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SUMMARY:Sharp Edges: Butcher’s Sons & Paris Demands
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe Sharp Edges book launch features new novels by Lethe Press’ Scott Alexander Hess (The Butcher’s Sons) and Mike Miksche (Paris Demands). These two authors will face off in a lively interview segment about their provocative books set respectively in the gritty streets of Hell’s Kitchen circa 1930 and in Paris’ glorious underbelly. It’ll be an evening of edgy conversations\, live music\, book giveaways\, and of course French cheeses and Hell’s Kitchen (butchered) meats. \n  \nReception @ 7PM\, Interactive Interview @ 8PM \n  \n \nScott Alexander Hess earned his MFA in creative writing from The New School. He blogs for The Huffington Post\, and his writing has appeared in Genre Magazine\, The Fix\, and elsewhere. Hess co-wrote “Tom in America\,” a short film starring Sally Kirkland and Burt Young. The Butcher’s Sons is his third novel. His debut novel Diary of a Sex Addict has been translated into German. Originally from St. Louis\, Missouri\, Hess now lives in Manhattan\, New York. \n  \n \nMike Miksche’s work has appeared in Instinct\, The Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide\, and The Blue Lyra Review. He is the writer of Hole and Corner\, a weekly column for Daily Xtra\, which explores the profound connections forged through BDSM and public sex (https://www.dailyxtra.com/contributor/Mike%20Miksche). Paris Demands is his first novel. \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:DEADLINE: Works-in-Progress from Cutting-Edge Queer Artists: July 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 July edition of DEADLINE will feature: \n\nJesse Phillips-Fein – Dance\n\nMelody Jane – Performance Art\n\nTaylor Derwin – Fiction\n\nKate Brandt – Film\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 
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SUMMARY:Bureau Closed For Independence Day Weekend
DESCRIPTION:The Bureau will be closed on Friday\, July 3rd\, Saturday\, July 4th\, and Sunday\, July 5th.
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SUMMARY:Together Again: Lambda Literary Emerging Writers Retreat Fellows Reunite
DESCRIPTION:Three fiction writers and two poets from the 2007 and 2008 Lambda Literary Emerging Writers Retreat read from their work. \n  \n  \n \nShelley Ettinger is a longtime activist in LGBTQ\, anti-racist\, anti-war and union struggles. Her poetry and short fiction have been published in dozens of literary journals. Vera’s Will is her first novel. \n  \n\n\nCharles Rice-González\, born in Puerto Rico and reared in the Bronx\, is a writer\, long-time community and LGBT activist\, co-founder of BAAD! The Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance and a Distinguished Lecturer at Hostos Community College – CUNY. He received an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Goddard College. His debut novel Chulito(Magnus Books 2011) has received nearly a dozen awards including a 2013 Stonewall Book Awards – Barbara Gittings Literature Award Honor from the American Library Association and a “Small Press Highlights” mention from the National Book Critics Circle. He co-edited From Macho To Mariposa: New Gay Latino Fiction (Tincture/Lethe Press 2011) and his award-winning play I Just Love Andy Gibb will be published in Blacktino Queer Performance: A Critical Anthology (Duke Press 2016). He serves on the boards of the Bronx Council on the Arts and the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures. \n  \n \nMichael Montlack is the author of the poetry collection Cool Limbo (NYQ Books) and the editor of the Lambda Finalist essay anthology My Diva: 65 Gay Men on the Women Who Inspire Them (University of Wisconsin Press). His work recently appeared in Cimarron Review\, Barrow Street\, Mudfish\, The Cortland Review and Assaracus. He lives and teaches in New York City and has been awarded residencies/fellowships from VCCA\, Ucross\, Lambda Literary Foundation and Oberpfalzer Kunstlerhaus in Germany. \n  \n \n\nCarol Rosenfeld is a New York City-based writer and poet. Her short stories have appeared in several lesbian erotica and LGBT horror anthologies. Her debut novel\, The One That Got Away\, is being published in June 2015.\n \n  \n\n\n \nEly Shipley’s first book\, Boy with Flowers\, won the Barrow Street Press book prize judged by Carl Phillips\, the Thom Gunn Award\, and was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award. His chapbook\, On Beards: A Memoir of Passing\, is forthcoming from speCt! books. His poems and essays appear in the Western Humanities Review\, Prairie Schooner\, Willow Springs\, Florida Review\, Phoebe\, Greensboro Review\, Painted Bride Quarterly\, Hayden’s Ferry Review\, Witness\, Diagram\, Gulf Coast\, Fugue\, Third Coast\, and elsewhere. He holds an MFA from Purdue University and a PhD from the University of Utah. He is an Assistant Professor at Baruch College\, CUNY.\n \n \n \n 
