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SUMMARY:A Reading by Samuel Ace and Miller Oberman
DESCRIPTION: \nPoets Samuel Ace and Miller Oberman will perform from their recent books\, as well new work\, at the Bureau of General Services–Queer Division on Friday\, October 25 at 7 p.m. Please join us!\n \n \nCopies of Samuel Ace‘s Our Weather Our Sea and Meet Me There: Normal Sex & Home in three days. Don’t wash. and Miller Oberman‘s  The Unstill Ones are available for purchase at the Bureau. To reserve copies of any of these titles please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com. Please support the Bureau by buying books from us. Thank you!\n \n \n \nSamuel Ace is a trans/genderqueer poet and sound artist. He is the author of several books\, most recently OUR WEATHER OUR SEA (Black Radish 2019)\, and the newly re-issued MEET ME THERE: Normal Sex & Home in three days. Don’t wash.\, (Belladonna* Germinal Texts 2019). He is the recipient of the Astraea Lesbian Writer Award and the Firecracker Alternative Book Award in Poetry\, as well as a two-time finalist for both the Lambda Literary Award and the National Poetry Series. Recent work can be found in Poetry\, PEN America\, Best American Experimental Poetry\, Vinyl\, and many other journals and anthologies. He currently teaches poetry and creative writing at Mount Holyoke College in western Massachusetts.\n \n \nMiller Oberman is the author of THE UNSTILL ONES\, Princeton University Press\, 2017. Poems and translations from The Unstill Ones appeared in Poetry\, The Nation\, London Review of Books\, Tin House\, Berfrois\, and Harvard Review. Miller teaches writing at Eugene Lang College and lives with his family in Queens\, New York.\n \n \n \n 
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SUMMARY:Good Hot Stuff: The Life and Times of Gay Film Pioneer Jack Deveau - Book Presentation with Q&A
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe Bureau is excited to partner with Éditions Moustache to bring you:\n \nGood Hot Stuff – The Life and Times of Gay Film Pioneer Jack Deveau\nBook Presentation\, including a Q&A with Robert Alvarez (Editor of the Hand In Hand Films and longtime partner of Jack Deveau) and Jeffrey Escoffier \n  \nThe films of Jack Deveau and his production company Hand In Hand once were praised both by audience and critics as the perfect symbiosis of legit feature films\, underground avant-garde and explicit all-male adult movies. During the Golden Age of Porn\, Hand In Hand was an essential and acclaimed part of the New York art circles and its Independent film scene. The early death of Jack Deveau\, the AIDS-crisis and the video revolution changed the porn film industry forever. All this happened at the same time and within a couple of years the Hand In Hand heritage – which should be recognized today as an important chapter of the upcoming queer film movement – was almost forgotten. This book bundles very personal interviews with most of the remaining people that worked as cast and crew members on the films of Hand In Hand\, or somehow have been part of the circle around Jack Deveau. GOOD HOT STUFF tells the story of Hand In Hand in fragments\, carefully put together from many – totally different – perspectives and memories. It is a story about a filmmaker who had a vision way ahead of his time and the freedom to develop an individual auteur style within the limitations of the early gay adult film industry. Besides the actual conversations\, the reader can also learn about the production process and the history of the films – based on hundreds of images\, most of them never published in public before; among them original artworks\, company ephemera\, behind the scenes footage\, private snapshots\, and numerous magazine articles.\n \n \nCopies of Good Hot Stuff – The Life and Times of Gay Film Pioneer Jack Deveau will be available for purchase at the Bureau. To reserve a copy please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com. Please support the Bureau by buying books from us. Thank you!\n \n \nGood Hot Stuff – The Life and Times of Gay Film Pioneer Jack Deveau\n$34.99\nÉditions Moustache\, 2019\nPaperback\, 1.19″ H x 11.0″ L x 8.5″ W (2.97 lbs) 590 pages \nMaking of Ballet Down The Highway\n  \n  \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBehind The Scenes of Fire Island Fever\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191020T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191020T190000
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SUMMARY:Poetry and Memoir: the Transformative Power of Art
DESCRIPTION: \nPlease join us for a reading by poets Dean Kostos and Alan Baxter in celebration of their recently published books: The Boy Who Listened To Paintings and A Second of Eternity.\n \n \n“THE BOY WHO LISTENED TO PAINTINGS offers much to ponder concerning topical issues like family dysfunction\, bullying\, homophobia\, sexual harassment\, and the failure of our society to support its young people. Tragedy here has a good outcome\, though\, when the victim finds his way out of the infernal maze.” Alfred Corn\n \n \nCopies of Kostos‘s The Boy Who Listened To Paintings and Baxter‘s A Second of Eternity will both be available for purchase at the Bureau. To reserve a copy please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com. Please support the Bureau by buying books from us. Thank you!\n \n \n  \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \nDean Kostos‘s eight poetry collections include PIERCED BY NIGHT-COLORED THREADS and THIS IS NOT A SKYSCRAPER (recipient of the BENJAMIN SALTMAN Poetry Award\, selected by Mark Doty). Kostos’s anthology\, POMEGRANATE SEEDS\, had its debut reading at the United Nations.\n \nHis poems\, criticism\, and translations have have appeared in over 300 journals\, including Boulevard\, The Cincinnati Review\, Southwest Review\, The Western Humanities Review\, Oprah Winfrey’s website Oxygen.com\, and The Harvard University Press website. Kostos also received a Rockefeller Foundation Cultural Innovation Grant. \n \n \n  \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \nHaving been a mainstay of the New York City Poetry Circuit for the last twenty years\, Alan Baxter has read as a featured poet in Evie Ivy’s Dance of the Word at the Bowery Poetry Club and has also read his material at ABC No Rio\, The Green Pavilion\, and the Brownstone Poets. He has had his poems published in Nomad’s Choir\, the Stained Sheets\, and four of his works included in the poetry anthologies Dinner with the Muse and The Venetian Hour. He hosted the Kairos Poetry Café in Manhattan for almost eighteen years\, and in 2010 published his first book of poetry Shall We Have Magic? He now assists Chester Johnson with the poetry program at Trinity Wall Street Church in New York City\, as well as reading poetry at St. Johns and at The Church of the Village in Greenwich Village.\n \nAlan Baxter is not only a film-maker who has co-produced many independent movies\, but he is also the founder of AB Film Productions\, which a number of years ago mounted the award-winning film Barriers\, which Mr. Baxter personally directed. He is also the producer of the documentary Artwatch\, which contains interviews with leading art historians who have appeared many times on the famous TV show 60 Minutes. Mr. Baxter also wrote the play Juan and Emmett which Ivy Theatre produced in a small theater in New York City. He has taught literature and basic writing at The College of New Rochelle and Ramapo College.\n \nProfessor Baxter was brought up in Silver Spring\, Maryland\, right outside Washington\, DC\, and later graduated from the College of William and Mary. He did his graduate work at American University. Right now he lives in both Greenwich Village\, New York City and in Montreal\, Canada. \n  \n \n \n 
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SUMMARY:TELL 57: My Masculinity
