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SUMMARY:Queer Division VI: Cecilia Corrigan\, Evan Kennedy\, CAConrad
DESCRIPTION:Andrew Durbin presents: \nQueer Division VI: Cecilia Corrigan\, Evan Kennedy\, CAConradCAConrad is the son of white trash asphyxiation whose childhood included selling cut flowers along the highway for his mother and helping her shoplift. He has five full-length poetry collections\, the most recent is A Beautiful Marsupial Afternoon (Wave Books\, 2012). The Book of Frank (Wave Books) has been translated into German\, Spanish\, and most recently Swedish. He is a 2011 Pew Fellow\, a 2013 Banff Fellow\, a 2013 MacDowell Fellow\, and a 2012 and 2013 visiting faculty member for the Summer Writing Program of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University. You can find his poems here. \nEvan Kennedy is a poet and bicyclist who lives in San Francisco. He is the author of Shoo-Ins to Ruin (Gold Wake Press) and Us Them Poems (BookThug). Terra Firmament is forthcoming from Krupskaya. \n  \nCecilia Corrigan lives in New York. Her first book Titanic was awarded the Plonsker Prize\, and will be published by &Now Books in 2014. Her current research interests include Alan Turing\, immaturity\, Ludwig Wittgenstein’s adolescence\, Alice James\, Buffy the Vampire Slayer\, and therapeutic cosmetics. Her work has appeared in The Journal\, Death and Life of American Cities\, O’Clock Press\, The Awl\, The Nicola Midnight St. Claire\, Glitterpony\, and Emergency Index. She wrote for HBO’s show Luck. \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/queer-division-vi-cecilia-corrigan-evan-kennedy-caconrad/
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 Film Summer Camp: Pasolini's Salò\, Presented by Newton
DESCRIPTION:The Bureau of General Services—Queer Division and Peter M. Hargrove\, President of Hargrove Entertainment\, Inc.\, proudly present Queer Film Summer Camp\, a series devoted to queer films or films viewed queerly.  Queer Film Summer Camp will take place at the Bureau on eight Saturday evenings in July and August. An exciting array of film critics and historians along with other queer and queer-friendly NYC-based arts professionals will introduce each film with a brief lecture. \nTo open the series we will present Pier Paolo Pasolini‘s Salò\, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975). Greg Newton\, the Bureau’s Minister of Propaganda\, will introduce the film. \nSuggested donation of $10\nDrinks will be served at 7 PM\nThe introductory lectures will begin at 8 PM \nLink to IMDB page on Salò \nGreg Newton recently abandoned a dismal career in academia to co-found\, with his partner Donnie Jochum\, the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division\, where he serves as Minister of Propaganda.
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LOCATION:NY
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SUMMARY:Edmund White Presents 4 Poets: Lonely\, Fitzgerald\, Nikolopoulos\, Gerevich
DESCRIPTION:Join us at the Bureau as acclaimed author Edmund White (A Boy’s Own Story) presents four of his favorite young and emerging queer poets: Lonely Christopher (Death & Disaster Series); Adam Fitzgerald (The Late Parade); Angelo Nikolopoulos (Obscenely Yours); and special guest\, all the way from Hungary\, Andras Gerevich (Tiresias’s Confession). Introductions by Edmund White. After party with dancing and revelry surely to follow at the bar Home Sweet Home (131 Chrystie Street). \n  \nLonely Christopher is a poet and filmmaker. He is the author of the short story collection The Mechanics of Homosexual Intercourse\, which was a 2011 selection of Dennis Cooper’s Little House on the Bowery imprint of Akashic Books. His forthcoming film credits include the feature length MOM\, which he wrote and directed\, and the shorts We Are Not Here\, Petit Lait\, and Life of the Misanthrope. His first poetry collection\, Death & Disaster Series\, will be released this year by Monk Books. He lives in Brooklyn. \n  \nAdam Fitzgerald’s first book of poems\, The Late Parade has just been published by Norton/Liveright. He teaches poetry at Rutgers University and Marymount College\, and is the founding editor of Maggy and Monk Books. His poems and interviews have appeared or are forthcoming in The Agricultural Reader\, Boston Review\, The Brooklyn Rail\, Poetry\, Los Angeles Review of Books and elsewhere. He lives in the East Village. \n  \nAngelo Nikolopoulos‘ first book of poems is Obscenely Yours\, winner of the 2011 Kinereth Gensler Award (Alice James Books 2013). His poems have appeared in Best