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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191124T180000
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SUMMARY:CopWatch Training
DESCRIPTION:  \nCopWatch is an effective and legal tool for empowering communities\, ending police misconduct\, unprofessional behavior\, and discrimination. You have the right to observe and record all police activities in public places. Learn how to exercise your rights safely and legally. Workshop will be taught by comedian and activist Elsa Waithe. Suggested donation of $5 to $10 to benefit the Bureau\, but no one will be turned away. \n \n“What to do if you’re stopped by the police” / “Qué Hacer Si Te Para La Policía” a handy guide from the New York Civil Liberties Union. Print it out. Share it widely. Keep it with you. And you can find other “know your rights” cards in English and Spanish. \nAt the bottom of this page you will find Immigrants’ rights pdfs in English\, Spanish\, Korean\, Nepali\, Portuguese\, Tamil\, Thai\, Vietnamese\, Simplified Chinese\, and Traditional Chinese. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/copwatch-training-5/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191123T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191123T203000
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SUMMARY:Queering Black Atlantic Religions: Book Presentation and Celebration
DESCRIPTION:  \nJoin us for a presentation and celebration of Queering Black Atlantic Religions: Transcorporeality in Candomblé\, Santería and Vodou\, with author Roberto Strongman. \n  \nThis presentation establishes Transcorporeality as the distinct Afro-Diasporic cultural representation of the human psyche as multiple\, removable and external to a body that functions as its receptacle. This unique view of the body\, preserved in its most evident form in African religious traditions on both sides of the Atlantic\, allows the regendering of the bodies of initiates who are mounted and ridden by deities of a gender different than their own during the ritual ecstasy of trance possession. Through discussions of novels\, paintings\, films and interviews\, the presentation assembles and interprets a representative collection of such transcendental moments in which the commingling of the human and the divine produces subjectivities whose genders are unconstrained by biological sex due to the flexibility that this non-Cartesian corporeal model affords. \n \n  \nCopies of Queering Black Atlantic Religions (Duke UP\, 2019\, $25.95) 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   \nRoberto Strongman is an Associate Professor in the Department of Black Studies at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. \n \n \n \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/queering-black-atlantic-religions/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191122T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191122T203000
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SUMMARY:Linda Whalen Quinlan & Vittoria Repetto Read at the Bureau
DESCRIPTION: \nJoin us for an evening of poetry with Linda Whalen Quinlan and Vittoria Repetto!\n \nLinda Whalen Quinlan will read from her poetry book\, Chelsea Creek\, which won the Wicked Woman Poetry Competition.\n \nLong-time LGBTQ activist and poet\, Quinlan grew up the daughter of union parents\, a factory worker\, and a carpenter. As the lesbian mother of two sons\, Quinlan explores issues of gender and motherhood while also observing the particularities of the past and present cultural landscape.\n \n“Linda Whalen Quinlan renders the rough terrain of working-class New England with a lush beauty that pulls no punches\, letting the brute hardness of a place and its people coexist with longing and love\, finding the tenderness hiding inside tragedy\,” PEN Award winner Michelle Tea said of Quinlan’s work. “I love these poems.” \n \n  \nVittoria Repetto will read from her first poetry book Not Just A Personal Ad and from her second book My Fingers Wonder\, which is not yet published.\n \nHer poetry paints unforgettable moments within unforgettable scenes and casts an unapologetically direct and witty eye on life’s complexity.\n \nPoet and reviewer Rigoberto Gonzalez wrote in the Lambda Book Report about Vittoria Repetto’s first full length poetry book Not Just A Personal Ad : “Poems of intense sensibility and gorgeous imagery are a rarity these days; but this book of verse by a distinctly working class\, distinctly lesbian\, and distinctly Italian American voice is a must for all readers of good poetry.”\n \nVittoria Repetto hosted the Women’s/Trans’ Poetry Jam at Bluestockings Bookstore from 1999 until 2018. \n  \n \n \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/linda-whalen-quinlan-vittoria-repetto-read-at-the-bureau/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191121T183000
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SUMMARY:HUNG With Care: A Spectacular Queer Burlesque Meet & Greet
DESCRIPTION:  \nHUNG With Care – Big Gay Hudson Valley’s Queer Burlesque Spectacular is coming to Brooklyn’s 3 Dollar Bill on December 6th & 7th!\n \nOn November 21st at the Bureau you’ll have an opportunity to purchase your tickets AND get a special bonus! Yes\, only those who purchase their tickets on the 21st at the Bureau will receive a free 11 x 17 limited edition print ($15 Value) of the HUNG With Care cast as illustrated by Queer Illustrator @TerryBlas.\n \nJoining the fun will be HUNG With Care emcee Shelly Watson and cast member Go Go Gadget and HUNG With Care Producer\, Stephan Hengst.\n \nDon’t miss a teaser performance by Shelly Watson at 6:30!\n \nSo come on by grab your tickets\, pick-up your limited edition print\, and grab a hung and a photo with Shelly & Gadget on Nov 21st at the Bureau! \n \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/hung-with-care-a-spectacular-queer-burlesque-meet-greet/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191120T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191120T210000
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SUMMARY:Another Queer Reading