DESCRIPTION:  \nTELL is an evening of story telling from the mouths and minds of queers in NYC hosted by Drae Campbell at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division since February 2014.\n \nMy Masculinity is the theme of the 57th TELL in conjunction with the New Masculinities Festival taking place at The LGBT Community Center in room 301 and in the Bureau on the same day\, Saturday\, October 19\, 2019. Featuring stories by Topher Gross\, Marcus Hicks\, Sammie James\, and Milo Jordan.\n \n \nPhotograph by Grace Chu \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nDrae Campbell is a writer\, actor\, director\, story teller\, dancer\, and nightlife emcee. Drae has been featured on Late Night with Conan O’Brien and on stages all over NYC. Drae’s directing work has appeared in Iceland\, NYC\, Budapest and in the San Francisco Fringe Festival. The short film Drae wrote and starred in with Rebecca Drysdale\, YOU MOVE ME won the Audience Award for Outstanding Narrative Short at OUTFEST 2010 and has been shown in festivals globally. Drae won the grand prize at the first annual San Miguel De Allende Storytelling Festival in Mexico. She once reigned as Miss LEZ and also got dubbed “the next lezzie comedian on the block” by AfterEllen.com for her comedic stylings on the interwebs. Campbell hosts and curates a monthly queer storytelling show called TELL at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division. Check her out online!  www.draecampbell.com. \n  \n  \nTopher Gross (photo by Asher Torres)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \nTopher Gross is a born and bred Brooklyn kid who learned the art of storytelling from his Jewish grandma\, Edith. He is an appearance enhancement artist aka hairstylist\, party thrower+ yenta\, aspiring cartoon voice over actor and marijuana dispensary owner. Topher has performed stories at Tell\, Tell It\, at various burlesque shows\, dinner tables\, on live journal and a blog for original plumbing magazine. He was featured on the Graham Norton show as the “big gay following” of Kylie Minogue. \n \n  \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \nMarcus Hicks is a Brooklyn based designer\, tailor and humorist. Born and raised in Bakersfield\, CA\, Hicks studied Black Studies at San Francisco State University before moving to New York to start a career in fashion. \n \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nSammie James is a comedian and story teller from New Jersey; where she hosts and produces The LGBT showcase Queerly Comedic. Sammie also hosts the podcast All Of My Friends Are Animals and The NYC Trans Variety show We Are Trans. She performs all over the country; including past appearances at Cinder Block Comedy Festival\, Charm City Comedy Festival and Bechdal Test Fest; and she is soon to be your favorite disabled\, nerdy\, butch trans woman in comedy. \n \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nMilo Jordan is a non-binary performer\, singer\, and gymnast. Previously seen in such classics as “Prudence” in Nutritional Yeast and “Vampire Potter” in My Immortal: a DRAMATIK Reading\, Milo also professionally dopplegangers “Aiden Abett” from America’s Favorite All-Boy Band. When not on stage\, he can be found in his recurring role of “That Dog Walker” in Crown Heights\, Brooklyn. [Exit\, stage left\, pursued by six dogs.] \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Tell Us How You Really Feel\, 2019 New Masculinities Festival
DESCRIPTION:  \nListen up to Tell Us How You Really Feel\, at the Bureau of General Services – Queer Division\, at the 2019 New Masculinities Festival. \n  \nCreator Remy Ramirez writes: “The Tell Us How You Really Feel Project was born out of a deep frustration in my search for meaningful connections with men. After years of dating\, I couldn’t understand who men were\, why they behaved the way they did\, or if they actually loved women. So I went out into the world and interviewed 25 cisgender\, heterosexual men of varying ethnicities\, ages\, and relationship statuses\, asking nearly 40 questions\, like: What does loneliness look like to you and how often do you experience it?; What does vulnerability mean to you?; Have you ever fantasized about falling in love\, having children\, or getting married? This project is the collection of those responses.” \nThe Bureau offers a special listening station for a curated set of Remy’s interviews\, during the 2019 New Masculinities Festival. Also on display find a curated selection of books and zines interrogating masculinity. \nLearn more and get your festival tickets here. \nNo ticket required to visit Remy Ramirez’s listening station inside the Bureau (room 210 of The LGBT Community Center). \nSee the full lineup of performances at www.manquestion.org/festival \nIllustration: Azmi Mert Erdem and Michael Wilson \nThe 2019 New Masculinities Festival is produced by Man Question and The Lesbian\, Gay\, Bisexual\, and Transgender Community Center\nWith the Bureau of General Services–Queer Division \n 
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191018T190000
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SUMMARY:Violet Ghosts
DESCRIPTION:  \nAcclaimed queer authors Trebor Healey and Craig Laurance Gidney explore the veil between worlds in their newest books\, Falling and A Spectral Hue. These are stories of artists making contact with a metaphysical or mystical reality\, expanding and queering our understanding of the world we live in. Healey and Gidney’s work portrays the otherworldliness of the southern border and America’s misunderstood African-American past. Their work is an invitation to an America that could be in the wake of an America that was\, an America haunted with the promise of ghosts that cannot be forgotten and that can in fact enrich us. An America not so banal to call itself great\, but one that can call itself whole.\n \nReception at 7 pm\, followed by reading at 7:30 pm\n \nCopies of Gidney’s A Spectral Hue and Healey’s Falling will be available for sale. To reserve books please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com. Please support the Bureau by buying books from us. Thank you!\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n  \nCraig Laurance Gidney is the author of the collections Sea\, Swallow Me & Other Stories (Lethe Press\, 2008)\, Skin Deep Magic: Short Fiction (Rebel Satori Press\, 2014)\, Bereft (Tiny Satchel Press\, 2013) and The Nectar of Nightmares (Dim Shores\, 2015). He lives in his native Washington\, DC. His new novel\, A SPECTRAL HUE\, is out from Word Horde. Website: craiglaurancegidney.com. Instagram\, Tumblr & Twitter: ethereallad. \n \n \n  \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \nRecipient of a Lambda Literary award\, two Publishing Triangle awards and a Violet Quill award\, Trebor Healey is the author of A Horse Named Sorrow\, Faun and Through It Came Bright Colors\, as well as a poetry collection\, Sweet Son of Pan and three collections of stories — A Perfect Scar\, Eros & Dust and the recently-released Falling. He co-edited (with Marci Blackman) Beyond Definition: New Writing from Gay and Lesbian San Francisco and co-edited (with Amie Evans) Queer & Catholic. He lives in Mexico City. www.treborhealey.com \n \n \n \n 
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191012T160000
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SUMMARY:Queer & Trans Zine Reading: NYC Feminist Zinefest 
DESCRIPTION:  \nNYC-based zine and comics creators – – JB Brager (My Gender is Saturn Return)\, Cassandra Leveille\, J Hansen (Queerly Sober)\, Quinn Milton (The Pope is Trans)\, Zefyr Lisowski & Charles Theonia (Femmescapes)\, and Ximena Izquierdo – – will read from their work\, a spectacle of queer visions and reckless imagination. \n  \nNYC Feminist Zinefest was started in 2012 by Elvis Bakaitis and Kate Angell\, as a way to showcase the works of feminist-aligned creators and marginalized voices. FZF is one of the city’s largest and longest running zine events\, and will be held in March 2020. \n \n \nCassandra Leveille has been contributing to zines since 2012\, including hoax\, On Struggling and Jealouzine. Cassandra has also authored two zines of her own\, Secondhand Emotion\, a zine about the politics of attraction under late capitalism\, and CUT\, a zine about shaving her head and the politics of black hair in 2018. She is currently working on a compilation zine on how care work functions as a superpower\, the final zine in the Secondhand Emotion series\, and a zine called Fictive Kinships on the traumas wrought by 2016.\n \n \nJ Henry Hansen is a writer\, performer\, queer + sober traveler\, activist and ordained minister whose adventures are chronicled on the Queerly Sober blog. J  recently wrote and performed in the solo show\, “The Escape Artist”.\n \n \nZefyr Lisowski is a femme sun/femme moon/futch rising living in New York. She’s a poetry co-editor at Apogee Journal\, a 2019 Tin House Summer Workshop attendee\, and the author of Blood Box (Black Lawrence Press 2019); more information online @zefrrrrrrr and at zeflisowski.com.\n \n \nCharles Theonia is a poet from Brooklyn\, where they’re at work externalizing interior femme landscapes. They’re the author of art book Saw Palmettos\, on hormones\, community\, and the brain-time continuum (Container\, 2018)\, and chapbook Which One Is the Bridge (Topside Press\, 2015). With ray ferriera and Abigail Lloyd\, they edit Femmescapes\, a magazine of queer and trans affinities with femmeness.\n \n \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nThe Queer & Trans Zine Reading is part of the 10th Annual New York Rainbow Book Fair 2019\, taking place on the first and third floors of \nThe LGBT Community Center\n208 West 13th Street\nNY\, NY 10011 \nFrom noon to 6 PM on Saturday\, October 12\, 2019 \n  \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Queer Women Writers Bloom Panel at The Rainbow Book Fair
