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SUMMARY:Affirmative Laughter
DESCRIPTION:  \nHost Elsa Waithe brings some of NYC’s funniest non-straight non-White non-cis male comedians together for a night dedicated to diversity and hilarity. \n  \nThe September 13th edition will feature: \nChewy May \nCamille Theobald \nSarah Kennedy \nYedoye Travis \nVenessa Peruda \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Red Hen Press at the Bureau
DESCRIPTION:  \nWe are sorry to report that Amber Flora Thomas will not be able to join the Red Hen Press reading tonight\, but two poets have joined the line-up. So please join us for a poetry reading featuring Corrina Bain\, Michael Broder\, Jason Schneiderman\, and tammy lynne stoner.\n\n \n \nCorrina Bain is a gender-liminal writer and performer based in Brooklyn\, New York. He has a long history in poetry slam\, has been a featured reader on finals stage in 2004\, and is a member and coach of multiple slam teams. He has shared stages with Jim Carroll\, Patricia Smith\, Dorothy Allison\, and Saul Williams. He is the author of the full-length poetry collection Debridement (Great Weather for Media 2015\,) and has also published work in journals and anthologies such as PANK\, decomP\, Muzzle Magazine\, BOOTH\, and the Everyman’s Library book Villanelles. Bain has twice been nominated for the Pushcart Prize.\n \n \nMichael Broder is the author of Drug and Disease Free (Indolent Books\, 2016) and This Life Now (A Midsummer Night’s Press\, 2014)\, a finalist for the 2015 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry. His poems have appeared in numerous publications and anthologies. He holds a BA from Columbia University\, an MFA from New York University\, and a PhD in Classics from The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Michael is the founding publisher of Indolent Books\, the founding director of the Indolent Arts Foundation\, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit charity\, and the founding director of the HIV Here & Now project. He lives in Brooklyn with his husband\, the poet Jason Schneiderman\, and a backyard colony of stray and feral cats.\n \n \nJason Schneiderman is Associate Editor of Painted Bride Quarterly and Poetry Editor of Bellevue Literary Review. His poetry and essays have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies\, including American Poetry Review\, The Best American Poetry\, The Poetry Review\, and The Penguin Book of the Sonnet. He is an Assistant Professor of English at the Borough of Manhattan Community College and lives in Brooklyn.\n \n \ntammy lynne stoner’s work has been selected for more than a dozen anthologies and literary journals. Stemming from what her grandmother calls her “gypsy blood\,” tammy has lived in 15 cities\, working as a biscuit maker\, a medical experimentee\, a forklift operator\, a gas station attendant\, and a college instructor—among other odd jobs. She is also the creator of Dottie’s Magic Pockets\, and the publisher of Gertrude\, and wrangle of the GERTIE book club\, based in Portland\, OR\, where she lives with her lady-friend\, Karena\, and their three kids. You can find her at TammyLynneStoner.com.\n \n \n \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/red-hen-press-at-the-bureau-september-2018/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180909T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180909T200000
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SUMMARY:Sophie Labelle in NYC - US tour 2018 - Assigned Male comics
DESCRIPTION:  \n  \nSophie Labelle\, the pink-haired French Canadian cartoonist of Assigned Male comics\, will launch her new comic book Trans-Lucid and her American tour at the Bureau! Come and get your books signed. The event is kid friendly! \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/sophie-labelle-in-nyc-us-tour-2018-assigned-male-comics/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180908T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180908T210000
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SUMMARY:Seeing Ourselves: Cast of Characters
DESCRIPTION:Featuring portraits by over 100 queer artists\, Cast of Characters celebrates and honors queer people. Liz Collins conceived of this exhibition as a kind of family portrait\, a “family of queers.” As we approach the end of the exhibition\, Collins and the Bureau bring together a few of the participating artists to discuss how we look\, individually and collectively.\n\nWhat do the portraits in Cast of Characters reveal about queer people and queer communities? How do we picture and present ourselves and the queer communities to which we belong? What does it mean to see ourselves as queer people\, and how do our identities as queer people inform our ways of living in the world? \nWhat can we learn from the inviting\, playful\, and colorful environment that Collins created for the portraits in Cast of Characters? How do we make space for ourselves in contexts that are hostile to our very existence? Nearly 50 years after the Stonewall rebellion\, what can we learn from our history and what futures do we envision? \nJoin us for a lively discussion about the exhibition\, the portraits\, and queer utopian visions! \n  \nLiz Collins and Greg Newton\, co-founder of the Bureau\, will be joined in conversation by the following artists: \nNayland Blake \nDeborah Bright \nBarbara Hammer \nJohn Kelly \nMyles Loftin \n  \nThis event will take place in room 301 of The LGBT Community Center. ADA Accessible. \n  \nReception 5 to 6 \nPanel Discussion followed by Q&A 6 to 7:30 \nCelebration 7:30 to 9  \n  \nInstallation view:  Regan Wood Studio \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/seeing-ourselves-cast-of-characters/
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SUMMARY:Stephen S. Mills's and Robert Siek's Books Launch Party
DESCRIPTION:  \nPlease join Stephen S. Mills and Robert Siek to celebrate the release of their new poetry collections\, Not Everything Thrown Starts a Revolution and We Go Seasonal\, both published by Sibling Rivalry Press. Mills and Siek will each read poems from their new books\, and then folks are welcome to hang out\, meet the poets\, buy books\, have fun. \n  \n  \n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nStephen S. Mills is the author of the Lambda Award–winning book He Do the Gay Man in Different Voices and A History of the Unmarried\, both from Sibling Rivalry Press. He earned his MFA from Florida State University. His work has appeared in The Antioch Review\, PANK\, The New York Quarterly\, The Los Angeles Review\, Knockout\, The Rumpus\, and others. He is also the winner of the 2008 Gival Press Oscar Wilde Poetry Award and the 2014 Christopher Hewitt Award for Fiction. His third poetry collection Not Everything Thrown Starts a Revolution releases September 4\, 2018\, from Sibling Rivalry Press. He lives in New York City with his partner and two schnauzers. Website: https://www.stephensmills.com/ \n  \n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nRobert Siek is the author of the poetry collections Purpose and Devil Piss (2013) and We Go Seasonal (2018)\, both published by Sibling Rivalry Press. His chapbook Clubbed Kid was published by New School University in 2002. His poetry has most recently appeared in Yes Poetry\, The Columbia Poetry Review\, Impossible Archetype\, Court Green\, The Good Men Project\, Bushwick Daily\, visceral brooklyn\, and NANCY\, as well as the Brooklyn Poets Anthology. He lives in Brooklyn and works as a production editor at a large publishing house in Manhattan. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/stephen-s-millss-and-robert-sieks-books-launch-party/
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SUMMARY:OLNY Poly Movie Night: Her
DESCRIPTION:  \nOpen Love NY presents Poly Movie Night\, a FREE series of feature films that focus on the portrayal of consensual / ethical non-monogamy in cinema. This month we’ll be at our regular venue\, the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division. \nPlease join us for Her (2013)\, written and directed by Spike Jonze\, starring Joaquin Phoenix\, Amy Adams\, and Scarlet Johansson. \n  \nWe’ll meet at 6:30 pm at the Bureau (in room 210 of The Lesbian\, Gay\, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center at 208 West 13th Street) for pre-screening socializing and start the movie at 7 pm. The event is free\, although a $10 suggested donation to help fund future events is much appreciated. \n  \nSynopsis: In the near future\, a lonely man going through a divorce falls in love with an operating system. \nRunning time: 2 hour 6 minutes. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/olny-poly-movie-night-her/
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SUMMARY:Hot August Night: Readings in Lust and Desire
DESCRIPTION: \nChristopher Stoddard\, Philip F. Clark\, and Tom Cardamone share recent work exploring the darker side of gay life and New York City in all it’s sweaty allure.\n \n \nChristopher Stoddard’s new novel At Night Only from Itna Press released this June\, which has been praised by Kirkus\, Lambda Literary\, and authors Edmund White and Gary Indiana. Featured in OUT Magazine’s “Tastemakers” issue in 2015 for his contributions to LGBT literature and publishing\, he’s written two other novels: Limiters (Itna Press\, 2014)\, and White\, Christian (Spuyten Duyvil\, 2010). He lives in Brooklyn\, New York.\n \n \nPhilip F. Clark\, a native New Yorker\, received his M.F.A. in Creative Writing/Poetry at City College\, New York\, in 2016\, where he is currently an Adjunct Lecturer in English. He was the graduate editor of The Promethean Literary Journal. His poetry has been published in Assaracus Journal of Gay Poetry\, The Good Men Project\, “Between: New Gay Poetry\, published by Chelsea Station Editions\, The HIV HERE AND NOW Project\, and most recently\, Transition: Poems In the Aftermath\, published by Indolent Press. His poetry reviews and interviews have been published in Lambda Literary. His blog The Poet’s Grin can be seen at https://philipfclark.wordpress.com His current debut volume of poetry The Carnival of Affection\, is published by Sibling Rivalry Press. It was a winner of the Jerome Lowell De Jur Award for Poetry in 2016.\n \n \nTom Cardamone is the author of the erotic fantasy novel The Lurid Sea and the Lambda Literary Award-winning speculative novella Green Thumb as well as other works of fiction. Additionally\, he has edited The Lost Library: Gay Fiction Rediscovered and The Lavender Menace: Tales of Queer Villainy! You can read more about him and his writings at www.pumpkinteeth.net. \n \n \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:We're Still Here East Coast Launch Party!
