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SUMMARY:Images from a Different Path
DESCRIPTION:Join photographer Efrain John Gonzalez for a presentation of 30 years of his photography\, a slideshow of his photographs of the golden era of the Meat Packing District’s gay and fetish scenes. The presentation draws from an incredible collection of images from the Hellfire Press archives. Come and relive a hidden past. \n  \nEfrain John Gonzalez is a photographer who’s talents with a camera bend to the unusual\, the erotic\, the unique\, the wild and slightly crazy\, from the world of body modifications to the universe of radical S&M\, from sensual beauty of the flesh\, to raw sexual desires. An internationally published photographer who for the past 30 years has been seeking real life images that tell a story of people finding the path to their souls\, finding their bliss\, with piercing\, branding\, cuttings\, tattoos\, latex\, implants\, leather\, and a whole lot of radical sex and sexuality. He has traveled from coast to coast to find images of people exploring their limits\, discovering and living with their own self-defined cultural tribes of beauty\, pleasure\, joy\, and self-realization. People who take the forbidden\, and turn it into an empowering statement of their own.  People who see their bodies as a blank canvas\, and allow their imaginations and dreams to come to life upon a living canvas. Whether that canvas be painted with ink\, pierced and molded by blade\, or covered in latex and leather of colors that would put the peacock to shame \n  \nMuch of his photographic imagery was taken at events such as Living in leather (Portland\, Chicago)\, The Fetish Factor (East Village)\, the SMACK parties\, Wigstock (Tompkins Square)\, The Eulenspiegel Society (New York City)\, Mayday (Seattle)\, The Black Rose (Washington D.C). The Power Exchange\, and The Fetish Fantasy Flea market (Boston).  Some of his work has been compared to that of other famous photographers\, such as Robert Mapplethorpe\, and Helmut Newton\, but he prefers to see his work more in the light of such photographers as Weegee\, W. Eugene Smith\, and Erich Salomon. Their dedication and artistry allowed them to use the camera to capture the living core of human experiences. \n  \nWhat the artist tries to tell us through his lens is the idea that these forms of radical play and alternate cultures are not the symptom of some bizarre mental illness\, not anti-social behavior\, or a sign of society disintegrating into degeneracy that it has so long been perceived to be by those who fail or refuse to understand or accept it\, but that these cultures are a natural outreach of the curious and an exploration of the self by those chosen few who’s inner voices dare them to walk down forbidden paths to seek an inner truth. \n  \nPhotograph: Efrain John Gonzalez. Beautiful Francis working the old West Side Highway. Circa 1986. Photo from the Hellfire Press Archive. \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:The Values Perform at the Bureau
DESCRIPTION:The Values \nThis fresh Brooklyn-based rock band wants to open your eyes to stellar music. Hailing from China\, Nashville\, and Los Angeles\, the three-piece band sweeps sizzling dance tracks into sultry ballads and electrifying blues. Let your heart skip over the sidewalk. Damocles\, drama queens\, everyone’s invited! The Values are your friends! \nthevalues.bandcamp.com \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140312T190000
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SUMMARY:38 WITNESSED HER DEATH\, I WITNESSED HER LOVE: THE LONELY SECRET OF MARY ANN ZIELONKO (Kitty Genovese Story) A One-Act Play Written and Performed by LuLu LoLo
DESCRIPTION:Based on personal interviews with Mary Ann Zielonko \nA Staged Reading to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the Death of Kitty Genovese \n38 WITNESSED HER DEATH\, I WITNESSED HER LOVE: THE LONELY SECRET OF MARY ANN ZIELONKO (Kitty Genovese Story) written and performed by LuLu LoLo is a four part/three character drama in which LuLu portrays “The Chorus of 38”; the New York Times City Editor A.M. Rosenthal recalling the murder and the Times headline story; Winston Moseley testifying at his trial which convicted him of the murder; and Kitty’s lover Mary Ann Zielonko reminiscing after 40 years of silence about gay life in New York in the 60’s\, her life with Kitty\, the murder\, the trial\, and its aftermath \nHerstory:\nFifty years ago on March 13\, 1964\, Kitty Genovese was brutally murdered in Kew Gardens\, Queens\, NY. Forty years later it was revealed that Kitty was a lesbian and living with her lover Mary Ann Zielonko at the time of her death. At the time of Kitty’s murder\, the