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SUMMARY:A Buried Past\, Forgotten Stories: The Sexual Underground of the Meatpacking District before Gentrification—The Photographs of Efrain John Gonzalez
DESCRIPTION:  \nA Buried Past\, Forgotten Stories: The Sexual Underground of the Meatpacking District before Gentrification—The Photographs of Efrain John Gonzalez is a photographic retrospective of the cultures and people who lived and played in the Meatpacking District from the late 70’s till the turn of the century. The photographs are records of the trans\, gay\, bisexual\, and fetish clubs\, gatherings and events that populated this neighborhood until market forces\, big money and real estate interests washed them all away. The exhibition draws on the film archives of Efrain John Gonzalez\, a photographer who has carefully preserved images of the people and clubs of these neighborhoods and who continues to work to save their unique stories and their precious culture. \n6 PM: Reception\n7 PM: Slide Show and Talk \nA Buried Past\, Forgotten Stories: The Sexual Underground of the Meatpacking District before Gentrification—The Photographs of Efrain John Gonzalez will be on view at the Bureau from April 2 through May 31\, 2015. \n  \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:DEADLINE: Works-in-Progress from Cutting-Edge Queer Artists: April Edition!
DESCRIPTION:Sabrina Chap brings you this 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. \n The April edition of DEADLINE will feature: \nBevin Brandlandingham – personal essay/fiction\nCaleb D Kruzel – performance art\nCandy Feit – documentary photography\nSarah Kilborne – musical reading\n\nInterested in presenting your work in a future installment of Deadline? Fill out the form!\nArtists of any kind are encouraged to submit. \nhttps://goo.gl/forms/Z84O7GgVdB \n  \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  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n\n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/deadline-april/
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SUMMARY:TELL 12: QUEENDOM
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 since February 2014. \nQueendom is the theme of the twelfth installment of TELL\, guest-hosted by Lady Quesa’Dilla! Featuring Rumi Misabu\, Donna Personna\, Trangela Lansbury\, Elle Emenopé\, and Boy Doña.\n \n$5-10 suggested donation – no one turned away for lack of funds \n  \n \nLady Quesa’Dilla \n  \n \nRumi Misabu \n  \n \nDonna Personna \n  \n \nTrangela Lansbury \n  \n \nElle Emenopé \n  \n  \n \nBoy Doña \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:I Wonder What Became of Me
DESCRIPTION:  \nA fun-filled evening of music\, performance art\, spoken word & film with actor\, director\, producer\, mentor\, drag pioneer & original Cockette RUMI MISSABU featuring a gaggle of special guests & surprises from San Francisco & New York to benefit the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division. \nFeaturing:\nDonna Personna\nLady Quesa’Dilla \nPiranha Stasia \nTrangela Lansbury \nJarvis Earnshaw \nMark Galamco \nStephen Boyer\nKoy  \n  \n \nImmediately following the Bureau event Rumi Missabu will present the world premiere of his new theater & dance attraction: THE QUESTIONING OF JOHN RYKENER @ 8:30 pm in Room 101 based on a true tale of a cross-dressing male prostitute in 1395 medieval England dedicated to the memory of trans activist Marsha P. Johnson. \nMore info here. \nmore info: cocketterumi@gmail.com \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Vague Wednesday/Mäßiger Mittwoch
DESCRIPTION:A queer art potpourri featuring Alex Alvina Chamberland\, Beck Heiberg\, & Sara Parkman. \nHosted by the Bureau’s intern from Leipzig\, Mio Proepper! \n \n \nAlexander Alvina Chamberland is a Swedish-American performance artist and writer who is now residing in New York working on their masters thesis on transfeminine sisterhood. Their intense inner life monologues come out/dance out/vomit out in the form of maximalist prose with constant climactic waves both warmandcold as they merge with emotions and thought-feelings and anti-capitalist queer femme politics amongst black swans\, panthers and lionesses. 