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SUMMARY:Bureau at Second Tuesday Lecture Series for Robert Hofler's Reading from Sexplosion: From Andy Warhol to A Clockwork Orange—How a Generation of Pop Rebels Broke all the Taboos
DESCRIPTION:The Bureau of General Services—Queer Division will be at The LGBT Community Center for Robert Hofler‘s appearance at the Second Tuesday Lecture Series. We will be selling copies of Hofler’s new book Sexplosion: From Andy Warhol to A Clockwork Orange—How a Generation of Pop Rebels Broke all the Taboos. \nThe six years between 1968 and 1973 saw more sexual taboos challenged than ever before. Film\, literature\, and theater simultaneously broke through barriers giving birth to what we still consider to be the height of sexual expression in pop culture: Gore Vidal’s Myra Breckinridge\, Hair on Broadway\, Andy Warhol and his superstars\, Mart Crowley’s The Boys in the Band\, John Schlesinger’s Midnight Cowboy\, Luchino Visconti’s Death in Venice\, Larry Kramer’s Women in Love\, actors such as Alan Bates and Dirk Bogarde\, and the proto-reality celebrity Lance Loud. \nIn Sexplosion: From Andy Warhol to A Clockwork Orange—How a Generation of Pop Rebels Broke all the Taboos\, Robert Hofler weaves a lively narrative linking the writers\, producers\, and actors responsible for creating such controversial works\, placing them within their cultural and social frameworks. While the Stonewall Riots were shaking Greenwich Village\, a group of daring artists challenged the status quo and defined the country’s concept of sexual liberation. Hofler follows the creation of and reaction to these groundbreaking works\, tracing their connections and influences on each another and the rest of the entertainment industry. \nRobert Hofler has spent more than forty years as an entertainment journalist\, at both Life and Us magazines\, and most recently at Variety. His nonfiction works include the Henry Willson biography\, The Man Who Invented Rock Hudson and Party Animals\, a biography of Allan Carr. Hofler is the theater critic for The Wrap and lives in New York City. \nReception at 6:30\nPresentation at 7 \nThe Center is located at 208 W. 13th St.\, between 7th and 8th Avenues. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:J James comes clean on coming out - Denial Deceit Discovery: Book Reading and signing
DESCRIPTION:Meet the British author behind this year’s most compelling coming out story.  J James will read from his debut book\, Denial Deceit Discovery and will then be delighted to sign copies of the book for readers. \nPlease note: The Bureau is closed on Tuesdays\, but we will open at 6 PM for this event\, which will begin at 7. \n \nAfter over a decade of teaching\, educational management and administration\, James needed to find an outlet to share his personal story. As a lifelong lover of literature and writing\, James has dedicated his career to educating students\, helping them develop the tools they’ll need to share their stories in the future. \nHis first manuscript was inspired by the response James received from the Catholic priest who officiated his marriage annulment. As part of the process\, James was asked to submit a small document outlining his feelings about the events that culminated in the failure of his marriage. The priest commented that the piece was the most moving and impactful account he had ever read.  He called it an “inspiration” to other men and women struggling with similar situations.  After exploring many options\, James realized that his story could help people to understand the complex issues facing gay men in denial – hopefully\, helping to spare others from the heartache he and his loved ones experienced. \nJames currently lives and works in Southeast Asia.  He enjoys the tropical climate\, and the relaxed pace\, which has provided him with the opportunity to continue developing ideas for his second novel. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/j-james-comes-clean-on-coming-out-denial-deceit-discovery-book-reading-and-signing/
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SUMMARY:A Future Feminist Tea Party to discuss "Angry Women" Part 2
DESCRIPTION:Organized by Quito Ziegler \nPart 1: Wednesday\, April 2\, 4:30-6:30 pm \nPart 2: Wednesday\, April 9  4:30-6:30 pm \nOn April 3-6. the HERE Arts Center will present Angry Women REvisited\, a fifteen-person ensemble multidisciplinary performance re-exploring the 1990s classic feminist text Angry Women\, conceived and directed by J Dellecave.\n\n\nSome of us were heavily influenced by the interviews in the original Angry Women text\, released in the early 1990s.  Some of us missed the boat entirely.  All of us live in times that are rapidly changing\, and the hope is these discussions will help us get our heads around it. \nThe Future Feminist Tea Party is an open learning space for feminists at all levels of experience\, from remedial to academic\, that values the intersection of ideas and lived experiences.  We will come together over tea and cake for a hearty discussion of Angry Women\, transfeminism\, and the evolution of feminism. Participants are encouraged (but not required!) to make a 3-session commitment: \n1)  April 2 : Discuss selections from the original text (please come prepared with the questions it raised for you) \n2)  Go see the show on your own! \n3)  April 9 : Regroup\, debrief\, process \nTea and cakes will be served. Feel free to stop in late if you must.\n \n5 bucks if you have it\n(no worries if you don’t) \nInfo on the Angry Women performance + fundraiser below! \nThe Future Feminist Tea Parties are inspired by artist Kembra Pfahler’s idea of future feminism\, where “alpha males and male sky gods no longer make all the rules” and binaries no longer exist. \nAngry Women REvisited Indiegogo and show dates! \nAngry Women REvisited\, conceived and directed by J Dellecave\, is a fifteen-person ensemble multi-disclipinary performance examining the interviews of badass (and sometimes problematic) activists/artists of the 1990s\, through the lens of 2014 ideas about feminism\, and grounding our inquiry in the pages of the classic feminist text\, REsearch Journal’s Angry Women. We are a queer cast of dancers\, filmmakers\, theatre makers\, theatre scholars\, visual artists\, puppeteers\, animators\, musicians\, writers\, and rabble rousers\, across a wide spectrum of genders. The opportunity to work through important ideas with such a diverse cast is a once in a lifetime opportunity. We were fortunate to be selected for a performance at HERE\, 145 6th Avenue\, in Manhattan\, April 3-6\, 2014. The cast of Angry Women REvisited wants to be able to share all of our work with you and our audience\, in its fullest professional capacity\, and for that we need the funds to support this project. \nhttps://www.indiegogo.com/projects/angry-women-revisited \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/a-future-feminist-tea-party-to-discuss-angry-women-part-2/
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SUMMARY:Fire in the Belly Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Join Visual AIDS for a robust conversation about the book\, Fire in the Belly: The Life and Times of David Wojnarowicz by C. Carr. Free. All are welcome. The book is available for purchase at the Bureau. \nAbout the Book:\nIn December 2010\, the National Portrait Gallery in Washington made headlines when it responded to protests from the Catholic League by voluntarily censoring an excerpt of David Wojnarowicz’s A Fire in My Belly from its show on American portraiture. \nWhy a work of art could stir such emotions is at the heart of Cynthia Carr’s Fire in the Belly\, the first biography of a beleaguered art-world figure who became one of the most important voices of his generation. Wojnarowicz emerged from a Dickensian childhood that included orphanages\, abusive and absent parents\, and a life of hustling on the street. He first found acclaim in New York’s East Village\, a neighborhood noted in the 1970s and ’80s for its abandoned buildings\, junkies\, and burgeoning art scene. Along with Keith Haring\, Nan Goldin\, and Jean-Michel Basquiat\, Wojnarowicz helped redefine art for the times. \nAs uptown art collectors looked downtown for the next big thing\, this community of cultural outsiders was suddenly thrust into the national spotlight. The ensuing culture war\, the neighborhood’s gentrification\, and the AIDS crisis then devastated the East Village scene. Wojnarowicz died of AIDS in 1992 at the age of thirty-seven. Carr’s brilliant biography traces the untold story of a controversial and seminal figure at a pivotal moment in American culture. \n  \nVisual AIDS utilizes art to fight AIDS by provoking dialogue\, supporting HIV+ artists\, and preserving a legacy\, because AIDS is not over. \n  \n  \n 
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140410T190000
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SUMMARY:Poetry Reading: Charlie Bondhus\, Steven Cordova\, Walter Holland\, and Jee Leong Koh