DESCRIPTION:  \nStacked Deck Press takes Manhattan! Come to the East Coast Launch Party for We’re Still Here: An All-Trans Comics Anthology at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division! Join Jeanne Thornton and Tara Madison Avery for trans comics and adult refreshments! Get your copy of this groundbreaking anthology at the Bureau! \nTo reserve a copy of We’re Still Here: An All-Trans Comics Anthology please email the Bureau at contact@bgsqd.com. Thank you! \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/were-still-here-east-coast-launch-party/
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SUMMARY:OLNY Poly Movie Night: Monogamish
DESCRIPTION:  \nOpen Love NY presents Poly Movie Night\, a FREE series of feature films that focus on the portrayal of consensual / ethical non-monogamy in cinema. This month we’ll be at our regular venue\, the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division. \nPlease note that the first Wednesday (our regularly scheduled night) is the 4th of July so we are meeting on July 18th. \nPlease join us for Monogamish (2014)\, directed by Tao Ruspoli and featuring interviews with Dan Savage\, Stephanie Coontz\, and Christopher Ryan. \nWe’ll meet at 6:30 pm at the Bureau (in room 210 of The Lesbian\, Gay\, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center at 208 West 13th Street) for pre-screening socializing and start the movie at 7 pm. The event is free\, although a $10 suggested donation to help fund future events is much appreciated. \nSynopsis: After going through a difficult divorce\, director Tao Ruspoli examines monogamy and relationships through interviews with relationship experts\, his family\, and his neighbors. Running time: 1 hour 13 minutes. \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/olny-poly-movie-night-monogamish/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180628T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180628T203000
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SUMMARY:BESPOKE: Post-Pride Edition
DESCRIPTION: \nBESPOKE: Post-Pride Edition. Get your rainbow raiments ready! (Be sure to roll those r’s while doing so.) It’s time\, as Gwendolyn Brooks wrote\, to “jazz June!” On Thursday\, June 28 the Bureau will feature Dreya St. Clair\, Alejandro Morales\, and Thomas March at Bespoke\, a bimonthly queer series where featured readers dress fun\, fancy\, or flirtatious\, while supporting the Bureau and resisting fascism. Our sinfully sartorial series presents fashionable femmes\, dapper dykes\, chic twinks\, trendy trans* folk\, & frothy FTMs. Featured writers are encouraged to suit up or dress down : readers’ choice.\n \nOpen mic readers: whose name shall be drawn from the rainbow top hat this month? General attendees: which incredible edibles from Dylan’s Candy Bar will find their way to the insatiate maws of our deviant demimonde?\n \nYour hosts are the sinfully sartorial trio Christina “CQ” Quintana (writer/ playwright/ dyke about town)\, Tim Murphy (longtime LGBTQ journalist\, activist and author of the novel Christodora)\, Jerome Ellison Murphy (poet\, critic and NYU Creative Writing Program administrator) who invite you to turn out in your Thursday best (dressing up is welcome & encouraged\, not mandatory) every other month for drinks and chat before & after our reading.\n  \n \n \nDréya St. Clair is an interdisciplinary\, Jamaican-born\, transgender woman actor\, artist\, writer\, activist and nonprofit fundraising professional. She holds an Honors B.A. in Sexuality and Society from Brown University\, an MA and MFA\, respectively in Performance Studies from New York Univeristy/Tisch School of the Arts and in Acting from California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). Her visual art has been seen in museums\, NYC galleries and in permanent exhibits and collections. \nSt. Clair has performed on regional and off-Broadway stages\, in film and video and is SAG-AFTRA eligible. \nShe is based in New York\, NY. Reach her on Twitter and Instagram @DreyaStClair \n \n  \nOriginally from Springfield\, IL\, Thomas March is a poet\, teacher and critic based in New York City. His poetry has appeared in Bellevue Literary Review\, The Good Men Project\, Pleiades\, and Public Pool\, among others. His reviews and essays have appeared in The Believer\, The Huffington Post\, and New Letters. Appearing regularly in Lambda Literary Review\, his poetry column\, “Appreciations\,” offers appreciative close readings of excellent poems from recent collections by LGBTQ poets. A past recipient of the Norma Millay Ellis Fellowship in Poetry\, from the Millay Colony for the Arts\, he has also received an Artist/Writer grant from The Vermont Studio Center. In recent years\, he has written and performed monologues at a number of venues in New York City\, including Ars Nova\, Joe’s Pub\, The Peoples Improv Theater\, and Sid Gold’s Request Room. Aftermath\, his first poetry collection\, was selected by Joan Larkin for The Word Works Hilary Tham Capital Collection. \n \n  \nA former playwright\, Alejandro Morales’s plays have been presented and developed at theaters such as INTAR\, South Coast Repertory\, HERE Arts Center\, Mabou Mines and The Public Theater\, where he was a 2008 Emerging Writer. He is the recipient of a Van Lier Fellowship\, the Whitfield Cook Award and an Overall Achievement Award from the New York International Fringe Festival for his play expat/inferno. His plays have been published by NoPassport Press and excerpts from his first novel The Furies of Hialeah have been published in ImageOut Write and Callisto. He was also a runner up for litrejections.com’s Story Prize. He is an alumnus of New Dramatists and a former Co-Artistic Director of Packawallop Productions\, an independent theater company he cofounded and helped run for 20 years. He is currently at work on his second novel.  \n \n \n \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/bespoke-post-pride-edition/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180626T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180626T210000
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SUMMARY:Aural Fixation: A Post-Pride Fiction Extravaganza
DESCRIPTION:  \nReady for summer? We know we are. Please join us for an evening of sultry tales and sizzling yarns as authors VIET DINH (After Disasters)\, DENNIS NORRIS (“Food 4 THOT”)\, ERIC SASSON  (Admissions\, Margins of Tolerance)\, and JONATHAN VATNER (Carnegie Hill) provide the aural delights. Your ears will never be the same. \n  \nPhotograph by Martirene Alcantara\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nEric Sasson is the author of the short story collection Margins of Tolerance and the novel Admissions. His stories have been nominated for the Robert Olen Butler prize\, the Pushcart prize\, and one is in The Best Gay Stories 2013. For three years\, he wrote “Ctrl-Alt\,” a column on LGBT culture for the Wall Street Journal\, and he is now a regular contributor to Vice\, The New Republic and GOOD magazine. His articles have been featured on “Meet the Press” and “Morning Joe Scarborough\,” and in February 2017\, he was part of the team that was awarded the National Magazine award “Ellie” for Personal Service. Other publication credits include pieces in them.\, Salon\, Five Points\, William and Mary Review\, The Puritan\, BLOOM and Nashville Review. He received his MA in Creative Writing from NYU and has taught fiction writing for the Sackett Street Writers Workshop in Brooklyn\, where he was born\, bred\, and still resides. \n  \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nJonathan Vatner is the author of Carnegie Hill\, a novel about life and death in a luxe Upper East Side co-op building\, forthcoming from Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press in 2019. His stories have been published in Confrontation\, Jonathan\, Chelsea Station\, and the Best Gay Stories anthology. A journalist for the past 16 years\, he works as the staff writer for Hue\, the magazine of the Fashion Institute of Technology. He has an MFA in fiction writing from Sarah Lawrence College and a BA from Harvard University in Cognitive Neuroscience. \n  \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nViet Dinh was born in Vietnam and grew up in Colorado. He attended Johns Hopkins University and the University of Houston and currently teaches at the University of Delaware. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Delaware Division of the Arts\, as well as an O. Henry Prize and the Alice Hoffman Prize for Fiction. His stories have appeared in Zoetrope: All-Story\, Ploughshares\, Witness\, Fence\, Five Points\, Chicago Review\, the Threepenny Review\, and Best American Non-Required Reading 2017\, and his debut novel\, After Disasters\, a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Prize\, was released in 2016. \n \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nDennis Norris II is a 2017 MacDowell Colony Fellow\, a 2016 Tin House Scholar\, and a 2015 Kimbilio Fiction Fellow. They are the author of Awst Collection—Dennis Norris II a chapbook published by Awst Press\, and other writing appears in Apogee Journal andSmokeLong Quarterly. Their story\, “Where Every Boy is Known and Loved” was recently named as a Finalist for the 2018 Best Small Fictions Anthology\, forthcoming from Braddock Avenue Books\, and their story “Last Rites” appears in the collection “Everyday People: The Color of Life”\, forthcoming in August 2018 from the Atria Books imprint of Simon and Schuster. They currently serve as Fiction Editor at Apogee Journal\, Assistant Fiction Editor at The Rumpus\, and co-host of the popular podcast Food 4 Thot. You can find more information at their website: www.dennisnorrisii.com. \n  \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Bold Strokes Books Pride Reading