DESCRIPTION:  \nQueer womyn writers and literary curators of color\, all members of Women Writers in Bloom Poetry Salon\, on the importance of curating and supporting queer literary spaces. This interactive panel of queer writers and literary organizers will discuss their community activism in the literary community\, including the importance of centering queer/lgbtq writers and artists both now and in the future. Each writer will also share an excerpt of their own powerful literary work.\nFeatured panelists/writers: R. Erica Doyle\, María Fernanda\, JP Howard\, & Nicole Shawan Junior \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nQueer Women Writers Bloom Panel is part of the 10th Annual New York Rainbow Book Fair 2019\, taking place on the first and third floors of \nThe LGBT Community Center\n208 West 13th Street\nNY\, NY 10011 \nFrom noon to 6 PM on Saturday\, October 12\, 2019 \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/queer-women-writers-bloom-panel-at-the-rainbow-book-fair/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191005T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191005T213000
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SUMMARY:A Celebration of Lou Sullivan
DESCRIPTION:  \nIn celebration of the publication of the edited diaries of the great gay transsexual activist\, a roster of writers and filmmakers share work that celebrates transmasculinity\, intimacy\, and freedom. Featuring Cyrée Jarelle Johnson\, Davey Davis\, Jamie DiNicola\, Chris Berntsen\, An Duplan\, Stephen Ira\, and Serge Rodriguez–as well as readings from Lou himself through noted spiritualist medium Zach Ozma.\n \nCopies of We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan (Nightboat Books\, 2019) will soon be available for purchase at the Bureau. To reserve a copy please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com. Please support the Bureau by buying books from us. Thank you! \n \n \n \n \n 
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SUMMARY:The Whole Megillah
DESCRIPTION: \nIf You Blink\, You’ll Miss It: An Intergenerational Dialogue Between August Bernadicou (25) and Rumi Missabu (71)\n \n  \nRumi Missabu was an original member of the radical theater troupe\, the Cockettes. He left the group after a year and a half\, moved to New York and then returned to San Francisco. For 35 years\, he lived completely off-the-grid.\n \n \n \nAugust Bernadicou is Rumi Missabu’s official biographer. He is the founder of The LGBTQ History Project. Since he was 14 years old\, August has been recording and transcribing interviews with gay elders from the 1950s through the AIDS Crisis.\n \n \n \n \n \n 
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SUMMARY:OLNY Poly Movie Night: When Two Won't Do
DESCRIPTION:  \nOpen Love NY presents Poly Movie Night\, a FREE series of feature films that focus on the portrayal of consensual / ethical non-monogamy in cinema. This month we’ll be at our regular venue\, the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division. \nOn October 2nd please join us for a viewing of When Two Won’t Do (2002)\, a documentary by Maureen Marovitch and David Finch. \nWe’ll meet at 6:30 pm at the Bureau (in room 210 of The Lesbian\, Gay\, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center at 208 West 13th Street) for pre-screening socializing and start the movie at 7 pm. The event is free\, although a $10 suggested donation to help fund future events is much appreciated. \nSynopsis: Maureen and David are Canadian filmmakers and romantic partners who explore opening their relationship while interviewing multi-partner families and attending conventions. CW: suicide. Running time: 57 minutes. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/olny-poly-movie-night-when-two-wont-do/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191001T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191001T213000
DTSTAMP:20260403T145638
CREATED:20190726T142536Z
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SUMMARY:Reading the Iliad
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe Bureau is excited to partner with the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research to bring you: \nReading the Iliad \nInstructors: Bruce King\, Laura Slatkin\nThe Iliad stands at the start of most histories of western literature\, even as it remains enduringly strange—often\, it seems\, at odds with the very tradition it has been taken to inaugurate. In this course\, we will read closely the entirety of Homer’s “poem of force\,” attempting to recapture both some of its strangeness and its continued relevance. We’ll focus\, too\, on the following themes: the hero and his commemoration; the relations of men and women\, of men and men\, of humans\, gods\, and animals; exile and rebellion; violence and the making of epic art; the recompenses and failures of culture itself. How did an oral tradition of heroic poetry\, enacted by singing bards for hundreds of years\, coalesce into the written Iliad that we now know? How do the struggles of the Iliadic hero illuminate both consciousness itself and the borders of culture? How does the poem both commemorate and critique its own heroes? How might the struggle over the city of Troy illuminate our own national propensities toward war without end? \nOne of the strangest elements of the Iliad is its depiction of Achilles\, who marks out a queer distance from the norms of heroic culture. Standing at the turbulent center of the poem\, amidst great violence\, deceit\, and godly meddling\, is Achilles’ love for his companion Patroclus. In Reading the Iliad\, we’ll ask\, among other questions: how are we to understand the relationship between Achilles and Patroclus? What\, in the poem and in Homeric Greek culture\, is the boundary between the homosocial and the homoerotic? What links eros and destruction? What\, in reading the Iliad\, is the content of a queer critique? \nOur primary focus will be on the Iliad itself\, but we will also take up a few key texts in Iliadic criticism: Plato\, Aristotle\, Milman Parry and Albert Lord\, and Simone Weil. \n  \nCourse Schedule\nTuesday\, 6:30-9:30pm\nSeptember 10 — October 01\, 2019\n4 weeks \n$315.00* \nRegistration is required. Please click here. \n*Three scholarship spaces are reserved in each course because we realize that not everyone can afford to pay the full fee for our courses. Students who cannot pay the full fee should email us at info@thebrooklyninstitute.com to learn about our scholarship options. We will not ask questions about your financial situation but we do ask that you use the system in good faith and consider the needs of other students and faculty members. \n  \nImage: Exekias\, Achilles and Ajax Playing a Board Game\, 540-530 BCE\, Detail of Terracotta amphora\, Height 2 feet. Musei Vaticani\, Rome. \nBuy The Iliad of Homer\, translated by Richard Lattimore\, at the Bureau for only $15.\nThis translation will be used for the course.\n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nThe Bureau of General Services—Queer Division is an independent\, all-volunteer queer cultural center\, bookstore\, and event space hosted by The LGBT Community Center in Manhattan. \n  \nThe Brooklyn Institute for Social Research is an organization of young scholars in New York City\, founded in November 2011 by a few then-graduate students at Columbia University with a shared interest in pedagogy and genuinely interdisciplinary conversation. We teach classes all over the city\, record a regular podcast\, run a digital humanities initiative to preserve rare and out-of-print academic texts\, and in general work frantically at any given time on a broad range of other academic and para-academic projects. We are a nonprofit\, 501(c)3 organization. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/reading-the-iliad-4/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190927T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190927T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T145638
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SUMMARY:Opening Reception and Book Release: We collect together in a net
