.”  \n  \n \nAlison Bechdel is the author of the beloved comic strip\, DYKES TO WATCH OUT FOR\, and the graphic memoir\, FUN HOME: A FAMILY TRAGICOMIC\, which Time magazine named the Best Book of 2006. The book was adapted into a musical by the playwright Lisa Kron and the composer Jeanine Tesori. It opened on Broadway at the Circle in the Square Theater on April 19\, 2015\, and won five Tony Awards\, including “Best Musical.” Her most recent book\, THE SECRET TO SUPERHUMAN STRENGTH\, is about her lifetime relationship to the spiritual\, philosophical\, and physical challenges of fitness. The Atlantic called the book “quietly astonishing.” She has been awarded Guggenheim and MacArthur Fellowships. \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/sweat-a-decades-long-convo-on-the-queer-body/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:GAYS IN HOLLYWOOD IN THE GOLDEN AGE - A Talk by Felice Picano in-person
DESCRIPTION:A talk by author\, Felice Picano\, with many vintage photos from Ansel Adams’ estate as well as numerous Hollywood Studio promotional photos and theatre cards showing the surprising dominance of LGBT film actors\, writers\, & directors in the 1930’s through 1950. \nBetter known as a novelist and memoirist\, Felice Picano was called to Hollywood in 1977 to work for Cary Grant’s Brut Productions. Between writing novels in New York\, Picano lived and worked in L.A.\, writing film and TV scripts for various directors. An out gay man\, he soon met the cream of Hollywood LGBT set\, and when he moved there “The Brassy Old Dames of Hollywood\,” all of whom told him what Queer Life and work was like. \nBooks by Felice Picano are available for purchase at the Bureau! \n  \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 \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 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/gays-in-hollywood-in-the-golden-age-a-talk-by-felice-picano-in-person/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220520T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220520T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T194126
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SUMMARY:Office Hours Poetry Spring 2022 Showcase Reading (online only)
DESCRIPTION:Join us Friday May 20th at 7:00 PM EDT for the Office Hours Spring 2022 (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. \nSuggested donation to benefit Office Hours Poetry Workshop: $5 – $10 \nAll are welcome to join\, with or without a donation. \nYou can make a donation when you register on Eventbrite. \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. \nClosed-captioning will be available. \nClick here to register\n  \nAbba Belgrave is an avid writer based in Brooklyn. She is also a recent graduate of the Juniper Summer Writing Program at University of Massachusetts Amherst. \n  \nDanielle Cowan is an electoral organizing fellow born and raised in New York City. You can find her foraging for free lectures\, queer feminist theater and great cake\, or\, on a healthier day\, a hiking trail she can conquer with her cane. \n  \nLaura Cresté is the author of You Should Feel Bad\, winner of a 2019 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship. A 2021-2022 writing fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown\, her poems appear or are forthcoming in The Kenyon Review\, The Yale Review‘s “Poem of the Week” series\, Bennington Review\, Poetry Northwest\, Cero Magazine and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from New York University. \n  \nJ. Freeborn is a social worker and the anthology books managing editor at The Poetry Society of New York. They have recent work in Impossible Archetype\, Stone of Madness\, Voicemail Poems\, and elsewhere. \n  \nLinda Harris Dolan is a Brooklyn-based poet\, editor\, and educator. As a teaching artist at NYU Langone’s Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital\, she leads one-on-one writing sessions with pediatric patients. She holds an MFA in Poetry from NYU\, where she was a Starworks Creative Writing Fellow\, and an MA in English & American Literature from NYU. She is the recipient of fellowships for Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the Ruth Stone House Next Galaxy Retreat. Her work is featured in Bellevue Literary Review\, Pigeon Pages\, Barrow Street\, Brooklyn Review\, Cordella\, and No\, Dear\, among others. She can be found online at lindaharrisdolan.com \n  \nEmily Hockaday’s first full-length collection\, Naming the Ghost\, will be out with Cornerstone Press in November 2022. Her second full-length collection\, In a Body\, is forthcoming from Small Harbor Publishing. She has five chapbooks of poetry—Beach Vocabulary\, Space on Earth\, What We Love and Will Not Give Up\, Starting a Life\, and Ophelia: A Botanist’s Guide. Her work has appeared on Radiolab and in a number of literary journals. She was a 2022 poetry resident at Bethany Arts Community and the recipient of City Artist Corps and Cafe Royal Cultural Foundation grants. www.emilyhockaday.com. \n  \nCarrie Hohmann Campbell lives in Northwestern Pennsylvania where she teaches creative writing at Edinboro University\, writes poetry\, raises chickens\, daydreams incessantly\, gardens\, and enjoys a quiet life. She earned her BA in English and Creative Writing from Allegheny College and her MFA in poetry from New York University. Her second chapbook Drawn to Extinction was published by Finishing Line Press in May 2018.  \n  \nMegan Pinto is a poet living in Brooklyn. Her poems can be found or are forthcoming in Guernica\, The Massachusetts Review\, Plume\, and elsewhere. She has received scholarships and fellowships from Bread Loaf\, the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing\, the Port Townsend Writers’ Conference\, and an Amy Award from Poets & Writers. She holds an MFA in Poetry from Warren Wilson. \n  \nSarah M. Sala is the author of Devil’s Lake (Tolsun Books 2020). The founding director of Office Hours Poetry Workshop\, and assistant poetry editor for the Bellevue Literary Review\, she teaches expository writing at New York University. She has a dapple dachshund named Remy who begs her for food during all her Zoom calls.  \n  \nNoel Sikorski’s poems and artwork appear in Painted Bride Quarterly\, Georgetown Review\, Action Spectacle\, The American Poet: The Journal of the Academy of American Poets. \n  \nShakeema Smalls is a writer from South Carolina. She has had her work published in various outlets including Free Black Space\, Tidal Basin Review\, PANK\, Rigorous\, and Radius Lit\, among others.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/office-hours-poetry-spring-2022-showcase-reading-virtual/
LOCATION:Online event\, New York\, NY\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220519T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220519T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T194126
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SUMMARY:Launch: Melanie Mitzner's Slow Reveal & Ken Harvey's Book of Casey Adair (on Zoom only!)
DESCRIPTION:U.S. Launch of queer American/Canadian Authors: Melanie Mitzner‘s novel Slow Reveal\, set in 1990s New York and Ken Harvey‘s novel The Book of Casey Adair\, set in 1980s Madrid\, Boston and New York. \nWITH FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE FROM THE CANADA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS THROUGH THE WRITERS’ UNION OF CANADA \nPlease note that this event will take place on Zoom only.\nClick here to join this event on Zoom\nSuggested donation $10 to benefit the Bureau’s work. \nYou can make a donation on the Eventbrite page for this event \nRegistration not required to attend–only to make a donation. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nPurchase Melanie Mitzner’s Slow Reveal (Inanna Publications & Education\, 2022\, paperback\, $22.95) from the Bureau’s online store. \n  \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nPurchase Ken Harvey’s The Book of Casey Adair (U of Wisconsin Press\, 2021\, paperback\, $18.95) from the Bureau’s online store. \n  \nBoth books are also available at our physical store as well. \nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us! \n  \nMelanie Mitzner was awarded an Edward Albee Fellowship for her play Personal Effects. Her screenplay Dodge and Burn was a finalist in the Writers Guild East Foundation Fellowships. In the Name of Love and Out to Lunch were finalists in the Houston Film Festival Screenwriting Competition. She received a fellowship from M.E.T. Theater and fiction grants from Vermont Studio Center and Summer Literary Seminars. An excerpt of her novel Too Good to Be True was published in Harrington Lesbian Quarterly. She’s written for Vol1Brooklyn\, Wine Spectator\, Hamptons\, The Groovy Mind\, Society for Curious Thought\, Broadcast Week\, Millimeter and Bloom. She appeared on Best of Women’s Fiction podcast. You can follow her on Instagram\, Twitter and Facebook. For more information\, visit her website: www.melaniemitzner.com. She lives in Montréal and New York. \n  \nKen Harvey is the author of two award-winning books: a short story collection (If You Were With Me Everything Would Be All Right) and a memoir (A Passionate Engagement). He’s been published in over twenty U.S. and international literary magazines\, including The Massachusetts Review\, Consequence\, and The Buenos Aires Review. He’s read his work on National Public Radio in the United States and in Italy and has been granted writing residencies at the Wurlitzer Foundation and the Millay Colony. A book reviewer for Lambda Literary\, Ken holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Bennington College. A native of Boston\, he now lives in Toronto with his husband and basset hound\, Lily Tomlin. \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/launch-melanie-mitzners-slow-reveal-ken-harveys-book-of-casey-adair-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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220518T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220518T203000
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SUMMARY:Let The Record Show (in person only)