DESCRIPTION:  \nTo celebrate Pride in NYC Bold Strokes Books is proud to present an array of talented\, queer writers reading from across genres at the Bureau! \n  \nAnn Aptaker will read from Criminal Gold \nTom Cardamone will read from The Lurid Sea \nNora Olsen will read from Frenemy of the People \nAndrew J. Peters will read from The Sim Ru Prophecy \nAlexa Black will read from The Outcasts \nNell Stark will read from The Princess Deception \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/bold-strokes-books-pride-reading/
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SUMMARY:Public Opening Reception for Cast of Characters
DESCRIPTION:  \nCast of Characters \nAn Immersive Exhibition by Liz Collins\nJune 14 – September 16\, 2018 \nDownload the press release for Cast of Characters. \nDonors reception\nThursday\, June 14\, 2018\, 6-9 PM\n(for donors of $85 or more to Cast of Characters Kickstarter campaign) \nKickstarter campaign ended–successfully!!!–on May 31st. Thanks to all who donated!!!\nPublic opening reception:\nFriday\, June 15\, 2018\, 6-9 PM\nRSVP required for Public Opening Reception.\nThis event is free\, but donations to support the Bureau’s work are much appreciated! \nPlease RSVP here.\n  \nExhibition\nBureau of General Services—Queer Division\nRoom 210\, LGBT Community Center \nVIP Donors Reception (June 14) and Public Reception (June 15)\nRoom 101\, LGBT Community Center\n208 West 13th Street \nThe Bureau of General Services—Queer Division and The Lesbian\, Gay\, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center are proud to present Cast of Characters\, a dramatic transformation of the Bureau by artist Liz Collins featuring a salon-style exhibition of portraits by 95 LGBTQ artists. Inspired by lavishly decorated and richly ornamented nineteenth-century libraries and salons\, this immersive installation brings vibrant colors\, dynamic geometric patterns\, and lush textures to the Bureau’s utilitarian aesthetic of plywood and cardboard. The exhibition will transform the Bureau into a warm\, bright lounge\, inspiring contemplation and conversation\, beckoning visitors to linger\, look\, and read. \nMade possible by a grant from The Kors Le Pere Foundation and by individual donations to the Cast of Characters Kickstarter campaign. \nIn order to attend the VIP Donors Preview and Opening Reception for Cast of Characters please donate $85 or more to the Cast of Characters Kickstarter campaign by the deadline of Thursday\, May 31\, 2018. Please select the appropriate reward in order to attend. Thank you for your support! Kickstarter campaign ended–successfully!!!–on May 31st. Thanks to all who donated!!! \nExhibiting artists \n\nPaula Allen\nLani Asuncion\nAziz + Cucher\nShimon Attie\nHannah Barrett\nNayland Blake\nMarissa Bluestone\nChris Bogia\nJustin Vivian Bond\nDeborah Bright\nNancy Brooks Brody\nDietmar Busse\nNao Bustamante\nJai Carrillo\nAnna Campbell\nCassils\nGeoffrey Chadsey\nCaroline Wells Chandler\nKyle Coniglio\nMarco DaSilva\nNiko Darling\nLeah DeVun\nKatrina del Mar\nKD Diamond\nVincent Dilio\nAngela Dufresne\nNicole Eisenman\nScott Ewalt\nAlesia Exum\nAvram Finkelstein\nC. Finley\nDaphne Fitzpatrick\nLola Flash\nChitra Ganesh\nAndrea Geyer\nGary Graham\nStephanie Gudra\nMartine Gutierrez\nBarbara Hammer\nMichelle Handelman\nJesse Harrod\nClarity Haynes\nKaren Heagle\nMars Hobrecker\nElizabeth Insogna\nRindon Johnson\nJohn Kelly\nAmanda Kirkhuff\nCarmelle La Sirena\nKia LaBeija\nDoron Langberg\nRebecca Levi\nMyles Loftin\nShelley Marlow\nRodolfo Marron III\nAaron McIntosh\nEric McNatt\nBobbi Menuez\nLucas Michael\nTroy Michie\nMidori\nRodrigo Moreira\nCarlos Motta\nZanele Muholi\nEm North\nSamantha Nye\nSig Olson\nAlice O’Malley\nAllison Michael Orenstein\nMaia Cruz Palileo\nAnna Parisi\nVick Quezada\nLJ Roberts\nJason Rodgers\nGabriel García Román\nJD Samson\nPaul Mpagi Sepuya\nM. Sharkey\nLauryn Siegel & Virgil B/G Taylor\nCharan Singh\nSKOTE (Alex P White & Jill Pangallo)\nBuzz Slutzky\nTuesday Smillie\nAllison Smith\nPamela Sneed\nAlexander Stadler\nA.K. Summers\nAarav Sundaresh\nCorinne Teed\nGail Thacker\nMickalene Thomas\nVincent Tiley\nBoris Torres\nNicola Tyson\nConrad Ventur\nMickey Vered\nCourtney Webster & Meg Turner\nKetch Wehr\nMatthew Weinstein\n\nLiz Collins is an artist and designer living and working in Brooklyn\, NY\, and in her work surrounds the viewer in vibrating color and pattern fields to explore the boundaries between painting\, fiber arts and installation. The cacophonic play of optics\, texture\, color and scale recreates her wavering experience of the world as a place of stupendous wonder and cosmic energy. \nCollins has had solo exhibitions at the Tang Museum\, Saratoga Springs\, NY; Heller Gallery\, NY; AMP Gallery\, Provincetown\, MA; and the Knoxville Museum of Art in Tennessee to name a few. Her work has been included in numerous exhibitions including at the ICA/Boston; Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art; the Museum of FIT; the New Museum; the Museum of Arts and Design and MoMA\, and numerous group shows at galleries around the world. Collins’ awards include a USA Fellowship\, a MacColl Johnson Fellowship\, and residencies at AIR Alaska\, Haystack\, MacDowell\, the Siena Art Institute\, Stoneleaf\, Yaddo\, and the Museum of Arts and Design. She is a Queer Art Mentor\, serves on the board of the Fire Island Art Residency\, is a new member of the Exhibitions Committee at the Leslie Lohman Museum\, and is one of the artists in the 2018-2020 Open Sessions program at the Drawing Center. \nThe Bureau of General Services—Queer Division is an independent\, all-volunteer queer cultural center\, bookstore\, and event space that opened in New York City in 2012 and has been hosted by The Lesbian\, Gay\, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center since 2014. We aim to foster a community invested in the values of mindfulness\, intellectual curiosity\, justice\, compassion\, and playfulness. The Bureau seeks to excite and educate a self-confident\, sex-positive\, and supportive queer community by offering books\, publications\, and art and by hosting a wide variety of cultural events\, including readings\, performances\, film screenings\, book discussion groups\, and workshops. We provide local and visiting queers and friends with an open and inclusive space for dialogue and socializing. \n\nEstablished in 1983\, New York City’s Lesbian\, Gay\, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center empowers people to lead healthy\, successful lives. The Center celebrates diversity and advocates for justice and opportunity. Each year\, The Center welcomes more than 300\,000 visits to our building in the West Village neighborhood of Manhattan from people who engage in our life-changing and life-saving activities. To learn more about our work\, please visit gaycenter.org. \n  \nBureau of General Services—Queer Division\n@The Lesbian\, Gay\, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center\n208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\nNY\, NY 10011 \nHours: Tuesdays—Sundays\, 1-7 PM. Closed Mondays.\nSummer hours (July & August): Wednesdays—Saturdays\, 1-7 PM.\nClosed Mondays\, Tuesdays\, & Sundays. \nImage credit:\nWallpaper designed by Liz Collins\, produced by 4Spaces\nPortraits by:\ntop row: Shelley Marlow\, Cassils\, Lani Asuncion\nmiddle row: Dietmar Busse\, Martine Gutierrez\, Zanele Muholi\nBottom row: Nao Bustamante\, Hannah Barrett\, Paula Allen \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:VIP and Press Preview and Opening Reception for Cast of Characters
