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SUMMARY:OLNY Poly Movie Night: Colette
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. Our regular venue is the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division.\n  \nOn February 5th please join us for a viewing of Colette (2018)\, directed by Wash Westmoreland and starring Keira Knightly and Dominic West.\n  \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.\n  \nSynopsis: In 1893\, 20-year-old Colette marries the writer Willy and moves to Paris. Willy introduces her to the intellectual and artistic life of the city\, encourages her relationships with other women\, and takes credit for her writing. Running time: 1 hour 51 minutes. \n \n  \n \n 
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SUMMARY:Poems Are Not a Luxury: Audre Lorde and Adrienne Rich
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe Bureau is excited to partner again with the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research to bring you: \nPoems Are Not a Luxury: Audre Lorde and Adrienne Rich \nInstructor: Amy Schiller \n“Poetry is liberative language\,” wrote Adrienne Rich. “Poems are not a luxury\,” argued Audre Lorde. How can we understand these claims about the intersection of poetry and politics? This course delves into the lives and works of Rich and Lorde\, as we explore their respective poetic oeuvres. To Rich and Lorde\, liberation was a through-line of experience between eros\, politics\, and language. And both express in their works understandings of gender\, sexuality\, and the body. In a famous interview between the two writers\, they discuss poetry as the language of the dark\, the feminine\, the unconscious; we will explore this tendency in their work and the ways in which their respective renderings of the feminine influenced the trajectory of feminist theory and politics in the mid and late-20th century. Their conversations with one another\, and treatments of their legacies by Claudia Rankine\, Lisa L. Moore\, Marilyn Hacker and others\, will inform our investigation of poetry as part of feminist theory. How do Rich and Lorde navigate antiracism and intersectionality among allies with different race and class affiliations? How does poetic form contribute to their political practice? Readings will include Diving Into The Wreck\, The Fact of a Doorframe\, Uses of the Erotic\, Sister Outsider\, and the Arts of the Possible\, among others. \n  \nThe Bureau sells copies of \nAdrienne Rich’s Diving Into The Wreck and Arts of the Possible\, \nAudre Lorde’s Sister Outsider\, which includes the essay “Uses of the Erotic\,” \nand other titles by both Lorde and Rich. Please support the Bureau by buying books from us! Thank you! \n  \nCourse Schedule \nJanuary 28\, February 4\, 11\, and 18\, 2020\nTuesdays\, 6:30-9:30pm\n4 sessions\n\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  \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 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/poems-are-not-a-luxury-audre-lorde-and-adrienne-rich/
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SUMMARY:Oral History: A Queer Art: A Two-Day Workshop
DESCRIPTION:  \nTHIS TWO-DAY WORKSHOP IS NOW FULL. PLEASE SIGN UP FOR THE WAITLIST\, AND WE WILL BE IN TOUCH IF SPACE OPENS UP. \nOral History\, a Queer Art will follow the course of our usual immersive workshops by offering foundational oral history training–theory\, method\, practice–while inviting exploration into the way that oral history values and theory are arguably queer and/or well-positioned to support emergent complex queer narratives. This workshop will also seize upon the history and abundance of queer oral history projects\, approaching this canon as both case study of “insider history” and as inspiration for future projects. We’ll challenge a purist oral history model\, asking how it can/should be adapted with queer values and theory in mind. \nThis workshop is appropriate for those looking for foundation oral history training\, those embarking (or currently working) on queer oral history projects and/or those who wish to learn in a queer-centered space. All are welcome. \n  \nMore about Oral History Summer School: Our workshops are set up to bring together learners with a range of experience and motives\, to think about how oral history’s best practices apple to their work and personal lives. We emphasize listening\, collaboration\, co-creation\, ethics\, trauma training\, self-care\, familiarity with archival practices and project design\, though not all of these subjects will be covered at length in shorter (1 to 2-day) workshops. \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/oral-history-a-queer-art-2/
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SUMMARY:Oral History\, A Queer Art: NYC Trans Oral History Project: Public Event
DESCRIPTION:  \n4 PM to 5:30 PM (Doors open at 3:45 PM)\n Free and open to the public \nPlease join us as Michelle Esther O’Brien and Nico Fuentes present their work with the NYC Trans Oral History Project (NYC TOHP) in conversation with Suzanne Snider and the audience. \nNYC TOHP is a public\, online community archive devoted to the collection\, preservation and sharing of trans histories\, organized in collaboration with the New York Public Library. The NYC TOHP works to confront the erasure of trans lives and to record diverse histories of gender as intersecting with race and racism\, poverty\, dis/ability\, aging\, housing migration\, sexism\, and the AIDS crisis. \nDuring the event\, Fuentes and O’Brien will discuss some of the most challenging lessons related to the NYC Trans Oral History Project and the broader implications for rethinking best practices in oral history. This talk will address the Project’s and Collective’s emergent ideas around ownership\, vulnerability\, accessibility\, fetishization of orality/aurality\, compensation\, mission-driven work and collective liberation. \n  \nPresenters: \nMichelle Esther O’Brien is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at New York University. She is currently conducting dissertation research on LGBTQ social movements in New York City. Michelle also works as a Community Oral History Coordinator at the New York Public Library\, where she helps lead the New York City Trans Oral History Project. The Project is gathering a growing online archive of personal oral histories from trans New Yorkers. Michelle received her Masters of Social Work from the Hunter College School of Social Work\, CUNY (now Silberman School). She spent several years working in HIV/AIDS service agencies\, as a community organizer\, support group facilitator and case worker. She served as the Executive Director of Housing Here and Now\, at the time the leading coalition of tenant rights organizations in New York City. \nNico Fuentes is a rank and file organizer\, sex shop worker\, listener and sometimes speaker. She is interested in trans political organizing\, difference\, and bridging class and identity politics. She most recently completed a two year contract campaign at the Pleasure Chest NY and is looking forward to continuing to work with the New York Trans Oral History Project as an interviewer. \nSuzanne Snider is a writer\, documentarian\, and educator whose work is deeply influenced by oral history theory and practice. Her most recent projects have taken the shape of sound installation\, essays\, and archive design. In 2012\, she founded Oral History Summer School\, an interdisciplinary training program in upstate New York. She consults frequently for institutions and project teams; collaborations include the National Public Housing Museum\, MoMA\, Center for Reproductive Rights and the National Library of Kosovo. Her writing/audio work appear in The Guardian\, The Believer and The Washington Post\, along with several anthologies and artist catalogs. Snider teaches at The New School. With support from the Yaddo Corporation and the MacDowell Colony\, she is completing her first book\, The Revival. \n  \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Oral History: A Queer Art: A Two-Day Workshop
