BGSQD

Poets Adam Fitzgerald, Benjamin S. Grossberg, and Michael Klein read
2013-06-13 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | NY
Adam Fitzgerald’s first book of poems, The Late Parade has just been published by Norton/Liveright. He teaches poetry at Rutgers University and Marymount College, and is the founding editor of Maggy and Monk Books. His poems and interviews have appeared or are forthcoming in The Agricultural Reader, Boston Review, The Brooklyn Rail, Poetry, Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. He lives in the East Village.
Benjamin S. Grossberg‘s books are Sweet Core Orchard (University of Tampa, 2009), winner of the 2008 Tampa Review Prize and a Lambda Literary Award, and Underwater Lengths in a Single Breath (Ashland Poetry Press, 2007). His poems have appeared widely, in publications including New England Review, North American Review, Paris Review, and Southwest Review, and in both the Best American Poetry and Pushcart Prize anthologies. His third full-length collection, Space Traveler, will be published by the University of Tampa Press in 2013.
Michael Klein’s second book of poems, then, we were still living (GenPop Books), was a Lambda Literary Award finalist and his first book, 1990, tied with James Schuyler to win the award in 1993. His new book, The Talking Day was published in January, 2013 by Sibling Rivalry Press and a collection of short, lyric essays, States of Independence won the 2011 BLOOM Chapbook contest in non-fiction judged by Rigoberto Gonzalez and was published last year. He has also written two memoirs Track Conditions (Lambda Literary Award finalist) and The End of Being Known, both published by the University of Wisconsin Press. His poems, essays and interviews with American poets have appeared in American Poetry Review, BLOOM, Fence, Tin House, Ploughshares, Provincetown Arts, Poets & Writers, and many other publications. He teaches in the MFA Program at Goddard College in Vermont and lives in New York City and Provincetown, Massachusetts.

NYC Book Launch for Michael Alago's Beautiful Imperfections, with guest Mina Caputo
2013-06-14 19:00 - 21:00 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
Publicist Andy Reynolds writes:
“Meet photographer and music industry vet Michael Alago (He signed Metallica and Nina Simone, OK?) at the Bureau for the NYC launch of Beautiful Imperfections, his newest book of photographs. He will be joined by special guest Mina Caputo and together they will read selections from their book of poems, observations, and rants: Night Blooming Jasmine Will Never Smell the Same.
Alago’s follow-up to the smoking’ hot Brutal Truth (April 2012, Bruno Gmünder),Beautiful Imperfections is the first commercially published book of photographs shot entirely with the Hipstamatic iPhone camera App (that we know of). The resulting 10″ x 10″ coffee table book contains over 120 tough/tender signature Alago portraits.
After a legendary music career during which he went from booking U2’s first New York City gig at the Ritz at age 21, to hanging out with Mapplethorpe to partying with Iggy Pop and David Lee Roth in the men’s room of the famed Peppermint Lounge, to discovering and signing Metallica, and signing Nina Simone to her last album deal (A Single Woman), Alago turned to photography. We can all thank the Rough Gods that he did.

One of the biggest voices (and smallest bodies) in rock music today belongs to Brooklyn’s own Mina Caputo. Caputo’s reputation for touching listeners to the very depths of their souls with her poetry and heartrending live performances is well earned – within a single show she is capable of inciting both arena-sized mosh pits and breathless silence. Look for Caputo’s new album As Much Truth as One Can Bear to be released late summer 2013.”

Book launch for Bear City: The Novel
2013-06-16 15:00 - 17:00 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
Join us for a fur-tastic official book launch at BGSQD for Bear City: The Novel! We’ll be celebrating the release of this hilarious new work from Bear Bones Books with a reading by author Lawrence Ferber, award-winning screenwriter who wrote the novelization of his and Doug Langway‘s smash hit romantic comedy film. The book also has dozens of still photos from the movie and behind-the-scenes shots! Watch the official film trailer and a clip from the film, and enjoy a brief conversation with the author and director.

Lawrence Ferber (l) and Doug Langway (r)

Shane Shane Presents The Eyes of Laura Mars
2013-06-20 19:00 - 21:00 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
Shane Shane presents The Eyes of Laura Mars, the 1978 fashion murder thriller starring Faye Dunaway and featuring Barbra Streisand‘s hit torch song Prisoner.

From Wikipedia: “Laura Mars (Faye Dunaway) is a glamorous fashion photographer who specializes in stylized violence. Amid controversy over whether her photographs glorify violence and are demeaning to women, Laura begins seeing, in first person through the eyes of the killer, real-time visions of the murders of her friends and colleagues.”
We’ll have a brief reading about the history and legacy of the movie, alcoholic refreshments, and an informal kiki following the movie about the Sadomasochistic implications of fashion and gay men’s unexamined fascination with murderous or violent women. Or we’ll just get drunk and imitate Faye Dunaway.

