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SUMMARY:Fatspo Podcast Book Club
DESCRIPTION:RSVP TO THIS EVENT HERE \nDiscussing writing by fat liberation scholars and fat icons\, making new friends with similar values\, and browsing the Bureau’s shelves: Welcome to Fatspo Pod’s NYC book club!\n\nRSVP to help us plan the best experience possible. You’ll also be added to our WhatsApp group where we discuss the book of the month\, anything else we’re reading\, and future NYC fat liberation events. \nOur October pick\, Emma Copley Eisenberg’s Fat Swim\, will be available for purchase. \nKat Lyon is the co-host of Fatspo Podcast and the host of the NYC Fatspo Pod Book Club. Fatspo Podcast dives into the untold histories of fat icons and fat liberation scholars to inform how we embody our fullest selves and support each other\, as media and culture increasingly devalues our very existence. \nThe Bureau of General Services—Queer Division is Manhattan’s only queer bookstore\, located on the second floor of the LGBT Center. We’re open Tuesday-Sunday from 1-7pm. Our cafe\, The Bureau Café\, is open Tuesday-Sunday from 9am-7pm. We are accessible via the F M 1 2 3 L to 14th St and 6 Ave.
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SUMMARY:Florida Man: Text\, Image\, and Multimedia Approach to Self-Publishing and Promoting Autofiction and Memoirs
DESCRIPTION:RSVP TO THIS EVENT HERE \nThe “Florida Man” archetype of the mid-twentieth century lives on through the lively subversion of rigid gender expectations torn apart by the counterculture—an era when resistance turned to campy rainbow colors\, blinding Anita Bryant’s bullhorn-fueled preaching. \nJoin author and photojournalist Matthew Bamberg for an evening of queer historical quirks\, outrageous storytelling\, and a National Enquirer-style drama-orama of love-ins\, drug cartels\, and the dawn of the occult New Age. \nA gay Florida Man belts out the “Floridaesque” landscape of 1970s Miami during a burgeoning counterculture that cracked open sultry closet doors to let in fresh air. Drawing on his popular essays and composite novel Coconut Grove Chronicles\, Bamberg explores the bizarre\, vibrant collision of gay\, Cuban\, and Jewish cultures in Coconut Grove—a scene that made San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury look second-rate. \nWhat to Expect: \n\nRetro Party: Journey back to 1972 to experience life as a suburban working boy selling orgy butter\, bongs\, and coke spoons in a head shop facing the back patio of The Hamlet\, one of Coconut Grove’s first gay bars.\nThe Psychological Closet: Take a deep dive into the internal realities of growing up in the closet while navigating the cosmic auroras of an astrologer mother who charted planets for cartel wives.\nThe Independent Publishing Masterclass: Beyond the wild memoir\, Bamberg—an experienced educator—outlines the modern book publishing process\, sharing how to harness platforms like IngramSpark to transform personal history into compelling\, professionally produced autofiction.\n\nPart quirky history lesson\, part retro multimedia masterclass\, and part storytelling hour\, this event connects personal narrative to broader cultural resistance. Come for the “Florida Man” debauchery; stay for the blueprint on how to write and publish your own story. \nThe Bureau of General Services—Queer Division is Manhattan’s only queer bookstore\, located on the second floor of the LGBT Center. We’re open Tuesday-Sunday from 1-7pm and accessible by the 6th Ave 1 2 3 L trains and 8th Ave A C E trains. Our cafe\, The Bureau Cafe\, is open Tuesday-Sunday from 9am-7pm.
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SUMMARY:The Death of the Clinic: Benoît Loiseau in conversation with Sarah Schulman
DESCRIPTION:RSVP TO THIS EVENT HERE \nWeaving together biography\, memoir and cultural history\, The Death of the Clinic is a groundbreaking exploration of five experimental clinics in recent Western history: a sex clinic housed in a stately mansion in Weimar Berlin; a preventive health centre in pre-NHS London; a post-war institute of psychiatry and medical philosophy in a French château; a feminist health centre born from the women’s liberation movement in Geneva; and a grassroots research initiative featuring clinical trials run by and for people with AIDS in 1980s–90s New York.  \nLoiseau’s investigation is anchored in his own encounters with medical care and in the quiet influence of one health worker who shaped his life: his mother. In moving and reflective interludes addressed to her\, Loiseau illuminates the emotional and ethical stakes of medicine. Reframing Michel Foucault’s seminal book\, Loiseau’s The Death of the Clinic is a radical invitation to rethink the clinic – not as a fixed institution but as a living\, evolving practice rooted in care\, resistance and collective imagination. \nThere will be a signing after the event. Copies of the book will be available for purchase. \nBenoît Loiseau is a writer\, critic and scholar of French and comparative literature. A founding editor of queer anthology The BitterSweet Review\, he has written for ArtReview\, frieze\, the Guardian\, the New York Times and The White Review. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow at New York University and Paris 8 University. The Death of the Clinic (Fitzcarraldo Editions / Yale University Press\, 2026) is his first book. His next book\, provisionally titled The Queer Art of Autofabulation: Disobedient Self-Fictions After HIV/AIDS\, is forthcoming with NYU Press. \nSarah Schulman is a novelist\, playwright\, screenwriter\, nonfiction writer\, and AIDS historian. She teaches creative writing at Northwestern University and is on the advisory board of Jewish Voice for Peace. Her 21st book is The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity.  \nThe Bureau of General Services—Queer Division is Manhattan’s only queer bookstore\, located on the second floor of the LGBT Center. We’re open Tuesday-Sunday from 1-7pm and accessible by the 6th Ave 1 2 3 L trains and 8th Ave A C E trains. Our cafe\, The Bureau Cafe\, is open Tuesday-Sunday from 9am-7pm.  \nAdvance Praise \n‘…Benoît Loiseau offers us a different way through twentieth-century queer and trans histories… This is a stunning book that juxtaposes fine-grained histories of medicine\, anarchy\, psychiatry and resistance.’—Jack Halberstam\, author of Anarchitecture After Everything: A Trans Manifesto \n‘…an inspiring\, essential book.’ —Chris Kraus\, author of The Four Spent the Day Together \n‘…this is a book of a generation with the potential to make\, and remake\, the world.’ — Joseph Osmundson\, author of Spawning Season: An Experiment in Queer Parenthood \n‘Intimate and erudite\, breathtaking in its historical analysis and philosophical range…’ — Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore\, author of Terry Dactyl
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SUMMARY:Rooted in the Work: a reading
DESCRIPTION:RSVP TO THIS EVENT HERE \nJoin us for an intimate evening of storytelling\, conversation\, and community featuring two original short stories written and shared by formerly incarcerated men. Their stories move through childhood\, family\, violence\, incarceration\, Rikers Island\, survival\, institutional power\, freedom\, and the complicated experience of building a life after it all. \nThis isn’t a panel or a lecture about incarceration. It’s an opportunity to hear directly from people who have lived through systems that are so often discussed\, studied\, funded\, and interpreted by everyone except the people who experienced them. As one of the writers says\, “For all the institutions that capitalized from us…” this evening creates space for them to tell their own stories\, in their own voices\, and on their own terms. \nThere will be two readings followed by a conversation and time to connect with one another. Some of what you’ll hear is heavy\, some of it is funny\, some of it may be uncomfortable\, and all of it comes from people who have something worth saying about survival\, incarceration\, family\, community\, and what happens after you come home. \nMost importantly\, this is meant to feel like a room you can actually be in. Come listen\, talk\, meet people\, support the work\, and kick it with us. As the brothers put it themselves\, “Relax\, we got plenty for you to see.” \nHosted in Partnership with Rooted in the Work  \nRooted in the Work is an organization working at the intersection of prison education\, storytelling\, and lived experience. Founded by Vidya Dwarakanath\, author of We Survived Rikers Island\, RTW brings together people directly impacted by incarceration\, educators\, artists\, and communities to create conversations and experiences rooted in what people have actually lived. Through storytelling\, events\, workshops\, and consulting\, Rooted in the Work brings lived experience into rooms where people can listen\, question\, create\, connect\, and imagine what should exist next. \nAngel Santana is a writer\, performer\, and facilitator whose work is grounded in the power of storytelling and human connection. A compelling communicator with a commanding presence\, Angel creates space for reflection\, dialogue\, and meaningful engagement. Across his creative and community-based work\, he brings an ability to focus a room around the ideas and experiences that deserve its attention. \nTony Acevedo is an educator and storyteller who brings warmth\, humor\, and humanity to his work. His approach reflects a belief that meaningful learning and serious conversation can coexist with joy\, curiosity\, and genuine connection. Through education\, writing\, and dialogue\, Tony creates environments where people can engage difficult subjects while remaining connected to one another. \nChristian Gonzalez is an entrepreneur\, creative\, and community builder with a collaborative approach to leadership. His interests span entrepreneurship\, culture\, and creative expression\, and he brings a natural ability to connect people and strengthen the relationships around him. Thoughtful and grounded\, Christian’s work reflects a belief in creating environments where people feel supported\, valued\, and able to contribute. \nThe Bureau of General Services—Queer Division is Manhattan’s only queer bookstore\, located on the second floor of the LGBT Center. We’re open Tuesday-Sunday from 1-7pm and accessible by the 6th Ave 1 2 3 L trains and 8th Ave A C E trains. Our cafe\, The Bureau Cafe\, is open Tuesday-Sunday from 9am-7pm.
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SUMMARY:Writing on Raving
DESCRIPTION:TICKETS TO THIS EVENT  \nThe long-running WRITING ON RAVING reading series returns to the Bureau. This special edition of the show features the launch of Joss Barton’s new book Goodbye to a Dream Believed!(futurepoem) \nTickets are $10 and available now. NOTAFLOF. \nThis stellar line-up will take us on a journey into the night and beyond: \nJoss Barton\nAlexa Jo Berry\nZora Jade Khiry\nAfsana Mousavi\nAlaska Riley \nJoss Barton’s Goodbye to a Dream Believed! is a clutch of transsexual acid dreams and tweaker rave poems. Bound together in her singular style of nightclub stream of consciousness and righteous queer rage\, these poems demand another bump\, another battle\, and another belief system. This book asks us to ponder what lies beyond the revelatory seconds of a poem’s ego death and who will be there holding you when the party ends and the sun begins to rise. \nThe Bureau of General Services—Queer Division is Manhattan’s only queer bookstore\, located on the second floor of the LGBT Center. We’re open Tuesday-Sunday from 1-7pm and accessible by the 6th Ave 1 2 3 L trains and 8th Ave A C E trains. Our cafe\, The Bureau Cafe\, is open Tuesday-Sunday from 9am-7pm.