DESCRIPTION:  \nJoin us for an evening of poetry featuring readers Aldrin Valdez\, Cristóbal Guerra\, Demian DinéYazhi´\, and Nicole Wallace. \n  \nFlyer design: Sara Rabin @ssarabin \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  \nCristóbal Guerra is an interdisciplinary artist  from Puerto Rico currently based in New York. His/their  work currently combines experimental video \, documentary form and text to explore ideas of home\, “el caribe” and queerness. \n  \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nAldrin Valdez is a baklâ writer & visual artist. Their book ESL or You Weren’t Here (Nightboat Books) was a 2019 finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Best Gay Poetry. They were awarded a Brown & Weary Residency and fellowships from Tumblr@3AM\, Mangos & Monsoons—Again\, Children of Overseas Filipino Workers\, and Navient. \n  \n  \nPhoto by Kali Spitzer\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nDemian DinéYazhi´ is a transdisciplinary Indigenous Diné nádleehi´ artist\, poet\, and curator. In 2018 they self-published two books of poetry\, ANCESTRAL MEMORY: poems 2009-2016\, and AN INFECTED SUNSET. Demian’s stance as a self-publishing poet is a political statement of maintaining autonomy without the jurisdiction or approval from Western-trained editors\, publishers\, or critics. Demian also publishes zines and publications through R.I.S.E.: Radical Indigenous Survivance & Empowerment. Follow Demian @heterogenenoushomosexual + @RISEindigenous \n  \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nNicole Wallace is the author of WAASAMOWIN (IMP\, October 2019) and was a 2019 Poets House Emerging Poets Fellow. She is the Managing Director of The Poetry Project and a member of the Indigenous Kinship Collective. Recent work can be read in print in Survivance: Indigenous Poesis Vol. IV Zine and online at A Gathering of The Tribes\, LitHub\, and A Perfect Vacuum (forthcoming). Originally from Gakaabikaang\, located in what is currently called Minnesota\, she is of settler/European ancestry and a descendent of the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa (Ojibwe). \n  \n  \n  \n 
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191119T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191119T213000
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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 
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191116T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191116T210000
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SUMMARY:TELL 58: Destruction
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. \nDestruction is the theme of the 58th TELL\, on Saturday\, November 16\, 2019. Featuring stories by Rachel Garbus\, Laura Jayne Martin\, and Early Riser. \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  \n  \nRachel Garbus is a writer\, performer\, and oral-history maker. She writes cultural criticism\, forays into queer history\, and the odd satire when the mood strikes. You can find her around town playing with Thank You For Coming Out\, the queer improv and storytelling show\, and sharing quasi-reasonable opinions on various podcasts. Hopeless with plants\, but ever hopeful for botanical redemption\, she lives in a raucous Brooklyn brownstone with her many roommates\, dogs\, and an absolutely superlative cat. \n  \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nLaura Jayne Martin has performed at How I Learned\, Tell Your Friends\, Powerhouse Arena\, and elsewhere. She wrote one book and contributed to another—both of them are meant to be funny. She’s writing another one now. Her mom thinks it’s “just okay.” She has also written for McSweeneys\, The Village Voice\, Cosmo\, Esquire\, The Toast\, and others. She tweets @laurajaynemart\, but she gets all of her news from actual birds. \n  \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nEarly riser is a NYC based artist best known for her unique\, stylized public and street art. Working predominantly with vibrant colors her subjects range from animals to people\, each portraying a complex inner emotionality. She is a New York native and holds a degree in fine art printing and illustration. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/tell-58-destruction/
LOCATION:Online event\, New York\, NY\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191115T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191115T210000
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SUMMARY:QT SHORTS: an evening of queer & trans short films to benefit KIND OF a new #t4t short film
DESCRIPTION:  \nJoin us for an evening celebrating the work of local queer and trans filmmakers to benefit KIND OF\, a new queer & trans short film. \nQT SHORTS is a fundraiser and curated screening shining a spotlight on recent work by filmmakers Matthew Puccini\, Natalie Tsui\, Morgan Sullivan\, Brit Fryer\, & Nona Schamus. This is a chance to see short films by emerging filmmakers from our local queer community AND support the creation of a new QT short film project. \nBefore and after the screening\, guests will have the opportunity to mingle with friends and filmmakers over drinks\, and enter a raffle for some choice prizes related to the themes in KIND OF. \nAll proceeds from the event will benefit the production of KIND OF\, a new queer & trans short film directed by Nona Schamus set to shoot in January 2020. \nSuggested donation: $10-20 (sliding scale\, no one turned away for lack of funds) \nAbout KIND OF\nKIND OF is a new short film written by director/editor Nona Schamus and their partner\, Arno Mokros. The film tells the story of a trans couple who have recently become non-monogamous as they navigate a new\, and tense\, moment in their relationship. It’s a trans dramedy about love when your partner knows you better than you know yourself. \nYou can learn more and support the project at www.kindofthefilm.com. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/qt-shorts/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191114T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191114T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T160751
CREATED:20191103T231050Z
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SUMMARY:Recklass @The Bureau- light\, laughter & love... oh\, and food!