New York Times reported that 38 people witnessed her being attacked in three separate incidents—38 people heard her cries for help—And not one person called the police or came to her aid. Her death and the silence of the witnesses became a worldwide symbol of the apathy of the modern city. \nIn 2004\, LuLu LoLo was granted an interview with Mary Ann Zielonko which LuLu developed \into the “Mary Ann Monologue” that was first performed at the Gay and Lesbian Theatre Festival in Columbus\, Ohio in 2004. Due to popular demand\, LuLu in 2006 developed this monologue into a one-act play to include a portrayal of The New York Times Editor\, A.M. Rosenthal\, and Kitty’s murderer Winston Moseley. In 2009 LuLu incorporated choreography by Jody Oberfelder and her dance company into the production which was performed at The New York International Fringe Festival. Mary Ann Zielonko attended the first performance of this production. \nQuotes from reviews:\n“The performance that steals your heart…I was moved to tears…”. Bill Kaiser\, On the Purple Circuit \n”This deeply affecting play features performance artist LoLo as multi-character monologist in the brilliant Anna Deveare Smith vein…” Eva Yaa Asantewaa Infinite Bodyblogspot.com \n“This is riveting theater\, with intensity and passion..” Elizabeth Ahlfors www.curtainup.com \nBiography:\nLuLu LoLo is a playwright/actor\, international performance artist\, and multi-disciplinary artist. LuLu has written and performed seven one-person plays Off-Broadway highlighting her Italian immigrant family heritage\, her passion for historical research and social justice especially as pertaining to the dramatic struggle of women in New York City’s past on such subjects as the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire; the lesbian lover of murder victim Kitty Genovese; the murder of Helen Jewett; women who fought in the Civil War disguised as men; and Aaron Burr’s tragic relationship with his daughter Theodosia Burr Alston. Her latest play portrayed the shameful treatment of the women consigned to the Magdalene Laundries in Ireland. LuLu recently performed on 14th Street for Art in Odd Places as “Loretta the Telephone Operator” in “Remembrance of Phone Numbers Past” attempting to connect passers-by on the street with the earliest phone numbers they remember. LuLu’s current projects are “Obits” a play based on lives revealed in obituaries\, and a book based on the letters written to the late controversial East Harlem Congressman Vito Marcantonio. LuLu was a Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Writer in Residence\, and has been named a 2013 Blade of Grass Fellow\, www.abladeofgrass.org \nwww.lululolo.com \nLuLu LoLa’s fan page on Facebook \n  \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Screening of Gay Sex in the 70s followed by Q & A with Director Joseph Lovett
DESCRIPTION:Gay Sex in the 70s is a stunning visual document of New York during the decade of gay liberation and sexual abandon following Stonewall and before the outbreak of AIDS. Gay men cruised the streets\, frequented gay bars\, and\, of course\, had loads and loads of sex everywhere. But only 12 years after Stonewall\, AIDS brought this unprecedented era of sexual Freedom to a close. \nLovett expertly mixes archival footage and interviews with those who lived through the times\, including author/activist Larry Kramer\, photographer Tom Bianchi\, and the former business manager of the St. Marks Baths. From Greenwich Village to the Fire Island Pines\, Gay Sex in the 70s celebrates a city and an era with the unbridled joy that characterized the decade\, while at the same time offering a sobering reminder of the AIDS crisis that followed. \nThe DVD of Gay Sex in the 70s is available for purchase at the Bureau. \n  \n  \n \nJoseph Lovett is an award-winning filmmaker\, whose films have informed\, engaged and inspired people into action. After working at ABC News 20/20 for ten years as director/producer\, Joe founded the company in 1989. During the 1990s\, Joe produced\, in partnership with the Centers for Disease Control and ABC\, In A New Light prime time specials\, a 5-year AIDS awareness campaign that flooded the CDC’s AIDS hotline with an unprecedented number of calls. In 2001\, Joe won a Peabody Award and received an Emmy nomination for writing\, producing and directing HBO’s Cancer: Evolution to Revolution. The film was the focus of a national public health campaign\, which described it as “150 minutes of television that could save your life” and launched a national conversation about coping\, treating and learning to live with the realities of cancer. His highly acclaimed feature\, Gay Sex in the 70s\, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival\, was