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Queer Division 8: Core, Kotecha, Lepri
2013-09-30 07:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | NY
Nicole Eisenman painting

A reading series for queer writing and performance practice, Queer Division is curated by Andrew Durbin at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division.

LEOPOLDINE CORE was born and raised in Manhattan. Her poems and fiction have appeared in Open City, The Literarian, Drunken Boat, Sadie Magazine, Harp & Altar, The Brooklyn Rail, Agriculture Reader, and No, Dear among others. She is a 2012 Fellow at The Center for Fiction and at The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. Her chapbook “Young Friend” is forthcoming this year from Perfect Lovers Press. “And Satisfaction,” her first full-length book, will be published in 2015 from Coconut Books.

SHIV KOTECHA is the author of PAINT THE ROCK (TROLL THREAD, 2011) and OUTFITS (TROLL THREAD, 2012). Other work appears in P-Queue and on Gauss PDF. He currently lives in New York City and is a PhD candidate at NYU.

KAREN LEPRI is the author of Incidents of Scatttering (Noemi, 2013) and the chapbook Fig. I (Horse Less Press, 2012). Lepri was the recipient of 2012 Noemi Poetry Prize. Lepri holds an M.F.A. in Literary Arts from Brown University. Her poems, translations, & reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in 1913, 6×6, Beloit Poetry Journal, Boston Review, Best New Poets, Chicago Review, Conjunctions, Horse Less Review, Lana Turner, Mandorla, Shearsman, TYPO, & Vanitas, Poetry Daily, and elsewhere. She lives in Sunset Park, Brooklyn and teaches at Queens College while working forward her PhD in English at the CUNY Graduate Center.
Please note: The Bureau is closed on Mondays. We will open at 6 PM on Monday, September 30th, for this event.

Que(e)ry: Overdue
2013-09-28 21:00 - 2013-09-29 04:00 | NY
Benefit for the Bureau of General Services-Queer Division and The Pop-Up Museum of Queer History.
Dance party for queer librarians and those who love them!
***DJs***
accident report and the warm leatherettes
DJ Shomi Noise
Shade Parade
At Cake Shop
Suggested donation: $10; 21+; 9pm-close.
More info at www.queeryparty.org

Manuel A. Lopez reads from Room at the Top
2013-09-28 19:00 - 21:00 | NY
Manuel A. Lopez reads from his recent book of short stories, Room at the Top (Eriginal Books, 2013).
Manuel A. Lopez (Manny) was born in Moron, Cuba in 1969. He came to the USA in 1980 via the Mariel boatlift with his parents and siblings, and raised between Florida and California. He is a bilingual poet, writer and cultural promoter. His poetry in Spanish has been published in various magazines, such as: Arique, Baquiana, Contratiempo, La Peregrina Magazine, LaFanzine, Linden Lane and Ventana Abierta. His first book of poems, Yo, el arquero aquel was published in 2011 by Editorial Velámenes. His short stories in Spanish have also been published by Baquiana and Linden Lane Magazine. His poem, A Calling was chosen along with the work of other 40 poets by Broward County Poet in Residence Anastasia Clark for the Our Poetic Tribute to Amelia Earhart, and published in a leather-bound volume permanently displayed at the Amelia Earhart Museum in Kansas. He has also participated in Cristina Garcia’s, Las Dos Brujas Writer’s Workshop with California’s Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera. This June a book of short stories in English, titled Room at the Top was published by Eriginal Books. A second book of poetry in Spanish will be published this August by Editorial Betania in Spain.

Trailer:
https://youtu.be/VUCLMHCUQpg

Lambda's 2013 Emerging Voices: The New York Edition
2013-09-26 19:00 - 21:00 | NY
A literary showcase featuring members of NYC’s LGBT community who were named Lambda’s 2013 Emerging Voices.
Readings in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, by Marcie Bianco, Stephan Georgiou, Stephen Ira, Bryn Kelly, Matthew Phillp, and Tommy Pico.

Marcie Bianco, Queer Public(s) Intellectual, PhD, is a columnist and contributing writer at AfterEllen and Lambda Literary, as well as an adjunct associate professor at John Jay College at Hunter College Her current projects include a scholarly manuscript about the anti-humanist, materialist ethics of English Renaissance Drama, and a memoir about lesbian academic affairs. She lives in Brooklyn with her pup, Deleuze. Tumble4Her at marciebiancoqpi@tumblr.com.

Stephan Georgiou is a writer, organizer, performer and troublemaker. When not dancing naked in congressional offices, they can be found eating their way through an existential crisis at a bagel store near you. Stephan seeks to contribute to a collective of voices working to build queer community, emancipation and revolution.

Stephen Ira‘s poetry, fiction, and non-fiction have appeared in The Collection: Short Fiction from the Transgender Vanguard, Spot Lit Mag, Specter Magazine, The St. Sebastian Review, LGBTQ Nation, and the online edition of Original Plumbing. He is currently pursuing a BA in Literature, Queer Studies, and Critical Theory at Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers, NY.

