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SUMMARY:Kristiania Presents: The Queer Gaze
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the first public event of Kristiania\, an international anarcho-literary collective of politically minded writers. This will be a conversation around the subjects of queerness and subjectivity featuring the exciting authors and thinkers: \n  \nSamuel R. Delany \nAna Božičević \nSaeed Jones \nTrace Peterson \n  \nModerated by Lonely Christopher \nMore on Kristiania: www.kristiania.org \n  \n  \nSamuel R. Delany is the author of numerous science fiction books including\, Dhalgren and Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand\, as well as the best-selling nonfiction study Times Square Red\, Times Square Blue and the memoir The Motion of Light In Water. His latest novel is Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders. He lives in New York City and teaches at Temple University. The Lambda Book Report chose Delany as one of the fifty most significant men and women of the past hundred years to change our concept of gayness; he is a recipient of the William Whitehead Memorial Award for a lifetime’s contribution to lesbian and gay literature; and\, after winning four Nebula Awards and two Hugo awards over the course of his career\, The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America named him the 2013 Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master. \n  \nAna Božičević was born in Croatia in 1977 and emigrated to New York when she was nineteen. Her book of poems\, Stars of the Night Commute (Tarpaulin Sky Press) and Rise in the Fall (Birds\, LLC)\, were finalists for the 2010 and 2013 Lambda Literary Award. She completed her MFA at Hunter College and is now a PhD Candidate in English at The Graduate Center\, CUNY\, where she helps run the Annual Chapbook Festival\, Lost&Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative\, and the Transculturations Seminar. In Fall 2010\, The Feminist Press honored her as one of their 40 Under 40: The Future of Feminism award recipients. Her translation of Zvonko Karanovi ́c’s Snow on Fire was awarded the PEN American Center/NYSCA grant. The anthology of translations The Day Lady Gaga Died: An Anthology of Newer New York Poets she co-edited with Željko Miti ́c appeared in Serbia in Fall 2011. \n  \nSaeed Jones is the author of the chapbook When the Only Light is Fire (2011\, Sibling Rivalry Press) and the forthcoming poetry collection Prelude to Bruise (2014\, Coffee House Press). His work has appeared in Best Gay Stories 2013\, Guernica\, Ebony Magazine\, The Rumpus\, Hayden’s Ferry Review\, and West Branchamong other publications. Jones received his MFA in Creative Writing at Rutgers University – Newark and is the recipient of fellowships from Cave Canem and Queer / Arts / Mentors. He works as the editor of Buzzfeed LGBT and lives in Brooklyn. \n  \nTrace Peterson’s two favorite things are sex and literary criticism. Author of the poetry book Since I Moved In(Chax Press) and numerous chapbooks of poems\, she is also Editor / Publisher of EOAGH\, co-editor of the new anthology Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics (Nightboat Books) which is a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award this year\, and co-editor of the forthcoming Gil Ott: Collected Writings(Chax Press). From 2009-2012\, she curated the TENDENCIES: Poetics & Practice series inspired by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick at CUNY Graduate Center in NYC\, where she is currently a Ph.D. Candidate. \n  \nLonely Christopher is a poet and filmmaker. He is the author of the poetry collection Death & Disaster Series (Monk Books\, 2014) and 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 plays have been produced in New York City and China. He wrote and directed the feature film MOM (Cavazos Films\, 2013) and his stories have been adapted for the screen in Canada and France. He lives in Brooklyn and is the programming director for the Kristiania Collective. \n 
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SUMMARY:(dis)Assembly: Eileen Myles...Jennifer Natalya Fink...Iris Cushing
DESCRIPTION:Three queer women writers of various genres read from their latest\, taking apart and putting together an image of the world around them. \nMoving between revelry in the parts\, words\, objects that piece together and the ultimate looming vision of the completed puzzle\, these writers play with language in a way that gets to a sense of “reality” both within and beyond the words of their respective texts. \n\nEileen Myles is an poet and writer who has produced more than twenty volumes of poetry\, fiction\, nonfiction\, libretti\, plays\, and performance pieces over the last three  decades. In 2012\, she publishedSnowflake/different streets\, a combination of two distinct poetry collections in one binding. Also in 2012\, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship to complete Afterglow\, which gives both a real and fantastic account of a dog’s life.\nJennifer Natalya Fink is a mother of a hilarious and brilliant six-year-old girl\, a professor of English at Georgetown University\, a literacy activist\, and an all-around hell-raiser. She is the author of three award-winning novels\, The MIKVAH QUEEN\, BURN\, and V\, and a short-story collection\, THIRTEEN FUGUES. \n\nIris Cushing is the author of Wyoming\, winner of the 2013 Furniture Press Poetry Prize. She lives in New York and is an editor at Argos Books and Circumference: Poetry in Translation. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/disassembly-eileen-myles-jennifer-natalya-fink-iris-cushing/
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SUMMARY:Ectoplasms