American Poetry 2012\, Best New Poets 2011\, Boston Review\, Fence\, The Los Angeles Review\, The New York Quarterly\, Tin House\, and elsewhere. He is a winner of the 2011 “Discovery” / Boston Review Poetry Contest and the founder of the White Swallow Reading Series in Manhattan. He teaches at Rutgers University\, New Brunswick and lives in New York City. \n  \nAndras Gerevich was born in Budapest\, Hungary in 1976. He is just finishing his fourth book of poems in his native Hungarian\, due out this fall. A book of his poetry in English translation\, Tiresias’s Confession\, came out in 2008. He has also published widely in journals and his work is translated into over a dozen languages. He has been a guest at a number of international literary and poetry festivals\, and several artists’ residencies\, including the legendary Yaddo in New York and the Akademie Solitude in Germany. Besides writing poetry Gerevich scripted several prize-winning short animations produced in the UK\, and his plays were performed in Budapest and read in London. He also published essays and stories\, and translated a number of English-speaking poets into Hungarian\, including Seamus Heaney and Frank O’Hara\, and a book by the filmmaker David Lynch. He was editor for two literary journals: Kalligram in Budapest and Chroma in London\, an assistant producer for the radio program Poetry by Post for the BBC World Sevice\, and was also the President of the József Attila Kör\, the Hungarian young writers’ association from 2006 for a three year term. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/edmund-white-presents-4-poets-lonely-fitzgerald-nikolopoulos-gerevich/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:Book Club Meets to Discuss James Baldwin's Another Country
DESCRIPTION:Book Club meets at the Bureau to discuss James Baldwin‘s Another Country. All are welcome. Beer\, wine\, and sparkling water served\, as always. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/book-club-meets-to-discuss-james-baldwins-another-country/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:Celebration of Annie Lanzillotto's Schistsong
DESCRIPTION:Book blast party & reading for Annie Lanzillotto‘s book of poems\, Schistsong with introduction by Rosette Imperato. Come toast the book. \nAnnie is joined by special guests: Emily Kunkel\, Rose Imperato on Sax. \nMembers of Annie’s class\, LITERARY OUTLAWS FOR LIBERATION\, will also read. \nALL WELCOME\nBRING YOUR FRIENDS\nWE WILL SING AND DANCE \nL IS FOR LION\nand\nSCHISTONG\nwill be available \n  \n  \nSCHISTSONG \nby Annie Rachele Lanzillotto \nAn urban songline of New York. From the author\nof the memoir L is for Lion\, comes a panegyric of\nthe geology of Manhattan. ese poems glitter.\nManhattan schist is rendered as a template for the\nskyline and characters of New York. Grit and stardust\ncollide in this debut collection of poetry and song.\ne book begins with the bright re ective quality of\nMica and ends with the gentri ed vision of the city\nwhere “New York is nine millions doors\, and you have\nnot one key.” In between are stories of urban icons:\niceman\, sh peddler\, heart butcher\, meter maid\, San\nGennaro\, the magic of grandmothers’ hands\, the\nvision of the oldest living tree in the city\, immigrants\nwho fell out windows and died in explosions\, Italian\nphrases that link the essence of the sun to a rose to a\nheart\, crushed tomatoes\, sunsets\, supermarkets\, the\nglory of hot tar\, the lessons of marines and lesbians.\nYou will learn history and geology\, Italian American\nheroes\, and spiritual imperatives\, through the syllables\nof this one poet’s soul. \n  \n“Stunning in its originality\, Annie Lanzillotto’s poetic voice is musical\, energetic\, wise\, and compassionate. In Schistsong\, Annie Lanzillotto creates a rhythmic love letter to New York with vivid\, evocative poems that showcase unforgettable people\, while encompassing history\, science\, geography\, medicine\, and geology.” \n— MARIA FAMÀ\, Author of Mystics in the Family\, and Looking For Cover \n  \n“Schistsong\, Annie Lanzillotto’s astounding collection of poems is big and dense and speaks in a New York accent forged in the bedrock that predates the history of this great city\, the metamorphic rock that is older than New York\, older than Italy\, many millions of years old. ‘Find your inner schist\,’ your bedrock\, this poet urges. Sprinkled with liberal handfuls of shiny mica\, these poems are meant to kick and stomp and make sure you know they’re here. They come direct from the ‘heel of the boot’ as it was planted in the Bronx\, New