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SUMMARY:Fall Sweat — Queer Erotica Writing Workshop with Christian Pan — “The Forbidden” Edition
DESCRIPTION:GET TICKETS TO THIS EVENT HERE \nThis course welcomes authors at any stage of their career\, from veterans who have a consistent writing practice\, to folks returning to the page after a hiatus\, to folks with little experience but who are curious\, willing to experiment\, and have fun. In-class\, we will have writing prompts\, discussion of key tools related to our craft\, readings of excerpts from other authors’ work\, and lively discussions. Participants in Fall Sweat are invited to write within the theme of “the forbidden”—what does this mean to you\, and how can this appear on the page?  \nFall Sweat will take place one night a week at the Bureau (in-person). Class size is capped at 15. Students may register for all 5 classes\, as well as “drop-in” for a single session; each class is self-contained in terms of material\, but students are encouraged to attend as many as possible\, as each one builds upon the other. At the conclusion of the workshop\, there will be a voluntary public reading at the Bureau\, where participants can read excerpts from their writings to their friends and loved ones. \n$15 — single session drop-in. NTAFLOF \nThe Bureau of General Services—Queer Division is Manhattan’s only queer bookstore\, located on the second floor of the LGBT Center. We’re open Tuesday-Sunday from 1-7pm and accessible by the 6th Ave 1 2 3 L trains and 8th Ave A C E trains. Our cafe\, The Bureau Cafe\, is open Tuesday-Sunday from 9am-7pm.
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SUMMARY:Writing Exile
DESCRIPTION:RSVP FOR THIS EVENT HERE \nA weekly gathering to write together around a rotating theme\, such as body\, identity\, homecoming\, liminal spaces\, crossing\, disability\, bureaucracy\, ICE\, and the rise of autocracy. Under the broader umbrella of immigration\, the list is endless\, and the current political moment keeps handing us fresh material to process. \nEach week\, I’ll bring in a guest writer or artist for a conversation alongside the writing session. Our guests are either in exile themselves or work closely with queer immigrant artists and themes of immigration. \nThe group centers immigrant\, asylum-seeker\, and refugee experience\, and anyone drawn to writing about being queer and immigrant\, or adjacent themes\, is welcome. That openness matters to me. It can help bridge the distance immigrant writers often feel from those who hold a passport or a green card. \nThe series will culminate in a public reading at the Bureau. \nCommunity agreements \n\nConfidentiality: What’s shared in the room stays in the room\, unless a participant chooses to share it further\, at the final reading or elsewhere.\nNo AI: AI tools are not permitted during the workshop. You’re welcome to bring a laptop to type your stories\, though I strongly encourage handwriting during sessions.\n\nSession structure \n\nGuest conversation (30 min). An informal Q&A between the guest and me on the week’s theme and their experience of writing queer exile\, open to audience discussion.\nDiscussion. We name shared questions and emerging themes from the conversation and share short passages of our own writing on the theme.\nFree write and workshop. Three prompts\, each followed by small-group discussion.\nWrap-up. We share our experiences of writing and read sections aloud.\n\nAfter each session\, participants receive a reading list and a writing prompt to bring back the following week. \nAcross the five weeks\, we’ll work through craft (character\, dialogue\, place\, sensory detail) using excerpts from published writers and from the group’s own submitted work. The goal is to get every participant as close as possible to a finished draft of their nonfiction exile story by the end of the workshop. \nThis week’s theme is: queer identity and the crossing: trauma\, body\, and borders.  \nNastya (Anastasia) Dzutstsati is a writer\, educator\, and researcher based in New York City. Their work examines autocracy and LGBTQ+ rights in the U.S. and Russia. They are a writer in residence at Art Omi (Fall\, 2026). They were also a PEN America playwright fellow and developed a play on power dynamics between immigrants and Americans with support from New York Theatre Workshop and National Queer Theater. The play was staged at PEN World Voices 2026 and is forthcoming in PEN’s anthology in Fall 2026.  \nNastya has been a guest lecturer at Columbia University\, Cooper Union\, and Stony Brook University\, and has spoken as a panelist at NYU\, The New School\, and Bard College. They hold an MA in Human Rights and the Arts from Bard College and a BA in Journalism from the University of Kent. In 2023\, they delivered the TEDx talk “Writing Within Exile” at Bard College\, and they were a Threatened Scholar Integration Initiative Fellow with the Open Society University Network (2022–2024). \nIn Moscow\, Nastya worked as a journalist for Current Time (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty). Their writing has appeared in The Gay & Lesbian Review\, Marie Claire\, Cosmopolitan\, Grazia\, and elsewhere. \nThe Bureau of General Services—Queer Division is Manhattan’s only queer bookstore\, located on the second floor of the LGBT Center. We’re open Tuesday-Sunday from 1-7pm and accessible by the 6th Ave 1 2 3 L trains and 8th Ave A C E trains. Our cafe\, The Bureau Cafe\, is open Tuesday-Sunday from 9am-7pm.
