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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131002T183000
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SUMMARY:Enjoy the Silence
DESCRIPTION:Enjoy the Silence. \nA new weekly event at the Bureau. Come read whatever you’re reading in collective silence from 7 to 8. This hour of silent reading will be followed by casual conversations over beer\, wine\, and sparkling water\, by donation as always. Bring your own book or you can borrow or buy a book at the Bureau. The hour of silence will begin promptly at 7\, so please arrive early! \nPhotograph by Ourit Ben-Haim from the photo-blog Underground New York Public Library
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LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131003T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131003T210000
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SUMMARY:Women and Performance presents Born in Flames
DESCRIPTION:New event added for this Thursday! Presented by Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory\, Cage\, and the Bureau. \nWomen & Performance: a journal of feminist theory invites you to celebrate the release of our special issue \nfeaturing a discussion and clips from the film Born in Flames with \n• Craig Willse\n(George Mason University) \n• Dean Spade\n(Seattle University and Columbia University) \n• Christina Heatherton\n(CUNY Graduate Center) \n• Eva Hageman\n(New York University)
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/women-and-performance-presents-born-in-flames/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131008T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131008T203000
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SUMMARY:Bureau at the LGBT Center for Reading by Ayana Mathis from Her Debut Novel The Twelve Tribes of Hattie
DESCRIPTION:The Bureau of General Services—Queer Division will be at The LGBT Community Center for Ayana Mathis‘s appearance at the Second Tuesday Lecture Series. We will be selling copies of Mathis’s debut novel The Twelve Tribes of Hattie. Mathis will read from the book\, talk about writing the book and her appearance on the Oprah show to discuss it\, and answer questions. \nReception at 6:30\nPresentation at 7 \nThe Center is located at 208 W. 13th St.\, between 7th and 8th Avenues.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/bureau-at-the-lgbt-center-for-reading-by-ayana-mathis-from-her-debut-novel-the-twelve-tribes-of-hattie/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131009T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131009T210000
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SUMMARY:Enjoy the Silence
DESCRIPTION:Enjoy the Silence. \nA new weekly event at the Bureau. Come read whatever you’re reading in collective silence from 7 to 8. This hour of silent reading will be followed by casual conversations over beer\, wine\, and sparkling water\, by donation as always. Bring your own book or you can borrow or buy a book at the Bureau. The hour of silence will begin promptly at 7\, so please arrive early! \nPhotograph by Ourit Ben-Haim from the photo-blog Underground New York Public Library
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/enjoy-the-silence-3/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131012T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131012T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T132951
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SUMMARY:Spunk: Words & Music
DESCRIPTION:Spunk [arts] Magazine presents \nSPUNK: WORDS & MUSIC \nPerformance begins promptly at 7:30! \nfeaturing: \n \nWILLIAM JOHNSON\n— reading “Speaking Camp” from Spunk issue no.7 \n  \nPhoto by Gerry Visco\nJOSEPH KECKLER\n— reading “Andragon” from Spunk issue no.8 \n  \nPhotograph by Amos Mac\nMAX STEELE\n— reading “King” from Spunk issue no.9 \n  \nPhotograph by Scooter LaForge\nAARON TILFORD\n— reading “I’ve Chosen Disco” from Spunk issue no.9 \n  \n \nand a solo musical performance by EVRIPIDIS AND HIS TRAGEDIES\n— art contributor to Spunk issue no.8 \n  \ncopies of SPUNK 8 & 9 will be available for purchase ($9) \nhttps://spunkartsmagazine.wordpress.com/\nhttp://www.bgsqd.com/\nhttps://www.lambdaliterary.org/\nhttps://www.josephkeckler.com/\nhttps://fagcity.blogspot.com/\nhttps://www.evripidisandhistragedies.com/ \nbeverages (beer\, wine\, sparkling water) by donation
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LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131017T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131017T210000
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SUMMARY:Seanchai Justin Sayre
DESCRIPTION:Gearing up for his new piece with The Pop-Up Museum of Queer History (10/26)\, Rite of Water\, based on the life and work of the Poet Hart Crane\, Justin Sayre (The Meeting*\, Night of a Thousand Judys) reads selections from a collection of his own poetry. \nJustin Sayre – best known as the creator and writer of the hit downtown comedy/variety show The Meeting*(2012 Bistro Award\, 2011 MAC Nominee) and its annual benefit “Night of A Thousand Judys” – was described by Michael Musto in The Village Voice as “Oscar Wilde meets Whoopi Goldberg.” In a recent story for Edge New York\, Steve Weinstein said “Comedian\, raconteur\, performing artist\, gay rights activist and sexual outlaw: I’m not sure Justin Sayre is classifiable. The veteran performer is on his way to becoming a Downtown Manhattan institution along the lines of Charles Ludlum or Charles Busch.” An evening of his short plays\, “Justin Sayre Is Alive and Well… Writing” – called one of the “Top 10 Events on the New York Stage” by the New York Daily News – sold out two shows at Ars Nova last April. A reading of his play\, The Click of The Lock\, is set for this November.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/seanchai-justin-sayre/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131018T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131018T210000