DESCRIPTION:  \nCast of Characters\nAn Immersive Exhibition by Liz Collins\nJune 14 – September 16\, 2018 \nDownload the press release for Cast of Characters. \nDonors reception\nThursday\, June 14\, 2018\, 6-9 PM\n(for donors of $85 or more to Cast of Characters Kickstarter campaign—(campaign ended–successfully!!!–on May 31st) \nPress Preview\n Members of the press will be admitted to the exhibition at 5 PM on Thursday\, June 14th. Please contact Greg Newton at contact@bgsqd.com with the subject line “RSVP for Press Preview of Cast of Characters” and please include your affiliation. \nPublic opening reception:\nFriday\, June 15\, 2018\, 6-9 PM\nRSVP required for Public Opening Reception.\nThis event is free\, but donations to support the Bureau’s work are much appreciated! \nPlease RSVP here.\nEXHIBITION\nBUREAU OF GENERAL SERVICES—QUEER DIVISION\nROOM 210\, LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER \nVIP Donors Reception (June 14) and Public Reception (June 15)\nROOM 101\, LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER\n208 WEST 13TH STREET \nThe Bureau of General Services—Queer Division and The Lesbian\, Gay\, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center are proud to present Cast of Characters\, a dramatic transformation of the Bureau by artist Liz Collins featuring a salon-style exhibition of portraits by 95 LGBTQ artists. Inspired by lavishly decorated and richly ornamented nineteenth-century libraries and salons\, this immersive installation brings vibrant colors\, dynamic geometric patterns\, and lush textures to the Bureau’s utilitarian aesthetic of plywood and cardboard. The exhibition will transform the Bureau into a warm\, bright lounge\, inspiring contemplation and conversation\, beckoning visitors to linger\, look\, and read. \nMade possible by a grant from The Kors Le Pere Foundation and by individual donations to the Cast of Characters Kickstarter campaign. \nIn order to attend the VIP Donors Preview and Opening Reception for Cast of Characters please donate $85 or more to the Cast of Characters Kickstarter campaign by the deadline of Thursday\, May 31\, 2018. Campaign ended–successfully!!!–on May 31st\,\n \n  \nExhibiting artists \n\nPaula Allen\nLani Asuncion\nAziz + Cucher\nShimon Attie\nHannah Barrett\nNayland Blake\nMarissa Bluestone\nChris Bogia\nJustin Vivian Bond\nDeborah Bright\nNancy Brooks Brody\nDietmar Busse\nNao Bustamante\nJai Carrillo\nAnna Campbell\nCassils\nGeoffrey Chadsey\nCaroline Wells Chandler\nKyle Coniglio\nMarco DaSilva\nNiko Darling\nLeah DeVun\nKatrina del Mar\nKD Diamond\nVincent Dilio\nAngela Dufresne\nNicole Eisenman\nScott Ewalt\nAlesia Exum\nAvram Finkelstein\nC. Finley\nDaphne Fitzpatrick\nLola Flash\nChitra Ganesh\nAndrea Geyer\nGary Graham\nStephanie Gudra\nMartine Gutierrez\nBarbara Hammer\nMichelle Handelman\nJesse Harrod\nClarity Haynes\nKaren Heagle\nMars Hobrecker\nElizabeth Insogna\nRindon Johnson\nJohn Kelly\nAmanda Kirkhuff\nCarmelle La Sirena\nKia LaBeija\nDoron Langberg\nRebecca Levi\nMyles Loftin\nShelley Marlow\nRodolfo Marron III\nAaron McIntosh\nEric McNatt\nBobbi Menuez\nLucas Michael\nTroy Michie\nMidori\nRodrigo Moreira\nCarlos Motta\nZanele Muholi\nEm North\nSamantha Nye\nSig Olson\nAlice O’Malley\nAllison Michael Orenstein\nMaia Cruz Palileo\nAnna Parisi\nVick Quezada\nLJ Roberts\nJason Rodgers\nGabriel García Román\nJD Samson\nPaul Mpagi Sepuya\nM. Sharkey\nLauryn Siegel & Virgil B/G Taylor\nCharan Singh\nSKOTE (Alex P White & Jill Pangallo)\nBuzz Slutzky\nTuesday Smillie\nAllison Smith\nPamela Sneed\nAlexander Stadler\nA.K. Summers\nAarav Sundaresh\nCorinne Teed\nGail Thacker\nMickalene Thomas\nVincent Tiley\nBoris Torres\nNicola Tyson\nConrad Ventur\nMickey Vered\nCourtney Webster & Meg Turner\nKetch Wehr\nMatthew Weinstein\n\n  \n  \nLiz Collins is an artist and designer living and working in Brooklyn\, NY\, and in her work surrounds the viewer in vibrating color and pattern fields to explore the boundaries between painting\, fiber arts and installation. The cacophonic play of optics\, texture\, color and scale recreates her wavering experience of the world as a place of stupendous wonder and cosmic energy. \nCollins has had solo exhibitions at the Tang Museum\, Saratoga Springs\, NY; Heller Gallery\, NY; AMP Gallery\, Provincetown\, MA; and the Knoxville Museum of Art in Tennessee to name a few. Her work has been included in numerous exhibitions including at the ICA/Boston; Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art; the Museum of FIT; the New Museum; the Museum of Arts and Design and MoMA\, and numerous group shows at galleries around the world. Collins’ awards include a USA Fellowship\, a MacColl Johnson Fellowship\, and residencies at AIR Alaska\, Haystack\, MacDowell\, the Siena Art Institute\, Stoneleaf\, Yaddo\, and the Museum of Arts and Design. She is a Queer Art Mentor\, serves on the board of the Fire Island Art Residency\, is a new member of the Exhibitions Committee at the Leslie Lohman Museum\, and is one of the artists in the 2018-2020 Open Sessions program at the Drawing Center. \nThe Bureau of General Services—Queer Division is an independent\, all-volunteer queer cultural center\, bookstore\, and event space that opened in New York City in 2012 and has been hosted by The Lesbian\, Gay\, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center since 2014. We aim to foster a community invested in the values of mindfulness\, intellectual curiosity\, justice\, compassion\, and playfulness. The Bureau seeks to excite and educate a self-confident\, sex-positive\, and supportive queer community by offering books\, publications\, and art and by hosting a wide variety of cultural events\, including readings\, performances\, film screenings\, book discussion groups\, and workshops. We provide local and visiting queers and friends with an open and inclusive space for dialogue and socializing. \n\nEstablished in 1983\, New York City’s Lesbian\, Gay\, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center empowers people to lead healthy\, successful lives. The Center celebrates diversity and advocates for justice and opportunity. Each year\, The Center welcomes more than 300\,000 visits to our building in the West Village neighborhood of Manhattan from people who engage in our life-changing and life-saving activities. To learn more about our work\, please visit gaycenter.org. \nBureau of General Services—Queer Division\n@The Lesbian\, Gay\, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center\n208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\nNY\, NY 10011 \nHours: Tuesdays—Sundays\, 1-7 PM. Closed Mondays.\nSummer hours (July & August): Wednesdays—Saturdays\, 1-7 PM.\nClosed Mondays\, Tuesdays\, & Sundays. \nImage credit:\nWallpaper designed by Liz Collins\, produced by 4Spaces\nPortraits by:\ntop row: Shelley Marlow\, Cassils\, Lani Asuncion\nmiddle row: Dietmar Busse\, Martine Gutierrez\, Zanele Muholi\nBottom row: Nao Bustamante\, Hannah Barrett\, Paula Allen
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SUMMARY:Indolent Books Pride Poetry Reading
DESCRIPTION: \nJoin Indolent Books for a celebration of Queer Pride with readings by Risa Denenberg\, Kay Gabriel\, Jason Schneiderman\, Grey Vild\, and Jayson P. Smith.\n \n \n \nRisa Denenberg is the author of three chapbooks and three full-length collections of poetry\, including “Whirlwind @ Lesbos” (Headmistress Press\, 2016) and “slight faith” (MoonPath Press\, 2018). She currently lives a quiet life on the Olympic peninsula in Washington State. A member of ACTUP NY and a volunteer at the Community Health Project from 1987-1995\, she worked for many years as a nurse practitioner in HIV/AIDS and end-of-life care. She is co-founder and editor at Headmistress Press\, a publisher of LBT poetry. Online at risadenenberg.weebly.com.\n \n \nKay Gabriel is the author of Elegy Department Spring (BOAAT Press\, 2017)\, finalist for the 2016 BOAAT chapbook prize selected by Richard Siken. She is one-fifth of Negative Press\, a gay Marxist poetry collective\, and co-edits Vetch: A Journal of Trans Poetry and Poetics. Find her recent and forthcoming writing in Lambda Literary Poetry Spotlight\, Salvage\, TAGVVERK\, Tripwire\, The Believer and\nelsewhere. Twitter: @unit01barbie.\n \n \nGrey Vild is a Queer Art Mentorship & Brooklyn Poets fellow. His work has been published or is forthcoming in Them\, Fault\, Elderly\, Vetch\, and Winter Tangerine. He is beginning his MFA at Rutgers University and is working on his first collection of poems\, The M4T Files.\n \n \nJason Schneiderman is the author of Primary Source (Red Hen Press 2016)\, winner of the Benjamin Saltman Prize; Striking Surface (Ashland Poetry Press 2010)\, winner of the Richard Snyder Prize\, and Sublimation Point (Four Way Books 2004)\, a Stahlecker Selection. He edited the anthology Queer: A Reader for Writers (Oxford University Press 2015). His poetry and essays have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies\, and he has received He fellowships from Yaddo\, The Fine Arts Work Center\, and The Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference\, as well as the Emily Dickinson Award from the Poetry Society of America. He is Poetry Editor of the Bellevue Literary Review\, and Associate Editor of Painted Bride Quarterly. He is an Associate Professor of English at the Borough of Manhattan Community College\, City University of New York.\n \n \nJayson P Smith is a 2017 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Poetry from the New York Foundation for the Arts. Their work appears in publications such as West Branch\, 92Y\, Gulf Coast\, Nepantla\, Vinyl\, fields magazine\, & The Offing. Jayson has received previous support from The Poetry Project\, The Conversation Literary Festival\, Callaloo\, & Millay Colony for the Arts. Jayson currently lives/works in Brooklyn as founder of NOMAD Reading Series and a Spark House teaching artist.\n \n \n \n 
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SUMMARY:TELL 45: Lost and Found