released theatrically in over 25 cities\, and broadcast on the Sundance Channel in 2007. Joe’s latest film\, Going Blind\, and its Outreach Campaign\, Going Blind and Going Forward\, have ignited a global movement of individuals\, grassroots organizations and medical professionals sponsoring screenings to raise awareness and to improve access to vision enhancement services. Other broadcast films Joe has directed and/or produced include The Way Home\, a one-hour special on forgiveness for the Hallmark Channel; State of Denial\, a film on the AIDS crisis in South Africa; and Too Hot Not to Handle\, an HBO film on Global Warming. Over the years\, Joe has been honored with numerous awards from advocacy organizations\, including the AIDS Leadership Award\, the Christopher Award\, and the Kitty Carlisle Hart Award. \n  \n  \n  \n 
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140314T190000
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SUMMARY:Publishing Puppies: Book Launch and Screening of Two Lakes at BGSQD
DESCRIPTION:Publishing Puppies\, a small press based in Berlin\, is launching its most recent book\, Two Lakes. \nThe book is an illustrated version of a short experimental film under the same name\, Two Lakes\, a queer experience relayed over vibrant canvases\, will also be screened that day. \nBoth projects\, film and book\, have been a collaboration project between artists Amelia Bande\, Deborah Bower\, Mat Fleming and Annette Knol. \nWe are thrilled to introduce Publishing Puppies in New York City\, all our books will be for sale at the event. https://publishing-puppies.tumblr.com/ \n \n  \n  \n \nAbout Two Lakes\, the film: \nA handmade camera-less film\, Two Lakes was collectively created from piles of luscious colour gels\, cut\, stuck and manipulated into 16mm film echoing a narrated story. A teenager moves to the big city\, a universal city without a name. In between low-pay jobs\, lesbian parties and junk food\, she makes new friends and falls in love. Life as a sort of margin\, following the words of a street preacher\, telling stories and making songs in the middle of the night. The outcome is a fast-pace explosion of shapes and colours that shine and blink\, creating a parallel universe to the experience of a young woman wandering through a new life. \nBy Amelia Bande\, Deborah Bower\, Mat Fleming & Annette Knol 2012\, NL/UK/DE\, 16mm-to-video\, color\, sound\, 7:36 min. \nThe film Two Lakes was produced during a residency at Filmwerkplaats\, WORM in Rotterdam\, it has been selected for the MIX 26th NYC Queer Experimental Film Festival\, the London Gay and Lesbian Film Festival and the Film London Artists´ Moving Image Network. \n  \n \nAbout Two Lakes\, the book: \nby Deborah Bower & Annette Knol (February 2014)\nScript by Amelia Bande\nPublishing Puppies #4\nFirst Edition\, 75 copies\n24 pages\, 23\,5 x 17cm\nPrinted by Deborah Bower & Annette Knol with Copyroboter at Kotti-Shop\, Berlin. \n  \nWhat MIX 26th NYC Queer Experimental Film Festival wrote about Two Lakes: \nA visually stunning cameraless film. Luminous color gels explode across 16mm film to create a luscious tapestry of hues accompanied by a voice-over narrative of a teenage moving to “The City” – which remains nameless to evoke mythologies of the metropolis. Two Lakes\, in this way\, challenges pereception through medium and narrative. The youngster’s excitement for their first queer party and the hustle of city life is paralleled by our excitement for this new kind of film that makes the camera unnecessary. A colorful delight that is sure to open your eyes as well as your hearts. \n  \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Launching Kelly Cogswell's Eating Fire: My Life as a Lesbian Avenger and Susana Cook's Queering the Classics: A Benefit for the Lesbian Avengers Documentary Project
DESCRIPTION:Join two of your favorite fire-eating dykes to celebrate their new books and raise money for the Lesbian Avenger Documentary Project. Writer Kelly Cogswell will read from her brand new memoir\, Eating Fire: My Live as a Lesbian Avenger\, and Argentinean icon Susana Cook will present Queering the Classics: Hamletango\, Dykenstein\, and We Are Caligula\, a new collection of her theatrical work.