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SUMMARY:Andrew Durbin Presents Rob Halpern\, Melissa Buzzeo\, and Ian Hatcher
DESCRIPTION:ROB HALPERN is the author of several books of poetry\, most recently Music for Porn (Nightboat 2013). Together with Taylor Brady\, he also co-authored the book-length poem Snow Sensitive Skin\, which has been reprinted by Displaced Press. Recent essays and translations appear in Chicago Review\, Journal of Narrative Theory\, and The Claudius App. Rob currently splits his time between San Francisco and Ypsilanti\, Michigan. \nMELISSA BUZZEO is the author of three full length books: What Began Us (Leon Works 2007)\, Face (Bookthug 2009) and For Want and Sound (Les Figues 2012). Her current work Chasm explores negation\, the legacy of performance art\, and the concept of the social body. She has taught at Brown\, Iowa\, and Naropa and currently teaches at Pratt Institute. She lives in Brooklyn. \nIAN HATCHER is a text\, sound\, and code artist from Seattle USA. Recent poems have appeared in The Claudius App\, Dear Sir\,\, LIT\, and Web Conjunctions. Along with Amaranth Borsuk and Kate Durbin\, he is co-author of the book/app Abra\, forthcoming from the Center for Book and Paper Arts\, Chicago. He is the primary composer and accompanist for the Moving Architects dance company. He lives in NYC\, where he works a day job as a software developer.
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SUMMARY:Local Color: A Writing and Solo Performance Workshop with Thom Vernon
DESCRIPTION:In town to perform The Drifts Live: the novel onstage at the United Solo Festival\, queer\, positive exiled writer/performer Thom Vernon (Seinfeld\, Grace Under Fire\, General Hospital\, The Fugitive\, etc.) leads a two hour writing/performance workshop. Using writing exercises and performance techniques\, the workshop will mine town secrets\, local legends\, old wives tales and all the things said\, and not said\, to create short original solo pieces. Under the threat of erasure or rejection\, these little ditties let us know just how far we can flaunt it before we get shut down. They tell what it is to be a man\, a woman —or the ‘local color’. Participants might create a monologue\, a scene\, a song\, a movement piece or some other trouble-making device. Includes a teaser performance and readings from The Drifts Live: the novel onstage at United Solo Festival\, Nov. 6\, 7 pm (thedriftslive.com) based on the novel The Drifts (Coach House Books\, 2010) lauded by the Globe and Mail as “magnificent.” (The Drifts is available at the Bureau.) \n  \nAs queers\, activists\, outsiders and outlaws we’ve often come up against town taboos\, dirty little secrets\, neighborhood gossip\, warnings\, unexplained events\, song lyrics that shape how we can\, or can not\, live our lives. Everybody knows that boys don’t wear dresses\, no one finds love in a park\, that sissies get beat up after school and what happened to you-know-who when she got too big for her britches. Shape up and fly right or else. “Or else” means rejection\, abandonment or violence. In this hands-on workshop\, artists and explorers at any level will learn new ways to unlock and transform the ties that bind into creative writing and performance. Bring your photos\, stories\, unexplained events\, local legends\, song lyrics\, things not/said that queered you\, marked the line of trespass and/or changed your experience of who you are. Using his own work to demonstrate\, Thom Vernon leads us through the minefield of erasure as we pick up writing and performance tools that any artist in any medium can use. A previous workshop participant appreciated\, “Thom’s willingness to believe in my story—my ability to tell it. He didn’t treat me like an amateur. He helped me to care about writing.” \n  \nRSVP to contact@bgsqd.com Suggested $10 donation to support BGSQD \n  \n 
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131106T190000
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SUMMARY:Remember the Upstairs Lounge: A Slideshow Talk by Skylar Fein
DESCRIPTION:New Orleans-based artist Skylar Fein gives a slideshow talk on the 1973 fire that killed 32 patrons of the Upstairs Lounge\, a gay bar in New Orleans. \nOn June 23\, 1973\, an arsonist set fire to a New Orleans gay bar with everyone inside — 32 people died in what is still the biggest mass killing of queer people in US history. This Wednesday\, artist Skylar Fein\, visiting from New Orleans\, will give a slideshow talk on a pivotal event in queer history that is still largely unknown. He’ll show crime scene photos that were considered too graphic for 1973 and have never been made public. And he’ll reveal who set the fire: a man who was never charged.