DESCRIPTION:  \nTHIS WORKSHOP IS NOW FULL. PLEASE SIGN UP FOR THE WAITLIST\, AND WE WILL BE IN TOUCH IF SPACE OPENS UP. \nOral History\, a Queer Art will follow the course of our usual immersive workshops by offering foundational oral history training–theory\, method\, practice– while inviting exploration into the way that oral history values and theory are arguably queer and/or well-positioned to support emergent complex queer narratives. This workshop will also seize upon the history and abundance of queer oral history projects\, approaching this canon as both case study of “insider history” and as inspiration for future projects. We’ll challenge a purist oral history model\, asking how it can/should be adapted with queer values and theory in mind. \nThis workshop is appropriate for those looking for foundation oral history training\, those embarking (or currently working) on queer oral history projects and/or those who wish to learn in a queer-centered space. All are welcome. \n  \nMore about Oral History Summer School: Our workshops are set up to bring together learners with a range of experience and motives\, to think about how oral history’s best practices apple to their work and personal lives. We emphasize listening\, collaboration\, co-creation\, ethics\, trauma training\, self-care\, familiarity with archival practices and project design\, though not all of these subjects will be covered at length in shorter (1 to 2-day) workshops. \n 
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SUMMARY:Open enchanting historical closets with three NY novelists
DESCRIPTION:  \nAuthor readings\, with slides and videos; Q & A. Explore enchanting historical closets through the eyes of three local award-winning novelists Loretta Goldberg\, Joshua Ian\, & Christina Britton Conroy! \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nAustralian-American Loretta Goldberg is an accomplished pianist with nine commercial CDs to her credit\, a former financial advisor and now a published author. Her debut novel\, The Reversible Mask\, recounts the exploits of a sixteenth century bisexual spy\, Edward Latham\, and his work as a double agent for Queen Elizabeth I. Intrigue\, lust\, war\, and betrayal fill its pages https://www.facebook.com/LorettaGoldbergAuthor. \n  \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nJoshua Ian writes mostly historical and speculative fiction\, all with a queer bent. The Harvest Moon is the first in his Darkly Enchanted Romance series\, which takes inspiration from mythology\, fairy tales\, folklore\, and legend. Witches\, ghosts\, and mythical creatures – you never know what you might fall in love with. Find his steampunk collection and upcoming works at https://www.moodyboxfan.com/ or on social @joshuaianauthor. \n  \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nNovelist/ screenwriter/ singer/ actor/ Irish harpist/ Licensed Creative Arts Therapist\, Christina Britton Conroy has many passions. Her 4-book Victorian novel series His Majesty’s Theatre is filled with the history of the British theatre and allusions to Shakespeare. Her characters are gay\, straight\, rich\, poor\, educated and illiterate. Professional rivalries\, jilted lovers\, and finally a murder bring them all together under one roof: His Majesty’s Theatre.  https://www.facebook.com/ChrisBritConroy. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/open-enchanting-historical-closets-with-three-ny-novelists/
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SUMMARY:Poems Are Not a Luxury: Audre Lorde and Adrienne Rich
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe Bureau is excited to partner again with the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research to bring you: \nPoems Are Not a Luxury: Audre Lorde and Adrienne Rich \nInstructor: Amy Schiller \n“Poetry is liberative language\,” wrote Adrienne Rich. “Poems are not a luxury\,” argued Audre Lorde. How can we understand these claims about the intersection of poetry and politics? This course delves into the lives and works of Rich and Lorde\, as we explore their respective poetic oeuvres. To Rich and Lorde\, liberation was a through-line of experience between eros\, politics\, and language. And both express in their works understandings of gender\, sexuality\, and the body. In a famous interview between the two writers\, they discuss poetry as the language of the dark\, the feminine\, the unconscious; we will explore this tendency in their work and the ways in which their respective renderings of the feminine influenced the trajectory of feminist theory and politics in the mid and late-20th century. Their conversations with one another\, and treatments of their legacies by Claudia Rankine\, Lisa L. Moore\, Marilyn Hacker and others\, will inform our investigation of poetry as part of feminist theory. How do Rich and Lorde navigate antiracism and intersectionality among allies with different race and class affiliations? How does poetic form contribute to their political practice? Readings will include Diving Into The Wreck\, The Fact of a Doorframe\, Uses of the Erotic\, Sister Outsider\, and the Arts of the Possible\, among others. \n  \nThe Bureau sells copies of \nAdrienne Rich’s Diving Into The Wreck and Arts of the Possible\, \nAudre Lorde’s Sister Outsider\, which includes the essay “Uses of the Erotic\,” \nand other titles by both Lorde and Rich. Please support the Bureau by buying books from us! Thank you! \n  \nCourse Schedule \nJanuary 28\, February 4\, 11\, and 18\, 2020\nTuesdays\, 6:30-9:30pm\n4 sessions\n\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  \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 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/audre-lorde-adrienne-rich/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200124T190000
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SUMMARY:Leather Art Retrospective
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe Leather Art Retrospective has been extended through February 23\, 2020!\n  \nThe brothers of Excelsior M.C. invite you to the opening reception of a gallery style exhibition showcasing some of the most famous artwork and photos taken over the past 45 years held at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division\, in room 210 of The LGBT Community Center. Proceeds benefit New Alternatives for LGBT Homeless Youth. Ticket includes: \n\nEvent access\nComplimentary admission to the Eagle NYC until 11pm\nComplimentary drink ticket to The Cubbyhole\nVariety of random prize drawings\n\n  \n$15 admission \nPurchase tickets here. \n  \nNew Alternatives increases the self-sufficiency of LGBTQ+ homeless youth and young adults by enabling them to transition out of the shelter system to stable adult lives. They do this by providing long-term support\, weekly case management\, education services\, life skills training\, community-building recreational activities\, opportunities for self-expression\, and programs for HIV+ youth. New Alternatives’ guiding principles are those of harm reduction\, youth development\, and empowerment. \n  \nExcelsior M.C.’s Leather Art Retrospective will remain on view at the Bureau from January 24 through February 9\, 2020. \nThe Leather Art Retrospective has been extended through February 23\, 2020!\n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/leather-art-retropective/
