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SUMMARY:Bold Strokes Books Reading: Mixed Grill
DESCRIPTION:Jane Hoppen\, Jeremy Jordan King\, Andrew J. Peters\, Nora Olsen\, Joel Gomez-Dossi\, Daniel W. Kelly\, Trinity Tam\, and Nell Stark present a tasting platter of their freshest\, most recent Bold Strokes Books novels. Here’s something to whet the appetite for all genres\, all genders\, and all interests. \n  \nJane Hoppen‘s debut novel\, In Between\, was published by Bold Strokes Books in December 2013 and was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award. Her novella\, The Man Who Was Not\, was released in June 2014. Jane has also had stories published in a variety of literary magazines.\n  \nJeremy Jordan King grew up on the Jersey Shore and studied theater at Marymount Manhattan College. His Immortal Testimonies series\, published Bold Strokes Books\, was listed in Advocate’s “Top 10 Books for Young LGBT Folks and Anyone Who Wants to Understand Them” and recommended by the American Library Association’s GLBT Round Table. He’s also a librettist.\n \nAndrew J. Peters is an author\, an activist and an educator. His published work includes the young adult fantasy The Seventh Pleiade and the Werecat series. While writing\, Andrew has spent most of his career as a social worker for LGBT youth. He is an administrator and an adjunct professor at Adelphi University\, and lives in Kew Gardens\, NY with his husband and their cat Chloë.\n \nNora Olsen is the author of the YA novels Frenemy of the People\, Swans & Klons\, and The End: Five Queer Kids Save the World. Her next book\, Maxine Wore Black\, is forthcoming from Bold Strokes Books in October.\n \nJoel Gomez-Dossi started his career as a theatrical stage manager. He then became a production manager and producer for PBS\, and finally turned to freelance writing\, working for regional publications across the country. He is the author of two novels published by Bold Strokes Books\, Pursued and Deadly Cult.\n \nDaniel W. Kelly is the author of the erotic horror novels Combustion\, No Place for Little Ones\, and Rise of the Thing Down Below. He is also creator of Boys\, Bears & Scares\, a website dedicated to gay male horror.\n \nNell Stark is an award-winning author of lesbian romance. The Princess Affair (2013) was a Lambda Literary Award Finalist\, and in 2010\, everafter (with Trinity Tam) won a Goldie award in the paranormal romance category. When she is not writing\, Nell works as the Chair of English\, Philosophy\, and Religious Studies at a college in the SUNY system.\n  \nTrinity Tam is a marketing executive in the music industry and an award-winning writer/producer of film and television.  She and Nell live\, write\, and parent their rambunctious child and dog a stone’s throw from the historic Stonewall Inn in New York City.\n\n \n \n \n 
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SUMMARY:Across Genres\, All Genres: A Night of Queer Writing
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening of multi-genre reading by today’s queer practitioners of fiction\, nonfiction and poetry. \n  \n \nMelissa Febos is the author of the memoir\, Whip Smart (St. Martin’s Press). Her work has been widely anthologized and appears in publications including The Kenyon Review\, Prairie Schooner\, Glamour\, Post Road\, Salon\, New York Times\, Hunger Mountain\, Portland Review\, Dissent\, and Bitch Magazine. The recipient of a 2013 Barbara Deming Memorial Fund artist grant\, a 2012 Bread Loaf nonfiction fellowship\, a 2014 Virginia Center for Creative Arts fellowship\, and MacDowell Colony fellowships in 2010\, 2011\, & 2014\, she is currently Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Monmouth University and MFA faculty at the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA). The daughter of a sea captain and a psychotherapist\, she was raised on Cape Cod\, and lives in Brooklyn. \n  \n \nMatthew Hittinger is the author of two poetry collections\, The Erotic Postulate (2014) and Skin Shift (2012) both from Sibling Rivalry Press\, and three chapbooks. His work has appeared in many journals and anthologies\, has been adapted into art songs\, and in 2012 Poets & Writers Magazine named him a Debut Poet on their 8th annual list. Matthew lives and works in New York City. \n  \n \nJoseph O. Legaspi is the author of Imago (CavanKerry Press) and two chapbooks: Aviary\, Bestiary (Organic Weapon Arts)\, winner