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SUMMARY:For Sizakele Book Release: 14 Years In The Making
DESCRIPTION:Yvonne Fly Onakeme Etaghene will read from her brand new book\, For Sizakele. She will also perform electric\, sugarcane-flavored poetry. Her performance will be followed by a question and answer session and book signing. This performance is a celebration of the over 14 years of love\, work\, sweat\, passion and magic it has taken to bring forth this very necessary book. This event is part of the For Sizakele World Tour. \nSuggested donation: $5 \n\nPlease Note: To reserve your copy of For Sizakele in advance\, please purchase your copy here: https://myloveisaverb.ticketleap.com/for-sizakele-bureau-nyc/ (Purchasing For Sizakele now reserves a copy for you. Your copy of the book will be available when you arrive at the event. This is the only way to ensure that you will have a copy before they sell out.)  \n  \n\nAbout the book: For Sizakele by Yvonne Fly Onakeme Etaghene\nTaylor\, a queer Nigerian college student\, is in a passionate relationship with Lee\, a Black American basketball-playing pianist. When Taylor develops romantic feelings for Sy\, a Cameroonian photographer whose similarities make them instant family\, Taylor battles Lee’s jealousy. As Taylor encounters challenges to her femme and African identities\, she finds ways\, through the kinship of her friends\, to define herself on her own terms. For Sizakele addresses transcontinental identity\, intimate partner violence\, queer gender and how we love as illuminators of who we are.  \n  \nPhotograph By An Xiao\nYvonne Fly Onakeme Etaghene is an Ijaw and Urhobo Nigerian dyke performance activist\, poet\, dancer\, educator\, actress and visual artist. She engages a radical vulnerability and candor in her artwork and uses storytelling to build an authentic human connection through passionate artistic expression. Etaghene is a mixed-media visual artist who has produced 4 solo art exhibitions and performed internationally. She is the founder of Sugarcane\, an LGBTQ Of Color writing workshop based in the principles of June Jordan’s Poetry for the People. She wrote and performed in two multi-media one-woman shows\, Volcano’s Birthright{s} and GUAVA. Etaghene has published 4 chapbooks of poetry: afrocrown: fierce poetry (2000)\, write or die (2004)\, tongue twisted transcontinental sista (2006) and skin into verse (2014.) She released an album of poetry and music entitled liberty avenue\, nigeria\, usa (2004.) Etaghene is the author of For Sizakele\, a novel that addresses transcontinental identity\, intimate partner violence and how we love as illuminators of who we are. www.myloveisaverb.com\, twitter: @myloveisaverb \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Hand Crafted Art Fair @ BGSQD
DESCRIPTION:  \n  \nArt and crafts for sale by a diverse selection of local queer artisans. Please stop in to support the arts\, meet the artists and hang at the bureau!\n \n \nSam Branman:  Ten Yards Clothing is a queer sportswear label making bright\, colorful sportswear. From custom leggings\, singlets\, wedding outfits\, and drag\, to harnesses\, scarves\, hats\, cute crop tops\, tees\, tanks\, and skirts\, we got it all! Ten Yards Clothing also sells vintage 80’s jewelry for those who really want a conversation starter.\n \n\n \n\n \n \nJames McNally is a working artist living in the Brooklyn area . for most of his life.He has showed his work at coffee shops and east village bars and Clubs.he works usually mixed media on anything suitable he can find.Clothing .found objects smashed guitars or jusr oil on canvas.\n \n\n \n\n \n \nJerek Carper: Established in Chicago\, based in Brooklyn. O’boros soaps are the products of adventurous fragrance blends and traditional home made hot process soap.\n \n\n \n\n \n \nDaniel Casanova: All these earrings have been made using Japanese seed beads and Swarovski crystals and pearls. My partner and I have just started making these recently but we have had very good feedback.\n \n\n \n\n  \n \nRobin Crutchfield: As a performance artist/writer/musician in the 1970s\, Robin found critical acclaim as part of the No Wave movement with bands DNA and Dark Day transitioning into solo work with trancelike harp and drone. He continued his creative pursuits in various arenas\, including recent endeavors exploring the use of cotton crochet slipstitch methods. His whimsy includes pointy hats\, dolls\, and colorful catch-call bags. Also\, some of his music CDS and books-“Eleven Faerie Tales” and “A\,B\,C\, Desire” an erotic alphabet\, will be available. Perhaps even some handwhittled wands.