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SUMMARY:Queer Kids and Social Violence with Elizabethe Payne and Paisley Currah
DESCRIPTION:RSVP TO THIS EVENT HERE \nJoin us for a reading and conversation with Elizabethe Payne\, editor of Queer Kids and Social Violence: The Limits of Bullying and the founder and director of the Queering Education Research Institute.   \nQueer Kids and Social Violence challenges the mythology surrounding school bullying and offers conversation-shifting interventions to respond to a difficult and frightening political moment for LGBTQ+ youth—the incessant attack on gender-affirming care being one example. Payne is joined by Paisley Currah\, author of Sex Is as Sex Does: Governing Transgender Identity\, in a conversation about what it means to protect queer kids in schools.  \nBullying is social—not anti-social—behavior and the school culture that marks which students will be targeted with violence is part of a larger social dynamic perpetuating systems of marginalization beyond the school. The book explores misconceptions about bullying and the ways these have impacted the lives and experiences of LGBTQ+ students. We are in a critical time to renew our engagement with bullying and connect it to larger political processes. The work of anti-bullying is not exclusive to educational contexts but is part of the broader address of social inequalities experienced by gender and sexual minority people. \nElizabethe Payne is founder and director of the Queering Education Research Institute (QuERI). QuERI is dedicated to bridging gaps between research\, practice\, and policy to create LGBTQ+ affirming school environments. Celebrating twenty years\, 2006-2026.  \nPaisley Currah is Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Women’s and Gender Studies at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center\, CUNY.  He is the author of Sex Is as Sex Does: Governing Transgender Identity (NYU Press). \nThe Bureau of General Services—Queer Division is Manhattan’s queer bookstore\, located on the second floor of the LGBT Center. We’re open Tuesday-Sunday from 1-7pm and accessible by the 6th Ave 1 2 3 L trains and 8th Ave A C E trains. Our cafe\, The Bureau Cafe\, is open Tuesday-Sunday from 9am-7pm.
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SUMMARY:NYC launch of Another Anthem of Fabulous Survival
DESCRIPTION:RSVP FOR THIS EVENT \nLike a jukebox of queer history\, T.S. Leonard’s debut poetry collection\, Another Anthem of Fabulous Survival\, unfolds across decades of sound and geographies. Winner of the 2024-2025 Poetic Justice Institute Prize\, Leonard’s poems ask how memory becomes record and how record becomes song. Musical duo DAYS joins Leonard and a coterie of poets—including charles theonia\, Joshua Garcia\, and David Groff—to celebrate the New York launch of his debut poetry collection at Manhattan’s queer bookstore. \nCopies of the book will be available for purchase and the authors will be around for a signing after the event.  \nT.S. Leonard is a poet\, performer\, and educator whose work has been featured in Poetry\, Foglifter\, and Fourteen Poems and in collaborative projects at the Portland Art Museum and Pacific Design Center. Originally from Kansas City\, Missouri\, he lives and teaches in San Francisco.  \ncharles theonia is a poet from Brooklyn. They are the author of Gay Heaven Is a Dance Floor but I Can’t Relax (Archway Editions)\, If a Piece Falls off the Poem\, Keep It (Belladonna*)\, and other writings on zits\, piss\, and disco. \nJoshua Garcia is the author of Pentimento (Black Lawrence Press\, 2024)\, a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award and the Thom Gunn Award. His poems have appeared in Ecotone\, The Georgia Review\, Passages North\, Ploughshares\, and elsewhere. He holds an MFA from the College of Charleston and has received a Stadler Fellowship from Bucknell University\, an Emerge—Surface—Be Fellowship from The Poetry Project\, and support from the Hawthornden Foundation. He lives and writes in Brooklyn\, New York.  \nDavid Groff is an independent book editor and the author of three books of poems: Live in Suspense\, Clay\, and Theory of Devolution. With Philip Clark\, he edited Persistent Voices: Poetry by Writers Lost to AIDS; with Jim Elledge\, he edited Who’s Yer Daddy?: Gay Writers Celebrate Their Mentors and Forerunners. He teaches poetry\, nonfiction\, and publishing in the MFA creative writing program at the City College of New York. David is a cofounder of the Publishing Triangle. www.davidgroff.com \nDAYS is Ethan Philbrick and Ned Riseley\, a band\, a theatrical project\, and a couple that lives in an apartment in Brooklyn. They bring cello and voice together to create mystical songs and uncanny theater. Their latest EP\, “Do I\,” was produced by Kyp Malone and their latest play\, “Internal Audit\,” premiered at The Kitchen in March 2026. \nThe Bureau of General Services—Queer Division is Manhattan’s only queer bookstore\, located on the second floor of the LGBT Center. We’re open Tuesday-Sunday from 1-7pm and accessible by the 6th Ave 1 2 3 L trains and 8th Ave A C E trains. Our cafe\, The Bureau Cafe\, is open Tuesday-Sunday from 9am-7pm.
