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SUMMARY:Story Time with Que(e)ry Librarians
DESCRIPTION:Join the Que(e)ry Librarians for Story Time at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division!  \n \nGather around and hear queer literature for children and young adults\, read by librarians and authors (to be announced)\, enjoy some kool-aid and animal crackers beer and wine\, and browse the bookstore! RSVP on Facebook \nQue(e)ry’s goals are: \n\nto provide a safe and fun social space and to encourage community among queer information professionals and their friends and allies;\nto raise financial support and awareness for queer libraries\, archives and museums;\nto celebrate and encourage diverse representations and contributions of queer people in the cultural record and in the information professions;\nto demystify and challenge stereotypes about libraries and librarians;\nto demonstrate the relevance and accessibility of library collections and services to queer communities;\nto highlight information philosophy and policy issues affecting queer communities and collections\, such as censorship\, bias\, terminology\, equal access\, freedom of expression\, obscenity\, and privacy.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/queery-reads-at-the-bureau/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:Annie Lanzillotto reads from her new novel L Is for Lion
DESCRIPTION:Annie Rachele Lanzillotto is the author of L IS FOR LION: AN ITALIAN BRONX BUTCH FREEDOM MEMOIR (SUNY Press 2013)\, and the book of poetry SCHISTSONG (Bordighera Press 2013).  She is the songwriter and vocalist of the albums BLUE PILL (Annie Lanzillotto Band / StreetCry Productions) a rock and blues collaboration with Adeel Salman\, ELEVEN RECITATIONS\,(StreetCry)\, and CARRY MY COFFEE\, (StreetCry)\, a duet with cellist Lori Goldston.  Lanzillotto was born and raised in the Westchester Square neighborhood of the Bronx\, and in Yonkers\, New York\, of Barese heritage.  She received a B.A. with honors in medical anthropology from Brown University and an MFA in writing from Sarah Lawrence College.  Her poem Triple Bypass won the Italian American Writers Association Paolucci Award in Poetry\, and was published in the 2002 anthology\, THE MILK OF ALMONDS: ITALIAN-AMERICAN WOMEN WRITERS ON FOOD AND CULTURE\, edited by Edvige Giunta and Louise DeSalvo.  Her poems Manhattan Schist\, and My Grandmother’s Hands both won Rose and John Petracca Awards second place from Philadelphia Poets.  Lanzillotto made her acting debut in 1993 with her solo show\, CONFESSIONS OF A BRONX TOMBOY: My Throwing Arm\, This Useless Expertise at Under One Roof Theater and Manhattan Class Company in New York City. Lanzillotto received fellowships and performance commissions from New York Foundation For The Arts\, Dancing In The Streets\, Dixon Place\, Franklin Furnace\, The Rockefeller Foundation. Her shows include: Pocketing Garlic (Franklin Furnace)\, How to Wake Up a Marine in a Foxhole (The Kitchen)\, a’Schapett\, at The Arthur Avenue Retail Market in the Bronx. (Dancing In The Streets\, Rockefeller MAP Fund)\, The Flat Earth: Wheredddafhuck Did New York Go? (Dixon Place).  Lanzillotto teaches master classes in solo performance for the Acting Apprentice Company at Actors Theatre of Louisville\, and guest lectures in Theatre Outreach at Sarah Lawrence College. \n\nSpecial Guest: Rose Imperato\, saxophonist\, clarinetist and painter\, illustrated the drawings in L is for Lion and plays in the Annie Lanzillotto Band.  Imperato is a labor activist and is on the executive board for Remember The Triangle Fire Coalition\, dedicated to making a permanent memorial a reality in NYC for the victims of the Triangle Factory Fire.  Imperato works at the Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies.\n\n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/annie-lanzillotto-reads-from-her-new-novel-l-is-for-lion/
LOCATION:NY
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SUMMARY:Janis Joplin tribute: Travis Laughlin does Pearl
DESCRIPTION:Travis Laughlin has been paying tribute to Janis Joplin as Pearl for over 20 years. Pearl debuted at a high school drag show in Ossipee\, North Carolina and she hasn’t looked back! Since that stunning debut Pearl has performed in such venues as the Wayne Newton Theatre in Las Vegas\, Snug Harbor in Charlotte\, Joe’s Pub\, and\, of course\, The Cock. Pearl is about celebrating the legacy of Janis Joplin and\, in Janis’ words\, inspiring people to “get off [their] butt[s] and feel things!”