\n\nSuggested donation of $5 to support Lesbian Avenger Documentary Project (no one will be turned away)\n \n\n\n\n\n“Veering between Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dyke and Rebel Without a Pause\, Cogswell’s memoir of the Lesbian Avengers is incisive\, politically astute\, and a much needed addition to LGBT history.” —Michael Bronski\, Harvard University\n\n  \nSince setting out from Kentucky armed only with an electric typewriter\, a stack of poems\, and willingness to do the bare minimum as a maid\, a dishwasher\, and temporary secretary\, Kelly Cogswell has fended off beer bottles from angry Irish bigots\, eaten fire in front of the White House\, co-founded pioneering projects like The Gully online magazine offering “queer views on everything”\, and pursued a career as indy journalist specializing in society\, culture\, and politics. Her work has appeared in a range of venues including the International Herald Tribune\, Louisville’s Courier-Journal\, and THIS WAY OUT: the international lesbian & gay radio magazine. Her column in New York’s Gay City News has been recognized by the New York Press Association. She is the director of the Lesbian Avenger Documentary Project.\n \n  \n\n\n\n“Susana Cook is among the best artists working in America\, doing cultural work that will transform the way we see things” – Martha Wilson\, Franklin Furnace\n\n\nSusana Cook is an icon of the lesbian underground. Born in Argentina\, the New York based performance artist has been writing and producing original work both solo and with her own theatrical company comprised mostly of minority and queer women. Her internationally recognized work boldly and cleverly tackles political issues like racism\, homophobia and animal rights.  Her plays include: We Are Caligula\, The Funeral of the Cow\, The Homophobes\, The Fury of the Gods\, Homeland Insecurities\,  The idiot King\, The Values Horror Show\, 100 Years of Attitude\, Dykenstein\, Hamletango\, Prince of Butches\, Gross National Product\, Hot Tamale\, Conga Guerrilla Forest\, The Fraud\, Butch Fashion Show in the Femme Auto Body Shop\, Rats: The Fantasy of Extermination\, and Tango Lesbiango. Her variety show\, The Service Economy Vaudeville\, was instrumental in introducing a range of new voices to the New York performance scene. \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Steel Closets: Voices of Gay\, Lesbian\, and Transgender Steelworkers--Reading by Author Anne Balay Followed by Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Steel Closets: Voices of Gay\, Lesbian\, and Transgender Steelworkers (University of North Carolina Press\, April 2014) explores how sexuality and gender overlap in the sprawling steel mills of Northwest Indiana. Drawing from extensive\, detailed oral histories taken of a previously silent and invisible population\, it investigates how gay\, lesbian\, and transgender steelworkers interact with their co-workers\, communities and families in the context of their physically demanding\, risky work. It explains how and why basic steel mills are inhospitable\, even dangerous to queers\, and demonstrates that we can’t understand what it means to be GLBT without including working-class\, blue-collar voices and stories. \n  \nPhoto by Riva Lehrer\nAnne Balay has taught English and Gender Studies in Chicago\, and in Gary\, Indiana\, where she did most of the interviews that led to her book. \n  \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Future Perfect Reading at The Brooklyn Community Pride Center
DESCRIPTION:Join the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division at The Brooklyn Community Pride Center in a celebration of the Bureau’s book Future Perfect\, edited by Andrew Durbin and published by Publication Studio. \nSeveral of the contributors to Future Perfect will be at the event\, some of whom will read their contributions\, including Felix Bernstein\, Ted Kerr\, Justin Allen and Yulan Grant of BDGRMMR (pronounced BADGRAMMAR). Yulan’s work is a video that she’ll project while Justin reads the poem that inspired the video–both titled Black Atlantis. \nThe book Future Perfect will be available for purchase at the event. The cost is $26\, and the proceeds go to supporting the Bureau’s work. Cash and credit card payments accepted. \n  \nFuture Perfect includes contributions from: \nPenny Arcade\n Felix Bernstein\n Stephen Boyer\n Lonely Christopher\n Nicole Eisenman\n BDGRMMR\n Bruce Hainley\n Ed Halter\n Juliana Huxtable\n Ted Kerr\n Kevin Killian\n Wayne Koestenbaum\n Rachel Levitsky\n Trisha Low\n Stephen Motika\n Eileen Myles\n Tim Trace Peterson\n Luther Price\n Paul Mpagi Sepuya\n Pamela Sneed\n Max Steele\n Laurie Weeks \nJOIN US!!! \n  \n  \n 
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140319T190000
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SUMMARY:Closets\, Combat and Coming Out: A Reading\, Signing\, and Q&A With Author Rob Smith