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SUMMARY:Discover Queer Jewish Buddhist Kabbalistic Tarot! Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:  \nHow can you use tarot cards to take a 49-day Kabbalistic inner spiritual journey to greater wholeness and spiritual connection? \nMark Horn’s new book\, Tarot and the Gates of Light: A Kabbalistic Path to Liberation\, is your guide to a highly unorthodox way to practice the traditional discipline of Counting the Omer. In this introductory discussion\, you’ll learn how to use tarot cards to explore your inner blocks to free yourself from internalized homophobia\, misogyny and racism. You’ll discover how to use the practice of counting days to gain insight into your personal life journey\, so you can recognize and overcome any issues that hinder your growth and spiritual awakening (and if you count days in a 12-step practice\, this will give you more tools deepen your journey). This will give you a new path for a greater connection to the Source of all life\, no matter what spiritual tradition you practice. \nAlong the way\, you’ll learn about the hidden historic connection between tarot and Kabbalah. We’ll look at how Pamela Colman Smith’s  gender expression and sexuality in her life give us an unexpected way to relate to the images in the Waite-Smith deck. And we’ll look at how spiritual connection can lead to more effective political activism. \n  \nCopies of Tarot and the Gates of Light: A Kabbalistic Path to Liberation 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  \nPhotograph by Rachell Morillo\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nAuthor of Tarot and the Gates of Light\, Mark Horn received his first tarot reading at age 16. He started studying and reading tarot immediately. \nIn 1970\, he became an activist in the post-Stonewall LGBT movement as one of the youngest members of the Gay Liberation Front and the Gay Activist Alliance. He has served as a Peer Counselor and board member of Identity House\, New York’s all volunteer LGBT mental health center. He has also served on the board of NewFest\, New York’s largest LGBT Film Festival He is the editor/writer of the Stonewall Seder liturgy\, a ritual dinner celebrating Jewish Queer Pride\, which has been used and adapted by congregations around the United States\, as well as in Europe and Australia. \nMark has studied Kabbalah with academic\, religious and practical teachers of Kabbalah in organizations ranging from the highly respected to the highly unorthodox. And he has studied tarot with many of today’s leading teachers. He has led classes at tarot conferences and meet-ups. \nHe is available for private instruction and consultation. You can reach him through his website\, GatesOfLightTarot.com \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/discover-queer-jewish-buddhist-kabbalistic-tarot-book-launch/
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SUMMARY:A Night of Poetry with Jasmin Gibson and Sam Corfman
DESCRIPTION:Belladonna* presents a night of poetry with Jasmin Gibson and Sam Corfman. \nJoin Belladonna* at the Bureau for our first reading of 2020. Be there to welcome poets Jasmin Gibson and Sam Corfman\, during a night of poetry and for the launch of two new chaplets on January 17th at 7pm. \n  \nJasmine Gibson is a Philly jawn. She spends her time thinking about sexy things like psychosis\, desire\, and freedom. She is the author of Drapetomania (Commune Editions\, 2015) and Don’t Let Them See Me Like This (Nightboat Books\, 2018). She is a part of the editorial collective Pinko\, magazine for gay communism. \n  \nSam Corfman is a nonbinary poet from Chicago\, living in Pittsburgh. Their first book Luxury\, Blue Lace came out this past March\, chosen by Richard Siken for the Autumn House Rising Writer Prize; it received a starred review from Publishers Weekly\, which called it an “extraordinary debut…a work of rare beauty and thoughtfulness.” They are also the author of the letterpress chapbook\, Meteorites (DoubleCross Press)\, an excerpt from a forthcoming second collection My Daily Actions\, or The Meteorites\, chosen by Cathy Park Hong for the Fordham POL Prize and forthcoming in Fall 2020. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/a-night-of-poetry-with-jasmin-gibson-and-sam-corfman/
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SUMMARY:When Queens Collide: The Theater of the Ridiculous
DESCRIPTION:  \nA Rare and Important Intergenerational Dialogue with the Theater of the Ridiculous: Tony Zanetta (73)\, Agosto Machado (70+?) and August Bernadicou (25). \n  \nThe Theater of the Ridiculous was an early 60s Downtown NYC theater troupe whose impact shaped glam\, rock\, fashion and culture. Over 50 years later\, Tony Zanetta and Agosto Machado are still ridiculous. The last of the radical actors\, catch them while you can. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/when-queens-collide-the-theater-of-the-ridiculous/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200111T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200111T203000
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SUMMARY:"The Son Will Rise In December" with Eddie Pabon
DESCRIPTION: \nMeet Eddie Pabon\, author of The Son Will Rise In December\n \nEddie Pabon has devoted over 15 years implementing\, building\, and sustaining behavioral health programs to diverse populations and communities in NYC. After a lifetime of homelessness\, abandonment and abuse\, Eddie became deeply passionate about connecting with and inspiring others to overcome health disparities\, poor support systems and habitual self-destructive behavior.\n \nAs a peer educator at People of Color In Crisis from 2004-06\, he traveled to the CDC in Atlanta twice to assist in the development of structural change initiatives for youth. Eddie has collaborated with Human Relations Media to produce an educational video for HIV/AIDS prevention hosted by rapper and actor Bow Wow. During this time he sat on the Planning Board for the official NYC Black Pride events.\n \nAs a Public Ally in 2007\, he dedicated 1700 volunteer hours in 10 months for which he received the “Spirit of Diligence in Service Award”. From 2007 – 2015 he worked as a CASAC at Services For The Underserved. There he directly served in multiple substance abuse programs\, managing homeless shelters\, and providing care coordination in correctional settings in collaboration with the Department of Corrections and Department of Health.\n \nEddie noticed a clear correlation between lack of education and support and unhealthy mental and physical health practices in youth causing cyclic traumatic outcomes like incarceration\, disease\, homelessness\, mental illness and early death.\n \nIn 2015 He suffered a traumatic car accident and changed the course of his life by creating LaLecheDelArte.com where he photographs light and love in the moment. In 2018 Eddie became an author releasing “The Son Will Rise in December” a hit memoir he shares to inspire anyone facing significant hardship and trauma. Recently Eddie became a member of the Bronx Borough President’s LGBT Policy Task Force. Additionally he is Chairman of the Board to Public Allies NY supporting the mission to create a just and equitable society and the diverse leadership to sustain it. Currently Eddie provides youth groups\, bookclubs\, and motivational workshops around the world promoting messages of self-empowerment and LOVE.\n \n \n \n \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/the-son-will-rise-in-december-with-eddie-pabon-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200110T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200110T210000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20191223T183108Z
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SUMMARY:The New Masculine: Poetry Reading & Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:A poetry reading and discussion led by Robert Gibbons and Austin Alexis. Open mic for anyone who identifies as masculine or non-binary. \n  \nNew York-based performance poet\, native Floridian\, recent MFA graduate and Cave Canem Fellow Robert Anthony Gibbons takes us on a transcontinental and transformative voyage\, sweeping and spectacular\, across the United States in search of America and self in his recent poetry collection FLIGHT published by Poets Wear Pradain 2019. His critically acclaimed debut collection Close to the Tree was released by Three Rooms Press in 2012. \n  \nAustin Alexis is the author of Privacy Issues\, winner of the 20th Annual Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award\, and also two chapbooks\, both published by Poets Wear Prada: Lovers and Drag Queens (2007) and For Lincoln and Other Poems (2010). His fiction\, poetry\, essays and reviews have appeared in a variety of journals\, including Kansas Quarterly\, Connecticut River Review\, Barrow Street \, The Journal\, The Pedestal Magazine\, The Big Spoon (Ireland)\, Red River Review\, Candelabrum Poetry Magazine (Britain)\, The Arts Cure\, Tuesday Shorts\, Poetry Now\, Lips\, Danse Macabre and others. \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/the-new-masculine-poetry-reading-open-mic/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200109T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200109T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T173354
