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SUMMARY:TELL 7
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. \nTBD is the theme of the seventh installment of TELL\, featuring Hadassah Damien (aka Damien Luxe)\, Ariel “Speedwagon” Federow\, Chris Roberts\, and Anita Dolce Vita. \nOur host\, Drae Campbell just won the grand prize at the first annual San Miguel De Allende Storytelling Festival in Mexico. \nShe’s going to tell the ‘winning’ story at the next TELL on 11/1.\n\nhttps://creativecrossroadsofamericas.org/winners-2014-san-miguel-storytelling-festival/\n \n \n \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 \nHadassah Damien is a multimedia artist & performer\, organizer\, and writer who you may have encountered onstage as Damien Luxe. Damien entered graduate school to learn about how protest arts work in radical political history and came out with this research. She’s lectured on radicalism in art at Yale\, Duke\, UT Austin\, U of Toronto\, and other fancy places as well as on barroom floors\, in barns\, and in backyards. [She prefers the latter.] She’s co-producer of the Heels on Wheels Glitter Roadshow\, the Opentoe Peepshow Salon series\, contributes collaborative technology services to many queer\, arts\, and social justice organizations\, and writes about tech\, power\, perversion\, and art at www.femmetech.org \n  \n  \nPhoto by Stacie Joy\nAriel “Speedwagon” Federow‘s work has been seen on Broadway\, Lafayette\, Houston\, Chrystie\, Fulton\, N 6th\, and many of the finer streets of NYC and beyond. Venues: Dixon Place\, the Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics\, the Bowery Poetry Club\, WoW Theater Cafe\, Hey Queen!\, Rebel Cupcake\, In the Flesh\, BAX\, the Bureau of General Services: Queer Divison\, LaMama ETC. Company member: the Ballez\, Butch Burlesque\, AO Movement Collective. Works With: Coral Short\, Jenny Romaine\, Susana Cook\, Quito Ziegler\, Daniel Rosza Lang/Levitsky\, the Aftselokhis Spectacle Committee. Resident reporter\, Sarah Jenny News Network. Reigning dapperQ of the year. Co-curator of Deadline\, a queer works-in-progress series. 2012 Hemispheric Institute Affiliated Emerging Artist. Miss JewSA 5772. Bingo host. Clown. \n  \n  \n \nChris Roberts is an artist\, writer\, and chef working on the MIX festival and a forthcoming second zine of ingredient-based adventures in cooking. \n  \n  \n \n\nAnita Dolce Vita is a Clinical Research Nurse by day and a fashion and culture blogger by night. In addition to serving as the Editor in Chief at dapperQ.com\, her work has been featured/mentioned in The Huffington Post\, Curve\, DIVA\, Autostraddle\, MTV’s After Ellen\, Newsweek’s The Daily Beast\, HuffPo Live\, San Francisco Weekly\, Canada’s Globe and Mail\, Beijing Review\, and Bosnia’s Manjine.BA \n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n 
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SUMMARY:Belladonna* and the Bureau Present: EC Maxe Crandall\, Cheena Marie Lo\, & Natalie Peart
DESCRIPTION:Join Belladonna* and the Bureau for readings by EC Maxe Crandall\, Cheena Marie Lo\, & Natalie Peart \n  \nCheena Marie Lo lives in Oakland\, CA\, where they co-curate the Manifest Reading Series. Their work has been published in 580 Split\, La Fovea\, The Poetic Labor Project\, and the anthology It’s Night in San Francisco but it’s Sunny in Oakland. \nEC Maxe Crandall’s chapbook “Together Men Make Paradigms” was published this summer by Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs. The play premiered at the Hot! Festival at Dixon Place and was short-listed for the Leslie Scalapino Award. A 2014 Poets House fellow\, Maxe teaches in the Undergraduate Writing Program at Columbia University and is at work on a critical biography called Gertrude Stein and Men. \nNatalie Peart is a creative and likes to read tarot cards with her coffee. She co-hosts the Brooklyn Ladies Text-based Salon with poet/mother/person\, mother/person/poet\, person/poet/mother\, Montana Ray. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Newfangled 4: Robert Siek Hosts Nick Comilla\, Jameson Fitzpatrick\, & Christopher Soto