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SUMMARY:Celebrate the release of Tom Cole’s first book\, CHIMES: A MONOLOGUE
DESCRIPTION:RSVP TO THIS EVENT HERE \nJoin us to celebrate the debut book by our dear friend\, Tom Cole\, Chimes: A Monologue. Tom will appear in conversation with Julia Jarcho. With Jarcho\, author of Throw Yourself Away: Writing and Masochism\, the two writers will discuss ideas of process\, performance\, and the environment that brought Chimes to fruition. After their discussion\, Tom will take questions from the audience and then sign copies of his book.  \nThis event is free to attend. Please RSVP via the link above.  \n________________ \nThe incessant and irritating clang of an out-of-town neighbor’s outdoor wind chime punctuates our narrator’s humorous and obsessive self-examinations. His recounts of shame\, addiction\, and self-destructive behavior swells and snowballs\, taking us through the highs and lows of queer reality today. With Julia Jarcho\, author of Throw Yourself Away: Writing and Masochism\, the two writers will discuss ideas of process\, performance\, and the environment that brought Chimes to fruition.  \nCopies of the book will be available for purchase. The event will be followed by a signing. \nTom Cole is a writer\, performer\, and artist living between the Lower East Side and Kingston\, NY. His work has been presented at Partici­pant Inc\, Thread Waxing Space\, Art on Air\, Dixon Place\, Clock­tower Gallery\, ICA Boston\, Performa\, Howl Arts\, Poetry Project\, and the Boston Center for the Arts. He is a three-time MacDowell Playwriting fellow\, and an Edward Albee Foundation Playwriting fellow. Cole’s writing has been anthologized in Pathetic Litera­ture\, edited by Eileen Myles; Sluts\, edited by Michelle Tea; Flesh and the Word 4\, edited by Michael Lowenthal; This New Breed\, edited by Rudy Kikel\, and Flashpoint\, edited by Michael Bronski. His first book\, Chimes: A Monologue\, will be released by The Song Cave in fall 2026. \nJulia Jarcho is a playwright and theater artist and a scholar of literature\, theater\, and critical theory. Her work across disciplines tends to focus on fantasies about writing itself\, often in relation to pleasure\, violence\, and theatrical performance. She is the author of Throw Yourself Away: Writing and Masochism (University of Chicago\, 2024) and Writing and the Modern Stage: Theater Beyond Drama (Cambridge University Press\, 2017)\, as well as the collection Minor Theater: Three Plays (53rd State\, 2017). Her play Grimly Handsome won a 2013 Obie Award for Best New American Play. She got her PhD in Rhetoric at the University of California Berkeley and has taught in the department of English at NYU and in the TAPS department at Brown\, where she directed the MFA program in Playwriting. She is now a Professor in the Theatre\, Dance and Performance Studies department at Yale.   \nThe Bureau of General Services—Queer Division is Manhattan’s only queer bookstore\, located on the second floor of the LGBT Center. We’re open Tuesday-Sunday from 1-7pm and accessible by the 6th Ave 1 2 3 L trains and 8th Ave A C E trains. Our cafe\, The Bureau Cafe\, is open Tuesday-Sunday from 9am-7pm.
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SUMMARY:Author Event: John D’Emilio’s latest memoir\, Making Gay History
DESCRIPTION:RSVP TO THIS EVENT HERE \nJoin us for a book talk with John D’Emilio discussing his latest book\, Making Gay History: Memoir of a Scholar-Activist. In it\, he recounts his career as a public historian\, activist\, and academic\, relating his own queer history alongside the development of the LGBTQ movement in the United States. \n \nJohn D’Emilio was part of the first burgeoning period of LGBTQ studies while still a graduate student in New York City. He takes readers through his experiences as an out professor at UNC Greensboro\, his activism in Washington\, DC\, and finally\, his employment at the University of Illinois as an LGBTQ historian\, a position that was unimaginable at the start of his career. At the same time\, he narrates his own coming out\, his successes and struggles with LGBTQ advocacy\, and the loves and losses faced throughout his adult life\, telling an intertwined personal and national history of queer hearts and minds. \nCopies of Making Gay History: Memoir of a Scholar-Activist will be available for purchase after the event. John D’Emilio will be available for a signing.  \nThe Bureau of General Services—Queer Division is Manhattan’s only queer bookstore\, located on the second floor of the LGBT Center. We’re open Tuesday-Sunday from 1-7pm and accessible by the 6th Ave 1 2 3 L trains and 8th Ave A C E trains. Our cafe\, The Bureau Cafe\, is open Tuesday-Sunday from 9am-7pm.
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SUMMARY:Launch Event for The Book of Ecstasy
DESCRIPTION:RSVP TO THIS EVENT HERE \nBlending practical tools\, spirituality\, and decades of embodied experience\, this book offers a fiercely inclusive and radically affirming path to ecstasy—for every body\, in every season of life. In conversation with Kate Bornstein. \nAfter the conversation there will be time for Barbara to sign copies of The Book of Ecstasy\, which will be available for purchase at the Bureau! \nBarbara Carrellas is the founder of Urban Tantra®\, an approach to conscious sexuality that adapts and blends a wide variety of sacred sexuality practices from Tantra to BDSM. She is the author of Urban Tantra: Sacred Sex for the Twenty-first Century—the world’s first LGBTQ+-inclusive Tantric sex book\, Ecstasy is Necessary: A Practical Guide to Sex\, Relationships and Oh So Much More\, and Luxurious Loving. Her books\, workshops\, and lectures are an eclectic mix of sexual and spiritual practices designed to encourage readers and participants of all genders and sexual preferences to expand their capacity for both pleasure and spiritual fulfillment. Barbara is a proud graduate of the Coney Island Sideshow School with a double major in fire eating and snake handling. \nA celebrated pioneer and advocate for the LGBTQ community\, Kate Bornstein is the author of My Gender Workbook: How to Become a Real Man\, a Real Woman\, the Real You\, or Something Else Entirely; Gender Outlaw: On Men\, Women and The Rest of Us; and A Queer and Pleasant Danger: A Memoir. Her plays and performance pieces include Hidden: A Gender\, The Opposite Sex Is Neither\, and Too Tall Blondes In Love. Bornstein lives in New York City with her partner\, Barbara Carrellas. \nThe Bureau of General Services—Queer Division is Manhattan’s only queer bookstore\, located on the second floor of the LGBT Center. We’re open Tuesday-Sunday from 1-7pm and accessible by the 6th Ave 1 2 3 L trains and 8th Ave A C E trains. Our cafe\, The Bureau Cafe\, is open Tuesday-Sunday from 9am-7pm. 