Bryn Kelly has shared her written work at NYC-based performance series Gayety!, Low Standards, and Queer Memoir; on Showtime Network’s OurChart (dot) com; in Original Plumbing magazine; as a regular columnist at the digital literary magazine PrettyQueer.com; and in the anthology, Trans/Love: Radical Sex, Love and Relationships Beyond the Gender Binary, edited by Morty Diamond. She was a cofounder of Theater Transgression, a transgender multimedia performance collective, and studied playwriting at Brooklyn College. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Matthew Phillp’s writing has appeared in The Village Voice, The New York Sun, Gay Times UK, City Magazine, VIVE and DNA Magazine Australia, for which he was the New York Editor at Large. His commentary on American politics and culture has been featured on Radio 2UE and Vega FM in Australia and he has produced and co-hosted several radio programs including the syndicated New York nightlife talk show D List Radio for East Village Radio and the Q Network. For the past three years he has maintained a fairly consistent dance between writing his first novel and composing marketing paragraphs that don’t bear his byline. In 2013 he was awarded an Emerging Writer’s Fellowship by the Lambda Literary Foundation.

Tommy “Teebs” Pico is the driving force behind birdsong, an antiracist/queer-positive collective, small press and zine that publishes art and writing. Originally from the Viejas Indian reservation of the Kumeyaay nation, he now lives in Brooklyn and has been published in BOMB, [PANK] and THEthe poetry blog. heyteebs.tumblr.com

Enjoy the Silence
2013-09-25 18:30 - 21:00 | NY
Enjoy the Silence.
A new weekly event at the Bureau. Come read whatever you’re reading in collective silence from 7 to 8. This hour of silent reading will be followed by casual conversations over beer, wine, and sparkling water, by donation as always. The first session of Enjoy the Silence will take place on Wednesday, September 25th. Bring your own book or you can borrow or buy a book at the Bureau. The hour of silence will begin promptly at 7, so please arrive early!
Photograph by Ourit Ben-Haim from the photo-blog Underground New York Public Library

NYC Book Launch of Joon Oluchi Lee's Lace Sick Bag
2013-09-20 19:00 - 21:00 | NY
The Bureau and Publication Studio proudly present the NYC book launch of Joon Oluchi Lee‘s Lace Sick Bag.
With Lace Sick Bag, Joon Oluchi Lee offers thirteen hard, delicate, and sweet stories for you to wear close to your skin. Borne from a desire to embody femininity, these are stories that sound and feel like women. They traverse opposite coasts of bodily existence, as men turn into women, women turn into men, children become mothers, mothers become children. (And geographic coasts as well: New York and San Francisco turn into each other.) They burrow deep into the psyche and then spring out to teach you how to glimmeringly show your insides on the outside.
Joon Oluchi Lee (@girlscallmurder) is a feminist text and body maker, and a professor of Gender and Performance at Rhode Island School of Design. He is the author of “The Joy of the Castrated Boy” and lipstickeater.blogspot.com. Joon was grown and educated in Seoul, Iowa City, Charlottesville, and San Francisco. He lives in Providence and Brooklyn with his partner.

Queer Silences
2013-09-18 19:00 - 21:00 | NY
Given that it’s that back-to-school time of year, the Bureau would like to host some classes. These might take the form of a single evening or perhaps two or three sessions. Please send us proposals at contact@bgsqd.com.
To get the ball rolling, Greg Newton, the Bureau’s Minister of Propaganda, will offer a class that will meet once with the option to continue indefinitely. The class, Queer Silences, will explore the subject of silence from queer perspectives. The first and possibly only class will take place on Wednesday, September 18th, from 7 to 9. In advance of the class, participants will read Jonathan D. Katz’s essay “John Cage’s Queer Silence: Or How to Avoid Making Matter’s Worse” and Caroline A. Jones’s “Finishing School: John Cage and the Abstract Expressionist Ego.” Greg will send PDFs of the essays to all who RSVP to contact@bgsqd.com.

The Bureau at Pussy Faggot!
2013-09-12 20:00 | NY
PUSSY FAGGOT! returns with a special end of summer edition hosted by Penny Arcade. Bring your campfire stories and sordid tales of summer!
Admission $10 / $6 with RSVP to
https://www.pussyfaggot.net/events/rsvp-for-reduced-guest-list-2
DJ Jo Equality Lampert ( AVAN LAVA)
8:00 pm- Bureau of General Services-Queer Division (BGSQD) reading featuring Ariel Speedwagon, Chavisa Woods, and poet Bobby Miller in his first NYC performance in 5 years!
Confirmed Performers Include:
✬ Champagne Jerry (aka Neal Medlyn)
✬ Fidel Cathro (aka Cath Alcorn – from Sydney, Australia!)
✬ Clay Aztec Dalmatians
✬ Glittered and Mauled
✬ Mss Vee
✬ Natti Vogel
✬ Ryan Landry (P-town’s “Showgirls” and Gold Dust Orphans)
✬ Sabrina Chap
✬ Shane Shane
✬ Tyler Ashley
✬ TURSI
and
✬ Needles Jones
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…..CELEBRATING…DUSTY CHILDER’S………BIRTHDAY!…..
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Opening Party at Cage with Annie Lanzillotto, Zee Whitesides,
2013-09-05 19:00 - 22:00 | NY
The Bureau will celebrate the beginning of our stay at Cage with readings by Annie Lanzillotto and Zee Whitesides and a musical performance by Brett Every!
Cage will host the Bureau for the months of September and October. Cage is a space for dialogue, mutual support and production located on the Lower East Side of New York, which involves changing membership in ongoing response to material conditions. Cage is located at 83A Hester St., between Orchard and Allen–around the corner from Strange Loop Gallery.
Photo: Carolina Kroon, 2011. carolinakroonphotography.com
Annie Lanzillotto is the author of “L is for Lion: an italian bronx butch freedom memoir” SUNY Press 2013, and “Schistsong” a book of poems, Bordighera Press 2013. Her albums “Blue Pill” “Carry My Coffee” and “Eleven Recitations” are available on iTunes and webwide. Lanzillotto is a devotee of BGSQD

Zee Whitesides is a poet and musician born in Elizabethtown, Kentucky. Her poetry and cultural writing has appeared or is forthcoming in/on Autostraddle.com, Jughead’s Basement, and Seven Stamps among others, and she’s the author of two handmade chapbooks. She also leads Brooklyn trans punk band Little Waist.