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/janis-joplin-tribute-travis-laughlin-does-pearl/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:Opening reception for Alice O'Malley: Kenny Kenny 13
DESCRIPTION:KENNY KENNY 13 is an exhibition of photographs of Kenny Kenny by Alice O’Malley curated by Claire Fleury and Alesia Exum of Strange Loop Gallery. Opening reception on Friday\, March 8\, 6-9 PM. \nAlice O’Malley lives and works in New York City. Her photographs have appeared in various publications including Art in America\, I-D Magazine\, Flash Art and New York Times Magazine. O’Malley’s first monograph\, Community of Elsewheres\, was published by Isis Editions in 2008 in conjunction with a solo exhibition by the same name.\nShe has exhibited at AIR\, Participant\, ICP and PS1\, and other galleries in NYC. \nAlice O’Malley on Kenny Kenny:\n“Kenny Kenny assisted Leigh Bowery in London in the early eighties and he is a legendary stylist in his own right.\nLike Bowery\, his body is his palette. He also hosts the best nights in New York City. We did a series of portraits called ’13 looks’…a study of Kenny Kenny in his many guises.”
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/opening-reception-for-alice-omalley-kenny-kenny-13/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:Jillian McManemin and Rbt. Sps. hosted by Joseph Whitt
DESCRIPTION:Jillian McManemin and Rbt. Sps. \nAn Evening of Recitation and Song \nhosted by Joseph Whitt \nJillian McManemin (b.1989 Englewood\, New Jersey) is a multimedia artist who utilizes spoken word\, video\, and performance. Her work investigates the emotional structure of specific\, often colorful characters in an attempt to reveal the ubiquity of heartache within a society of desire and longing. She graduated with a BFA from Pratt Institute\, and has presented work at Anthology Film Archives (NYC)\, Brooklyn Fireproof (Brooklyn\, NY)\, and Glasslands (Brooklyn\, NY).  She also starred in a feature film called “The Cruel Tale of The Medicine Man” (2012) written and produced by “The Slipper Room”’s James Habacker and directed by Maria Beatty. She is currently co-creating a play and short film under the alias “The Honeymoon Heart Revival.” \nRbt. Sps. (b. 1984\, Paducah\, Kentucky) is a multimedia artist\, writer and performer. As a lifelong resident of the Deep South\, Sps.’s work deals predominately with rural eccentricities and extremes viewed through an autobiographical lens. His work has been featured in the Wiener Künstlerhaus (Vienna\, Austria)\, P.P.O.W. Gallery (NYC)\, Interstate Projects (Brooklyn\, NY)\, Antena Gallery (Chicago\, Illinois)\, and Space 204 at Vanderbilt University (Nashville\, Tennessee). His video series\, This New Sitcom\, will be featured in NYC’s Moving Image Contemporary Art Video Fair\, March 7-10\, 2013. \nDuring the evening\, Sps. will be offering his zine “Selected Video Stills 2004-2012” (signed/numbered in an edition of 50) for sale.  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/jillian-mcmanemin-and-rbt-sps-hosted-by-joseph-whitt/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:Poet Dean Kostos reads at the Bureau
DESCRIPTION:Dean Kostos will read from his recent book of poetry\, Rivering\, and from a forthcoming book. \nDean Kostos’s collections include Rivering\, Last Supper of the Senses\, The Sentence That Ends with a Comma\, and the chapbook Celestial Rust. He co-edited Mama’s Boy: Gay Men Write about Their Mothers (a Lambda Book Award finalist) and edited Pomegranate Seeds: An Anthology of Greek-American Poetry (its debut reading was held at the United Nations). His poems have appeared in over 300 journals and anthologies\, such as Boulevard\, Chelsea\, Cimarron Review\, The Cincinnati Review\, Mediterranean Poetry (Sweden)\, Southwest Review\, Stand Magazine (UK)\, Stranger at Home\, Token Entry\, Vanitas\, Western Humanities Review\, and on Oprah Winfrey’s Web site Oxygen.com. His choral text\, Dialogue: Angel of War\, Angel of Peace\, was set to music by James Bassi and performed by Voices of Ascension. His literary criticism has appeared on the Harvard UP Web site\, in Talisman\, and elsewhere. He has taught at Wesleyan\, The Gallatin School of NYU\, The City University of New York\, and he has served as literary judge for Columbia University’s Gold Crown Awards. A recipient of a Yaddo fellowship\, he also serves on the editorial board of Journal of the Hellenic Diaspora. His poem “Subway Silk” was recently translated into a film by Canadian filmmaker Jill Clark. \n Read Michael T. Young’s review of Rivering in Taos Journal of Poetry and Art.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/poet-dean-kostos-reads-at-the-bureau/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:Contributors to The Letter Q: Queer Writers' Notes to Their Younger Selves