of the David Blair Memorial Prize\, and Subways (Thrush Press). Recent works appeared in Poets.org\, jubilat\, The Journal\, Painted Bride Quarterly\, BLOOM\, and the anthology Coming Close (Prairie Lights/University of Iowa Press). He co-founded Kundiman (www.kundiman.org)\, a non-profit organization serving Asian American literature. \n  \n \nShelly Oria was born in Los Angeles and grew up in Israel. Her short story collection\, New York 1\, Tel Aviv 0\, is forthcoming from Farrar\, Straus & Giroux\, and Random House Canada in November. Shelly’s fiction has appeared in The Paris Review\, McSweeney’s\, TriQuarterly\, and fivechapters among other places\, and won the Indiana Review Fiction Prize and a Sozopol Fiction Fellowship among other awards. A MacDowell Fellow in 2012 and 2014\, Shelly holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College\, curates the series Sweet! Actors Reading Writers in the East Village\, and teaches fiction at Pratt Institute\, where she also co-directs the Writers’ Forum. \n  \n  \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Judy Garland on Judy Garland: Interviews and Encounters
DESCRIPTION:  \nRandy L. Schmidt will present and sign copies of his new book in the “Musicians in Their Own Words” series from Chicago Review Press Judy Garland on Judy Garland: Interviews and Encounters.\n\nReception at 7 \nReading at 7:30\n  \nABOUT THE BOOK: “It’s going to be one hell of a great—everlastingly great—book with humor\, tears\, fun\, emotion\, and love\,” Judy Garland said of her plans to tell her life story. But she died at the age of forty-seven before seeing it through. Judy Garland on Judy Garland is the closest we will likely come to experiencing and exploring the legend’s abandoned autobiography. Collecting and presenting the most important Garland interviews and encounters that took place between 1935 and 1969\, this work opens with her first radio appearance under contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and concludes with her last known interview\, one taped for Radio Denmark just months before her death. What makes this collection unique and distinguishes it from the plethora of Garland biographies is that it places Judy in the role of storyteller. She wrote a number of essays for various publications and sat for countless print\, radio\, and television interviews. These and the other autobiographical efforts she made are proof that Judy Garland wanted her story told\, and wanted it told in her own words. Finally\, here it is.\n\n\n  \n\n\nRandy L. Schmidt is the author of the acclaimed bestselling biography Little Girl Blue: The Life of Karen Carpenter and the editor of Yesterday Once More: The Carpenters Reader. He has also written articles for the Advocate and the Observer. He lives in Denton\, Texas\n\n\n \n \n \n 
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SUMMARY:12th NIGHTed  - A READING
DESCRIPTION:12th NIGHTed by Patrick Thomas McCarthy – A reading…..  On the 12th day/night of Christmas your true love brings to me\, many kinds of pasta\, one butler braying and one golden ring. And they’ll all come out of an Italian pear tree in the world of swinging 1960’s Little Italy\, NYC\, USA\, with loons in the trees & fortunes to be made.  Sexual confusion\, two sets of twins\, schermo a scamparsas [folding screens]\, and otherworldly voices [forgive me Thornton Wilder] make for a farce of epic proportions.  Shakespeare’s TWELFTH NIGHT shot out of a confetti cannon. \n  \n1st table read of 12th NIGHTed Sunday Jan 5\, 2014 on the actual 12th night of Christmas\n  \nPatrick Thomas McCarthy is an actor/director/playwright who has called NYC home since 1995. The Fresh Fruit Festival NYC has been his proving ground for the past two seasons with awards as Best Playwright and Best Ensemble Acting for both PRIDE RIVER CROSSING: A Spoon River for a New Century; and sExtOrtiOn a cautionary tale of teen sexting suggested by national news making events. His Midwestern roots include high school English teaching and most of his writing work is LGBTQ themed. \nwww.ptmcplaywriting.com    \nhttps://www.pinterest.com/ptmcptmc9442/12th-nighted/ \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/12th-nighted-a-reading/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140910T193000
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SUMMARY:DEADLINE: WORKS-IN-PROGRESS FROM CUTTING-EDGE QUEER ARTISTS: SEPTEMBER EDITION!