DESCRIPTION:Poets Charlie Bondhus (All the Heat We Could Carry)\, Steven Cordova (Long Distance)\, Walter Holland (Circuit)\, and Jee Leong Koh (Equal to the Earth) read their work and sign books. \nCharlie Bondhus’s second poetry book\, All the Heat We Could Carry\, won Main Street Rag’s Annual Poetry Book Award for 2013\, and is currently a finalist for the Publishing Triangle’s Thom Gunn Award in Gay Poetry. Previously he published How the Boy Might See It (Pecan Grove Press\, 2009)\, and two chapbooks\, What We Have Learned to Love—which won Brickhouse Books’s 2008-2009 Stonewall Award—and  Monsters and Victims (Gothic Press\, 2010). His poetry appears or is set to appear in numerous periodicals\, including Midwest Quarterly\, The Hawai’i Review\, CounterPunch\, The Alabama Literary Review\, and Cold Mountain Review\, among others. He teaches at Raritan Valley Community College in New Jersey\, and is the Poetry Editor at The Good Men Project (goodmenproject.com). \n  \nSteven Cordova is the 2012 first-place winner of the International Reginald Shepherd Memorial Poetry Prize. His first full-length poetry collection\, Long Distance\, appeared in 2010 from Bilingual University Press. His works appear in many journals and anthologies and his poem\, “Across a Table\,” was recently set to music for the AIDS Quilt Songbook. He lives in Brooklyn\, New York. \n  \nWalter Holland\, Ph.D.\, is the author of three books of poetry Circuit (Chelsea Station Editions\, 2010)\, Transatlantic\, (Painted Leaf Press\, 2001)\, A Journal of the Plague Years: Poems 1979-1992 (Magic City Press\, 1992) as well as a novel\, The March (Chelsea Station Editions\, 2011). His short stories have been published in Art and Understanding\, Harrington Gay Men’s Fiction Quarterly\, and Rebel Yell\, Some of his poetry credits include: Antioch Review\, Art and Understanding\, Barrow Street\, Chiron Review\, The Cream City Review\, Found Object\, Pegasus\,  Phoebe\, and  Poets for Life:76 Poets Respond to AIDS.  He lives in New York City. \n  \nJee Leong Koh is the author of four books of poems\, including Seven Studies for a Self Portrait (Bench Press). His latest collection The Pillow Book (Math Paper Press) will be translated into Japanese and published by Awai Books in August 2014. He has a new book of poems forthcoming from Carcanet Press in 2015. Born in Singapore\, Jee lives in New York City. A curator of the website Singapore Poetry\, he is organizing the first Singapore Literature Festival in New York in October 2014. \n  \n  \n 
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140413T190000
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SUMMARY:Book launch: LOOK WHO’S MORPHING by Tom Cho and AFTER DELORES (25th Anniversary Edition) by Sarah Schulman
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the dual book launch of Look Who’s Morphing by Tom Cho and After Delores (25th Anniversary Edition) by Sarah Schulman. \nSpecial guest Sassafras Lowrey also reads from hir novel Roving Pack. \nLOOK WHO’S MORPHING (Arsenal Pulp Press):\nFirst published to great acclaim in Australia\, writer Tom Cho’s Look Who’s Morphing is a fresh\, hilarious\, and dazzingly contemporary collection of micro-fictions that explore the slipperiness of identity\, race\, and gender. \nLike a mad-cap version of Kafka’s The Metamorphosis set against the last 40 years of pop culture\, each story in the collection features Cho’s narrator morphing into various familiar and iconic cultural figures from sitcoms\, Hollywood movies\, anime\, music videos\, Saturday-morning cartoons\, daytime TV talk shows\, Nintendo games\, and literature. \nAFTER DELORES (Arsenal Pulp Press):\nIn this new edition of Sarah Schulman’s acclaimed 1988 novel\, the unnamed narrator is a no-nonsense coffee-shop waitress in New York’s bohemian Lower East Side who is nursing a broken heart after her girlfriend Dolores leaves her for another woman. This hilarious\, unpredictable\, sexy novel is a fast-paced flashback to the storefronts\, underground clubs\, and back alleys of the Lower East Side’s lesbian subculture in the 1980s―an electrifying chronicle of New York life featuring an edgy and totally original heroine. Includes a new introduction by Sarah Schulman. \nROVING PACK (Pomo Freakshow):\nClick\, a straight-edge transgender kid\, is searching for hir place within a pack of newly sober gender rebels in the dilapidated punk houses of Portland\, Oregon circa 2002. Ze embarks on a dizzying whirlwind of leather\, sex\, hormones\, house parties\, and protests until hir gender fluidity takes an unexpected turn and the pack is sent reeling.www.RovingPack.com \nTOM CHO is a fiction writer whose work has appeared widely\, including in such publications as The Best Australian Stories series\, Asia Literary Review and The New Quarterly. Like his favourite pop stars\, Tom enjoys trying new guises on for size\, and his work has been described as “transgenre\, transgender and transcultural all at once.” He has performed his work on the stages of many festivals\, from Singapore Writers Festival to Sydney Mardi Gras\, and even at a Chinatown bar where he toured Hello Kitty\, an award-winning show that combined literature with karaoke. Born and raised in Australia\, Tom has applied for permanent residency in Canada. He has a PhD in Professional Writing and is currently writing a novel about the meaning of life. Visit his website at tomcho.com \nSARAH SCHULMAN is the author of sixteen books\, including the novels The Mere Future\, The Child\, Rat Bohemia\, Shimmer\, Empathy\, After Delores\, People In Trouble\, Girls\, Visions and Everything\, and The Sophie Horowitz Story. She is co-author with Cheryl Dunye of the movies The Owls and Mommy is Coming\, and co-producer with Jim Hubbard of the feature United in Anger: A History of ACT UP. She is co-director of the ACT UP Oral History Project. She lives in New York\, where she is Distinguished Professor of English at City University of New York (College of Staten Island) and a Fellow at the New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU. \nSASSAFRAS LOWREY is the editor of the two time American Library Association honored & Lambda Literary Finalist Kicked Out anthology\, and Leather Ever After. Hir debut novel Roving Pack was honored by the American Library Association. Sassafras is the 2013 winner of the Lambda Literary Foundation’s Berzon Emerging Writer Award. Ze lives and writes in Brooklyn with hir partner\, two dogs of dramatically different sizes\, two bossy cats\, and a kitten. www.SassafrasLowrey.com \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:A COCKTAIL OF GLAMOUR & ANARCHY
DESCRIPTION:A COCKTAIL OF GLAMOUR & ANARCHY with original Cockette RUMI MISSABU in person! Accompanied by AGOSTO MACHADO\, JARVIS EARNSHAW & JOE E. JEFFREYS and Special Guests MAX STEELE\, MARK GOLAMCO\, & Rachel Mason. \nRumi Missabu\, actor/male actress\, performance artist\, director-producer\, mentor and original member and archivist for the gender-bending early 70s counterculture troupe The Cockettes\, once described as like the Little Rascals in drag doing Busby Berkeley on acid\, Rumi Missabu\, hosts an evening of conversation\, spoken word\, film clips\, and musical interludes withspecial guests. Guaranteed to be a fun-filled romp laced with pure nostalgia that bridges the gap between the Summer of Love and thetimes of Harvey Milk. \n \nRumi Missabu aka James Bartlett was born in Hollywood\, CA in 1947. As a young actor he went from appearing in Disney films: BLACKBEARD’S GHOST\, THE ONE AND ONLY ORIGINAL FAMILY BAND\, to soft-core porn: ELEVATOR GIRLS IN BONDAGE in three short years following his brief but snazzy reign with the Cockettes(1970-1972). He continues to keep thespirit alive to this day with contributions to critically acclaimed recent exhibitions and events at: Envoy Gallery\, NYC\, Giorgi Gallery\, Berkeley\, CA\, Dumbo Arts Center\, Brooklyn NY\, HOWL Festival\, NYC\, UKS Galleri in Oslo\, Norway\, The Gender-Bender Festival in Bologna\, Italy\, SFMOMA\, SomArts\, The Center for Sex & Culture\, the National Queer Arts Festival in San Francisco\, the Denver Museum of Contemporary Art\, TATE  Liverpool and the New York Public Library of Performing Arts at Lincoln Center among many others. \n  \nRecent acting roles include stage productions of MARAT SADE\, Brava Theater\, TINSEL TARTS IN A HOT COMA and currently appearing in the Thrillpeddlers revival of the Cockettes 1970 opus; PEARLS OVER SHANGHAI reprising his original role as Madame Gin-Sling. In addition to hosting THE BLUE HOUR\, a live variety show since 2009 at the Hypnodrome in SF\, he also has appeared and co-produced in some cases a number of independent films including; ELEVATOR GIRLS IN BONDAGE\, UNCLE BOB\, TRIP BACK FORWARD\, THE COCKETTES\, THE GLITTER EMERGENCY\, REVOLUTIONARY SEX\, TIP-TOE PAST THE WITCH and RUMINATIONS. Rumi currently resides in Oakland\, CA and enjoys touring NYC each April and October since 2007. \n  \nSpecial Guests: \n \nAgosto Machado \n  \n \nJoe E. Jeffreys \n  \n \nJarvis Earnshaw \n  \n \nMark Galamco \n  \n \nMax Steele \n  \n \nRachel Mason  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Against Equality: Queer Revolution Not Mere Inclusion
DESCRIPTION:Since 2009\, the Against Equality collective has been challenging the gay mainstream and revitalizing the queer political imagination. Against Equality: Queer Revolution Not Mere Inclusion is the collective’s opportunity to share its newest work with the world—a collection of all of the collective’s books in one concise edited volume to be published by AK Press in April 2014. Ryan Conrad\, the co-founder of the Against Equality archive and editor of all of the collective’s anthologies\, will join us at the Bureau for a reading and discussion of the new collection. \n  \n  \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Opening Reception for Split + Growing: Synesthesia and Queer Thought\, A New Show by Ketch Wehr
DESCRIPTION:Split + Growing is a new\, highly personal exhibit of work from transfeminist painter and illustrator Ketch Wehr.  Primarily illustrative gouache paintings\, Wehr’s show explores his personal understanding of his gender and queerness from an early age through the lens of synesthesia. Synesthesia is a condition which\, in his case\, lends colors and flavors to all letters and words.  Split + Growing is the visual display of an evolving queer selfhood through the colors Wehr knew to be part of his identity before he had the words to describe it. \nSplit + Growing runs from Sunday\, April 20\, through Sunday\, May 25 \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/opening-reception-for-split-growing-ketch-wehr/