NYC Book Launch of The Martin Duberman Reader
2013-06-21 19:00 - 21:00 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
Martin Duberman will read from The Martin Duberman Reader, and he will answer questions from the audience.
The Martin Duberman Reader: The Essential Historical, Biographical, and Autobiographical Writings (The New Press, May 2013) chronicles Duberman’s great works: his historical writings, from the Northern response to slavery to the Stonewall Riots; biographical work such as his writings on Howard Zinn; memoirs on topics such as life in the theatre to the AIDS epidemic; and political and activism issues ranging from the development of gay rights in the United States to American affairs with Cuba. The collection is rich and resonating, an invaluable piece for any who want expert insight into some of the most tumultuous and crucial social reforms of our time.
In the dawn of monumental reforms for gay rights in America and across the world, Duberman’s meditations have never been more relevant. Artfully written and wonderfully accessible, The Martin Duberman Reader will appeal to loyal readers as well as those experiencing his work for the first time.

Martin Duberman is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History at the CUNY Graduate School, where he founded and for a decade directed the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies. The author of more than twenty books, Duberman has won a Bancroft Prize and been a finalist for both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. He lives in New York City.

Str8 Boy Div: Schluter, Kaplan, Card
2013-06-22 19:00 - 21:00 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
Andrew Durbin presents:
Str8 Boy Div: Schluter, Kaplan, Card

Kit Schluter is translator of works by Pierre Alferi, Danielle Collobert, Gherasim Luca, Claudio Parmiggiani, Jaime Saenz, Marcel Schwob, and Amandine André, whom he is translating in collaboration with Jocelyn Spaar. Recent poems of his own are in or forthcoming in Death & Life of Great American Cities, Interrupture, Sun’s Skeleton, and Boston Review. With the Philadelphia poet Andrew Dieck, he co-edits O’clock Press and its review of writtens, CLOCK (.pdf’s 0.00 USD @ www.oclockpress.com).

Josef Kaplan is the author of Democracy Is Not for the People (Truck Books, 2012).

Macgregor Card is the author of Duties of an English Foreign Secretary, which won the 2009 Fence Modern Poet Series, and The Archers. From 1997-2005 he co-edited The Germ: A Journal of Poetic Research with Andrew Maxwell.

Pride by Papercut
2013-06-26 18:00 - 21:00 | NY
In celebration of NYC Pride, Papercut Press presents an evening of readings, performances, and visual art by some of our favorite queer artists and authors. The event will be moderated by Papercut author m. craig.

Rami Shamir is the author of TRAIN TO POKIPSE and the co-founding editor of Underground Editions. A former Zuccotti Park Occupier with Occupy Wall Street, Shamir’s writings have appeared in Adbuster’s, Evergreen Review, and The Brooklyn Rail. TRAIN TO POKIPSE was the last editorial project for legendary publisher Barney Rosset, who said “TRAIN TO POKIPSE is a Catcher in the Rye for the new century, and Rami Shamir is an authentic literary voice for a new lost generation.” Shamir has just concluded a thirty-city, indie-books distro tour with fellow indie author m. craig. He is a recipient of the 2013 Acker Award for fiction.

JASON NAPOLI BROOKS‘ fiction and essays have appeared in various publications, including Ninth Letter, H.O.W., El Pais, and Asymptote. An excerpt of his novel Shelter was the recipient of the The Chapbook Award for Best Fiction of 2007. He is also the author of the internationally-distributed serial Cock of the Walk. In September 2013 Brooks’ play Women at the End of the World, starring Parker Posey and John Cameron Mitchell, will debut in Provincetown.

Buzz Slutzky is a Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary artist, writer, and curator. Buzz primarily integrates drawing, poetry, and video art with themes of identity, social interaction, voyeurism, and gender performance. A former Curator of the Pop-Up Museum of Queer History, Buzz currently work as Program Assistant at Laurie M. Tisch Gallery at the JCC Manhattan and will be studying at Parsons in the MFA Fine Arts program. A graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, Buzz’s work has been shown at La Mama’s SQUIRTS: New Voices in Queer Performance, The MIX NYC Queer Experimental Film Festival, Dixon Place, and Ed. Varie Gallery. Their projects have been written about by Artforum.com, The Huffington Post, TimeOut NY, and NEXT Magazine. Buzz’s collaboration with LJ Roberts The Queer Houses of Brooklyn is the permanent collection of the Renwick Gallery at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Sami Nichols is a Virginia-raised, guitar strumming vagabond who takes inspiration from blues and hip hop to tell stories in song.

Visual art by:

Giancarlo Corbacho

Najva Sol

Gizelle Peters

Randy L. Schmidt on Karen Carpenter’s life and work
2013-06-27 19:00 - 21:00 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
Randy L. Schmidt is the author of Little Girl Blue: The Life of Karen Carpenter (2010) and the editor of Yesterday Once More: The Carpenters Reader (2012), both published by Chicago Review Press. Schmidt will read from both books and discuss Karen Carpenter’s life and work.

Schmidt served as creative consultant for several television documentaries on the Carpenters, including those for E! True Hollywood Story, A&E’s Biography and VH1’s Behind the Music. He is also a music educator. Schmidt lives near Dallas,Texas.
Read Schmidt’s article on Karen Carpenter in The Advocate, “Karen Carpenter: Unlikely Gay Icon.” This article was published this past February on the 30th anniversary of her 1983 death from anorexia nervosa.
Joining Schmidt for this special evening of music and memories will be Mary Edwards, a composer, musician, arranger, producer and sound artist whose projects range from recordings “evocative of epic cinematic soundtracks combined with lyrical intimacy…” (Time Out NY), to ambient installations—sound as a spatial form—that create nature, architecture and cinema for the ear. More info: https://maryedwardsmusic.com/

Simon Jacobs, Basil Papademos, and Eric Sasson Read at the Bureau
2013-06-28 19:00 - 21:00 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
Simon Jacobs is a young writer from Ohio. He curates the Safety Pin Review, a wearable medium for work of fewer than 30 words, and his writing has appeared in Weave, Paper Darts, Steampunk Magazine, and The Norton Anthology of Jealous Ass Bitches.