DESCRIPTION:Closets\, Combat and Coming Out author Rob Smith will have brief remarks regarding the 11th anniversary of the Iraq War\, and he will read from his new memoir. Signing and a Q&A afterwards. This event will be filmed for an upcoming docuseries. Attendees have the option not to appear on camera. \n  \nRob Smith is an openly gay Iraq war veteran\, journalist\, lecturer\, and LGBT Activist. He served for 5 years in the United States Army as an Infantryman\, earning the Army Commendation Medal and Combat Infantry Badge. After graduating with honors from Syracuse University\, he became a freelance journalist and opinion writer\, with work published at Salon.com\, Metro Weekly\, The Advocate\, CNN.com\, and The Huffington Post among many others. In November 2010\, he was arrested with 12 other LGBT military veterans and civilian activists at the front gates of the White House while protesting the U.S. Military’s “Don’t Ask\, Don’t Tell” (DADT) law\, which barred open military service by gays and lesbians. In December of that same year\, he was an invited guest of President Barack Obama at the ceremony which saw the repeal of the discriminatory law be signed and put into effect.\nRob is a sought after lecturer on LGBT and diversity issues on college campuses and events across the country. He has lectured at Virginia Tech\, Vanderbilt University\, Hofstra University\, Illinois College\, and Buena Vista University among many others. In August of 2012\, he made his literary debut in the anthology book For Colored Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Was Still Not Enough: Coming of Age\, Coming Out\, and Coming Home\, which won the 2012 American Library Association Stonewall Book Award and was recently nominated for the 2012 Lambda Literary Award for LGBT anthology. Closets\, Combat\, and Coming Out: Coming of Age as a Gay Man in the “Don’t Ask\, Don’t Tell” Army is his first full-length work as a solo author. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140321T190000
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SUMMARY:Poetry Reading with Ocean Vuong\, Jason Schneiderman\, Amy King
DESCRIPTION:The Bureau General Services—Queer Division is thrilled to host three award-winning poets\, who bring beauty\, emotional depth\, intelligence\, and honed craft to each of their works. Introductions by Lawrence Kaplun. This is a reading you don’t want to miss\, so put it on your calendar today.\n\n\n\n\n \nOcean Vuong is the author of two chapbooks\, BURNINGS\, and NO (YesYesBooks\, 2013). He is the recipient of fellowships from Kundiman\, Poets House\, and The Saltonstall Foundation. His poems have appeared in many journals including The Nation\, Quarterly West\, Passages North\, Guernica\, The Normal School\, Denver Quarterly\, Poetry Magazine\, and American Poetry Review\, which awarded him the 2012 Stanley Kunitz Prize for Younger Poets. \n  \n \nJason Schneiderman is the author of two books of poetry\, SUBLIMATION POINT\, and STRIKING SURFACE (Ashland Press\, 2010). His poems and essays on contemporary poetry have appeared in many journals including American Poetry Review\, Court Green\, The Gay & Lesbian Review\, Grand Street\, Tin House\, and Virginia Quarterly Review. He is an Assistant Professor at the Borough of Manhattan Community College. \n  \n \nAmy King is the author of five books of poetry\, including I WANT TO MAKE YOU SAFE (Litmus Press\, 2011) and THE MISSING MUSEUM (forthcoming\, 2014). Her poems and prose have appeared in Boston Review\, The Rumpus\, and Poetry Magazine. She serves on the Executive Board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts\, and teaches English and Creative Writing at SUNY-Nassau Community College. \n  \n  \n 
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140322T190000
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SUMMARY:An intimate evening of readings by Xeňa Stanislavovna Semjonová\, Kevin Simmonds\, and Joseph Whitt
DESCRIPTION:The Bureau of General Services – Queer Division invites you to an intimate evening of readings by Xeňa Stanislavovna Semjonová\, Kevin Simmonds\, and Joseph Whitt. \n  \n \nXeňa Stanislavovna Semjonová is a poet\, artist\, and a translator living in New York City. Originally from Slovakia\, she has performed in venues such as Dixon Place\, Bowery Poetry Club\, The Poetry Project\, RADAR\, SPECTRUM NYC\, Strange Maine\, Happy Endings\, GRRRLS on FILM\, Nicholas Robinson Gallery\, and others. She was selected as a 2013 Poets House Fellow\, and was also the recipient of the 2013 QAM Fellowship. She is currently working on her first full-length novel entitled SHE\, and is curator of the WHAT NOW audio anthology supported by the Jerome Foundation and the Raymond Federman Foundation of Experimental Fiction. \n  \nKevin Simmonds is a writer and musician originally from New Orleans. His books include the full-length collections bend to it and Mad for Meat (both from Salmon Poetry)\, and the edited works Collective Brightness: LGBTIQ Poets on