\n \n\n \n\n \nCaleb Kruzel: Goon Soul specializes in leather accessories and altered clothing. At his table you will find harnesses\, rings\, customized digs\, screen prints\, and other handmade oddities.\n \n\n \n\n \n \nChioma  Okotieuro: I have been making jewelry of one sort or another for the last 17 years.  I started a non profit called Good Works and began to make bracelets to fund my endeavors to do “give” to people in need ‘just because’ and Chi Intentioned was born.  I make earrings\, bracelets\, pendants\, necklaces\, rings\, waistbeads and headpieces using crystals\, stones\, shells and good intentions.\n \n\n \n\n \n \nGemini: Bearly knits handmade scarves\, cowls\, and shawls are made by musician and former model\, “Gemini.” Bearly knits crochet and knitwear utilizes only the best materials for its pieces and each design is completely one of a kind. Custom yarn options are also available upon request.​​ \nDon’t just standout…be unforgettable with Bearly Knits.\n \n\n \n\n \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:(DLOnLocation2015) Your Words Give Me a Headache
DESCRIPTION:Kajsa Dahlberg\, Female Fist\, 20 min\, HD video\, 2006\nDylan Mira\, Untitled (Agua Viva)\, 13 min\, HD video\, 2013\nMariah Garnett\, Picaresques\, 20 min\, 16mm transferred to HD video\, 2011\n \nYour Words Give Me A Headache is a group program that brings together the work of contemporary feminist filmmakers thinking about language\, the fluxes between literature and moving image\, matters of expression\, experience\, representation and communication’s failure. The films tackle social relationships and unconventional story-telling\, ranging from the unlike relationship between a grown up filmmaker and the infant she’s trying to work with in her movie (Garnett)\, to family’s lack of communication mediated by Clarice Lispector’s master piece Agua Viva (Mira) and the unfulfilled promise of a feminist\, anarchist\, queer porn project that can’t even be represented on camera by a spokesperson (Dahlberg). \n  \nCurator: Clara López Ménendez \n  \n \nDirty Looks: On Location is a series of queer intervention in New York City spaces. Over the course of July\, artist film and video will appear in these queer social spaces and former sites of queer sociality (like shuttered bars\, bathhouses\, and former meeting zones). A new piece\, a different setting on each night of July. The summer in New York is hot\, sticky and social. Installing moving image works around the city in bars\, centers and “haunted” venues allows for the free flow of viewers to engage and celebrate with work\, in evening events that commemorate contemporary moving-image production and its precedents in queer culture. \nClick here for a complete listing of Dirty Looks: On Location\, July 1-31\, 2015 \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:What Makes a Queer Relationship Queer? The Queer Relationships Project Presentation and Discussion
DESCRIPTION:What makes a Queer Relationship Queer? What makes it successful? Our relationships challenge the heteronormative model\, yet we don’t have common and visible alternatives. \nThe Queer Relationships Project is a new online resources archive and oral history project\, aimed at making models\, theories and practices easily accessible and visible. In this presentations\, we would like to to share some things we learned so far\, and to hear about your experiences\, challenges\, inspiration and dreams. In a culture where the dominant heteronormative model still reigns supreme in mainstream politics\, and even gains more hold in the LGBT community (ie\, the same-sex marriage agenda)\, this project has a strong political goal: we want this project to serve as a tool for our under-represented community\, to keep these alternative and radical relationships and their structures visible\, known and accessible\, and to present them as viable and relevant. \nDisco is a local activist and community organizer in the queer and Radical Faeries communities in New York City.  Their personal journey of exploring different relationships has been an exciting part of living in a queer community. These experiences\, together with multiple discussions with friends\, lovers and family inspired them to create The Queer Relationships Project (https://www.queerrelationships.org)\, in hope to become better partners\, lovers and friends\, and to engage in a discussion on a topic that has great influence on our everyday lives as queers.