DESCRIPTION:  \nTELL is an evening of story telling from the mouths and minds of queers in NYC hosted by Drae Campbell at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division since February 2014. \nLost and Found is the theme for the 45th installment of TELL. Featuring Maybe Burke\, Thomas Dolan\, Ronnie Mae Painter\, and Melissa Rocha. \n$10 suggested donation to support the Bureau and the performers. No one turned away for lack of funds. \n  \n \nDrae Campbell is a writer\, actor\, director\, story teller\, dancer\, and nightlife emcee. Drae has been featured on Late Night with Conan O’Brien and on stages all over NYC. Drae’s directing work has appeared in Iceland\, NYC\, Budapest and in the San Francisco Fringe Festival. The short film Drae wrote and starred in with Rebecca Drysdale\, YOU MOVE ME won the Audience Award for Outstanding Narrative Short at OUTFEST 2010 and has been shown in festivals globally. Drae won the grand prize at the first annual San Miguel De Allende Storytelling Festival in Mexico. She once reigned as Miss LEZ and also got dubbed “the next lezzie comedian on the block” by AfterEllen.com for her comedic stylings on the interwebs. Campbell hosts and curates a monthly queer storytelling show called TELL at BGSQD. Check her out online!  www.draecampbell.com. \n  \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n \n \n \nMaybe Burke is a New York based theatre artist and trans advocate interested in telling the stories that haven’t been told. They are excited by new material that can honestly and realistically portray marginalized groups of people. They have worked with Joe’s Pub\, Cherry Lane Theatre\, Ars Nova\, La Mama\, HERE Arts Center\, The Flea\, The Duplex\, and more. Maybe is a co-curator of the Trans Theatre Festival at The Brick and the founder of The Trans Literacy Project. Artistic Associate\, Honest Accomplice Theatre. BA Directing\, Pace University. maybeburke.com @believeinmaybe  \n \n  \n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \nThomas Dolan is a Ph.D. Candidate in American Studies at George Washington University\, focusing on Middle Eastern diaspora and race. A recent recipient of the Calouste Gulbenkian Global Excellence Scholarship\, Thomas’ research has also been supported by the Institute for Middle East Studies\, Dr. Philip M. Kayal Fund for Arab American Research\, Bouchet Graduate Honor Society\, Bentley Historical Library Bordin-Gillette Fellowship\, Loeb Institute for Religious Freedom and the Armenian General Benevolent Union. He is an alumnus of NYU\, the New School’s Institute for Critical Social Inquiry\, and Yale University. Last semester\, Thomas was a visiting researcher at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies\, and has recently published in Huffington Post\, Muftah\, and HowlRound. Prior to returning to graduate school\, Thomas performed and produced work at Madison Square Garden\, Lincoln Center\, Town Hall\, Studio 54\, among others.\n  \n  \n \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nA native New Yorker born and raised in Astoria\, Queens\, Ronnie Mae Painter is a Brooklyn-based artist who’s primary media are painting on canvas and works on paper. She is also a published author and poet. Her literary works can be found in the anthology “Are Italians White”\, edited by Jennifer Guglielmo and Salvatore Salerno. Painter’s experiences growing up as a woman of African-American and Italian-American biracial descent during the 1970s are transcended through both her visual and literary works in energetic movements and a shouting tone. \n  \n\n\n\nMelissa Rocha is a brooklyn based comic. She’s very nice and is looking forward to spending the evening with you. \n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:On Euphoria: A closing celebration with Jarrett Key\, Anuradha Golder\, and Marco DaSilva
DESCRIPTION: \nFor the closing of Marco DaSilva‘s solo exhibition No Reason To Be Careful\, please join us on Friday\, June 8th\, for an evening of performance and celebration at the Bureau in response to the notion of Euphoria. With performance pieces by Jarrett Key\, Marco DaSilva and music by Anuradha Golder.\n \nMarco DaSilva‘s No Reason To Be Careful remains on view at the Bureau until Sunday\, June 10th.\n \n \nJarrett Key was born in Seale\, AL. Key attended Brown University where they studied Theater Arts and Public Policy. Since moving to New York\, Key has been featured in exhibitions and residencies at the New York University Tisch School of the Arts\, La MaMaGalleria\, The Columbus Museum\, Gallery 67\, Swiss House/MGLC\, Galerija Kresija\, Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Art\, Caelum Gallery\, SPRING/BREAK Art Show\, Outlet Fine Art\, Former Pfizer Pharmaceutical Factory\, Secret Dungeon\, La Maison D’Art\, Shanghai Theater Academy\, and East Meet West Gallery. Key has work is in the collections of the Schomburg Center\, MoMa Library\, The Metropolitan Museum of ArtLibrary\, among other institutions. The HAIR PAINTING series has been featured at the Studio Museum in Harlem and Harlem Arts Festival in Marcus Garvey Park\, as well on television: SLAY TV\, and CBS 2 NYC. Key will be moving back to Providence to pursue an MFA in Painting at RISD.\n \n \nAnuradha Golder is a Bronx-based\, Bangladeshi-born DJ\, curator\, playwright\, organizer\, and zine-maker. Sonically\, she plays around with Afro-diasporic and indigenous-to-the-Americas instrument samples. She has performed with the Buenos-Aires political arts collective Hiedrah as well as their sister group Salviatek in Montevideo. Golder also spearheads the multi-lingual Club Etiquette zine\, which focuses on issues both broad and trivial that rise in nightlife and set tangible guidelines practiced at their accompanying parties. She has a BFA in Theatre with a concentration in Playwriting from Barnard College.\n \n \nMarco DaSilva is a native New Yorker whose symbol-based paintings explore hybridity through the intersections of his Brazilian-American\, queer identity and manic experience. He has exhibited works at The Brecht Forum\, IMAGE Gallery\, Heath Gallery\, The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art among many others. Last year he was a NYFA Artist as Entrepreneur fellow and is currently a Visual Arts fellow for Queer Art Mentorship’s 2017-2018 cycle. He creates work at his studio in Bedford-Stuyvesant. Marco has a BFA in Painting and Drawing from SUNY New Paltz. \nWhile in the waiting room at Bellevue Hospital in his manic state\, DaSilva was extremely hyper and had an unlimited supply of uninhibited energy. While listening to his party playlist through big headphones\, he danced uncontrollably\, sweating non-stop for hours while everyone sat and stared. In this state he felt like a star\, and loved every moment of it. DaSilva will recreate this manic dance in the waiting room at the Bureau. While he will be listen to his own music\, the audience will listen to an audio recording of his self- published manic book of poetry\, My Quaint Struggle. These poems were mini- epiphanies DaSilva had and wrote down in this euphoric state when he did not sleep for four days straight. \n \n \n \n 
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SUMMARY:Book launch of Patrick E. Horrigan's novel PENNSYLVANIA STATION
DESCRIPTION:  \nA party and reading to mark the publication of the novel PENNSYLVANIA STATION (Lethe Press) by Patrick E. Horrigan \n\n\nCopies of Pennsylvania Station are available for purchase at the Bureau. To reserve a copy please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com. Please support the Bureau by buying books from us. Thank you!\n  \n\n\nPhotograph by Frank Marando\n\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nBorn and raised in Reading\, Pennsylvania\, Patrick E. Horrigan is the author of the novel PORTRAITS AT AN EXHIBITION (Lethe Press)\, about a young man’s search for the meaning of life amid a gallery of old master portraits. PORTRAITS won the Dana Award for fiction as well as the Mary Lynn Kotz Art-in-Literature Award\, sponsored by the Library of Virginia and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. He is also the author of WIDESCREEN DREAMS: GROWING UP GAY AT THE MOVIES (University of Wisconsin Press)\, an analysis of several popular films from the 1960s and 70s. He has written artists’ catalogue essays for Thion’s LIMI-TATE: DRAWINGS OF LIFE AND DREAMS (cueB Gallery\, London) and Ernesto Pujol’s LOSS OF FAITH (Galeria Ramis Barquet\, New York). His essay “The Inner Life of Ordinary People” appears in Anthony Enns’ and Christopher R. Smit’s SCREENING DISABILITY: ESSAYS ON CINEMA AND DISABILITY (University Press of America). His play MESSAGES FOR GARY\, composed entirely of answering machine messages received by the activist and socialist scholar Gary Lucek\, was a critically-acclaimed hit of the Third Annual New York International Fringe Festival. With his husband\, the actor and writer Eduardo Leanez\, he co-wrote the solo show YOU ARE CONFUSED! about the relationship between a gay Venezuelan boy and his charismatic mother. He and Mr. Leanez are the hosts of ACTORS WITH ACCENTS\, a recurring variety show on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Winner of Long Island University’s David Newton Award for Excellence in Teaching\, he is Associate Professor of English at LIU Brooklyn. He lives in Manhattan. \n  \nBook cover design by Franco La Russa\, aka Thion \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/book-launch-of-patrick-e-horrigans-novel-pennsylvania-station/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180606T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180606T213000