DESCRIPTION:Ectoplasm refers to a vomit-like substance produced by mediums during seances\, supposedly as a manifestation of otherworldly spirits. For this performance salon and accompanying zine\, we would like to use the phenomenon of ectoplasm as a way of thinking about the creation of the abject\, what for Julia Kristeva constitutes that which has been discharged from the body\, rendered excrement. How does the body function as a sight of transactions\, of exits and entrances? In what ways is the abject haunted? What ghosts are coming out of you?\nGIVE US UR BLOOD UR TEARS UR PUKE. \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:THE REAPPEARING ACT: BOOK PARTY
DESCRIPTION:Kate Fagan\, a former Division 1 Basketball player and current ESPN writer\, has written an honest and heartfelt memoir about coming out in sports.  She is teaming up with two major local organizations and a few big names in sports including former NFL player\, Wade Davis.  Davis is the Executive Director of You Can Play Project and Nevin Caple\, co-founder of Br{ache the Silence Campaign also played Division 1 Basketball. \n  \nPLEASE NOTE: THE BUREAU IS CLOSED ON TUESDAYS\, BUT WE WILL OPEN AT 6 PM FOR THIS EVENT. \n  \n \nThe Reappearing Act: Coming Out as Gay on a College Basketball Team Led by Born Again Christians \nIt’s hard enough coming out\, but playing basketball for a nationally ranked school and trying to figure out your sexual identity in the closeted and paranoid world of big-time college sports—that’s a challenge. In The Reappearing Act (Skyhorse Publishing; May 6\, 2014) Kate Fagan tells her coming-of-age story about how she discovered her true self and slowly found the courage to live authentically.\nFagan’s love for basketball and for her religious teammates at the University of Colorado was tested by the gut-wrenching realization that she could no longer ignore the feelings of otherness inside her. In trying to blend in\, Kate had created a hilariously incongruous world for herself in Boulder. Her best friends were part of Colorado’s Fellowship of Christian Athletes\, where they ran weekly Bible studies and attended an Evangelical Free Church. For nearly a year\, Kate joined them and learned all she could about Christianity—even holding their hands as they prayed for others “living a sinful lifestyle.” Each time the issue of homosexuality arose\, she felt as if a neon sign appeared over her head\, with a giant arrow pointed downward. During these prayer sessions\, she would often keep her eyes open\, looking around the circle at the closed eyelids of her friends\, listening to the earnestness of their words. \nKate didn’t have a vocabulary for discussing who she really was and what she felt when she was younger; all she knew was that she had a secret. In The Reappearing Act\, she brings the reader along for the ride as she slowly accepts her new reality and takes the first steps toward embracing her true self. \n  \n\nKate Fagan is a columnist and feature writer for espnW\, ESPN.com and ESPN The Magazine. She is also an in-studio contributor for The Word\, a digital video segment that examines hot topics in sports. Previously\, Fagan spent three seasons covering the 76ers for the Philadelphia Inquirer. Her work was cited in the anthology of Best American Sports Writing 2013\, and she has also been featured on Longreads\, a site that curates the best in long-form journalism and fiction. She lives in Brooklyn\, New York. \nVisit Kate Fagan’s Website \nFollow Kate on Twitter \n  \n  \n \nWade Davis \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/the-reappearing-act-book-party/
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SUMMARY:NEWFANGLED 2: Robert Siek Introduces Joey De Jesus\, Ryan Doyle May\, & Roberto Montes
DESCRIPTION:NEWFANGLED returns to the Bureau! Robert Siek introduces poets Joey De Jesus\, Ryan Doyle May\, & Roberto Montes for a night of poetry readings. \n  \n \nJOEY DE JESUS is originally from the Soundview neighborhood of the Bronx. He received his BA from Oberlin College and his MFA in Poetry from Sarah Lawrence College. His work has appeared in The Cortland Review\, Devil’s Lake\, Dislocate\, Guernica\, Kin Poetry Journal\, LUMINA\, Rhino\, Versal\, and elsewhere. He recently moved to Harlem. \n  \n  \n \nRYAN DOYLE MAY’s work has appeared in various journals and performances. He is the author of the chapbook The Anatomy of Gray (Corresponding Society Press) and acted as the lead in the short film August\, which was selected for the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. He has an MFA in Creative Writing from the New School and is currently finishing a novel. He lives in Brooklyn. \n  \n  \n \nROBERTO MONTES is the author of I DON’T KNOW DO YOU and “HOW TO BE SINCERE IN YOUR POETRY” WORKSHOP\, which is now available in full at napuniversityonline.com. He lives in Queens. \n  \n  \n \nROBERT SIEK is a poet who lives in Brooklyn. He is the author of the chapbook Clubbed Kid\, published in 2002 by the New School\, and the full-length collection of poetry Purpose and Devil Piss\, published by Sibling Rivalry Press in 2013. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/newfangled-2/
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SUMMARY:Bear Bards Read! NYC Book Launch for Hibernation\, and other poems
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a fun and fur-filled evening of hirsute literary pursuit for the premiere reading and book launch for the new bear poetry anthology\, Hibernation\, and other poems by bear bards. Bear down to listen up as an outstanding group of authors reads from the book as well as other poems. Time allowing\, we will open the mic to anyone who wants to read their bear-themed verse. This free event will be hosted by editor Ron J. Suresha and features contributing authors Scott Hightower\, Daniel Lewiston\, Rocco Russo\, Jordan M. Shu\, Chris Vaccaro\, and Emanuel Xavier. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/bear-bards-read-nyc-book-launch-for-hibernation-and-other-poems/
