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SUMMARY:Trans Poetry Launch: Lilith Latini and Charles Theonia
DESCRIPTION:You are invited to the debut of our first books of poetry!\nHelp us welcome these titles into the world: \nImprovise\, Girl\, Improvise by Lilith Latini  \nand \nWhich One Is The Bridge by Charles Theonia \nHosted by Cat Fitzpatrick and Sybil Lamb! \nWith readings by: \nReina Gossett\nMorgan M Page\nOlympia Perez\nSéverine\nIvana Black \nand others! \nFREE! \n(Author photos by Julieta Salgado ♥ ♥) \nVenue is wheelchair accessible via an elevator \nPlease note that the Bureau is closed on Tuesdays. We will open at 6 PM for this event. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/trans-poetry-launch-lilith-latini-and-charles-theonia/
LOCATION:NY
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SUMMARY:Book launch of Patrick E. Horrigan's PORTRAITS AT AN EXHIBITION (Lethe Press)
DESCRIPTION:A party and performance/reading to mark the publication of the novel PORTRAITS AT AN EXHIBITION (Lethe Press) by Patrick E. Horrigan. \n  \n \nPatrick E. Horrigan was born and raised in Reading\, Pennsylvania.  He earned a BA from The Catholic University of America and a PhD from Columbia University.  He is the author of the novel Portraits at an Exhibition (forthcoming May 2015 from Lethe Press)\, the memoir Widescreen Dreams: Growing Up Gay at the Movies\, the play Messages for Gary: A Drama in Voicemail\, and (with Eduardo Leanez) the solo show You Are Confused!  With Mr. Leanez\, he hosts Actors with Accents\, a recurring variety show at Teatro Circulo in the East Village.  He has also written catalogue essays for Ernesto Pujol’s Loss of Faith and Thion’s Limi-TATE: Drawings of Life and Dreams.  In the late 1980s\, he taught as a volunteer at the Harvey Milk High School for Gay and Lesbian Youth.  In 1993 he joined the English Department at LIU Brooklyn\, where he teaches courses on American literature\, pop culture\, LGBT studies\, modernism and Virginia Woolf. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/patrick-e-horrigans-portraits-at-an-exhibition/
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SUMMARY:Ian Spencer Bell: Geography Solos & Holler
DESCRIPTION:The Bureau of General Services—Queer Division and The Lesbian\, Gay\, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center host dancer\, choreographer\, and poet Ian Spencer Bell in a solo performance of his blend of poetry and dance in room 101 of The Center on Thursday\, June 4\, at 7 PM. \nJoin Ian for a reception following the performance in the Bureau\, room 210 of The Center at 8 PM \nSuggested donation of $5 \nNo one turned away for lack of funds \n  \nBell danced a version of Geography Solos last spring in New York as part of his evening- length work Elsewhere. On March 11\, 2015\, Bell performed a new version of Geography Solos at the Poetry Foundation in Chicago. For the premiere\, Bell added three poems\, “The Apostle\,” “Beards\,” and “For Those Who Come to San Francisco.” On the streets of New York City\, in the hills of LA and San Francisco\, and in a laundromat in Virginia\, Bell contemplates place\, self\, and love. In his long poem Holler\, Bell catalogues the contents of his childhood home near the Shenandoah Valley. This will be the New York premiere of Holler. \nHistorian Michael J. Kramer\, in an essay for CultureRover.net about the Poetry Foundation performance\, wrote that Bell danced “both outside the poems looking in at them and within their poetic and musical infrastructures … he neither merely illustrated his words\, nor only accompanied the poems with dance—but instead lingered in a space between the two.” \nBell has been the recipient of grants and fellowships from Atlantic Center for the Arts\, Lambda Literary\, Summer Stages Dance\, Virginia Commission for the Arts\, and Jacob’s Pillow\, where he performed with his group on the Inside/Out Stage. Bell trained at North Carolina School of the Arts\, School of American Ballet\, and Pacific Northwest Ballet and graduated from Sarah Lawrence College\, where he studied with New York State Poet Marie Howe. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/ian-spencer-bell/
LOCATION:The Lesbian\, Gay\, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 101\, New York\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:ASSARACUS: A Journal of Gay Poetry—A Reading to Celebrate Issue 18