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SUMMARY:ONLINE AUTHOR PANEL: The AIDS Crisis and Speculative Fiction
DESCRIPTION:RSVP HERE FOR THE ZOOM LINK \nThis year has seen the release of two books exploring memory\, loss\, and the ongoing AIDS crisis through the lens of speculative fiction.  \nJoin award winning writers Randy Boyd and Sara Youngblood Gregory to learn more. Each author will read from their books and then engage in a conversation about their writing\, including what we can learn from the similarities and differences that emerge between their works. Moderated by Theodore (Ted) Kerr.  \nThis event takes place on Zoom\, RSVPs will get a Zoom invite prior to the event date.  \nRandy Boyd is a novelist and essayist whose work centers on race\, sexuality\, survival\, and the cultural legacy of the AIDS crisis. He is a five-time Lambda Literary Award finalist and the author of four novels\, including Uprising\, The Devil Inside\, Bridge Across the Ocean\, and Walt Loves the Bearcat. \nSara Youngblood Gregory is an award-winning lesbian journalist\, editor\, and author. Her work has been featured in The New York Times\, The New Republic\, Cosmopolitan\, The Guardian\, and many others. She was the News and Reporting Spring 2023 Fellow at TransLash Media\, covering anti-trans legislation and community organizing in her home state of Florida. In 2023\, Sara was the recipient of the Curve and NLGJA Award for Emerging Journalists. The same year\, her speculative poetry collection DEAD BOYS IN SPACE won the 2023 Pamet River Prize from YesYes Books and was published in May 2026. \nTheodore (Ted) Kerr is a writer\, founding member of the collective What Would an HIV Doula Do?\, and the faculty advisor for 12th Street\, The New School’s undergraduate literary magazine.  \nThe Bureau of General Services—Queer Division is Manhattan’s only queer bookstore\, located on the second floor of the LGBT Center. We’re open Tuesday-Sunday from 1-7pm and accessible by the 6th Ave 1 2 3 L trains and 8th Ave A C E trains. Our cafe\, The Bureau Cafe\, is open Tuesday-Sunday from 9am-7pm.  \n12th Street: Journal of Writing and Democracy\, is an award-winning literary journal at The New School edited and published online by students in the Writing and Democracy Honors Program (WDH).