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the 4th installment of Newfangled\, poetry readings by emerging poets hosted by Robert Siek. Newfangled 4 features Nick Comilla\, Jameson Fitzpatrick\, & Christopher Soto. \n  \n  \n \nBorn on a military base turned ghost town in Rome\, NY\, NICK COMILLA currently lives in NYC. He holds an MFA in poetry/fiction from The New School. His poems have appeared in Assaracus\, Poetry Is Dead\, Lambda Literary\, and HOMO Magazine. He is currently working on his first book project\, Ghosts of Montreal. You can check out more of his work here and sometimes here. \n  \n \nJAMESON FITZPATRICK is the author of the chapbook Morrisroe: Erasures (89plus/LUMA Publications)\, and his poems have appeared in The Awl\, The American Reader\, The Literary Review\, and Poetry\, among elsewhere. He holds a BA and an MFA from New York University\, where he now teaches in the Expository Writing Program. \n  \n \nCHRISTOPHER SOTO (aka Loma) is a queer latin@ punk poet and prison abolitionist. They are currently curating Nepantla: A Journal Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color in collaboration with The Lambda Literary Foundation. They have work published in Columbia: A Journal\, Acentos Review\, Anti-\, and more. They are an MFA candidate in Poetry at NYU. \n  \n \nROBERT SIEK is the author of the poetry collection Purpose and Devil Piss (Sibling Rivalry Press\, 2013) and the chapbook Clubbed Kid (New School University\, 2002). His poetry has most recently appeared in The Good Men Project\, Painted Bride Quarterly\, The Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide\, and VACZINE\, as well as the anthology Between: New Gay Poetry. He lives in Brooklyn. \n  \n  \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Author two-fer with Ron Suresha at BGSQD!
DESCRIPTION: \nJoin us for a night of bawdy folklore and wintering bears\, as Ron Suresha presents two books coming out this November.\n\n\n\n\nFirst is Suresha’s new collection of Turkish folk humor\, Extraordinary Adventures of Mullah Nasruddin\, from Lethe Press\, the sequel to his 2001 award-winning book of humor\, The Uncommon Sense of the Immortal Mullah Nasruddin. These authentic\, hilarious “Naughty Nasruddin” stories deal with tabu topics such as bisexuality\, adultery\, incest\, bestiality\, and violence. Repressed for centuries for moralistic reasons\, many are being published in an English trade book for the first time. Come prepared to be amused and astounded.\n  \n \nThe author will also read from the new anthology\, The Bears of Winter\, edited by Jerry L. Wheeler (who lives in Denver and cannot attend)\, published by the Bear Bones Books imprint of Lethe Press\, which Suresha edits. Listen to excerpts from growlingly sexy bearotica sure to make your fur thicken. \nFollowing the reading\, Suresha will answer questions and sign copies of his books. \n  \n \nRon J. Suresha’s published nonfiction works include: a self-published beverage recipé book\, Mugs o’ Joy: Delicious Hot Drinks (1998\, reprinted 2013); an acclaimed 2002 book on the worldwide gay and bisexual men’s Bear subculture\, Bears on Bears: Interviews & Discussions (revised edition\, Bear Bones Books\, 2008); and two anthologies\, Bi Men: Coming Out (edited with Pete Chvany\, Haworth/Routledge\, 2006)\, and Bisexual Perspectives on the Life and Work of Alfred C. Kinsey (Routledge\, 2010)\, both finalists for the Lambda Literary Award. He also authored with Scott McGillivray a 2012 pictorial book with essays\, Fur: The Love of Hair (Bruno Gmünder)\, winner of a Rainbow Book Award. Suresha\, who resides with his husband in central western Connecticut\, also writes and edits fiction under the pseudonym R. Jackson\, and is the Cofounder and Acquisitions Editor of the Bear Bones Books imprint of Lethe Press. \n  \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Nights at Rizzoli Launch with Felice Picano
DESCRIPTION: \n  \nGlamour and books don’t often converge\, but forty years ago they did so at Rizzoli\, one of New York City’s greatest bookstores: and no one is better equipped to celebrate that time and place than Felice Picano\, a founding member of the Violet Quill and recipient of the Lambda Literary Foundation’s Pioneer Award (and former Rizzoli manager). With his forthcoming memoir\, Nights at Rizzoli\, Felice Picano takes us back to New York as it was when the legendary bookstore was a meeting place for intellectuals\, celebrities\, artists and assorted hangers-on. Then an aspiring writer in a post-Stonewall New York\, Picano recounts his days rubbing shoulders with the city’s celebrities at Rizzoli and nights bumping into them in seedier venues downtown.\n  \nJoin us on November 12th to celebrate the publication of Nights at Rizzoli. Felice will read from his book\, followed by a Q&A. Copies of the book will be available for purchase and refreshments will be available.\n  \nFelice Picano\, poet\, novelist\, playwright\, critic and publisher\, was a founding member of the Violet Quill\, a pioneering group of gay male writers in the 1980s. Recipient of many awards and citations\, he received the Lambda Literary Foundation’s Pioneer Award in 2010\, and the City of West Hollywood’s Rainbow Award and Citation in 2013.\n  \n  \n 
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141113T183000