DESCRIPTION:  \nPlease join us to celebrate the latest issue of the beautiful and sexy gay male poetry magazine Assaracus 18 (Sibling Rivalry Press). Poets look at the world today from San Francisco to Greece and many points between\, at memories brought to life\, at fucking and drag\, love and families\, tricks\, beaches\, bathhouses\, Grindr\, even a god or two. Four widely published gay poets will read\, William Leo Coakley (a New York Poetry Center Discovery series winner)\, Graham Coppin (Brooklyn poet and leadership coach born in South Africa)\, Joseph Harker (Assaracus editor and Poet Blogger)\, and Jee Long Koh (organizer of the NY Singapore Literature Festival and Singapore Poetry website). \nCopies of the magazine are available for purchase at the Bureau. \nCover art by Carmine Santaniello \nPlease support the Bureau by purchasing your copy from the Bureau! Thank you! \nReception at 7\nReading at 7:30 \n  \nRSVP on Facebook \n\n\n \n \nPhotograph by Joseph Batista \nWilliam Leo Coakley\, who recently won the Der-Hovanessian prize for a gay Cavafy translation\, has appeared in many magazines and other publications here and abroad\, including the Paris Review and the Gay and Lesbian Review. He often reads his work on the radio\, at Day without Art programs\, and at venues like the Leslie-Lohman Gay and Lesbian Art Museum. \n  \n \nGraham Coppin is a recovering mathematician and poet now working as a leadership coach and consultant. He was born and raised in South Africa and emigrated to the US just before his homeland’s first democratic elections in 1994. He first lived in Minnesota where he learned to love flannel and hate lutefisk. He currently resides in a not-so-gentrified-yet-thank-God part of Brooklyn. \n  \n \nJoseph Harker is a linguist and poet often found prowling the trains and cafés of the Northeast. Currently\, he edits Assaracus\, a journal of gay male poetry; his own work has appeared in various journals and anthologies\, including Ganymede\, Hobble Creek Review\, qarrtsiluni\, and others. He does the Twitter thing at @JHPoet\, and the blog thing at https://namingconstellations.wordpress.com\, which you are welcome to visit\, if you promise to wipe your feet. \n  \n \nJee Leong Koh is the author of four books of poems. A new collection titled Steep Tea is forthcoming from Carcanet Press in July. The organizer of the Singapore Literature Festival in New York\, he runs the Singapore Poetry website and the Second Saturdays Reading Series. \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:book release and book signing party of the book Internal Landscapes by John Ollom MFA
DESCRIPTION:  \nInternal Landscapes is the culmination of fourteen years of movement research\, movement technique classes and personal introspection that have created the revolutionary methodology of Internal Landscapes. John Ollom’s practice is defined as archetypal movement that leads to art creation. \nMany dancers\, actors\, performance artists and non-performers have come to work with John Ollom\, the creator of the Internal Landscapes methodology and his company of Ollom Movement Artists. Peer into a book that not only educates but tells personal stories of unbelievable honesty. Issues of rape\, homosexuality\, and survival through trauma have been addressed in this methodology. Artists that have dared to have the courage to create art that is poignant and revelatory have found John Ollom’s practice to be the key to their process. \n  \n \nCome join us on Sunday June 7th at 6pm for this exciting book release and book signing party with John Ollom MFA. \n  \nThe Vice President of Winning Writers\, Jendi Reiter said\, \n“John Ollom is a healer.  He binds up the internalized wounds of oppression that split body form soul\, male from female\, humanity from the natural world.  His medicine is dance.  But it’s a kind of dance you may have never seen before\, arising from each performer’s inner truth rather than enforced conformity to an external ideal.” \n  \n \nJohn Ollom MFA is the author of the book Internal Landscapes. \nJohn received his MFA from Goddard College and his BFA in Ballet from Texas Christian University where he trained under Stephanie McFarlane Rand\, Li Chou Cheng of Beijiing Ballet and Fernando Bujones of American Ballet Theatre and the Royal Ballet. \n  \nHe has been teaching in New York City and around the country since 2000. His methodology has been taught at the Eastern Michigan University\, Kalani Retreat Center in Hawaii\, Atmananda Yoga Sequence\, Baruch College\, CUNY Hostos\, CUNY in the Heights\, Easton Mountain Retreat Center and every summer at the Ollom Movement Art Summer Program at Smith College. \n  \nIn 2010-2011\, John Ollom was chosen as the Artist in Residence at the Eastern Michigan University Dance Department. Since 2002\, John has served as the Artistic Director of Ollom Art/Prismatic Productions Inc./ where he has choreographed such works as The Catalyst\, Love and Longing\, The Journey\, John Ollom’s The Journey\, Anatomy of Woman\, Dido and Aeneas\, The Other Species\, Love Stories\, Internal Landscapes\, Man of War\, M.U.D. (Men Under Dirt)\, Kuan Yin’s Compassion\, Nemetona\, The Portal\, and Prisoner of My Projection. His choreography and direction can also be seen in the film “Karpos and Kalamos”. \n  \nJohn’s work has been the subject of three documentary films: “Late Bloomers” by Annette Cyr\, Professor of Art at the National University in San Diego; “The Making of M.U.D.: An Exploration of the Work of John Ollom and Ollom Movement Art” by Robert Kazmayer\, MA; and\, “There’s Something about John” by Emma McCagg. \n 