Brett Every (brettevery.com) has won some awards (OutMusic, RightOutTV), been described as having “a voice that sounds like it’s been dipped in dark chocolate and steroids” (DNA Mag), and is thrilled and honored to be bringing his songs, guitar and throat to the Bureau’s housewarming.

Verse, Prose, And Ramblings From The Minds Of Nicholas Gorham, Justin Sayre, And Charlotte Miller
2013-08-25 19:00 - 21:00 | NY
Nicholas Gorham invites his two favorite writers to join him in a public end of summer thoughts and feelings fest that will surely titillate the neuroses of the most steadfast wasp. Join us for a reading of some work, new and old!

NICHOLAS GORHAM
Nicholas Gorham is a graduate of The American Academy of Dramatic Arts and has been performing in New York since the early part of the Century. After crossing the Canadian border, Nicholas had an awakening that theatre could exist without limitations and began to create his own work in the downtown queer performance scene. Credits include The Goddess Ianna in “Justin Bond Re:Galli Blonde (A Sissy Fix)”; Big Art Group’s “Fleshtone” and Nicholas Gorham: “One Drop Passing” at La MaMa, E.T.C., In 2011, Nicholas founded The Spectrum, a queer performance, rehearsal and art space in Brooklyn.

JUSTIN SAYRE
Best known as the creator and writer of the hit downtown comedy/variety show The Meeting*(2012 Bistro Award, 2011 MAC Nominee) and its annual benefit “Night of A Thousand Judys” – was described by Michael Musto in The Village Voice as “Oscar Wilde meets Whoopi Goldberg.” In a recent story for Edge New York, Steve Weinstein said “Comedian, raconteur, performing artist, gay rights activist and sexual outlaw: I’m not sure Justin Sayre is classifiable. The veteran performer is on his way to becoming a Downtown Manhattan institution along the lines of Charles Ludlum or Charles Busch.” An evening of his short plays, “Justin Sayre Is Alive and Well… Writing” – called one of the “Top 10 Events on the New York Stage” by the New York Daily News – sold out two shows at Ars Nova last April. A second reading of his play, The Click of The Lock, starring Randy Harrison, Christian Coulson and Sean Dugan took place at Labyrinth’s Bank Street Theater this February

CHARLOTTE MILLER
Charlotte Miller is a Brooklyn-based playwright. Her plays include Raising Jo (Playpenn 2010), Fur (Longstocking Productions), A Moment of Silence for the Living (Longstocking Productions), and Sexy JayJay (serials@the Flea). Her plays have received readings at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater and Labyrinth Theater company. She has performed with Nicholas Gorham multiple times in and around the city as a back-up dancer, word-sayer, and costume-changer. Charlotte’s newest work “Worst Year Ever” is part of this year’s New York International Fringe Festival. The piece looks at the difficulties of being a Texas preteen in the grunge era.

Book Sale at the Bureau
2013-08-25 12:00 - 19:00, 2013-08-24 12:00 - 19:00 | NY
The Bureau will leave Strange Loop Gallery on August 31st, and we will announce our next location shortly. With less than two weeks to go we need to lose a bit of weight in order to make our move easier. Several lovely people have donated boxes of books to the Bureau over the past months, and the Bureau is happy to announce that we will host a book sale on Saturday, August 24th and Sunday, August 25th from 12 to 7 PM. Prices will start at $1! So come on down and get you some books! We’ll also have some great deals on posters and art magazines!

Queer Film Summer Camp: Tony Phillips Introduces Ben-Hur
2013-08-24 19:00 - 23:00 | NY
For the eighth and final installment of Queer Film Summer Camp Tony Phillips will introduce William Wyler’s Ben-Hur (1959)
IMDB page for Ben-Hur
Tony Phillips is a freelance journalist who lives between Manhattan and Fort Lauderdale. After completing a prestigious Goldring Fellowship at Syracuse’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications in 2009, he returned to the city to publish his controversial “Jersey Shore” feature on the cover of The Village Voice. He recently wrote several features for OutMagazine including a profile of French art house crossover Francois Sagat shot by photographer Terry Richardson and currently writes for Random House’s Word & Film focusing on films that have been adapted from novels. Tony is currently finishing his second book and working on a feature about the launch of Barbie’s 10,000 square-foot Dreamhouse for a new national publication. He is pictured here in Barbie’s stately Dream Kitchen at The Dreamhouse Experience in Fort Lauderdale.
Queer Film Summer Camp, a series devoted to queer films or films viewed queerly, is proudly presented by the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division and Peter M. Hargrove, President of Hargrove Entertainment, Inc. Queer Film Summer Camp will take place at the Bureau on eight consecutive Saturday evenings in July and August. An exciting array of film critics and historians along with other queer and queer-friendly NYC-based arts professionals will introduce each film with a brief lecture.
Saturdays, July 6, 13, 20, 27, August 3, 10, 17, 24
Suggested donation of $10
Drinks will be served at 7 PM
The introductory lectures will begin at 8 PM