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SUMMARY:Book Launch and Reading of Try Me by Niel Rosenthalis (Deadly Chaps Press)
DESCRIPTION:This is the launch party and reading for Try Me (Deadly Chaps Press)\, a chapbook of poems by Niel Rosenthalis. Friends of the poet will read as well\, including Rickey Laurentiis\, Joanna C. Valente\, Robert Whitehead\, and Marni Ludwig. \nNot just insight\, but the strange detours consciousness must take to know itself–“I’m interested in the edge/I strive toward;” not just desire\, but the strange ways it flashes in and out of time; there’s no one writing quite like Rosenthalis. “Buscando ser más\,” said Paulo Freire\, and this is poetry that demands more\, from experience\, the self\, the poem itself. Then there’s the rueful elegance: “the decade was lit from behind”; “let me capitulate\, O eyeless flies…” A deep sense of responsibility to the art shines through experiment and erasure. Try Me is an extraordinary debut. \n— D. Nurkse \nRosenthalis’s Try Me is both a dare and a plea\, as well as a meditation on time as it relates to questions of the body\, sex\, desire\, and love\, not as hierarchy\, but in every thrilling combination and order. Rosenthalis blends the lyric with the conceptual both to get at “the specific\, not the small\,”  and as a kind of balm or “heal-over of cruelty.” “I am a genius\,” he writes\, “I want to show the world true feeling\,” and he does. Rosenthalis’s love poems wear philosophical masks\, while his logic and its aesthetics fulfill the imperative of the title to “turn tomorrow on.” \n— Marni Ludwig \n  \nNathaniel Rosenthalis earned his B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College and is currently a candidate in the M.F.A. poetry program at Washington University in St. Louis. His poems have appeared in Yes\, Poetry and Tinge. Essays appear or are forthcoming from the Los Angeles Review of Books\, Essay Daily\, and Jam Tarts Magazine. \nRickey Laurentiis was born in New Orleans\, Louisiana. He is the author of Boy with Thorn\, selected by Terrance Hayes for the 2014 Cave Canem Poetry Prize (University of Pittsburgh Press\, September 2015). His poems appear in Poetry\, The New Republic\, Fence\, Boston Review\, among other journals. He currently resides in Brooklyn\, New York. \nJoanna C. Valente is sometimes a mermaid and sometimes a human. She is the author of Sirs & Madams (Aldrich Press\, 2014) and received her MFA at Sarah Lawrence College. Her second collection Marys of the Sea is forthcoming from ELJ Publications in 2016. Some of her work appears or is forthcoming in The Huffington Post\, Columbia Journal\, Similar Peaks\, The Paris-American\, The Atlas Review\, BORT  Quarterly\, among others. In 2011\, she received the American Society of Poet’s Prize. She founded Yes\, Poetry in 2010\,and is the Managing Editor for Luna Luna Magazine. More can be found at joannavalente.com. \nRobert Whitehead is a poet. He received his MFA in Writing from Washington University in St. Louis in 2013\, and has been a fellow at the Bucknell Seminar for Younger Poets\, Ashbery Home School\, and The Rensing Center. His work has appeared or is forthcoming from Assaracus\, Gulf Coast\, Vinyl\, LIES/ISLES\, Verse Daily\, Upstart and elsewhere. He is currently the Grant Writing Associate at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and the Assistant Editor for Vinyl Poetry. He lives in Brooklyn\, where he co-curates Shirley\, a monthly reading series. \nMarni Ludwig is the author of Pinwheel\, selected by Jean Valentine for the 2012 New Issues Poetry Prize and Little Box of Cotton and Lightning\, chosen by Susan Howe for a 2011 Poetry Society of America Chapbook fellowship.  She holds degrees from Sarah Lawrence College\, Columbia University\, and Washington University in St. Louis. She’s from Brooklyn\, NY. \n  \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Bi Book Club: The Summer of Sex