Born in Toronto in 1957, Basil Papademos has lived in Montreal, London, Athens, Istanbul, Vancouver, New York and Los Angeles. He currently resides in Bangkok. After more than twenty-five years as a narcotics addict and drug retailer, occasional sex worker and sometime procurer, Basil went to Thailand in 2011 to clean up and finish writing his novel, Mount Royal: There’s Nothing Harder Than Love.
The treatment worked. He is currently completing his next novel, How To F*ck Your Psychiatrist, coming out in the fall of 2013. Basil is a regular contributor to Sabotage Times, Modern ViewPoint magazine and Open Book Toronto.

Eric Sasson writes “Ctrl-Alt,” a column on alternative culture for the Wall Street Journal. His short story collection, Margins of Tolerance, was the 2011 Tartt First Fiction Award runner-up and was published by Livingston Press in May 2012. His stories have been nominated for the Robert Olen Butler prize, the Pushcart prize, and one is in The Best Gay Stories 2013. Other recent publication credits include pieces in The New Republic, Independent Ink. Explosion Proof, Connotation Press, BLOOM, Nashville Review, The Puritan, Liquid Imagination, and THE2NDHAND, among others. In 2012 he was awarded a Tennessee Williams scholarship to the Sewanee Writers Conference as well as residency fellowships to Ragdale and the Hambidge Center. He received his MA in Creative Writing from NYU and has taught fiction writing at the Sackett Street Writers Workshop in Brooklyn, where he was born, bred, and still resides.

Readings by contributors to Our Naked Lives: Essays from Gay Italian American Men
2013-06-29 19:00 - 21:00 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
Confirmed readers: Michael Carosone, George de Stefano, Joseph Anthony LoGiudice, and Michael Luongo.
Additional readers to be announced
Complete list of contributors to Our Naked Lives: Essays from Gay Italian American Men:
Michael Carosone, Editor
John D’Emilio
Charles Derry
George De Stefano
Joseph A. Federico
Joseph Anthony LoGiudice, Editor
Michael Luongo
David Masello
Tommi Avicolli Mecca
Joe Oppedisano
Felice Picano
Frank Anthony Polito
Michael Schiavi
Frank Spinelli
Tony Tripoli
“The best of these essays are filled with a warmth, humor, and vitality I associate with the Italian spirit. Although they express the difficulty gay men have had in reconciling their sexuality with the Italian American identity, they testify over and over again to how familial love ultimately trumps the prejudices of religion and the tyranny of tradition. The embrace of family bonds may be slow in coming, but all the more passionate for the wait.”
–David Bergman, Author of Gay American Autobiography: Writings from Whitman to Sedaris, and Professor of English, Towson State University

“Gay Italian-American voices have often been marginalized, but here they’re assembled in all their passion, humor, poignancy, and personal vision. Mangia!”
–Michael Musto, Columnist for The Village Voice

“An amazing collection of essays that finally addresses an experience so many of us share. Evocative, moving, and entertaining, Our Naked Lives brings forth the stories of so many of us who’ve often felt left out in gay culture as well as in Italian-American culture, while simultaneously celebrating the richness of both.”
–Michelangelo Signorile, Editor-at-Large of The Huffington Post Gay Voices and SiriusXM Radio Host

“Our Naked Lives made me laugh and cry, sometimes at the same time. The essays include history, humor, religion; they are memoirs infused with poetry. These stories are poignant, timeless, and brutally honest. An enjoyable read and a welcomed addition to Italian American Studies and the LGBTQI community.”
–Teri Ann Bengiveno, Professor of History and Women’s Studies, Las Positas College

“In a community where queerness is celebrated and bonds have often been enhanced by choice of friendship rather than by birth and blood, cultural heritage has been woefully overlooked. The men of Our Naked Lives come out as loud and proud—of their identification as gay and Italian American. This collection of essays and reflections shows the strength and beauty of our family trees, whose stubborn roots push beyond the paved path and reach up to wave flags of their own. We’d be remiss not to take notice and pay homage, no matter our own orientation or origin.”
–Bryan Borland, Editor of Assaracus: A Journal of Gay Poetry

“Editors Joseph Anthony LoGiudice and Michael Carosone have put together an extraordinary collection of essays on what it’s like to grow up and live one’s life proudly as Italian American and gay. The two present, through their own moving stories and the stories of the other talented men who contributed to this volume, a fascinating glimpse into the households of Italian American families. This book should be on everyone’s priority reading list, including members of the LGBT community and the leaders and members of the National Italian American Foundation.”
–Lou Chibbaro Jr., Senior News Reporter of The Washington Blade

“What a gift these essays are! They range widely from the most desperate moments of a gay child’s life to the exhilaration of finding the courage and the community to live freely and expansively. As an Italian American woman, I found many pieces of myself in these stories, and they tell me clearly, with grace, anger, and generosity those necessary stories that nobody was supposed to know. The writers are, as Ginsberg said of Whitman, ‘courage teachers.’ May they be widely read!”
–Geraldine DeLuca, Writer and Editor of Dialogue on Writing, and Professor Emerita of English, Brooklyn College