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SUMMARY:Radical Queer Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we read radical leftist texts with a focus on queer liberation\, anti-capitalism\, and anti-colonialism. For October 14th\, we’re reading the second half of Abolitionist Intimacies by Eithne Luibheid (chapter 3 through the end).  \nWe’ll meet on Wednesday\, October 14th\, at The Bureau\, in room 210 of The LGBT Community Center in the West Village\, 7-8 PM. \nThank you for supporting The Bureau by purchasing books from us! \nThe Bureau of General Services—Queer Division is Manhattan’s queer bookstore located on the second floor of the LGBT Center. We’re open Tuesday-Sunday from 1-7pm and accessible by the 6th Ave 1 2 3 L trains and 8th Ave A C E trains. Our cafe\, The Bureau Cafe\, is open Tuesday-Sunday from 9am-7pm.
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SUMMARY:Ambient Reading Night
DESCRIPTION:RSVP TO THIS EVENT HERE \nTurn some pages with us while we turn down the vibe for a chill night of quiet reading at the queer bookstore.  \nJoin us for an hour of quiet solo reading time set to low key\, queer ambient music. We’ll shift the energy in the Bureau with calm lighting and relaxing vibes. (Don’t worry\, it won’t be too dark to read.) Let this be a way to wind down after work.  \nBring your own book or find one on our bookshelves. All books are 10% off for those who participate.  \nPadded folding chairs and a few small tables will be provided. Yoga mats and pillows are welcome. After we read\, there will be time for people to share what they’re reading\, though this socializing is not required. This night is hosted by Bureau booksellers and music lovers.  \nFree to attend\, but please RSVP so we know what to expect.  \nThe Bureau is Manhattan’s queer bookstore\, located inside of the NYC LGBT Center. Founded in 2013\, the Bureau regularly hosts queer author events\, community programming\, and art exhibits. We’re open Tuesday-Sunday from 1-7pm. Our cafe\, The Bureau Cafe\, is open Tuesday-Sunday from 9am-7pm.  \nSubway: F M 1 2 3 L to 14th St and 6 Ave
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Tim Stewart-Winter’s OUTED\, in conversation with Hugh Ryan
DESCRIPTION:RSVP TO THIS EVENT HERE \nTim Stewart-Winter’s book OUTED\, covers the arrest and aftermath of Lyndon B. Johnson’s longest-serving and most trusted advisor\, Walter Jenkins. In 1964\, Jenkins was arrested for soliciting sex in a YMCA bathroom near the White House. The scandal blasted across the front pages of major US newspapers\, becoming a watershed in making straight America aware of queer life. Stewart-Winter is joined by Hugh Ryan\, historian and co-host of the Queer History 101 podcast\, for a conversation about the conditions of queer folks during the “Walter Jenkins affair” and its political and cultural aftershocks. \nCopies of Outed will be available for purchase. Both authors will be available after the event for a signing.  \nTimothy Stewart-Winter is a historian of sexuality\, gender\, and politics in modern America. His research examines LGBTQ activism and public policy\, electoral and presidential politics\, and the shifting public meanings of private life. He is the author of Outed: LBJ’s Confidant and the Arrest That Transformed a Presidency and Queer Clout: Chicago and the Rise of Gay Politics. His writing has appeared in publications including The New York Times\, the Los Angeles Times\, The Washington Post\, Slate\, and leading historical journals. \nHugh Ryan is a writer\, historian\, and curator in New York City. With the multi-talented Peppermint\, he is also the host of Queer History 101\, the bookclub & podcast from Allstora.com. His most recent book\, THE WOMEN’S HOUSE OF DETENTION: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison\, is a queer history of the Women’s House of Detention in Greenwich Village. It is the story of one building: the people it caged\, the neighborhood it changed\, and the resistance it inspired. It is the winner of the 2023 Stonewall Book Award/Israel Fishman Award for Nonfiction from the Publishing Triangle of the American Library Association\, as well as the 2022 Warren Johansson Award from the W.A. Percy Foundation. \nThe Bureau of General Services—Queer Division is Manhattan’s only queer bookstore\, located on the second floor of the LGBT Center. We’re open Tuesday-Sunday from 1-7pm and accessible by the 6th Ave 1 2 3 L trains and 8th Ave A C E trains. Our cafe\, The Bureau Cafe\, is open Tuesday-Sunday from 9am-7pm.
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SUMMARY:FRAGMENTS: An Ode to Sappho Artist Panel
DESCRIPTION:RSVP TO THIS EVENT  \nOf everything Sappho wrote\, almost nothing remains. Her words reach us across twenty-six centuries not because the record was kept carefully\, but because someone made the effort to keep them alive. That is the condition of queer history at large. Our stories arrive in pieces. What survives\, survives because someone fought for it. \nFragments comes to the Bureau of General Services–Queer Division for an evening with the artists of Issue 02\, An Ode to Sappho. Anika Guttormson\, Dalila Frias\, Eva Woolridge\, Jules Diaz Petta\, Madaleine Kotary\, Maggie McLemore\, and Trâm Huynh join Kade Joy to talk about the work in the issue\, artists they are inspired by\, and what it means to build an archive in print; an object that can be held\, passed on\, and remembered. \nCopies of Issue 02 will be available at the event.  \nAnika Guttormson (they/them) is a queer photographer and writer living in Brooklyn. Their work focuses on queer identity and relationships\, often dreaming up abstract stories where queer people can find love and connection despite their circumstances. We can always pine for a better world\, one where everyone is free to love who they choose. They hope to breach that gap with their photography and storytelling. \nDalila Frias (she/they) — My name is Dalila and I’m a disabled caribeña (Dominican) artist from the Bronx. My passions are in drawing/painting\, poetry and newly\, music making. I love writing whatever comes to mind – identity\, childhood trauma\, spirituality. I enjoy reading\, line dancing with friends\, cooking and traveling across the globe. \nEva Woolridge (she/her) is a Black-American/Chinese-American photographer based in Brooklyn\, NY\, whose work explores the sexual\, spiritual\, and emotional dimensions of femininity\, with a focus on lesbian queer nightlife and reproductive health. She is a recipient of the 2019 Leica Women in Foto Award for “The Size of a Grapefruit\,” a visual narrative addressing medical negligence and microaggressions Black women face during health emergencies. Her photography has appeared in The Boston Globe\, Rolling Stone\, Harper’s Bazaar\, and Teen Vogue\, and has been exhibited internationally. She served on Fujifilm North America’s Diversity Advisory Council and has spoken at TEDxMaplewood\, the Leica Women Summit\, and the Schomburg Center. Woolridge also leads workshops with Leica Akademie and Skillshare focused on ending racial disparities in photography. She currently sits on the board of American Photographic Artists. \nJules Diaz Petta (she/they)  is an artist and activist\, whose practice is rooted in representation\, visibility\, and uplifting marginalized voices. Their work centers BIPOC and LGBTQ+ communities\, using photography as a tool for resistance and preservation. Through printed projects such as PERMANENCE\, Queer Love\, and FEMME\, v.\, Jules documents identity and belonging\, framing queer existence as living history rather than exception. Her activism began from a need to see her community reflected with care and dignity and has grown into a community-based practice grounded in collaboration\, trust\, and shared authorship. \nMadaleine Kotary (she/her)  is a multidisciplinary artist and director\, raised in New York’s Capital Region and presently based in Brooklyn. She approaches her practice as a tourist in her mind’s eye and her work as souvenirs. Stylized and subtly surreal\, her storytelling spans narrative film\, photography\, music video\, sculpture\, and the written word; with an attraction to timeless Hollywood aesthetics\, curious characters\, and a lingering brush of the sapphic hand. \nMaggie McLemore (she/her) is a fine art and fashion photographer based in Brooklyn\, NY. Often drawing upon the small town she grew up in\, her practice hybridizes personal history with playfully invented narrative through highly constructed\, cinematic scenes. Her ongoing project\, Imprint of Shame\, examines personal experiences of queer shame — her own and others’ — as tableau vivant\, a living picture. Across fashion and fine art\, Maggie uses her work to build queer community\, open dialogue around what often goes undiscussed\, and to visualize queer stories in a world where we don’t see ourselves nearly enough.  \nTrâm Huỳnh (they/them) is a Vietnamese artist\, currently residing in New York City. Huynh’s work presents a hopeful deconstruction of the white gaze and the systems that bestow themselves upon Vietnamese bodies. Through their photographic practice and alternative techniques\, they are confronting the manipulations that Vietnamese bodies have endured. \nKade Joy (they/he) — I have been a photographer for over a decade. I started my career focusing on portraits and have made the transition to focusing on events in recent years. I see my work as archival.  Whether I am capturing someone receiving an award at a gala\, friends dancing at the club\, a walk down the aisle\, or marching at a protest\, my goal is to help people tell their stories. While\, of course\, I take plenty of photos of people smiling at the camera\, I pay attention to the smaller\, quieter moments. Throughout the years\, I have developed an eye to know when a moment is special\, even when no one else at the event is noticing. While I work with a large variety of clients\, I have dedicated my photography practice to preserving the legacy of this generation of queer people\, with a focus on dykes and transgender people in NYC.  My work is a love letter to those whom I share community and I strive to represent them in a way that feels authentic and celebratory. \nThe Bureau of General Services—Queer Division is Manhattan’s only queer bookstore\, located on the second floor of the LGBT Center. We’re open Tuesday-Sunday from 1-7pm and accessible by the 6th Ave 1 2 3 L trains and 8th Ave A C E trains. Our cafe\, The Bureau Cafe\, is open Tuesday-Sunday from 9am-7pm. 
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SUMMARY:Author Event: Brooks Kolb’s memoir\, Landscape in Lavender
DESCRIPTION:RSVP TO THIS EVENT HERE \nIn youth\, Brooks Kolb traveled from city to city\, finding different parts of himself — queerness paramount among them. Spanning the sexual liberation of the 70s and the AIDS epidemic of the 80s\, Brooks Kolb’s Landscape in Lavender traces one man’s journey towards self-discovery and the loves that bloom in the light of self-acceptance. In conversation with Michael Bosnick\, join Brooks Kolb for the NYC launch of his debut book.  \nBrooks Kolb was educated at the American College in Paris\, University College London\, and the University of Pennsylvania. At Penn he trained in landscape architecture under Ian McHarg\, famed author of Design With Nature\, and with Laurie Olin\, subject of the 2024 documentary Sitting Still. After coming out of the closet\, he moved to San Francisco\, where he witnessed two key periods of gay history: the post-Stonewall era of sexual liberation and the tragic AIDS epoch. The principal of Brooks Kolb LLC Landscape Architecture\, Brooks’s practice is devoted to residential garden design. A long-term park preservation advocate and founding member of Seattle’s Volunteer Park Trust\, he currently serves on the boards of Allied Arts of Seattleand the Allied Arts Foundation. An avid swimmer\, Brooks lives in Seattle with his husband\, Dennis\, and their miniature schnauzer\, Stella. \nMichael Bosnick is a recently retired New York City government Deputy Commissioner\, with additional stints in magazine publishing (marketing) and non-profit youth services programming.  His government career consisted of three phases: child welfare\, affordable housing\, and aging services.  \nThe Bureau of General Services—Queer Division is Manhattan’s only queer bookstore\, located on the second floor of the LGBT Center. We’re open Tuesday-Sunday from 1-7pm and accessible by the 6th Ave 1 2 3 L trains and 8th Ave A C E trains. Our cafe\, The Bureau Cafe\, is open Tuesday-Sunday from 9am-7pm.