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SUMMARY:Bi Book Club
DESCRIPTION:The Bi Book Club meets once a month to discuss bi-themed books and the issues they raise. People of all orientations and genders welcome! \nNov Book: The Last Nude by Ellis Avery. \nThe Last Nude is a novel based on the life of bisexual Art Deco artist Tamara de Lempicka and the affair she had with her most famous model. Author Ellis Avery will join us for the second half of our meeting so we can have some author Q&A! \nFuture Bi Book Club meetings at the Bureau of General Services-Queer Division: \nFriday\, December 12 \nThursday\, January 22 \nThursday\, February 26 \n  \n  \n  \n 
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141115T190000
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SUMMARY:Bureau Birthday Party!
DESCRIPTION:On November 15\, 2012 the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division was born at Strange Loop Gallery on Orchard Street. The Bureau’s come a long way\, baby! We will be 2 years old on Saturday\, November 15th\, and we hope that you’ll come celebrate with us in our new home at The LBGT Community Center! Drae Campbell will host an evening of festivities featuring Lady Quesa’Dilla\, Joseph Whitt\, Tommy Pico\, and DJ Shomi Noise. \n $10 suggested donation to pay our performers (no one turned away for lack of funds) \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 and a night of queer storytelling called TELL at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division. Campbell just won the grand prize at the first annual San Miguel De Allende Storytelling Festival in Mexico. Check her out online and around town. www.draecampbell.com \n  \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. \nAs 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 \nTommy “Teebs” Pico is the author of absentMINDR (VERBALVISUAL\, 2014)—the first chapbook APP published for iOS mobile/tablet devices—was a Queer/Art/Mentors inaugural fellow\, 2013 Lambda Literary fellow in poetry\, and has poems in BOMB\, Guernica\, and [PANK]. Originally from the Viejas Indian reservation of the Kumeyaay nation\, he now lives in Brooklyn. \n\n  \n \nAlejandro Rodríguez AKA Lady Quesa’Dilla  — Alejandro is a native Tejan@ from the El Paso and Ciudad Juárez border. Their work is at the intersection of cultural identity\, drag\, and community. “The Brown Queen\,” an autobiographical solo performance about growing up queer in the southwest\, premiered at HERE Arts Center in the spring of 2010. Most recent solo performances include “My Tia Lupe” and “The Faggot in the Pink House”. Alejandro has performed in New York City\, El Paso\, Texas\, Chiapas\, Mexico\, and Montreal\, Canada. Alejandro is a member of The  House of Bushwig\, as Lady Quesa’Dilla\, duties include Volunteer Coordinator for the annual Bushwig Festival. \n    Alejandro can also be found as an Information and Referral Specialist at the Lesbian\, Gay\, Bisexual\, and Transgender Community Center in Manhattan; and as a Teaching Artist in The Bronx and Brooklyn. \n    Alejandro holds a BA in Theater from Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts\, and a MA in Performance Studies from Tisch School of the Arts\, New York University\, and is an alum of The Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics. \n    Resides in Brooklyn. \n    Lady Quesa’Dilla is the reigning Miss Coney Island Queen of Drag. \n  \n  \n \n\nJoseph 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\, Eyebeam\, Deitch Projects\, CRG Gallery\, Envoy Enterprises\, BGSQD\, Interstate Projects and Radio Bushwick\, 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 three chapbooks of poetry –09.29.12\, Defriendings\, and Harmonica (all published by T.M.I. Ltd.)\, and is currently working on a fourth.\n  \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Que(e)rying Theory #1: “Cruising Utopia” by José Muñoz
DESCRIPTION:Que(e)rying Theory is a discussion group about queer theory and critical theory for thinkers from all contexts. Reading texts both vintage and new\, we will ask questions such as: What is queerness? What do queer politics look like? How do we find the tools for living in a precarious world? And finally\, what can theory mean in our own lives? In dialogue with one another\, we will fearlessly relish in the complexities of theory\, and collectively work towards richer understandings of our past\, present\, and future. Discussions will be moderated by Connor Spencer\, and for a small donation\, wine\, beer\, and sparkling water will be available to help lubricate our conversations. \n  \n“Queerness is not yet here. Queerness is an ideality. Put another way\, we are not yet queer. We may never touch queerness\, but we can feel it as the warm