“Our Naked Lives moved me with a sense of immediacy while harkening back to the writing of the late Robert Ferro. Reminiscences by several generations of Italian-American gay men are evocative as the memory of my Aunt Angie’s calamari; yet, authors do not airbrush struggles for identity, acceptance, and love. The essays illuminate, inform, and challenge the reader and eschew stereotypes. Reflections on intersections of gender, class, and ethnicity make this collection a must-read for gender and ethnic studies courses.”
–Mark Gianino, Clinical Associate Professor, Boston University School of Social Work

“These essays do not shy away from tough topics like sexual orientation or racial prejudice in the United States. These voices can be heard throughout all of the pieces, always present, always narrating. These are accurate portrayals of what it means to be a cross-section of Italian-American and gay. You hold in your hands a book written by experts. Read it with the knowledge that you will know more today than you did yesterday.”
–Shaun Knittel, Associate Editor of Seattle Gay News

“The notion of what ‘pride’ means in the 21st century, and all of the challenges, complexities, and possibilities that come with our individual and collective journeys towards it have been exponentially expanded with the publication of these beautiful essays. Our Naked Lives reveals the rich, diverse identities and experiences of gay Italian-American men, which, until now, have remained almost entirely unknown to the rest of the world.”
–Noah Michelson, Editor of The Huffington Post Gay Voices

“If you are looking for a singular voice in Our Naked Lives, you might be disappointed. The stories feel connected, by themes of family, religion, class, and behavior, but like stories of any community, things are never simple. Contradictions abound and memories vary. For one storyteller, a stereotypical Italian male persona is an impossible model to follow; another finds comfort behind a peacock image. One writer finds some traditions smothering, while another wades through the madding crowd of holidays and family to focus on one person, as one writer tells us, a grandmother, for inspiration and humanity. This collection is like that good grandmother, who understands the value of certain traditions, while recognizing that all members of our family must be free.”
–Louis Pizzitola, author of Hearst Over Hollywood

“From Florida to Philly, from Rome to Bensonhurst, gay Italian-American writers share their collective experiences to find acceptance with their families and for themselves. While their journeys may differ, a common bond remains, forged from heartache and loss, defiance and love.”
–Jim Provenzano, author of the Lambda Literary Award winner Every Time I Think of You

“This eclectic collection of 14 essays chronicle the navigation of Gay and Italian American identities. The comings out of these Gay Italian American men, in all their shapes and sizes, vividly show the urgency of challenging that long held Italian American belief in what Carosone calls ‘the transformative powers of omerta.’”
–Paul Schindler, Editor-in-Chief of Gay City News

“Our Naked Lives is among the most moving books I have read. You don’t have to be Italian American, Catholic, formerly Catholic, gay, or gay-friendly to appreciate this important gem. Soul-baring, brave, and honest, these gay Italian American men’s stories will resonate with anyone who has ever felt diminished, ostracized, marginalized, humiliated, embarrassed or ‘other’ simply for being who he was born to be. Out of the closet and into the classroom, Our Naked Lives should be required reading in myriad Queer and Ethnic Studies programs. Thank you, gentlemen! You brought me tears of laughter. You brought me tears of pain. Basta cosi. May Our Naked Lives help bring us to a time when no one needs to cry.”
–Karen Tintori, author of Unto the Daughters: The Legacy of an Honor Killing in a Sicilian American Family, St. Martin’s Press

Michael Carosone is a writer, a poet, an adjunct professor and librarian, and an activist for gay rights, human rights, animal rights, and environmental rights. He has published poems in Gay City Volume 1, Gay City Volume 2, Gay City Volume 3, and Avanti Popolo: Italian American Writers Sail Beyond Columbus; essays in White Crane, Strangers to These Shores, and various anthologies; and articles in Gay City News and The Huffington Post. He was awarded the Editors’ Poetry Prize for his published work in Gay City Volume 2. He has given readings and discussions, and presented papers at conferences. Michael earned a Bachelor of Arts degree and a Master of Arts degree in English, Master of Science degree in Education, and a Master of Science degree in Library and Information Sciences. He is pursuing his Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) degree in English Education at Teachers College of Columbia University, and his dissertation will focus on incorporating marginalized literatures and writers—Queer and Italian American—into the English classroom, in grades K-12 and at the college level. Michael’s primary interest is studying, researching, and writing about marginalized literatures, voices, and peoples. Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, he now lives in the Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan, with his partner, Joseph LoGiudice. For more information on Michael, please visit his Web site: michaelcarosone.com.

George de Stefano is a New York-based writer specializing in culture, politics and sexuality. He is the author of An Offer We Can’t Refuse: The Mafia in the Mind of America, and a contributing author to the collections Mafia Movies: A Reader and The Essential Sopranos Reader. His writing on gay issues has appeared in The Advocate, The Nation, The Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide, and Gay City News. He writes features and criticism for online and print publications, including music and arts criticism for PopMatters and Rootsworld, book reviews for The New York Journal of Books, and features, reviews, and op-eds for I-Italy and The Italian American Review.