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SUMMARY:Michael Nava: Reading and Signing for CITY OF PALACES
DESCRIPTION:Join Michael Nava for a reading and signing for his new novel City of Palaces \nPlease note: The Bureau is closed on Tuesdays\, but we will open at 5:30 for this event\, which will begin at 6:30. \nMichael Nava\, a third-generation Californian of Mexican descent\, and the grandson of immigrants\, was born in Sacramento. He was the first person in his family to attend college\, graduating with a B.A. in history from the Colorado College.  He later received his law degree from Stanford University. \nHe began writing when he was 12 years old\, around the same time he recognized that he was gay.  In his autobiographical essay Gardenland\, a memoir of his childhood in the working-class Mexican neighborhood of the same name\, he says he turned to writing because he was filled with words he was otherwise unable to express. \nUntil he was in his early twenties he studied and wrote poetry exclusively.  A selection of his poems was awarded the 1981 Chicano/Latino Literary Prize given annually by the University of California\, Irvine. He began writing what became his first novel as a third year law student at Stanford.  That novel\, The Little Death\, was published in 1986 by Alyson Publications\, a small gay press that accepted the book after 12 other publishers had rejected it. \nThe Little Death introduced readers to Henry Rios\, a gay\, Latino criminal defense lawyer based primarily in Los Angeles.  Six further Rios novels followed — Goldenboy (1988)\,  Howtown (1990)\,  The Hidden Law (1992)\,  The Death of Friends (1994)\,  The Burning Plain (1996)\, and Rag and Bone (2000).  Each new novel was greeted with wider and greater critical acclaim.  The books were awarded a total of six Lambda Literary Awards and in 2000 Nava was given the Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement in gay and lesbian literature.  With Rage and Bone\, Nava announced the end of his career as a mystery writer. \nBeginning in 1995\, Nava started researching a novel about the life of silent film star Ramon Novarro\, a Mexican immigrant who came to Hollywood in 1915 after his family fled their homeland during the Mexican Revolution.  Novarro was one of the first generation of internationally famous movie stars\, like Rudolph Valentino\, Mary Pickford and Charlie Chaplin.  Nava was drawn to Novarro not only because of their shared ethnic heritage but also because it was an open secret in Hollywood that Novarro was gay. \nAt the same time\, he became interested in the Yaquis\, an Indian tribe that inhabited the northwest state of Sonora along the border with Arizona. In the late nineteeth century\, the Mexico government began to forcibly evict the Yaquis from their ancient homeland\, a lush river valley at the edge of the Sonoran desert\, to make way for Mexican settlers.  But the Yaquis put up a fierce resistance and the Mexican government ultimately pursued a policy of extermination against the tribe that resulted in its virtual extinction.  Nava’s great-grandparents were among the few Yaquis who had survived by escaping to Arizona where his grandfather\, Ramón\, was born in 1905. \nEventually\, these interests converged and he began to write a novel that would tell the story of the Mexican Revolution\, the near-genocide of the Yaquis\, and the rise of silent film.  Midway through his first draft\, he recognized that this undertaking was too vast for a single book\, so he conceived a series of novels called The Children of Eve\, after the line in the Salve Regina addressed to Mary\, the mother of Jesus:  “To thee do we cry\, poor banished children of Eve.”  The first novel in that series is The City of Palaces\, which is set in Mexico City in the years before and at the beginning of the 1910 Mexican Revolution. \nIn addition to his novels\, Nava has had a distinguished career as an appellate lawyer working primarily in the California court system including the California Supreme Court.  As a lawyer\, he has been a tireless advocate for greater diversity in the legal profession.  A fuller biography of Michael Nava is available on Wikipedia. See also profile on glbtq.com \nNava is currently at work on the second book – as yet untitled –  in The Children of Eve series. \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/michael-nava-reading-and-signing-for-city-of-palaces/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140423T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140423T210000
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SUMMARY:"Children and Fools:" Harry Hay and the Mattachine Society\, 1930-1953. A talk by Ben Miller
DESCRIPTION:It wasn’t until the 1980s that John D’Emilio\, Jonathan Ned Katz\, and other scholars (many working independently) began to exhume and bring to life the vital history of American homosexual and homophile movements before the Stonewall rebellion. All serious considerations of that history feature as a central player Harry Hay: activist\, troublemaker\, theorist\, founder of the Mattachine Society and “father” of the American gay rights movements. This talk retells the story of the founding of the Mattachine Society – America’s first gay rights organization\, which activist Harry Hay founded in Los Angeles – with an eye towards that history’s relevance to the ideological development of Gay\, and by extension LGBTQ\, rights in America. Original research conducted using Hay’s personal papers and the papers of the Mattachine Society shows that Hay used Marxist cultural theory to fuse elements of folk music\, medieval fooling\, and Native American religious and gender traditions into a gay identity that could serve as the basis for political activism\, radically challenging existing gender and sexual norms in ways that are too often forgotten in the mainstream literature of LGBTQ history.\nBen Miller will present a second talk on Harry Hay on the following Wednesday\, April 30th: \n“Children of the Brain:” Harry Hay’s Life\, Theory\, and Activism\, 1953-1964 \n  \n\nBen Miller is a New York-based writer and student of history. Current projects include thesis research on early gay activist Harry Hay that has taken him to archives in California and conferences from Pennsylvania to New Mexico\, an adaptation of an early Mozart libretto for performance at Carnegie Hall\, and new short fiction influenced by his historical research. He is the 2014 winner of New York University’s Bessie and Louis Levy Prize for Excellence in American History\, and the recipient of the Steffi Berne Research Scholarship in the Humanities from the same institution. His teachers in history and writing have included Linda Gordon\, K. Kevyne Baar\, Marcelle Clements\, and Jonathan Safran Foer. His academic writing has appeared in Historian\, College Film and Media Studies\, and the Chicago Journal of History; and his short fiction has appeared in Brio\, Studio on the Square\, and West 10th. He is editor or co-editor of several publications\, co-founder of Squid Ink Magazine (launching soon)\, and serves on the communications committee of the New York City Anti-Violence Project. He tweets @benwritesthings. \n  \nPhoto: Reunion of living Mattachine founders\, 1980s. From left: Jim Gruber\, Dale Jennings\, Konrad Stevens\, Harry Hay. (San Francisco Public Library\, Gay and Lesbian Center.) \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/children-and-fools-harry-hay-and-the-mattachine-society/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140425T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140425T230000
DTSTAMP:20260404T055417
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SUMMARY:TELL 3: Close Calls
DESCRIPTION:TELL 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. \nClose Calls is the theme of the third installment of TELL. \nFeaturing special guests: \nSilas Howard \nGreg Newton \nJade Payne \nLady Quesa’Dilla \n  \n  \n \nDrae Campbell is a writer\, actor\, director\, story teller\, dancer\, and nightlife emcee. Besides winning the 2011 Miss LEZ title\, 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\, YOU MOVE ME won the Audience Award for Outstanding Narrative Short at OUTFEST 2010 and has been shown in fesivals globally. Drae was dubbed “the next lezzie comedian on the block” by AfterEllen.com for her comedic stylings on the interwebs. Campbell throws a monthly party in Brooklyn called PRIME. Check her out online and around town. www.draecampbell.com\n\n\n\n \nLady Quesa’Dilla AKA Alejandro Rodríguez– Alejandro is a native Tejan@ from the El Paso and Ciudad Juárez border. Their work is at the intersection of cultural identity\, drag\, and community. “The Brown Queen\,” an autobiographical solo performance about growing up queer in the southwest\, premiered at HERE Arts Center in the spring of 2010. Most recent solo performances include “My Tia Lupe” and “The Faggot in the Pink House”. He has performed in New York City\, El Paso\, Texas\, and Chiapas\, Mexico. Alejandro is a member of The  House of Bushwig\, as Lady Quesa’Dilla\, duties include Volunteer Coordinator for the annual Bushwig Festival. \nAlejandro can also be found as an Information and Referral Specialist at the Lesbian\, Gay\, Bisexual\, and Transgender Community Center in Manhattan; and as a Teaching Artist in The Bronx and Brooklyn. \nAlejandro holds a BA in Theater from Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts\, and a MA in Performance Studies from Tisch School of the Arts\, New York University\, and is an alum from The Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics. \nResides in Brooklyn. \n  \n  \n \nSILAS HOWARD began his career in degeneracy by playing music with the legendary punk band Tribe8.  