York.” \n— ROSETTE CAPOTORTO\, Author of Popbeads\, and Bronx Italian \n  \n“A cacophony of bold urban verse\, where we hear the barking fish vendors and shaky war veterans\, the bitter iceworkers and lustful dykes looming on the docks. Lanzillotto’s witty slang cuts over the traffic\, it whistles\, sings; this is her testimony of a place and time where L’America beckons out immigrant Bronx soul windows\, where words and rhythms are constructed of that glittering truth that makes the concrete mountains of Manhattan possible –schistpoetry!” \n–TIM Z. HERNANDEZ\, American Book Award winning poet and novelist\, Author of Natural Takeover of Small Things \n  \n“Lanzillotto’s words’ skin can be tough as the leather used by immigrant shoemakers\, and ring metallically as her father’s iceman tongs. At the core of it all is the tenderness of ripe\, fresh crushed tomatoes. A seasoned performer as well as poet\, Lanzillotto’s poetry appeals to the ear as well as the eye\, intellect\, and heart. These poems\, all 15\,164 words of them\, are without a doubt among the finest I’ve ever read from any literary era.” \n–ROSEMARY PETRACCA CAPPELLO\, Poet\, Writer\, and Editor of Philadelphia Poets \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/2425/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:NYC Book Launch for Thomas Glave's Among the Bloodpeople: Politics and Flesh
DESCRIPTION:Thomas Glave will read from his new book Among the Bloodpeople: Politics and Flesh (Akashic Books\, 2013). Glave will be introduced by author David McConnell\, who will moderate the discussion following the reading. \n \nThomas Glave has been admired for his unique style and exploration of taboo\, politically volatile topics. The award-winning author’s new collection\, Among the Bloodpeople\, contains all the power and daring of his earlier writing but ventures even further into the political\, the personal\, and the secret. \nEach essay in the volume reveals a passionate commitment to social justice and human truth. Whether confronting Jamaica’s prime minister on antigay bigotry\, contemplating the risks and seductions of “outlawed” sex\, exploring a world of octopuses and men performing somersaults in the Caribbean Sea\, or challenging repressive tactics employed at the University of Cambridge\, Glave expresses the observations of a global citizen with the voice of a poet. \nWith an introduction by Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa. \n“A profound compassion for racial and sexual minorities\, the oppressed\, and the colonized\, informs [Glave’s] searing\, beautifully evocative collection of essays . . . He captures the languor and seductiveness of Jamaica . . . A graceful and original stylist\, Glave highlights the marginalized—calling on the descendants of people who toiled for the Empire as slaves and colonial subjects to never forget their past\, and\, in effect\, to those who profit from that past to acknowledge their complicity. Ultimately\, his work is critical\, yet filled with generosity and compassion.”\n—Publishers Weekly\, starred review \n  \n  \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. McConnell’s most recent book is American Honor Killings: Desire and Rage Among Men (2013)\, an investigation of recent murders of gay men in the U.S. \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/nyc-book-launch-for-thomas-glaves-among-the-bloodpeople-politics-flesh/
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:20130712T190000
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SUMMARY:Katrina del Mar - Shorts\, presented by Strange Loop Gallery
DESCRIPTION:Sweating Gasoline\, reaching for a match – Katrina del Mar \nKatrina del Mar’s defiantly queer videos offer an exuberant\, hyper-stylized sexuality\, an unapologetic feminist voice\, and often guerilla-style production tactics. \nShe uses her Lower East Side friends and lovers as punk heroines; and within her girl gang movies a world of strictly female population. \nKatrina triumphs in the underground\, revels in the grit and lathers on the beauty in these short films. \nwww.katrinadelmar.com \nOn Friday July 12th \nStrange Loop Gallery will be hosting 40 minutes of short films – event starts at 7pm \nsuggested donation $6 \n\n   
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/katrina-del-mar-shorts-presented-by-strange-loop-gallery/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130713T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130713T180000
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SUMMARY:Come out and celebrate the launch of The OUTspoken Collection!