Joseph Anthony LoGiudice, L.M.S.W., is a social worker, writer, and an educator. He is the Senior Consultant of Reasonable Accommodations at the New York City Human Resources Administration/Department of Social Services, where he trains and consults on disability law, and determines reasonable accommodations for clients. He is an adjunct lecturer of social work at New York University’s (NYU) Silver School of Social Work and Touro College’s Graduate School of Social Work, where he teaches courses on social work policy. Joseph’s scholarly interests include the intersection of disability and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) policies and practices, and he has presented on these interests at various conferences. An essay he has written, “Achievement Motivation of College Students with Disabilities: Implications for Policy and Practice,” is being published in a textbook on social work policy and practice. Joseph is a committee member on the Council on Social Work Education’s Council on Disability and Persons with Disabilities. He is a doctoral student at The City University of New York’s Graduate Center, where he studies and researches issues ranging from the implementation of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), mental health policy, and gay men’s issues. Joseph received a Master of Social Work degree from NYU’s Silver School of Social Work, and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Columbia University. He aspires to become a life-long advocate for those individuals without a “voice” by writing, presenting, and teaching about their lives. He lives with his partner, Michael Carosone, in New York City, and loves his New York City life—a place saturated with eccentric, witty, and interesting people.

Michael Luongo is a New York City based freelance writer, editor and photographer. His writing and/or photography have appeared in National Geographic Traveler, Frommer’s Budget Travel, The New York Times, The Advocate, Conde Nast Traveler, Town & Country Travel, The Chicago Tribune, Bloomberg News, Gay City News, Out Traveler, Ambassador Magazine, and the publication of the National Italian American Foundation. He co-edited Continuum Press’s 2002 Gay Tourism: Culture, Identity and Sex. He was the Senior Editor for Haworth’s Out in the World, a gay travel literature collection. His Haworth books include Looking for Love in Faraway Places and Gay Travels in The Muslim World. His 2007 Alyson novel, The Voyeur, is fiction but is based on his several years experience in the HIV prevention and sex research field both in the United States and the United Kingdom.

SHIT HITS FAN
2013-06-30 16:00 - 21:00 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
SHIT HITS FAN
44 years ago shit hit the fan when the patrons of the Stonewall Inn resisted the police harrassment that had been routine up until that point. Come join the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division and Shane Shane in celebration of this historic moment of resistance!
Featuring:
JanTina
Gabe Gonzalez
DJ Timothy Allen Living
Max Steele
Shane Shane

JanTina is a Singer/Song writer, Spoken Word Artist & Burlesque Preformer. With a Master’s in Fine Art’s Jantina uses her gift of poetics coupled with burlesque to illuminate the world of Exotic dance. She performs for you tonight an excerpt from her semi autobiographical graduate thesis turned Off Broadway Musical “Silhouettes”.

Photograph by Amos Mac
Max Steele is a performer and writer. He has presented work at the New Museum, Rapture Cafe, Deitch Projects, Envoy Enterprises, and the Queens Museum of Art. He writes the psychedelic porno poetry zine Scorcher, and is an Artist in Residence at Brooklyn Arts Exchange.

DJ TIMOTHY ALLEN LIVING is a Brooklyn-based DJ behind the decks at Shane Shane’s FANCY, as well as dancefloors, bars, and living rooms across NYC. He loves mixtapes, twelve inch vinyl, and early house music.

Gabe Gonzalez is a filmmaker, performer, and writer currently living Brooklyn, where he excels at smoking, growing facial hair, and looking like he’s over it. On weekdays he works as an editor and videographer for a porn company, and in his free time collaborates on comedy sketches with a couple of NY-based groups. Before moving to NYC, he spent some time studying at The Second City in Chicago and tripping balls with Radical Faeries in Oregon.

Queer Division VI: Cecilia Corrigan, Evan Kennedy, CAConrad
2013-07-05 19:00 - 21:00 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
Andrew Durbin presents:
Queer Division VI: Cecilia Corrigan, Evan Kennedy, CAConradCAConrad is the son of white trash asphyxiation whose childhood included selling cut flowers along the highway for his mother and helping her shoplift. He has five full-length poetry collections, the most recent is A Beautiful Marsupial Afternoon (Wave Books, 2012). The Book of Frank (Wave Books) has been translated into German, Spanish, and most recently Swedish. He is a 2011 Pew Fellow, a 2013 Banff Fellow, a 2013 MacDowell Fellow, and a 2012 and 2013 visiting faculty member for the Summer Writing Program of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University. You can find his poems here.
Evan Kennedy is a poet and bicyclist who lives in San Francisco. He is the author of Shoo-Ins to Ruin (Gold Wake Press) and Us Them Poems (BookThug). Terra Firmament is forthcoming from Krupskaya.

Cecilia Corrigan lives in New York. Her first book Titanic was awarded the Plonsker Prize, and will be published by &Now Books in 2014. Her current research interests include Alan Turing, immaturity, Ludwig Wittgenstein’s adolescence, Alice James, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and therapeutic cosmetics. Her work has appeared in The Journal, Death and Life of American Cities, O’Clock Press, The Awl, The Nicola Midnight St. Claire, Glitterpony, and Emergency Index. She wrote for HBO’s show Luck.