Silas’s first feature film By Hook or By Crook\, was a Sundance Film Festival premiere and five-time Best Feature winner. His documentary\, What I Love About Dying\, premiered at Sundance Film Festival and festivals internationally. Silas’s writing has been published in various anthologies and magazines. His second feature\, Sunset Stories premiered at the SXSW film festival in 2012. Recently he directed Hudson Valley Ballers\, a new webseries starring SNL veterans Paula Pell and James Anderson. \n  \n  \n \nFailed academic Greg Newton earned his BA at Hunter College\, majoring in religion and minoring in art history. He completed his coursework and examinations for a PhD in art history at CUNY Graduate Center before leaving academia to co-found the Bureau of General Services-Queer Division with his partner Donnie Jochum. He taught art history and writing at Parsons for 8 years while working on his dissertation on monochrome painting. He continues to pursue his profound interest in passivity\, emptiness\, silence\, withdrawal\, refusal\, erasure\, failure\, uselesness\, and negativity in general at the Bureau. \n  \n  \n \nJade Payne is a cosmic-mixed-race-diesel-femme\, musician\, and sound-sculptor/engineer. She plays guitar and electronic music in the two bands\, Aye Nako and Holotropik. Jade enjoys geeking out about techy stuff\, crystals\, unknown pleasures\, and the occult. She lives in Brooklyn with a chihuahua named Broccolini. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/tell-3-close-calls/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140426T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140426T180000
DTSTAMP:20260404T055417
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SUMMARY:Poetry Benefit for Queer Detainee Empowerment Project
DESCRIPTION:Poets Stephen Boyer\, Ariel Goldberg\, and others will read their work in support of the Queer Detainee Empowerment Project.  Pay what you wish to donate at the door.\n\n  \nStick around afterwards for Queers Got Talent Show: A Benefit for Queer Detainee Empowerment Project starting at 7:30!\n  \nQDEP is an Alternative-to-Detention program for queer\, trans\, and HIV+ detainees\, asylees\, and their families in NYC and New Jersey.  QDEP supports folks in securing housing\, food\, education\, travel\, employment\, healthcare\, arts space\, legal services\, know-your-rights trainings\, and community organizing.\n\n  \nqdep.org\n\n\n  \nFor more information email  hanugent1@gmail.com\n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/poetry-benefit-for-queer-detainee-empowerment-project/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140426T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140426T230000
DTSTAMP:20260404T055417
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SUMMARY:Queers Got Talent Show: A Benefit for  Queer Detainee Empowerment Project
DESCRIPTION:Come check out some of the hottest\, most talented queers in NYC! Local burlesque dancers\, musicians\, filmmakers\, and comedians will present short works in this fun-filled evening. Emceed by Drae Campbell and featuring fabulous raffle prizes from Trouble Films\, Metropolitan Bar\, The Pleasure Chest\, Third Root Community Health Center\, Tres Belle Petite Medi-Spa\, Birds of Lace Press\, and more! Awesome queer books plus wine and beer will all be available for sale! $5-$10 sliding scale admission fee benefits the Queer Detainee Empowerment Project (QDEP) www.qdep.org. Email teresatheo@gmail.com for more information. \nConfirmed performers: \nFoxie Squire (burlesque)\nKrissy Mahan (filmmaker)\nRose Hips (burlesque)\nGhostcat  (musician)\nVelvet Kensington (burlesque)\nElsa Waithe  (comedian)\nJz Bich (burlesque)\nAnna/Kate with Jayne Quan (musicians)\nLeoVana (drag)\nMichelle Brotman (musician)\nTeresa Michele (burlesque)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/queers-got-talent-show-a-benefit-for-queer-detainee-empowerment-project/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140429T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140429T210000
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SUMMARY:26th Annual Lambda Literary Awards Finalist Reading at Leslie + Lohman Museum of Lesbian and Gay Art
DESCRIPTION:The Bureau will sell books that have been nominated for Lambda Literary Awards at the 26th Annual Lambda Literary Awards Finalist Reading at Leslie + Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art. \n  \nConfirmed readers: Michael Klein\, Cory Silverberg\, Bushra Rehman\, Larry Benjamin\, Jane Hoppen\, Richard Bowes\, Jerry Rosco\, Donna Minkowitz\, Kathleen Warnock\, Angelo Nikolopoulos\, Jaime Woo\, R. Erica Doyle\, Stephen Mills\, Roberta Degnore\, Perry Halkitis\, Annie Lanzillotto\, Hilton Als\, Kamilah Aisha Moon\, Suzanne Parker\, Alysia Abbott\, Dominic Ambrose\, Wally Lamb\, Nell Stark\, Ann Pellegrini\, and Imogen Binnie. \n  \nFor a complete list of the 26th Annual Lambda Literary Awards Finalists click here. \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/26th-annual-lambda-literary-awards-finalist-reading-at-leslie-lohman-museum-of-lesbian-and-gay-art/
LOCATION:Leslie + Lohman Musuem of Gay and Lesbian Art\, 26 Wooster Street\, New York\, NY\, 10013\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140430T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140430T210000
DTSTAMP:20260404T055417
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SUMMARY:"Children of the Brain:" Harry Hay's Life\, Theory\, and Activism\, 1953-1964. A talk by Ben Miller
DESCRIPTION:Harry Hay’s life is typically presented in two chunks: the first covers his founding of the Mattachine Society\, from approximately 1948 to his exit in 1953; the second\, his involvement with and co-founding of the Radical Faeries in the 1970s and 1980s. Very little has been written about the time in between. While Hay’s biography spends only twenty-odd pages discussing the middle period of his life\, new research demonstrates the importance of this period in his theory and activism\, and the uniqueness of his ideas about identity and politics. Between 1953 and 1955\, Hay fell into a deep political\, emotional\, and theoretical paralysis\, as demonstrated by his withdrawal from homophile activism\, unstable and dependent relationship with hat designer Jørn Kamgren\, and often difficult-to-decipher and circular research notes. This paralysis was unlocked by developments in his research and theory. Fueled by research and an until-now unknown affair with a Tewa Native American man\, Hay proposed a new social role for homophiles based on Native American traditions\, in which they were responsible for producing intellectual and cultural capital and contributing to social development.\n\n\n\nBen Miller is a New York-based writer and student of history. Current projects include thesis research on early gay activist Harry Hay that has taken him to archives in California and conferences from Pennsylvania to New Mexico\, an adaptation of an early Mozart libretto for performance at Carnegie Hall\, and new short fiction influenced by his historical research. He is the 2014 winner of New York University’s Bessie and Louis Levy Prize for Excellence in American History\, and the recipient of the Steffi Berne Research Scholarship in the Humanities from the same institution. His teachers in history and writing have included Linda Gordon\, K. Kevyne Baar\, Marcelle Clements\, and Jonathan Safran Foer. His academic writing has appeared in Historian\, College Film and Media Studies\, and the Chicago Journal of History; and his short fiction has appeared in Brio\, Studio on the Square\, and West 10th. He is editor or co-editor of several publications\, co-founder of Squid Ink Magazine (launching soon)\, and serves on the communications committee of the New York City Anti-Violence Project. He tweets @benwritesthings. \nPhoto: Harry Hay in Carmel\, 1958. San Francisco Public Library Gay and Lesbian Center. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/children-of-the-brain-harry-hays-life-theory-and-activism-1953-1964/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140501T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140501T220000
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SUMMARY:Kristiania Presents: The Queer Gaze