CREATED:20191025T151935Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191025T152035Z
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SUMMARY:Closing Reception: Queer|Art Karaoke Party
DESCRIPTION:  \nTo close out the 2018-2019 Queer|Art|Mentorship Annual\, we invite you to join us for Queer|Art’s first-ever karaoke “recoupment” party\, hosted by Candystore and Ripley Soprano. Make a donation\, grab the mic\, and ring in the new year with us—all proceeds will be shared among the graduating Fellows to help offset expenses incurred in the process of making their work this year!\n \n \n—\nThis event is part of the 2018-2019 Queer|Art|Mentorship Annual\, curated by current Fellow Jeanne Vaccaro and titled “How do we know what we need you to know: Intimate access and collective care.” The exhibition will present across multiple formats and locations (including The LGBT Community Center\, Bureau of General Services – Queer Division\, Movement Research\, and La MaMa E.T.C.) new work by the graduating Fellows of the 2018-2019 Queer|Art|Mentorship program: J. Bouey\, Candystore\, Daniel Chew\, Xandra Clark\, Sarah Creagen\, Cristóbal Guerra\, Russell Perkins\, Ripley Soprano\, and Natalie Tsui. Learn more at www.queer-art.org/qam-annual\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/closing-reception-queerart-karaoke-party/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200108T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200108T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T173354
CREATED:20191219T180409Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191219T180736Z
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Playing Monogamy by Simon(e) van Saarloos
DESCRIPTION:  \nLove is love\, but not really. To recognize love as love we need comprehensible images. What are those contemporary images that help us identify love and how could we identify love differently\, figuring it as less defined by safety procedures\, measured commitment and feelings of ownership and entitlement? Playing Monogamy refuses to see personal relationships as safe havens where people can hide from the precarities of society\, and instead proposes to make public life more intimate and romantic.\n \nThrough a contemporary rereading of the cult of monogamy\, Van Saarloos playfully queers the way in which the structure of monogamy is upheld through social convention within Western contexts. Written for more of a lay audience\, the book proposes an expanded and polyamorous engagement with intimacy and sexuality as a possible alternative.\n \nAfter a tour through the US and Canada in September\, writer Simon(e) van Saarloos now lands in NYC to launch their book at the Bureau. After an introductory talk\, there will be ample time for a Q&A and an exchange.\n \nCopies of Playing Monogamy 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  \n*\n \n \n“Playing Monogamy pushes for the bolder and deeper challenges to our current systems of family\, relationships and intimacy. The time is right for this book and this argument. Simon(e) van Saarloos’s elegant account of romance\, love and sex outside of the couple form allows us to imagine life beyond the iron grip of monogamy.”\n— Jack Halberstam\, author of Gaga Feminism \n  \n“It is a thrill to live at a time when words and the ideologies that underpin them have re/entered the vernacular. Playing Monogamy puts patriarchy\, capitalism\, and monogamy – long unquestioned pillars of “the way things are” – to the test\, unpacks them and declares them the faulty defaults they are. Simon(e) van Saarloos writes urgently and poignantly for all of us who refuse to play along with those defaults. Playing Monogamy teases out the privilege and the power that underpin assumptions of how intimacy should behave. It tempts and challenges those who have long chafed under them: come out and play!”\n— Mona Eltahawy\, author of The Seven Necessary Sins For Women and Girls  \n  \n“Monogamy and other prevailing models of romantic coupleship will be dethroned as biological ideals\, must be disrupted as norms or we will continue to do harm within their default capitalist framework. We must love more\, own less. Use this book as a deprogramming tool\, use it quick.”\n— Viva Ruiz\, founder of Thank God For Abortion \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nSimon(e) van Saarloos (1990\, Summit\, New Jersey) is a writer\, philosopher and performer living in Amsterdam\, the Netherlands. They published several books in Dutch including Ik deug / deug niet (a collection of columns originally published in the Dutch national news- paper NRC)\, De vrouw die (a novel about a molecular biologist running the NYC marathon in a burqa)\, Enz. Het Wildersproces (a feminist and queer report of the trial against the Dutch right-wing politician Geert Wilders) and Herdenken herdacht\, a non-fiction work about queer forgetfulness\, white erasure and embodied commemoration. Simon(e) also writes and performs theatre and regularly appears on stage as a lecturer and interviewer. Currently\, they are a MA student at the Dutch Art Institute. Their recent artist residencies include the Deltaworkers in New Orleans\, the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience in Delft and at IKSV in Istanbul.\n \nThis book is printed by Publication Studio (founded in Portland\, Oregon\, in 2009) prints and binds books one at a time on-demand\, creating original work with artists and writers we admire. “Working within an international network of eleven sister studios—who together share in the weight of global distribution—we use any means possible to help writers and artists reach a public: physical books\, an online library\, eBooks and unique social events with our writers and artists in many cities.” \n \n \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/playing-monogamy/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191221T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191221T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T173354
CREATED:20191209T190955Z
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SUMMARY:TELL 59: Turn On(s)
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. \nTurn On(s) is the theme of the 59th TELL\, on Saturday\, December 21\, 2019. Featuring stories by Cecilia Gentili\, Diana Oh\, and Nina Ki. \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  \nNina Ki is a Queerean (Queer + Korean) American playwright who uses fantasy and magical realism to give voice to the communities that she belongs to. Originally from California\, she now lives with her partner and three dogs in Brooklyn. She likes her dogs better than most people. \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nDiana Oh (they/she) is a multi-genre performer\, singer\, songwriter\, musician\, actor\, and creator of performance\, installation\, concert-ritual\, and party. An open channel to the art that feels good to their body. A feeder of the soul. A non-conforming free spirit. Passionate about decolonizing & queering processes\, Diana is driven most by pleasure\, mutual care\, and keeping things heart-centered. As a Refinery29 Top LGBTQ Influencer\, the First Queer Korean-American interviewed on Korean Broadcast Radio\, a TOW Fellow (Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre)\, Van Lier Fellow in Acting (Asian American Arts Alliance)\, Venturous Capital Fellow\, Sundance Institute Fellow\, writer with The Public Theater’s Mobile Unit and EWG\, Williamstown Theatre Festival Artist-in-Residence\, Oh tours with their art in unexpected spaces and enjoys not fitting into boxes. Oh is the creator and performer of {my lingerie play} with national underground installations and concert staged in an effort to provide a safer\, more courageous world for women\, queer\, trans\, and non-binary humans to live in\, CLAIRVOYANCE (her yearlong installation and concert series in Harvard Yard\, the Boston Public Library\, Institute of Contemporary Art\, Harvard Arboretum and A.R.T.)