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SUMMARY:Black and Pink Letter Writing and Screening of ‘A Kiss for Gabriela’
DESCRIPTION:Come join us in writing letters\, postcards and words of encouragement to our queer and trans family incarcerated in New York state. Writing a letter\, postcard\, or sending a drawing is a great way to brighten someone’s week! B & P will provide pens\, paper & answer all questions. At 8:30 we will be screening an amazing film called Um Beijo para Gabriela which is Portuguese for A Kiss For Gabriela. “Gabriela Leite is the first sex worker to run for Brazilian Congress. “A Kiss for Gabriela” tells the story of her 2010 campaign as she faces 822 opponents and challenges a male dominated political system to see if a sex worker\, activist\, wife\, mother\, and cultural icon since founding the clothing line\, Daspu\, can beat the odds and win the election.” \n  \n  \nBlack and Pink NYC is a chapter of the national queer prison abolition group Black and Pink\, dedicated to supporting our queer & trans (Gender  and/or Sexual Minority) comrades\, friends\, and loved ones currently incarcerated. We aim to provide support work\, advocacy and direct action for folks in prison\, as well as host and facilitate events in the NYC area. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/black-and-pink-letter-writing-and-screening-of-a-kiss-for-gabriela/
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SUMMARY:Bureau at Second Tuesday Lecture Series for Tom Spanbauer Reading from "I Loved You More"
DESCRIPTION:The Bureau will be on hand selling copies of Tom Spanbauer‘s I Loved You More at his reading at The Second Tuesday Lecture Series at The LGBT Center in NYC. \nReserve a copy of the book in advance by contacting Greg Newton at contact@bgsqd.com. \nDoors open at 6:30 pm\, talk at 7:00 pm (until 9:00 pm) \nTom Spanbauer is the critically acclaimed author of four bestselling LGBTQ novels and a noted writing teacher. As a writer he has explored issues of race\, sexual identity\, and the new families that we create for ourselves to surmount the families that we were born into. \nTom Spanbauer’s first novel in seven years is a love triangle with a gay main character who charms both gays and straights. I Loved You More is a rich tale of love\, sex\, and heartbreak\, covering twenty-five years in the life of a emotionally wounded writer. \nIn New York\, Ben forms a bond of love with his macho friend and foil\, Hank. Years later in Portland\, a struggling and ill Ben falls for Ruth\, who provides care and devotion but cannot fulfill all of his needs. The real trouble starts when Hank reappears and meets Ruth. Set against a world of struggling artists\, the underground sex scene of New York in the 1980s\, and the confining Idaho of Ben’s youth\, I Loved You More is the author’s most breathtaking and graphic novel. \nThe trailer for I Loved You More is available on YouTube: www.youtu.be/D0lB7DBD6HU \nTom Spanbauer is the founder of the “Dangerous Writing” method that\, like his novels\, combines a fresh and lyrical prose style with solid storytelling. His students include Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club\, Invisible Monsters\, and Choke)\, Monica Drake\, and Stevan Allred.\nTom Spanbauer lives in Portland\, Oregon where he teaches. In addition to his new novel\, his award-winning books include Faraway Places\, The Man Who Fell In Love With The Moon\, In The City Of Shy Hunters\, and Now Is The Hour. You can find more information about Mr. Spanbauer at his personal website: www.TomSpanbauer.com. \nMore information and pre-registration available here. \nABOUT THE SECOND TUESDAY LECTURE SERIES \nThe Second Tuesday Lecture Series is the longest running program at The LGBT Center. Since 1985\, more than 140 speakers have made presentations in the arts\, academia\, and politics. Speakers representing every major cultural award\, including the Pulitzer Prize\, the Grammy Award\, the Academy Award (The Oscars)\, Broadway’s Tony Awards\, the Lambda Literary Award\, and the National Book Award\, as well as the UK Booker Literary Award\, have made presentations. Through this program\, Larry Kramer spoke about the plight of the AIDS Crisis in March 1987\, thus beginning ACT-UP\, the largest direct action AIDS organization in the world. For more information see www.SecondTuesday.org. \nABOUT THE LESBIAN\, GAY\, BISEXUAL & TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY CENTER \nEstablished in 1983\, the LGBT Community Center is at the heart of the lesbian\, gay\, bisexual\, and transgender community in New York City\, providing quality health and wellness programs in a welcoming space that fosters connections and celebrates our cultural contributions. The Center serves the community with a full-service approach to programming\, from hosting arts and entertainment events and advocacy groups to offering youth and overall wellness programs. Each year\, the Center welcomes more than 300\,000 visits to their building in the West Village. To learn more\, visit www.GayCenter.org. \nCenter link: https://gaycenter.org/second-tuesday \nCONTACT\nHoward Williams\, Second Tuesday Curator\, Howard@SecondTuesday.org\nRobert Woodworth\, Robert@GayCenter.org\, 212-620-7310 \n  \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Writing Live: An Introduction to Documentary Poetics