DESCRIPTION:Readings by contributors to The Letter Q: Queer Writers’ Notes to Their Younger Selves\, edited by Sarah Moon.\n\nConfirmed readers: \nSarah Moon is a teacher\, writer\, and translator. She is a graduate of Smith College and Columbia University. She teaches at Saint Ann’s School in Brooklyn. \nJames Lecesne is an actor\, writer\, and activist. His Academy-Award winning short film\, Trevor\, inspired the founding o the The Trevor Project. In addition to his career as an actor\, he has written for TV and he performed several of his own one-man shows\, including Word of Mouth\, which won a New York Drama Desk Award. \nAn essaysit and reporter\, Paula Gilovich has contributed to the New York Times\, Allure\, and the Stranger. Her plays include Le Roy\, Le Roy\, Le Roy; Water to Breathe; and Queertopia. At About Face Theatre\, she worked as a writer and director for the creation of new main-stage and touring plays about the lives and experiences of queer youth. \nLinda Villarosa runs the journalism program at the City College of New York in Harlem. Her novel Passing for Black was published in 2008. \n\n\n\nDescription of The Letter Q: Queer Writers’ Notes to Their Younger Selves \n\nLife-saving letters from a glittering wishlist of top authors. If you received a letter from your older self\, what do you think it would say? What do you wish it would say?\n\nThat the boy you were crushing on in History turns out to be gay too\, and that you become boyfriends in college? That the bully who is making your life miserable will one day become so insignificant that you won’t remember his name until he shows up at your book signing? \nIn this anthology\, sixty-four award-winning authors such as Michael Cunningham\, Amy Bloom\, Jacqueline Woodson\, Gregory Maguire\, David Levithan\, and Armistead Maupin make imaginative journeys into their pasts\, telling their younger selves what they would have liked to know then about their lives as Lesbian\, Gay\, Bisexual\, or Transgendered people. Through stories\, in pictures\, with bracing honesty\, these are words of love and understanding\, reasons to hold on for the better future ahead. They will tell you things about your favorite authors that you never knew before. And they will tell you about yourself.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/contributors-to-the-letter-q-queer-writers-notes-to-their-younger-selves/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:Cynthia Carr reads from Fire in the Belly: The Life and Times of David Wojnarowicz
DESCRIPTION:Cynthia Carr was a columnist and arts reporter for the Village Voice from 1984 to 2003. Writing under the byline C. Carr\, she specialized in experimental and cutting-edge art\, especially performance art. Some of these pieces are now collected in On Edge: Performance at the End of the Twentieth Century. She is also the author of Our Town: A Heartland Lynching\, a Haunted Town\, and the Hidden History of White America. Her work has appeared in the New York Times\, Artforum\, Bookforum\, Modern Painters\, the Drama Review\, and other publications. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2007. Carr lives in New York. \n\n\n\n\n\n  \nAbout Fire in the Belly \nDavid Wojnarowicz was an abused child\, a teen runaway who barely finished high school\, but he emerged as one of the most important voices of his generation. He found his tribe in New York’s East Village\, a neighborhood noted in the 1970s and ’80s for drugs\, blight\, and a burgeoning art scene. His creativity spilled out in paintings\, photographs\, films\, texts\, installations\, and in his life and its recounting—creating a sort of mythos around himself. His circle of East Village artists moved into the national spotlight just as the AIDS plague began its devastating advance\, and as right-wing culture warriors reared their heads. As Wojnarowicz’s reputation as an artist grew\, so did his reputation as