DESCRIPTION:The OUTspoken Collection collaborates with queer artists to create products that playfully subvert the words/slander/euphemisms that coalesce into an [often-false] identity for men who have sex with men.  In short\, we undefine ourselves.\n\nOur first product is a tank top created by Minneapolis-based artist\, Joe Sinness\, based on Faggot.  The illustration is his interpretation of the traditional meaning of the word juxtaposed with its modern\, hate-filled connotation.  Sinness’s expresses multiple levels of meaning through the arrangement objects found in the word’s history and combines them with gay ephemera (flowers\, sex toys\, etc).  Also\, it looks really bad ass.\n\nWear your tank if you have one\, purchase one at www.outspokencollection.com \, or buy one at the event!\n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/outspoken/
LOCATION:NY
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SUMMARY:Queer Film Summer Camp: Jarman's Sebastiane\, Presented by Genesis Breyer P-Orridge
DESCRIPTION:Genesis Breyer P-Orridge will introduce Derek Jarman‘s Sebastiane (1976)\, the second film in the Queer Film Summer Camp series\, presented by the Bureau and Peter Hargrove (see below). \nIMDB page for Sebastiane \nThe cultural engineer Genesis Breyer P-Orridge is an avant-garde anti-hero whose remarkable body of underground work reminds us that when you believe something\, artistic integrity demands that you live by it too. In 2007 h/er partner Lady Jaye BREYER dropped h/er body. Since that time Genesis continues to represent the amalgam BREYER P-ORRIDGE in the material “world” and Lady Jaye represents the amalgam BREYER P-ORRIDGE in the immaterial “world” creating an ongoing interdimensional collaboration. Their work documents the physical alterations s/he and the late Lady Jaye\, endured within their project Pandrogeny\, about re-union and re-solution of male and female to a perfecting hermaphroditic state. Genesis is one of the most rigorous and relentless agents of the postwar Anglo-American vanguard\, interrogating the meaning and substance of identity in a peerless half-century program of willful reincarnation and shape-shifting. Embracing the body as not simply the vessel but the site of the avant-garde impulse\, BREYER P-ORRIDGE has reinvented and reintroduced h/erself again and again—as Fluxus pioneer\, groundbreaking performance artist\, inventor of industrial music\, “wrecker of civilization\,” essayist and theoretician\, and\, most recently\, as pandrogyne. \nwww.genesisbreyerporridge.com \n  \nThe Bureau of General Services—Queer Division and Peter M. Hargrove\, President of Hargrove Entertainment\, Inc.\, proudly present Queer Film Summer Camp\, a series devoted to queer films\, or films viewed queerly. Queer Film Summer Camp will take place at the Bureau on the nine consecutive Saturday evenings in July and August. An exciting array of film critics and historians along with other queer and queer-friendly NYC-based arts professionals will introduce each film with a brief lecture. \nSuggested donation of $10\nDrinks will be served at 7 PM\nThe introductory lectures will begin at 8 PM
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130714T190000
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SUMMARY:Dirty Looks On Location at the Bureau: Lynda Benglis + Harry Dodge
DESCRIPTION:Fantastic Queer Narratives: Lynda Benglis\, The Amazing Bow Wow + Harry Dodge\, The Ass and the Lap Dog \nLynda Benglis\, The Amazing Bow Wow\, video\, 32 min\, 1976\nHarry Dodge\, The Ass and the Lap Dog\, video\, 33 min\, 2013 \nDirty Looks: On Location comes to Bureau of General Services – Queer Division for an evening of fantastic queer narratives\, spanning more than thirty years of video art practice. Made in 1976\, The Amazing Bow Wow is the only fully narrative video Lynda Benglis produced and follows the adventures of a talking\, intersexed dog used by Benglis and her partner in their carnival sideshow act—until Benglis starts to fall for Bow Wow and things take a tragic turn.The Ass and the Lap Dog\, from 2013\, sees Harry Dodge attempting several on-camera interviews only to be bombarded with bizarre\, insanely detailed descriptions of the videos his interviewees would like to make\, to hilarious and hallucinatory effect. \nLynda Benglis was born in Lake Charles\, Louisiana in 1941. An important sculptor for more than three decades\, Benglis also produced a pioneering body of feminist video in the 1970s. Immediate and visceral\, her performance-based video work confronts issues raised by feminist theory\, including the representation of women\, the role of the spectator\, and female sexuality. Her work has been shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art\, Los Angeles; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Tate Modern\, London; The Museum of Modern