\n\nSkylar Fein (b. 1968\, New York\, NY) lives and works in New Orleans\, LA. His work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at The Brooklyn Museum of Art\, NY; The New Orleans Museum of Art\, LA; No Longer Empty Project\, New York\, NY; The Phoenix\, New Orleans\, LA; and Western Projects\, Los Angeles\, CA. Fein has been featured in numerous group exhibitions including The World According to New Orleans\, Ballroom Marfa\, Marfa\, TX; Deutsche Bank’s 60 Wall Gallery\, Deutsche Bank\, New York\, NY; and Prospect.1 Biennial\, New Orleans\, LA\, among others. His work is included in many public and private collections including The Birmingham Museum of Art\, Birmingham\, AL; The Brooklyn Museum of Art\, New York\, NY; The Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation\, Los Angeles\, CA; The Louisiana State Museum\, New Orleans\, LA and The Whitney Museum of America Art\, New York\, NY. \nSkylar Fein’s exhibition\, The Lincoln Bedroom\, is currently on view at C24 Gallery through December 21st. C24 Gallery\, 514 W. 24th St.\, every day from 10 am-6 pm (closed Sun-Mon). \n  \n  \n 
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131107T190000
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SUMMARY:Tim Teeman presents his new book In Bed with Gore Vidal: Hustlers\, Hollywood\, and the Private World of an American Master
DESCRIPTION:Gore Vidal\, who died in July 2012\, claimed there was no such thing as “gay\,” only gay sexual acts. But what was the truth about his sex life and sexuality—and how did it affect and influence his writing and public life? In In Bed with Gore Vidal: Hustlers\, Hollywood\, and the Private World of an American Master\, Tim Teeman interviews many of Vidal’s closest family and friends\, including Claire Bloom and Susan Sarandon\, as well as surveying Vidal’s own rich personal archive\, to build a rounded portrait of who this lion of American letters really was away from the page. \nHere\, revealed for the first time\, Teeman discovers the Hollywood stars Vidal slept with and the reality of his life with partner Howard Austen—and the hustlers they both enjoyed. Was Gore’s true love really a boy from prep school? Was he really\, as he said\, bisexual\, and if so how close did he really get to marrying women\, including Claire Bloom and Joanne Woodward? And if Vidal really was gay\, why did he not want to say so – was it more personal than an intellectual objection to being defined? Did his own sex secrets underpin a legal fight with adversary William F. Buckley\, still being played out after his death? \nMuch as Vidal fought against being categorized\, Teeman shows how he also proved himself to be a pugnacious advocate for gay sexual freedom in his books\, articles\, and high-profile media appearances. Teeman also\, for the first time\, vividly and movingly evokes the final\, painful and tragic years of Vidal’s life\, as he descended into alcoholism and dementia\, his death\, and the bitter\, contentious legacy he has left behind. \n  \nMichelangelo Signorile:\n“Tim Teeman addresses some of the most fascinating questions about Gore Vidal\, including how he identified himself. Was he gay? Bisexual? Why did he have a problem with the idea of sexual identity and with campaigning for equal rights? Teeman not only gives us lots of rich detail on Vidal’s life and loves\, contrasting his private and public lives; he helps us to see how Vidal actually embraced being gay in unexpected ways. This is a timely and riveting account of a man who\, perhaps unwittingly\, contributed enormously to the movement for equal rights\, as well as offering a blueprint for how LGBT people are viewed by others and view themselves.” \nTim Teeman: “How Gay Was Gore Vidal?” in The Daily Beast \nDoug Ireland: rave review of In Bed With Gore Vidal in Gay City News \nWilliam J. Mann talks to Tim Teeman about Vidal’s sexuality in The Huffington Post \n  \n \nTim Teeman is a journalist\, author\, and broadcaster. \nFor fourteen years he worked as an editor\, feature writer\, and interviewer for The Times of London\, most recently as their US Correspondent\, in which he covered stories like Hurricane Sandy and profiled many celebrities and public figures including Woody Allen\, George Clooney\, and Liza Minnelli. He was previously the paper’s Arts and Entertainment Editor. \nTim began his career as editor of Britain’s Pink Paper. He has also contributed to publications including Elle\, The New Statesman\, The Guardian\, The Independent\, Independent on Sunday\, Attitude\, and Time Out\, and has appeared on BBC radio and TV\, Channel 4 and Sky as a commentator on news events and popular culture. \nHis first book\, In Bed With Gore Vidal: Hustlers\, Hollywood and the Private World of an American Master\, is published in November 2013. \nHe lives in New York City. \nPicture of Tim Teeman by Juan Bastos \n  \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Tom Bianchi book signing\, Fire Island Pines: Polaroids\, 1975-1983