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SUMMARY:Making the Invisible Visible: Joint book launch with Sarah Mantell\, Noah Diaz\, and Kate Douglas
DESCRIPTION:RSVP TO THIS EVENT HERE \nJoin us for this triple theater feature celebrating the release of three new plays! \nAs coastlines disappear and lives are uprooted\, a drifting community of warehouse workers travels from one temporary home to the next. Among loading docks and parking lots\, they search for missing loved ones—and for meaning. Both intimate and rebellious\, In the Amazon Warehouse Parking Lot is a striking new play about connection\, survival\, and finding love where you least expect it. \nWinner of the Susan Smith Blackburn prize 2023\, Sarah Mantell’s compelling dystopian and highly theatricalized world features a flexible cast of 7 female\, nonbinary\, and trans actors. Originally produced at Playwrights Horizons in New York City\, this is the first publication of this celebrated contemporary play. \nMeanwhile\, 22 years in the future\, two lab assistants hatch a plan that could change the world in Kate Douglas’ The Apiary. Bees are extinct\, only kept alive inside synthetic apriaries where they live in perpetual spring. \nAnd begin to crave flesh. As the bees begin t othrive\, lab assistants Zora and Pilar must satiate their new appetites. \nNoah Diaz’s You Will Get Sick  is a dark comedy in second person about learning how to live within your body as you find your way home.It was a finalist for both the Henry Award for Outstanding New Play and The John Gassner Award for New American Play at the Outer Critics Circle Awards. \nGet a taste for all three works and discuss the works with the authors and special guest moderator Emmanuel Wilson.  \nCopies of the plays will be available for purchase. There will be a signing after the event.  \nSarah Mantell is the recipient of the 2023 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for In the Amazon Warehouse Parking Lot (Playwrights Horizons). Their other plays include Everything That Never Happened (Baltimore Center Stage\, Oregon Shakespeare Festival\, Boston Court Pasadena)\,The Good Guys (Second Stage\, PlayPenn)\, and Fight Call (Artists Repertory Theatre\, Breaking the Binary) They have been first-runner up for the Leah Ryan Award\, a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award\, nominated for the Pulitzer\, and longlisted for the Bruntwood Prize. Sarah is a two-time MacDowell fellow and a Colt Coeur company member. They are the founder of The Living Writers Lab which offers wildly accessible MFA-quality classes. BFA Rhode Island School of Design. MFA Yale School of Drama. \nNoah Diaz is a playwright and screenwriter from the Iowa/Nebraska border. His plays have been produced at Roundabout Theatre\, Steppenwolf\, La Jolla Playhouse\, The Playwrights Realm\, Salt Lake Acting Company\, and Baltimore Center Stage\, amongst others. Commissions from Studio Theatre\, La Jolla Playhouse\, Steppenwolf\, Roundabout Theatre\, Manhattan Theatre Club/Sloan\, Baltimore Center Stage\, Audible/Amazon Studios\, and Arena Stage. Noah is a recipient of the ASCAP Cole Porter Prize and has been nominated for both Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel Awards. In television\, he’s written for Hulu\, Peacock\, ABC\, 20th Television\, The Walk-Up Company\, Nyle DiMarco\, and Eva Longoria. MFA: Yale School of Drama. \nKate Douglas is a writer\, performer and composer based in Brooklyn\, NY. Her play The Apiary premiered at Second Stage and was a New York Times Critic’s Pick and nominee for the Outer Critics Circle John Gassner Award. Other work includes Tulipa (New York Stage & Film)\, My Dog is Dead (Ancram Center for the Arts) and If I Forget Thee\, O Earth (Next Forever Commission\, The Civilians/Princeton University). Her work has been recognized with a Jonathan Larson Award and developed at Signature Theatre\, The New Group\, and The O’Neill National Playwrights Conference. Alum of the Joe’s Pub Working Group\, Dramatists Guild Fellows Program\, Colt Coeur\, and The Civilians R&D Group. kate-douglas.com \nThe Bureau of General Services—Queer Division is Manhattan’s only queer bookstore\, located on the second floor of the LGBT Center. We’re open Tuesday-Sunday from 1-7pm and accessible by the 6th Ave 1 2 3 L trains and 8th Ave A C E trains. Our cafe\, The Bureau Cafe\, is open Tuesday-Sunday from 9am-7pm.
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SUMMARY:Turn Me On: Selections from The Bureau’s Erotic Writing Workshop
DESCRIPTION:RSVP TO THIS EVENT HERE \nEnjoy a reading by the attendees of the Fall Sweat Series\, an erotic writing workshop led by Christian Pan. Over the course of five sessions\, these writers expanded their craft to activate the senses and set our hearts and desires aflame. Come in\, the water is warm.  \nChristian Pan is the author of more than 20 books of erotic fiction which often center bisexual characters\, identity\, and experience. His writing has been published by Cleis Press\, Incision Press\, Folly\, Rebel Satori Press\, the Indie Authors Collective\, and the Erotica Consortium. He is the editor and publisher of The Best Bi Erotica of the Year anthology series; was Patreon’s A Club Captain for the Queer Erotic Content Creators Club from 2022-25; and hosts the Pulse Session for the Podcast All the Filthy Details. \nThe Bureau of General Services—Queer Division is Manhattan’s only queer bookstore\, located on the second floor of the LGBT Center. We’re open Tuesday-Sunday from 1-7pm. Our cafe\, The Bureau Cafe\, is open Tuesday-Sunday from 9am-7pm.