DESCRIPTION:We collect together in a net \n  \nBureau of General Services—Queer Division \nExhibition: September 20 – October 27\, 2019 \nOpening Reception and Book Launch: September 27\, 2019\, 6 to 9 PM \nWith readings by Kerry Downey\, Jaime Shearn Coan\, and Shala Miller at 7 PM \nDownload press release. \nThe Bureau of General Services—Queer Division is proud to present We collect together in a net\, a series of new works on paper and a publication by Kerry Downey. Concentrating countless operations at the surface—from rubbing to cutting\, from sanding to pressing down\, from embossment to chine collé—these works draw parallels between paper’s surface and our skin\, playing at the intersection of materiality and identity. Like skin\, the works are pocked and porous; they act as thresholds between the personal and the social\, the psychological and the embodied. Paper is a site of encounter\, one defined by material relations between subjects\, objects\, and bodies. Facture at the surface\, or\, paper’s fleshiness\, indexes a repertoire of gestures enacted in the work’s production. Paper takes stock of these operations\, of accumulated forms of touch\, holding them in store as trace memories. Like a net—a central figure in Downey’s work—paper contains and disperses\, locating our entanglements in the world\, and reflecting the interdependent structures that produce the many ways we inhabit our bodies and access forms of power. \nThe exhibition is accompanied by a publication featuring works in the series alongside newly commissioned texts by Jaime Shearn Coan\, Jeanne Vaccaro\, Ryan Wong\, and Layla Zami. Designed by Erik Freer and edited by Rachel Valinsky\, the book is published by Brooklyn-based non-profit reading room\, writing space\, and independent publisher\, Wendy’s Subway. \n  \nKerry Downey (b.1979\, Ft. Lauderdale) is an interdisciplinary artist and educator based in New York City. Downey’s work explores relationality through the many ways we inhabit our bodies and access forms of power. Downey’s practice includes video\, printmaking\, drawing\, writing\, and performance. They’ve recently had a solo show at CAVE in Detroit and two-person shows at Danspace Project\, Knockdown Center and 20|20 Gallery in New York City. They have exhibited at the Queens Museum\, Flushing\, NY; the Hessel Museum at Bard College\, Annandale\, NY; The Drawing Center\, New York\, NY; Cooper Cole\, Toronto\, CA\, and Taylor Macklin\, Zurich\, CH. Downey is a recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Emerging Artist Grant and Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant. Artist-in-residencies include Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture\, Madison\, ME; Triangle Arts Association\, Brooklyn\, NY; SHIFT at EFA Project Space\, New York\, NY; the Drawing Center’s Open Sessions\, New York\, NY; Real Time and Space\, Oakland\, CA; and the Vermont Studio Center\, Johnson\, VT. Downey participated in the Queer/Art/Mentorship program in 2013. Their work has been in Artforum\, The Brooklyn Rail\, and The Washington Post. Downey holds a BA from Bard College and an MFA from Hunter College. \n  \n  \nImage: Kerry Downey\, We collect together in a net\, 2019\, monotype\, 11 x 15 in. \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/we-collect-together-kerry-downey-opening/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190926T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190926T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T145638
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SUMMARY:Edojah: Risking It All for Freedom
DESCRIPTION:  \nEdojah: Risking It All for Freedom is a play about Edafe\, a gay man from Nigeria and his relationship with his grandmother was special. “There are several things that go unspoken between us\, but in the silences\, I feel that she gets me and believes in my ability. But if I flee Nigeria what will be the price I pay to save myself?” An African man’s journey to seek asylum in the United States. \n  \nCopies of Edojah: Risking It All for Freedom and Bed 26 will be available for purchase at the Bureau. To reserve a copy please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com. Please support the Bureau by buying books from us. Thank you! \n  \nEdafe Okporo\, was born in Warri Delta state Nigeria\, currently residing in New York City\, Edafe is a Writer\, and Orator\, Author of Bed 26: Memoir of an African Man’s Asylum in the United States and the Executive Director of RDJ Refugee Shelter In Harlem. Edafe self identify as a member of the LGBT+ community that led to his displacement in 2016. Edafe is now a refugee of the United States of America and founder of The Pont LLC. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/edojah-risking-it-all-for-freedom/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190925T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190925T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T145638
CREATED:20190904T165909Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190904T165933Z
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SUMMARY:Perry Brass: 50 Years Of In Your Face Gay Liberation
DESCRIPTION:  \nA Rare and Very Important Intergenerational Dialogue Between August Bernadicou (25) and Perry Brass (71). \n  \nAugust Bernadicou is the founder of the LGBTQ History Project. Since he was 14 years old\, August has been recording and transcribing interviews with gay elders from the 1950s through the AIDS Crisis. To date\, he has done 100 interviews (over 250 hours of recordings). \n  \nPerry Brass shaped our community and helped create LGBTQ life. Perry was an early member of the Gay Liberation Front and co-edited their revolutionary magazine\, Come Out! Later\, he co-founded The Gay Men’s Health Project Clinic (Callen-Lorde)\, the first clinic for gay men on the East Coast. He is a celebrated porn writer and author. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/perry-brass-50-years-of-in-your-face-gay-liberation/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190924T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190924T213000
DTSTAMP:20260403T145638
CREATED:20190726T142513Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190905T215533Z
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SUMMARY:Reading the Iliad
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe Bureau is excited to partner with the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research to bring you: \nReading the Iliad \nInstructors: Bruce King\, Laura Slatkin \n \nThe Iliad stands at the start of most histories of western literature\, even as it remains enduringly strange—often\, it seems\, at odds with the very tradition it has been taken to inaugurate. In this course\, we will read closely the entirety of Homer’s “poem of force\,” attempting to recapture both some of its strangeness and its continued relevance. We’ll focus\, too\, on the following themes: the hero and his commemoration; the relations of men and women\, of men and men\, of humans\, gods\, and animals; exile and rebellion; violence and the making of epic art; the recompenses and failures of culture itself. How did an oral tradition of heroic poetry\, enacted by singing bards for hundreds of years\, coalesce into the written Iliad that we now know? How do the struggles of the Iliadic hero illuminate both consciousness itself and the borders of culture? How does the poem both commemorate and critique its own heroes? How might the struggle over the city of Troy illuminate our own national propensities toward war without end? \nOne of the strangest elements of the Iliad is its depiction of Achilles\, who marks out a queer distance from the norms of heroic culture. Standing at the turbulent center of the poem\, amidst great violence\, deceit\, and godly meddling\, is Achilles’ love for his companion Patroclus. In Reading the Iliad\, we’ll ask\, among other questions: how are we to understand the relationship between Achilles and Patroclus? What\, in the poem and in Homeric Greek culture\, is the boundary between the homosocial and the homoerotic? What links eros and destruction? What\, in reading the Iliad\, is the content of a queer critique? \nOur primary focus will be on the Iliad itself\, but we will also take up a few key texts in Iliadic criticism: Plato\, Aristotle\, Milman Parry and Albert Lord\, and Simone Weil. \n  \nCourse Schedule\nTuesday\, 6:30-9:30pm\nSeptember 10 — October 01\, 2019\n4 weeks \n$315.00* \nRegistration is required. Please click here. \n*Three scholarship spaces are reserved in each course because we realize that not everyone can afford to pay the full fee for our courses. Students who cannot pay the full fee should email us at info@thebrooklyninstitute.com to learn about our scholarship options. We will not ask questions about your financial situation but we do ask that you use the system in good faith and consider the needs of other students and faculty members. \n  \nImage: Exekias\, Achilles and Ajax Playing a Board Game\, 540-530 BCE\, Detail of Terracotta amphora\, Height 2 feet. Musei Vaticani\, Rome. \nBuy The Iliad of Homer\, translated by Richard Lattimore\, at the Bureau for only $15.