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a book signing with photographer Tom Bianchi for his recent book: \nFire Island Pines: Polaroids\, 1975-1983\nPublished by Damiani\nEdited by Ben Smales. Introduction by Edmund White. Text by Tom Bianchi. \nGrowing up in the 1950s\, Tom Bianchi would head into downtown Chicago and pick up 25-cent “physique” magazines at newsstands. In one such magazine\, he found a photograph of bodybuilder Glenn Bishop on Fire Island. “Fire Island sounded exotic\, perhaps a name made up by the photographer\,” he recalls in the preface to his latest monograph. “I had no idea it was a real place. Certainly\, I had no idea then that it was a place I would one day call home.” In 1970\, fresh out of law school\, Bianchi began traveling to New York\, and was invited to spend a weekend at Fire Island Pines\, where he encountered a community of gay men. Using an SX-70 Polaroid camera\, Bianchi documented his friends’ lives in the Pines\, amassing an image archive of people\, parties and private moments. These images\, published here for the first time\, and accompanied by Bianchi’s moving memoir of the era\, record the birth and development of a new culture. Soaked in sun\, sex\, camaraderie and reverie\, Fire Island Pines conjures a magical bygone era. \n  \n\nTom Bianchi was born and raised in the suburbs of Chicago and graduated from Northwestern University School of Law in 1970. He became a corporate attorney\, eventually working with Columbia Pictures in New York\, painting and drawing on weekends. His artwork came to the attention of Betty Parsons and Carol Dreyfuss and they gave him his first one-man painting show in 1980. In 1984\, he was given his first solo museum exhibition at the Spoleto Festival. After Bianchi’s partner died of AIDS in 1988\, he turned his focus to photography\, producing Out of the Studio\, a candid portrayal of gay intimacy. Its success led to producing numerous monographs\, including On the Couch\, Deep Sex\, and In Defense of Beauty. \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:The Bureau's 1st Birthday!
DESCRIPTION:On November 15\, 2012 the Bureau of General Services-Queer Division was born at Strange Loop Gallery. Let us now celebrate the first anniversary of this momentous event! Following the book signing with Tom Bianchi please stick around for the party! Featuring performances by Buzz Slutzky and Stephen Boyer at 9. And then we will dance to DJ Dandylion‘s beats! \n  \n \nBuzz Slutzky is a Brooklyn-based artist\, writer\, and curator. Buzz works in a range of media\, particularly in drawing\, video\, and performance. They are a former Curator of the Pop-Up Museum of Queer History\, and currently work as a student and Research Assistant in the Parsons MFA Fine Arts program. A graduate of Sarah Lawrence College\, Buzz’s work has been shown at La Mama’s SQUIRTS: New Voices in Queer Performance\, The MIX NYC Queer Experimental Film Festival\, Dixon Place\, and Ed. Varie Gallery. Their projects have been written about by Artforum.com\, The Huffington Post\, TimeOut NY\, and NEXT Magazine. Buzz’s collaboration with LJ Roberts The Queer Houses of Brooklyn is the permanent collection of the Renwick Gallery at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. \n  \nStephen Boyer\, photograph by Amos Mac\nStephen Boyer is a writer\, performer\, curator\, painter\, activist\, etc…. best known for working in porn\, working to compile the Occupy Wall Street Poetry Anthology\, and for their novel Parasite\, available at the Bureau. Form more Stpehn\, visit Stephen’s blog Minor Progression. \n  \n \nDJ Dandylion \nVisit Dandylion’s website spintuition.com \n  \n  \n 
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131118T180000
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SUMMARY:The Bureau On Hand at Situational Junta #2: An Unlikely Diplomatic Alliance
DESCRIPTION:The Bureau will be on hand to sell books at the second installation of 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 second Situational Junta\, on Monday\, November 18\, will feature: \nEmcee: DW Gibson (of the Kristiania Collective) \nMain Dish: Lee Ann Norman’s ‘This is Our House: On music\, memory\, and the politics of culture’ \nTime: 6-8pm \n$10 \n{Each evening begins with a happy hour from 6pm to 7pm\, and a live radio broadcast from 7-8pm.} \n  \nABOUT THE SERIES \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-2-an-unlikely-diplomatic-alliance/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131121T190000
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SUMMARY:Queerocracy Monthly Meeting
DESCRIPTION:This month QUEEROCRACY will host a meeting that interactively attempts to map out the diverse overlapping ways in which we respond to HIV/AIDS through the use of imagery. We hope that these conversations and art-related activities facilitated throughout the night will lead us to conceive of how we can produce our own unique AIDS iconography. \nEach meeting QROC will be teaming up with a new organization or individual within NYC AIDS activism to workshop with meeting attendees creative and alternative ways of participating actively in the movement to end HIV criminalization and related issues. The meetings will be hands on and will allow anyone attending to leave the meeting with a task and project at hand to stay connected and as involved as they feel comfortable and capable \nThe group/individual we will be workshopping with this month is: THEODORE KERR  \nCanadian born Theodore Kerr\, is a New York based writer\, artist and organizer. He works with Visual AIDS\, a non profit which supports artists living with HIV/AIDS\, and uses art to tell the world that AIDS is NOT OVER. \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  \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Book launch for The Seventh Pleiade\, by Andrew J. Peters