\, The Infinite Love Party: an intentional barefoot potluck dinner\, dance party\, and sleepover for QTPOC and Their Allies (Bushwick Starr)\, Asian People Are Not Magicians (mic.com) and My H8 Letter to the Gr8 American Theatre (The Public Theater). TV/FILM: Queering\, How to Be Single\, NY is Dead (Tribeca Film Fest)\, Hey Yun (feat. on Janet Mock)\, Unicornland. The New York Times calls Oh “irreverent\,” her best friend calls her “the punk goddex\,” you can call her “friend.” \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nCecilia Gentili is the founder\, principal and owner of Transgender Equity Consulting.\nOriginally from Argentina\, Cecilia found her passion for advocacy and community service when she started working as an intern at the LGBT Community Center in New York City. She served on the staff of Apicha Community Health Center between 2012 to 2016\, where she managed the Transgender Health Program. She then served as the Director of Policy at GMHC\, the world’s first and leading provider of HIV/AIDS prevention\, care and advocacy. \nCecilia is also contributor to Trans Bodies\, Trans Selves: A Resource for the Transgender Community\, and a board member for Translatina Network. Throughout her career\, Cecilia has trained more than 3\,000 individuals on a range of issues that include LGBTQ inclusion\, immigration\, drug use\, sexual health\, trans sensitivity\, and intersectionality. She has worked with city\, state and federal governments\, non and for profit organizations\, helping organizations bring about lasting and meaningful change. \nFor fun\, she loves performing at storytelling and stand-up comedy events where she talks about her life experiences as a Latina transgender woman. She played the role of Ms. Orlando on the acclaimed television series POSE\, a drama on FX that follows the live of TGNCIQ New Yorkers in the ball room scene of the 1980s. \nCecilia has been a tremendous inspiration to our translatinx members and our TGNCIQ Justice organizing committees. She has helped us elevate the fight to decriminalize the sex trades in New York\, to fight for undocu-trans communities' access to legal representation that is culturally competent\, and to push for essential services in NYC that center Trans\, non-binary\, gender non-conforming and queer communities. \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/tell-59-turnons/
LOCATION:Online event\, New York\, NY\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191219T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191219T210000
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SUMMARY:Sucking Straight Dick and Fighting for Gay Rights
DESCRIPTION: \nA Rare and Very Important Intergenerational Dialogue Between August Bernadicou (25) and Gene Fedorko (77)\n \n \nGENE FEDORKO participated in his first Civil Rights protest in 1963 and was a crucial member of ACT UP. He is a medical professional\, caregiver\, art collector\, curator\, sexual explorer and Downtown fixture.\n \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 200 interviews.\n \n \n \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/sucking-straight-dick-and-fighting-for-gay-rights/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191217T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191217T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T173354
CREATED:20191202T172724Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191202T172803Z
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SUMMARY:Office Hours Fall Showcase Reading
DESCRIPTION:  \nOffice Hours Poetry Fellows from the Fall 2019 cohort will read the innovative poetry they’ve developed over the course of six workshop sessions. The Office Hours free workshop provides post-MFA poets access to continued support for manuscript-development and everyday writing. We welcome all poets\, especially people of color\, LGBTQ+\, and those who are femme-identified. Our name derives from our side hustle. Many of us are freelance\, adjunct instructors\, who continue to thrive in the margins of academia.\n \n \nLaura Cresté is the author of the forthcoming chapbook You Should Feel Bad\, which was selected for a 2019 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship. She holds an MFA in poetry from New York University and a BA from Bennington College. The winner of Breakwater Review’s 2016 Peseroff Prize\, she has published poems in No Tokens Journal\, Tinderbox Poetry Journal\, Powder Keg\, and Bodega. She lives in Brooklyn.\n \n \nSharon Her is a Brooklyn-based writer and filmmaker who comes from a non-profit and community organizing background. A 2001 Jerome Travel and Study Grant recipient and former instructor for the Loft Literary Center and SASE: the write place\, Sharon brings a passion for multi-cultural and social equality programming and storytelling. She is currently a workshop leader with the New York Write’s Coalition and her work has been published in Asian Week\, City Pages\, New York Press\, and the Hmong creative writing anthology\, “Bamboo Among the Oaks” (Minnesota Historical Society Press).\n \n \nSophie Herron received an MFA in poetry from NYU\, where they were a Goldwater Fellow. They work at the 92nd Street Y’s Poetry Center\, live in Brooklyn\, and love their cat. Their poetry can be found in Bodega and Cleaver Magazine.\n \n \nEmily Hockaday is the author of five chapbooks\, including the forthcoming Beach Vocabulary from Red Bird Chaps. Her poems have appeared in a number of journals\, most recently Newtown Literary\, The Maine Review\, and Salt Hill. She is the managing editor of Analog Science Fiction & Fact and Asimov’s Science Fiction\, and she can be found on the web at www.emilyhockaday.com and @E_Hockaday.\n \n \nJen Levitt‘s debut collection is The Off-Season (Four Way Books\, 2016). Her poems have appeared in Tin House\, Boston Review\, The Literary Review\, Sixth Finch\, and elsewhere. She lives in New York City and teaches high school students.\n \n \nPaco Márquez is a poet based out of Manhattan\, author of the chapbook Portraits in G Minor (Folded Word Press\, 2017). He has poems forthcoming in Fence\, and previously published in Apogee\, Ostrich Review\, Live Mag! and Huizache. As Spanish Editor for William O’Daly\, he assisted in translating Pablo Neruda’s initial book\, Crepuscualrio\, for the first time into English as\, Book of Twilight\, (Copper Canyon Press\, 2017). He is currently working with Mexican poet Coral Bracho to translate her work into English. Paco’s work has been supported by The Center for Book Arts\, the New York Foundation for the Arts\, and New York University\, where he acquired an MFA in creative writing and was poetry editor of Washington Square. Originally from León\, México\, Paco has spent most of his life in Sacramento and the San Francisco Bay Area. pacomarquez.net\n \n \nHolly Mitchell is a poet from Kentucky. A winner of the 2017 Amy Award from Poets & Writers and a 2012 Gertrude Claytor Prize from the Academy of American Poets\, she received an MFA in Creative Writing from New York University. Her poems have appeared in several journals including Baltimore Review\, Day One\, Juked\, Narrative Magazine\, and Paperbag. Holly first joined Office Hours in 2017.\n \n \nSarah Sala is a queer poet of Polish-Lebanese descent. Her debut collection\, Devil’s Lake is forthcoming from Tolsun Books June 2020. She is the founder of the free poetry workshop\, Office Hours\, and Assistant Poetry Editor at the Bellevue Literary Review. Her work appears in BOMB\, The Southampton Review\, and The Los Angeles Review. Visit her at sarahsala.com and @sarahmsala. \n  \n \n \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/office-hours-fall-showcase-reading/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191215T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191215T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T173354