DESCRIPTION: \nJoin noted author and poet Anna Dunn as they dive into a Recklass Conversation with author Scottie Jeanette Madden\, (Getting Back To Me – from girl to boy to woman in just fifty years) about her new book Recklass in The Kitchen – a year of light\, laughter & love… oh\, and food! The conversation will get into cooking from the heart while living life with all of it’s strange and wonderful and sometimes heart breaking complexities as Mrs. Madden shares an intimate look into the last year of a 32-year love story & queer marriage. It’s an inspiring rollercoaster of an evening that includes a Q&A\, reception\, and book signing with author Scottie Jeannette. You won’t want to miss this one.\n  \nCopies of Recklass in the Kitchen 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  \nScottie Jeanette\, born Scott James\, didn’t make it easy on herself. Like many late-stage trans women\, Scottie had created one helluva guy. Everything in her life screamed “Alpha Male.” With over 30 years in television production\, no one knew that Scottie\, a top survival showrunner who lead über-male productions into the world’s most dangerous spots\, was engaged in a lifelong battle for her soul. despite rising through the ranks of production to become writer\, director and showrunner AND a marriage of 26 years. She put all of this on the line when she wrote “Getting Back To Me” from girl to boy to woman in just fifty years. She left behind “male privilege” to embrace truth\, grace and womanhood. Her gut-wrenching journey of love\, acceptance and honesty was the ultimate survival show. Scottie is an advocate\, activist and educator and currently serves on the DTLA Proud advisory board and the Trans*Panel Trust for Kaiser Permanente Transgender Health Initiative. and Her TED Talk “What would my Father Say?” is being used by counselors and therapists for those suffering from Gender Dysphoria and their families. \n \n  \nAnna Dunn is a freelance editor\, as well as a food and crime fiction writer. She was born in Western Massachusetts and greatly appreciates Bruce Springsteen\, rescue pups\, mezcal\, and Murder She Wrote. Early on her mother threw the television out when Anna let it slip that she aspired to be Magnum P.I. when she grew up. Ever since Anna has lead a successful career in cracking crimes of the imagination. She is the co-author of two cookbooks\, Dinner at the Long Table and Saltie: A cookbook as well as Editor In Chief of Diner Journal\, an independent food\, art and literature magazine which she has edited since its inception in 2006. Most nights you can find her mixing cocktails at Roman’s in Fort Greene\, Brooklyn or tucked away above Marlow & Sons\, collecting recipes and art work for a forthcoming issue. For at least twenty minutes every day she is hard at work on her first crime fiction novel and/or concentrating on her breathing.\n \n \n \n \n \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/recklass-at-the-bureau/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191113T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191113T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T160751
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SUMMARY:Queering China: a Mental Health Perspective
DESCRIPTION:  \nQ-Wave is excited to host Ying Xin (Iron)\, Executive Director of the Beijing LGBT Center in an evening of learning and conversation. This event is co-sponsored by GAPIMNY\, API Rainbow Parents\, and Chinese Rainbow Network. \nEstablished in 2008\, the Beijing LGBT Center has focused on advancing the rights of gay\, lesbian\, bisexual\, and transgender people nation-wide. It was one of the first China-based organizations to recognize the importance of mental health among the LGBTQ population. LGBTQ people in China are at 3x the risk of developing depression as the rest of the Chinese population and approximately 5% of LGBTQ people are “completely out” (i.e. out to family\, friends\, work). The Beijing LGBT Center has established a LGBTQ-friendly therapist network and runs a hotline dedicated to transgender individuals. \nStarting as a grassroots campus organizer\, Ying has worked with many LGBTQ groups\, at home and abroad. She will first share how it’s like to live as an LGBTQ person in China. She will then introduce the Center’s research on the Chinese LGBTQ mental health situation and how they are raising awareness and supporting members of this community. She will also speak about the Center’s strategy against gay conversion therapy in China. \nThere will also be time for a Q&A section. All are welcome! \nNote: The event will be held in English \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nYing Xin is the executive director of the Beijing LGBT Center. Currently\, she is doing a visiting scholarship program at Columbia University. Since 2009\, she has been actively campaigning for LGBT rights. At the Beijing LGBT Center\, Ying has led advocacy and awareness campaigns against conversion therapy for LGBT persons and for the removal of homosexuality from the CCMD-3 ( Chinese Classification of Mental Disorder). Ying also co-curated the China Women’s Film Festival and co-founded Wuhan Rainbow\, a community-based LGBT organization. Ying was an initiator of the National Survey on Discrimination based on Sexual Orientation\, Gender Identity and Gender Expression in China\, which was conducted in partnership with the United Nations Development Program and Peking University. She also initiated the first National Survey on Living situation of transgender people in China. She holds a bachelor degree and master degree in public administration from Zhongnan University of Economics and Law\, and a bachelor degree in Japanese from Huazhong University of Science and Technology. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/queering-china-a-mental-health-perspective/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191112T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191112T213000