Launch Party for Pinups NO17
2013-08-23 19:00 - 22:00 | NY
After a year-long hiatus, Pinups is back with a new issue that disrupts the book’s inherent narrative. As always, the magazine can be unbound and re-assembled to form a large poster from pages of abstract halftone but as a book, this issue is more complex than its predecessors. In contrast to the halftone pages, which are only fragments of the poster, other pages contain parts of numerous images scattered randomly across the pagination. As single pages share bits and pieces of multiple images, the connections can only be imagined until the poster is assembled and the full images revealed on the poster’s flipside. Pinups No17 features performance artist Jake Dibeler clad with performance props.

BB Forever
2013-08-22 19:30 - 22:00 | NY
Bj Dini reads his crazy Kayvon Zand poem, Dia Dear dances in the dark, Stephen Boyer reads for us too, Subtle Curves awes, White screens his PILLOW TALK cycle.

ART FAG Conquers Uranus
2013-08-21 18:00 - 21:00 | NY
London cartoonist Sina Sparrow comes to New York to conquer URANUS with his zine ART FAG! Joining him is our friend Carlo Quispe, AKA Uranus, who will present romance comics from his upcoming URANUS Comics #2. Come enjoy the slide show and take home some free comics as always!!

Hell in a Handbag
2013-08-18 19:00 - 21:00 | NY
A night of queer madcap stories that fly in the face of bossy bureaucracies (you know the kind) and mandated prescriptions. The lunatic fringe strikes back.
Legendary drag icon and parlor whore, Flawless Sabrina aka Jack Doroshow exposes herself under a blanket of freedom of expression. Visual artist Curtis Carman aka Curtsy recites some queer whimsical poem-ettes. Curtis and Jack’s special guest, Leigh Novog, will read two quirky gay anecdotes that take place in a hyper vigilant New York. Come for a queer night at the bookstore and support a place of freedom with love.

Queer Film Summer Camp: Andrew Durbin Presents The Nomi Song
2013-08-17 19:00 - 23:00 | NY
For the seventh installment of Queer Film Summer Camp Andrew Durbin will introduce Andrew Horn‘s The Nomi Song (2004)
IMDB page for The Nomi Song
Andrew Durbin co-edits Wonder, an open-source publishing and events platform for poetry and new media art. He is the author of Reveler (Argos Books 2012) and The Standard (Insert Blanc Press 2014). He curates the Queer Division reading series at the Bureau of General Services–Queer Division on the Lower East Side, and lives in New York.
Queer Film Summer Camp, a series devoted to queer films or films viewed queerly, is proudly presented by the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division and Peter M. Hargrove, President of Hargrove Entertainment, Inc. Queer Film Summer Camp will take place at the Bureau on eight consecutive Saturday evenings in July and August. An exciting array of film critics and historians along with other queer and queer-friendly NYC-based arts professionals will introduce each film with a brief lecture.
Saturdays, July 6, 13, 20, 27, August 3, 10, 17, 24
Suggested donation of $10
Drinks will be served at 7 PM
The introductory lectures will begin at 8 PM

Contributors to Sensual Travels: The Best of Gay Travel Erotica Read at the Bureau
2013-08-13 19:00 - 21:00 | NY
Dominic Ambrose, Michael Luongo (editor), and Michael Mele will read.
Sensual Travels: The Best of Gay Travel Erotica
Edited by Michael Luongo
Bruno Gmünder May 2013
Whether traversing desert sands, steamy jungles, or the urban playground: these are the erotic encounters told by men willing to roam. The stories in Sensual Travels pack a sexual punch, and carry with them the resonance and character of their locales. The writers in this book got to relish and relive their adventures, revisiting them in their minds as they wrote them down for these stories. For the reader, each chance encounter described by the writers is brand new, as fresh and exciting as they were on the day they happened years ago on continents far away.
Edited by renowned travel writer Michael Luongo, Sensual Travels includes contributions from Felice Picano, Lawrence Schimel, Michael Mele (reading), Dominic Ambrose (reading), Sebastian V, Jesse Archer, Trebor Healey, and many others, writing on destinations as diverse as Spain, Japan, Lebanon, Brazil, Russia, Thailand and other regions.
Bruno Gmünder Website listing for the Book:
https://www.brunogmuender.com/products/details/id/7424_Sensual_Travels

BIOS

DOMINIC AMBROSE is a writer with a transatlantic vocation. He has written two novels with gay themes, Nickel Fare, set in New York in the 1970s, and The Shriek and the Rattle of Trains, set in Romania in the 1990s. His work has appeared in various publications, such as Van Gogh’s Ear and Inverses (in France) as well as read on BBC World Service. “Croatian Heat” will eventually be included in a personal memoir of the Balkans. He now lives in New York City.

MICHAEL MELE has published the children’s book, A Gift for the Contessa, illustrated by Ron Paolillo, with Pelican Publishing. His poetry has appeared in The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide, and his gay travel stories have been published in Haworth Press’s Between the Palms, edited by Michael Luongo. He is the director of the travel company Il Chiostro, Inc. which organizes arts-related workshops (painting, writing, photography, cooking) in Italy (www.ilchiostro.com). Michael and his partner Andy travel a lot between New York; Tuscany; Bucks County, Pennsylvania; and the island of Vieques, Puerto Rico.