DESCRIPTION:I let my hands become weapons…and I feel prepared for the rest of my life. – David Wojnarowicz \nWhat happens to documentary practice when we turn our hands into weapons? What happens when we start writing history with a sense of urgency\, rather than a sense of detachment? A brief introduction will be offered as we read excerpts from texts by David Wojnarowicz \, Juliana Spahr\, Maggie Nelson\, and Muriel Rukeyser. In exploring techniques these authors use\, we can understand documentary writing as “writing live\,” the process where we piece together various strands of personal and community history as means of searching for possible futures. The remainder of the evening will be spent on individual projects\, where we will actively cut and paste together material into larger narratives. \nAll writing levels are welcome\, as documentary poetics encompasses a variety of different interests. Since this requires active participation\, please come with some previous writing\, a news story\, a magazine article\, or other kind of ephemera you feel comfortable repurposing. \nPlease email Kyle at kyle.bella@gmail.com to let him know you will be attending and what your topic might be. He wants to keep the group intimate and be aware of any possible sensitive topics in advance. \n  \nKyle Bella currently resides in Brooklyn\, where he works as a Social Media Fellow at Alternet and does freelance writing. Previous work has appeared in Jacket 2\, Buzzfeed LGBT\, Truthout\, [wherever] magazine\, and nomorepotlucks. Forthcoming work is expected in hello mr. magazine and Radioactive Moat Press. His newest book project Viral Legacies\, examining HIV/AIDS histories\, begins in May. \n  \nArt work by David Wojnarowicz\, Fuck You Faggot Fucker\, 1984\, black and white photographs\, acrylic\, and collage on masonite\, 48 x 48 inches\, courtesy of PPOW Gallery. \n  \n  \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:A one-night stand with Evripidis and his Tragedies and special guests Dane Terry and Dalin
DESCRIPTION:An introduction to the world of Evripidis Sabatis AKA Evripidis and his Tragedies\, where music\, writing and drawing intertwine to picture a world of love\, lust and loss. \nEvripidis will perform an acoustic concert and present an exhibition of his original artwork and his illustrated book “El Calamor y otros mitos de la intimidad” (Spanish only). \nMusicians Dane Terry and Dalin will also perform. \n  \nPhoto by Nicholas Prakas\nEvripidis and his Tragedies is the alter ego of Evripidis Sabatis. This classically trained Athenian pianist\, visual artist and writer shares not only his name with the great tragedian Euripides of antiquity but to some extent\, his eye for storytelling\, painted by splashes of tragic realism but also humor\, that celebrates heroes who are overwhelmed by their passions and end up burning brightly. \nIn Evripidis and his Tragedies´songs\, lovers ride the tidal waves in vain\, teeth fall out one by one\, summers are long and lazy and full of song (or are utterly blue)\, stray dogs are irresistible and treacherous\, nights are sleepless and scary\, little sisters grow up to be stronger than their brothers\, lights are out\, hearts are not pure\, weddings turn into riots\, ghosts take the living for car rides\, death dances in the shadows of a hospital room\, nightlife takes legendary proportions\, homesickness is a necessary consequence of a life on the run\, Sunday mornings are haunting\, funerals are celebrated as parties\, the sky is red above the harbour\, the worst enemy and torturer is one´s self and pain comes in healthy doses. Evripidis worships what is no longer here\, what has left just a scar. His world is a melancholy love affair where romanticism never died\, where harmony is created with a intelligent view on contemporary life\, for winners and losers\, victims and victors\, heroes and villains. \nOne Journalist stated that in Evripidis and his Tragedies’ music there are echoes of all kinds of western popular music from the last 120 years: classical impressionism\, cabaret\, 20´s\, 30´s and 40´s American songs\, musicals\, folk\, soundtracks and most of all\, pop from the late 50´s until now. Add to this mix some touches of baroque music\, an unconditional love for the 60´s\, the indie pop and some unique\, maverick songwriters\, and Evripidis´ own distinctive piano-playing and you have a project that escapes a clear definition. The best way to understand it is to just listen to it. \nLyrically\, Evripidis lingers among hopeless romanticism\, dark humor and dry cyniscism. Love\, lust and loss\, as well as family\, friends and death. These are the recurring themes in his songs but also in his writing and his visual artwork. As he wryly puts it\, “The stuff that makes my world go round”. His turn of phrase exposes his literary background and this makes his lyrics pocket dramas on their own. \nEvripidis´ drawings usually consist of nightmarish chimeras\, monstruous flora\, dramatic landscapes and twisted allegories. Surrealism\, symbolism and grotesque play a big part in his art\, as well as lived experiences and traumas. \nHis illstrated book “El Calamor y oros mitos de la intimidad” is the perfect merging between Evripidis major artistic disciplines\, featuring drawings\, original texts in Spanish and lyrics in English. \nSince 2007 Evripidis and his Tragedies has released two full albums and various EPs as well as music for short movies and art projects. Lately\, Evripidis has been living out and about\, swinging among Barcelona\, Athens\, London\, Berlin and NYC\, something that is reflected in his new material and recent collaborations. He is currently finishing his third album with some of his long-time musical partners and some new entries in this crowded\, creative musical family. \nHe has participated in various group exhibitions and in April 2010 he presented his first solo exhibition entitled “Why do lovers break each other’s hearts?” in the gallery\n6 d.o.g.s in Athens. Since then he has exhibited in Madrid\, Barcelona and Berlin. This will be the first time he is exhibiting his drawings in New York. \n  \n \nDane Terry is a performer and composer based in NYC. Terry’s songs act as surreal theater miniatures that range from dark to funny. Colored with Sci-Fi themes and what he terms “Frillbilly” music\, his performances often take the form of bizarre vignettes of music and monologue. He has performed as part of the HOT festival of queer theater at Dixon Place 3 times\, toured internationally and he continues to perform in theaters and venues all around NYC including Joes Pub\, Bowery Poetry and La Mama. \n  \n \nDALIN is a pop music act making happy\, heartfelt\, danceable tunes. Singer/writer/producer Jonathan Dalin grew up in a musical family from Detroit with connections to the Jazz and classical scenes as well as soul and gospel music. This summer Dalin will be releasing the video and Single YOU LOOK GOOD\, as well as a collection of sexy\, high-energy pop songs. Stay tuned for YOU LOOK GOOD and Listen for DALIN songs on playlists at your next BBQ or while you’re rockin’ your boo. \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:SCORCHER Issue #7 Release Party
DESCRIPTION:Celebrating the release of Scorcher issue #7 (“Valedictorian”)\, published by Birdsong Micropress\, please join Max Steele at the Bureau of General Services Queer Division for an evening of readings by: Max Steele\, Tommy Pico\,  Anthony Thornton\, Kayla Morse\, and Sam McKinniss. \nCover drawing of Scorcher issue #7 (“Valedictorian”) by Julia Norton. \n  \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\, and the author of Absent Mindr—the first chapbook app published for iOS mobile/tablet devices (VERBALVISUAL\, 2014). He was a Queer/Art/Mentors inaugural fellow\, 2013 Lambda Literary fellow in poetry\, and has been published in BOMB\, [PANK]\, and the Best American Poetry blog. Originally from the Viejas Indian reservation of the Kumeyaay nation\, he now lives in Brooklyn. \n  \nAnthony Thornton is an American poet living and working in New York. He has read at numerous venues (CULTUREfix\, Envoy Enterprises\, The Spectrum\, the Bureau of General Services-Queer Division\, Starr Space) and private salons\, and is editing his forthcoming second poetry collection\, New Directions. \n  \nKayla Morse is settling into that kind of cool\, level-headed maturity that women of a certain age enjoy.  PSYCH. \n  \nMax Steele is a performer and writer living in Brooklyn. He has presented work at Dixon Place\, the New Museum\, Deitch Projects\, BAM\, Joe’s Pub\, Envoy Enterprises\, PPOW Gallery\, UPenn’s Kelly Writers’ House\, the Afterglow Festival and the Queens Museum of Art. He writes the psychedelic porno poetry zine Scorcher\, and his writing has been featured in Dossier Journal\, Spank\, East Village Boys\, Birdsong\, Vice\, Noisey\, and Best Gay Stories 2014. He has been an Artist in Residence at BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange since 2012. \n  \nSam McKinniss is an artist and writer in New York. His paintings have been on view recently at envoy enterprises and Good Work Gallery in New York as well as at Galerie Thomas Fuchs in Stuttgart. His writing has appeared in Adult Magazine\, DIS Magazine\, the Library at Dirty Looks NYC and Pastelegram.org. \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/scorcher-issue-7-release-party/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140518T190000
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SUMMARY:DEADLINE: Works-in-Progress from Cutting-edge Queer Artists. featuring Ariel Speedwagon\, Sabrina Chap\, Anna Hovhannessian\, Elizabeth Whitney and Zach Wager Scholl
DESCRIPTION:Post-Clown Disaster\, Ariel Federow and Cabaret Idiot\, Sabrina Chap bring you this new works-in-progress series featuring new work from cutting edge queer artists.  Built on the notion that there’s no greater inspiration than a deadline\, this series forces renegade artists to bring new and developing work to an audience for the first time.  Part experimentation + part guaranteed failure = 100% awesomeness.  \nAriel “Speedwagon” Federow will be workshopping the second two installments of “Lavender Valley\,” the world’s preeminent powerpoint lesbian soap opera.\n \n  \nSabrina Chap will be performing the first half of her electric guitar radio musical\, ‘Postcards from Nevermore’\, visually scored by a projection from Anna Hovhannessian.\n\n  \nTricia Clayton Biltmore is everyone’s favorite lesbian ally and Elizabeth Whitney’s alter ego. Hailing from Bainbridge\, GA\, she is the woman Elizabeth might have been if she had never left Tallahassee.\n\n  \n“Sisters\,” Zachary Wager Scholl’s newest writing\, is a work-in-progress ode to the baby gay adventure of discovery and friendship. Set to the backdrop of a working class suburb\, “Sisters” is part raunch/ part tender\, glimmering under the light of a gas station by the highway.\n  \n  \nAriel “Speedwagon” Federow’s work has been seen on Broadway\, Lafayette\, Houston\, Chrystie\, Fulton\, N 6th\, and other streets and avenue in NYC and beyond. Her stories\, slideshows and slapstick have been seen places like LaMama ETC\, Dixon Place\, the Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics\, Pussy Faggot\, and Hey Queen! Company member: the Ballez and Butch Burlesque.\n\n  \nDeemed\, ‘Rousing!’ by the New Yorker\, Sabrina Chap is a writer\, musician\, cabaret artist and all around dilettante. Her latest album\, the anthemic queer bonanza ‘We Are the Parade’ was deemed\, ‘Joyous’ by the Advocate.  