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. \nThe Bi Book Club theme for July & August is “The Summer of Sex.” Our book for July is The Prince of Punk Rock by Jenna Galicki (on sale now at the Bureau). This is a very sexy\, very bisexual erotic romance. \nI love her\, but I also love him.\nShe’s everything to me.\nHe sets my world on fire.\nIt’s our dirty little secret\, and it’s about to blow our record deal sky high.\nI’m Tommy Blade\, the Prince of Punk Rock\, and this is our story. \nWhat are your favorite sex scenes? Favorite dramatic scenes? 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. Give us your critique of the book. What worked\, what didnt\, how was bisexuality represented? 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. \nOur next book: Memoirs of a Gigolo\, by Livia Ellis\, Omnibus Vol. 1-4 available at the Bureau. \nWe will be voting on what book we want to read after that\, so check the list of Bisexual Book Award finalists for this year and last year for some ideas. \nGetting Books: We urge you to purchase your print copy at the Bureau 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. \n  \nRSVP on Bi Meetup \n  \nThe Bi Book Club meets at the Bureau of General Services-Queer Division on the last Thursday of each month.  \n  \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:TELL 14: Vacations
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. \nVacations is the theme of the fourteenth installment of TELL. Featuring Mizz June\, Mariel Reyes\, Jamila Hammami\, & Larry Darnell Penn Whitfield. \n$5-10 suggested donation – no one turned away for lack of funds \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. She just won the grand prize at the first annual San Miguel De Allende Storytelling Festival in Mexico. 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 (her reel and her website www.draecampbell.com) and around town. \n  \n \nJamila Hammami is a queer first­ generation Tunisian­ Arab American woman of color community organizer & social worker from the south\, now based in NYC. She is a hard high femme homo and a founder and Executive Director of the Queer Detainee Empowerment Project and on the advisory board of the Queer Undocumented Immigrant Project (QUIP)\, a project of United We Dream (UWD). She comes to this work with a background in reproductive justice\, working to center woman\, specifically trans and queer\, of color’s voices in movements\, and witnessing the impacts of migration and racism in her formative years in Texas. \n  \nPhotograph by Kelsey Dickey (2015)\nFrom the planet of the Lower East Side….Mizz June got her start in activism and musical theater. She was the first out black transwoman to be a guest cast member on a daytime soap opera (“All My Children”). She has appeared in two music videos (Tamar-Kali’s “Pearl” (Album Version) and Justin Vivian Bond’s “Golden Age of Hustlers”). She has performed at multiple venues and she is about to be featured in a soon to be released independent musical titled “Wild Ponies”. She just released a demo version of her debut single\, “Get Lifted”(https://www.reverbnation.com/mizzjune/song/22152061-get-lifted) and she will be releasing her debut EP “Who Is Mizz June” soon (Release date TBA).\nwww.facebook.com/the1theonlymizzjune\nhttps://twitter.com/mizzjunemusic\nyoutube.com/mizzjunemusic \n  \n \nWhile somewhat of a shy performer and storyteller\, Mariel Reyes has written & produced works for some of your favorite experimental theater spaces in NYC (Dixon Place\, Brooklyn Arts Exchange) and has also appeared on screen in the film “Appropriate Behaviour” which premiered at Sundance in 2014. \n  \n  \n \nLarry Darnell Penn Whitfield is a NYC based actor\, writer\, singer and aggressive mover. He is creator of Confessions of a Plussizetwink a one man cabaret series. Southern and sassy roots govern his everyday creativity. Live. Love. Create. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/tell-14-vacations/
LOCATION:Online event\, New York\, NY\, United States
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