Faith\, Religion & Spirituality (Sibling Rivalry Press) and Ota Benga Under my Mother’s Roof (University of South Carolina). He has composed numerous musical works for voice and chamber ensemble\, as well as for stage productions such as Emmett Till\, a river and the Emmy Award-winning documentary HOPE: Living and Loving with HIV in Jamaica. A recipient of fellowships and commissions from Cave Canem\, Creative Work Fund\, Fulbright\, the Pulitzer Center\, San Francisco Arts Commission and the Edward Stanley Award from Prairie Schooner\, he divides his time between Japan and San Francisco. \n  \nOriginally from Alabama\, Joseph Whitt is an artist\, writer and independent curator living and working in New York City. His work has been presented at MOMA PS1\, PPOW Gallery\, Eyedrum\, Deitch Projects\, CRG Gallery\, Envoy Enterprises\, and Interstate Projects\, and has been reviewed in The New York Times\, Flash Art\, and Sculpture. His writings have appeared in Art Papers\, ArtUS\, Useless Magazine and K48. He has released two chapbooks of poetry – 09.29.12 and Defriendings (both from T.M.I. Ltd.) – and is currently working on a third. \n  \nPublications by the authors will be available for purchase. \nThis event is free and open to the public. \n 
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140323T153000
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SUMMARY:Magnus Hirschfeld: The Origins of the Gay Liberation Movement with Author Ralf Dose
DESCRIPTION:Join author Ralf Dose for a discussion of his new biography of Magnus Hirschfeld: Magnus Hirschfeld: The Origins of the Gay Liberation Movement. Ralf Dose illuminates Hirschfeld’s ground-breaking role in the gay liberation movement and explains some of his major theoretical concepts\, which continue to influence our understanding of human sexuality and social justice today. \n STARTING AT 2 PM SHARP! \n\nRalf Dose is the co-founder and director of the Magnus-Hirschfeld-Gesellschaft (Magnus Hirschfeld Society) in Berlin. He writes widely on sex education\, homosexuality\, the gay movement\, the history of sex research\, and has lectured at the Berlin Free University and Hannover University. \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/magnus-hirschfeld-ralf-dose/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140323T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140323T230000
DTSTAMP:20260612T153059
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SUMMARY:TELL 2: SUMMER
DESCRIPTION:TELL is an evening of story telling from the mouths and minds of queers in NYC hosted by Drae Campbell at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division. \nSummer is the theme of the second installment of TELL. \nFeaturing special guests: \nCamille Atkinson \nSusana Cook\nKatrina del Mar\nMarcus Hicks \nThis event is free. We will pass a hat on behalf of the performers. \nThe Bureau is not wheelchair accessible–up one flight of stairs. \nThe Bureau has a gender-neutral bathroom. \nAbout the featured guests: \n  \n \nNew York vocalist Camille Atkinson was born in the Midwest and raised in New Orleans. She preforms regularly in the New York area with rockNrollNsoul band Empire Beats \, co-writing songs\, and co-producing the monthly Juke Joint Revue at the Parkside Lounge with Mark Boquist. She’s become a popular hostess in the NY Burlesque scene\, and is always looking to take It to the next level. She came in second this Year in Murray Hill’s Miss LEZ pageant and she wants to cook for you.\n\nhttps://camillebatkinson.com\n\n  \n\n \nBorn in Argentina\, Susana Cook is a New York based performance artist who has been writing and producing original work for over 20 years. She has presented over 17 original plays in New York and around the world. Susana writes and directs all her shows and performs in them with her company . Her work is bold\, cleverly tackling racism\, homophobia and animal rights.  Her cast is comprised mostly of minority and queer women.  Her work has been presented in numerous performance spaces in New York City\, including Dixon Place\, PS. 122\, W.O.W Cafe Theater\, Ubu Rep\, Theater for the New City\, The Puffin Room and The Kitchen. She also performed internationally in Spain\, France\, India\,  Argentina\, Colombia\, Ecuador\, Canada and at several colleges and universities around the country. \nSome of her latest  plays are : We Are Caligula\, The Funeral of the Cow\, The Homophobes\, The Fury of the Gods\, Homeland Insecurities\,  The idiot King\, The Values Horror Show\, 100 Years of Attitude\, Dykenstein\, Hamletango\, Prince of Butches\, Gross National Product\, Hot Tamale\, Conga Guerrilla Forest\, The Fraud\, Butch Fashion Show in the Femme Auto Body Shop\, Rats:The Fantasy