Queer Film Summer Camp: Pasolini's Salò, Presented by Newton
2013-07-06 19:00 - 22:00 | NY
The Bureau of General Services—Queer Division and Peter M. Hargrove, President of Hargrove Entertainment, Inc., proudly present Queer Film Summer Camp, a series devoted to queer films or films viewed queerly. Queer Film Summer Camp will take place at the Bureau on eight 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.
To open the series we will present Pier Paolo Pasolini‘s Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975). Greg Newton, the Bureau’s Minister of Propaganda, will introduce the film.
Suggested donation of $10
Drinks will be served at 7 PM
The introductory lectures will begin at 8 PM
Link to IMDB page on Salò
Greg Newton recently abandoned a dismal career in academia to co-found, with his partner Donnie Jochum, the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division, where he serves as Minister of Propaganda.

Edmund White Presents 4 Poets: Lonely, Fitzgerald, Nikolopoulos, Gerevich
2013-07-07 19:00 - 21:00 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
Join us at the Bureau as acclaimed author Edmund White (A Boy’s Own Story) presents four of his favorite young and emerging queer poets: Lonely Christopher (Death & Disaster Series); Adam Fitzgerald (The Late Parade); Angelo Nikolopoulos (Obscenely Yours); and special guest, all the way from Hungary, Andras Gerevich (Tiresias’s Confession). Introductions by Edmund White. After party with dancing and revelry surely to follow at the bar Home Sweet Home (131 Chrystie Street).

Lonely Christopher is a poet and filmmaker. He is the author of the short story collection The Mechanics of Homosexual Intercourse, which was a 2011 selection of Dennis Cooper’s Little House on the Bowery imprint of Akashic Books. His forthcoming film credits include the feature length MOM, which he wrote and directed, and the shorts We Are Not Here, Petit Lait, and Life of the Misanthrope. His first poetry collection, Death & Disaster Series, will be released this year by Monk Books. He lives in Brooklyn.

Adam Fitzgerald’s first book of poems, The Late Parade has just been published by Norton/Liveright. He teaches poetry at Rutgers University and Marymount College, and is the founding editor of Maggy and Monk Books. His poems and interviews have appeared or are forthcoming in The Agricultural Reader, Boston Review, The Brooklyn Rail, Poetry, Los Angeles Review of Books and elsewhere. He lives in the East Village.

Angelo Nikolopoulos‘ first book of poems is Obscenely Yours, winner of the 2011 Kinereth Gensler Award (Alice James Books 2013). His poems have appeared in Best American Poetry 2012, Best New Poets 2011, Boston Review, Fence, The Los Angeles Review, The New York Quarterly, Tin House, and elsewhere. He is a winner of the 2011 “Discovery” / Boston Review Poetry Contest and the founder of the White Swallow Reading Series in Manhattan. He teaches at Rutgers University, New Brunswick and lives in New York City.

Andras Gerevich was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1976. He is just finishing his fourth book of poems in his native Hungarian, due out this fall. A book of his poetry in English translation, Tiresias’s Confession, came out in 2008. He has also published widely in journals and his work is translated into over a dozen languages. He has been a guest at a number of international literary and poetry festivals, and several artists’ residencies, including the legendary Yaddo in New York and the Akademie Solitude in Germany. Besides writing poetry Gerevich scripted several prize-winning short animations produced in the UK, and his plays were performed in Budapest and read in London. He also published essays and stories, and translated a number of English-speaking poets into Hungarian, including Seamus Heaney and Frank O’Hara, and a book by the filmmaker David Lynch. He was editor for two literary journals: Kalligram in Budapest and Chroma in London, an assistant producer for the radio program Poetry by Post for the BBC World Sevice, and was also the President of the József Attila Kör, the Hungarian young writers’ association from 2006 for a three year term.

Book Club Meets to Discuss James Baldwin's Another Country
2013-07-09 19:00 - 21:00 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
Book Club meets at the Bureau to discuss James Baldwin‘s Another Country. All are welcome. Beer, wine, and sparkling water served, as always.

Celebration of Annie Lanzillotto's Schistsong
2013-07-10 19:00 - 21:00 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
Book blast party & reading for Annie Lanzillotto‘s book of poems, Schistsong with introduction by Rosette Imperato. Come toast the book.
Annie is joined by special guests: Emily Kunkel, Rose Imperato on Sax.
Members of Annie’s class, LITERARY OUTLAWS FOR LIBERATION, will also read.
ALL WELCOME
BRING YOUR FRIENDS
WE WILL SING AND DANCE
L IS FOR LION
and
SCHISTONG
will be available

SCHISTSONG
by Annie Rachele Lanzillotto
An urban songline of New York. From the author
of the memoir L is for Lion, comes a panegyric of
the geology of Manhattan. ese poems glitter.
Manhattan schist is rendered as a template for the
skyline and characters of New York. Grit and stardust
collide in this debut collection of poetry and song.
e book begins with the bright re ective quality of
Mica and ends with the gentri ed vision of the city
where “New York is nine millions doors, and you have
not one key.” In between are stories of urban icons:
iceman, sh peddler, heart butcher, meter maid, San
Gennaro, the magic of grandmothers’ hands, the
vision of the oldest living tree in the city, immigrants
who fell out windows and died in explosions, Italian
phrases that link the essence of the sun to a rose to a
heart, crushed tomatoes, sunsets, supermarkets, the
glory of hot tar, the lessons of marines and lesbians.
You will learn history and geology, Italian American
heroes, and spiritual imperatives, through the syllables
of this one poet’s soul.