\nThis translation will be used for the course.\n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nThe Bureau of General Services—Queer Division is an independent\, all-volunteer queer cultural center\, bookstore\, and event space hosted by The LGBT Community Center in Manhattan. \n  \nThe Brooklyn Institute for Social Research is an organization of young scholars in New York City\, founded in November 2011 by a few then-graduate students at Columbia University with a shared interest in pedagogy and genuinely interdisciplinary conversation. We teach classes all over the city\, record a regular podcast\, run a digital humanities initiative to preserve rare and out-of-print academic texts\, and in general work frantically at any given time on a broad range of other academic and para-academic projects. We are a nonprofit\, 501(c)3 organization. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/reading-the-iliad-3/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190922T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190922T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T145638
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SUMMARY:Four Way Books & Friends Fall 2019 Reading
DESCRIPTION:  \nJoin us for a night of poetry featuring the amazing poets Jessica Jacobs (Take Me with You\, Wherever You’re Going\, Four Way Books 2019)\, Nickole Brown ( To Those Who Were Our First Gods\, Rattle Magazine 2018)\, Philip Clark (The Carnival of Affection\, Sibling Rivalry Press 2017) and Lauren Clark (Music for a Wedding\, University of Pittsburgh Press 2017). \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nJessica Jacobs is also the author of Pelvis with Distance (White Pine Press\, 2015)\, a biography-in-poems of Georgia O’Keeffe\, winner of the New Mexico Book Award in Poetry and a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. Her chapbook In Whatever Light Left to Us was published by Sibling Rivalry Press in 2016. Her poetry\, essays\, and fiction have appeared widely. Jessica is now the Associate Editor of Beloit Poetry Journal and lives\, with her wife\, the poet Nickole Brown in Asheville\, North Carolina. \n  \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nNickole Brown is the author of Sister\, first published in 2007 with a new edition reissued in 2018. Her second book\, Fanny Says (BOA Editions)\, won the Weatherford Award for Appalachian Poetry in 2015. The audiobook of that collection became available in 2017. Currently\, she is the Editor for the Marie Alexander Poetry Series and teaches at the Sewanee School of Letters MFA Program and the Great Smokies Writing Program at UNCA. She lives with her wife\, poet Jessica Jacobs\, in Asheville\, NC\, where she periodically volunteers at a four different animal sanctuaries. A chapbook called To Those Who Were Our First Gods won the 2018 Rattle Chapbook Prize\, and a long sequence called The Donkey Elegies will be published as a chapbook by Sibling Rivalry Press in 2019. \n  \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nPhilip F. Clark‘s debut collection ‘The Carnival of Affection\,’ was published by Sibling Rivalry Press in 2017. He is currently an Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing/Poetry at City College\, New York\, where he received his M.F.A in 2016. His poetry and poetry reviews have appeared widely. \n  \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nLauren Clark is the author of MUSIC FOR A WEDDING (University of Pittsburgh Press\, 2017). \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/four-way-books-friends-fall-2019-reading/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190921T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190921T213000
DTSTAMP:20260403T145638
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SUMMARY:TELL 56: Self Love and Riis Beach
DESCRIPTION:  \nTELL is an evening of story telling from the mouths and minds of queers in NYC hosted by Drae Campbell at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division since February 2014. \nSelf Love and Riis Beach is the theme of the 56th TELL. Featuring stories by Sebastian J. Flowers aka Alkaline Sunboi\, Kenny Hahn\, and Jhani Miller. \n  \n  \nPhotograph by Grace Chu\n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n \nDrae Campbell is a writer\, actor\, director\, story teller\, dancer\, and nightlife emcee. Drae has been featured on Late Night with Conan O’Brien and on stages all over NYC. Drae’s directing work has appeared in Iceland\, NYC\, Budapest and in the San Francisco Fringe Festival. The short film Drae wrote and starred in with Rebecca Drysdale\, YOU MOVE ME won the Audience Award for Outstanding Narrative Short at OUTFEST 2010 and has been shown in festivals globally. Drae won the grand prize at the first annual San Miguel De Allende Storytelling Festival in Mexico. She once reigned as Miss LEZ and also got dubbed “the next lezzie comedian on the block” by AfterEllen.com for her comedic stylings on the interwebs. Campbell hosts and curates a monthly queer storytelling show called TELL at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division. Check her out online!  www.draecampbell.com. \n \n \n  \n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n \n \nSebastian J. Flowers aka Alkaline Sunboi is a 1st generation immigrant and Brooklyn native\, model\, actor\, and vegan in NYC. With indigenous roots in Belize and Honduras\, Central America\, practicing a life of peace\, love\, physical health and spiritual wellness has been a natural catalyst for his 15 years of activism in the LGBTQ and POC communities across the country. Despite incestuous sexual abuse as young as 7 years old\, poverty\, nearly dying twice due to gender affirming surgery\, this female to male transgender has no sight of slowing down. Sebastian\, 31 years old\, has a large following on social media for his dance moves and positive messages and aspires to use it as a platform for his acting and modeling career. Sebastian dreams of being an international actor\, successful philanthropist and investor. His most recent acting roles are on several episodes of POSE on FX (season 2)\, Law & Order: SVU on NBC\, Blue Bloods on CBS\, and independent short film Chasing Love. Feel free to check out Sebastian’s reality documentary series on YouTube\, “LEGENDARY\,” highlighting his life as an Afro Latino female to male transgender\, dating\, discussing mental health & wellness\, cooking vegan on a low income\, student financial advice\, Vogue & Mua tips\, traveling while Queer\, and interviewing prominent Queer youth & Queer people of color in NYC and the world. \nInstagram: @BelizeanVegan\nFacebook: Facebook.com/BelizeanVegan\nYouTube: Belizean Vegan \n  \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n \nKenny Hahn (he/She) is a queer actor\, playwright\, director\, devised theatre-maker\, comedian\, and passionate pie-maker. His play\, Love Me Tender\, premiered at the Wild Project Theater in September 2018\, he performed at NYWinterfest 2019 and the Prague Fringe Festival 2019 with the show “In The Woods Where the Men Work\, and he will be competing in this years YAAASFest Comedy Festival at the Broadway Comedy Club. Her pies can be tasted at any Hahn family dinner\, or if she likes you\, your family dinner. \nInstagram: @kennythehahn \n  \n  \nphoto credit: Alex Koones\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nJhani Miller is an award winning scholar hailing from the south suburbs of Chicago. Their work relates to black femme existence\, public service\, and the millennial identity crisis. When they are not advocating for historically marginalized groups in libraries\, they’re a pole-performance artist\, lo-fi photographer\, and geek culture researcher. You can find them at the Brooklyn Public Library where they are a Library Information Supervisor or reach out to them online on Instagram Librarian_shimmy. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/tell-56-self-love-and-riis-beach/
LOCATION:Online event\, New York\, NY\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190919T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190919T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T145638
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SUMMARY:Red Hen Press at BGSQD with special guests!