DTSTAMP:20260403T153752
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SUMMARY:OLNY Poly Movie Night: Mediterranean Food
DESCRIPTION:  \nOpen Love NY presents Poly Movie Night\, a FREE series of feature films that focus on the portrayal of consensual / ethical non-monogamy in cinema. This month we’ll be at our regular venue\, the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division. \nPlease join us for Mediterranean Food/Dieta Mediterránea (2009)\, directed by Joaquín Oristrell and starring Olivia Molina\, Paco León\, and Alfonso Bassave. \nWe’ll meet at 6:30 pm at the Bureau (in room 210 of The Lesbian\, Gay\, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center at 208 West 13th Street) for pre-screening socializing and start the movie at 7 pm. The event is free\, although a $10 suggested donation to help fund future events is much appreciated. \nSynopsis: In this Spanish romantic comedy\, Sofía\, Toni\, and Frank grow up together in a seaside village. While Frank encourages Sofía’s ambition to be a world-famous chef\, she is also drawn to Toni’s vision of traditional family life. Running time: 1 hour 41 minutes. In Spanish with English subtitles. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/olny-poly-movie-night-mediterranean-food-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180605T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180605T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T153752
CREATED:20180521T161534Z
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SUMMARY:Women Your Mother Warned You About
DESCRIPTION:  \nJoin us for Women Your Mother Warned You About\, an explosive evening of uncensored vulnerability\, magic\, and hope from the best trans women and CAMAB non-binary writers in the country! Hear fantastic stories and celebrate the Lammy nomination of Resilience with Heartspark Press Editor Sugi Pyrrophyta and a short-list of incredible artists we’re thrilled to be sharing the stage with.  Come out and support trans women writers! \nTHE WRITERS JOINING US \nJEANNE THORNTON\nAPRIL DANIELS\nSARA OLIVER WIGHT\nA.K. BLUE\nTYLER VILE\nSUGI PYRROPHYTA\n& MORE \nABOUT THE RESILIENCE ANTHOLOGY\nTake a journey through the worlds of over thirty (C)AMAB* trans writers in what is currently the largest collection of poetry and prose made for and by us. Featuring new work by Luna Merbruja\, Magpie Leibowitz\, Moss Angel\, KOKUMO\, Joss Barton\, Ariel Howland\, Casey Plett\, Sascha Hamilton\, A.K. Blue\, Oti Onum\, Rahne Alexander\, Tobi Hill-Meyer\, Lawrence Walker\, Connifer Candlewood\, Serafima Mintz\, Talia Johnson\, Tyler Vile\, Lina Corvus\, Bridget Liang\, erica inchoate\, Lillita Lustre\, CHRYSALISAMIDST\, Ana Valens\, Larissa Glasser\, Lilith Dawn\, AR Rushet and more\, including an introduction by Julia Serano! \nCurated and Edited by Amy Heart\, Sugi Pyrrophyta\, and Larissa Glasser. \n  \nCopies of Resilience are available for purchase at the Bureau. To reserve a copy please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com. Please support the Bureau by buying books from us. Thank you! \n  \nSARA OLIVER WIGHT\nSara Oliver Wight is a Brooklyn based model\, author\, and aspiring lesbian farmer. Her current work focus is how to convey queer femme sexuality through noodles and sandwiches. Her work can be found on vice.com\, in the Resilience anthology and on her Instagram @saraoliverwight \nA.K. BLUE\nAndreia Kundry Blue lives in the Hudson Valley. She writes science fiction\, trans fiction\, and eccentric mash-ups of the two. Her story in Resilience\, “God Empress Susanna\,” is part of her work in progress\, Sea of Nightmares\, a collection of linked SF stories. She is a graduate of the Odyssey Writing Workshop and a member of the Brooklyn Trans Writing Workshop. \nTYLER VILE\nTyler Vile is a writer\, performer\, and activist from Baltimore\, MD whose novel-in-verse\, Never Coming Home\, is available on Topside Press. She is a member of the board of Hinenu: The Baltimore Justice Shtiebl\, a radically inclusive synagogue\, and was the vocalist in a punk band called Anti-Androgen. Her interactive poetry zine\, Hassidic Witch Murderer is available on her website\, tylervile.wordpress.com. Her work has appeared in the Lambda Literary Award nominated anthology\, Resilience\, published by Heartspark Press\, as well as the magazines Femmescapes\, Beltway Poetry Quarterly\, and Rogue Agent. She hopes to one day become the world’s greatest transsexual lesbian yenta. \nSUGI PYRROPHYTA\nSugi works against the hegemony that academic institutions have on knowledge and that financial institutions have on power\, specifically the roles that capital and obedience to oppressive structures play in upholding/withholding those institution and the rewards. She has been working most of her life on collecting stories of the lived experience of those most oppressed while attempting to make impossible the powers that hold us down. She knows first-hand and viscerally how hard it is to carve out time/energy to create while fighting every step for her and her friends’ survival\, and has no further accolades to dress herself in here because you can do anything\, you don’t need a fancy degree or an income or to have been published before; you are the fire that keeps us warm. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/women-your-mother-warned-you-about/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180603T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180603T183000
DTSTAMP:20260403T153752
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SUMMARY:Lucy Jane Bledsoe and Christopher Bram in Conversation: Storytelling and Community
DESCRIPTION:  \nLaunching her new novel\, THE EVOLUTION OF LOVE\, Lucy Jane Bledsoe will be in conversation with Christopher Bram. They’ll discuss how communities function in crisis\, and the role of storytelling in shaping community and culture\, with a queer twist on all of the above. \n  \nCopies of The Evolution of Love are available for purchase at the Bureau. To reserve a copy please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com. Please support the Bureau by buying books from us. Thank you! \n \n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nLucy Jane Bledsoe is the author of six novels\, including the just-released THE EVOLUTION OF LOVE and recently-released A THIN BRIGHT LINE. Her fiction has won a California Arts Council Fellowship in Literature\, an American Library Association Stonewall Award\, the Arts & Letters Fiction Prize\, a Pushcart nomination\, a Yaddo Fellowship\, and two National Science Foundation Artists & Writers Fellowships. Her story collection\, LAVA FALLS\, is forthcoming this fall. Bledsoe lives in the Bay Area where she spends as much time as possible kayaking in the bay\, as well as hiking and cycling in the hills. \n  \n  \n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n \n  \n  \nA novelist and critic\, Christopher Bram is the author of nine novels\, including GODS AND MONSTERS\, which was made into the movie starring Ian McKellen and Lynn Redgrave. He has written nonfiction for a broad range of publications\, including Out\, the Huffington Post\, and Architectural Digest. Bram’s book of essays\, MAPPING THE TERRITORY\, and his books SURPRISING MYSELF\, HOLD TIGHT\, IN MEMORY OF ANGEL CLARE\, and GOSSIP were reissued by Open Road Books in 2013. He was a 2001 Guggenheim fellow and winner of the Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement. His recent books include EMINENT OUTLAWS: THE GAY WRITERS WHO CHANGED AMERICA (Twelve\, 2012) and THE ART OF HISTORY: UNLOCKING THE PAST IN FICTION AND NONFICTION (Graywolf\, 2016). \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/lucy-jane-bledsoe-and-christopher-bram-in-conversation-storytelling-and-community/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180526T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180526T210000
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SUMMARY:Book Launch - A Reprobate Sense by Hunter O'Hanian