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SUMMARY:Writing Exile
DESCRIPTION:RSVP TO THIS EVENT HERE \nA weekly gathering to write together around a rotating theme\, such as body\, identity\, homecoming\, liminal spaces\, crossing\, disability\, bureaucracy\, ICE\, and the rise of autocracy. Under the broader umbrella of immigration\, the list is endless\, and the current political moment keeps handing us fresh material to process. \nEach week\, I’ll bring in a guest writer or artist for a conversation alongside the writing session. Our guests are either in exile themselves or work closely with queer immigrant artists and themes of immigration. \nThe group centers immigrant\, asylum-seeker\, and refugee experience\, and anyone drawn to writing about being queer and immigrant\, or adjacent themes\, is welcome. That openness matters to me. It can help bridge the distance immigrant writers often feel from those who hold a passport or a green card. \nThe series will culminate in a public reading at the Bureau. \nCommunity agreements \n\nConfidentiality: What’s shared in the room stays in the room\, unless a participant chooses to share it further\, at the final reading or elsewhere.\nNo AI: AI tools are not permitted during the workshop. You’re welcome to bring a laptop to type your stories\, though I strongly encourage handwriting during sessions.\n\nSession structure \n\nGuest conversation (30 min). An informal Q&A between the guest and me on the week’s theme and their experience of writing queer exile\, open to audience discussion.\nDiscussion. We name shared questions and emerging themes from the conversation and share short passages of our own writing on the theme.\nFree write and workshop. Three prompts\, each followed by small-group discussion.\nWrap-up. We share our experiences of writing and read sections aloud.\n\nAfter each session\, participants receive a reading list and a writing prompt to bring back the following week. \nAcross the five weeks\, we’ll work through craft (character\, dialogue\, place\, sensory detail) using excerpts from published writers and from the group’s own submitted work. The goal is to get every participant as close as possible to a finished draft of their nonfiction exile story by the end of the workshop. \nThis week’s theme is: writing bureaucracy\, immigration realities and writing through trauma-induced block. \nNastya (Anastasia) Dzutstsati is a writer\, educator\, and researcher based in New York City. Their work examines autocracy and LGBTQ+ rights in the U.S. and Russia. They are a writer in residence at Art Omi (Fall\, 2026). They were also a PEN America playwright fellow and developed a play on power dynamics between immigrants and Americans with support from New York Theatre Workshop and National Queer Theater. The play was staged at PEN World Voices 2026 and is forthcoming in PEN’s anthology in Fall 2026.  \nNastya has been a guest lecturer at Columbia University\, Cooper Union\, and Stony Brook University\, and has spoken as a panelist at NYU\, The New School\, and Bard College. They hold an MA in Human Rights and the Arts from Bard College and a BA in Journalism from the University of Kent. In 2023\, they delivered the TEDx talk “Writing Within Exile” at Bard College\, and they were a Threatened Scholar Integration Initiative Fellow with the Open Society University Network (2022–2024). \nIn Moscow\, Nastya worked as a journalist for Current Time (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty). Their writing has appeared in The Gay & Lesbian Review\, Marie Claire\, Cosmopolitan\, Grazia\, and elsewhere. \nThe Bureau of General Services—Queer Division is Manhattan’s only queer bookstore\, located on the second floor of the LGBT Center. We’re open Tuesday-Sunday from 1-7pm and accessible by the 6th Ave 1 2 3 L trains and 8th Ave A C E trains. Our cafe\, The Bureau Cafe\, is open Tuesday-Sunday from 9am-7pm.
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