She also edited the book\, ‘Live Through This- On Creativity and Self-Destruction’\, now with an intro by Amanda Palmer and essays by Nan Goldin\, bell hooks\, Swoon\, Kate Bornstein and more.  sabrinachap.com\n\n  \nAnna Hovhannessian is a filmmaker and editor.  TV credits include a lot of sensationalistic murder shows and some talk show nonsense.   Her film credits include in the documentaries ‘Bully’ (Tribeca premiere)\, ‘She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry’ (Boston Independent Film) and the short film ‘Happy Hour’.  Her performance videography was featured in the dance production of ‘Echoes and Dreams’ (NYC Fringe Festival).\n \n  \nElizabeth Whitney‘s recent projects include playing a closeted New Jersey housewife in Madeleine Olnek’s The Foxy Merkins (Sundance 2014)\, a feminist TedX lecturer in the popular web series High Maintenance\, and being a member of alt-country trio Menage A Twang (www.menageatwang.com). She teaches in the City University of New York. www.elizabethjwhitney.com\n \n  \nZachary Wager Scholl is a performer and writer. He most recently performed in Angry Women Revisited\, with J. Dellecave and company. Long-term projects include: his work with the Man Meat Collective; playing with the Rude Mechanical Orchestra; and creating transgressivepolitical queer Purimshpiln with the Aftselokhes Spectacle Committee.\n \n \n \n 
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140521T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140521T210000
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SUMMARY:Martin Duberman: Reading and signing for Hold Tight Gently: Michael Callen\, Essex Hemphill\, and the Battlefield of AIDS
DESCRIPTION:From award-winning historian and activist Martin Duberman comes a poignant dual biography of two men central to activism in the early days of the AIDS epidemic. Michael Callen and Essex Hemphill were both diagnosed with AIDS and raised awareness of the epidemic prior to the nation at large becoming aware of the disease’s existence. The year 1995 saw the release of protease inhibitors\, the first effective treatment for AIDS\, but it was also the year Essex Hemphill\, an African American poet and performance artist\, died from complications related to the disease. Michael Callen\, a singer\, songwriter and pioneering AIDS activist from the Midwest\, had already passed away two years earlier. \nDuberman documents each man’s life and work while providing readers a rare glimpse into how the United States\, both at large and from within the LGBTQ community\, approached the AIDS epidemic as it was unfolding. Hold Tight Gently closely examines the earlier years before U.S. culture was made more fully aware of disease; Duberman poignantly and respectfully utilizes Callen and Hemphill’s stories to explore how their disparate communities responded to the crisis in unique ways. \nHold Tight Gently is more than a moving dual biography of two unsung heroes of the pre-ACT UP period; it is essential to understanding the disease’s history and impact amidst a reality that many ignored or denied. \n  \nPhoto by Raymond Adams\nMartin Duberman is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History at the CUNY Graduate Center. The author of more than twenty books\, including a highly acclaimed biography of Paul Robeson\, Duberman has won a Bancroft Prize and been a finalist for both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. He lives in New York City. \n  \nPraise for Hold Tight Gently: Michael Callen\, Essex Hemphill\, and the Battlefield of AIDS (The New Press\, 2014) \nSeldom has a biographer been able to honor the doomed courage of his subjects with such redeeming insightfulness. Martin Duberman’s Hold Tight Gently is an unflinching masterpiece.\n—David Levering Lewis\, university professor\, emeritus\, New York University\, and Pulitzer Prize winner for biography \nWe are always in danger of forgetting the past\, and the huge advances we have made against HIV/AIDS often obscure the pain and the politics of the early years of the epidemic. InHold Tight Gently\, Martin Duberman has brilliantly re-created this tumultuous era. Tracing these two lives through poetry and activism\, Duberman captures the pain\, despair\, panic\, heroism\, and moral bravery that defined the generation of women and men who first faced this modern plague. Daringly imagined and beautifully written\, Hold Tight Gently is a major work of modern history that chills us to the bone even as it moves us to tears.\n—Michael Bronski\, Professor of Practice in Activism and Media Studies of Women\, Gender\, and Sexuality\, Harvard University \nA dynamic people’s history of AIDS that must be read\, debated\, critiqued\, and applauded. Michael Callen\, Essex Hemphill\, and other visionaries are revealed as complex individuals who made change but did not benefit from it. Throughout\, Duberman confronts the racism at the core of the AIDS movement that became the global crisis of access to treatment. A bold work for a community that wants to understand itself.\n—Sarah Schulman\, author ofIsrael/Palestine and the Queer International \nMartin Duberman’s work has been a continuing rescue mission to make sure that vital\, but forgotten\, stories from the past remain alive in our memory. With Hold Tight Gently\, he has done it again and magnificently so. Michael Callen and Essex Hemphill come back to life in these pages. Funny and moving\, enlightening and thoughtful\, inspiring and enraging\, this dual biography reveals the heartbreaking losses caused by the epidemic as well as the many ways people fought back. It can teach those who weren’t there what that first decade of AIDS was like and remind those of us who were how intense those years were. And all this through the life stories of two compelling individuals.