DTSTAMP:20260403T160751
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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/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191110T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191110T173000
DTSTAMP:20260403T160751
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SUMMARY:Four Way Books & Friends Poetry Reading
DESCRIPTION:  \nJoin us for a fabulous fall afternoon/evening of poetry featuring readings by Four Way Books authors Julia Guez (In an Invisible Glass Case Which Is Also a Frame)\, Sam Ross (Company) and friends Jerome Murphy\, Eva Saavedra\, and Jimin Seo. \n \nCopies of Julia Guez‘s In an Invisible Glass Case Which Is Also a Frame and Sam Ross‘s Company 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 \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  \nJulia Guez is the author of In an Invisible Glass Case Which Is Also a Frame (Four Way Books). Her poetry\, essays\, interviews and translations have appeared in Poetry\, the Guardian\, PEN Poetry Series\, the Kenyon Review\, BOMB and the Brooklyn Rail. She has been awarded the Discovery/Boston Review Poetry Prize\, a Fulbright Fellowship and the John Frederick Nims Memorial Prize in Translation. Guez holds degrees from Rice and Columbia. For the last decade\, she has worked with Teach For America; she’s currently a senior managing director of program implementation there. She also teaches creative writing at Rutgers and writes poetry reviews for Publishers Weekly. Guez lives in Brooklyn and online at www.juliaguez.net.\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  \nSam Ross is the author of Company (Four Way Books) selected by Carl Philips for the Levis Prize in Poetry. He has received fellowships and support from Columbia University\, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference\, the Watermill Center\, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. His work has appeared in the Denver Quarterly\, New Republic\, Tin House\, and elsewhere. He grew up in Indiana and lives in New York City. \n \n  \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n  \nJerome Ellison Murphy earned his MFA from the Creative Writing Program at New York University\, where he currently serves as Undergraduate Programs Manager. His critical writing has appeared in LA Review of Books\, Publishers Weekly\, Poets & Writers\, The Adroit Journal\, The Brooklyn Rail\, Lambda Literary\, American Poets and is forthcoming in The Yale Review. His poetry appears at LitHub\, Narrative Magazine\, The Awl\, Bellevue Literary Review\, Spunk Arts Journal\, Pleiades\, and was recorded for NPR as part of the Emotive Fruition performance series. His work most frequently appears on the ceiling as you lie awake at 4 a.m. He is also a board member of Emotive Fruition\, and has served on the board of Lambda Literary Foundation\, the world’s foremost non-profit supporting LGBT literature. \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  \nEva Maria Saavedra was born and raised in New Jersey and now resides in Brooklyn\, NY. She received a BA from SUNY Purchase and an MFA in writing and translation from Columbia’s School of the Arts. Her chapbook\, Thirst\, was selected by Marilyn Hacker for the Poetry Society of America’s 2014 New York Chapbook Fellowship. Her poetry has appeared in Callaloo\, Catch-Up\, The Acentos Review\, Generations\, Prick of the Spindle\, and Apogee Journal. \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 \nJimin Seo lives in Queens. He teaches at CUNY Baruch. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/four-way-books-friends-poetry-reading/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191109T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191109T210000
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SUMMARY:New York Voices of Humor & Danger
DESCRIPTION:  \nHumorist Fay Jacobs and crime fiction author Ann Aptaker bring the distinctive New York language\, sound\, humor and danger to their award winning Lesbian literature. Join them for an evening of laughs and dark streets. \n  \nCopies of both authors’ most recent 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  \nNative New Yorker Fay Jacobs\, and an Advocate Magazine 2019 Champion of Pride\, has had a career in journalism\, public relations and theater. Her one-woman comedy show\, “Aging Gracelessly:50 Shades of Fay\,” has played to sell-out crowds across the country\, including New York’s Duplex Cabaret and aboard an Olivia cruise. She is the author of five books of humor: “As I Lay Frying\,” “Fried & True\,” “For Frying Out Loud\,” “Time Fries-Aging Gracelessly in Rehoboth Beach\,” and her latest\, “Fried & Convicted-Rehoboth Beach Uncorked.” Her books and humorous essays have won numerous awards\, including the 2008 National Federation of Press Women Book of the Year for humor. As a journalist\, Fay has written for The Washington Post\, Baltimore Sun\, The Advocate\, The Philadelphia Gay News\, The Washington Blade\, curve magazine\, Delaware Beach Life and more. \n  \n  \nLammy and Goldie winner\, native New Yorker Ann Aptaker’s first book\, “Criminal Gold\,” was a Golden Crown Literary Society’s Goldie Award finalist. Her next book\, “Tarnished Gold” (Book Two in the Cantor Gold Crime Series)\, was honored with a Lambda Literary Award and a Goldie Award\, the only mystery novel to win both awards for the same book. The third book in the series\, “Genuine Gold\,” won the 2018 Goldie Award. Book four\, “Flesh and Gold\,” is the newest book in the ongoing series. Ann’s short stories have appeared in two editions of the crime anthology Fedora\, Switchblade Magazine’s Stiletto Heeled issue\, and will be featured in the Mickey Finn crime anthology\, releasing in 2020. She is one of six writers invited to provide a novella for Down & Out Books’ 2020 crime series. Her flash fiction\, “A Night In Town\,” appeared in the online zine Punk Soul Poet\, and another flash fiction is featured in the Goldie winning anthology “Happy Hours: Our Lives in Gay Bars.” Ann is an art writer for various New York clients\, and is an adjunct professor of art and art history at the New York Institute of Technology. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/new-york-voices-of-humor-danger/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191108T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191108T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T160751