an agitator—because he dealt so openly with his homosexuality\, so angrily with his circumstances as a Person With AIDS\, and so fiercely with his would-be censors.Fire in the Belly is the untold story of a polarizing figure at a pivotal moment in American culture—and one of the most highly acclaimed biographies of the year. \n \nReviews\n \n“12 Best Books of 2012” – Newsday\n \n“10 Favorite Books of 2012” – Dwight Garner\, The New York Times\n \n“Carr’s biography is both sympathetic and compendious; it’s also a many-angled account of the downtown art world of the 1980s . . . [Carr] has seized upon a vivid and peculiarly American story.” – Dwight Garner\, The New York Times\n \n“Heartbreaking and unflinchingly honest. Carr has managed to create not only an essential biography but required reading for anyone interested in the ‘80s art world” – Christopher Bollen\, Interview\n \n“A vivid portrait of the artist as a young man . . . It’s no surprise that Carr writes perceptively about Wojnarowicz’s art and the era’s ‘culture wars.’ But she also is exceptionally good at fleshing out her subject as a person . . . Carr has resurrected him . . . fully and hauntingly.” – Tom Beer\, Newsday\n \n“A beautifully written\, sympathetic\, unsentimental portrait of one of the most lastingly influential late 20th century New York artists.” – Chris Kraus\, Los Angeles Times\n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/cynthia-carr-reads-from-fire-in-the-belly-the-life-and-times-of-david-wojnarowicz/
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SUMMARY:Readings by Martin Hyatt\, Luis Jaramillo\, and Andrew Zornoza
DESCRIPTION:Meet three of NYC’s freshest\, most buzzed about\, original literary voices when Martin Hyatt\, Luis Jaramillo\, and Andrew Zornoza take the stage at the Bureau to share their latest work.   \n \nMartin Hyatt is the recipient of an Edward F. Albee Writing Fellowship and The New School Chapbook Award for fiction. His debut novel\, A Scarecrow’s Bible\, was published May 2006.  It was named a Stonewall Honor Book by the American Library Association and won the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction.  In addition\, it was nominated for the Ferro-Grumley Award\, a Lamda Literary Award\, and the Violet Quill Award.  He was named a “Star of Tomorrow” by NY Magazine.  His new novel\, Beautiful Gravity\, is forthcoming.  He is also currently completing a memoir entitled Greyhound Boy\, 1976.  His work has appeared in several award-winning anthologies.  He has taught writing at such places at Hofstra\, Parsons\, and St. Francis College. He is currently Associate Professor and Founding Coordinator of The Writing Center at ASA College in NYC. \n \nLuis Jaramillo is the author of The Doctor’s Wife\, winner of the Dzanc Books Short Story Collection Contest\, an Oprah Book of the Week\, and one of NPR’s Best Books of 2012. Luis’s work has also appeared in Open City\, Gamers (Soft Skull Press)\, and Tin House Magazine. He is the Associate Chair of the Writing Program at the New School\, where he teaches courses in fiction and nonfiction\, and is co-editor of the journal The Inquisitive Eater: New School Food. \n \nAndrew Zornoza is the author of the novel Where I Stay.  His short fiction\, essays and photography have appeared in BOMB\, the Poetry Foundation\, Gastronomica\, Sleepingfish\, and CapGun\, among many others.  He has taught at Gotham Writers’ Workshop and in Parsons Design & Technology MFA program. Born in Houston\, Texas\, he currently works out of New York City.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/readings-by-martin-hyatt-luis-jaramillo-and-andrew-zornoza/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:In the Flesh monthly reading: Transitional Life