illumination of a horizon imbued with potentiality…Queerness is that thing that lets us feel that this world is not enough\, that indeed something is missing.” \nSo begins José Muñoz’s Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity\, one of the most influential texts in contemporary queer studies. A response to the so-called “antirelational turn” in the queer academy\, Cruising Utopia asserts that queerness is first and foremost about collectivity\, futurity\, and hope–and not\, as some critics have argued\, a negation that undoes the very idea of “the social” itself. Cruising from European philosophers to contemporary performance artists of color\, Muñoz traces queer dreams of difference past and present\, and maps out the utopic futures that lay just beyond the horizon. At once an interruption to pragmatic LGBT political discourses and a moving manifesto for imagining another world\, Cruising Utopia is a work that is timely\, challenging\, and daring\, and illuminating for any queer project of change. \nOur conversation will open with a brief overview of antisocial queer theory’s major arguments before delving into Cruising Utopia. While we will talk about the text as a whole\, we will primarily focus on the introduction\, conclusion\, and first three chapters of the book. Come with questions\, thoughts\, and ideas–even if you didn’t have a chance to finish the entire book! \nCruising Utopia is available for purchase at the Bureau–please support the Bureau by purchasing your copy here. Thank you! \n \n  \nConnor Spencer is a writer living in New York City. He graduated with a BA in English from New York University\, where he conducted bi-coastal research on the artists David Wojnarowicz and Gary Fisher. Connor tweets about leftism\, queer politics\, and dog costumes @conneriks \nEvent image: Catch One\, Copyright Kevin McCarty: https://www.kevinmccartystudio.com/Stages/9/caption/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141119T190000
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SUMMARY:DEADLINE: Works-in-Progress from Cutting-Edge Queer Artists: November 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 \n\nThe November edition of DEADLINE will feature: \n\n\nThain Damon Stang – ‘A Whores’ Book of Magickal Days’- performance art\n  \nCroft Vaughn – performing as Penelope Labradoodle Rockefeller (theatre/performance)\n  \nAudrey Zee Whitesides – music\n  \nCasey Llewlynn – A queer adaptation of ‘Our Town’ (theatre) \n  \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Visual AIDS DUETS Book Club
DESCRIPTION:The importance of community and dialogue are at the heart of Visual AIDS‘ new DUETS publication series. In hopes of bringing together the extended Visual AIDS community of artist members\, advocates\, and affiliates around our latest publications\, Visual AIDS is hosting a book club for DUETS: Stephen Andrews & Gregg Bordowitz in conversation. The first volume of DUETS considers themes such as long-term survival with AIDS\, mentorship\, activism\, and spirituality. We will discuss these topics as well as insights\, inspirations and reactions to the engaging and highly readable DUETS conversation\, which highlights connections between communities of artists and activists. We encourage book club participants to have read DUETS\, yet all are welcome to participate in the discussion. \nDUETS: Stephen Andrews & Gregg Bordowitz in conversation is available for purchase at the Bureau. \nRSVP on Facebook \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:From King Edward II to Sir Ian McKellen:  the world's gayest National Portrait Gallery
DESCRIPTION:The lecture by Andrew Lear is principally a slide show\, with commentary\, in which Lear shows people a small part of the astonishing gay history hanging on the walls of the National Portrait Gallery in London.  This includes men\, women\, at least one trans person\, couples\, men portrayed by the “queer eye”\, and people involved in important gay historical events\, such as the Oscar Wilde story; many of them (e.g. Shakespeare\, Byron\, Aubrey Beardsley) are famous\, but others are far less so\, at least in the US today.  The lecture also raises many key issues in gay history\, the difficult evidentiary record\, the difficulty of establishing transhistorical categories for same-sex desire\, and so on–but it confronts these indirectly\, through images and biographies\, rather than focusing directly on them. \nQ&A and reception to follow the lecture. \n  \nAndrew Lear (born December 21\, 1958) is a Classicist and scholar of gender history and the history of sexuality. His research focuses on ancient Greek poetry and art.