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the first public event of Kristiania\, an international anarcho-literary collective of politically minded writers. This will be a conversation around the subjects of queerness and subjectivity featuring the exciting authors and thinkers: \n  \nSamuel R. Delany \nAna Božičević \nSaeed Jones \nTrace Peterson \n  \nModerated by Lonely Christopher \nMore on Kristiania: www.kristiania.org \n  \n  \nSamuel R. Delany is the author of numerous science fiction books including\, Dhalgren and Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand\, as well as the best-selling nonfiction study Times Square Red\, Times Square Blue and the memoir The Motion of Light In Water. His latest novel is Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders. He lives in New York City and teaches at Temple University. The Lambda Book Report chose Delany as one of the fifty most significant men and women of the past hundred years to change our concept of gayness; he is a recipient of the William Whitehead Memorial Award for a lifetime’s contribution to lesbian and gay literature; and\, after winning four Nebula Awards and two Hugo awards over the course of his career\, The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America named him the 2013 Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master. \n  \nAna Božičević was born in Croatia in 1977 and emigrated to New York when she was nineteen. Her book of poems\, Stars of the Night Commute (Tarpaulin Sky Press) and Rise in the Fall (Birds\, LLC)\, were finalists for the 2010 and 2013 Lambda Literary Award. She completed her MFA at Hunter College and is now a PhD Candidate in English at The Graduate Center\, CUNY\, where she helps run the Annual Chapbook Festival\, Lost&Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative\, and the Transculturations Seminar. In Fall 2010\, The Feminist Press honored her as one of their 40 Under 40: The Future of Feminism award recipients. Her translation of Zvonko Karanovi ́c’s Snow on Fire was awarded the PEN American Center/NYSCA grant. The anthology of translations The Day Lady Gaga Died: An Anthology of Newer New York Poets she co-edited with Željko Miti ́c appeared in Serbia in Fall 2011. \n  \nSaeed Jones is the author of the chapbook When the Only Light is Fire (2011\, Sibling Rivalry Press) and the forthcoming poetry collection Prelude to Bruise (2014\, Coffee House Press). His work has appeared in Best Gay Stories 2013\, Guernica\, Ebony Magazine\, The Rumpus\, Hayden’s Ferry Review\, and West Branchamong other publications. Jones received his MFA in Creative Writing at Rutgers University – Newark and is the recipient of fellowships from Cave Canem and Queer / Arts / Mentors. He works as the editor of Buzzfeed LGBT and lives in Brooklyn. \n  \nTrace Peterson’s two favorite things are sex and literary criticism. Author of the poetry book Since I Moved In(Chax Press) and numerous chapbooks of poems\, she is also Editor / Publisher of EOAGH\, co-editor of the new anthology Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics (Nightboat Books) which is a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award this year\, and co-editor of the forthcoming Gil Ott: Collected Writings(Chax Press). From 2009-2012\, she curated the TENDENCIES: Poetics & Practice series inspired by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick at CUNY Graduate Center in NYC\, where she is currently a Ph.D. Candidate. \n  \nLonely Christopher is a poet and filmmaker. He is the author of the poetry collection Death & Disaster Series (Monk Books\, 2014) and the short story collection The Mechanics of Homosexual Intercourse\, which was a 2011 selection of Dennis Cooper’s Little House on the Bowery imprint of Akashic Books. His plays have been produced in New York City and China. He wrote and directed the feature film MOM (Cavazos Films\, 2013) and his stories have been adapted for the screen in Canada and France. He lives in Brooklyn and is the programming director for the Kristiania Collective. \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/kristiania-presents-the-queer-gaze/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140502T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140502T210000
DTSTAMP:20260404T055417
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SUMMARY:(dis)Assembly: Eileen Myles...Jennifer Natalya Fink...Iris Cushing
DESCRIPTION:Three queer women writers of various genres read from their latest\, taking apart and putting together an image of the world around them. \nMoving between revelry in the parts\, words\, objects that piece together and the ultimate looming vision of the completed puzzle\, these writers play with language in a way that gets to a sense of “reality” both within and beyond the words of their respective texts. \n\nEileen Myles is an poet and writer who has produced more than twenty volumes of poetry\, fiction\, nonfiction\, libretti\, plays\, and performance pieces over the last three  decades. In 2012\, she publishedSnowflake/different streets\, a combination of two distinct poetry collections in one binding. Also in 2012\, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship to complete Afterglow\, which gives both a real and fantastic account of a dog’s life.\nJennifer Natalya Fink is a mother of a hilarious and brilliant six-year-old girl\, a professor of English at Georgetown University\, a literacy activist\, and an all-around hell-raiser. She is the author of three award-winning novels\, The MIKVAH QUEEN\, BURN\, and V\, and a short-story collection\, THIRTEEN FUGUES. \n\nIris Cushing is the author of Wyoming\, winner of the 2013 Furniture Press Poetry Prize. She lives in New York and is an editor at Argos Books and Circumference: Poetry in Translation. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/disassembly-eileen-myles-jennifer-natalya-fink-iris-cushing/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140503T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140503T230000
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SUMMARY:Ectoplasms
DESCRIPTION:Ectoplasm refers to a vomit-like substance produced by mediums during seances\, supposedly as a manifestation of otherworldly spirits. For this performance salon and accompanying zine\, we would like to use the phenomenon of ectoplasm as a way of thinking about the creation of the abject\, what for Julia Kristeva constitutes that which has been discharged from the body\, rendered excrement. How does the body function as a sight of transactions\, of exits and entrances? In what ways is the abject haunted? What ghosts are coming out of you?\nGIVE US UR BLOOD UR TEARS UR PUKE. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/ectoplasms/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140506T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140506T220000
DTSTAMP:20260404T055417
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SUMMARY:THE REAPPEARING ACT: BOOK PARTY
DESCRIPTION:Kate Fagan\, a former Division 1 Basketball player and current ESPN writer\, has written an honest and heartfelt memoir about coming out in sports.  She is teaming up with two major local organizations and a few big names in sports including former NFL player\, Wade Davis.  Davis is the Executive Director of You Can Play Project and Nevin Caple\, co-founder of Br{ache the Silence Campaign also played Division 1 Basketball. \n  \nPLEASE NOTE: THE BUREAU IS CLOSED ON TUESDAYS\, BUT WE WILL OPEN AT 6 PM FOR THIS EVENT. \n  \n \nThe Reappearing Act: Coming Out as Gay on a College Basketball Team Led by Born Again Christians \nIt’s hard enough coming out\, but playing basketball for a nationally ranked school and trying to figure out your sexual identity in the closeted and paranoid world of big-time college sports—that’s a challenge. In The Reappearing Act (Skyhorse Publishing; May 6\, 2014) Kate Fagan tells her coming-of-age story about how she discovered her true self and slowly found the courage to live authentically.\nFagan’s love for basketball and for her religious teammates at the University of Colorado was tested by the gut-wrenching realization that she could no longer ignore the feelings of otherness inside her. In trying to blend in\, Kate had created a hilariously incongruous world for herself in Boulder. Her best friends were part of Colorado’s Fellowship of Christian Athletes\, where they ran weekly Bible studies and attended an Evangelical Free Church. For nearly a year\, Kate joined them and learned all she could about Christianity—even holding their hands as they prayed for others “living a sinful lifestyle.” Each time the issue of homosexuality arose\, she felt as if a neon sign appeared over her head\, with a giant arrow pointed downward. During these prayer sessions\, she would often keep her eyes open\, looking around the circle at the closed eyelids of her friends\, listening to the earnestness of their words. \nKate didn’t have a vocabulary for discussing who she really was and what she felt when she was younger; all she knew was that she had a secret. In The Reappearing Act\, she brings the reader along for the ride as she slowly accepts her new reality and takes the first steps toward embracing her true self. \n  \n\nKate Fagan is a columnist and feature writer for espnW\, ESPN.com and ESPN The Magazine. She is also an in-studio contributor for The Word\, a digital video segment that examines hot topics in sports. Previously\, Fagan spent three seasons covering the 76ers for the Philadelphia Inquirer. Her work was cited in the anthology of Best American Sports Writing 2013\, and she has also been featured on Longreads\, a site that curates the best in long-form journalism and fiction. She lives in Brooklyn\, New York. \nVisit Kate Fagan’s Website \nFollow Kate on Twitter \n  \n  \n \nWade Davis \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:NEWFANGLED 2: Robert Siek Introduces Joey De Jesus\, Ryan Doyle May\, & Roberto Montes
DESCRIPTION:NEWFANGLED returns to the Bureau! Robert Siek introduces poets Joey De Jesus\, Ryan Doyle May\, & Roberto Montes for a night of poetry readings. \n  \n \nJOEY DE JESUS is originally from the Soundview neighborhood of the Bronx. He received his BA from Oberlin College and his MFA in Poetry from Sarah Lawrence College. His work has appeared in The Cortland Review\, Devil’s Lake\, Dislocate\, Guernica\, Kin Poetry Journal\, LUMINA\, Rhino\, Versal\, and elsewhere. He recently moved to Harlem. \n  \n  \n \nRYAN DOYLE MAY’s work has appeared in various journals and performances. He is the author of the chapbook The Anatomy of Gray (Corresponding Society Press) and acted as the lead in the short film August\, which was selected for the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. He has an MFA in Creative Writing from the New School and is currently finishing a novel. He lives in Brooklyn. \n  \n  \n \nROBERTO MONTES is the author of I DON’T KNOW DO YOU and “HOW TO BE SINCERE IN YOUR POETRY” WORKSHOP\, which is now available in full at napuniversityonline.com. He lives in Queens. \n  \n  \n \nROBERT SIEK is a poet who lives in Brooklyn. He is the author of the chapbook Clubbed Kid\, published in 2002 by the New School\, and the full-length collection of poetry Purpose and Devil Piss\, published by Sibling Rivalry Press in 2013. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/newfangled-2/