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. \nCheck out this article on the August edition of Deadline in Next Magazine: “BGSQD’s Deadline Gives Queer Artists Room To Create And Grow” by Chris Hernandez \nThe September edition will feature performances by SABINA IBARROLA\, AVERI DYLAN\, MARIANA VALENCIA\, & QUITO ZIEGLER! \n  \nSABINA IBARROLA: Sabina is a performance artist\, activist\, and troublemaker. This mixed-race bruja finds the meat and magia of her work in the natural world and urban ecosystems of Brooklyn\, New York. Inspired by a brilliant galaxy of queer femme artists and instigators\, she explores themes of heartbreak\, ancestry\, chosen family\, femininity\, apocalypse and faith. \n  \nAVERI DYLAN: Averi Dylan has been writing since childhood\, and is learning to put this into the wider world via poetry and performance. Averi has performed at various open mics in New York including the Inspired Word NYC\, Portraits of Poetry where she has been the feature poet\, Urban Juke Joint\, Green Earth Poets Cafe\, and at Sarah Lawrence College. Averi has won a qualifying spot in the Inspired Word NYC poetry slam to compete in a year end final competition in December 2014\, and has had poetry published in the New York Times. A four poem album by Averi is planned to be released later in 2014\, and you can hear more at https://www.youtube.com/user/averidylan. Averi is based out of Crown Heights in Brooklyn\, New York. \n  \nMARIANA VALENCIA: Mariana Valencia makes choreographic works\, installations\, costumes and a zine. Mariana is also a dance ethnographer and she has traveled to Belize and Mexico City for research. rhinocerosevent.blogspot.com \n  \n 
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140912T193000
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SUMMARY:Gregg Shapiro and Jerry Rosco Reading
DESCRIPTION:Reading and book signing by Gregg Shapiro\, author of Lincoln Avenue (Squares and Rebels Press\, 2014) and Lambda Literary Award winner Jerry Rosco\, editor of A Heaven of Words: Last Journals\, 1956 – 1984\, by Glenway Wescott (University of Wisconsin Press\, 2013). \n  \nGregg Shapiro’s debut collection of short stories\, Lincoln Avenue\, is published by Squares and Rebels Press. He is also the author of the chapbook GREGG SHAPIRO: 77 (Souvenir Spoon Press\, 2012) and the poetry collection Protection (Gival Press\, 2008). An entertainment journalist\, whose interviews and reviews run in a variety of regional LGBT and mainstream publications and websites\, Shapiro lives in Fort Lauderdale\, Florida with his husband Rick Karlin and their dog k.d. \n  \n \nJerry Rosco is author of the biography Glenway Wescott Personally and has edited two books of Wescott journals\, Continual Lessons and A Heaven of Words\, and a new book of Wescott stories including the long-suppressed gay title story\, A Visit to Priapus and Other Stories. Jerry worked for a decade at Mavety Magazines\, including as managing editor of Mandate magazine. \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:An Evening of Poetry and Music: Suzanne Parker and Why The Reckless
DESCRIPTION:  \nJoin us for an evening of poetry and music at the Bureau featuring Suzanne Parker and Why The Reckless. Parker will read from Viral\, her collection of poetry that was written in response to the suicide of Tyler Clementi\, the gay Rutgers student who jumped from the GW Bridge after his roommate broadcasted via webcam his encounter with another man (published by Alice James Books in 2013). Why The Reckless (stage name of independent folk musician and songwriter Carleen Kirksey) will return to the Bureau to perform her original songs.\n \n \n \nSuzanne Parker is a winner of the Kinereth Gensler Book Award from Alice James Books.  Her poetry collection\, Viral\, which was written in response to the suicide of Rutger’s University freshman Tyler Clementi\, was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and was included on the American Library Association’s Rainbow List of Recommended Books of 2013.  Her poetry has appeared in “Barrow Street\,” “Cimarron Review\,” “The Boiler\,” “Hunger Mountain\,” “Drunken Boat\,” and numerous other journals and has been nominated three times for a Pushcart Prize.  She is a winner of the Alice M. Sellars Award from the Academy of American Poets and was a Poetry Fellow at the Prague Summer Seminars. Suzanne’s creative non-fiction is published in the travel anthology “Something to Declare: Good lesbian Travel Writing.” Suzanne is the managing editor at “MEAD: A Magazine of Literature and Libations.” \n  \n \nWhy The Reckless\, footed by vocalist and ukulele enthusiast Carleen Kirksey\, is a one woman band powered by ukulele to sooth you\, lyrics to feed you\, and vocals that slap ya round a bit. Bring your own bib.\n\n\n 