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SUMMARY:Queer Collage Party
DESCRIPTION:  \nSpring time is the right time to make collages! We provide the glue sticks and paper\, you provide the pictures. Everyone who attends should bring at least one magazine or book or a bunch of pictures that you’ll contribute to the group. Each person can make their own collage(s)\, or team up with others! You can keep your own collage(s)\, but don’t expect to walk away with your magazine intact! The spirit here is fun and sharing. Attend for part or all of the evening. You are encouraged but not required to bring a little snack to share — chips\, tangerines\, grapes\, hummus\, whatever. We’ll have music playing (not live\, though). \nFacilitated by Paul VanDeCarr \n  \n \nPaul VanDeCarr is an arts and nonprofit writer in NYC\, more info at www.paulvdc.com. \n  \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:DEADLINE: Works-in-Progress from Cutting-Edge Queer Artists: June 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 June edition of DEADLINE will feature: \n\nGeoffrey Bridgman – Literature\n\n\nLauren Schleider – Visual Art\n\nJamila Reddy – Multi-DisciplinaryPerformance Art\n\nKyle Rogers – Theater\n  \n\n\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-june-edition/
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SUMMARY:Launch Party for VYM\, the drag magazine!
DESCRIPTION:  \nCelebrate the art of drag with the launch of VYM Magazine! \nVYM\, the drag magazine\, celebrates its inaugural issue with an evening of readings and performances! VYM is a love letter to the art that exists in (and is inspired by) the world of Drag. Editors Johnny and Sasha Velour believe that a wonderful concept\, such as drag\, deserves an artful forum dedicated to all its incarnations — from camp and humor\, fashion and art\, to politics and theory. This new 100 page magazine features comics\, essays\, illustrations\, interviews\, photography\, poetry\, and more from more than 20 of todays most talented independent artists. To start with a bang\, Johnny and Sasha asked their contributors to define the indefinable\, “What is Drag?” Their answers are as varied and valid as the art itself\, and their work reminds that there is no “right way” to do drag. \n  \n\nThe evening will feature readings and performances by many of the issue’s contributors including: Crimson Kitty\, Lady Winifred\, Didi Panache\, K. James\, Wo Chan\, Donald C. Shorter\, Jr.\, and more! \n  \n\nJohnny Velour (Editorial Director) (a.k.a. John Jacob Lee) is a theatre artist and choreographer who has spent most of his career in one form of drag or another. He has toured internationally with Cats and The Wedding Singer. \nSasha Velour (Artistic Director) (a.k.a. Sasha Steinberg) is a comics artist\, designer\, and drag queen. Sasha holds a BA in Literature from Vassar College\, an MFA in Cartooning from CCS\, and studied queer arts on a Fulbright Fellowship in Moscow\, Russia. He is the creator of the Stonewall comic series. ahsasha.com \n  \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Bureau Book Club Discusses Larry Kramer's The American People\, Volume 1: Search for My Heart
DESCRIPTION:  \nJoin us for a discussion of Larry Kramer’s The American People\, Volume 1: Search for My Heart \nLarry Kramer’s first novel\, Faggots\, shocked a generation with its Swiftian indictment of ’70s clone sex culture on the West Side and Fire Island. His play The Normal Heart\, a searing polemic against apathy and evil set during the outbreak of the HIV/AIDS pandemic\, has moved generations of audiences. For thirty years\, he’s been at work on a multi-thousand-page epic attempting to situate queers at the center of American history. It takes us from Abraham Lincoln orgies to monkeys swapping AIDS before the dawn of human civilization\, from a Jewish family outside Washington\, DC to secret Nazi camps in North Dakota. Lawrence D. Mass\, co-founder of Gay Men’s Health Crisis\, says the book demands a reconsideration of “nothing less than the entirety of [American] history\, calling it “Eloquent\, powerful\, epochal\, defiant\, relentlessly in your face and tough as shit on everyone and everything.” Volume 1 is ready. Are you?