\n—John D’Emilio\, professor of gender and women’s studies and history\, University of Illinois at Chicago \nHold Tight Gently is a deeply moving work of largely hidden history. Martin Duberman brilliantly chronicles not only grassroots AIDS organizing in the early days of the epidemic but also the vibrant black lesbian and gay political and cultural movement that flowered during the same period. Through the lives of two remarkable men\, Hold Tight Gently illuminates how race and class are inextricably linked to the struggle for sexual freedom and that against all odds people can fight for justice every day. A wonderful and important book.\n—Barbara Smith\, author of The Truth That Never Hurts and co-founder of Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press \nThrough his probing and insightful chronicle of the lives of two very different gay men who were early voices in the fight against AIDS\, Martin Duberman has again brought light to shine in a personal way on the role of progressives in LGBT struggles and the importance of addressing how race\, class\, and gender impact this epidemic and who survives it. Sadly\, these perspectives are still urgently needed in today’s world\, where those facing the devastation of AIDS are often invisible to mainstream politics. A poignant and politically potent tribute to those who have died from AIDS and who fought to make a difference even as their lives were cut short.\n—Charlotte Bunch\, Distinguished Professor in Women’s and Gender Studies\, Rutgers University \nHold Tight Gently is an absorbing read. It’s a necessary introduction to the uninitiated and a profound challenge to the collective amnesia concerning the AIDS crisis in the 1980s\, one that shimmers with insights and lessons about race\, sexuality\, and class. Duberman’s take on these seminal figures illuminates their singular and collective triumphs and struggles and how the pandemic profoundly impacted political and social organizing by gays in the ’80s and ’90s. The biographer renders Hemphill and Callen with respect and grace—just the way they should be.\n—Steven G. Fullwood\, co-editor of Black Gay Genius \nMartin Duberman’s profoundly moving reconsideration of Michael Callen and Essex Hemphill is much needed now\, as AIDS continues to ravage so much of our world. This marvelous book\, filled with surprising connections\, will be read by activists everywhere and empower the future.\n—Blanche Wiesen Cook\, author of Eleanor Roosevelt \n  \ncover story for A&U \nstarred PW review \nexcerpt on Advocate.com \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:TELL 4 WINNING
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. \nWinning is the theme of the fourth installment of TELL. \nFeaturing special guests: \nVarín Ayala \nGabriella Belfiglio \nEllie Conant \nZil Goldstein \n  \n  \n \nVarín Ayala: Off Broadway: The Taming of the Shrew (TFANA with Maggie Siff; dir\, Arin Arbus); NY Theater: Contigo (Signature); 365 Days/Plays (The Public); Jackson Heights 3AM (Theater 167): Las Facultades\, The Beep (Pregones); Barber Surgeons (Studio 42); End of Summer\, Love’s Labour’s Lost (Kaleidoscope at Cherry Lane); Numerous readings and workshops at NYTW\, The Public\, INTAR\, The Lark\, among others. Regional Theater: Pinkolandia (Two River Theater; premiere)\, The Motherf**er with the Hat (Hartford TheaterWorks)\, The Road to Washington (Mountain Playhouse)\, Angels in America I/II (Civic Theater of Allentown). TV:  Lie to Me\, Hustling. Training: The Actors Center Conservatory\, Shakespeare Lab at The Public\, Groundlings. \n  \n  \n \nGabriella M. Belfiglio lives in Brooklyn\, NY with her partner and three cats.  She teaches self-defense\, conflict resolution\, karate\, and tai chi to people of all ages throughout the five boroughs. \nMost recently\, Gabriella won second place in the 2014 W.B. Yeats Poetry Contest.  She earned Special Merit Recognition in the Comstock Review’s 2013 Muriel Craft Bailey Poetry Contest. \nGabriella’s work has been published in many anthologies and journals including Radius\, The Centrifugal Eye\, Folio\, Avanti Popolo\, Poetic Voices without Borders\, C\,C\,&D\, The Avocet\, The Potomac Review\, Eclectica\, Lambda Literary Review\, The Monterey Poetry Review and The Dream Catcher’s Song.  She is currently compiling a full-length collection of her poetry. \n  \n  \n \nEllie Conant is a former party promoter giving her liver a rest and taking up writing again. She ran Choice Cunts\, a rare party for raw queers for 6 years. Her main motivation to throw parties was to get the friendliest people she knew together\, get them drunk\, and watch them turn into assholes. Now almost 35\, Ellie is focusing on her talents in the kitchen\, the bedroom\, and the hallway. She believes hallways are dreadfully neglected and they need more attention. \n  \n  \n \nZil Garner Goldstein has not been a performer for about 10 years. She can tell you what to eat and will probably tell you what to wear\, and is very good at telling you. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140524T160000
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SUMMARY:Joan Larkin book launch: Reading from and Signing Blue Hanuman
DESCRIPTION:Please join us to celebrate the publication of Blue Hanuman\, a new book of poems by Joan Larkin.  There will be a reading and books hot off the press. \nJoan Larkin’s sixth book of poems\, Blue Hanuman\, is just out from Hanging Loose Press.  Her previous collections include the Lambda Award-winning Cold River\, My Body\, and the Argos chapbook  Legs Tipped with Small Claws\, among others. \n“There are few poets in America who can combine Joan Larkin’s formal mastery with her emotional intensity…Unlike so many poets who lose emotional force as they get older\, Larkin grows stronger as time goes on.” – David Bergman\, The Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/joan-larkin-book-launch-reading-from-and-signing-blue-hanuman/