MICHAEL LUONGO is the editor of Sensual Travels, published by Bruno Gmünder in May 2013. Michael was senior editor for Haworth Press’s Out in the World series on gay and lesbian travel literature, where a version of this book was originally to be published as Between the Palms, Volume II: Put It in Your Hands Again, a follow-on to the 2004 original Between the Palms, before Haworth’s takeover by Routledge. His travel writing has appeared in Conde Nast Traveler, The New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, National Geographic Traveler, CNN, Bloomberg, Out Traveler, Gay City News, Passport, and many other publications. Michael is a native of New Jersey who grew up near the fabled Jersey Shore and now lives in Manhattan. He has been to over eighty countries and all seven continents, with Latin America and the Middle East his favorite areas. His most challenging work has been the post-9/11 Middle East, including Iraq, Gaza, and Afghanistan on both gay and mainstream topics, including the killing of gay men in Iraq for Gay City News which was nominated for a 2010 Pulitzer. He pioneered bringing gay tourism into the academic world by coauthoring with his professor Dr. Briavel Holcomb an article in the Annals of Tourism Research. In 2002, he also coedited Continuum Press’s Gay Tourism: Culture, Identity and Sex, the first academic book on the gay travel industry, with Dr. Stephen Clift and Carry Callister. Other books include Haworth’s Gay Travels in the Muslim World in 2007, the only gay American book translated into Arabic. In 2007, Alyson Books published his debut novel The Voyeur, about a gay sex researcher in New York during the Giuliani era. Luongo also writes the Frommer’s Buenos Aires guidebook. He is one of America’s most award-winning gay journalists, having won the LGBT Journalist of the Year Sarah Pettit Memorial Award in 2011 from the National Lesbian and Gay Journalist Association; the 2010 Grand Prize in Travel Journalism Award from the North American Travel Journalists Association; and in 2012 the first writers award from IGLTA, the International Gay and Lesbian Travel Association. He also teaches travel writing at New York University. Visit him at www.michaelluongo.com.

Queer Film Summer Camp: Jim Fouratt Introduces To Die Like a Man
2013-08-10 19:00 - 23:00 | NY
For the sixth installment of Queer Film Summer Camp Jim Fouratt will introduce João Pedro Rodrigues‘s To Die Like a Man (2009)
To Die Like a Man is a look at the the dance between desire, subjectivity, nature and heterosexual definitions of gender expression. Add religion, body modification options, queens colliding, gender illusion, bad boys, ageism and drugs to mix and you get a very contemporary look at the dialectics of gender expression. And it’s beautifully shot and respectful of the world it inhabits. Hard questions, no easy answers. A NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL selection.
Queer Film Summer Camp, a series devoted to queer films or films viewed queerly, is proudly presented by the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division and Peter M. Hargrove, President of Hargrove Entertainment, Inc. Queer Film Summer Camp will take place at the Bureau on eight consecutive Saturday evenings in July and August. An exciting array of film critics and historians along with other queer and queer-friendly NYC-based arts professionals will introduce each film with a brief lecture.
Saturdays, July 6, 13, 20, 27, August 3, 10, 17, 24
Suggested donation of $10
Drinks will be served at 7 PM
The introductory lectures will begin at 8 PM

Teaser of The Drifts Live, Queer. Southern. Gothic. with Thom Vernon
2013-08-08 19:00 - 21:00 | NY
Queer. Southern. Gothic. William Faulkner meets Flannery O’Connor meets Carson McCullers. A trans-dad, a pregnant housewife, her cheating husband, his butch lover and a calf fight their sex in a mean Arkansas blizzard. Thom Vernon (performer/writer) teases his @fringenyc stint of The Drifts Live: the novel onstage with performance, readings and talk on gender and mattering. The Drifts (Coachhouse Books) was called ‘Magnificent’ (Globe & Mail); audiences have said the performances are “Hilarious and harrowing…stricken with a dangerous poetry.”
thedriftslive.com
Free. All donations go to Future Perfect: Build the Bureau, the Bureau’s fundraising campaign to establish a permanent location on the Lower East Side.

Future Perfect: Build the Bureau, a Fundraiser for the Bureau at The Pyramid Club
2013-08-07 20:00 | NY
In conjunction with the Bureau’s Indiegogo fundraising campaign, Future Perfect: Build the Bureau, we will host a fundraiser party at
The Pyramid Club on Wednesday, August 7th, from 8 PM on
Donors of $10 or more to our Indiegogo crowd-funding campaign will receive a ticket to this event. Donate $100 or more and receive two tickets. $15 at door.
Donate here
Master of Ceremonies, Justin Sayre

Featuring some of the best Queer Performers in New York today!
Performances will start at 9pm with A Special Return for Jack Waters and Peewee Nyob, also with performances by Dan Fishback and Reginald M Lamar
At 10pm, a Special Hour Curated by Earl Dax and PUSSY FAGGOT!, Hosted by Penny Arcade
At 11 We continue the line up with Performances by Brett Every, Max Steele, Linda Simpson, Jonathan Dalin, and Karl Marks!
At 12 Shane-Shane and his amazing party, FANCY Present Music and Merriment with Chris Tyler, Valerie Geffner, and Paul Leopold.