DESCRIPTION:The queer online zine In the Flesh returns to the Bureau for its fifth consecutive monthly reading at the Bureau! \n \nTransitional Life \nMaybe you’ve just moved to a new city and are staying with your cousin in his one bedroom at the exact moment that he and his girlfriend are trying to get pregnant and you are frequently asked to leave the apartment because she is ovulating. “No problem. So\, I’ll just step out for a half hour or so?” \nOr perhaps you’ve started a temp job in Midtown and find yourself staring into a bowl of beernuts at PJ Moran’s with your co-workers\, seriously considering going home with Awkward John\, just to confirm your lesbianhood once and for all. \nOR Maybe you finally worked up the nerve to wear those new stockings and short skirt out in public\, and you notice there is a tiny hole in the stockings and how could that be possible because you just bought them so you are too busy being upset about that damn hole and how it could have gotten there to be nervous about whether you pass or not. \nIt’s a tricky business starting something new\, and the force of change often pushes us into bed with strange fellows. Sometimes literally. The phrase “How did I get here” was made for such times\, and at this month’s ITF you will hear ALL about those sweaty moments that helped our readers get them to where they are. \nReadings will begin PROMPTLY at 7:30\, so be sure to arrive early to grab a drink and find yourself a seat next to that special someone. \nREADERS: \nAriel “Speedwagon” Federow– is a performer whose work has been seen on Broadway\, Lafayette\, Chrystie\, East 4th Street\, Fulton\, Vanderbilt\, and other streets and avenues around New York City. She blogs for dapperQ.com and Velvet Park\, was once Miss Jew-S-A\, spent her youth as a ballerina\, and can be tracked down at https://www.arielspeedwagon.com/. \nHana Malia \nAldrin Valdez– is an artist and writer who grew up in Manila and Long Island. He studied painting and writing at Pratt Institute and the School of Visual Arts. Aldrin’s writing has been published in Art:21 Blog\, The Brooklyn Rail\, BRIC Contemporary Art\, Art Slant\, and In the Flesh. He is a 2011-2012 Queer/Art/Mentorship fellow. Along with artist Ted Kerr\, he organizes Foundational Sharing\, a salon of performances\, readings\, and visual art. www.aldrinaldrin.com
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/in-the-flesh-monthly-reading/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:Queer Division III: celebrating the release of Rachel Levitsky's new book\, The Story of My Accident Is Ours\, just out from Futurepoem
DESCRIPTION:Andrew Durbin presents Queer Division III: celebrating the release of Rachel Levitsky‘s new book\, The Story of My Accident Is Ours\, just out from Futurepoem\n+ + + READERS + + +\n \nBesides her first novel\, brand spanking newly out from Futurepoem\, and called The Story of My Accident is Ours\, Rachel Levitsky is the author of two previous books called poetry\, Under the Sun (Futurepoem\, 2003) NEIGHBOR (UDP\, 2009). She is the founder of the feminist avant-garde network\, Belladonna* Collaborative. In 2010 with Christian Hawkey\, she started The Office of Recuperative Strategies (OoRS.net)\, a mobile research unit variously located in Amsterdam\, Berlin\, Boulder\, Brooklyn\, Cambridge\, NYC and the Universität Leipzig in Leipzig. She lives in Brooklyn and teaches at Pratt Institute. \n  \n \nerica kaufman is the author of censory impulse (Factory School 2009) as well as several chapbooks. her most recent project is called INSTANT CLASSIC. she lives in Brooklyn and teaches at Baruch College and the Institute for Writing & Thinking at Bard College. \n  \n \nMichelle Betters is a poet living in Brooklyn. She’s a student at Pratt Institute where she curates Ubiquitous\, the literary and arts magazine. Since moving here from Georgia in 2010\, she’s been involved in various projects with OWS\, the Office of Recuperative Strategies\, and Jennifer Miller’s Circus Amok. Her most recent project was a chapbook entitled OCD the Vampire Slayer\, which Joss Whedon has yet to respond to despite the multiple copies she’s sent to him.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/queer-division-iii-celebrating-the-release-of-rachel-levitskys-new-book-the-story-of-our-accident-is-ours-just-out-from-futurepoem/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:Filip Noterdaeme presents his new book The Autobiography of Daniel J. Isengart\, with Penny Arcade