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SUMMARY:Wrong Side of the River
DESCRIPTION:The Values return to set the Bureau ablaze with Why The Reckless\, Matt Kastella\, and Sleepyzzz. \n  \nThe Values deliver sizzling dance tracks\, sultry ballads\, and electrifying blues. In this economy\, The Values are your friends. \nwww.thevalues.bandcamp.com \nWith songs titled “Hello”\, “Weeds”\, and “Lighthouse\, Why the Reckless performs music to remind you of a feeling you’d forgotten. sit and eat. \nwww.facebook.com/WhyTheReckless \nA new artist with my FIRST single/music video being released this month\, Matt Kastella is a Texas born singer-songwriter and spent the last 5 years in Tokyo Japan working as an entertainer\, and is now pursuing a career in pop music. \nwww.soundcloud.com/mat-kastella \nSleepyzzz\n\n“Intergalactic explorers riding dragons made of lazer looms animals on\nacid doublewide trailers filled with black holes in the eyes of a\npsychedelic child dancing to the beat of a volcano that kind of sounds\nlike the Doors and kind of sounds like a guitar solo in the silence of\nspace rock n roll rock n roll rock n roll rock n roll” – a dream that\nwe had.\n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/wrong-side-of-the-river/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140529T180000
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SUMMARY:Opening reception for Diego Vela: Delicate Identity
DESCRIPTION:  \nJoin us for the opening reception of Diego Vela‘s exhibition Delicate Identity.\n\n  \nThe exhibition will remain on view at the Bureau through Sunday\, July 6.\n\n  \nThe Bureau has extended the exhibition through Sunday\, July 27.\n\n  \nArtist’s statement\nMy work is result of my thinking of identity in relation to what is considered to be the norm and what is considered to be beautiful. It reflects on the idea of what normalcy is and how society deems what that looks like. It is represented in the the human body\, from the obviously sexual to the tormented physiologically. My imagery is based on photos of myself and my friends that are open to share a private moment with me.  The paintings capture a moment of identity or identity forming.\n  \nDiego Vela lives and works in Harlem. He has shown at The Center NYC\, and Gotham Gallery (New York City). He studied at the University of Mary Hardin Baylor in Texas\, and at the American Intercontinental University in London. \n  \nImage: \nDiego Vela \nThirteen  24″ x 30″ \nacrylic and human hair on canvas \ncompleted 2004\nA self portrait of the artist at thirteen.\n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/opening-reception-for-diego-vela-delicate-identity/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140530T190000
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SUMMARY:Passionate Commitments: The Lives of Anna Rochester and Grace Hutchins: Slide show\, reading\, and signing with Julia M. Allen
DESCRIPTION:Passionate Commitments is a dual biography of Anna Rochester and Grace Hutchins\, life partners and labor journalists who were instrumental in establishing and maintaining the Labor Research Association in New York City during the mid-20th century. Julia M. Allen will present a slide show detailing their lives and will read selected passages from the book. Passionate Commitments received the 2014 Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction\, presented by the Publishing Triangle. \n  \n \nJulia M. Allen is Professor Emerita of English at Sonoma State University in California.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/passionate-commitments-the-lives-of-anna-rochester-and-grace-hutchins-slide-show-reading-and-signing-with-julia-m-allen/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140531T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140531T220000
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SUMMARY:Poetry Reading with D. Gilson\, Aaron Smith\, and Randall Mann
DESCRIPTION: \n  \nJoin us for a special poetry reading with D. Gilson\, Aaron Smith\, and Randall Mann. Hosted by Lawrence Kaplun.\n \n  \n\n\n \nD. Gilson is the author of two chapbooks; Brit-Lit (Sibling Rivalry Press) and Catch & Release (Seven Kitchens Press). His poems have appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal\, Indiana Review\, Lambda Literary Review\, Los Angeles Review & his book reviews appear on The Rumpus. He’s a Ph.D. student in American Literature & Culture at George Washington University\, and lives in Washington DC. \n  \n \nAaron Smith is the author of two books of poems; Appetite\, and Blue on Blue Ground (both published by University of Pittsburgh Press). His poems have appeared in Ploughshares\, Prairie Schooner\, Ecotone\, Court Green\, Gulf Coast\, Witness\, and other journals. He serves as Poetry Editor of Bloom\, and teaches creative writing at Lesley University. He lives in Cambridge\, Massachusetts. \n  \n \nRandall Mann is the author of three books of poems; Straight Razor (Persea Books)\, Breakfast with Thom Gunn (University of Chicago Press)\, and Complaint in the Garden. Booklist Magazine said\, “readers would do well to recognize Mann’s place alongside poets like D. A. Powell\, Marilyn Hacker\, and Anne Sexton.” His poems have appeared in many journals including The Kenyon Review\, Pleiades\, Literary Imagination\, Subtropics\, Salmagundi\, and Poetry Magazine\, which recently awarded him the J. Howard and Barbara M.J. Wood Prize. He lives in San Francisco. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/poetry-reading-with-d-gilson-aaron-smith-and-randall-mann/
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