100 percent vulnerable\, but certainly not fragile. They will be reading from forthcoming litterary projects and purr-haps singing a song or two. \n  \nPhotograph by Mathias Casado Castro\nBeck Heiberg\, b. 1987 in Copenhagen\, is a choreographer and dancer trained in Copenhagen\, Paris and New York\, where he is currently living. \nBeck’s most discussed themes circle around the identity search in gender. He searches the space that lies outside the boxes. He uses an experimental mix of styles to show androgynous\, feminine and masculine sides in his pieces. He has worked a lot in the commercial field of music videos and concerts\, but his heart lies in performance and theater. Most recently he choreographed “Boy or Girl” from the dance theater “Basic emotions” – from which he received great reviews – and dance theater “In Between”\, which toured Europe summer 2013. \nWith his new solo performance “WhoUwantMe2B” he wants to show the strength in submission and discuss gender roles in sensuality. \n  \n  \n \nSara Parkman is a folk musician\, and a lover of traditions. She adores old ladies\, polskas\, words\, trains\, old songs and the radio. She plays the violin and does it wow super mega good. She believes in the revolutionary power of kitchen tables as well as in the power of folk music to spread the word about anti-nationalism and queerfeminism. She will give you the best swedish folk music hits and mix it up with the devils roar and music that is real. \n  \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Poetry Reading with Brent Armendinger\, Julia Bloch\, Maxe Crandall\, and Brian Teare
DESCRIPTION:  \nJoin us for a poetry reading with Brent Armendinger\, Julia Bloch\, Maxe Crandall\, and Brian Teare \n  \n  \n\nBrent Armendinger is the author of The Ghost in Us Was Multiplying\, newly released by Noemi Press\, as well as two chapbooks\, Undetectable and Archipelago. His work has recently appeared in Aufgabe\, Bloom\, Colorado Review\, Denver Quarterly\, and Web Conjunctions. Brent is a recipient of fellowships from Headlands Center for the Arts and Squaw Valley Community of Writers. He lives in Los Angeles and teaches at Pitzer College\, where he is an Associate Professor of English and World Literature. \n \n \n\nJulia Bloch grew up in Northern California and Sydney\, Australia. She is the author of Letters to Kelly Clarkson\, a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award\, and Valley Fever\, both from Sidebrow Books\, and the manuscript in progress Contract Method\, portions of which are forthcoming in Dusie and Little Red Leaves. Other work has appeared recently in Fact-Simile\, The Offending Adam and The Volta. She works as associate director of the Kelly Writers House\, teaches literature and creative writing at Penn\, and coedits the online journal of poetry and poetics Jacket2. \n \n \n\nMaxe Crandall‘s chapbook “Together Men Make Paradigms” was published last summer by Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs. The play premiered at Dixon Place and was shortlisted for the Leslie Scalapino Award. A 2014 Poetry Project Emerge-Surface-Be Fellow and a 2014 Poets House Fellow\, Maxe just published a dance review in Women & Performance\, has a 15-page poem about Cher forthcoming in Vetch\, and is writing a new poets play\, BOCCACCIO ON ICE. \n \n \n\nA former NEA Fellow\, Brian Teare is the recipient of poetry fellowships from the MacDowell Colony\, the Headlands Center for the Arts\, and the American Antiquarian Society. He is the author of four critically acclaimed books—The Room Where I Was Born\, Sight Map\, the Lambda Award-winning Pleasure\, and Companion Grasses\, a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Award. His fifth\, The Empty Form Goes All the Way to Heaven\, will be out from Ahsahta in September. An Assistant Professor at Temple University\, he lives in Philadelphia\, where he makes books by hand for his micropress\, Albion Books. \n  \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Rough Night Reading Series presented By Raspa Magazine
DESCRIPTION:  \nRough Nights is a reading series created by Raspa Magazine in attempt to connect our audience and featured authors in way that extends past the page. We believe that through increased visibility and access the relationship between audience and authors can grow moreintimate and help spur understanding amongst ourselves as peers and for those outside our community. \nFeaturing: \nMónica Teresa Ortiz \nCharlie Vasquez\nHeidi Andrea Restrepo\nDan Vera \nRaspa Magazine is a response to the paucity of queer Latino literature readily available to readers. It is a biannual queer literary magazine that focuses on the Latino perspective. Raspa intends to showcase the experience of queer Latino artists\, thereby providing a better understanding for ourselves as peers and for those outside of our community. Raspa Magazine was started in Austin\, Texas by César Ramos in the fall of 2012. \n  \nMónica Teresa Ortiz is a writer and native Texan based in Austin. She holds a B.A. from UT-Austin\, an MFA from UT-El Paso\, and a chapbook called On a Greyhound Straight from the 915. Her work has appeared in Bombay Gin\, Huizache\, Pilgrimage Magazine\, Paso del Rio Grande del Norte\, Borderlands\, As/US\, The Texas Observer\, Autostraddle and Black Girl Dangerous. A