DESCRIPTION:Filip Noterdaeme reads from his new book The Autobiography of Daniel J. Isengart\nThis conceptual memoir written in the style of Gertrude Stein’s The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas\, was published in March 2013 by Outpost19.\n\nFilip Noterdaeme is the founder and director of the Homeless Museum of Art (HOMU)\, a pastiche of the contemporary art museum. He lives in New York City\, where he teaches art history at the New School and CUNY\, gives gallery lectures at the Guggenheim Museum\, and writes a blog about art for The Huffington Post. \nhttps://www.outpost19.com/Autobiography/index.html \nhttps://www.homelessmuseum.org/ \nPenny Arcade reads from her forward to The Autobiography of Daniel J. Isengart and from her book Bad Reputation:\nPerformances\, Essays\, Interviews \n \nPenny Arcade aka Susana Ventura is an internationally respected writer\,poet\, actress\, director and one of the handful of artists who created and continue to define Performance Art for nearly three decades. Her unique voice and magnetic stage presence have given her mainstream career recognition far beyond  America’s shores\, from Brazil to Austria\, Australia to  Britain to Mexico. \nPenny Arcade debuted with John Vaccaro’s explosive Playhouse of The Ridiculous at 18 years \, and was a Warhol Factory superstar at 19\, featured in the Warhol film Women In Revolt\, available on DVD . \nWith an artistic career spanning 40 years\, Penny Arcade occupies a unique position in the American counter-culture and the American Avant-Garde. HM Koutoukas referred to her as “The Little Sister of The Avant-garde” because of her long association with the architects of the American counter culture including Andy Warhol\, Charles Henri Ford\, John Vaccaro\, Judith Malina\, Ellen Stewart\, Jackie Curtis\, HM Koutukas\,  Taylor Mead\, Jonas Mekas\, Jack Smith\, Harry Smith\, Tom O’Horgan\, Charles Ludlam\, among others. \nPenny Arcade’s work has long focused on the other and the outsider\, giving voice to those marginalized by society and her decades long focus on the creation of community and inclusion as the goals of performance. Her efforts to use performance as a transformative act mark her as a true original in American theatre and performance art. Many of her theatrical innovations have passed into the mainstream of both American and international theatre and performance. \nIn 1991 Quentin Crisp identified Ms Arcade as his soul mate and anima figure \, the woman he most identified with and their friendship became professional and they presented performances together for close to a decade. \nHer highly praised\, award winning documentary project The LES Bio Project\, “Stemming The Tide Of Cultural Amnesia” which she co-creates with long time collaborator video producer Steve Zehentner has been broadcasted weekly in NY since 1999 every Wednesday at 11pm on Ch 34 Time /Warner and RCN 112 and cybercasts each wed at 10:30 at www.mnn.org \nVisit www.pennyarcde.tv \, pennyarcadesuperstar FB \nTwitter pennyarcadenyc
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/filip-noterdaeme-presents-his-new-book-the-autobiography-of-daniel-j-isengart-with-penny-arcade/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:Queer Playwrights Collective: Short Plays by Local Queer Playwrights
DESCRIPTION:Queer Playwrights Collective presents a handful of 10-minute plays by Local Queer Playwrights. Organized by photographer and writer Jeffrey James Keyes. \nPLEASE NOTE THAT THIS EVENT WILL BEGIN PROMPTLY AT 7 PM. \nWorks by the following playwrights will be presented: \nClarence Coo\nThirza Defoe\nPaul Hagen\nJeffrey James Keyes\nDavid Koteles\nMariah MacCarthy\nChristopher Oscar Peña\nRob Rosiello \nActors: \n\nJody Christopherson \nMatt W. Cody\nJon Cooper\nSanam Erfani\nAndrew Glaszek\nYeauxlanda Kay\nJoshua Levine\nLibby Winters
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/writer-and-photographer-jeffrey-james-keyes-hosts-readings-of-short-new-works-by-local-queer-playwrights-participants-to-be-announced/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130328T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130328T210000
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SUMMARY:BAD GRAMMAR Zine reading
DESCRIPTION:Taking its name from assumptions and stereotypes of inarticulacy surrounding Black English and culture\, BAD GRAMMAR Zine provides a platform for queer artists of color to document and discuss the artwork of their peers on their own terms\, with their own language and in relation to their own culture. Started by Yulan Grant\, Justin Allen\, and Brandon Owens as an in-house publication to accompany gallery shows at Culturefix bar and gallery in the Lower East Side\, the zine is looking to branch out beyond the boundaries of the downtown NYC art world\, publishing online and providing a limited edition of print copies of three of its issues at the zine’s showcase. The event will feature a reading of an interview from one of the issues by Justin Allen\, a DJ Session by Brandon Owens\, and Projections by Yulan Grant. \n.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/bad-grammar-zine-reading/