Art\, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art\, New York; Walker Art Center\, Minneapolis; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum\, New York; Philadelphia Museum of Art; National Gallery of Art\, Washington\, DC; the 39th Venice Biennale; Cheim & Read and Franklin Parrasch galleries in New York\, among many other venues. In 2011\, a retrospective of her work was exhibited at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York. She has taught at the School of Visual Arts\, the University of Arizona\, Yale University\, Princeton University and the California Institute of the Arts\, among other schools. Benglis lives and works in New York. \nHarry Dodge is an artist living and working in Los Angeles who makes shows that include video\, performance\, sculpture\, and drawing. In the early 90s\, Dodge was one of the founders of the now-legendary San Francisco community-based performance space\, The Bearded Lady\, which served as a gathering point for a pioneering\, polysexual\, queer literary and arts scene. In the latter part of 90s\, Dodge wrote\, directed\, edited and starred in (with Silas Howard) a narrative feature film\, By Hook or By Crook\, which premiered at the Sundance Festival in 2002\, and went on to become a cult classic\, garnering five Best Feature awards at various film festivals. Dodge also performed in the 2000 John Waters film\, Cecil B. Demented. Dodge has shown solo and collaborative work at venues including the 2008 Whitney Biennial; the Getty Museum\, Los Angeles; the Hammer Museum\, Los Angeles; PS 1\, Contemporary Art Center; Elizabeth Dee Gallery\, New York; and Wallspace Gallery\, New York\, among many others\, and has work in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art\, New York. Recent activities include a forthcoming book of drawings and a feature-length video\, Camp Is A Tender Feeling (2013). \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/dirty-looks-on-location-at-the-bureau-lynda-benglis-harry-dodge/
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:20130717T190000
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SUMMARY:Mario López-Cordero Reads from His Debut Novel Monarch Season\, with guests Martin Wilson and John Stewart Wynne\, author of the new novel The Red Shoes
DESCRIPTION:Mario López-Cordero is a journalist who has spent more than a decade writing about design\, travel\, fashion\, and culture. He is currently the senior editor of Veranda and his writing has also appeared in New York\, Travel + Leisure\, and Martha Stewart Living; he previously held staff positions at Elle Decor\, Harper’s Bazaar\, and House Beautiful. He lives in New York City. \nMonarch Season  \nDevin Santos knows success is in the details: in the furrows of cobblestone abs\, the thread count of Egyptian cotton sheets\, the patina of iron window casements left purposely to rust. Add it all up\, however\, and something’s missing. The cracks are beginning to show in his relationship with domineering i‐banker Charlie Doherty\, and no amount of chalky Venetian plaster can obscure them. When a neighborhood admirer appears alongside his best friend Jude at the Pines ferry terminal\, Devin is at first unimpressed. But Frank Duma is confident\, clever\, and shameless in his pursuit of Devin. The cat‐and‐mouse\, hot‐and‐cold relationship that develops will change both their lives forever. \n  \nPhoto by Kevin McGrath\nMartin Wilson was born in Tuscaloosa\, Alabama. He received a BA from Vanderbilt University and an MFA from the University of Florida\, where one of his short stories received a Henfield/Transatlantic Review Award. His debut novel\, What They Always Tell Us (Delacorte Press\, 2008)\, won the Alabama Author Award for best young adult book. The novel was also a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award\, an Indie Next Selection\, an ALA-ALSC Rainbow List Selection\, and a CCBC Choices Book. He lives in New York City. Visit him at www.martinwilsonwrites.com \n  \n \nJohn Stewart Wynne (aka John Wynne) is an American author of fiction.  He is also a Grammy-nominated producer of spoken word recordings. \nHe is the author of the short story collection The Other World (City Lights)\, which the James White Review called “one of the best books of the decade”\, the novel Crime Wave (John Calder/Riverrun Press)\, and the chapbook The Sighting.  His new novel The Red Shoes will be published by Magnus Books in Summer 2013. \n“His writing has been praised for its audacious originality\, its beautiful imagery\, the astute asides and wry observations of his characters\, and his highly charged but often darkly comic mise-en-scènes. He has been hailed as the heir apparent to the tradition of  ‘outsider art’ exemplified by Tennessee Williams\, Carson McCullers and Truman Capote.” (Wikipedia) \n\nWynne’s controversial narrative poem “Two Struggling Actresses”\, about an actor consumed by the personality of Jayne Mansfield\, appeared in The Paris Review.  