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SUMMARY:Bear Bards Read! NYC Book Launch for Hibernation\, and other poems
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a fun and fur-filled evening of hirsute literary pursuit for the premiere reading and book launch for the new bear poetry anthology\, Hibernation\, and other poems by bear bards. Bear down to listen up as an outstanding group of authors reads from the book as well as other poems. Time allowing\, we will open the mic to anyone who wants to read their bear-themed verse. This free event will be hosted by editor Ron J. Suresha and features contributing authors Scott Hightower\, Daniel Lewiston\, Rocco Russo\, Jordan M. Shu\, Chris Vaccaro\, and Emanuel Xavier. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/bear-bards-read-nyc-book-launch-for-hibernation-and-other-poems/
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SUMMARY:Black and Pink Letter Writing and Screening of ‘A Kiss for Gabriela’
DESCRIPTION:Come join us in writing letters\, postcards and words of encouragement to our queer and trans family incarcerated in New York state. Writing a letter\, postcard\, or sending a drawing is a great way to brighten someone’s week! B & P will provide pens\, paper & answer all questions. At 8:30 we will be screening an amazing film called Um Beijo para Gabriela which is Portuguese for A Kiss For Gabriela. “Gabriela Leite is the first sex worker to run for Brazilian Congress. “A Kiss for Gabriela” tells the story of her 2010 campaign as she faces 822 opponents and challenges a male dominated political system to see if a sex worker\, activist\, wife\, mother\, and cultural icon since founding the clothing line\, Daspu\, can beat the odds and win the election.” \n  \n  \nBlack and Pink NYC is a chapter of the national queer prison abolition group Black and Pink\, dedicated to supporting our queer & trans (Gender  and/or Sexual Minority) comrades\, friends\, and loved ones currently incarcerated. We aim to provide support work\, advocacy and direct action for folks in prison\, as well as host and facilitate events in the NYC area. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/black-and-pink-letter-writing-and-screening-of-a-kiss-for-gabriela/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140513T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140513T210000
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SUMMARY:Bureau at Second Tuesday Lecture Series for Tom Spanbauer Reading from "I Loved You More"
DESCRIPTION:The Bureau will be on hand selling copies of Tom Spanbauer‘s I Loved You More at his reading at The Second Tuesday Lecture Series at The LGBT Center in NYC. \nReserve a copy of the book in advance by contacting Greg Newton at contact@bgsqd.com. \nDoors open at 6:30 pm\, talk at 7:00 pm (until 9:00 pm) \nTom Spanbauer is the critically acclaimed author of four bestselling LGBTQ novels and a noted writing teacher. As a writer he has explored issues of race\, sexual identity\, and the new families that we create for ourselves to surmount the families that we were born into. \nTom Spanbauer’s first novel in seven years is a love triangle with a gay main character who charms both gays and straights. I Loved You More is a rich tale of love\, sex\, and heartbreak\, covering twenty-five years in the life of a emotionally wounded writer. \nIn New York\, Ben forms a bond of love with his macho friend and foil\, Hank. Years later in Portland\, a struggling and ill Ben falls for Ruth\, who provides care and devotion but cannot fulfill all of his needs. The real trouble starts when Hank reappears and meets Ruth. Set against a world of struggling artists\, the underground sex scene of New York in the 1980s\, and the confining Idaho of Ben’s youth\, I Loved You More is the author’s most breathtaking and graphic novel. \nThe trailer for I Loved You More is available on YouTube: www.youtu.be/D0lB7DBD6HU \nTom Spanbauer is the founder of the “Dangerous Writing” method that\, like his novels\, combines a fresh and lyrical prose style with solid storytelling. His students include Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club\, Invisible Monsters\, and Choke)\, Monica Drake\, and Stevan Allred.\nTom Spanbauer lives in Portland\, Oregon where he teaches. In addition to his new novel\, his award-winning books include Faraway Places\, The Man Who Fell In Love With The Moon\, In The City Of Shy Hunters\, and Now Is The Hour. You can find more information about Mr. Spanbauer at his personal website: www.TomSpanbauer.com. \nMore information and pre-registration available here. \nABOUT THE SECOND TUESDAY LECTURE SERIES \nThe Second Tuesday Lecture Series is the longest running program at The LGBT Center. Since 1985\, more than 140 speakers have made presentations in the arts\, academia\, and politics. Speakers representing every major cultural award\, including the Pulitzer Prize\, the Grammy Award\, the Academy Award (The Oscars)\, Broadway’s Tony Awards\, the Lambda Literary Award\, and the National Book Award\, as well as the UK Booker Literary Award\, have made presentations. Through this program\, Larry Kramer spoke about the plight of the AIDS Crisis in March 1987\, thus beginning ACT-UP\, the largest direct action AIDS organization in the world. For more information see www.SecondTuesday.org. \nABOUT THE LESBIAN\, GAY\, BISEXUAL & TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY CENTER \nEstablished in 1983\, the LGBT Community Center is at the heart of the lesbian\, gay\, bisexual\, and transgender community in New York City\, providing quality health and wellness programs in a welcoming space that fosters connections and celebrates our cultural contributions. The Center serves the community with a full-service approach to programming\, from hosting arts and entertainment events and advocacy groups to offering youth and overall wellness programs. Each year\, the Center welcomes more than 300\,000 visits to their building in the West Village. To learn more\, visit www.GayCenter.org. \nCenter link: https://gaycenter.org/second-tuesday \nCONTACT\nHoward Williams\, Second Tuesday Curator\, Howard@SecondTuesday.org\nRobert Woodworth\, Robert@GayCenter.org\, 212-620-7310 \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/bureau-at-second-tuesday-for-tom-spanbauer-reading-from-i-loved-you-more/
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SUMMARY:Writing Live: An Introduction to Documentary Poetics
DESCRIPTION:I let my hands become weapons…and I feel prepared for the rest of my life. – David Wojnarowicz \nWhat happens to documentary practice when we turn our hands into weapons? What happens when we start writing history with a sense of urgency\, rather than a sense of detachment? A brief introduction will be offered as we read excerpts from texts by David Wojnarowicz \, Juliana Spahr\, Maggie Nelson\, and Muriel Rukeyser. In exploring techniques these authors use\, we can understand documentary writing as “writing live\,” the process where we piece together various strands of personal and community history as means of searching for possible futures. The remainder of the evening will be spent on individual projects\, where we will actively cut and paste together material into larger narratives. \nAll writing levels are welcome\, as documentary poetics encompasses a variety of different interests. Since this requires active participation\, please come with some previous writing\, a news story\, a magazine article\, or other kind of ephemera you feel comfortable repurposing. \nPlease email Kyle at kyle.bella@gmail.com to let him know you will be attending and what your topic might be. He wants to keep the group intimate and be aware of any possible sensitive topics in advance. \n  \nKyle Bella currently resides in Brooklyn\, where he works as a Social Media Fellow at Alternet and does freelance writing. Previous work has appeared in Jacket 2\, Buzzfeed LGBT\, Truthout\, [wherever] magazine\, and nomorepotlucks. Forthcoming work is expected in hello mr. magazine and Radioactive Moat Press. His newest book project Viral Legacies\, examining HIV/AIDS histories\, begins in May. \n  \nArt work by David Wojnarowicz\, Fuck You Faggot Fucker\, 1984\, black and white photographs\, acrylic\, and collage on masonite\, 48 x 48 inches\, courtesy of PPOW Gallery. \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/writing-live-an-introduction-to-documentary-poetics/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140516T190000
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SUMMARY:A one-night stand with Evripidis and his Tragedies and special guests Dane Terry and Dalin