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140917T190000
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SUMMARY:TELL 6: SCHOOL
DESCRIPTION:  \nTELL 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. \nSCHOOL is the theme of the sixth installment of TELL\, featuring stories by MARCIE BIANCO\, MARIA CATALDO\, KARMA MAYET JOHNSON\, SHOMI NOISE\, & SHANE SHANE \n  \n  \n \nMarcie Bianco\, Lesbian-feminist PhD\, is the Senior News Editor at VProud.tv\, and a contributing writer at Mic\, AfterEllen\, Lambda Literary\, and Curve Magazine. She also makes frequent appearances on Huffington Post Live\, to talk about all things feminism and LGBT. She recently published an essay regarding the “satirical aesthetics” of HBO’s GIRLS in a collected volume\, and she is currently at work on a memoir about lesbian academic affairs\, two excerpts of which have been published. Follow her on The Twitter at @MarcieBianco. \n  \n \nDrae Campbell is a writer\, actor\, director\, story teller\, dancer\, and nightlife emcee. Besides winning the 2011 Miss LEZ title\, Drae has been featured on Late Night with Conan O’Brien and on stages all over NYC. Drae’s directing work has appeared in Iceland\, NYC\, Budapest and in the San Francisco Fringe Festival. The short film Drae wrote and starred in\, YOU MOVE ME won the Audience Award for Outstanding Narrative Short at OUTFEST 2010 and has been shown in fesivals globally. Drae was dubbed “the next lezzie comedian on the block” by AfterEllen.com for her comedic stylings on the interwebs. Campbell throws a monthly party in Brooklyn called PRIME. Check her out online and around town. www.draecampbell.com \n  \n \n\nMaria Cataldo is a New York City based filmmaker and theater artist.  Her feature film editing credits include Rain\, which premiered at the 2008 Toronto Film Festival\, the award winning Children of God\, voted one of The Independent’s 2010 Features to Watch\, Wind Jammers\, official selection at the San Diego Black Film Festival\, and Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life\, awarded Best Family Feature at the Garden State Film Festival.  Further credits include her post-production work through The Weinstein Company on films such as Bobby\, Factory Girl\, Dedication\, The Protector\, Penelope and The Dixie Chicks’ Documentary Shut Up and Sing.  Additionally\, Maria’s theater and experimental video have been presented in NYC through St. Ann’s Warehouse\, HERE Arts Center\, The Looking Glass Theater\, and elsewhere including The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.   Most recently\, Maria co-directed and co-produced MTV’s Rebel Music\, a six part documentary series about protest music emerging from conflict areas around the world. \n  \n\n  \n \nKarma Mayet Johnson is a multi-disciplinary performer\, poet\, composer\, educator\, and mystic. Offering vital Roots music for the 21st century\, Karma Mayet’s sound is equal parts funk and glitter\, Spanish Moss\, cornbread and molasses. \nKarma has performed at the world-famous Apollo\, the Blue Note\, The Juilliard School\,  Columbia University\, Lincoln Center\, and international venues including Sons d’Hiver (Paris)\,   and the Melbourne International Arts Festival. She has worked with the Albany Symphony Orchestra\, Meshell Ndegeocello\, The Burnt Sugar Arkestra\, Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon\, Bill T. Jones\, Antibalas\, and The Roots. Collaborators have included film-maker Michelle Parkerson\,  composer/pianist Major Scurlock\, composer/guitarist Marvin Sewell\, performance artist MonstaH Black\, and the late guerilla theater innovator Rebecca Rice of D.C.’s Living Stage Theater Company\, whose mentorship informs Karma’s ongoing practice of arts education as social activism. \nKarma is composer of Indigo\, a Blues opera: a music and dance-infused story of love and liberation\, via Lesbians on the Underground Railroad.  