DESCRIPTION:Join author Sarah Schulman to celebrate the launch of the paperback edition of LET THE RECORD SHOW: A POLITICAL HISTORY OF ACT UP NEW YORK\, 1987-1993. \nIn just six years\, ACT UP\, New York\, a broad and unlikely coalition of activists from all races\, genders\, sexualities\, and backgrounds\, changed the world. Armed with rancor\, desperation\, intelligence\, and creativity\, it took on the AIDS crisis with an indefatigable\, ingenious\, and multifaceted attack on the corporations\, institutions\, governments\, and individuals who stood in the way of AIDS treatment for all. They stormed the FDA and NIH in Washington\, DC\, and started needle exchange programs in New York; they took over Grand Central Terminal and fought to change the legal definition of AIDS to include women; they transformed the American insurance industry\, weaponized art and advertising to push their agenda\, and battled—and beat—The New York Times\, the Catholic Church\, and the pharmaceutical industry. Their activism\, in its complex and intersectional power\, transformed the lives of people with AIDS and the bigoted society that had abandoned them. \nBased on more than two hundred interviews with ACT UP members and rich with lessons for today’s activists\, LET THE RECORD SHOW is a revelatory exploration—and long-overdue reassessment—of the coalition’s inner workings\, conflicts\, achievements\, and ultimate fracture. Schulman\, one of the most revered queer writers and thinkers of her generation\, explores the how and the why\, examining\, with her characteristic rigor and bite\, how a group of desperate outcasts changed America forever\, and in the process created a livable future for generations of people across the world. \nNo registration required. \nSeating is first come\, first served. \nSuggested donation of $10 to benefit the Bureau. \nAll are welcome to join\, with or without a 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 are required to wear masks. \n\nTo reserve a copy of the paperback edition of Let The Record Show (released from Picador on May 17\, $22)\, please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com. Copies will be available for purchase at the event.  \nOr pre-order a copy from our online store to have the book shipped to you after May 17th. \n\nSarah Schulman is the author of more than twenty works of fiction (including The Cosmopolitans\, Rat Bohemia\, and Maggie Terry)\, nonfiction (including Stagestruck\, Conflict is Not Abuse\, and The Gentrification of the Mind)\, and theater (Carson McCullers\, Manic Flight Reaction\, and more)\, and the producer and screenwriter of several feature films (The Owls\, Mommy Is Coming\, and United in Anger\, among others). Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker\, The New York Times\, Slate\, and many other outlets. She is a Distinguished Professor of Humanities at College of Staten Island\, a Fellow at the New York Institute of Humanities\, the recipient of multiple fellowships from the MacDowell Colony\, Yaddo\, and the New York Foundation for the Arts\, and was presented in 2018 with Publishing Triangle’s Bill Whitehead Award. She is also the cofounder of the MIX New York LGBT Experimental Film and Video Festival\, and the co-director of the groundbreaking ACT UP Oral History Project. A lifelong New Yorker\, she is a longtime activist for queer rights and female empowerment\, and serves on the advisory board of Jewish Voice for Peace.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/let-the-record-show/
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:20220518T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220518T153000
DTSTAMP:20260403T194126
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220515T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220515T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T194126
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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/
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 - 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/
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 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/
LOCATION: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.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/2022-publishing-triangle-awards-reading-first-night-online-event/
LOCATION:online event
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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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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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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:20260403T194126
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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:20260403T194126
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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:20260403T194126
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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
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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:20260403T194126
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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:20260403T194126
CREATED:20220401T162351Z
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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:20260403T194126
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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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