two-time Andres Montoya Letras Latinxs Poetry prize finalist  \nCharlie Vasquez is a queer Bronx-born writer of Cuban and Puerto Rican decent and author of the novels\, Buzz and Israel\, and Contraband. He has edited two anthologies of Latino literature The Best of PANIC! (Fire King\, 2010) and From Macho to Mariposa (Lethe\, 2011) with author Charles Rice-González. Charlie is the director of the Bronx Writers Center and is the New York City coordinator for Puerto Rico’s “Festival de la Palabra”. He currently resides in the Bronx. \n  \nHeidi Andrea Restrepo Rhodes is a feminist\, second generation Colombian immigrant\, writer and political activist. Committed to the arts as a practice of creative justice and community healing. Much of her work seeks to act as social documentation\, as well as provocation. Her creative writing has been or is forthcoming in Wilde\, The Progressive\, Yellow Medicine Review\, 2014 National Queer Arts Festival\, and Nepantla. She currently resides in Brooklyn.   \n  \nDan Vera is a writer\, editor\, and literary historian living in Washington\, DC. He is the author of two poetry collections: Speaking Wiri Wiri (Red Hen\, 2013)\, the inaugural winner of the Letras Latinas/Red Hen Poetry Prize\, and The Space Between Our Danger and Delight (Beothuk Books\, 2008). His poetry has been included in the writing curricula at colleges and universities and has appeared in various journals\, including Notre Dame Review\,Delaware Poetry Review\, Gargoyle\, and Little Patuxent Review\, in addition to the anthologies Queer South\, Divining Divas\, and Full Moon On K Street. Named a 2014 Top Ten “New” Latino Author to Watch (and Read) by LatinoStories.com\, he’s edited the gay culture journal White Crane\, co-created the literary history site\, DC Writers’ Homes\, and chairs the board of Split This Rock Poetry. \n  \nOur Name \nThe title Raspa was carefully chosen for its linguistic significance. The word itself is reflective of the progression of the Spanish language. It is an integration of formal Spanish and colloquial speech. Through colloquial usage the traditional word raspar\, which means “to scrape\,” has morphed into raspa\, the rainbow-colored shaved ice many of us grew up enjoying on hot summer days. It is from this current colloquial usage that Raspa draws its visual connotation: The rainbow-colored ice resembles the diversity symbol of the pride flag\, and the cone suggests the inverted triangle that was once used to mark homosexual internment camp victims and is now being reclaimed as a symbol of pride and gay rights. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Poetry Reading: Michael Klein\, Joan Larkin\, and Tony Leuzzi
DESCRIPTION:  \nPoets Michael Klein\, Joan Larkin\, and Tony Leuzzi will read their poems. Each poet will read old and new poems\, thereby promoting their past publications and generating buzz for their recent work. \n  \nPhotograph by Shef Reynolds\nMichael Klein’s third book of poems\, The Talking Day (Sibling Rivalry Press) was both a Thom Gunn Award Finalist and a Lambda Literary Award Finalist.  His second book\, then\, we were still living (GenPop Books)\, was a Lambda Literary Award finalist and his first book\, 1990\, tied with James Schuyler’s Collected Poems to win the award in 1993.  His new book\, A Life in the Theater will be published in the fall of 2015 by Sibling Rivalry Press.  He also has written a collection of short\, lyric essays\, “States of Independence” which won the 2011 BLOOM Chapbook contest in non-fiction judged by Rigoberto Gonzalez and was published in 2012 and two memoirs Track Conditions (Lambda Literary Award finalist) and The End of Being Known\, both published by the University of Wisconsin Press.  His poems\, essays and interviews with American poets have appeared in Poetry\, American Poetry Review\, Bloom\, Fence\, Tin House\, Ploughshares\, Provincetown Arts\, Poets & Writers and many other publications.  He has taught writing at Sarah Lawrence College\, Binghamton University\, Manhattanville and for the last 20 years has been part of the graduate writing faculty at Goddard College\, in Vermont.  For many years he was on the faculty of the summer program at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown\, where he was a fellow in 1990 and now teaches at Castle Hill Center for the Arts in Truro\, Massachusetts.  He lives in New York City and Provincetown\, Massachusetts and teaches at Hunter College. \n  \nPhotograph by John Masterson\nJoan Larkin’s fifth poetry collection\, Blue Hanuman\, was published in spring 2014 by Hanging Loose Press. Among her previous books\, My Body: New and Selected Poems received the Publishing Triangle’s Audre Lorde Award. Other work includes Lambda Award winner Cold River\, which served as the basis for her play The AIDS Passion; Sor Juana’s Love Poems\, translated with Jaime Manrique; and the twenty-poem chapbook Legs Tipped with Small Claws. Joan was an activist publisher during the feminist literary explosion of the ’70s and ’80s\, coeditor of several anthologies of poetry and prose\, and author of two books in the Hazelden recovery series.  