DESCRIPTION:  \nJoin fabulous Red Hen authors David Brendan Hopes\, Jason Schneiderman\, and Chloe Schwenke\, alongside special guests Minnie-Bruce Pratt and Jerome Murphy\, as they read their most recent work and celebrate queer literature! \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/red-hen-press-at-bgsqd-with-special-guests/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190917T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190917T213000
DTSTAMP:20260403T145638
CREATED:20190726T142453Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190905T215713Z
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SUMMARY:Reading the Iliad
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe Bureau is excited to partner with the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research to bring you: \nReading the Iliad \nInstructors: Bruce King\, Laura Slatkin \n \nThe Iliad stands at the start of most histories of western literature\, even as it remains enduringly strange—often\, it seems\, at odds with the very tradition it has been taken to inaugurate. In this course\, we will read closely the entirety of Homer’s “poem of force\,” attempting to recapture both some of its strangeness and its continued relevance. We’ll focus\, too\, on the following themes: the hero and his commemoration; the relations of men and women\, of men and men\, of humans\, gods\, and animals; exile and rebellion; violence and the making of epic art; the recompenses and failures of culture itself. How did an oral tradition of heroic poetry\, enacted by singing bards for hundreds of years\, coalesce into the written Iliad that we now know? How do the struggles of the Iliadic hero illuminate both consciousness itself and the borders of culture? How does the poem both commemorate and critique its own heroes? How might the struggle over the city of Troy illuminate our own national propensities toward war without end? \nOne of the strangest elements of the Iliad is its depiction of Achilles\, who marks out a queer distance from the norms of heroic culture. Standing at the turbulent center of the poem\, amidst great violence\, deceit\, and godly meddling\, is Achilles’ love for his companion Patroclus. In Reading the Iliad\, we’ll ask\, among other questions: how are we to understand the relationship between Achilles and Patroclus? What\, in the poem and in Homeric Greek culture\, is the boundary between the homosocial and the homoerotic? What links eros and destruction? What\, in reading the Iliad\, is the content of a queer critique? \nOur primary focus will be on the Iliad itself\, but we will also take up a few key texts in Iliadic criticism: Plato\, Aristotle\, Milman Parry and Albert Lord\, and Simone Weil. \n  \nCourse Schedule\nTuesday\, 6:30-9:30pm\nSeptember 10 — October 01\, 2019\n4 weeks \n$315.00* \nRegistration is required. Please click here. \n*Three scholarship spaces are reserved in each course because we realize that not everyone can afford to pay the full fee for our courses. Students who cannot pay the full fee should email us at info@thebrooklyninstitute.com to learn about our scholarship options. We will not ask questions about your financial situation but we do ask that you use the system in good faith and consider the needs of other students and faculty members. \n  \nImage: Exekias\, Achilles and Ajax Playing a Board Game\, 540-530 BCE\, Detail of Terracotta amphora\, Height 2 feet. Musei Vaticani\, Rome. \n  \n  \nBuy The Iliad of Homer\, translated by Richard Lattimore\, at the Bureau for only $15.\nThis translation will be used for the course.\n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nThe Bureau of General Services—Queer Division is an independent\, all-volunteer queer cultural center\, bookstore\, and event space hosted by The LGBT Community Center in Manhattan. \n  \nThe Brooklyn Institute for Social Research is an organization of young scholars in New York City\, founded in November 2011 by a few then-graduate students at Columbia University with a shared interest in pedagogy and genuinely interdisciplinary conversation. We teach classes all over the city\, record a regular podcast\, run a digital humanities initiative to preserve rare and out-of-print academic texts\, and in general work frantically at any given time on a broad range of other academic and para-academic projects. We are a nonprofit\, 501(c)3 organization.\n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/reading-the-iliad-2/
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SUMMARY:Madden\, Roxas-Chua\, Schneiderman
DESCRIPTION:  \nJoin us for an evening of poetry with Ed Madden\, Sam Roxas-Chua\, and Jason Schneiderman. \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nProfessor of English and director of gender studies at the University of South Carolina\, Ed Madden is the author of four books of poetry\, most recently\, Ark\, a memoir in poems about his father’s last months in hospice care. His poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner\, Crazyhorse\, and other journals\, as well as in Hard Lines: Rough South Poetry\, and The Book of Irish American Poetry. In 2015 he was named poet laureate for the City of Columbia\, SC\, and in 2019 he was one of 13 poets nationwide to be named an Academy of American Poets Poet Laureate Fellow. \n  \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nSam Roxas-Chua is the author of Saying Your Name Three Times Underwater\, Echolalia in Script\, and Fawn Language. His poems\, artworks\, and asemic writings have appeared in journals including Narrative\, December Magazine\, Cream City Review and an essay/review of his two recent books appears in the Georgia Review and Rhino Poetry. His poetry sequence Diary of Collected Summers was awarded the Missouri Review’s Miller Audio Prize and most recently he was interviewed by Gulf Coast Journal. In his writing process\, Sam is interested in discovering the invisible poem. These are images and thoughts conjured up by asemic writing—a writing practice using non-sensical script. Here’s how he described it in an interview: “In between stanzas of a poem\, or when I can’t quite get to an image or a phrase\, I pull out a piece of paper and start writing this nonsensical script. When I do this script and feel the texture of my wrist on the page\, images open like a deck of cards.” Eventually\, this work became an art form on its own for Sam\, one that exists in conversation with his poetry. His books talk to each other across mediums as well\, with the poems in Saying Your Name Three Times Underwater resurfacing in the poem that concludes Echolalia in Script\, which is made up of phrases drawn from the poems in that book\, making a new thing. And each visual art piece in Echolalia is\, in turn\, in conversation with a line from that work. Sam is a quadrilingual speaker with a multinational background\, an adoptee\, and a maker open to what happens in the ineffable interstices\, the between. Sam has exhibited his visual works and read for PEN International Philippines and most recently at the Performatura literature and arts festival at the Cultural Center of the Philippines. \n  \n  \n\n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nJason Schneiderman is the author of four books of poems: Hold Me Tight (Red Hen Press 2020)\, Primary Source (Red Hen Press 2016); Striking Surface (Ashland Poetry Press 2010); and Sublimation Point (Four Way Books 2004). He edited the anthology Queer: A Reader for Writers (Oxford University Press 2016). His poetry and essays have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies\, including American Poetry Review\, The Best American Poetry\, Poetry London\, Grand Street\, and The Penguin Book of the Sonnet. An Associate Professor of English at the Borough of Manhattan Community College\, CUNY\, he lives in Brooklyn with his husband Michael Broder. His next book of poems\, Hold Me Tight\, will be out from Red Hen in 2020. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/madden-roxas-chua-schneiderman/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190910T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190910T213000
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SUMMARY:Reading the Iliad
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe Bureau is excited to partner with the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research to bring you: \nReading the Iliad \nInstructors: Bruce King\, Laura Slatkin \n  \nThe Iliad stands at the start of most histories of western literature\, even as it remains enduringly strange—often\, it seems\, at odds with the very tradition it has been taken to inaugurate. In this course\, we will read closely the entirety of Homer’s “poem of force\,” attempting to recapture both some of its strangeness and its continued relevance. We’ll focus\, too\, on the following themes: the hero and his commemoration; the relations of men and women\, of men and men\, of humans\, gods\, and animals; exile and rebellion; violence and the making of epic art; the recompenses and failures of culture itself. How did an oral tradition of heroic poetry\, enacted by singing bards for hundreds of years\, coalesce into the written Iliad that we now know? How do the struggles of the Iliadic hero illuminate both consciousness itself and the borders of culture? How does the poem both commemorate and critique its own heroes? How might the struggle over the city of Troy illuminate our own national propensities toward war without end? \nOne of the strangest elements of the Iliad is its depiction of Achilles\, who marks out a queer distance from the norms of heroic culture. Standing at the turbulent center of the poem\, amidst great violence\, deceit\, and godly meddling\, is Achilles’ love for his companion Patroclus. In Reading the Iliad\, we’ll ask\, among other questions: how are we to understand the relationship between Achilles and Patroclus? What\, in the poem and in Homeric Greek culture\, is the boundary between the homosocial and the homoerotic? What links eros and destruction? What\, in reading the Iliad\, is the content of a queer critique? \nOur primary focus will be on the Iliad itself\, but we will also take up a few key texts in Iliadic criticism: Plato\, Aristotle\, Milman Parry and Albert Lord\, and Simone Weil. \n  \nCourse Schedule\nTuesday\, 6:30-9:30pm\nSeptember 10 — October 01\, 2019\n4 weeks \n$315.00* \nRegistration is required. Please click here. \n*Three scholarship spaces are reserved in each course because we realize that not everyone can afford to pay the full fee for our courses. Students who cannot pay the full fee should email us at info@thebrooklyninstitute.com to learn about our scholarship options. We will not ask questions about your financial situation but we do ask that you use the system in good faith and consider the needs of other students and faculty members. \n  \nImage: Exekias\, Achilles and Ajax Playing a Board Game\, 540-530 BCE\, Detail of Terracotta amphora\, Height 2 feet. Musei Vaticani\, Rome. \n  \n  \nBuy The Iliad of Homer\, translated by Richard Lattimore\, at the Bureau for only $15.