of Extermination and Tango Lesbiango \nHer work is archived at the Digital Video Library of The Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics of New York University. \n  \n  \nPhoto by Daniel Jack Lyons\n\nKatrina del Mar is a New York-based photographer\, video artist\, writer and award-winning film director. Her work has been described as “beautiful” exuding an “intimate chemistry” and also as “filth of the highest quality.” Katrina herself has been described as a “major league cutie\,” “a wild woman\,” “the Lesbian Russ Meyer\,” and “apparently\, the lesbian stepchild of Kenneth Anger.” Her solo exhibition GIRLS GIRLS GIRLS was presented in January 2013 at Participant Inc. in New York. Her solo exhibition\, Gangs of New York was presented in 2010 at Wrong Weather Gallery in Porto\, Portugal. Invited to teach at the University of the Arts in Bremen\, Germany\, she conducted the first ever “Queer Trash Feminist Film Workshop\,” also in 2010. In 2012\, she presented a series of films and photographs from the Golden Age of Performance Art (1988-2000 with Dona Ann McAdams\, On the Edge of Society: Moments in Live Art\, at Warehouse 9\, Copenhagen\, Denmark. Her work has shown at Deitch Projects\, NY; Museum for Contemporary Art (CAPC)\, Bordeaux\, France; American Fine Arts Company\, NY; Binz 39\, Zurich\, Switzerland; Bass Museum of Art\, Miami; Miami Light Project; P.S.122\, NY; FabLab\, Berlin; and the University of Cardiff\, Wales. \nHer first film\, Gang Girls 2000\, shot entirely on super 8mm film\, received a four and a half star review in Film Threat magazine\, among other glowing reviews\, inviting comparisons to the legendary Kenneth Anger. The follow up\, Surf Gang\, about a gang of women surfers from Rockaway Beach\, landed del Mar a fellowship in video from the New York Foundation for the Arts\, “Best Experimental Film” from the Planet Out Short Movie Awards announced at the Sundance Film Festival 2006\, and was screened at the Museum for Contemporary Art (CAPC)\, Bordeaux\, France. \nHer latest film project\, Hell on Wheels Gang Girls Forever\, completes the Girl Gang Trilogy and was the recipient of the 2010 Accolade Award of Merit. Recent screenings include Girl Gang Trilogy\, Nightingale Cinema\, co-presented by Chicago Underground Film Festival\, 2012; Super 8 Film Portraits\, curated by Stephanie Gray\, Millennium Film Workshop\, NY\, 2012; Surf Gang (excerpt)\, Sound & Light\, and winner of Juried Competition\, Schoolhouse Gallery\, Provincetown\, MA\, 2012; Girl Gang Trilogy\, Fringe Film Festival\, London\, UK\, 2012; and Girl Gang Trilogy\, Bio Paradis\, Reykjavik\, Iceland\, 2012. \n  \n  \n\n \nMarcus Hicks is a designer/performer living in Brooklyn NY. Originally from Ca. SDNBrooklyn.com \n  \n  \n 
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140328T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140328T235500
DTSTAMP:20260612T153059
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SUMMARY:Born After 1989
DESCRIPTION:Tonight’s poetry reading is in conjunction with the renowned exhibition\, “Poetry Will be Made for All\,” at the LUMA/Westbau exhibition space\, within Löwenbräukunst\, in Zurich\, Switzerland curated by Kenneth Goldsmith\, Danny Snelson and Hans-Ulrich Obrist. Tonight’s reading will be hosted by Felix Bernstein\, Skyped in to Zurich\, photographed by ArtForum\, with press from the Village Voice\, Rhizome\, Frieze\, and n+1 in attendance. All of tonight’s readers will be profiled in jacket 2. Two of tonight’s readers will be selected by Obrist for profile pieces in Bomb Magazine. Several audience members will also be selected to participate in a roundtable discussion for Grey Room (MIT Press) on ‘audiences in the age of digital poetics.’ \n  \nReaders: \n  \nJameson Fitzpatrick lives in New York\, where he is an MFA candidate in poetry at NYU. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Awl\, The American Reader\, The Los Angeles Review\, and POETRY\, among elsewhere. \nhttps://jameson-fitzpatrick.tumblr.com/ \nhttps://poetrywillbemadebyall.ch/book/morrisoe-erasures/ \n  \nDeanna Havas was born in New York City in 1989\, where she currently lives and works. She received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2011. In 2012 she exhibited in a solo exhibition at NP Contemporary Art/Envoy Enterprises in New York. Some of her recent exhibitions include a commissioned piece for Rhizome’s The Download and an e-book published through Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery in New York. She also recently completed a residency at the LUMA /Westbau as part of the 89+ project in Zürich. \nwww.deannahavas.com \n  \nCornelia Barber is the author of ‘Before I Am Lost’ a critical novella. Her