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SUMMARY:Lesbian Politics: Sex\, Difference\, and Domination (Brooklyn Institute for Social Research — BISR)
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER FOR THE COURSE HERE \nWe’re happy to host the Brooklyn Institute of Social Research’s course on Lesbian Politics every Monday from 6:30-9:30pm from Oct. 19 through Nov. 9. This 4-week course draws on Monique Wittig’s work\, as well as that of other French thinkers\, including Simone de Beauvoir and Colette Guillaumin\, to explore what a lesbian political theory can mean and its liberatory potential within and against patriarchy and the heterosexual paradigm.  \nAll payments\, refunds\, and enrollments are through BISR. Please use the registration link on their website.  \n“Lesbians are not women\,” the feminist theorist Monique Wittig famously pronounced. But what did she mean? According to Wittig’s theory\, sexual difference is an ideology\, not an ontological given. The relationship of woman to man is one of domination\, determined as much by material and economic oppression as language and discourse. In other words\, “there is no sex. Only sex that is oppressed and sex that oppresses.” By existing outside of heterosexuality\, lesbians refuse the category of “woman” and break its ontological illusion of timeless difference: what Wittig calls the “heterosexual contract.” How\, with Wittig\, can we understand the possibilities of a feminism that seeks to abolish sex? What is the political role of lesbians within a heterosexual system? Can heterosexuality itself exist without producing or participating in sexed oppression\, and if not\, what are the alternatives? What is the meaning—and what are the possibilities—of lesbian politics? \nFollowing the intellectual and political debates among Wittig and her contemporaries\, we will probe the limits and possibilities of lesbian theory as a basis for the abolition of the “sex-class system.” How did Wittig and her fellow materialist feminists differentiate themselves from “French Feminist” theorists like Hélène Cixous and Luce Irigaray? How did Wittig’s creative experiments with gender and storytelling lay the groundwork for the emergence of queer theory in the United States? What can a lesbian politics provide for non-lesbians\, both gay and straight? Authors will include Monique Wittig\, Simone de Beauvoir\, Christine Delphy\, Colette Guillaumin\, Françoise d’Eaubonne\, and Françoise Verges. \nHannah Leffingwell is a writer\, historian\, artist\, and educator specializing in queer and gender history\, feminist and queer theory\, lesbian culture(s)\, and contemporary LGBTQ+ and feminist social movements. In addition to her role as associate faculty at BISR\, she has taught at The New School as a member of the part-time faculty and at NYU as an assistant instructor. Her research chronicles transnational lesbian organizing in the 1970s-90s and has been featured on Outhistory.org\, Gender & History\, and is forthcoming in an edited collection for Bloomsbury Academic. She holds a PhD in History and French Studies from New York University\, where she defended her dissertation\, “Becoming Lesbian: The Making and Unmaking of the International Lesbian Movement\, 1972-1998\,” in 2024. Her writing has also appeared in Jacobin\, The Chronicle Review\, Public Seminar\, Political Junkie\, Eurozine\, Sinister Wisdom\, and the Journal of the History of Ideas Blog. She is also active on Substack\, where she writes a newsletter called “The Dykegeist.” \nThe Bureau of General Services—Queer Division is Manhattan’s only queer bookstore\, located on the second floor of the LGBT Center. We’re open Tuesday-Sunday from 1-7pm and accessible by the 6th Ave 1 2 3 L trains and 8th Ave A C E trains. Our cafe\, The Bureau Cafe\, is open Tuesday-Sunday from 9am-7pm.
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: How to Win a Culture War: LGBTQ+ Social Change Through Pop Culture
DESCRIPTION:RSVP TO THIS EVENT HERE \nIn How to Win a Culture War\, sociologist Lisa M. Stulberg explores how LGBTQ+ artists\, athletes\, and entertainment leaders have helped reshape American culture through visibility\, advocacy\, and storytelling. Using examples from television\, film\, music\, sports\, and politics—including the cultural impact of late-2025 breakout series Heated Rivalry—Stulberg shows how today’s progress was built on decades of creative risk-taking and activism. \nDrawing on 14 years of interviews with 170 culture workers\, including Eric McCormack\, Lea DeLaria\, and Greg Louganis\, the book reveals six key strategies used to advance LGBTQ+ social change—from becoming visible to “staying queer.” Rich with behind-the-scenes insight\, How to Win a Culture War offers a timely playbook for changing hearts\, minds\, and culture in the face of ongoing political backlash. \nCopies of the book will be available for purchase and there will be time for a signing after the event.  \nLisa M. Stulberg is associate professor of sociology of education at New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture\, Education\, and Human Development and an affiliated faculty member in the Department of Sociology at NYU. Her research focuses on the politics of race and education\, affirmative action in higher education\, school choice policy and politics\, and LGBTQ+ social change. She is the author of a forthcoming book on the connection between pop culture and LGBTQ+ social change\, entitled How to Win a Culture War: LGBTQ+ Social Change Through Pop Culture\, to be published by the University of Chicago Press in October of 2026. She is also the author of Race\, Schools\, and Hope: African Americans and School Choice after Brown (Teachers College Press\, 2008) and LGBTQ Social Movements (Polity\, 2018).  \nBrian Sims is a civil rights attorney and LGBTQ+ advocate who spent a decade in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as the first openly LGBTQ+ person elected to the state’s General Assembly. Before his time in state office\, he was co-captain of the Bloomsburg University football team\, becoming the first openly gay college football captain on record. He currently serves as a Lecturer in Culture\, Advocacy and Leadership at Vanderbilt University New York City. He also has lectured at more than 150 colleges and universities and has spoken at more than 25 Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 companies and has served in a number of non-profit leadership positions. \nThe Bureau of General Services—Queer Division is Manhattan’s queer bookstore\, located on the second floor of the LGBT Center. We’re open Tuesday-Sunday from 1-7pm and accessible by the 6th Ave 1 2 3 L trains and 8th Ave A C E trains. Our cafe\, The Bureau Cafe\, is open Tuesday-Sunday from 9am-7pm.