Some of NYC’s Best DJs will spin both upstairs and downstairs!
Gio Black Peter
Ash Wood
Dandylion
& Spank Magazine‘s DJ Will Automagic & DJ Sean B
Donors of $10 or more to our Indiegogo crowd-funding campaign will receive a ticket to this event. Donate $100 or more and receive two tickets. $15 at door. We will print out a list of donors, so no need to print anything out. We’ve got it covered.
DONATE HERE
Stay tuned for announcements about additional performers and other details.

Queer Film Summer Camp: Shade Rupe Introduces Love Is The Devil: Study For A Portrait Of Francis Bacon
2013-08-03 19:00 - 23:00 | NY
For the fifth installment of Queer Film Summer Camp Shade Rupe will introduce John Maybury‘s Love Is The Devil: Study For A Portrait Of Francis Bacon (1998)
IMDB page for Love Is The Devil
Shade Rupe
Filmmaker, writer, festival programmer, and lover of outsider life is the author of the acclaimed interview collection DARK STARS RISING: CONVERSATION FROM THE OUTER REALMS (Headpress Books, 2011), featuring Divine, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Udo Kier, Dennis Cooper, Gaspar Noe, and other pioneers of individuated lifestyles, which Robert Ebert declared as “the most fearsome creatures in the transgressive cinema.” His 2011 short film T IS FOR TRICK elicited queer author Clive Barker’s praise: “That was an elegantly shot, sharply edited and strongly conceived and directed four minutes of filmmaking. Colour me impressed.” Shade produced and directed the live recording of Teller (Penn & Teller) and Todd Robbins’ off-Broadway spookshow PLAY DEAD, which premiered at Montreal’s Fantasia Film Festival in 2012, with further plays at the AFI Center in Washington DC and the American Cinemathque in Los Angeles, which Marilyn Manson praised by commenting “PLAY DEAD reminds me of my early years as a spiritual terrorist.” 2013 Shade was a guest at the Off Plus Camera film festival in Kraków, Poland, bringing several films based around Dark Stars Rising, including a 35mm print of Andy Warhol’s Dracula, which was introduced with live running commentary by festival judge Udo Kier.
Queer Film Summer Camp, a series devoted to queer films or films viewed queerly, is proudly presented by the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division and Peter M. Hargrove, President of Hargrove Entertainment, Inc. Queer Film Summer Camp will take place at the Bureau on eight consecutive Saturday evenings in July and August. An exciting array of film critics and historians along with other queer and queer-friendly NYC-based arts professionals will introduce each film with a brief lecture.
Saturdays, July 6, 13, 20, 27, August 3, 10, 17, 24
Suggested donation of $10
Drinks will be served at 7 PM
The introductory lectures will begin at 8 PM

ANGELS AND DEMONS AT PLAY: Poetry Readings by Steve Koenig and Robin Small McCarthy
2013-07-30 19:00 - 21:00 | NY
ANGELS AND DEMONS AT PLAY
Poetry Readings by Steve Koenig and Robin Small McCarthy

Steve Koenig, a third generation Brooklynite, writes about growing up queer in NYC and the cultural and racial spirits of Mexico, jazz, and everyday shamans. He is a poet, educator, music journalist, and Editor of the arts and culture magazine www.AcousticLevitation.org, as well as co-founder of the Acoustic Levitation music collaborative and record label (.com). He has been a queer activist since his teens, and co- founded the Baruch College Gay Students Association in 1977. Much of Steve’s poetry has been in collaboration with painters, sculptors, and improvising musicians from around the world, especially Mexico City. His poetry volume Among The Powder will be followed by the forthcoming Collected Poems: Ants Eating Through Brick and CD release It Was The Fingers. Steve has been published in Sensations Magazine, Diseased Pariah News, Poetry In Performance, Brooklyn Day Of The Poet, Unbearable Assembling, Q Review, planetAUTHORity. and Outside.

Robin Small-McCarthy, a transplanted New Yorker, lives in Pelham Parkway (the Bronx), teaches in Midtown, and performs and plays in the Village. She writes about the fluidity of racial, cultural, gender, and sexual identity–embracing the interconnectivity of all life. She is a well-known poet and performing artist in the New York City underground poetry and music scene. She is the author of two books of poetry and song, Love During Wartime and Cold Winter Days and Dark Nights of the Soul: The Madison Chronicles. Robin has been a featured performer in such venues as the Bowery Poetry Club, the Cornelia Street Café, the Green Pavilion, the KGB Bar, Bluestockings, and the Yippie Museum Cafe. Robin is the founder and co-host of Kairos Poetry Café. She has adjudicated poetry slams in Madison, Wisconsin. Her writing–poetry and literary criticism–has been published in numerous journals, including the Journal of Cultural Studies, Discourse,Nomad’s Choir Poetry Journal, and The WisCon Chronicles. She has performed on two CDs: Kairos Poetry Café Presents Selections of Poetry and Music (AB Film Productions) and Beauty Keeps Laying ItsSharp Knife Against Me (Logochrysalis Productions). Robin has taught and directed theatre at Syracuse University, the University of Illinois, Technical Career Institutes, the BRLT Actor’s Workshop, and City Lights Youth Theatre. Her play, Starseed: The Journey Home, is currently in production. Robin is also an English instructor at Technical Career Institutes and the New York Institute of Technology. A compassionate activist and cultural worker at heart, in all that she creates and wherever her journey finds her, Robin’s ultimate goal and hope is to be a conduit of peace, love, and social justice.
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Queer Film Summer Camp: David Noh Presents Riptide
2013-07-27 19:00 - 23:00 | NY
For the fourth installment of Queer Film Summer Camp David Noh will introduce Edmund Goulding‘s Riptide (1934)
IMDB page for Riptide
David Noh, born in Hawaii and living in Manhattan, is a film critic who has written for FILM JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL, THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER, BACKSTAGE, OPERA NEWS and other publications. He also writes a regular culture column for GAY CITY NEWS and has a blog, WWW.NOHWAY.WORDPRESS.COM. He is happy to be part of this wonderful film series, and hopes that his choices will be enjoyed, as well as a fresh discovery for those unfamiliar with them.
Queer Film Summer Camp, a series devoted to queer films or films viewed queerly, is proudly presented by the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division and Peter M. Hargrove, President of Hargrove Entertainment, Inc. Queer Film Summer Camp will take place at the Bureau on eight consecutive Saturday evenings in July and August. An exciting array of film critics and historians along with other queer and queer-friendly NYC-based arts professionals will introduce each film with a brief lecture.
Saturdays, July 6, 13, 20, 27, August 3, 10, 17, 24
Suggested donation of $10
Drinks will be served at 7 PM
The introductory lectures will begin at 8 PM