She is a featured vocalist on the The Mercy Suite\, a collaboration between poet Yusef Komunyakaa and composer Tomas Doncker. Look for Karma Mayet’s original single September Song at cdbaby.com or itunes.com. Visit her website www.thisiskarma.net and join the mailing list to stay in touch! \n  \n \nShomi Noise is a writer\, musician\, DJ\, storyteller\, dreamer\, and tinkerer with an established reputation in the Brooklyn underground scene. Her work explores narratives of intersectionality\, vulnerability\, and resilience. She uses music to share empowering messages with the world through a creative mix of stories and sounds.  \nShomi has DJed nationally and internationally with sets that include a clever mix of genres ranging from Latin dance music\, hip-hop\, electrohouse\, reggae\, pop\, punk rock etc. Her ability to read crowds and create catchy and original song mashups on the spot makes her DJ work interesting and refreshing. She currently produces three parties in Brooklyn: Riot Chica\,Telenovela\, and Wretched. Riot Chica is a queercore/riot grrrl party that celebrates feminism and DIY culture by sharing empowering underground music made by ladies and queers\,Telenovela is a new party for Spanish oldies and Wretched is a fun 90s party. \n As a writer\, performer\, and musician\, Shomi is working on original singer/songwriter material and other musical projects with friends. She is the author of “Building Up Emotional Muscles\,” a coming of age story that incorporates music and storytelling to depict the struggles and triumphs she experienced growing up as a young queer immigrant woman of color in the US. It addresses her experience with the intersectionality of culture\, race\, class\, sexuality and punk rock\, and is based on a series of zines sharing the same title. She’s had the opportunity to share this original work as part of Heels on Wheels\, an organization of radical queer femme performance artists that tours across the US and Canada. She is currently working on the 4th and last volume of the series and hopes to one day make a movie or play about it. Shomi’s work is best described as unique\, sassy\, musically eclectic\, and fun. She is deeply committed to spreading messages of self-love\, empowerment\, social justice\, and community building. \nTo find out more about Shomi visit:\nwww.shominoise.com\nhttps://soundcloud.com/shominoise \nhttps://www.facebook.com/djshominoise \n  \n  \n \nShane Shane is the gay dance music project of Shane O’Neill.  He tours constantly and has shared the stage with such acts as Kool Keith\, Har Mar Superstar\, and Big Freedia. \nHe also plays in a band called Screamin’ Cyn Cyn & The Pons and occasionally does drag under the name Anita Lane Bryant. \nHe recently moved to Brooklyn where he likes to sew hideous costumes and eat mayonnaise-based salads. \nHe has a cat named Wanda and is so totally super gay. \n  \n  \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Peter Cameron and Benjamin Taylor discuss Totempole
DESCRIPTION:On Thursday\, September 18\, at 7 p.m.\, join Peter Cameron and Benjamin Taylor for a discussion of Totempole by Sanford Friedman. This event is taking place on the occasion of New York Review Book‘s re-publishing of Totempole\, originally published in 1965. \nTotempole is a coming-of-age story that traces the life of a young Jewish boy growing up in New York City from two-year-old boy to twenty-four-year-old man. As Peter Cameron writes in the book’s afterword\, “Totempole is an unusual gay novel: It isn’t about life in the closet\, and it isn’t about coming out. It’s about the space in between those two stages of gay life\, a complex and murky area that has not often been written about: coming out to oneself.” \n  \nBorn in New York City\, Sanford Friedman (1928–2010) was a novelist\, playwright\, and theater producer who taught writing at Juilliard and SAGE (Services and Advocacy for GLBT Elders). He served as a military police officer in Korea from 1951 to 1953\, where he