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SUMMARY:Disturb + Enrapture: An ASSARACUS launch reading
DESCRIPTION:RSVP TO THIS EVENT HERE \nJoin Sibling Rivalry Press and the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division for a celebration of Issue 30 of Assaracus: A Journal of Gay and Queer Poetry\, with readings by Assaracus contributors Cheryl Boyce-Taylor\, JP Howard\, Dylan Richmond\, Ethan Richmond\, Steven Riel\, D. A. Schorr\, Robert Siek\, and Isaiah Vianese. \nFounded in 2011 by Sibling Rivalry Press\, Assaracus is a journal devoted to publishing gay and queer poets and documenting the breadth of queer experience. After publishing 25 issues during its original run\, Assaracus returned in 2025 with a renewed commitment to creating space for queer voices across generations\, geographies\, identities\, and aesthetics. Issue 30 marks another milestone in that continuing history\, and additionally includes work by Guillermo Filice Castro\, Brody Parrish Craig\, Randi M. Romo\, Daniel Nathan Terry\, and Emanuel Xavier\, plus features from The Library of Homosexual Congress\, Jerry Wheeler\, Gavin Dillard\, and Ian Young. \nSibling Rivalry Press is an independent publishing house founded in 2010 and based in Little Rock\, Arkansas. For more than fifteen years\, SRP has championed poetry\, fiction\, memoir\, and other work that amplifies LGBTQ+ voices and builds literary community across boundaries. Its mission is to publish work that disturbs and enraptures.   \nCome celebrate the poets\, the journal\, and\, above all\, the queer literary community. \nAdmission is free. \nThe Bureau of General Services—Queer Division is Manhattan’s only queer bookstore\, located on the second floor of the LGBT Center. We’re open Tuesday-Sunday from 1-7pm and accessible by the 6th Ave 1 2 3 L trains and 8th Ave A C E trains. Our cafe\, The Bureau Cafe\, is open Tuesday-Sunday from 9am-7pm.
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SUMMARY:Lesbian Politics: Sex\, Difference\, and Domination (Brooklyn Institute for Social Research — BISR)
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER FOR THE COURSE HERE \nWe’re happy to host the Brooklyn Institute of Social Research’s course on Lesbian Politics every Monday from 6:30-9:30pm from Oct. 19 through Nov. 9. This 4-week course draws on Monique Wittig’s work\, as well as that of other French thinkers\, including Simone de Beauvoir and Colette Guillaumin\, to explore what a lesbian political theory can mean and its liberatory potential within and against patriarchy and the heterosexual paradigm.  \nAll payments\, refunds\, and enrollments are through BISR. Please use the registration link on their website.  \n“Lesbians are not women\,” the feminist theorist Monique Wittig famously pronounced. But what did she mean? According to Wittig’s theory\, sexual difference is an ideology\, not an ontological given. The relationship of woman to man is one of domination\, determined as much by material and economic oppression as language and discourse. In other words\, “there is no sex. Only sex that is oppressed and sex that oppresses.” By existing outside of heterosexuality\, lesbians refuse the category of “woman” and break its ontological illusion of timeless difference: what Wittig calls the “heterosexual contract.” How\, with Wittig\, can we understand the possibilities of a feminism that seeks to abolish sex? What is the political role of lesbians within a heterosexual system? Can heterosexuality itself exist without producing or participating in sexed oppression\, and if not\, what are the alternatives? What is the meaning—and what are the possibilities—of lesbian politics? \nFollowing the intellectual and political debates among Wittig and her contemporaries\, we will probe the limits and possibilities of lesbian theory as a basis for the abolition of the “sex-class system.” How did Wittig and her fellow materialist feminists differentiate themselves from “French Feminist” theorists like Hélène Cixous and Luce Irigaray? How did Wittig’s creative experiments with gender and storytelling lay the groundwork for the emergence of queer theory in the United States? What can a lesbian politics provide for non-lesbians\, both gay and straight? Authors will include Monique Wittig\, Simone de Beauvoir\, Christine Delphy\, Colette Guillaumin\, Françoise d’Eaubonne\, and Françoise Verges. \nHannah Leffingwell is a writer\, historian\, artist\, and educator specializing in queer and gender history\, feminist and queer theory\, lesbian culture(s)\, and contemporary LGBTQ+ and feminist social movements. In addition to her role as associate faculty at BISR\, she has taught at The New School as a member of the part-time faculty and at NYU as an assistant instructor. Her research chronicles transnational lesbian organizing in the 1970s-90s and has been featured on Outhistory.org\, Gender & History\, and is forthcoming in an edited collection for Bloomsbury Academic. She holds a PhD in History and French Studies from New York University\, where she defended her dissertation\, “Becoming Lesbian: The Making and Unmaking of the International Lesbian Movement\, 1972-1998\,” in 2024. Her writing has also appeared in Jacobin\, The Chronicle Review\, Public Seminar\, Political Junkie\, Eurozine\, Sinister Wisdom\, and the Journal of the History of Ideas Blog. She is also active on Substack\, where she writes a newsletter called “The Dykegeist.” \nThe Bureau of General Services—Queer Division is Manhattan’s only queer bookstore\, located on the second floor of the LGBT Center. We’re open Tuesday-Sunday from 1-7pm and accessible by the 6th Ave 1 2 3 L trains and 8th Ave A C E trains. Our cafe\, The Bureau Cafe\, is open Tuesday-Sunday from 9am-7pm.
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