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SUMMARY:FUR + bOObs
DESCRIPTION:FUR + bOObs = Full frontal fun!\nJoin us for a top-heavy evening with Robert Neu\, author of the new novel\, bOObs\, and Ron Suresha\, coauthor of the coffeetable art book\, FUR: THE LOVE OF HAIR. These two guys really have a lot to get off their chests!\n \n\nbOObs\, a novel by R.E. Neu\nMartin Brown Publishers\, ISBN 978-1937070410\n\nHarlan Flueharty makes a bet to get breast implants\, sending his life spiraling out of control. He’s fired from his job\, sexually harassed by his brother\, written off as an object by the world. His girlfriend Ursula is the sole life saver on this leaky raft\, but even she wonders if his gender identification is a game of musical chairs and somebody stole the one marked “DUDE.” His bank account and ego explode as he cluelessly exploits his voluptuous new figure\, but with Gomer Pyle’s brain\, Marilyn Monroe’s cleavage\, and enemies piling up left and right\, it will take more than a sturdy bra to get him through the next thirty days. \n  \n \n\nFUR: The Love of Hair\, by Ron J. Suresha & Scott McGillivray \n\nBruno Gmuender\, ISBN 978-3867872423\n\nA Rainbow Book Award winner! This spectacular coffee table artbook homage to the masculine hirsute physique brings you hundreds of illustrations and photographs from 50+ artists around the world\, as well as commentary in English and German on men’s body and facial hair\, quotes from the artists\, and other features. FUR was featured this April in a Logo documentary\, “The Long & Short of Body Hair.” Artists include: Jack Fritscher\, Patheon Studios\, Gengoroh Tagame\, Rex\, Rolando Merida\, BearFilms\, Blade Bannon\, Tom Bianchi\, InkedKenny\, Angel Colon\, BearFilms\, Mascular Studios\, Michael Kirwan\, and Exterface. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/fur-boobs/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131019T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131019T210000
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SUMMARY:Book Launch for Ben Fama's Cool Memories
DESCRIPTION:Soak a sugar cube in bitters \nAnd place it in a glass \nFill the glass with champagne \nThe decade happens \nJoin BGSQD and Spork Press in releasing Ben Fama‘s Cool Memories\, featuring readers Corina Copp and Stephen Boyer. \nhttps://sporkpress.com/things/books.html \nBen Fama is the author of Mall Witch (Wonder 2012) as well as several chapbooks\, including Odalisque (Bloof Books 2014) and Cool Memories (Spork Books 2013). With Andrew Durbin\, he edits Wonder\, an open-source publishing and events platform for poetry\, performance\, and new media art. He lives in New York City. \nCorina Copp is the author of The Green Ray (forthcoming\, Ugly Duckling Presse 2014)\, and chapbooks Miracle Mare (Trafficker Press 2013) and Pro Magenta/Be Met (UDP 2011). Recent work can be found in ANCIENTS\, Triple Canopy’s Corrected Slogans: Reading and Writing Conceptualism\, The Claudius App\, Hi Zero\, and elsewhere; and critical writing in SFMOMA’s Open Space\, BOMB\, and Cambridge Literary Review. She is currently working on The Whole Tragedy of the Inability to Love\, a three-part play inspired by the work of Marguerite Duras. Its first installment\, SUSANSWERPHONE\, was presented at the 2012 New York City Prelude Festival\, and is in development. Copp is a curator at the Segue Foundation and a 2013-2014 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace resident. \nStephen Boyer is the author of “Parasite\,” (Publication Studio 2013)\, “Ghosts” (Bent Boy Books 2008)\, and he’s published in art gallery’s and various anthologies; they also actively compiled the OWS Poetry Anthology and worked as an OWS People’s Library librarian. Their blog is minorprogression.com
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/book-launch-for-ben-famas-cool-memories/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131021T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131021T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T132951
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SUMMARY:The Bureau On Hand at Situational Junta: An Unlikely Diplomatic Alliance