DESCRIPTION: \nThis artist’s book explores the origins of anti-same sex attitudes found in modern society. The author\, Hunter O’Hanian\, uses a book written in 1049\, The Book of Gomorrah\, which for the first time\, cataloged the sins associated with same-sex behavior. \n  \nO’Hanian researched Peter Damian’s life\, the origin of the book and its impact on modern day society. A Reprobate Sense contains selected excerpts from Damian’s work illustrated with screen shots from 1970s films made to entertain gay males.\n  \nGay writer and historian Hugh Ryan will interview O’Hanian about the book.\n \nCopies of A Reprobate Sense are available for purchase at the Bureau. To reserve a copy please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com. Please support the Bureau by buying books from us. Thank you! \n \n  \nAbout Hunter O’Hanian – With degrees from Boston College and Suffolk University Law School\, Hunter O’Hanian has held leadership positions at visual arts programs including the Fine Arts Work Center (Provincetown\, MA)\, Anderson Ranch Arts Center (Snowmass Village\, CO)\, Massachusetts College of Art and Design Foundation (Boston\, MA)\, Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art (New York\, NY)\, and College Art Association (New York\, NY). He has served on non-profit boards and panels for more than 30 years. His contributions have been recognized through an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from the Art Institute of Boston and a permanently endowed fellowship in his name at the Fine Arts Work Center.\n \n  \nAbout Hugh Ryan – A journalist\, curator\, and speaker write for folks like The New York Times\, The Guardian\, The Daily Beast\, VICE\, and Slate\, and other places. He mostly covers queer culture\, art\, and politics\, but also Rube Goldberg machines\, racism on reality television\, the renaissance of Shirley Jackson\, non-linear non-fiction\, and the literary origin of zombies in America. Recently\, he became the resident historian at them\, the new Conde Nast LGBTQ publication\, where we writes a column called “Themstory” every two weeks. This year\, he will be a resident artist at The Watermill Center as he finishes his new book\, When Brooklyn Was Queer\, due out with St. Martin’s Press in March of 2019.\n \n \n \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/book-launch-a-reprobate-sense-by-hunter-ohanian/
LOCATION:Online event\, New York\, NY\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180525T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180525T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T153752
CREATED:20180507T151824Z
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SUMMARY:Affirmative Laughter
DESCRIPTION:  \nCome celebrate Elsa Waithe‘s 30th bday the only way she know how… WITH LAUGHTER!!! On May 25th @ 7pm\, Bureau of General Services-Queer Division is gonna be packed as we ring in Elsa’s new decade with this hot lineup:\n \nBeth Maria\n Margo Reiss\n Shelly Colman\n Sarah Hartshorne\n Norah Yahya\n Mamoudou N’Diaye\n \n$10 suggested donation to benefit the Bureau and Affirmative Laughter performers. No one turned away for lack of funds!!!! \n  \n \n \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/affirmative-laughter-3/
LOCATION:Online event\, New York\, NY\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180520T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180520T173000
DTSTAMP:20260403T153752
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SUMMARY:Queer/Literary Defiance!
DESCRIPTION:  \nCultural defiance has maintained Queer identity\, keeping alive a culture rich in creativity\, zest\, and courage. In today’s political and social environment\, when LGBTQ rights and legitimacy are again under attack\, Queer cultural defiance is a bulwark against forcing the community back into hiding. \n  \nOn Sunday\, May 20th\, five acclaimed Queer writers—poets\, playwrights and novelists—will celebrate Queer/Literary Defiance. Each will read a short passage from their work\, followed by a discussion of the role of defiance in their writing; how it shapes it\, informs it\, gives it fire. This award-winning lineup of authors represents a diversity of social and cultural experience in the Queer community. As writers\, they distill those experiences into art. \n  \nFeaturing Ann Aptaker\, Ella Boureau\, JP Howard\, Jee Leong Koh\, and Trace Peterson. \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/queerliterary-defiance/
LOCATION:Online event\, New York\, NY\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180519T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180519T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T153752
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SUMMARY:Gay Artists of the Negro Renaissance
DESCRIPTION: \nJoin longtime activist\, scholar of African American studies\, and friend of the Bureau James Wright and guest speakers for a discussion of gay artists of the Negro Renaissance.\n \nFeaturing a historic overview of Harlem\, the Negro Renaissance\, and biographical information on several gay artists of the period\, including Countee Cullen\, Wallace Thurman\, Alain Locke\, and Bruce Nugent.\n \nWe will screen Brother to Brother (2005\, written and directed by Rodney Evans\, 90 minutes)\, a dramatic film about the life and times of Bruce Nugent.\n \n \nJames Wright has organized events at the Bureau exploring the lives and works of James Baldwin and Lorraine Hansberry\, as well as an event focused on Bruce Nugent and the first and only issue of the black literary journal FIRE!!\, which Nugent created with Langston Hughes\, Zora Neale Hurston\, Wallace Thurman\, Aaron Douglas\, Gwendolyn Bennett\, and John P. Davis in 1926.\n \n \nAbout the image: In 1926\, Langston Hughes\, Zora Neale Hurston\, Wallace Thurman\, Aaron Douglas\, Richard Bruce Nugent\, Gwendolyn Bennett\, and John P. Davis created the first and only issue of the black literary journal FIRE!!\, which included Nugent’s explicitly gay poem “Smoke\, Lilies and Jade.”  \n  \n  \n \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/gay-artists-of-the-negro-renaissance/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180518T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180518T213000
DTSTAMP:20260403T153752
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SUMMARY:John Fleck Is Who You Want Him to Be: Screening with Director Kevin Duffy and Guest Lucy Sexton of Dancenoise
DESCRIPTION:  \nJOHN FLECK IS WHO YOU WANT HIM TO BE is a documentary film by Kevin Duffy examining the legendary performance artist who was at the center of the culture wars during the AIDS crisis. The film includes contemporary cinema vérité footage of Fleck’s performances in New York and LA\, a sit-down interview and archival footage reaching back over 30 years\, including never before seen footage of the performance that sparked the NEA 4 crisis and the subsequent US Supreme Court decision.\nDirector Kevin Duffy will engage in a Q&A following the screening.\n \n \nA Q&A will follow the screening with the filmmaker hosted by Moderator Lucy Sexton of DANCENOISE\, the subject of the recent retrospective “Don’t Look Back” at the Whitney Museum.\n \n \nReception 7:30 PM\nScreening 8 PM\n \n \nJOHN FLECK (Subject) is a performance artist and actor based in Los Angeles\, California. In 1990 he and 3 other performance artists became known as the NEA-4 denied funding by the National Endowment for the Arts because of religious and political pressure. Fleck’s latest venture BLACKTOP HIGHWAY premiered @ REDCAT in Los Angeles and recently made its NYC debut @ Dixon Place receiving rave reviews and a critic’s choice in the NY Times. His last show MAD WOMEN won the 2012 LA Weekly Award for ‘Outstanding Solo Performance’ and was nominated for a Bessie Award. \n \n  \nKEVIN DUFFY (Filmmaker) directed\, produced\, shot and edited the documentary feature\, JOHN FLECK IS WHO YOU WANT HIM TO BE. The film has screened at the American Cinematheque\, Los Angeles\, the Los Feliz 3 Cinema\, the New York Indie Theater Film Festival and CalArts. Duffy’s first independent feature\, BECOMING BLOND (2010) starring Mink Stole is distributed by Ariztical Entertainment and has screened on Here TV. Duffy’s short film\, cheap flight\, (1996) screened on the Sundance Channel\, at the Hamptons International Film Festival\, the American Cinematheque and other venues. A graduate of New York University\, Duffy won a Fellowship in Playwriting from the New York Foundation for the Arts. He received an M.F.A. in screenwriting from the American Film Institute. \n \n  \nLucy Sexton is a Brooklyn-born choreographer\, director\, and producer who works in the fields of dance\, theater\, and film. With Anne Iobst\, she created the dance performance duo DANCENOISE. She directed the off-Broadway plays Spalding Gray; Stories Left to Tell and Tom Murrin’s The Magical Ridiculous Journey of Alien Comic; and produced the Charles Atlas films The Legend of Leigh Bowery and TURNING with Antony and the Johnsons. Since 2009\, she has served as the Executive Director of the NY Dance and Performance Awards\, The Bessies. \n  \n \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/john-fleck-is-who-you-want-him-to-be/
LOCATION:Online event\, New York\, NY\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180517T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180517T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T153752
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SUMMARY:Red Pubes: Writing the Queer Body