latest work is a set of poems\, Grace Holes\, on the dialectics of pleasure\, god and form. “his ass holes running spectacular juices / moaning for affection as if / it is you that must cradle him / bandage his wounds that / he made himself. / Impulse will infiltrate the surface of whatever / form you find yourself consumed by.” \n  \nGil Lawson is a writer from Santa Fe\, NM. His work has appeared in\, or is forthcoming from\, n+1\, Triple Canopy\, Metazen\, KTBAFC\, and others. He received the Bard College Written Arts Prize in May of 2013. \n  \nPaco Catart is a musician and writer. “KccLhhlckk- and there’s the hateful pink jelly / broken into bits / like a shattered bottle of frozen cough syrup / or human mucus. / There’s the jelly / beneath my sneaker.” pacocathcart.bandcamp.com \n  \nJoshua Kleinberg is a barback\, an MFA candidate in Poetry & Translation at Columbia University and the curator (with Dana Jaye Cadman) of Banquet Reading Series in Brooklyn. His work has received awards from Ohio State University and The Academy of American Poets and has been anthologized in Chorus: A Literary Mixtape (2012\, MTV Books). \ngentleslant.net \n  \nCassie Seltman’s book is called Palimpsest: Columbus. “A sneeze in my nose.   Spit\,   mom says. I spit. Mom pokes at the spit with her fingers. She opens the tissue blown into\,   it’s definitely green. You have something. If you were healthy it would be paler. More yellow.”  \n  \nClara Lipfert is a writer and performer whose work has been featured in Illuminati Girl Gang\, the Scrambler\, and MIX NYC. As one half of the curatorial/performance project HAG\, she has performed at Grace Exhibition Space and the Invisible Dog Art Center. She also writes reviews for the Helix Queer Performance Network. hagcollective.tumblr.com \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140329T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140329T180000
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SUMMARY:The Bureau at the Rainbow Book Fair
DESCRIPTION:Join the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division at the 6th Annual New York Rainbow Book Fair! We’ll be at table 59. \nNoon–6pm\nHoliday Inn Midtown\n440 W. 57th Street\, NYC 10019\n(between 9th and 10th Avenues)\n$3 Admission suggested donation \nThe Rainbow Book Fair is seeking volunteers to help facilitate all of the activities of the day. If you would like to volunteer please fill out the online form. \nNote: The Bureau will remain open for regular business hours\, 1 to 7 PM\, at our 83A Hester Street location. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/the-bureau-at-the-rainbow-book-fair/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140330T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140330T190000
DTSTAMP:20260612T153059
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SUMMARY:DISCUSSION WITH ARTIST RENÉ SMITH
DESCRIPTION:Join artist René Smith at the Bureau for a conversation about her work. \nWe are pleased to announce that we have extended the exhibition Manorama – Collages & Drawings by René Smith through Thursday\, April 10th. \n  \n \n“This body of work is a sincere ode to longing and the beauty of men’s bodies\, but it also contains small jokes\, ideas about history\, and references to our relationship to photography. The project is about men’s bodies seen through a woman’s eyes – the woman’s gaze – the man’s body – the body as landscape with hills and valleys to roam. The collages are made from vintage magazines from the 60’s and 70’s – a time when the male nude in widely circulating publications was new\, and the idea of a woman appreciating the male nude was radical.  The paintings and drawings are based on my own photographs of friends and professional models and take on the same subject – still fairly uncommon from a woman’s point of view.” René Smith \n  \nRené Smith lives and works in Bushwick\, Brooklyn\, New York. She was a Visiting Lecturer in Painting at Chiang Mai University in Thailand\, and has also been an artist in residence at The Gil Society in Iceland and Vermont Studio Center. She has shown her work at The Bangkok Art & Culture Center\, Koi Gallery (Bangkok)\, NoSpace Gallery (Bangkok)\, BKK Art House (Bangkok)\, The Chiang Mai University Art Museum (Thailand)\, and Aljira Contemporary Art Center (New Jersey). René Smith was born in Philadelphia and received her M.F.A. in Painting from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia and Rome and her B.A. in Painting from Bennington College in Vermont. She teaches painting at St. Thomas Aquinas College. \n  \nFeatured image: René Smith\, Keith with Leidy’s Painting. Pastel on Paper.  20 x 25”
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