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SUMMARY:Blood Box: A Book Launch and Reading
DESCRIPTION:  \nJoin host Jesse Rice-Evans and readers Joey De Jesus\, Cyrée Jarelle Johnson\, Spencer Williams\, Chase Berggrun\, and Zefyr Lisowski to launch Zefyr Lisowski’s debut murder grief lesbian short collection of poetry\, Blood Box (Black Lawrence Press\, 2019). From the publisher: \nBlood Box\, the deliciously haunting debut short collection from poet Zefyr Lisowski\, takes us inside the infamous 1892 axe murders of Abby and Andrew Borden through twenty-six wide-ranging\, stylistically experimental persona poems. Lisowski re-introduces us to mythologized spinster Lizzie Borden as we’ve never seen her before: a girl wielding an axe\, yes\, but also a girl trapped—in the boxes of age\, of hunger\, of loneliness\, of blame. Lizzie\, who was acquitted of the double murder of her father and stepmother\, yet continues to haunt our cultural psyche over a hundred years later. Even now\, “Violence dances with us like ghosts.” \nIn these pages\, the notorious crime and its cast of characters serve as a jumping-off point for a textured exploration of inherited violence\, queer intimacy\, and the way family can be “another geometry\, another violence too.” Blood Box is Lizzie’s story\, but it’s also the story of grief\, of selfhood\, of trans and queer becoming. Lisowski’s Lizzie Borden is as sweet\, sad\, spooky\, and haunted as a girl with an axe ever can be. \nThis event will run from 7 – 9 PM\, with readings starting by 7:30. Come and be spooky! \n\nA NOTE ON ACCESS: The Bureau of General Services—Queer Division is on the second floor of The LGBT Community Center\, with a working elevator; the building and Bureau are both wheelchair accessible\, and chairs with backs will be provided. Wine\, beer\, & soft drinks will be provided by donation. Please refrain from wearing scented products.\n  \n\nCopies of Blood Box 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————————– \nON THE READERS: \nZefyr Lisowski is a trans & queer Southerner\, the author of Blood Box (Black Lawrence Press\, 2019) and a Pisces. She’s a poetry co-editor at Apogee Journal and has received support from Tin House Writers Workshop\, Sundress Academy for the Arts\, The CUNY Graduate Center\, and elsewhere. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Muzzle\, DIAGRAM\, Literary Hub\, Nat. Brut.\, and the Texas Review\, among other places. She’s currently working on Wolf Inventory\, a collaborative film about ghost stories\, ritual\, and feminized sexual violence in the South\, with filmmaker and artist Candace Thompson. Find her and more of her work online at zeflisowski.com. \n  \nA fat femme from NC\, Jesse Rice-Evans is a former waitress and current doctoral student. She teaches workshops on digital writing and access-centered pedagogy. Read her poetry and essays in WUSSY\, Nat. Brut\, honey & lime\, and others. \n  \nJoey De Jesus is the author of HOAX (Operating System\, 2020)\, NOCT- The Threshold of Madness (The Atlas Review\, 2019)\, and co-author\, alongside Sade LaNay\, of Writing Voice into the Archive vol. 1\, organized and edited by Jennifer Tamayo with support from UC Berkeley’s Center for Race and Gender. Joey formerly co-edited poetry at Apogee Journal\, is an Advisory Board Member at No\, Dear Magazine. Joey received the 2019-20 BRIC ArtFP Project Room Commission and 2017 NYFA/NYSCA Fellowship in Poetry. Poems have appeared in the Academy of American Poet’s Poem-A-Day\, Bettering American Poetry\, BOAAT\, The Brooklyn Rail\, The Literary Review\, and several other venues and installed at Artists Space\, The New Museum\, Franklin Street Works and elsewhere. Joey is running for New York State Assembly of District 38 in 2020 and needs your support. \n  \nChase Berggrun is a trans woman poet. She is the author of R E D (Birds\, LLC\, 2018). Her work has appeared in American Poetry Review\, jubilat\, Poetry\, and elsewhere. She received her MFA from NYU. \n  \nCyree Jarelle Johnson is a librarian and writer from Piscataway\, New Jersey. They hold a MS in Library and Information Science from Drexel University and an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University. He is the author of two books\, SLINGSHOT (2019) and How Greek Immigrants Made America Home (2018). Cyree’s work has appeared in The New York Times\, Boston Review\, Rewire News\, The Root\, and MOTHERBOARD/Vice. They have given speeches and lectures at The White House\, TEDxColumbia University\, Brown University\, The University of Pennsylvania\, community organizations\, churches\, festivals\, and conferences throughout the United States. His work has been supported by Davis Putter Scholarship Fund\, Astraea Foundation\, Leeway Foundation\, Disabled Writers\, Culture/Strike\, and the donations of countless community members who believe in what he does. \n  \nSpencer Williams is from Chula Vista\, California. She is the author of the chapbook Alien Pink (2017\, The Atlas Review Chapbook Series) and has work featured in Apogee\, [PANK]\, Bat City Review\, Pacifica\, and IndieWire. In her spare time\, she forgets to utilize the avocados she’s bought until it’s too late and they’ve all gone soft. She has at least seven Neopets accounts she forgot the passwords to\, and received a BA in English and Cinematic Arts from University of Iowa. She’s currently an MFA candidate in poetry at Rutgers-Newark.