\nThis translation will be used for the course.\n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nThe Bureau of General Services—Queer Division is an independent\, all-volunteer queer cultural center\, bookstore\, and event space hosted by The LGBT Community Center in Manhattan. \n  \nThe Brooklyn Institute for Social Research is an organization of young scholars in New York City\, founded in November 2011 by a few then-graduate students at Columbia University with a shared interest in pedagogy and genuinely interdisciplinary conversation. We teach classes all over the city\, record a regular podcast\, run a digital humanities initiative to preserve rare and out-of-print academic texts\, and in general work frantically at any given time on a broad range of other academic and para-academic projects. We are a nonprofit\, 501(c)3 organization. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/reading-the-iliad/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190904T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190904T213000
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SUMMARY:OLNY Poly Movie Night: Y Tu Mamá También
DESCRIPTION:  \nOpen Love NY presents Poly Movie Night\, a FREE series of feature films that focus on the portrayal of consensual / ethical non-monogamy in cinema. This month we’ll be at our regular venue\, the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division. \nOn September 4th\, please join us for a viewing of Y Tu Mamá También \, (2001)\, directed by Alfonso Cuarón and starring Maribel Verdú\, Gael García Bernal\, Daniel Giménez Cacho. \nWe’ll meet at 6:30 pm at the Bureau (in room 210 of The Lesbian\, Gay\, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center at 208 West 13th Street) for pre-screening socializing and start the movie at 7 pm. The event is free\, although a $10 suggested donation to help fund future events is much appreciated. \nSynopsis: Best friends Tenoch and Julio\, spending a last summer together before college while their girlfriends are traveling\, try to impress Luisa\, an older woman they meet\, by inviting her to join them on a a road trip to a beautiful beach that they have invented. Unexpectedly\, she agrees. Running time: 1 hour 46 minutes. In Spanish with English subtitles. \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/olny-poly-movie-night-y-tu-mama/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190828T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190828T203000
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SUMMARY:The Vagina Bible Talk and Book Signing
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe Bureau is excited to host an evening of conversation bringing together Dr. Jen Gunter\, author of The Vagina Bible (Kensington\, 2019)\, and Amber Gavin of Abortion Access Front. \nDr. Gunter is a “fact evangelist in the fake-news era” (The Cut) and with Ms. Gavin they will discuss language\, propaganda\, and misinformation in medicine. \nCopies of The Vagina Bible will be available for purchase at the Bureau. \nTo reserve a copy please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com. Please support the Bureau by buying books from us. Thank you! \n  \nCheck out this July 25 profile of Dr. Jen Gunter in The Cut! \nJen Gunter\, Photo Credit Jason LeCras\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nDr. Jen Gunter is an obstetrician and gynecologist with nearly three decades of experience as a vulvar and vaginal diseases expert. She writes a regular column on women’s health for The New York Times called The Cycle\, as well as a weekly Q&A\, You Asked\, which addresses women’s most press questions about their bodies. She has been called Twitter’s resident gynecologist\, the Internet’s OB/GYN\, and one of the fiercest advocate’s for women’s health. \n  \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nAmber Gavin is Director of Programs for Abortion Access Front (formerly Lady Parts Justice). In that role\, she leads the organization’s clinic outreach programs and she works to make every independent abortion clinic feel loved and supported by their local community for the tremendous care they provide. Amber proudly served on the Abortion Care Network’s 2019 Annual Conference and Gala Planning Committee. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/the-vagina-bible-talk-and-book-signing/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190815T191500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190815T204500
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SUMMARY:Empowering Stories: An Evening of Compassionate and Meaningful Conversations
DESCRIPTION: \nJoin author Johnson Chong and an esteemed panel of members of the gay community to celebrate the launch of his book Sage Sapien: From Karma to Dharma.\n \nAs LGBTQ people\, we live in the shadows of marginalization. As a gay Chinese-American\, Johnson Chong found himself in the minority of a minority\, torn between strict eastern values of hetero-normalcy and western values of freedom and individualism. Join us for an evening panel discussion about cultural identity\, sexual identity\, spiritual identity\, and identity as a limiting construct. Johnson Chong\, author of Sage Sapien: From Karma to Dharma shares nuggets of wisdom from his book in a panel discussion where he is joined by respected members of the queer community: Joseph Reid (Language & Communications Expert)\, Drew Stevens (Artistic Director of the Feminist Press) & Yusef Miller (Award Winning Playwright).\n \nThe purpose of this evening is to celebrate our pain as an opportunity for healing in this polarized and emotionally traumatized chapter in American history. Join us for a fun\, thought-provoking evening to re-enliven your spirit. The evening will culminate in a guided meditation for queer empowerment through queer spirituality.\n \n \nCopies of Sage Sapien: From Karma to Dharma are available for purchase at the Bureau. To reserve a copy please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com. Please support the Bureau by buying books from us. Thank you!\n \n \nJohnson Chong is a native New Yorker\, yogi\, meditation teacher and self-mastery guide. He founded Sagehouse based in Singapore with the intention to help people re-connect the mind\, body and spirit. He is also the creator of Exodus Retreats\, where he leads transformational retreats around the world. As a professionally trained actor and perpetual student of esoteric wisdom\, he integrates his love of storytelling to empower life-changing shifts through his speaking engagements and workshops. His commitment to the global shift of humanity’s consciousness has inspired him to create live and online training programs\, guided meditation audios\, and mentorship programs. Sage Sapien: From Karma to Dharma is his first book. For more information and events\, please visit www.johnsonchong.com\n \n \n \n 
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190809T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190809T210000
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SUMMARY:New Work in Transgender Studies
DESCRIPTION:  \nAn evening of reading and conversation bringing together three pathbreaking recent works in Transgender Studies that center intersections of race\, gender\, and sexuality: Miriam J. Abelson’s Men in Place: Trans Masculinity\, Race\, and Sexuality in America (Minnesota\, 2019)\, Julian Gill-Peterson’s Histories of the Transgender Child (Minnesota\, 2018)\, and Ann Travers’ The Trans Generation: How Trans Kids (and Their Parents) Are Creating a Gender Revolution (NYU 2018). \n  \nCopies of Abelson’s\, Gill-Peterson’s\, and Travers’ books will be available for purchase at the Bureau. To reserve a copy/copies please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com. Please support the Bureau by buying books from us. Thank you! \n  \n  \nMiriam J. Abelson is an Assistant Professor of Women\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies at Portland State University. Her book\, Men in Place (University of Minnesota Press\, 2019)\, demonstrates through a large and geographically diverse interview study with transgender men that contemporary U.S. masculinity\, race\, and sexuality are deeply embedded in the spaces and places men move through in their everyday lives. Her current research focuses on rural queer and trans lives in the U.S. inland Northwest. \n  \nAnn Travers is Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology & Anthropology at Simon Fraser University. Their recent book\, The Trans Generation: How Trans Kids (and Their Parents) Are Creating a Gender Revolution\, situates trans kids in Canada and the US\, white settler nations characterized by significant social inequality. \n  \nJulian Gill-Peterson is an Assistant Professor of English and Gender\, Sexuality\, and Women’s Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. Her book\, Histories of the Transgender Child (University of Minnesota Press\, 2018)\, is the recipient of a Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction. Julian is currently at work on a book entitled “Gender Underground: A History of Trans DIY.” \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/new-work-in-transgender-studies/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190807T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190807T213000