\n  \nThe book was released April 5\, and due to its length – 775 pages – we’re holding our discussion June 14. Buy it anytime at the Bureau. Don’t feel you need to have finished – or started – the book to join us. Stay tuned for news about possible special guests!\n\n  \nThe discussion will be moderated by Ben Miller\, a writer and researcher in Crown Heights\, Brooklyn. Learn more about him at benwritesthings.com\, he tweets @benwritesthings\n \n  \n“He’s been struggling with this history for many years…How much did he find out? How much shame and horror at all that was and is being enacted and endured? Shame for whom?…He decides to finally belly up to this assignment on that day when he hears the President refer to ‘The American People’ and realizes that the president of the United States is not talking about him or his people\, and that he\, Fred Lemish\, had best do something about it.” – the opening lines of The American People \n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n 
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SUMMARY:Evening with West Village writer Kate Walter reading from her debut memoir: Looking for a  Kiss: A Chronicle of Downtown Heartbreak and Healing (Heliotrope Books)
DESCRIPTION:Journalist and professor Kate Walter reads from her debut memoir: Looking for a Kiss: A Chronicle of Downtown Heartbreak and Healing (Heliotrope Books)\n \nReception at 7 \nReading at 7:30\n \nHow long does it take to get over heartache? Journalist and teacher Kate Walter wondered if she’d ever feel whole again after her long term lesbian partnership ended.\n \nA resident of Greenwich Village who spent years recording neighborhood life\, Walter now releases her debut memoir Looking for a Kiss: A Chronicle of Downtown Heartbreak and Healing (Heliotrope Books\, June 2015).\n \nDedicated to “women who have been dumped after 25 years\,” Walter’s memoir describes her broke\, brokenhearted state after being left by her partner of two decades. While many older women—gay and straight—experience divorce\, Walter’s was more stressful since she was not legally married. But rather than dwelling in regret\, Looking for Kiss carries a universal message about loss and recovery: you can heal your life and land up in a better place.\n \nWith brave and revealing details\, Walter confesses her grief and rage and questions her past choices. Seeking answers and spiritual solace\, she joins a gay-positive church\, visits psychics\, throws herself into yoga and chanting\, and starts dating again at 60.\n \nLike the urban landscape that serves as her backdrop\, Walter’s fast-paced dialogue has a raspy realness and soulful edge. She describes loneliness and longing with humorous and poetic prose. Anyone seeking hope will cheer this funny\, gutsy narrator who loses love but finds herself. \n  \nKate Walter has been living in downtown Manhattan since 1975 when she escaped across the river from New Jersey. Her essays and opinion pieces have appeared in the New York Times\, Newsday\, New York Daily News\, AM-NY\, the Advocate and many other outlets. She teaches writing at CUNY and NYU \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/kate-walter-memoir/
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SUMMARY:Deeply Leisured with Queenie Bon Bon
DESCRIPTION:  \nDEEPLY LEISURED is a hybrid performance that spans the genres of stand up comedy\, performance\, lecture\, and consciousness-raising story telling. Queenie Bon Bon presents narratives detailing her deep love for her clients & coworkers\, and the eternal joys and mysteries of working with bodies. She also shares stories on coming out as a sex worker to her mother\, whorephobia and internet dating\, and tips on covering up when you peed on the carpet at your workplace. A tender and true look into her lived experience as a sex worker\, coworker  solidarity\, as well as social and political issues surrounding sex work\, DEEPLY LEISURED is a performance full of intrigue and inspiration. \nSuggested donation $5 to $15 \nDeeply Leisured premiered at Melbourne Fringe Festival and has since showed at Sydney’s infamous queer warehouse performance venue The Red Rattler\, Hares and Hyenas Queer Bookshop as part of Scarlett Alliance’s National Sex Worker Forum\, at Adelaide Fringe Festival and has also been performed as a fundraiser for the English prostitute’s collective in London. Queenie Bon Bon is an up and coming political comedic writer and performer.  Aside from performing Deeply Leisured\, she has done readings on the delights of being human furniture\, fragmented realities  and talked panels about the importance of decriminalisation and myth busting. Queenie is part of the Debbie’s (Australian sex worker art collective) and has spent several years working on a sex worker oral story telling archival project\, and is now writing her first novel. Queenie has worked as a  dancer\, in massage parlours and in brothels over Australia as well as in the UK. \n  \n 