She has taught writing at Brooklyn College\, Sarah Lawrence College\, and the Drew University MFA program in poetry\, among many other places\, most recently serving as Grace Hazard Conkling Writer in Residence at Smith College.  Her honors include the Poetry Society of America’s Shelley Memorial Award\, the Academy of American Poets Fellowship\, and grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. \n  \nPhotograph by J. Alfred\nTony Leuzzi’s third book of poems\, The Burning Door\, was published by Tiger Bark Press in spring 2014.  His previous poetry collection\, Radiant Losses (2010)\, won the 2009 New Sins Editor’s Prize\, judged by Rane Arroyo.  He has authored several chapbooks\, including “Fake Book” (Anything Anymore Anywhere Press 2011) and “40\,000 Crows” (Hank’s Loose Gravel Press 2012).  In fall 2012\, BOA Editions published Passwords Primeval\, Leuzzi’s interviews with 20 leading American poets.  As a visual artist\, Leuzzi has held exhibitions of his collage\, assemblage\, and erasure paintings\, many of which have informed or are informed by his poems.  Currently an Associate Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at Monroe Community College\, in Rochester\, NY\, Leuzzi has earned the Wesley T. Hansen Award for Excellence in Teaching and the State University of New York’s Chancellor’s Award for Creativity and Scholarship.  He also oversees the college’s Creative Reading Series in fiction and poetry.  His poems and interviews have been published or are forthcoming in National Poetry Review\, Sentence\, Great River Review\, Arts& Letters\, Provincetown Arts\, American Literary Review\, and elsewhere.  He is a staff writer of book reviews and literary criticism for The Brooklyn Rail. \n  \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Publishing Triangle Awards Finalists Reading
DESCRIPTION:Nine finalists for Triangle Awards will read brief excerpts from their nominated works\, including fiction\, poetry\, and nonfiction. \nThe authors of the following nominated books will read at the Bureau on the eve of the Publishing Triangle Awards Ceremony: \n  \nSideways Down the Sky\, by Barry Brennessel (MLR Press);finalist for the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBT Fiction) \n  \nHow a Mirage Works\, by Beverly Burch (Sixteen Rivers Press);  finalist for the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry \n  \nLittle Reef and Other Stories\, by Michael Carroll (University of Wisconsin Press); finalist for the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction \n  \nWagstaff: Before and After Mapplethorpe\, by Philip Gefter (Liveright/W.W. Norton); finalist for the Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction \n  \nThe End of Eve\, by Ariel Gore (Hawthorne Books); finalist for the Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction \n  \nUnaccompanied Minors\, by Alden Jones (New American Press); finalist for the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction \n  \nI Don’t Know Do You\, by Roberto Montes (Ampersand Books); finalist for the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry \n  \nNew York 1\, Tel Aviv 0\, by Shelly Oria (Farrar\, Straus and Giroux); finalist for the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction \n  \nWhen Everything Feels Like the Movies\, by Raziel Reid (Arsenal Pulp Press); finalist for the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBT Fiction \n  \nThe winners for the book awards will be announced at the awards ceremony on April 23\, 2015 at the Auditorium of the New School in New York City. \nFor more information visit publishingtriangle.org \n \n \n 
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SUMMARY:Bi Book Club: Recognize: The Voices of Bisexual Men