His short fiction has been published in High Risk 2 and Christopher Street among numerous publications. \nWynne is also the producer of over one hundred audio books. They range from John Waters reading his Shock Value to F. Murray Abraham reading The Phantom of the Opera to John Kennedy\, Jr. reading his father’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book Profiles in Courage. \nHe wrote the first popular guide to spoken word recordings\, The Listener’s Guide to Audio Books (Simon & Schuster). \nHe is at work on a new novel. \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/mario-lopez-cordero-reads-from-his-debut-novel-monarch-season-with-guests-martin-wilson-and-john-stewart-wynne/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:Davidson Garrett and John J. Trause Read at the Bureau
DESCRIPTION:Davidson Garrett is a native of Shreveport\, Louisiana. He trained for the theater at The American Academy of Dramatic Arts and graduated from The City College of New York with an M.S. in Education. A member of Screen Actor’s Guild/AFTRA and Actors’ Equity\, he has worked in theater\, film and television since 1973. His poetry\, fiction and articles have been published in The New York Times\, The Episcopal New Yorker\, Xavier Review (New Orleans)\, Sensations Magazine\, Third Wednesday\, Marco Polo Arts Mag\, Big City Lit\, the website of The Beat Museum in San Francisco and in Podium\, the online literary journal of the 92nd Street Y.  In 2000\, his chapbook manuscript\, Taxi Dreams\, was a finalist in the Gival Press Chapbook Competition.  In 2006\, that manuscript evolved into his first collection of poetry and prose\, King Lear of the Taxi (Advent Purple Press). Two of the poems from his book were the subject of a short film\, Taxi Driver\, produced by Flashgun Films of Great Britain. The film was screened at the Portobello Film Festival in London in 2008. In 2011\, Davidson was nominated for a Pushcart Prize for his work in the anthology Pears\, Prose and Poetry\, published by Poets Wear Prada.  He was profiled in New York Magazine in July 2012\, in an article about taxi drivers who moonlight in other professions. In August 2012\, Davidso premiered his one-man show\, King Lear of the Taxi: A Poetic Monologue\, for the Boog City Art and Music Festival in Manhattan’s East Village.  In May 2013\, Davidson was invited to read his postry at Joe’s Pub\, presented by the PEN World Voices Festival as part of the Taxi Driver Writers’ Workshop.  Davidson has been a New York City taxi driver\, full time and part time\, for over 35 years to help subsidize his art. \n  \n \nJOHN J. TRAUSE\, said to be the secret love child of Henri Langlois and Mary  Meerson (Or is it Marie Menken and Willard Maas?)\, is  the Director of Oradell Public Library and the author of Eye Candy for Andy: 13 Most Beautiful… Poems for Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests; Inside Out\, Upside Down\, and Round and Round; Seriously Serial; and Latter-Day Litany\, the latter staged Off-Off Broadway.  His translations\, poetry\, and visual work appear internationally in many journals and anthologies\, including the artists’ periodical Crossings\, the Dada journal Maintenant\, the journal Offerta Speciale\, the Uphook Press anthologies Hell Strung and Crooked and -gape-seed-\, and the Great Weather for Media anthology It’s Animal but Merciful.  He has shared the stage with Steven Van Zandt\, Anne Waldman\, Karen Finley\, and Jerome Rothenberg\, the page with Lita Hornick\, William Carlos Williams\, Woody Allen\, Ted Kooser\, and Pope John Paul II\, and the cage with the Cumaean Sibyl\, Ezra Pound\, Hannibal Lector\, Andrei Chikatilo\, and George “The Animal” Steele.  He is a founder of the William Carlos Williams Poetry Cooperative in Rutherford\, NJ\, and the former host and curator of its monthly reading series.  He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize (2009 – 2011).  For the sake of art Mr. Trause hung naked for one whole month in the summer of 2007 on the Art Wall of the Bowery Poetry Club. \n\nPraise for John J. Trause’s EYE CANDY FOR ANDY: 13 Most Beautiful… Poems for Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests \n* Aphorisms… Minimalisms… Trauseisms… More fun with Andy \nTaylor Mead\, writer\, actor\, performer\, poet\, and one of Andy Warhol’s Superstars \n  \n* Brief as the lives on display\, these utterly charming pieces resonate with eroticism\, sentiment\, devilish humor and unexpected editorial comment… fitting testament to one of the key moving image projects of the 20th Century. \nRon Magliozzi\, Associate Curator\, Department of Film\, Museum of Modern Art\, New York \n  \n* sighting by Billy.  i see the poem\, read it\, and find it charming\, one of the 13 most beautiful….. \nBilly Name\, photographer\, filmmaker\, lighting designer\, Warhol Factory Archivist