DESCRIPTION:The Bureau will be on hand to sell books at Situational Junta: An Unlikely Diplomatic Alliance \nLocation: The Bowery Arts + Science at The Bowery Poetry Club\n \n308 Bowery\, between Bleecker and Houston \nDates: Mondays\, Oct 21\, Nov 18\, Dec 16 \nThe first Situational Junta\, on Monday\, October 21\, will feature: \nEmcee: Negin Farsad  \nMain Dish: Artefacting \n{Each evening begins with a happy hour from 6pm to 7pm\, and a live radio broadcast from 7-8pm.} \nTime: 6-8pm \n $10 \nABOUT THE SERIES\n \nThe United States Department of Arts and Culture (USDAC) and the Associação Espaço Cultural Lanchonete (aka Lanchonete) are taking over Bowery Poetry for a series of evening encounters and exchanges\, one part happy hour and the other part radio talk show… shaken\, stirred\, and served straight up on the airwaves! For three evenings this Fall\, Situational Junta poses a simple question: If artists are empowered to innovate on a large enough scale to interrupt the status quo\, what would that look like? \nAntonio Gramsci wrote that “The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.” Situational Junta convenes a cast of unlikely midwives to cross borders and spark whimsy as they search for workarounds (or gambiarra) to the present condition and stoke a hunger for something new. Equal parts salon\, happening\, cabaret\, and fireside chat\, Situational Junta is a mash-up of ideas and forms building new alliances and bridging Bowery Poetry’s past to the future. \nDescription: Each evening is designed as a radio talk show\, hosted by an emcee\, and featuring a main guest or guests. In addition to their interview-conversation or performance\, guests may prompt the audience to speak amongst themselves as music takes over the broadcast. A rotating\, intergenerational\, interdisciplinary cast of characters round out the hour through a tightly choreographed sequence of commentary\, artist work\, news flashes\, and ‘commercial breaks’. People and projects emerge in unlikely proximity. Music\, ideas\, and drinks flow and the evening culminates with a soapbox open mic that invites audience members to join the broadcast. The <<main dish>> is surrounded by a sequence of newsflashes\, ‘commercial breaks’\, and urgent interventions by a retinue of creative schemers and artful dreamers. \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/the-bureau-on-hand-at-situational-junta-an-unlikely-diplomatic-alliance/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131023T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131023T210000
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SUMMARY:Enjoy the Silence
DESCRIPTION:Enjoy the Silence. \nA new weekly event at the Bureau. Come read whatever you’re reading in collective silence from 7 to 8. This hour of silent reading will be followed by casual conversations over beer\, wine\, and sparkling water\, by donation as always. Bring your own book or you can borrow or buy a book at the Bureau. The hour of silence will begin promptly at 7\, so please arrive early! \nPhotograph by Ourit Ben-Haim from the photo-blog Underground New York Public Library
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LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131025T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131025T210000
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SUMMARY:Joanna Hoffman\, Stephen S. Mills\, and Robert Siek Read at the Bureau
DESCRIPTION:Join us at the Bureau for a reading by three Sibling Rivalry Press poets: Joanna Hoffman\, Stephen S. Mills\, and Robert Siek. \nJOANNA HOFFMAN is a poet and teaching artist living in Brooklyn. She is a ten-year veteran of the slam poetry community\, and is a four time National Poetry Slam finalist. Her work has appeared in decomP\, PANK\, The Legendary\, Spindle\, Sinister Wisdom\, and in the anthologies Women’s Work (GirlChild Press) and Milk and Honey: A Celebration of Jewish Lesbian Poetry (MidSummer Night’s Press). Her full-length book of poetry\, Running for Trap Doors\, was recently released by Sibling Rivalry Press. \n  \nSTEPHEN S. MILLS holds an MFA from Florida State University. His work has appeared in The Antioch Review\, The Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide\, PANK\, The New York Quarterly\, The Los Angeles Review\, Knockout\, Assaracus\, The Rumpus\, and others. He is also the winner of the 2008 Gival Press Oscar Wilde Poetry Award. His first book\, He Do the Gay Man in Different Voices\, is out from Sibling Rivalry Press and was a finalist for the Thom Gunn Poetry Award and won the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry. He currently lives in New York City. Website:https://www.stephensmills.com/ \n  \nROBERT SIEK is a poet who lives in Brooklyn and works as a production editor at a large publishing house in Manhattan. His poems have appeared in journals such as The Columbia Poetry Review\, Lodestar Quarterly\, Court Green\, Mary\, Assaracus\, and Chelsea Station. The New School published his chapbook Clubbed Kid\, and his short story “Sixteen” appeared in Userlands: New Fiction Writers from the Blogging Underground. Purpose and Devil Piss is his first full-length collection of poetry\, released by Sibling Rivalry Press on October 8\, 2013. \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/joanna-hoffman-stephen-s-mills-and-robert-siek-read-at-the-bureau/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131026T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131026T210000
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SUMMARY:PROPHET HAS ARISE. a one-night fright by ricci ryder & friends. seating is limited
DESCRIPTION:Watch the trailer here. \nPerformance begins at 8 sharp. \n 
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131027T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131027T210000