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe Bi Book Club meets once a month to discuss bi-themed books and the issues they raise. People of all orientations and genders welcome! Dinner after nearby. \nOur current book is Recognize: The Voices of Bisexual Men edited by Robyn Ochs & H. Sharif Williams (Dr. Herukhuti.) We plan to continue reading 2 sections per month of Recognize until we’re done with the book. Pick out some phrases or paragraphs that you’d like to discuss\, that inspired you\, or that struck you because of their elegant turn of phrase or the meaning behind it. If you havent had time to finish the readings\, come anyway because we read passages from the book aloud for discussion. As usual\, we’ll also be using the text as a jumping off point to further discussion of bisexual issues and personal experiences. \nGetting Books: We urge you to purchase your print copy at BGSQD and support the only LGBT bookstore in New York City. Especially since they are hosting us in their space! If you prefer e-books\, just get them your usual way. \nDeciding Books: The group votes on what book to read next. \nThe Bi Book Club meets at the Bureau of General Services-Queer Division on the last Thursday of each month.  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/bi-book-club-recognize-the-voices-of-bisexual-men-4/
LOCATION:NY
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SUMMARY:Tina Horn’s “Love Not Given Lightly” Book Release
DESCRIPTION:  \nCome celebrate this landmark in Tina’s career! Expect glitter\, leather\, refreshments\, and a hot meat injection to your brain. \nLove Not Given Lightly is the first major collection of nonfiction stories from award-winning filmmaker\, journalist\, and advocate Tina Horn. In her vast experience in sexual undergrounds\, Tina has befriended pro-dommes\, porn stars\, kinky fetishists\, rent boys\, and more. Instead of writing a sex worker memoir\, she opted to tell the stories of the people she met along the way. Illuminating human issues of desire\, gender\, beauty\, and ultimately friendship\, the stories in this book will do no less than alter the way you think about modern sexuality in America. \n  \n \nTina Horn is a queer punk writer and professional macho slut. She produces and hosts the sexuality podcast\, “Why Are People Into That?!”\, now in its second season. Her writing on sex worker rights\, dirty talk\, and kink communities has appeared in Vice\, Nerve\, and Best Lesbian Erotica 2015. She has won two Feminist Porn Awards and once sold a golden dildo to Beyonce. Follow her ass (@TinaHornsAss) \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/tina-horns-love-not-given-lightly-book-release/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150425T190000
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SUMMARY:Live from the Bureau! An Open Mic Night—Hosted by Charles Rice-Gonzalez
DESCRIPTION:LIVE from the BUREAU! An Open Mic Night \nOrganized by Andrew Bell \nLIVE from the BUREAU! is a program featuring the original work of fledgling\, emerging\, established and seasoned live-performers\, poets and visual artists. Come for songs\, burlesque\, spoken word\, diary musings\, violin solos\, puppetry\, and other queer induced happenings\, including a pop-up gallery\, with the overarching theme of: Oppression and Resistance/Fear and Hope. Expect individuals and small gangs\, elders and twinks\, the sacred\, the profane\, the tragic\, the hilarious and everything in between\, and come ready for anything. \n\nThe April installment of Live from the Bureau! is curated by El Museo del Barrio and hosted by Charles Rice-Gonzalez.\n\nFeaturing a special guest performance by RUBYCON.\n\nSIGN UP TO PERFORM AT THE EVENT \nFIRST COME\, FIRST SERVED \n  \n  \n\n \nDrew Bell is a full-time painter and Bureau volunteer happy to be making his contribution as an event organizer. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/live-from-the-bureau-an-open-mic-night-hosted-by-charles-rice-gonzalez/
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SUMMARY:Notes from the Underground – the Cabaret Scene in 1980s Japan
DESCRIPTION:A slideshow presentation by Japanese photographer Kazuo Sumida\, which follows his uncle through the night\, in the gay cabarets and bars of a small-town’s red-light district in the 1980s. \nTosa Late Night Diary\, the book of photographs from which the slide presentation draws\, is available for purchase from the Bureau. \nFeaturing a musical performance by Jarvis Earnshaw. \n  \nKazuo Sumida has been active as a photographer for forty years\, shooting in Japan\, New York\, Russia and France. A visiting lecturer of photography in Manila and Vladivostok\, his publications include Memories of My Father: A Journey to Siberia\, New York Subway Story and Tosa Late Night Diary. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/notes-from-the-underground-the-cabaret-scene-in-1980s-japan/
LOCATION:NY
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SUMMARY:NYC Launch of Best Sex Writing of the Year