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150624T190000
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SUMMARY:Rainbow Book Fair Readings: Lammy Winners 2015
DESCRIPTION:  \nBefore we say goodbye to June and Pride\, let’s take a couple more hours to celebrate the winners of the 2015 Lambda Literary Awards with some of the winners who live right here in New York City. Readers will include Diana Cage\, author of Lesbian Sex Bible: The New Guide to Sexual Love for Same-Sex Couples (winner for Lesbian Erotica)\, as well as Whitney Strub\, a contributor to Understanding and Teaching U.S. Lesbian\, Gay\, Bisexual\, and Transgender History (winner for LGBT Anthology) and some still to be determined guests. \n  \n \nDiana Cage was editor of the lesbian magazine On Our Backs and host of The Diana Cage Show on SiriusXM Radio. Her work has appeared in Curve\, Girlfriends\, Quartz\, Shewired\, The Advocate\, Esquire\, and other publications. She lives in Brooklyn and teaches writing at Pratt Institute. \n  \n \nWhitney Strub is an associate professor of History and director of the Women’s & Gender Studies program at Rutgers University-Newark. He is the author of Perversion for Profit: The Politics of Pornography and the Rise of the New Right (Columbia\, 2011) and Obscenity Rules: Roth v. United States and the Long Struggle over Sexual Expression (Kansas\, 2013). \n 
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150626T190000
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SUMMARY:Opening reception: Hunter Reynolds and Maxine Henryson: I-Dea The Goddess Within  Gay Pride 1994
DESCRIPTION:Hunter Reynolds and Maxine Henryson \nI-Dea The Goddess Within \nGay Pride 1994 \nJune 18 to September 6\, 2015 \nBureau of General Services—Queer Division \n@The LGBT Community Center \n208 West 13th Street\, Room 210 \nNew York\, NY 10011 \ncontact@bgsqd.com \nOpening Reception on Friday\, June 26\, 7 to 10 PM \n  \nThe Bureau of General Services—Queer Division is pleased to present a selection of iconic photographs from I-DEA\, The Goddess Within\, a historic collaboration of the performance artist Hunter Reynolds\, aka Patina du Prey\, and documentary photographer Maxine Henryson. From 1993 to 2000\, Henryson and Reynolds traveled to Berlin\, Antwerp\, Los Angeles\, New York and other cities\, creating guerrilla-like street performances and interventions. Spinning in a large white dress\, Patina existed as a mythical dervish figure that deliberately disrupted gender norms in order to relate to the viewer as a shamanistic transgendered embodiment of fantasy and healing. I-DEA\, The Goddess Within challenged notions of queer identity\, performance art\, and the social landscape of the 1990’s. \n  \nFor this exhibition\, the artists will present a selection of photographs from Gay Pride in New York on the 25th anniversary of Stonewall and the Gay Games in 1994. The years of 1993 and 1994 were two of the most devastating years of the AIDS epidemic. During this anniversary year there was a dispute between the organizers of the Pride Parade (Heritage of Pride)\, Mayor Giuliani\, and the political activists participating in the annual parade\, such as ACT UP\, the Dykes on Bikes\, and the Radical Faeries\, who did not want to participate in the commercial marketing of the Gay Games or the changing of the Parade route to pass by the United Nations.  The LGBTQ parade\, for the first time\, split into two parades: the official parade and the Radical Queers parade. The Dykes on Bikes led some 60\,000 Radical Queers and Faeries from the Stonewall Inn up 5th Ave to Central Park. Many of the participants were naked and queers jerked off in front of St Patrick’s Cathedral. The community was fractured; the oppression of Giuliani era was beginning\, and our parade was split. \nSince 1992\, Reynolds had been living in Berlin and returned to perform the Memorial Dress for Creative Time’s official Gay Games Art Event.  Reynolds recalls that “I wanted to do a healing dervish dance on the steps of the NYPL under the pink triangle of the banner Becoming Visible: The Legacy of Stonewall\, The New York Public Library’s groundbreaking 1994 exhibition\, which was the largest and most extensive display of lesbian and gay history ever mounted in a museum or gallery space. It was spontaneous combustion. The parade stopped and thousands cheered. The naked Radical Faeries spun with me. It was a truly spectacular and moving moment in my life. I was so grateful to be alive and proud to be Queer.” \n  \nHunter Reynolds has been using photography\, performance and installation for over thirty years to express his experience as an HIV-positive gay man. He was an early member of ACT UP\, and in 1989 co-founded Art Positive\, an affinity group of ACT UP\, to fight homophobia and censorship in the arts. His work addresses issues of gender\, identity\, socio-politics\, sexual histories\, mourning\, loss\, survival\, hope and healing.  