The F from Female: A Discussion about Gynarchy
2013-07-26 19:00 - 21:00 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
A performance by Anastasia Papatheodorou
When we hear the word ‘matriarchy,’ we are conditioned to a number of responses: that matriarchy refers to the past and that matriarchies have never existed; that matriarchy is a hopeless fantasy of female domination, of mothers dominating children, of women being cruel to men. Conditioning us negatively to matriarchy is, of course, in the interests of patriarchs. We are made to feel that patriarchy is natural; we are less likely to question it, and less likely to direct our energies to ending it.
Donations encouraged
Anastasia Papatheodorou
Anastasia Papatheodorou was born in Athens. Her performances are a synthesis of voice, poetry improvisations, sound effects and cinematic storytelling in an open dramaturgy. She has been performing and living in Athens – Vienna -Berlin -Paris – and Portugal.
The Bureau will launch our fundraising campaign, Future Perfect: Build the Bureau, on Friday, July 26th, so we hope you’ll come to see Anastasia’s performance and make a donation at the Bureau that night–because donating online can be lonely. So come on down to the Bureau and donate in the company of friends, lovers, and friends and lovers whom you have yet to meet.

Launch of issue 2 of Prose & Lore, the literary journal of the Red Umbrella Project
2013-07-23 19:00 - 21:00 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
Featuring readings by Brandon Aguilar, Dominick, Essence Revealed, and Danielle. The Red Umbrella Project is dedicated to amplifying the voices of people who have current or former experience working in the sex trades.

Queer Film Summer Camp: David Noh Presents You Are Not Alone
2013-07-20 19:00 - 23:00 | NY
For the third installment of Queer Film Summer Camp David Noh will introduce Ernst Johansen & Lasse Nielsen‘s You Are Not Alone (1978).
IMDB page for You Are Not Alone

David Noh, born in Hawaii and living in Manhattan, is a film critic who has written for FILM JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL, THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER, BACKSTAGE, OPERA NEWS and other publications. He also writes a regular culture column for GAY CITY NEWS and has a blog, WWW.NOHWAY.WORDPRESS.COM. He is happy to be part of this wonderful film series, and hopes that his choices will be enjoyed, as well as a fresh discovery for those unfamiliar with them.
Queer Film Summer Camp, a series devoted to queer films or films viewed queerly, is proudly presented by the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division and Peter M. Hargrove, President of Hargrove Entertainment, Inc. Queer Film Summer Camp will take place at the Bureau on eight consecutive Saturday evenings in July and August. An exciting array of film critics and historians along with other queer and queer-friendly NYC-based arts professionals will introduce each film with a brief lecture.
Saturdays, July 6, 13, 20, 27, August 3, 10, 17, 24
Suggested donation of $10
Drinks will be served at 7 PM
The introductory lectures will begin at 8 PM

Davidson Garrett and John J. Trause Read at the Bureau
2013-07-18 19:00 - 21:00 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
Davidson Garrett is a native of Shreveport, Louisiana. He trained for the theater at The American Academy of Dramatic Arts and graduated from The City College of New York with an M.S. in Education. A member of Screen Actor’s Guild/AFTRA and Actors’ Equity, he has worked in theater, film and television since 1973. His poetry, fiction and articles have been published in The New York Times, The Episcopal New Yorker, Xavier Review (New Orleans), Sensations Magazine, Third Wednesday, Marco Polo Arts Mag, Big City Lit, the website of The Beat Museum in San Francisco and in Podium, the online literary journal of the 92nd Street Y. In 2000, his chapbook manuscript, Taxi Dreams, was a finalist in the Gival Press Chapbook Competition. In 2006, that manuscript evolved into his first collection of poetry and prose, King Lear of the Taxi (Advent Purple Press). Two of the poems from his book were the subject of a short film, Taxi Driver, produced by Flashgun Films of Great Britain. The film was screened at the Portobello Film Festival in London in 2008. In 2011, Davidson was nominated for a Pushcart Prize for his work in the anthology Pears, Prose and Poetry, published by Poets Wear Prada. He was profiled in New York Magazine in July 2012, in an article about taxi drivers who moonlight in other professions. In August 2012, Davidso premiered his one-man show, King Lear of the Taxi: A Poetic Monologue, for the Boog City Art and Music Festival in Manhattan’s East Village. In May 2013, Davidson was invited to read his postry at Joe’s Pub, presented by the PEN World Voices Festival as part of the Taxi Driver Writers’ Workshop. Davidson has been a New York City taxi driver, full time and part time, for over 35 years to help subsidize his art.