DESCRIPTION:Join Cleis Press in launching Best Sex Writing of the Year—a thought-provoking collection that traverses the spectrum of the contemporary sexual landscape.Editor Jon Pressick and contributors David Henry\, Sterry\, Stoya\, and Lux Alptraum will read from their contributions as well as conduct an informal question and answer session exploring the intersections between sex and writing and how those can then be informed and affected by society and our personal selves.\n\nAlways thought provoking\, these passionate yet incisive essays boldly confront the controversies surrounding our most deeply held assumptions about sexuality.\n\n \n \nJon Pressick (SexinWords.ca) is a Toronto-based writer\, editor\, blogger\, radio personality and gadabout specializing in topics related to sex and sexuality for more than fifteen years. \nCurrently\, Jon contributes to Kinkly.com and has been published on/in New York Magazine\, MetAnotherFrog.com\, Xtra\, Quill & Quire and in the books Secrets of the Sex Masters and Best Sex Writing 2013. He primarily publishes to his blog\, Sex in Words\, sharing and contributing analysis of sex-related news stories\, feature interviews and erotic fiction. \nAs one of the hosts and producer of Toronto’s sex radio institution Sex City\, Jon has interviewed some of the sex community’s biggest names\, including Cindy Gallop\, Candida Royalle\, Sunny Megatron\, Susie Bright\, Tristan Taormino\, Kate McCombs\, Reid Mihalko\, Carol Queen\, Dr. Charlie Glickman and many others (including many of the contributors to this collection!). \nWhen he pulls himself away from the keyboard\, Jon occasionally performs burlesque\, DJs\, speaks at sexuality conferences\, acts as a juror for the Feminist Porn Awards\, curates an erotica library and offers prostate pleasure and erotica workshops. \nThroughout the years\, Jon’s efforts have earned him TNT’s Sex Journalist of the Year Award and recognition as one of Broken Pencil‘s “50 People and Places We Love”.\n\n \nLux Alptraum is a writer\, sex educator and consultant specializing in sex technology. Past projects have included gigs as the editor\, publisher\, and CEO of Fleshbot; a sex educator at an adolescent pregnancy prevention program; an HIV pretest counselor and the founder of ThatStrangeGirl\, an alternative porn site\, and Boinkology. \n\n  \nDavid Henry Sterry(davidhenrysterry.com)\, author of sixteen books\, is a performer and activist. His bestselling memoir Chicken Self: Portrait of a Man for Rent has been translated into a dozen languages.Hos\, Hookers\, Call Girls and Rent Boyswas featured on the cover of the Sunday New York Times Book Review.\n\n  \nStoya is an adult performer and writer. She recommends that you refrain from Googling her while at work. Read more of her words at graphicdescriptions.com.\n \n \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/nyc-launch-of-best-sex-writing-of-the-year/
LOCATION:NY
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SUMMARY:NYC Launch of My Body Is Yours by Michael V. Smith and Nothing Looks Familiar by Shawn Syms
DESCRIPTION:Two Canadian queer authors take New York by storm! \n  \n \nImprov artist\, sex radical\, genderqueer uni professor Michael V. Smith launches a memoir\, My Body Is Yours (Arsenal Pulp Press)\, exploring his emancipation from masculinity. In a night of hijinks and stunnery\, you can expect: sexy confessions\, giveaways\, tear-jerking\, and a naughty touch of stand up improv hairyness. \n  \n \nLike Michael\, Shawn Syms is also hairy—and so are the situations described in his debut short-fiction collection Nothing Looks Familiar (Arsenal Pulp Press). With a particular focus on the lives of the downtrodden and marginalized\, the book marries a vivid and distinct sense of place―the sights and smells of a meatpacking plant; a church-basement meeting hall full of sexual abusers―with universal themes such as the nature of friendship and relationships\, and the configuration of the self. Each author will take you to places both dark and light—real\, and imagined. \n  \n  \n \nMichael V. Smith is a writer\, comedian\, filmmaker\, performance artist and occasional clown. His novel\, Cumberland (Cormorant Books\, 2002)\, was nominated for the Amazon/Books in Canada First Novel Award. Smith won Vancouver’s Community Hero of the Year Award and the inaugural Dayne Ogilvie Award for Emerging Gay Writers. He teaches creative writing in an interdisciplinary fine arts department\, Creative Studies\, at the University of British Columbia\, Okanagan. \n  \n  \n \nShawn Syms has written about sexuality\, politics and culture for over 25 years in more than 50 publications. He’s the author of the short-story collection Nothing Looks Familiar\, and he edited the first book of literary fiction about social media\, Friend. Follow. Text. Shawn is currently at work on a novel about the power of dirty money\, fetishistic sex and compulsive gambling. \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/nyc-launch-of-my-body-is-yours-by-michael-v-smith-and-nothing-looks-familiar-by-shawn-syms/
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