Hunter Reynolds was born in 1959 in Rochester\, Minnesota.  Reynolds is an AIDS activist and a Visual AIDS artist member and has been the recipient of grants and residencies\, including several Pollock Krasner awards.  He has had numerous solo exhibitions including: Iceberg Projects\, IL; P.P.O.W Gallery\, NY; Participant Inc.\, NY; Hallwalls\, NY; White Columns\, NY; Artist Space\, NY; Simon Watson Gallery\, NY; Creative Time\, NY; Momenta\, NY; Bernard Toale Gallery\, MA; ICA Boston\, MA; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts\, CA; NGBK\, Germany; and DOCUMENTA\, Kassel\, Germany. His work is numerous public and private collections including The Society for Contemporary Art Chicago\, IL; Yale University Art Gallery\, CT; the Addison Gallery of American Art\, MA and The Stamp Gallery at the University of Maryland\, MD. The Fales Library and Special Collections/New York University houses the archives of Hunter Reynolds in its Downtown Collection. Hunter Reynolds is represented by P.P.O.W. For more information about the artist please contact: info@ppowgallery.com \n  \nMaxine Henryson is an artist and bookmaker who creates sensual\, poetic photographs of the seemingly every day. She explores perceptions of the feminine in the world\, examining the differences and similarities between cultures. Her work traces evidence of divinity\, rituals\, place\, memory and history in the West and East. \nBorn in Jackson\, Mississippi\, she lives and works in New York. She studied sociology at Simmons College (B.S.) and University of London (Masters of Philosophy) and has an M.A.T. from the University of Chicago in studio arts and M.F.A. from the University of Illinois at Chicago in photography. Her photographs have been widely exhibited in the United States and Europe and are in numerous public and private collections including the Celanese Photography Collection\, the Russian Museum\, Norton Museum of Art\, and the Middlebury College Museum of Art. Selected group exhibitions include ARC Gallery\, Chicago (The Body in Revue)\, Gallery Espace\, New Delhi (Marvelous Reality/Lo Real Maravilloso)\, Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College\, Saratoga Springs\, New York (Lives of the Hudson)\, Unscharf (out of focus)\, after Gerhard Richter at the Hamburger Kunsthalle\, Hamburg Germany and O.K. Harris Gallery\, New York (Illuminators). Her most recent solo exhibitions were at A.I.R. Gallery\, Brooklyn in 2014 (Ujjayi’s Journey.) and Kleinschmidt Fine Photographs\, Wiesbaden\, Germany. (Calculated Coincidence). Maxine Henryson taught photography at the International Center of Photography\, New York\, and Bennington College (1996-2006). Henryson’s artist books are Ujjayai’s Journey (Kehrer\, 2012)\, Red Leaves and Golden Curtains (Kehrer\, 2007) and Presence (Artist Publications\, 2003). Henryson is represented by A.I.R. Gallery\, Brooklyn. \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Then\, and Then\, and Now: 2 Gay Memoirists from Different Generations Discuss Their Gay Histories
DESCRIPTION:  \nBrad Gooch and David Crabb will read from and discuss their respective memoirs. Brad Gooch’s Smash Cut is a searing memoir of life in New York City in the 1970s and 1980s\, and Crabb’s Bad Kid is a hilarious\, poignant story about a boy growing up gay (and Goth) in San Antonio\, Texas at a time and place where it was hard to be one\, near impossible to be the other. \n  \n  \nPhotograph By Henny Garfunkel\nBrad Gooch is the author of the acclaimed biographies City Poet and Flannery: A Life of Flannery O’Connor (finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award)\, as well as other nonfiction and three novels. The recipient of National Endowment for the Humanities and Guggenheim fellowships\, he earned his Ph.D. at Columbia University and is professor of English at William Paterson University in New Jersey. He lives in New York City. \n  \n  \nPhotograph By Julia Gillard\nDavid Crabb is a performer\, writer\, teacher & storyteller in New York City. He is a Moth Story Slam host and three-time Moth Slam winner. His solo show “Bad Kid” was met with critical acclaim from The New York Times\, MTV\, Flavorpill\, NY Metro and many others\, and named a New York Times Critics’ Pick. The show has been performed in NYC since 2011 & completed a sold-out run in Virginia in 2013. “Bad Kid” will play in Texas and California in 2015. \n  \n  \n 
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