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SUMMARY:Cristóbal Guerra\, Ripley Soprano\, and Candystore: How We Need
DESCRIPTION:  \nA reading and performance on November 7 by Queer|Art|Mentorship artists Cristóbal Guerra\, Ripley Soprano\, and Candystore will activate works on display in the Bureau. Guerra presents a three-dimensional iteration of their book La Señal\, about the historical narratives that have shaped colonial resistance in the islands currently known as “Puerto Rico.” Soprano performs poems and sound collages as part of their installation harmreduxxcommunism. Candystore screens a video collaboration with Jake Brush about the anus as a portal for self-discovery\, universality\, and connection via poetic and performative sensibilities. \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— \nAbout Cristóbal Guerra \nCristóbal Guerra is an interdisciplinary artist from Puerto Rico. Their work combines experimental video\, documentary film\, visual art\, and text to explore ideas of “home”\, el caribe\, queerness and belonging. Through an interdisciplinary practice Cristóbal aims to explore the lived experience of being raised queer in the colony of PR in conversation with an evolving identity shaped by diasporic experience. Through research\, experimental video\, and text they look for the political in the personal. Intimate archival footage and documentary work seek to articulate present processes through a type of closure with the past\, while poetry\, prose\, and other texts sets its sights on imaginaries that take into account the “canon”—and what was excluded from it—during the artist’s process of learning their own history as a colonial subject. Cristóbal work commonly deals with memory\, language\, new media and its relations to the Boricua diaspora. And more recently\, the idea of non-corporeality and post-nationalistic thought informs the wrting of “La Señal”\, a book the artist has developed during their time at Queer|Art|Mentorship. \nAbout Ripley Soprano \nRipley Soprano is an organizer and writer based in Brooklyn\, New York. They have been organizing for over a decade around racial and economic justice issues. They co-founded New York 2 New Orleans Coalition (NY2NO)\, New York Students Rising\, Youngist: young people-powered media\, and the fundraising collective “Shadowbanned” that materially supports sex workers facing criminalization. They are an editor and co-owner of Mask Magazine\, and are currently co-authoring a book on the social history of incest for TigerBee Press alongside Sophia Giovannitti. Ripley has been published in Mask\, AlterNet\, The Nation Magazine\, the New York Times\, and Salon. \nAbout Candystore \nImagine you are staring at a naked butt. On the left cheek is the letter “J” and on the right cheek are the letters “O” and “Y”. The ethos of Candystore’s artistic practice is to spread JOY. She-he thinks labels are short-sighted / obnoxious and art is more powerful when it is made accessible and in collaboration. Like many before shimher\, Candystore has been cursed to consider the world poetically (ugh) and is at least trying to have a little fun with that. She-he was a 2018-2019 artist-in-residence with Shandaken: Governor’s Island. In 2019\, she was one of four recipients of the Shannon Michael Cane Award from Printed Matter\, which allowed shimher the opportunity to self-publish her debut book of poetry\, Hi Angels. Candystore’s writing and art have been published in PAPER Magazine\, Phile Magazine\, Riot of Perfume\, Precog Mag\, RFD\, and others. She-he has performed around New York City\, most notably at MoMA PS1\, though it was only in the book store. Candystore also performs every time she-he uses a public restroom. She-he loves dick and lives in Brooklyn\, NY in a pink room. \n 
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SUMMARY:OLNY Poly Movie Night: We 3/Os 3
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 November 6th please join us for a viewing of We 3/Os 3 (2011)\, directed by Nando Olival\, starring Gabriel Godoy\,\nVictor Mendes\, and Juliana Schalch. \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: College housemates Cazé\, Rafael\, and Camila agree not to date each other while they live together\, but when they are offered the chance to participate in their own reality show to market products for a large company\, things get complicated. Running time: 1 hour 20 minutes\, in Portuguese with English subtitles. \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Russell Perkins & Nancy Brooks Brody: A Different Light
DESCRIPTION:  \nA conversation with Current Queer|Art|Mentorship Fellow Russell Perkins and his Mentor Nancy Brooks Brody (Fierce Pussy)\, along with Jeanne Vaccaro and Caitlin McCarthy\, The Center’s Archivist about the legacy of art embedded in the working life of the LGBT Community Center\, and a proposal for a new work by Nancy Brooks Brody and Russell Perkins\, titled A Different Light\, celebrating Leslie Feinberg and hir trailblazing labor to articulate marginalized queer histories and identities. \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— \nAbout A Different Light \nA Different Light is an artwork about margins and in-between spaces. As a permanent\, site-specific installation at The Center\, Nancy Brooks Brody and Russell Perkins propose to engrave a small constellation of marks on the exposed undersides of the stone stairs of Stairwell C. These marks are drawn from handwritten notes found in writer\, activist\, and trans historian Leslie Feinberg’s personal library; culled from texts on political science\, history\, and poetry\, they testify to moments of questioning\, critical engagement\, and discovery in Feinberg’s reading and writing practice. \nThe work is inspired by the legacy of art embedded in the working life of The Center. Joining the installations by Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt and Susan Strande that already share the liminal space of the stairway\, it is meant to be viewed by passing through. The old stone steps resonate with the collective movements of the many bodies that have used them. Similarly\, the heavily marked-up book pages—which we found as a result of our research in The Center archives—resonate with Feinberg’s trailblazing labor to articulate marginalized queer histories and identities. \nIn both cases\, one senses