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/davidson-garrett-and-john-j-trause-read-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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130720T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130720T230000
DTSTAMP:20260405T125823
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SUMMARY:Queer Film Summer Camp: David Noh Presents You Are Not Alone
DESCRIPTION:For the third installment of Queer Film Summer Camp David Noh will introduce Ernst Johansen & Lasse Nielsen‘s You Are Not Alone (1978). \nIMDB page for You Are Not Alone\n \nDavid Noh\, born in Hawaii and living in Manhattan\, is a film critic who has written for FILM JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL\, THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER\, BACKSTAGE\, OPERA NEWS and other publications. He also writes a regular culture column for GAY CITY NEWS and has a blog\, WWW.NOHWAY.WORDPRESS.COM. He is happy to be part of this wonderful film series\, and hopes that his choices will be enjoyed\, as well as a fresh discovery for those unfamiliar with them. \nQueer Film Summer Camp\, a series devoted to queer films or films viewed queerly\, is proudly presented by the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division and Peter M. Hargrove\, President of Hargrove Entertainment\, Inc. Queer Film Summer Camp will take place at the Bureau on eight consecutive Saturday evenings in July and August. An exciting array of film critics and historians along with other queer and queer-friendly NYC-based arts professionals will introduce each film with a brief lecture. \nSaturdays\, July 6\, 13\, 20\, 27\, August 3\, 10\, 17\, 24 \nSuggested donation of $10 \nDrinks will be served at 7 PM \nThe introductory lectures will begin at 8 PM \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/queer-film-summer-camp-david-noh-presents-you-are-not-alone/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130723T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130723T210000
DTSTAMP:20260405T125823
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SUMMARY:Launch of issue 2 of Prose & Lore\, the literary journal of the Red Umbrella Project
DESCRIPTION:Featuring readings by Brandon Aguilar\, Dominick\, Essence Revealed\, and Danielle.  The Red Umbrella Project is dedicated to amplifying the voices of people who have current or former experience working in the sex trades.\n \n \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/launch-of-issue-2-of-prose-lore-the-literary-journal-of-the-red-umbrella-project/
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:20130726T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130726T210000
DTSTAMP:20260405T125823
CREATED:20130708T172450Z
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SUMMARY:The F from Female: A Discussion about Gynarchy
DESCRIPTION:A performance by Anastasia Papatheodorou \nWhen we hear the word ‘matriarchy\,’ we are conditioned to a number of responses: that matriarchy refers to the past and that matriarchies have never existed; that matriarchy is a hopeless fantasy of female domination\, of mothers dominating children\, of women being cruel to men. Conditioning us negatively to matriarchy is\, of course\, in the interests of patriarchs. We are made to feel that patriarchy is natural; we are less likely to question it\, and less likely to direct our energies to ending it. \nDonations encouraged \nAnastasia Papatheodorou\nAnastasia Papatheodorou was born in Athens. Her performances are a synthesis of voice\, poetry improvisations\, sound effects and cinematic storytelling in an open dramaturgy. She has been performing and living in  Athens – Vienna -Berlin -Paris – and Portugal.\nThe Bureau will launch our fundraising campaign\, Future Perfect: Build the Bureau\, on Friday\, July 26th\, so we hope you’ll come to see Anastasia’s performance and make a donation at the Bureau that night–because donating online can be lonely. So come on down to the Bureau and donate in the company of friends\, lovers\, and friends and lovers whom you have yet to meet.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/the-f-from-female-a-discussion-about-gynarchy/
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:20130727T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130727T230000
DTSTAMP:20260405T125823
CREATED:20130629T163552Z
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SUMMARY:Queer Film Summer Camp: David Noh Presents Riptide