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Author Caleb Woods
DESCRIPTION: \nJoin us for an evening with Alabama author Caleb Woods! Caleb will discuss his struggles with mental illness and what it was like to grow up gay in the Bible Belt. He will also read from his book Harnessing Darkness: Expressing Mental Illness Through Poetry. Afterward\, there will be a book signing. Be sure to make plans to attend this event and don’t forget to pick up your copy of this thought-provoking book that dives deep into the raw emotion that someone with mental illness experiences on a daily basis. \n \n \nCaleb Woods began writing at a young age\, first to cope with bullying at school and later to soothe his depressing thoughts. Growing up in the small town of Pisgah\, Alabama\, he was surrounded by religion and found it increasingly difficult to reconcile his faith with his sexual orientation. Caleb was told he would spend an eternity in hell for being gay – and he believed it. He was first officially diagnosed with PTSD in high school after his closest friend died unexpectedly. He moved away to college but ignored his symptoms and didn’t seek help for his mental illness. After years of suffering silently\, he began to accept his sexual orientation and eventually met his now husband\, Luke. Despite a happy marriage\, Caleb continued to suffer with symptoms of PTSD. At their peak\, the night terrors and panic attacks finally drove him to seek professional help. Today\, Caleb receives treatment for PTSD\, panic disorder\, and depression by attending reoccurring therapy sessions. Throughout these years\, Caleb wrote poetry about his specific struggles surrounding mental illness and growing up gay in the Bible Belt. In his debut book\, “Harnessing Darkness: Expressing Mental Illness Through Poetry\,” he reveals his most personal thoughts – some dark\, some light\, some suffering\, some uplifting\, but all existential. Currently\, Caleb lives with his husband in Birmingham\, Alabama. He is a full-time writer\, author\, and poet. \n \n \n \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/an-evening-with-author-caleb-woods/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191214T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191214T190000
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SUMMARY:Raw Meat Collective's Holiday Market
DESCRIPTION:  \nPlease join us Saturday\, December 14th\, 2019 at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division for a full day of wonder and merriment from 1pm – 7pm. Raw Meat Collective has put together a magical crew of independent publishers and artists to help fill those stockings this holiday season. We’ll have tables of great gifts and books for that special someone in your life. Vendor’s featured at the all day event are Anxiety Dreams\, Camilo Godoy\, Irrelevant Press\, Mathew Dean Stewart\, Raw Meat Collective and Zach Grear who will be selling books\, tee’s\, pins\, prints and much more. Help support these terrific artists and makers\, as well as\, New York’s best bookstore by stopping by for Raw Meat Collective’s Holiday Market. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/raw-meat-collectives-holiday-market/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191213T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191213T213000
DTSTAMP:20260403T173354
CREATED:20191121T172814Z
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SUMMARY:Fagnanimous: Kazim Ali\, Wo Chan\, Joey DeJesus\, and Rajiv Mohabir
DESCRIPTION:  \nFour poets unanimously agree that winter needs heat. Kazim Ali\, Wo Chan\, Joey De Jesus\, and Rajiv Mohabir read new work.\n \n \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n \n  \n \nKazim Ali‘s new books include Inquisition (poetry) and Silver Road: Essays\, Maps\, and Calligraphies (cross-genre). \n  \n \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nWo Chan is queer poet and drag performer living in Brooklyn. \n  \n \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nJoey De Jesus edits poetry at Apogee Journal and is a 2017 New York Foundation for the Arts Poetry Fellowship recipient. They live in New York. \n  \n \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nRajiv Mohabir is the author of\, most recently\, The Taxidermist’s Cut\, and the translator of I Even Regret Night: Holi Songs of Demerara\, by Lalbihari Sharma. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/fagnanimous/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191212T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191212T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T173354
CREATED:20191121T163429Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191121T163616Z
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SUMMARY:Book release: Love Around the World
DESCRIPTION:  \nIn 2017\, European artist duo Fleur Pierets and her wife\, Julian Boom\, came up with the idea for a performance art project in which they would get married in every country that had legalized same-sex marriage (22 when they started the project\, now 28) After four countries\, Julian was diagnosed with brain cancer and died approximately six weeks later\, on January 22\, 2018. \n  \nFleur Pierets will be launching the first part of her two-volume children’s book series Love Around the World in which Fleur and Julian fulfill the dream of their beautiful project. They travel to Australia\, Argentina\, Belgium\, Canada\, Finland\, France\, Iceland\, Ireland\, Mexico\, the Netherlands\, Portugal\, and the United States\, learning the fascinating traditions and customs and peculiarities surrounding marriage in each country. \n  \nShe will be talking about the work she and her wife Julian did as an LGBTQ artist couple\, about their magazine Et Alors?\, and the start of the wedding performance piece. Fleur talks about the importance of “completing” 22 through a children’s book and the need to keep on working as a human rights advocate by launching bridge-building projects.\n \n \nCopies of Love Around the World 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  \nFleur Pierets is an award-winning Belgian artist and LGBTQ+ activist whose work combines photography and performance with theory and writing in a research-based practice that questions the construction and mainstream understanding of queer identity. She is the founding editor of Et Alors?\, an online magazine devoted to LGBTQ+ politics\, fashion\, identity\, and other issues. Her book Julian has just been published by Dutch publisher Das Mag\, and the first volume of the children’s book Love Around the World is published at 6ft. Press – US.\n \n  \n \n  \n \n  \n \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/book-release-love-around-the-world/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191210T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191210T213000
DTSTAMP:20260403T173354
CREATED:20191007T165420Z
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SUMMARY:Feminism and Psychoanalysis