“Stunning in its originality, Annie Lanzillotto’s poetic voice is musical, energetic, wise, and compassionate. In Schistsong, Annie Lanzillotto creates a rhythmic love letter to New York with vivid, evocative poems that showcase unforgettable people, while encompassing history, science, geography, medicine, and geology.”
— MARIA FAMÀ, Author of Mystics in the Family, and Looking For Cover

“Schistsong, Annie Lanzillotto’s astounding collection of poems is big and dense and speaks in a New York accent forged in the bedrock that predates the history of this great city, the metamorphic rock that is older than New York, older than Italy, many millions of years old. ‘Find your inner schist,’ your bedrock, this poet urges. Sprinkled with liberal handfuls of shiny mica, these poems are meant to kick and stomp and make sure you know they’re here. They come direct from the ‘heel of the boot’ as it was planted in the Bronx, New York.”
— ROSETTE CAPOTORTO, Author of Popbeads, and Bronx Italian

“A cacophony of bold urban verse, where we hear the barking fish vendors and shaky war veterans, the bitter iceworkers and lustful dykes looming on the docks. Lanzillotto’s witty slang cuts over the traffic, it whistles, sings; this is her testimony of a place and time where L’America beckons out immigrant Bronx soul windows, where words and rhythms are constructed of that glittering truth that makes the concrete mountains of Manhattan possible –schistpoetry!”
–TIM Z. HERNANDEZ, American Book Award winning poet and novelist, Author of Natural Takeover of Small Things

“Lanzillotto’s words’ skin can be tough as the leather used by immigrant shoemakers, and ring metallically as her father’s iceman tongs. At the core of it all is the tenderness of ripe, fresh crushed tomatoes. A seasoned performer as well as poet, Lanzillotto’s poetry appeals to the ear as well as the eye, intellect, and heart. These poems, all 15,164 words of them, are without a doubt among the finest I’ve ever read from any literary era.”
–ROSEMARY PETRACCA CAPPELLO, Poet, Writer, and Editor of Philadelphia Poets

NYC Book Launch for Thomas Glave's Among the Bloodpeople: Politics and Flesh
2013-07-11 19:00 - 21:00 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
Thomas Glave will read from his new book Among the Bloodpeople: Politics and Flesh (Akashic Books, 2013). Glave will be introduced by author David McConnell, who will moderate the discussion following the reading.

Thomas Glave has been admired for his unique style and exploration of taboo, politically volatile topics. The award-winning author’s new collection, Among the Bloodpeople, contains all the power and daring of his earlier writing but ventures even further into the political, the personal, and the secret.
Each essay in the volume reveals a passionate commitment to social justice and human truth. Whether confronting Jamaica’s prime minister on antigay bigotry, contemplating the risks and seductions of “outlawed” sex, exploring a world of octopuses and men performing somersaults in the Caribbean Sea, or challenging repressive tactics employed at the University of Cambridge, Glave expresses the observations of a global citizen with the voice of a poet.
With an introduction by Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa.
“A profound compassion for racial and sexual minorities, the oppressed, and the colonized, informs [Glave’s] searing, beautifully evocative collection of essays . . . He captures the languor and seductiveness of Jamaica . . . A graceful and original stylist, Glave highlights the marginalized—calling on the descendants of people who toiled for the Empire as slaves and colonial subjects to never forget their past, and, in effect, to those who profit from that past to acknowledge their complicity. Ultimately, his work is critical, yet filled with generosity and compassion.”
—Publishers Weekly, starred review

David McConnell is the author of the acclaimed novels The Silver Hearted (a finalist for Lambda and Ferro-Grumley awards) and Firebrat. His short fiction and journalism have appeared widely in magazines and anthologies, including the Literary Review (UK), Granta, and Prospect magazine (UK). He is the former cochair of the Lambda Literary Foundation, and lives in New York City. McConnell’s most recent book is American Honor Killings: Desire and Rage Among Men (2013), an investigation of recent murders of gay men in the U.S.

Katrina del Mar - Shorts, presented by Strange Loop Gallery
2013-07-12 19:00 - 21:00 | NY
Sweating Gasoline, reaching for a match – Katrina del Mar
Katrina del Mar’s defiantly queer videos offer an exuberant, hyper-stylized sexuality, an unapologetic feminist voice, and often guerilla-style production tactics.
She uses her Lower East Side friends and lovers as punk heroines; and within her girl gang movies a world of strictly female population.
Katrina triumphs in the underground, revels in the grit and lathers on the beauty in these short films.
www.katrinadelmar.com
On Friday July 12th
Strange Loop Gallery will be hosting 40 minutes of short films – event starts at 7pm
suggested donation $6

Come out and celebrate the launch of The OUTspoken Collection!
2013-07-13 16:00 - 18:00 | NY
The OUTspoken Collection collaborates with queer artists to create products that playfully subvert the words/slander/euphemisms that coalesce into an [often-false] identity for men who have sex with men. In short, we undefine ourselves.

Our first product is a tank top created by Minneapolis-based artist, Joe Sinness, based on Faggot. The illustration is his interpretation of the traditional meaning of the word juxtaposed with its modern, hate-filled connotation. Sinness’s expresses multiple levels of meaning through the arrangement objects found in the word’s history and combines them with gay ephemera (flowers, sex toys, etc). Also, it looks really bad ass.