DESCRIPTION:An introduction to the world of Evripidis Sabatis AKA Evripidis and his Tragedies\, where music\, writing and drawing intertwine to picture a world of love\, lust and loss. \nEvripidis will perform an acoustic concert and present an exhibition of his original artwork and his illustrated book “El Calamor y otros mitos de la intimidad” (Spanish only). \nMusicians Dane Terry and Dalin will also perform. \n  \nPhoto by Nicholas Prakas\nEvripidis and his Tragedies is the alter ego of Evripidis Sabatis. This classically trained Athenian pianist\, visual artist and writer shares not only his name with the great tragedian Euripides of antiquity but to some extent\, his eye for storytelling\, painted by splashes of tragic realism but also humor\, that celebrates heroes who are overwhelmed by their passions and end up burning brightly. \nIn Evripidis and his Tragedies´songs\, lovers ride the tidal waves in vain\, teeth fall out one by one\, summers are long and lazy and full of song (or are utterly blue)\, stray dogs are irresistible and treacherous\, nights are sleepless and scary\, little sisters grow up to be stronger than their brothers\, lights are out\, hearts are not pure\, weddings turn into riots\, ghosts take the living for car rides\, death dances in the shadows of a hospital room\, nightlife takes legendary proportions\, homesickness is a necessary consequence of a life on the run\, Sunday mornings are haunting\, funerals are celebrated as parties\, the sky is red above the harbour\, the worst enemy and torturer is one´s self and pain comes in healthy doses. Evripidis worships what is no longer here\, what has left just a scar. His world is a melancholy love affair where romanticism never died\, where harmony is created with a intelligent view on contemporary life\, for winners and losers\, victims and victors\, heroes and villains. \nOne Journalist stated that in Evripidis and his Tragedies’ music there are echoes of all kinds of western popular music from the last 120 years: classical impressionism\, cabaret\, 20´s\, 30´s and 40´s American songs\, musicals\, folk\, soundtracks and most of all\, pop from the late 50´s until now. Add to this mix some touches of baroque music\, an unconditional love for the 60´s\, the indie pop and some unique\, maverick songwriters\, and Evripidis´ own distinctive piano-playing and you have a project that escapes a clear definition. The best way to understand it is to just listen to it. \nLyrically\, Evripidis lingers among hopeless romanticism\, dark humor and dry cyniscism. Love\, lust and loss\, as well as family\, friends and death. These are the recurring themes in his songs but also in his writing and his visual artwork. As he wryly puts it\, “The stuff that makes my world go round”. His turn of phrase exposes his literary background and this makes his lyrics pocket dramas on their own. \nEvripidis´ drawings usually consist of nightmarish chimeras\, monstruous flora\, dramatic landscapes and twisted allegories. Surrealism\, symbolism and grotesque play a big part in his art\, as well as lived experiences and traumas. \nHis illstrated book “El Calamor y oros mitos de la intimidad” is the perfect merging between Evripidis major artistic disciplines\, featuring drawings\, original texts in Spanish and lyrics in English. \nSince 2007 Evripidis and his Tragedies has released two full albums and various EPs as well as music for short movies and art projects. Lately\, Evripidis has been living out and about\, swinging among Barcelona\, Athens\, London\, Berlin and NYC\, something that is reflected in his new material and recent collaborations. He is currently finishing his third album with some of his long-time musical partners and some new entries in this crowded\, creative musical family. \nHe has participated in various group exhibitions and in April 2010 he presented his first solo exhibition entitled “Why do lovers break each other’s hearts?” in the gallery\n6 d.o.g.s in Athens. Since then he has exhibited in Madrid\, Barcelona and Berlin. This will be the first time he is exhibiting his drawings in New York. \n  \n \nDane Terry is a performer and composer based in NYC. Terry’s songs act as surreal theater miniatures that range from dark to funny. Colored with Sci-Fi themes and what he terms “Frillbilly” music\, his performances often take the form of bizarre vignettes of music and monologue. He has performed as part of the HOT festival of queer theater at Dixon Place 3 times\, toured internationally and he continues to perform in theaters and venues all around NYC including Joes Pub\, Bowery Poetry and La Mama. \n  \n \nDALIN is a pop music act making happy\, heartfelt\, danceable tunes. Singer/writer/producer Jonathan Dalin grew up in a musical family from Detroit with connections to the Jazz and classical scenes as well as soul and gospel music. This summer Dalin will be releasing the video and Single YOU LOOK GOOD\, as well as a collection of sexy\, high-energy pop songs. Stay tuned for YOU LOOK GOOD and Listen for DALIN songs on playlists at your next BBQ or while you’re rockin’ your boo. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/a-one-night-stand-with-evripidis-and-his-tragedies-and-special-guests-dane-terry-and-dalin/
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SUMMARY:SCORCHER Issue #7 Release Party
DESCRIPTION:Celebrating the release of Scorcher issue #7 (“Valedictorian”)\, published by Birdsong Micropress\, please join Max Steele at the Bureau of General Services Queer Division for an evening of readings by: Max Steele\, Tommy Pico\,  Anthony Thornton\, Kayla Morse\, and Sam McKinniss. \nCover drawing of Scorcher issue #7 (“Valedictorian”) by Julia Norton. \n  \nTommy “Teebs” Pico is the founder and editor in chief of birdsong\, an antiracist/queer-positive collective\, small press\, and zine that publishes art and writing\, and the author of Absent Mindr—the first chapbook app published for iOS mobile/tablet devices (VERBALVISUAL\, 2014). He was a Queer/Art/Mentors inaugural fellow\, 2013 Lambda Literary fellow in poetry\, and has been published in BOMB\, [PANK]\, and the Best American Poetry blog. Originally from the Viejas Indian reservation of the Kumeyaay nation\, he now lives in Brooklyn. \n  \nAnthony Thornton is an American poet living and working in New York. He has read at numerous venues (CULTUREfix\, Envoy Enterprises\, The Spectrum\, the Bureau of General Services-Queer Division\, Starr Space) and private salons\, and is editing his forthcoming second poetry collection\, New Directions. \n  \nKayla Morse is settling into that kind of cool\, level-headed maturity that women of a certain age enjoy.  PSYCH. \n  \nMax Steele is a performer and writer living in Brooklyn. He has presented work at Dixon Place\, the New Museum\, Deitch Projects\, BAM\, Joe’s Pub\, Envoy Enterprises\, PPOW Gallery\, UPenn’s Kelly Writers’ House\, the Afterglow Festival and the Queens Museum of Art. He writes the psychedelic porno poetry zine Scorcher\, and his writing has been featured in Dossier Journal\, Spank\, East Village Boys\, Birdsong\, Vice\, Noisey\, and Best Gay Stories 2014. He has been an Artist in Residence at BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange since 2012. \n  \nSam McKinniss is an artist and writer in New York. His paintings have been on view recently at envoy enterprises and Good Work Gallery in New York as well as at Galerie Thomas Fuchs in Stuttgart. His writing has appeared in Adult Magazine\, DIS Magazine\, the Library at Dirty Looks NYC and Pastelegram.org. \n  \n  \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:DEADLINE: Works-in-Progress from Cutting-edge Queer Artists. featuring Ariel Speedwagon\, Sabrina Chap\, Anna Hovhannessian\, Elizabeth Whitney and Zach Wager Scholl
DESCRIPTION:Post-Clown Disaster\, Ariel Federow and Cabaret Idiot\, Sabrina Chap bring you this new works-in-progress series featuring new work from cutting edge queer artists.  Built on the notion that there’s no greater inspiration than a deadline\, this series forces renegade artists to bring new and developing work to an audience for the first time.  Part experimentation + part guaranteed failure = 100% awesomeness.  \nAriel “Speedwagon” Federow will be workshopping the second two installments of “Lavender Valley\,” the world’s preeminent powerpoint lesbian soap opera.\n \n  \nSabrina Chap will be performing the first half of her electric guitar radio musical\, ‘Postcards from Nevermore’\, visually scored by a projection from Anna Hovhannessian.\n\n  \nTricia Clayton Biltmore is everyone’s favorite lesbian ally and Elizabeth Whitney’s alter ego. Hailing from Bainbridge\, GA\, she is the woman Elizabeth might have been if she had never left Tallahassee.\n\n  \n“Sisters\,” Zachary Wager Scholl’s newest writing\, is a work-in-progress ode to the baby gay adventure of discovery and friendship. Set to the backdrop of a working class suburb\, “Sisters” is part raunch/ part tender\, glimmering under the light of a gas station by the highway.\n  \n  \nAriel “Speedwagon” Federow’s work has been seen on Broadway\, Lafayette\, Houston\, Chrystie\, Fulton\, N 6th\, and other streets and avenue in NYC and beyond. Her stories\, slideshows and slapstick have been seen places like LaMama ETC\, Dixon Place\, the Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics\, Pussy Faggot\, and Hey Queen! Company member: the Ballez and Butch Burlesque.\n\n  \nDeemed\, ‘Rousing!’ by the New Yorker\, Sabrina Chap is a writer\, musician\, cabaret artist and all around dilettante. Her latest album\, the anthemic queer bonanza ‘We Are the Parade’ was deemed\, ‘Joyous’ by the Advocate.  She also edited the book\, ‘Live Through This- On Creativity and Self-Destruction’\, now with an intro by Amanda Palmer and essays by Nan Goldin\, bell hooks\, Swoon\, Kate Bornstein and more.  sabrinachap.com\n\n  \nAnna Hovhannessian is a filmmaker and editor.  TV credits include a lot of sensationalistic murder shows and some talk show nonsense.   Her film credits include in the documentaries ‘Bully’ (Tribeca premiere)\, ‘She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry’ (Boston Independent Film) and the short film ‘Happy Hour’.  Her performance videography was featured in the dance production of ‘Echoes and Dreams’ (NYC Fringe Festival).\n \n  \nElizabeth Whitney‘s recent projects include playing a closeted New Jersey housewife in Madeleine Olnek’s The Foxy Merkins (Sundance 2014)\, a feminist TedX lecturer in the popular web series High Maintenance\, and being a member of alt-country trio Menage A Twang (www.menageatwang.com). She teaches in the City University of New York. www.elizabethjwhitney.com\n \n  \nZachary Wager Scholl is a performer and writer. He most recently performed in Angry Women Revisited\, with J. Dellecave and company. Long-term projects include: his work with the Man Meat Collective; playing with the Rude Mechanical Orchestra; and creating transgressivepolitical queer Purimshpiln with the Aftselokhes Spectacle Committee.\n \n \n \n 