an indexical contact with the past that cannot be translated into any single statement or message\, but which speaks to physical processes of community in formation. By proposing an analogy between the transitional space of the stairway and the intertextual space of the margin\, the work suggests that the viewer is participating in a story that is still being written. \nAs part of A Different Light\, Nancy Brooks Brody and Russell Perkins propose to paint the lights in The Center’s outdoor courtyard pink. The lights’ coloring will be visible in both the day and night; once the sun has set and the lights are turned on\, the space will be bathed in a warm\, pink glow. The piece contrasts the weight and interiority of the proposed stairway engraving; both works\, however require the viewer to look up in order to notice them. Because the windows on each floor landing of Stairwell C look out into the courtyard\, the two works are also visible to one another. \n  \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Opening Reception for How do we know what we need you to know: Intimate access and collective care
DESCRIPTION:How do we know what we need you to know: Intimate access and collective care \nExhibition: November 1\, 2019 – January 9\, 2020\nOpening Reception November 1\, 2019\, 7 to 10 PM \nThe Bureau of General Services—Queer Division and Queer|Art|Mentorship are proud to present How do we know what we need you to know: Intimate access and collective care\, the 2018-2019 Queer|Art|Mentorship Annual Exhibition\, curated by current Fellow Jeanne Vaccaro. This special exhibition will present new work by the graduating Fellows of the 2018-2019 Queer|Art|Mentorship program\, Queer|Art’s celebrated year-long intergenerational creative and professional development program\, now entering its ninth year. \nThe exhibition will include new works of film\, literature\, performance\, and visual art by J. Bouey\, Candystore\, Daniel Chew\, Xandra Clark\, Sarah Creagen\, Cristóbal Guerra\, Russell Perkins\, Ripley Soprano\, and Natalie Tsui. Many of the artworks on view will be shown as fragments of larger bodies of work or works still in process\, offering glimpses of each artist’s broader practice in ongoing formation. \nA central theme of the exhibition targets the process of cultivating intimate and collective forms of access. In Vaccaro’s words\, this has meant “building trust by being honest about what we need to make art and be together\, what we can and can’t tolerate\, what holds us back\, and what can propel us forward. It is about the work it takes to manage togetherness across difference and through desire. It is about making transparent the everyday and historical as sites of possibility and reinvention\, and it is about needing each other—all of us—to do the work of transforming our aesthetic and political worlds.” The Annual will be accompanied by a publication\, designed by Jade Marks\, edited by Jeanne Vaccaro\, and produced by Queer|Art. \nWorks: \nCandystore: I’m Sitting on My Butthole (installation)\nSarah Mihara Creagen: Sex\, Botany\, and BDSM (works on paper)\nCristóbal Guerra: Otro Archipielago / Another Archipielago (mixed media)\nNancy Brooks Brody & Russell Perkins: A Different Light (proposal documents and archival materials)\nRussell Perkins: Monday 22 July 2019 (newsprint)\nRipley Soprano: harmreduxxcommunism (harm reduction materials)\nNatalie Tsui: Me\, Or Perhaps Someone Else (video installation) \nHow do we know what we need you to know is a component of Queer|Art’s 2018-2019 Queer|Art|Mentorship Annual Exhibition\, which opens on November 1 in conjunction with the 2019 Queer|Art|Prize\, and continues through January 9 at The Lesbian\, Gay\, Bisexual\, & Transgender Community Center in the West Village (208 W 13th St). The two-month exhibition includes multiple components in a variety of gallery-based and time-based art formats\, including a special presentation of the 2019 Queer|Art Community Portrait Project\, featuring more than 40 newly commissioned portraits of Queer|Art’s diverse and vibrant intergenerational artist community by photographer Lola Flash. \nThe 2018-2019 Queer|Art|Mentorship Annual kicks off with The Annual Party on Friday\, November 1 from 7-10pm\, hosted by theater artists Mashuq Mushtaq Deen and Xandra Clark\, who have worked closely together throughout the past year as Mentor and Fellow. The evening will also include the awards announcements for the 2019 Queer|Art|Prize\, now entering its third year with support from HBO. Queer|Art|Prize annually awards two artists\, selected through a national nominating process\, with $10\,000 prizes (one for Sustained Achievement and the other for Recent Work). The night will conclude with a dance party as DJ Jasmine Infiniti brings the epic night of queer revelry and celebration to a close. \nThe Annual Party will take place in room 301 of The LGBT Community Center. \nRSVP is required for The Annual Party\, tickets here \nQUEER|ART|MENTORSHIP supports a year-long exchange between emerging and established artists in five different creative fields: Film\, Literature\, Performance\, Visual Art\, and Curatorial Practice. \nTickets are NOT required to attend the opening reception at the Bureau.  \nPlease note that the Bureau will be closed from 6 to 7 PM on Friday\, November 1\, 2019\, for a Q|A|M VIP preview of the exhibition.   \nImage: Nancy Brooks Brody and Russell Perkins\, A Different Light\, Proposal for the Courtyard of The LGBT Community Center\, NYC\, 2019 gouache on inkjet print \n  \nExhibition-related programs: \nTuesday\, November 5\, 7 PM: Russell Perkins & Nancy Brooks Brody: A Different Light \nThursday\, November 7\, 7 PM: Cristóbal Guerra\, Ripley Soprano\, and Candystore: How We Need \nThursday\, January 9\, 2020 6 PM: Closing Reception: Queer|Art Karaoke Party \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Queer Critical Generosity with Holly Hughes and David Román