Wear your tank if you have one, purchase one at www.outspokencollection.com , or buy one at the event!

Queer Film Summer Camp: Jarman's Sebastiane, Presented by Genesis Breyer P-Orridge
2013-07-13 19:00 - 22:00 | NY
Genesis Breyer P-Orridge will introduce Derek Jarman‘s Sebastiane (1976), the second film in the Queer Film Summer Camp series, presented by the Bureau and Peter Hargrove (see below).
IMDB page for Sebastiane
The cultural engineer Genesis Breyer P-Orridge is an avant-garde anti-hero whose remarkable body of underground work reminds us that when you believe something, artistic integrity demands that you live by it too. In 2007 h/er partner Lady Jaye BREYER dropped h/er body. Since that time Genesis continues to represent the amalgam BREYER P-ORRIDGE in the material “world” and Lady Jaye represents the amalgam BREYER P-ORRIDGE in the immaterial “world” creating an ongoing interdimensional collaboration. Their work documents the physical alterations s/he and the late Lady Jaye, endured within their project Pandrogeny, about re-union and re-solution of male and female to a perfecting hermaphroditic state. Genesis is one of the most rigorous and relentless agents of the postwar Anglo-American vanguard, interrogating the meaning and substance of identity in a peerless half-century program of willful reincarnation and shape-shifting. Embracing the body as not simply the vessel but the site of the avant-garde impulse, BREYER P-ORRIDGE has reinvented and reintroduced h/erself again and again—as Fluxus pioneer, groundbreaking performance artist, inventor of industrial music, “wrecker of civilization,” essayist and theoretician, and, most recently, as pandrogyne.
www.genesisbreyerporridge.com

The Bureau of General Services—Queer Division and Peter M. Hargrove, President of Hargrove Entertainment, Inc., proudly present Queer Film Summer Camp, a series devoted to queer films, or films viewed queerly. Queer Film Summer Camp will take place at the Bureau on the nine 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.
Suggested donation of $10
Drinks will be served at 7 PM
The introductory lectures will begin at 8 PM

Dirty Looks On Location at the Bureau: Lynda Benglis + Harry Dodge
2013-07-14 19:00 - 21:00 | Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
Fantastic Queer Narratives: Lynda Benglis, The Amazing Bow Wow + Harry Dodge, The Ass and the Lap Dog
Lynda Benglis, The Amazing Bow Wow, video, 32 min, 1976
Harry Dodge, The Ass and the Lap Dog, video, 33 min, 2013
Dirty Looks: On Location comes to Bureau of General Services – Queer Division for an evening of fantastic queer narratives, spanning more than thirty years of video art practice. Made in 1976, The Amazing Bow Wow is the only fully narrative video Lynda Benglis produced and follows the adventures of a talking, intersexed dog used by Benglis and her partner in their carnival sideshow act—until Benglis starts to fall for Bow Wow and things take a tragic turn.The Ass and the Lap Dog, from 2013, sees Harry Dodge attempting several on-camera interviews only to be bombarded with bizarre, insanely detailed descriptions of the videos his interviewees would like to make, to hilarious and hallucinatory effect.
Lynda Benglis was born in Lake Charles, Louisiana in 1941. An important sculptor for more than three decades, Benglis also produced a pioneering body of feminist video in the 1970s. Immediate and visceral, her performance-based video work confronts issues raised by feminist theory, including the representation of women, the role of the spectator, and female sexuality. Her work has been shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Tate Modern, London; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Philadelphia Museum of Art; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; the 39th Venice Biennale; Cheim & Read and Franklin Parrasch galleries in New York, among many other venues. In 2011, a retrospective of her work was exhibited at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York. She has taught at the School of Visual Arts, the University of Arizona, Yale University, Princeton University and the California Institute of the Arts, among other schools. Benglis lives and works in New York.
Harry Dodge is an artist living and working in Los Angeles who makes shows that include video, performance, sculpture, and drawing. In the early 90s, Dodge was one of the founders of the now-legendary San Francisco community-based performance space, The Bearded Lady, which served as a gathering point for a pioneering, polysexual, queer literary and arts scene. In the latter part of 90s, Dodge wrote, directed, edited and starred in (with Silas Howard) a narrative feature film, By Hook or By Crook, which premiered at the Sundance Festival in 2002, and went on to become a cult classic, garnering five Best Feature awards at various film festivals. Dodge also performed in the 2000 John Waters film, Cecil B. Demented. Dodge has shown solo and collaborative work at venues including the 2008 Whitney Biennial; the Getty Museum, Los Angeles; the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; PS 1, Contemporary Art Center; Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York; and Wallspace Gallery, New York, among many others, and has work in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Recent activities include a forthcoming book of drawings and a feature-length video, Camp Is A Tender Feeling (2013).

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.
www.linkedin.com/in/robinsmallmccarthy
www.facebook.com/robinsmallmccarthyinstructorpoetperformingartist
www.facebook.com/JazzMassStJohnsOnChristopherStreet
www.facebook.com/kairospoets
https://www.acousticlevitation.org/robinsmallmccarthy.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOak1fAsA9Q

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

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.