DESCRIPTION:Description of The Seventh Pleiade (Bold Strokes Books\, 2013): \nAtlantis is besieged by violent storms\, tremors\, and a barbarian army. For sixteen-year-old Aerander\, it’s a calamitous backdrop to his Panegyris\, where boys are feted for their passage to manhood. \nAmid a secret web of romances among the celebrants\, Aerander’s cousin Dam goes missing with two boys. With the kingdom in crisis\, no one suspects the High Priest Zazamoukh\, though Aerander uncovers a conspiracy to barter boys for dark spiritual power. Aerander’s proof—an underground vault that disappears in the morning—brings shame on his family and charges of lunacy. The only way for Aerander to regain his honor is to prove what really happened to the missing boys. \nTracking Dam leads Aerander on a terrifying and fantastical journey. He spots a star that hasn’t been seen for centuries. He uncovers a legend about an ancient race of men who hid below the earth. And traveling to an underground world\, he learns about matters even more urgent than the missing boys. The world aboveground is changing\, and he will have to clear a path for the kingdom’s survival. \n \nAndrew J. Peters likes retold stories with a subversive twist\, particularly when that twist turns heteronormativity on its head. The Seventh Pleiade\, the story of a gay teen who becomes a hero during the last days of Atlantis\, is his first novel. A 2011 Lambda Literary Foundation Fellow\, Andrew has written short fiction for numerous publications. He lives in New York City with his partner and their cat\, Chloë.\nPhoto Credit: Larry Black \n  \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Book launch for Dominick Reading for Filth
DESCRIPTION:Dominick Reading for Filth\nLive Transcripts 2007-9 \nWritten by Ask Dominick.\nArt work by Scott Hug\, Paul Gellman\, Carlo Uranus\,\nDamani Moyd\, Miguel Libarnes\, and Alice O’Malley.\nCover art by Gio Black Peter.\nEdited by Dale Corvino. \nAvailable at the Bureau of General Services-Queer Division. \nAn illustrated chapbook\, a collection of transcripts from staged public readings performed by Dominick\, a former kept boy and escort. The readings took place in New York City beginning in 2007 at the now-defunct Rapture Café. His appearances were part of the weekly series ‘Dean Johnson’s Reading for Filth: Queer Writers Reading about Sex’ with contributors Edmund White\, Eileen Myles\, Craig Seymour\, and Mike Albo. The readings are tales from the life\, drawn from the diaries Dominick kept when he embarked on a career as a full-time escort\, serving the greater NYC metro area. Also included: a reminiscence of his kept boy existence with his Sugar Daddy\, the late English society decorator Stuart Greet; and his tribute\, on the occasion of his untimely death\, to downtown legend and queercore rocker Dean Johnson\, the founder of the series. The readings are lurid and frank confessions of a sexual outlaw\, and trace a heat map of desire through the vast field of longing that is New York City. Dominick is a Brooklyn-born Italian. He spent his twenties as the kept boy to an aristocratic British decorator of some renown. In the wake of his Sugar Daddy’s alcohol related death\, he was left a modest fortune that fueled his own addiction. In recovery\, he embarked on a career as a full-time escort\, an effort to redeem his kept boy past. After a busy three years\, he retired from escorting to take a management position in real estate\, where the art of the sell is supreme. He now writes the ‘Ask Dominick’ posts on blog.rentboy.com for their audience of 30\,000 subscribers\, offering escorts and clients alike advice drawn from the diary he kept while escorting. He’s a frequent presence at the Red Umbrella Diaries\, a series of live readings from people who have tangled with the sex industry. Dominick has appeared on Dan Savage’s podcast and is a guest contributor to Savage’s beloved ‘Savage Love’ column. His writing appears in the Anthology Prose & Lore\, a publication of the Red Umbrella Project\, and the 2013 Soft Skull Press Anthology Johns\, Marks\, Tricks and Chickenhawks\, edited by David Henry Sterry. He lives in Hell’s Kitchen and most enjoys long hikes in the city and the wilds\, and body surfing in the ocean. \n74 pages. Paperback. Color cover\, B&W interior. US Retail $9.00\nISBN-10: 1490467025 ISBN-13: 978-1490467023 \nAvailable at the Bureau. \nFor reviewer copies and wholesale inquiries: askDominick@gmail.com
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