[1] His book on male-male erotic scenes in ancient Athenian vase-painting (Images of Ancient Greek Pederasty: Boys Were Their Gods\, co-authored with Eva Cantarella\, Routledge 2008)\, was positively reviewed: it greatly expanded the number of known scenes and proposed a sophisticated framework for their interpretation.[2][3][4][5] He has written articles on topics including the Greek poets Anacreon and Theognis\, as well as book reviews for Classical World.[6] His poems and translations have appeared in such journals as Persephone\, the Southern Humanities Review\, and Literary Imagination. He has taught at Harvard\, Columbia\, Pomona College\,[7] and NYU. In addition to his academic career\, Lear is the founder of Oscar Wilde Tours\, the first company to offer multi-day guided tours focused on gay history: www.oscarwildetours.com.[8]  (From Wikipedia) \n  \nImage: \nChevalier d’Eon\, by Thomas Stewart\, after Jean Laurent Mosnier\, oil on canvas\, 1792\, 30 1/8 in. x 25 1/4 in. (765 mm x 640 mm). National Portrait Gallery\, London. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/from-king-edward-ii-to-sir-ian-mckellen-the-worlds-gayest-national-portrait-gallery/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141123T190000
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SUMMARY:Bureau Book Club #4: Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club\, by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe Bureau Book Club is a home for freewheeling discussion about the books and the issues that captivate us. Inspired by the conversations that break out after so many of the Bureau’s more formal events\, we’ll have a one-hour session each month about a different work of fiction or non-fiction. Buy the book from the Bureau and get a 10% discount. We know you have busy lives: if you can’t finish the whole book\, why not come and talk about the parts you’ve read? Just come prepared with a favorite quote. \nBureau Book Club #4 will be moderated by Ben Miller and Ben González. \n\n\nBureau Book Club #4 will discuss: Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club\, by Benjamin Alire Sáenz\nWinner of the 2013 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction! \nBenjamin Alire Sáenz‘s stories reveal how all borders—real\, imagined\, sexual\, human\, the line between dark and light\, addict and straight—entangle those who live on either side. Take\, for instance\, the Kentucky Club on Avenida Juárez two blocks south of the Rio Grande. It’s a touchstone for each of Sáenz’s stories. His characters walk by\, they might go in for a drink or to score\, or they might just stay there for a while and let their story be told. Sáenz knows that the Kentucky Club\, like special watering holes in all cities\, is the contrary to borders. It welcomes Spanish and English\, Mexicans and gringos\, poor and rich\, gay and straight\, drug addicts and drunks\, laughter and sadness\, and even despair. It’s a place of rich history and good drinks and cold beer and a long polished mahogany bar. Some days it smells like piss. “I’m going home to the other side.” That’s a strange statement\, but you hear it all the time at the Kentucky Club. \n\n  \n Purchase Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club from the Bureau before November 23rd and receive a 10% discount!\n———– \nBen Miller is a Brooklyn-based writer. Current projects include award-winning biographical research on early gay activist Harry Hay that has taken him to archives in California and conferences from Pennsylvania to New Mexico\, an adaptation of an early Mozart libretto for performance at Carnegie Hall\, serving as dramaturg for Circuit Theatre Company’s production of The Walk Across America for Mother Earth\, and new short fiction influenced by his historical research. His teachers in history and writing have included Linda Gordon\, K. Kevyne Baar\, Marcelle Clements\, and Jonathan Safran Foer. Ben is the winner of New York University’s Bessie and Louis Levy Prize for Excellence in American History\, and was named Steffi Berne Research Scholar in the Humanities by the same institution. He is a co-founder of Squid Ink Magazine (launching soon)\, works as Web Associate at the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund\, and serves on the communications committee of the New York City LGBT Anti-Violence Project. He tweets @benwritesthings. \n  \n  \n 
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20141127
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20141129
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SUMMARY:Bureau closed on Thursday and Friday\, 11/27 & 11/28
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URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/bureau-closed-on-thursday-and-friday-1127-1128/
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