earned a Bronze Star. He is the author of several novels\, including Conversations with Beethoven\, published for the first time and now available from NYRB Classics. \n  \nPeter Cameron\, photograph by Lisbeth Salas\nPeter Cameron is the author of several novels\, including The City of Your Final Destination\, Someday This Pain Will Be Useful To You\, and\, most recently\, Coral Glynn. He lives in New York City\, and publishes limited-edition books at Shrinking Violet Press. \n  \n \nBenjamin Taylor is the author of two novels\, Tales Out of School and The Book of Getting Even. His most recent book is a travel memoir\, Naples Declared: A Walk Around the Bay. He was a Guggenheim Fellow in 2012 and next year will publish Proust: The Future’s Secret\, a biography for Yale’s Jewish Lives series. He lives in New York City. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Read~Act
DESCRIPTION:New works on paper with accompanying performance piece by Jeffrey Burdian. \nBurdian’s works on paper will be on view at the Bureau from 9/10-9/20. \nThe performance will take place on Friday\, 9/19: reception at 7\, performance at 7:30. \nRead~Act is a cooperative performance piece by Jeffrey Burdian. Jeffrey will be laying naked and face down while visitors are urged to sit on him and read portions of books they bring or that are provided. This new and important piece will rattle your guts and most likely change your outlook on life as you know it. While the participant is reading aloud Jeffrey will react to both what is being read as well as the reader. Expectation of profound snippets of wisdom is appropriate. Each reader will have approximately 5 min to read depending on the vibe. \nPlease bring your books:) \nJeffrey Burdian graduated from NYU with a BFA in 2005 and has been included in shows in NYC\, Brooklyn\, and Jacksonville Fl. In 2010 he began to experiment with performance art as a way to activate individuals and communities as works of art. For more information about the artist and to get a peek at his work you can visit his www.jeffreyburdian.com \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/readact/
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SUMMARY:ASS & DICK Book Release Party
DESCRIPTION:Dropping their new book ASS & DICK\, Ian Faden and Brian Stremick invite you to come and view their explicit\, yet intimate paintings. Together the two have painted the fronts and backs of 36 models that have have been solicited from gay apps. Some of their favorite works from the series will be on display and the new catalog will be available for purchase. \n  \nHaving met in art school\, Ian and Brian began collaborating and sharing work spaces shortly after graduation. Now they live and work together out of their apartment\, (frequently visited by models) in Crown Heights\, Brooklyn with their cat Tompkins. \n\n\n\n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/ass-dick-book-release-party/
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SUMMARY:Bureau Closed--Moving to The Center!!!
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 20th\, will be the Bureau’s final day of business at 83A Hester Street. We will re-open at The Lesbian\, Gay\, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center at 208 West 13th Street in room 210 on Saturday\, October 4th! \n  \n \nPlease join us for the Grand Opening of the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division at The Lesbian\, Gay\, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center! Come celebrate this new chapter in the lives of both the Bureau and The Center! Lady Quesa’Dilla (aka Alejandro Rodríguez)\, one of the charming information & referral specialists at The Center’s front desk\, will preside over our Grand Opening\, which will feature Original Cockette Rumi Missabu\, visiting from San Francisco\, along with local friends of the Bureau Stephen Boyer\, Cristy C. Road\, West Vargina (aka Heather Acs)\, Dust Tea Shoulders\, Drae Campbell\, Max Steele\, Mizz June\, and DJ Jade Payne! \nSuggested donation of $10 (no one turned away for lack of funds) \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/bureau-closed-moving-to-the-center/
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