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SUMMARY:OLNY Poly Movie Night: Shortbus
DESCRIPTION:  \nOpen Love NY presents Poly Movie Night\, a FREE series of feature films that focus on the portrayal of consensual / ethical non-monogamy in cinema. This month we’ll be at our regular venue\, the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division. \nOn August 7th please join us for a viewing of Shortbus (2006)\, written and directed by John Cameron Mitchell and starring Sook-Yin Lee\, Peter Stickles\, and PJ DeBoy. \nWe’ll meet at 6:30 pm at the Bureau (in room 210 of The Lesbian\, Gay\, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center at 208 West 13th Street) for pre-screening socializing and start the movie at 7 pm. The event is free\, although a $10 suggested donation to help fund future events is much appreciated. \nSynopsis: Jamie and James are thinking of opening their relationship so they visit a relationship/sex therapist only to find out that she has her own problems. They all meet at a sex club called Shortbus looking for answers to their sexual and romantic dilemmas and encountering a host of interesting characters. Content Warning: attempted suicide. Running time: 1 hour 41 minutes. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/olny-poly-movie-night-shortbus/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190806T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190806T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T145638
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SUMMARY:NYC Gay Guys' Book Club Discusses In Search of Stonewall: Bureau Opens at 6 PM
DESCRIPTION:  \nNYC Gay Guys’ Book Club is a group of gay guys of all ages who meet the first Tuesday of every month. We usually meet at the Jefferson Market branch of the public library on 6th Avenue & West 10th Street\, but we’ll meet at the Bureau while the library is being renovated. We read an eclectic range of books from classics to newly-released works. We don’t necessarily read books with a gay theme or characters and always open to suggestions. Very easy going; more social than academic. You don’t necessarily have to commit to coming every single month\, just whenever your schedule or reading tastes permit. \n  \nOn Tuesday\, August 6\, the NYC Gay Guys’ Book Club will discuss In Search of Stonewall: The Riots at 50 The Gay & Lesbian Review at 25\, Best Essays\, 1994-2018 \n“The year was 1994. It was the 25th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots and\, as luck would have it\, the year in which a new magazine called The Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review was publishing its first issue (Winter ’94).* The fact that The G&LR’s first year coincided with Stonewall’s 25th forever joined its fate with that of the founding event of the modern LGBT movement. This book commemorates the magazine’s 25th birthday with a collection of relevant articles selected from its 136 issues.” \n-Richard Schneider Jr.\, Editor \n  \nCopies of In Search of Stonewall are available for purchase at the Bureau. Please support the Bureau by purchasing books from us. Thank you! \nPlease note that the Bureau is closed on Tuesdays in July and August\, but we will open for this event at 6 pm.\n\nThe Bureau’s hours in July and August: Wednesdays-Saturdays\, 1 to 7 PM.\n  \nThis event is free\, but donations to support the Bureau are much appreciated! \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/nyc-gay-guys-book-club-discusses-in-search-of-stonewall/
LOCATION:Online event\, New York\, NY\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190731T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190731T213000
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SUMMARY:Trans/Queer/Woman: Theory and Politics
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe Bureau is excited to partner with the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research to bring you: \nTrans/Queer/Woman: Theory and Politics \nInstructor: Sophie Lewis \nThe course will meet at the Bureau on Wednesdays\, July 10\, 17\, 24\, and 31\, from 6:30 to 9:30 PM \nTransfeminine lives are often seen as having\, in and of themselves\, political consequences\, theoretical limits\, and some kind of relation to a ‘beyond’ of gender. While former sports celebrity Caitlyn Jenner has come to stand for the notion that ‘transgender’ is now a “respectable” identity\, Olympic gold-star medalist Caster Semenya\, despite not being transgender\, is now caught up in a fraught and ugly fracas over the question of “what is a woman?” Some debates within both feminist and queer thought ask: How stable is the LGBTQ acronym as a concept? While some strains of feminism seek to exclude trans lives from a definition of womanhood on the grounds of “gender realism\,” others explicitly reject any kind of gender naturalization. Similarly\, some openly apolitical or conservative ‘queer’ and gay rights discourses question whether trans lives fit within a program of assimilation and advancement\, while others claim that a structural transsexuality lies at the center of a politically-charged “gay communism” that unites queer theory with a critique of capitalism. In this context\, theorists continue to differ on matters such as: the continued relevance of “queer” as a rubric\, the utility of the figure of the “post-transsexual”; and the relation of trans embodiment to normativity\, gender nonconformity\, and the gender binary. Some have announced (already!) “the end of trans studies.” How can we understand\, parse\, and adjudicate these conflicting and overlapping questions? \nIn this course\, we will read treatments of these questions by (predominantly) trans and intersex philosophers—as well as works by some trans-hostile ones such as Kathleen Stock—exploring\, discussing and weighing a variety of dissenting opinions on trans gender ontology\, epistemology\, and liberation. What do ‘trans’ and ‘queer’ have to do with (and to) each other as rubrics? What has trans feminism been\, and what might it be? What are the consequences of abstracting “trans”? Readings will include texts by Susan Stryker\, Emi Koyama\, Julia Serano\, Jules Joanne Gleeson\, Joni Cohen\, Mario Mieli\, Andrea Long Chu\, Vivian K Namaste\, Treva Ellison\, Jack Halberstam\, Jordy Rosenberg\, and Marissa Brostoff\, among others. \nThe Bureau of General Services—Queer Division is an independent\, all-volunteer queer cultural center\, bookstore\, and event space hosted by The LGBT Community Center in Manhattan. \nThe Brooklyn Institute for Social Research is an organization of young scholars in New York City\, founded in November 2011 by a few then-graduate students at Columbia University with a shared interest in pedagogy and genuinely interdisciplinary conversation. We teach classes all over the city\, record a regular podcast\, run a digital humanities initiative to preserve rare and out-of-print academic texts\, and in general work frantically at any given time on a broad range of other academic and para-academic projects. We are a nonprofit\, 501(c)3 organization. \nCourse Schedule\nWednesday\, 6:30-9:30pm\nJuly 10 — July 31\, 2019\n4 weeks\n$315.00* \nRegistration is required. Please click here. \n  \n*Three scholarship spaces are reserved in each course because we realize that not everyone can afford to pay the full fee for our courses. Students who cannot pay the full fee should email us at info@thebrooklyninstitute.com to learn about our scholarship options. We will not ask questions about your financial situation but we do ask that you use the system in good faith and consider the needs of other students and faculty members. \n  \nImage: Christina Quarles\, Grounded By Tha Side of Yew\, 2017 \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/transqueerwoman-theory-and-politics-4/
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SUMMARY:Locked Up Boy Reading and Release
DESCRIPTION:  \nAuthor Jason Haaf will read from his new book\, Locked Up Boy. \nLocked Up Boy is an art diary\, written by Jason Haaf and transcribed and illustrated by artist Zach Grear. A reflection of relationships\, sex\, dreams\, the past and the future\, Locked Up Boy invites the reader to engage. A voyeuristic experience. An intimate experience. An experimental experience. A Queer Experience. \nReading and Q&A to follow. \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nJason Haaf is a non-fiction writer living in Brooklyn\, New York. His work has appeared in “Hello Mr.” and “Warm Brothers” magazines. His Poem “Nineteen Six” is currently featured in “Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives\, Politics and Poetry.” “Love Case\,” his debut novella was published in February 2018. \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nZach Grear is a self-taught artist living in Brooklyn. He finds inspiration from vintage queer erotica and punk aesthetics. His work has been featured in “SPUNK art & perspectives” zine\, “Warm Brothers” magazine\, “NYC Pride Guide” magazine\, and “Starrfucker” magazine. He also designed the 2018 AIDS Memorial “What is Remembered Lives” T-shirt benefiting Housing Works. \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/locked-up-boy-reading-and-release/
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