DESCRIPTION:For the fourth installment of Queer Film Summer Camp David Noh will introduce Edmund Goulding‘s Riptide (1934) \nIMDB page for Riptide \nDavid Noh\, born in Hawaii and living in Manhattan\, is a film critic who has written for FILM JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL\, THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER\, BACKSTAGE\, OPERA NEWS and other publications. He also writes a regular culture column for GAY CITY NEWS and has a blog\, WWW.NOHWAY.WORDPRESS.COM. He is happy to be part of this wonderful film series\, and hopes that his choices will be enjoyed\, as well as a fresh discovery for those unfamiliar with them. \nQueer Film Summer Camp\, a series devoted to queer films or films viewed queerly\, is proudly presented by the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division and Peter M. Hargrove\, President of Hargrove Entertainment\, Inc. Queer Film Summer Camp will take place at the Bureau on eight consecutive Saturday evenings in July and August. An exciting array of film critics and historians along with other queer and queer-friendly NYC-based arts professionals will introduce each film with a brief lecture. \nSaturdays\, July 6\, 13\, 20\, 27\, August 3\, 10\, 17\, 24 \nSuggested donation of $10 \nDrinks will be served at 7 PM \nThe introductory lectures will begin at 8 PM \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/queer-film-summer-camp-david-noh-presents-riptide/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130730T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130730T210000
DTSTAMP:20260405T125823
CREATED:20130715T161538Z
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SUMMARY:ANGELS AND DEMONS AT PLAY: Poetry Readings by Steve Koenig and Robin Small McCarthy
DESCRIPTION:ANGELS AND DEMONS AT PLAY \nPoetry Readings by Steve Koenig and Robin Small McCarthy \n  \n \nSteve Koenig\, a third generation Brooklynite\, writes about growing up queer in NYC and the cultural and racial spirits of Mexico\, jazz\, and everyday shamans. He is a poet\, educator\, music journalist\, and Editor of the arts and culture magazine  www.AcousticLevitation.org\, as well as co-founder of the Acoustic Levitation music collaborative and record label (.com). He has been a queer activist since his teens\, and co- founded the Baruch College Gay Students Association in 1977.  Much of Steve’s poetry has been in collaboration with painters\, sculptors\, and improvising musicians from around the world\, especially Mexico City.  His poetry volume Among The Powder will be followed by the forthcoming Collected Poems: Ants Eating Through Brick and CD release It Was The Fingers.  Steve has been published in Sensations Magazine\, Diseased Pariah News\, Poetry In Performance\, Brooklyn Day Of The Poet\, Unbearable Assembling\, Q Review\, planetAUTHORity. and Outside. \n  \nRobin Small-McCarthy\, a transplanted New Yorker\, lives in Pelham Parkway (the Bronx)\, teaches in Midtown\, and performs and plays in the Village. She writes about the fluidity of racial\, cultural\, gender\, and sexual identity–embracing the interconnectivity of all life. She is a well-known poet and performing artist in the New York City underground poetry and music scene.  She is the author of two books of poetry and song\, Love During Wartime and Cold Winter Days and Dark Nights of the Soul: The Madison Chronicles.  Robin has been a featured performer in such venues as the Bowery Poetry Club\, the Cornelia Street Café\, the Green Pavilion\, the KGB Bar\, Bluestockings\, and the Yippie Museum Cafe.  Robin is the founder and co-host of Kairos Poetry Café.  She has adjudicated poetry slams in Madison\, Wisconsin. Her writing–poetry and literary criticism–has been published in numerous journals\, including the Journal of Cultural Studies\, Discourse\,Nomad’s Choir Poetry Journal\, and The WisCon Chronicles.  She has performed on two CDs:  Kairos Poetry Café Presents Selections of Poetry and Music (AB Film Productions) and Beauty Keeps Laying ItsSharp Knife Against Me (Logochrysalis Productions).  Robin has taught and directed theatre at Syracuse University\, the University of Illinois\, Technical Career Institutes\, the BRLT Actor’s Workshop\, and City Lights Youth Theatre.  Her play\, Starseed: The Journey Home\, is currently in production. Robin is also an English instructor at Technical Career Institutes and the New York Institute of Technology.  A compassionate activist and cultural worker at heart\, in all that she creates and wherever her journey finds her\, Robin’s ultimate goal and hope is to be a conduit of peace\, love\, and social justice. \nwww.linkedin.com/in/robinsmallmccarthy \nwww.facebook.com/robinsmallmccarthyinstructorpoetperformingartist \nwww.facebook.com/JazzMassStJohnsOnChristopherStreet \nwww.facebook.com/kairospoets \nhttps://www.acousticlevitation.org/robinsmallmccarthy.html \nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOak1fAsA9Q \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/angels-and-demons-at-play-poetry-readings-by-steve-koenig-and-robin-small-mccarthy/
LOCATION:NY
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