LOCATION:NY
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SUMMARY:David McConnell Reading & in Conversation with Zachary Pace & Lonely Christopher
DESCRIPTION:David McConnell will be reading from his new book\, American Honor Killings: Desire and Rage Among Men. He will be joined in conversation by Zachary Pace and Lonely Christopher. \n— \nIn American Honor Killings\, straight and gay guys cross paths\, and the result is murder. But what really happened? What role did hatred play? What about bullying and abuse? What were the men involved really like\, and what was going on between them when the murder occurred? American Honor Killings explores the truth behind squeamish reporting and uninformed political rants of the far right or fringe left. David McConnell\, a New York-based novelist\, researched cases from small-town Alabama to San Quentin’s death row. The book recounts some of the most notorious crimes of our era. \nBeginning in 1999 and lasting until last year’s conviction of a youth in Queens\, New York\, the book shows how some murderers think they’re cleaning up society. Surprisingly\, other killings feel almost preordained\, not a matter of the victim’s personality or actions so much as a twisted display of a young man’s will to compete or dominate. We want to think these stories involve simple sexual conflict\, either the killer’s internal struggle over his own identity or a fatally miscalculated proposition. They’re almost never that simple. \nTogether\, the cases form a secret American history of rage and desire. McConnell cuts through cant and political special pleading to turn these cases into enduring literature. In each story\, victims\, murderers\, friends\, and relatives come breathtakingly alive. The result is more soulful\, more sensitive\, more artful than the sort of “true crime” writing the book was modeled on. A wealth of new detail has been woven into old cases\, while new cases are plumbed for the first time. The resulting stories play out exactly as they happened\, an inexorable sequence of events—grisly\, touching\, disturbing\, sometimes even with moments of levity. \n— \nDAVID McCONNELL is the author of the acclaimed novels The Silver Hearted (a finalist for Lambda and Ferro-Grumley awards) and Firebrat. His short fiction and journalism have appeared widely in magazines and anthologies\, including the Literary Review (UK)\, Granta\, and Prospect magazine (UK). He is the former cochair of the Lambda Literary Foundation\, and lives in New York City.  \nZACHARY PACE works at Grove/Atlantic and lives in Brooklyn.  \nLONELY CHRISTOPHER is the author of the short story collection The Mechanics of Homosexual Intercourse. He wrote and directed the forthcoming film MOM and lives in Brooklyn.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/david-mcconnell-reading-in-conversation-with-zachary-pace-lonely-christopher/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:Last day of Alice O'Malley: Kenny Kenny 13
DESCRIPTION:March 31 is the final day of the exhibition KENNY KENNY 13\, photographs of Kenny Kenny by Alice O’Malley curated by Claire Fleury and Alesia Exum of Strange Loop Gallery. \nAlice O’Malley lives and works in New York City. Her photographs have appeared in various publications including Art in America\, I-D Magazine\, Flash Art and New York Times Magazine. O’Malley’s first monograph\, Community of Elsewheres\, was published by Isis Editions in 2008 in conjunction with a solo exhibition by the same name.\nShe has exhibited at AIR\, Participant\, ICP and PS1\, and other galleries in NYC. \nAlice O’Malley on Kenny Kenny:\n“Kenny Kenny assisted Leigh Bowery in London in the early eighties and he is a legendary stylist in his own right.\nLike Bowery\, his body is his palette. He also hosts the best nights in New York City. We did a series of portraits called ’13 looks’…a study of Kenny Kenny in his many guises.”
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/last-day-of-alice-omalley-kenny-kenny-13/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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