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SUMMARY:The NY Queer Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Introducing a new monthly reading series at the Bureau: The NY Queer Open Mic! We’re shaking things up a bit / trying to create a space where the community can share poetry and politics.\nThe first half of the event will be dedicated to folks who come early and scribble on the sign-up list. The second half of the mic will go to our features- Tommy “Teebs” Pico & Alok Vaid-Menon. \nTommy “Teebs” Pico is the founder and editor-in-chief of birdsong\, an antiracist/queer-positive collective\, small press\, and zine that publishes art and writing. He was a Queer/Art/Mentors inaugural fellow\, 2013 Lambda Literary fellow in poetry\, and has been published in BOMB\, [PANK]\, and THEthe poetry blog. Originally from the Viejas Indian reservation of the Kumeyaay nation\, he now lives in Brooklyn and is working on Messy Faggot— his first collection of poetry. \nAlok Vaid-Menon is a South Asian artivist who has performed & organized with queer movements around the world. They are committed to building radical queer movements and bodies that resist white supremacy and imperialism and like making art that thinks about these\, and other what ifs. You can read some of their work at returnthegayze.tumblr.com and queerlibido.tumblr.com. \nYour host for the night is Christopher Soto\, a queer latin@ poet and current MFA:Poetry candidate at NYU. Event starts at 7pm on Sunday\, October 27th\, we hope to see you there!
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/the-ny-queer-open-mic/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131028T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131028T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T132951
CREATED:20130930T144723Z
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SUMMARY:Book Club Discusses Edmund de Waal's The Hare with Amber Eyes
DESCRIPTION:The next Book Club selection is The HARE WITH AMBER EYES: A HIDDEN INHERITANCE by Edmund de Waal (available at the Bureau). Come discuss the book at the Bureau on Monday\, October 28th\, at 7!
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/book-club-discusses-edmund-de-waals-hare-with-amber-eyes/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131029T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131029T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T132951
CREATED:20130928T194532Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20131029T153651Z
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SUMMARY:Visual AIDS presents: Fairyland Book Club
DESCRIPTION:In her book Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father\, Alysia Abbott writes about growing up in San Francisco in the 70s and 80s with her father\, the writer Steve Abbott. She explores what it was like having a gay dad and the experience of losing him to AIDS just as she was coming into adulthood. \nJoin Visual AIDS as we discuss the book and talk about the issues the memoir brings up. \nRSVP with Ted at tkerr@visualaids.org to receive the discussion guide. \n \nABOUT THE BOOK:\nAfter his wife dies in a car accident in 1973\, bisexual writer and activist Steve Abbott moves with his two-year-old daughter to San Francisco. There they discover a city bustling with gay men in search of liberation—few of whom are raising a child. \nSteve throws himself into San Francisco’s vibrant cultural scene. He takes Alysia to parties\, pushes her in front of the microphone at poetry readings\, and introduces her to a world of artists\, thinkers\, and writers. But the pair live like nomads\, moving from apartment to apartment\, with a revolving cast of roommates and little structure. As a child Alysia views her father as a loving playmate but as she gets older Alysia wants more than anything to fit in. The world\, she learns\, is hostile to difference. \nIn her teens\, Steve’s friends—several of whom she befriended—fall ill as “the gay plague” starts its rampage through their community. While Alysia is studying in New York and then France\, her father comes to tell her it’s time to come home; He’s sick with AIDS. She must choose\, as her father once did\, whether to take on the responsibility of caring for him or to continue the independent life she worked so hard to create. \n Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father is available at the Bureau. \n https://www.alysiaabbott.com/books.html \nRead an interview between Alysia Abbott and Ted Kerr\, programs manager at Visual AIDS: https://www.lambdaliterary.org/features/08/03/alysia-abbott-a-trip-to-fairyland/ \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/visual-aids-presents-fairyland-book-club/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131030T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131030T210000
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SUMMARY:QUEEROCRACY Monthly Meeting
DESCRIPTION:PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED TO WEDNESDAY\, OCTOBER 30th AT 7 PM. \nJoin QUEEROCRACY for its monthly meeting. Meetings are currently focused on organizing the Prevention vs. Prosecution Project. \n \nQUEEROCRACY is an activist organization cultivating the leadership of queer folks and people living with HIV/AIDS in NYC. Through direct action organizing\, membership led advocacy campaigns\, educational trainings and political art and media we challenge and fight back against the existing structures that thrive on the punishment of positive and queer folks. QUEEROCRACY is dedicated to ending the AIDS crisis and the stigma\, discrimination and criminalization that fuel its existence. \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/queerocracy-monthly-meeting/
LOCATION:NY
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