DESCRIPTION:  \nPoetry reading followed by Q & A with renowned poets Omotara James and Christopher Atamian. \n  \n  \n \nOmotara James is a poet and essayist. The daughter of Nigerian and Trinidadian immigrants\, she lives and studies in New York City. Her poetry chapbook\, “Daughter Tongue\,” was selected by African Poetry Book Fund\, in collaboration with Akashic Books\, for the 2018 New Generation African Poets Box Set. Her debut full length collection\, “Mama Wata\,” is forthcoming in the Fall of 2018 from Siren Songs\, of CCM press. She has been award fellowships from Cave Canem and Lambda Literary. Her awards include the Bridging the Gap Award for Emerging Poets and the Nancy P. Schnader Academy of American Poets Award. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Recluse\, Nat.Brut\, American Chordata\, Winter Tangerine\, Cosmonauts Avenue\, The Seventh Wave\, Arkansas International and elsewhere. Currently\, she is an MFA candidate in poetry at NYU.\n \n \n \nChristopher Atamian is a writer and creative producer of Italian–Armenian background and the grandson of Armenian Genocide survivors. While his current work is increasingly devoid of overt ethnic topics\, much of his early writings centered around issues of sexuality\, ethnic origin and assimilation. At Collegiate School Atamian was a National Merit Scholar. He received his B.A. in Literature\, Magna Cum Laude from Harvard University before completing his education at USC Film School and Columbia Business School where he received the school’s highest honor\, the Samuel Bronfman Scholarship. Apart from creative endeavors and professional activities as a senior executive in leading media companies and consultancies\, Atamian has concentrated on community activism. He is the former President and a current board member of AGLA New York and in 2004 founded Nor Alik\, a non-profit cultural organization responsible for producing the First Armenian International Film Festival. He also co-produced the OBIE Award-winning play Trouble in Paradise in 2006\, directed by Elyse Singer\, as well as several music videos and short films. Atamian was selected for the 2009 Venice Biennale on the basis of his video Sarafian’s Desire and received a 2015 Ellis Island Medal of Honor. He continues to contribute critical pieces to leading publications such as The New York Times Book Review and The Huffington Post\, while working on other creative endeavors in film and theater. Atamian’s poetry has appeared in The Hye-Phen Magazine\, The Armenian Poetry Project\, Groong Online\, and Mes Arménies. Into the Woods was adapted as a rock song by musician Anne Hirschfeld.\n \n \n \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/red-pubes-writing-the-queer-body/
LOCATION:Online event\, New York\, NY\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180516T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180516T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T153752
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SUMMARY:Pop Gym Pop Up: Free Self-Defense Workshop at the Bureau
DESCRIPTION:  \nPalm Heels for the people! Don’t get that joke? No worries! Come by this FREE Pop Up workshop to learn some introductory skills that will keep you feeling safe. We’ll be covering the basics: stretching\, conditioning\, technique\, and theory\, with the hope that participants will leave with some super useful foundations that will aid them in the day-to-day. Mix that in with some sweat and some movement\, and you’ll have an accessible and confidence-boosting good time for all. Whether you are a beginner\, or someone with experience\, come work it out with us!\n \nOpen to all ages! We’ll be moving around\, so participants should wear clothing in which they are comfortable stretching and sweating.\n \n#POPGym is a new project\, working towards opening a physical space in Brooklyn that offers free self-defense\, fitness\, and skill share classes 7 days a week. As we continue planning\, we invite you to come by any of our events this summer! Our workshops have been described as\, “fun”\, “holistic” and “empowering”\, and for any questions\, comments\, or inquiries for future workshops for you or your organizations\, email us at info@popgym.org #popup\n \n \n \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/pop-gym-pop-up-free-self-defense-workshop-at-the-bureau-2/
LOCATION:Online event\, New York\, NY\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180513T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180513T173000
DTSTAMP:20260403T153752
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SUMMARY:Annie Lanzillotto & Erica Cardwell Read
DESCRIPTION: \nPride Comes Early! Annie Rachele Lanzillotto reads from her new double book “Hard Candy” and “Pitch Roll Yaw.” Erica Cardwell reads new work. Special guests include: Gabriella Belfiglio\, Clare Ultimo\, Rosette Capotorto\, Zhaleh Afshar.\n \n  \nAnnie Rachele Lanzillotto is the author of the books: Hard Candy: Caregiving\, Mourning\, and Stage Light and Pitch\, Roll\, Yaw (Guernica World Editons 2018); L is for Lion: An Italian Bronx Butch Freedom Memoir (SUNY Albany Press 2013\, LAMBDA Literary Award Finalist); and Schistsong\, poems\, (Bordighera Press 2013.) Lanzillotto is the singer/songwriter of the albums: Never Argue With a Jackass (2017); Swampjuice: Yankee with a Southern Peasant Soul (2016)\, Carry My Coffee (2012)\, Eleven Recitations (2011); and Blue Pill (2010.) For more info on her books\, audiobooks\, albums\, films\, and performance works\, visit www.annielanzillotto.com. \n \n  \nErica Cardwell is a writer and radical educator based in New York. Her writing has appeared in Hyperallergic\, The Believer\, Rewire\, and forthcoming for Green Mountain Review. She received her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and was awarded a nonfiction fellowship from the Lambda Literary Foundation in 2015. She teaches English and Literature at the Borough of Manhattan Community College. Erica lives in Brooklyn with her partner and their turtle\, Smiley Mousa. \n \n \n \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/annie-lanzillotto-erica-cardwell-read/
LOCATION:Online event\, New York\, NY\, United States
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SUMMARY:TELL 44: Intimacy
DESCRIPTION:  \nTELL is an evening of story telling from the mouths and minds of queers in NYC hosted by Drae Campbell at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division since February 2014. \nIntimacy is the theme for the 44th installment of TELL. Featuring Darlinda Just Darlinda\, Mieke Dee\, Sarah Fonseca\, and Dylan Stephen Levers. \n$10 suggested donation to support the Bureau and the performers. No one turned away for lack of funds. \n  \n \nDrae Campbell is a writer\, actor\, director\, story teller\, dancer\, and nightlife emcee. Drae has been featured on Late Night with Conan O’Brien and on stages all over NYC. Drae’s directing work has appeared in Iceland\, NYC\, Budapest and in the San Francisco Fringe Festival. The short film Drae wrote and starred in with Rebecca Drysdale\, YOU MOVE ME won the Audience Award for Outstanding Narrative Short at OUTFEST 2010 and has been shown in festivals globally. Drae won the grand prize at the first annual San Miguel De Allende Storytelling Festival in Mexico. She once reigned as Miss LEZ and also got dubbed “the next lezzie comedian on the block” by AfterEllen.com for her comedic stylings on the interwebs. Campbell hosts and curates a monthly queer storytelling show called TELL at BGSQD. Check her out online!  www.draecampbell.com. \n  \n  \n \nThe Village Voice calls DARLINDA JUST DARLINDA a “Mastermind of Bizarre Extravaganza” and she has been working as a Burlesque Performer Performance Artist and Producer since 2004 locally (NYC) and internationally (Australia\, China\, Finland\, Germany\, France\, England\, Canada\, and most of the USA including Alaska!) Darlinda is one half of the Burlesque duo The Schlep Sisters\, co producing such shows as The 11th Annual Menorah Horah and The Burning Bush vs. The Second Coming. Darlinda has produced shows\, The New York Times calls “shockingly explicit.” Darlinda has also performed Off Broadway and on television; she performed with Taylor Mac in The Lily’s Revenge (Obie)\, The 29th Annual Roots of American Music Festival at Lincoln Center\,Celebrate Brooklyn and 24 Decades of Popular Music (Obie). She can be found on television\, in HBO’s Boardwalk Empire\, Amazon’s The Marvelous Mrs Maisel and The Other F Word Series. She’s lectured for Yale’s infamous Sex Week. She’s made performance art with her year long “life as art” projects Year in Dance and Year in Rainbow and is co-founder of LadyBox Theater currently creating Untitled Rainbow Project. Darlinda is a current faculty member at the New York School of Burlesque and also teaches internationally. The Sundance Channel made Darlinda a “Top 10 Badass Burlesque Babe\,” she was voted in the Top 50 International Burlesque Industry Figures of 2011-2014! Darlinda is the recipient of the Golden Pastie Award for The Most Innovative and Creative and The first ever Brooklyn Nightlife Award Winner for Best Burlesque!  USA Today says “It’s hard to top Darlinda.” \n  \n  \n \nMieke Dee \n \n  \n \nSarah Fonseca is a publicly-educated writer who lives in New York City via the Georgia foothills. Her essays\, criticism\, filthy ideas\, and their overlapping iterations have appeared in Best Lesbian Erotica 2018\, The Lambda Literary Review\, Math Magazine\, Posture Magazine\, and Slate. She’s currently working on a series of essays on women and strength pursuits. \n \n  \n \nDylan Stephen Levers is an NYC-based filmmaker. His film “this is a film about Tom and Maddy.” was a Vimeo staff pick and can be seen on Short of the Week and NoBudge.com. Short shorts\, his collection of minute-long films\, can be seen at https://vimeo.com/shortshorts.\n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/tell-44-intimacy/
LOCATION:Online event\, New York\, NY\, United States
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