DESCRIPTION:  \nJoin the Bureau and NOGO Arts for an evening with Holly Hughes and David Román. Hughes and Román will discuss the history of LGBTQ art and performance over the past 40 years to highlight the idea of Critical Generosity. In addition to talking about their own work as performers\, writers\, and professors\, they will also talk about ways we can engage historical and contemporary work from a queer point of view to allow for an empathic experience as viewer/audience member/critic. Come hear these two important figures and share in a conversation about how we might respond to aesthetics in a different way. Limited seating! \n  \n  \nDavid Román is Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Southern California. He is the author of two books: Acts of Intervention: Performance\, Gay Culture\, & AIDS and Performance in America: Contemporary US Culture and the Performing Arts\, and several edited volumes. Professor Román’s research focuses on theatre and performance studies\, with an emphasis on contemporary US culture\, and American studies\, with an emphasis on race\, sexuality\, and the performing arts. His current projects include an edited volume of essays on the plays of Tarell Alvin McCraney\, Tarell Alvin McCraney: Theatre\, Performance\, Collaboration (Northwestern UP\, 2020) and an edited volume of essays on the career of Taylor Mac\, The MacBook (University of Michigan Press\, 2021). He is also currently working on two book-length projects\, Reviving Broadway\, on the cultural politics of Broadway from the 1930s to the present\, and Remembering AIDS\, on the early AIDS years in the United States. He is a former editor of Theatre Journal and a founding editorial member of GLQ. He’s served as the scholar-in-residence at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles under the leadership of founding artistic director Gordon Davidson and he was the chair of the board of directors at Highways Performance Space in Los Angeles under the leadership of founding artistic director Tim Miller. He has previously taught at Macalester College\, Pomona College\, the University of Washington-Seattle and Yale University. He’s won multiple awards for his scholarship\, teaching\, and service. \n  \nHolly Hughes is an internationally acclaimed performance artist whose work maps the troubled fault lines of identity. Her combination of poetic imagery and political satire has earned her wide attention and placed her work at the center of America’s culture wars. Hughes was among the first students to attend The New York Feminist Art Institute\, an experiment in progressive pedagogy launched by members of the Heresies Collective. While there\, she worked with feminist artists such as Miriam Schapiro and Mary Beth Edelson and participated in performance work at A.I.R. gallery. In the early ’80s\, Hughes became part of the Women’s One World Café\, also known as the WOW Café\, an arts cooperative in the East Village established by an international group of women artists. As the Village gradually became a magnet for the avant-garde art world\, WOW served as an incubator for a generation of artists. Hughes has performed at venues across North America\, Great Britain and Australia including the Walker Art Center\, the Wexner Center\, the Guggenheim Museum\, the Yale Repertory\, the Drill Hall in London\, and numerous universities. She has published two books: Clit Notes: A Sapphic Sampler and O Solo Homo: The New Queer Performance\, co-edited with Dr. David Roman. In addition\, her work has been widely anthologized and has served as foundational material for performance studies\, queer studies and feminist performance studies. Hughes has received funding from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the New York State Council\, the Ford Foundation\, and the Rockefeller Foundation\, among others. She is the recipient of two Village Voice Obie awards\, a Lambda Book Award\, a GLAAD media award\, and a Distinguished Alumni Award. In addition to teaching at the University of Michigan\, Hughes is co-editing Memories of the Revolution: The First Ten Years of the WOW Café\, with Alina Troyano for the University of Michigan Press\, and is creating a new solo piece entitled The Dog and Pony Show (Bring Your Own Pony). She has also been commissioned by the U-M Institute for Research on Women and Gender to create a new performance piece in celebration of the organization’s tenth anniversary. \n  \n  \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Office Hours Presents: Craft Class and Reading with Paco Márquez
DESCRIPTION:  \nOffice Hours Poetry Workshop presents: “If You Love a Poem Translate It!”— a FREE translation craft class and reading with author Paco Márquez. \n“If you love a poem and want to get closer to it\, translate it. Curious about translation but don’t know where to begin? In this workshop we will practice some basic approaches to translation – versions\, translations\, extrapolations. When to capture the essence more than the literal? When and how to let loose? With exercises\, dictionaries in hand\, and translation theories\, we will also discuss the art of translation and its relationship to our own work. No prior translation experience or knowledge of another language necessary. (Bring a poem or stanza that you would like to try translating into English\, either from another language you know or with a bilingual dictionary of that other language.)” \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  \nPaco Márquez is a poet based out of Manhattan\, author of the chapbook Portraits in G Minor (Folded Word Press\, 2017). 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. Paco has poems forthcoming in Fence\, and previously published in Apogee\, Ostrich Review\, Live Mag! and Huizache. Originally from León\, México\, he’s spent most of his life in Sacramento and the San Francisco Bay Area. pacomarquez.net \n  \n  \n 
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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 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/a-reading-by-samuel-ace-and-miller-oberman/
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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 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/good-hot-stuff/
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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 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/poetry-and-memoir-the-transformative-power-of-art/
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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 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/tell-57-my-masculinity/
LOCATION:Online event\, New York\, NY\, United States
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