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe Bureau is excited to partner again with the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research to bring you:\n \nFeminism and Psychoanalysis\n \nInstructor: Paige Sweet\n \n \nSigmund Freud famously described femininity as a “riddle” and “dark continent.” Yet\, the psychoanalytic theories Freud generated\, particularly his conception of how the unconscious influences the development of the self\, has proved crucial to many feminist accounts of gender and sexuality. Paradoxically\, it’s precisely because Freud did not know what a woman is that he felt compelled to discover how she becomes one. In other words\, feminists have found in Freud a vocabulary for conceptualizing and articulating ways in which gender and sexuality are not natural—that is\, not based on any pre-existing biological\, anatomical\, or psychic material.\n \nIn this course we will explore the intersection of feminism and psychoanalysis in order to understand the network of relations between sexuality and the unconscious\, gender and the body\, “feminine” experience and feminist politics\, unconscious dynamic and social structures. Reading works by Sigmund Freud\, Jacques Lacan\, Judith Butler\, Luce Irigaray\, Julia Kristeva\, Hélène Cixous\, and others\, we will ask: How does psychoanalysis theorize sexual difference in a way useful for feminist politics? Do theories of hysteria have any viability for feminist politics? Is there political potential in writing or thinking from the (“female”) body? If there is a “masculine” logic that has repressed a “feminine voice\,” how might we go about hearing differently in order to listen to that voice? How might the poetic or experimental text be recruited for a psychoanalytically inflected feminism? What are the limitations of these theories of gender and sexuality; that is\, what experiences might they occlude? \n  \nCourse Schedule\n \nTuesday\, 6:30-9:30pm\nNovember 12 — December 10\, 2019\n4 sessions over 5 weeks\nClass will not meet Tuesday\, November 26th.\n \n$315.00*\n \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  \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  \nImage: \nLouise Bourgeois\nLe Lit Gros Édredon (with lips)\n1997\nVersion 3 of 3\, state XI of XI\nEtching\, aquatint\, drypoint\, engraving\, and roulette\nPlate: 50 x 67.8 cm; sheet: 63.6 x 80 cm \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/feminism-and-psychoanalysis-4/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191208T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191208T143000
DTSTAMP:20260403T173354
CREATED:20191122T182544Z
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SUMMARY:Office Hours Presents: Craft Class & Reading with Jericho Brown
DESCRIPTION:  \nOffice Hours Presents: a FREE craft class and reading with author Jericho Brown.  \nFeatured readers include: Catherine Chen\, Bernard Ferguson\, and Jameson Fitzpatrick! \nThe craft class takes place from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM. \nA public reading will follow from 1:30 PM-2:30 PM. \nSpaces for the craft class are limited to 17 persons so please RSVP in advance to sarahmariesala@gmail.com and include your full name\, relationship to writing\, and a brief bio. \n  \nOffice Hours Poetry Workshop provides post-MFA poets access to continued support for manuscript-development and everyday writing. The workshop culminates in a public reading each fall and spring to showcase sizzling new work. We welcome all poets\, especially people of color\, LGBTQ+\, and those who are woman-identified. Our name derives from our side hustle. Many of us are freelance\, adjunct instructors\, who continue to thrive in the margins of academia. \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nJericho Brown is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation\, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard\, and the National Endowment for the Arts\, and he is the winner of the Whiting Writer’s Award. Brown’s first book\, Please (New Issues 2008)\, won the American Book Award. His second book\, The New Testament (Copper Canyon 2014)\, won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. His third collection is The Tradition (Copper Canyon 2019). His poems have appeared in The Bennington Review\, Buzzfeed\, Fence\, jubilat\, The New Republic\, The New York Times\, The New Yorker\, The Paris Review\, TIME magazine\, and several volumes of The Best American Poetry. He is an associate professor and the director of the Creative Writing Program at Emory University. \n  \n  \nCatherine Chen is a poet\, performer\, and author of the chapbook Manifesto\, or: Hysteria (Big Lucks). Their writing has appeared in Slate\, The Rumpus\, Apogee\, Anomaly\, and Nat. Brut\, among others. A recipient of fellowships from Poets House\, Lambda Literary\, and Sundress Academy for the Arts\, they’re currently working on a libretto. \n  \n  \nBernard Ferguson (he/him) is a Bahamian poet\, essayist\, and MFA candidate at NYU. He’s the winner of the 2019 Hurston/Wright College Writers Award and a winner of the 2019 92Y Discovery Contest. He has work published or forthcoming in The New Yorker\, The Paris Review\, The Southampton Review\, Winter Tangerine\, and the Best New Poets 2017 anthology\, among others. He wants you to riot about the climate crisis. He hopes you tell him about your wonder. \n  \nJameson Fitzpatrick is the author of Pricks in the Tapestry (Birds\, LLC\, 2020). His chapbooks are Mr. & (Indolent Books\, 2018) and Morrisroe: Erasures (89plus/LUMA Publications\, 2014). He teaches at New York University. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/office-hours-presents-craft-class-reading-with-jericho-brown/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191206T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191206T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T173354
CREATED:20191018T155357Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191018T155357Z
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SUMMARY:Two Jewish Dykes Read Poetry and Prose
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe writing of both Amy Hoffman and Robin Becker is motivated and influenced by their queer\, Jewish identities. Colleagues and friends for decades\, they will talk about their writing and influences and read from recent work. \n  \nCopies of Hoffman‘s The Off Season and Becker‘s The Black Bear Inside Me 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  \nIn addition to her novel\, The Off Season\, Amy Hoffman is the author of the memoirs Lies About My Family; An Army of Ex-Lovers: My Life at the Gay Community News; and Hospital Time. She was editor in chief of Women’s Review of Books for fourteen years and currently teaches creative writing at Emerson College and in the Solstice Low-Residency MFA Program. \n  \nRobin Becker is the author of eight collections of poetry\, most recently\, The Black Bear Inside Me. She recently retired as Liberal Arts Research Professor of English and Women’s Studies at Penn State. The Penn State Laureate in 2010-2011\, Becker is the recipient of many awards\, including a Bunting Fellowship\, Massachusetts Artists’ Foundation grant\, and a Lambda Literary Award. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/two-jewish-dykes-read-poetry-and-prose/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191205T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191205T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T173354
CREATED:20191106T213935Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191106T215259Z
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SUMMARY:All That Heaven Allows: A Tribute to Rock Hudson
DESCRIPTION: \nJoin us as we pay tribute to one of Hollywood’s most iconic stars – screen legend Rock Hudson. Mark Griffin\, author of All That Heaven Allows: A Biography of Rock Hudson and Steve Hayes\, host of “Tired Old Queen at The Movies” will examine the life and career of the Oscar-nominated leading man. Following a reading by the author\, Griffin and Hayes will discuss Hudson’s nearly forty year career\, which encompassed film (“Giant\,” “Pillow Talk”)\, television (“McMillan & Wife\,” “Dynasty”) and theatre (“Camelot\,” “On The Twentieth Century”). In the spirit of the season\, we’ll be raffling off some fabulous Rock-related prizes. Copies of All That Heaven Allows: A Biography of Rock Hudson will be available for signing. The Bureau is ready to Rock!\n \n \nCopies of the paperback of All That Heaven Allows: A Biography of Rock Hudson ($17.99\, released 12/3/19) 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 \n \nMark Griffin is the author of “All That Heaven Allows: A Biography of Rock Hudson” (HarperCollins) and “A Hundred or More Hidden Things: The Life and Films of Vincente Minnelli” (Da Capo Press).\n \n \n \nFilm historian Steve Hayes hosts the long running YouTube series “Tired Old Queen at The Movies.” As an actor\, Steve has appeared in scores of theatre productions and he had a memorable role in the film “Trick\,” the classic boy-meets-boy comedy\, which recently celebrated its 20th anniversary.\n \n \n \n \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/all-that-heaven-allows-a-tribute-to-rock-hudson/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191204T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191204T213000