JOHN J. TRAUSE, said to be the secret love child of Henri Langlois and Mary Meerson (Or is it Marie Menken and Willard Maas?), is the Director of Oradell Public Library and the author of Eye Candy for Andy: 13 Most Beautiful… Poems for Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests; Inside Out, Upside Down, and Round and Round; Seriously Serial; and Latter-Day Litany, the latter staged Off-Off Broadway. His translations, poetry, and visual work appear internationally in many journals and anthologies, including the artists’ periodical Crossings, the Dada journal Maintenant, the journal Offerta Speciale, the Uphook Press anthologies Hell Strung and Crooked and -gape-seed-, and the Great Weather for Media anthology It’s Animal but Merciful. He has shared the stage with Steven Van Zandt, Anne Waldman, Karen Finley, and Jerome Rothenberg, the page with Lita Hornick, William Carlos Williams, Woody Allen, Ted Kooser, and Pope John Paul II, and the cage with the Cumaean Sibyl, Ezra Pound, Hannibal Lector, Andrei Chikatilo, and George “The Animal” Steele. He is a founder of the William Carlos Williams Poetry Cooperative in Rutherford, NJ, and the former host and curator of its monthly reading series. He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize (2009 – 2011). For the sake of art Mr. Trause hung naked for one whole month in the summer of 2007 on the Art Wall of the Bowery Poetry Club.

Praise for John J. Trause’s EYE CANDY FOR ANDY: 13 Most Beautiful… Poems for Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests
* Aphorisms… Minimalisms… Trauseisms… More fun with Andy
Taylor Mead, writer, actor, performer, poet, and one of Andy Warhol’s Superstars

* Brief as the lives on display, these utterly charming pieces resonate with eroticism, sentiment, devilish humor and unexpected editorial comment… fitting testament to one of the key moving image projects of the 20th Century.
Ron Magliozzi, Associate Curator, Department of Film, Museum of Modern Art, New York

* sighting by Billy. i see the poem, read it, and find it charming, one of the 13 most beautiful…..
Billy Name, photographer, filmmaker, lighting designer, Warhol Factory Archivist

Mario López-Cordero Reads from His Debut Novel Monarch Season, with guests Martin Wilson and John Stewart Wynne, author of the new novel The Red Shoes
2013-07-17 19:00 - 21:00 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
Mario López-Cordero is a journalist who has spent more than a decade writing about design, travel, fashion, and culture. He is currently the senior editor of Veranda and his writing has also appeared in New York, Travel + Leisure, and Martha Stewart Living; he previously held staff positions at Elle Decor, Harper’s Bazaar, and House Beautiful. He lives in New York City.
Monarch Season
Devin Santos knows success is in the details: in the furrows of cobblestone abs, the thread count of Egyptian cotton sheets, the patina of iron window casements left purposely to rust. Add it all up, however, and something’s missing. The cracks are beginning to show in his relationship with domineering i‐banker Charlie Doherty, and no amount of chalky Venetian plaster can obscure them. When a neighborhood admirer appears alongside his best friend Jude at the Pines ferry terminal, Devin is at first unimpressed. But Frank Duma is confident, clever, and shameless in his pursuit of Devin. The cat‐and‐mouse, hot‐and‐cold relationship that develops will change both their lives forever.

Photo by Kevin McGrath
Martin Wilson was born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. He received a BA from Vanderbilt University and an MFA from the University of Florida, where one of his short stories received a Henfield/Transatlantic Review Award. His debut novel, What They Always Tell Us (Delacorte Press, 2008), won the Alabama Author Award for best young adult book. The novel was also a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award, an Indie Next Selection, an ALA-ALSC Rainbow List Selection, and a CCBC Choices Book. He lives in New York City. Visit him at www.martinwilsonwrites.com

John Stewart Wynne (aka John Wynne) is an American author of fiction. He is also a Grammy-nominated producer of spoken word recordings.
He is the author of the short story collection The Other World (City Lights), which the James White Review called “one of the best books of the decade”, the novel Crime Wave (John Calder/Riverrun Press), and the chapbook The Sighting. His new novel The Red Shoes will be published by Magnus Books in Summer 2013.
“His writing has been praised for its audacious originality, its beautiful imagery, the astute asides and wry observations of his characters, and his highly charged but often darkly comic mise-en-scènes. He has been hailed as the heir apparent to the tradition of ‘outsider art’ exemplified by Tennessee Williams, Carson McCullers and Truman Capote.” (Wikipedia)

Wynne’s controversial narrative poem “Two Struggling Actresses”, about an actor consumed by the personality of Jayne Mansfield, appeared in The Paris Review. His short fiction has been published in High Risk 2 and Christopher Street among numerous publications.
Wynne is also the producer of over one hundred audio books. They range from John Waters reading his Shock Value to F. Murray Abraham reading The Phantom of the Opera to John Kennedy, Jr. reading his father’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book Profiles in Courage.
He wrote the first popular guide to spoken word recordings, The Listener’s Guide to Audio Books (Simon & Schuster).
He is at work on a new novel.