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140521T190000
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SUMMARY:Martin Duberman: Reading and signing for Hold Tight Gently: Michael Callen\, Essex Hemphill\, and the Battlefield of AIDS
DESCRIPTION:From award-winning historian and activist Martin Duberman comes a poignant dual biography of two men central to activism in the early days of the AIDS epidemic. Michael Callen and Essex Hemphill were both diagnosed with AIDS and raised awareness of the epidemic prior to the nation at large becoming aware of the disease’s existence. The year 1995 saw the release of protease inhibitors\, the first effective treatment for AIDS\, but it was also the year Essex Hemphill\, an African American poet and performance artist\, died from complications related to the disease. Michael Callen\, a singer\, songwriter and pioneering AIDS activist from the Midwest\, had already passed away two years earlier. \nDuberman documents each man’s life and work while providing readers a rare glimpse into how the United States\, both at large and from within the LGBTQ community\, approached the AIDS epidemic as it was unfolding. Hold Tight Gently closely examines the earlier years before U.S. culture was made more fully aware of disease; Duberman poignantly and respectfully utilizes Callen and Hemphill’s stories to explore how their disparate communities responded to the crisis in unique ways. \nHold Tight Gently is more than a moving dual biography of two unsung heroes of the pre-ACT UP period; it is essential to understanding the disease’s history and impact amidst a reality that many ignored or denied. \n  \nPhoto by Raymond Adams\nMartin Duberman is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History at the CUNY Graduate Center. The author of more than twenty books\, including a highly acclaimed biography of Paul Robeson\, Duberman has won a Bancroft Prize and been a finalist for both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. He lives in New York City. \n  \nPraise for Hold Tight Gently: Michael Callen\, Essex Hemphill\, and the Battlefield of AIDS (The New Press\, 2014) \nSeldom has a biographer been able to honor the doomed courage of his subjects with such redeeming insightfulness. Martin Duberman’s Hold Tight Gently is an unflinching masterpiece.\n—David Levering Lewis\, university professor\, emeritus\, New York University\, and Pulitzer Prize winner for biography \nWe are always in danger of forgetting the past\, and the huge advances we have made against HIV/AIDS often obscure the pain and the politics of the early years of the epidemic. InHold Tight Gently\, Martin Duberman has brilliantly re-created this tumultuous era. Tracing these two lives through poetry and activism\, Duberman captures the pain\, despair\, panic\, heroism\, and moral bravery that defined the generation of women and men who first faced this modern plague. Daringly imagined and beautifully written\, Hold Tight Gently is a major work of modern history that chills us to the bone even as it moves us to tears.\n—Michael Bronski\, Professor of Practice in Activism and Media Studies of Women\, Gender\, and Sexuality\, Harvard University \nA dynamic people’s history of AIDS that must be read\, debated\, critiqued\, and applauded. Michael Callen\, Essex Hemphill\, and other visionaries are revealed as complex individuals who made change but did not benefit from it. Throughout\, Duberman confronts the racism at the core of the AIDS movement that became the global crisis of access to treatment. A bold work for a community that wants to understand itself.\n—Sarah Schulman\, author ofIsrael/Palestine and the Queer International \nMartin Duberman’s work has been a continuing rescue mission to make sure that vital\, but forgotten\, stories from the past remain alive in our memory. With Hold Tight Gently\, he has done it again and magnificently so. Michael Callen and Essex Hemphill come back to life in these pages. Funny and moving\, enlightening and thoughtful\, inspiring and enraging\, this dual biography reveals the heartbreaking losses caused by the epidemic as well as the many ways people fought back. It can teach those who weren’t there what that first decade of AIDS was like and remind those of us who were how intense those years were. And all this through the life stories of two compelling individuals.\n—John D’Emilio\, professor of gender and women’s studies and history\, University of Illinois at Chicago \nHold Tight Gently is a deeply moving work of largely hidden history. Martin Duberman brilliantly chronicles not only grassroots AIDS organizing in the early days of the epidemic but also the vibrant black lesbian and gay political and cultural movement that flowered during the same period. Through the lives of two remarkable men\, Hold Tight Gently illuminates how race and class are inextricably linked to the struggle for sexual freedom and that against all odds people can fight for justice every day. A wonderful and important book.\n—Barbara Smith\, author of The Truth That Never Hurts and co-founder of Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press \nThrough his probing and insightful chronicle of the lives of two very different gay men who were early voices in the fight against AIDS\, Martin Duberman has again brought light to shine in a personal way on the role of progressives in LGBT struggles and the importance of addressing how race\, class\, and gender impact this epidemic and who survives it. Sadly\, these perspectives are still urgently needed in today’s world\, where those facing the devastation of AIDS are often invisible to mainstream politics. A poignant and politically potent tribute to those who have died from AIDS and who fought to make a difference even as their lives were cut short.\n—Charlotte Bunch\, Distinguished Professor in Women’s and Gender Studies\, Rutgers University \nHold Tight Gently is an absorbing read. It’s a necessary introduction to the uninitiated and a profound challenge to the collective amnesia concerning the AIDS crisis in the 1980s\, one that shimmers with insights and lessons about race\, sexuality\, and class. Duberman’s take on these seminal figures illuminates their singular and collective triumphs and struggles and how the pandemic profoundly impacted political and social organizing by gays in the ’80s and ’90s. The biographer renders Hemphill and Callen with respect and grace—just the way they should be.\n—Steven G. Fullwood\, co-editor of Black Gay Genius \nMartin Duberman’s profoundly moving reconsideration of Michael Callen and Essex Hemphill is much needed now\, as AIDS continues to ravage so much of our world. This marvelous book\, filled with surprising connections\, will be read by activists everywhere and empower the future.\n—Blanche Wiesen Cook\, author of Eleanor Roosevelt \n  \ncover story for A&U \nstarred PW review \nexcerpt on Advocate.com \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:TELL 4 WINNING
DESCRIPTION:TELL 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. \nWinning is the theme of the fourth installment of TELL. \nFeaturing special guests: \nVarín Ayala \nGabriella Belfiglio \nEllie Conant \nZil Goldstein \n  \n  \n \nVarín Ayala: Off Broadway: The Taming of the Shrew (TFANA with Maggie Siff; dir\, Arin Arbus); NY Theater: Contigo (Signature); 365 Days/Plays (The Public); Jackson Heights 3AM (Theater 167): Las Facultades\, The Beep (Pregones); Barber Surgeons (Studio 42); End of Summer\, Love’s Labour’s Lost (Kaleidoscope at Cherry Lane); Numerous readings and workshops at NYTW\, The Public\, INTAR\, The Lark\, among others. Regional Theater: Pinkolandia (Two River Theater; premiere)\, The Motherf**er with the Hat (Hartford TheaterWorks)\, The Road to Washington (Mountain Playhouse)\, Angels in America I/II (Civic Theater of Allentown). TV:  Lie to Me\, Hustling. Training: The Actors Center Conservatory\, Shakespeare Lab at The Public\, Groundlings. \n  \n  \n \nGabriella M. Belfiglio lives in Brooklyn\, NY with her partner and three cats.  She teaches self-defense\, conflict resolution\, karate\, and tai chi to people of all ages throughout the five boroughs. \nMost recently\, Gabriella won second place in the 2014 W.B. Yeats Poetry Contest.  She earned Special Merit Recognition in the Comstock Review’s 2013 Muriel Craft Bailey Poetry Contest. \nGabriella’s work has been published in many anthologies and journals including Radius\, The Centrifugal Eye\, Folio\, Avanti Popolo\, Poetic Voices without Borders\, C\,C\,&D\, The Avocet\, The Potomac Review\, Eclectica\, Lambda Literary Review\, The Monterey Poetry Review and The Dream Catcher’s Song.  She is currently compiling a full-length collection of her poetry. \n  \n  \n \nEllie Conant is a former party promoter giving her liver a rest and taking up writing again. She ran Choice Cunts\, a rare party for raw queers for 6 years. Her main motivation to throw parties was to get the friendliest people she knew together\, get them drunk\, and watch them turn into assholes. Now almost 35\, Ellie is focusing on her talents in the kitchen\, the bedroom\, and the hallway. She believes hallways are dreadfully neglected and they need more attention. \n  \n  \n \nZil Garner Goldstein has not been a performer for about 10 years. She can tell you what to eat and will probably tell you what to wear\, and is very good at telling you. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
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