DTSTAMP:20260403T173354
CREATED:20191125T171541Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191125T171710Z
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SUMMARY:OLNY Poly Movie Night: The Wedding Banquet
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.\n  \nOn December 4th please join us for a viewing of The Wedding Banquet (1993)\, directed by Ang Lee.\n  \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.\n  \nSynopsis: Although Wei-Tung has been happily living with his boyfriend Simon for many years\, he has not come out to his traditional Taiwanese parents\, who are anxious for him to marry a woman. Simon suggests a marriage of convenience with a woman who needs a green card. Running time: 1 hour 46 minutes\, in English and Mandarin. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/olny-poly-movie-night-wedding-banquet/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191203T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191203T213000
DTSTAMP:20260403T173354
CREATED:20191007T165401Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191007T165401Z
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SUMMARY:Feminism and Psychoanalysis
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe Bureau is excited to partner again with the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research to bring you:\n \nFeminism and Psychoanalysis\n \nInstructor: Paige Sweet\n \n \nSigmund Freud famously described femininity as a “riddle” and “dark continent.” Yet\, the psychoanalytic theories Freud generated\, particularly his conception of how the unconscious influences the development of the self\, has proved crucial to many feminist accounts of gender and sexuality. Paradoxically\, it’s precisely because Freud did not know what a woman is that he felt compelled to discover how she becomes one. In other words\, feminists have found in Freud a vocabulary for conceptualizing and articulating ways in which gender and sexuality are not natural—that is\, not based on any pre-existing biological\, anatomical\, or psychic material.\n \nIn this course we will explore the intersection of feminism and psychoanalysis in order to understand the network of relations between sexuality and the unconscious\, gender and the body\, “feminine” experience and feminist politics\, unconscious dynamic and social structures. Reading works by Sigmund Freud\, Jacques Lacan\, Judith Butler\, Luce Irigaray\, Julia Kristeva\, Hélène Cixous\, and others\, we will ask: How does psychoanalysis theorize sexual difference in a way useful for feminist politics? Do theories of hysteria have any viability for feminist politics? Is there political potential in writing or thinking from the (“female”) body? If there is a “masculine” logic that has repressed a “feminine voice\,” how might we go about hearing differently in order to listen to that voice? How might the poetic or experimental text be recruited for a psychoanalytically inflected feminism? What are the limitations of these theories of gender and sexuality; that is\, what experiences might they occlude? \n  \nCourse Schedule\n \nTuesday\, 6:30-9:30pm\nNovember 12 — December 10\, 2019\n4 sessions over 5 weeks\nClass will not meet Tuesday\, November 26th.\n \n$315.00*\n \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  \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  \nImage: \nLouise Bourgeois\nLe Lit Gros Édredon (with lips)\n1997\nVersion 3 of 3\, state XI of XI\nEtching\, aquatint\, drypoint\, engraving\, and roulette\nPlate: 50 x 67.8 cm; sheet: 63.6 x 80 cm \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/feminism-and-psychoanalysis-3/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191201T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191201T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T173354
CREATED:20191118T183436Z
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SUMMARY:A World AIDS Day Reading: Crashing Cathedrals: Edmund White by the Book
DESCRIPTION:  \nFeaturing a special reading from Edmund White! \n \nCrashing Cathedrals: Edmund White by the Book celebrates the work of one our most iconic writers\, with essays commemorating his entire oeuvre. On this day of remembrance and activism\, we focus on Edmund White’s seminal work centered on the crisis\, with readings from Michael Carroll sharing an excerpt from White’s impactful fiction\, Lynne Tillman on The Farewell Symphony\, Philip Clark on Loss Within Loss: Artists in the Age of AIDS\, with Sarah Schulman reading from her Loss Within Loss essay “Through the Looking Glass\,” and Brad Gooch will read from his Loss Within Loss essay.\n \nCrashing Cathedrals editor Tom Cardamone will provide an introductory word about this collection and event.\n \nEdmund White will close out the day with a reading from his work.\n \nCopies of Crashing Cathedrals and Loss Within Loss are available for purchase at the Bureau. To reserve a copy please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com. We also have many other titles by Edmund White and by the other readers at this event. Please support the Bureau by buying books from us. Thank you!\n \nMichael Carroll has been married to Edmund White since 2013. He is the author of Little Reef and Other Stories and Stella Maris: Key West Stories.\n \nLynne Tillman‘s latest novel is Men and Apparitions (Soft Skull Press 2018). A book of her selected stories will appear in 2021.\n \nPhilip Clark is co-editor of the anthology Persistent Voices: Poetry by Writers Lost to AIDS and of In the Empire of the Air: The Poems of Donald Britton (Nightboat\, 2016).\n \nSarah Schulman is the author of 17 books\, as well as plays and film. Her interview with Edmund was reprinted in her book The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination.\n \nBrad Gooch is the best-selling author of City Poet\, Flannery\, which was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle award\, Rumi’s Secret\, and the memoir Smash Cut. He is currently writing a biography of Keith Haring.\n \nTom Cardamone is the author of the LAMBDA-Award winning novella Green Thumb\, among other works\, and edited The Lost Library: Gay Fiction Rediscovered.\n \nEdmund White\, recent recipient of an honorary National Book Award\, is the author of the literary classics A Boy’s Own Story and Genet: A Biography. His latest novel\, A Saint from Texas\, is due summer 2020.\n \n \n \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/crashing-cathedrals/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191130T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191130T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T173354
CREATED:20191114T162231Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191114T162231Z
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SUMMARY:Pink Saturday at the Bureau
DESCRIPTION:  \nJoin NY Queer Zine Fair as we spend Small Business Saturday with the Bureau for Pink Saturday! This is your chance to snag some awesome work by queer zinesters from outside of NYC if you missed the Zine Fair. We will be selling zines by queer zinesters from all over the US and all over the world including LowdownDirtyrotten\, Jack Oliver Coles\, Sleeping Creatures\, Camilo Godoy\, Unity Press\, Rachel and Megan\, Marco Agosta\, Wendy’s subway\, BearWithLee\, Kiss & Tell / Michael Wynne\, Editorial Amistad and more. Come early for the best selection – these zines will be going fast! Event will run normal Bureau hours from 1-7. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/pink-saturday-at-the-bureau/
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