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SUMMARY:Book Launch for Claudia Cortese’s Wasp Queen and Gillian Cummings’ My Dim Aviary
DESCRIPTION:  \nPlease join us for the launch party of Claudia Cortese’s Wasp Queen and Gillian Cummings’ My Dim Aviary. Gillian and Claudia are press sisters whose books were just published by Black Lawrence Press. \nOcean Vuong says that “Claudia Cortese has given to Lucy what Anne Carson has given to Geryon: a life as desperate and fraught as our own\, which is to say\, a human rendition of the poetic potential. . . . I finished this Wasp Queen only to read it all over again\, finding and losing myself\, gladly\, at every turn. \nD. Nurkse says that My Dim Aviary is a book filled “with the ache of individuation\, the estrangement of sexuality—‘a swan gouging its breast with its bill.’ Searing in its originality\, My Dim Aviary is a masterful conception\, a trance\, a prayer of abandonment.” \nThere will be cupcakes! There will cake! There will be plastic tiaras! There will be purple mood lighting! There will be a most glorious mix playing (Whitney Houston\, Bikini Kill\, Pat Benatar…) \nGrey Vild (bio below) will be emceeing; Claudia and Gillian will read from their gorgeous books; and these brilliant humans will also be reading: \nJayson P. Smith is a writer/performance artist from the Bronx. Their poems & interviews appear / are forthcoming in journals such as Gulf Coast\, Vinyl Magazine\, & The Offing. J is a 2016-17 Emerge-Surface-Be Fellow with The Poetry Project\, & has received previous support from The Conversation Literary Festival & Millay Colony for the Arts. They currently live in Brooklyn and the internet at jaysonpsmith.com. \nKaveh Akbar‘s poems appear recently or soon in The New Yorker\, Poetry\, Ploughshares\, APR\, Tin House\, and elsewhere. His debut full-length collection\, Calling a Wolf a Wolf\, will be published by Alice James Books in September 2017. \nJoanna C. Valente is a human who lives in Brooklyn\, New York. They are the author of Sirs & Madams (Aldrich Press\, 2014)\, The Gods Are Dead (Deadly Chaps Press\, 2015)\, Marys of the Sea (2016\, ELJ Publications) & Xenos (2016\, Agape Editions). \nGrey Vild is a Queer Art Mentorship & Brooklyn Poets fellow & a MFA candidate in poetry at Rutgers University. His work can be found at Them\, Vetch\, Harriet: The Blog and elsewhere. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Union Square Slam presents Timothy DuWhite and our Capturing Fire Qualifier
DESCRIPTION:  \nCome on out for our Very Here\, Very Queer CAPTURING FIRE QUALIFIER\, featuring Capturing Fire’s 2015 Champion and all-around No BullPoop No Fux Giving Poet/Prophet/Pidgeon Whisperer Timothy DuWhite!!\n \n6:30pm Free Writing Workshop with I.S. Jones\n7:30pm Sign-Ups and Socialize\n8:00pm Slam and Feature\n$5 // All Ages // Wheelchair Accessible\n \nCOMPETING POETS: must be self-identified queer to compete! must have three 3 minute poems! must consider registering for Capturing Fire and competing anyway\, regardless of who wins this qualifier!\nAbout our Feature:\n \nTimothy DuWhite is the current Program Manager at New York Writers Coalition\, a non-profit dedicated to providing writing workshops to under-served communities. Prior to his time at NYWC\, Timothy worked as the Program Coordinator at Urban Word NYC\, a champion in youth literacy\, and as the Online Communications Specialist at Believe Out Loud\, an online network invested in bridging the gap between the faith and LGBTQ communities. He received his BA in English/Creative Writing from Montclair State University\, where he developed his love for spoken word poetry and performance. Timothy’s work has been featured at venues/sites such as the United Nations/UNICEF\, Apollo Theater\, Nuyorican Poet’s cafe\, The Rumpus\, Bowery Poetry Club\, La Mama Theater and many more. In 2015\, Timothy developed a writing workshop entitled “HIV & the State: Coalition Building beyond the Condom\,” in which he communally debunks popular narratives surrounding HIV as it relates to black people. Timothy’s political work and analysis has granted him appearances/keynote speeches at institutions such as San Diego State University\, Columbia University\, Oregon State University\, Columbia College Chicago\, and many more. When he isn’t off trying to save the world\, Tim can be found working on his next play\, and listening to 90’s R&B.\nAbout Capturing Fire:\n \nCapturing Fire is a DC-based international spoken word and poetry festival where queer-identified writers gather for 3 days of individual poetry slam competition\, alongside panels\, workshops and performances during the day. The Poetry Slam focus of Capturing Fire will be June 9 and 10 with a series of Queer Arts Events starting Sunday June 4 at The Sparkle Open Mic at Busboys & Poets. We will be holding Capturing Fire during Capital Pride Weekend which culminates with the LGBT March on Sunday June 11\, 2017 at 10am. For more information\, please refer to https://capfireslam.org/ \n  \n  \n \n 
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SUMMARY:A Discussion of Umberto Saba's 'Ernesto' with Peter Cameron\, Benjamin Taylor\, Jaime Manrique\, and Stefano Albertini
DESCRIPTION: \nPlease join NYRB Classics in celebrating the publication of Umberto Saba’s Ernesto\, a classic of gay Italian literature available in a new translation by Estelle Gilson. Peter Cameron\, Benjamin Taylor\, Jaime Manrique\, and Stefano Albertini will discuss Saba’s life and work. \n \n \nPeter Cameron is the author of six novels\, including ‘Someday This Pain Will Be Useful To You\,’ and two collections of short stories. He lives in New York City and Vermont\, where he runs Shrinking Violet Press\, which publishes limited editions of finely-crafted books. He has written afterwords to many books\, including New York Review of Books’ ‘The Outward Room’ by Millen Brand and ‘Totempole’ by Sanford Friedman.\n \n \nBenjamin Taylor‘s family memoir\, ‘The Hue and Cry at Our House\,’ will be published in May of 2017 by Penguin Books. He is also the author of ‘Proust: The Search\,’ named a Best Book of 2016 by Thomas Mallon in The New York Times Book Review; ‘Naples Declared: A Walk Around the Bay\,’ named a Best Book of 2012 by Judith Thurman in The New Yorker; and of two novels\, ‘Tales Out of School\,’ winner of the Harold Ribalow Prize\, and ‘The Book of Getting Even\,’ winner of a Barnes and Noble Discover Prize. He edited ‘Saul Bellow: Letters\,’ named a Best Book of 2010 by Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times and Jonathan Yardley at The Washington Post\, and Bellow’s ‘There Is Simply Too Much to Think About: Collected Nonfiction.’ A faculty member in the New School’s Graduate School of Writing\, Taylor also teaches in the Graduate Writing Division of the School of the Arts at Columbia University. A past fellow and current trustee of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation\, he is also president of the Edward F. Albee Foundation. ‘Debriefing\,’ his edition of the short fiction of Susan Sontag\, is due from Farrar\, Straus & Giroux in November of 2017.\n \n \nJaime Manrique was born in Colombia. He is a bilingual novelist\, essayist\, translator\, and poet. His novels include ‘Latin Moon in Manhattan\,’ ‘Our Lives Are the Rivers\,’ and ‘Cervantes Street.’ He has been the recipient of a fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation\, a winner of Colombia’s National Poetry Award\, and the International Latino Book Award. Mr. Manrique’s work has been translated to twelve languages. He is currently a Distinguished Lecturer in the Department of Classical and Modern Languages and Literatures at the City College of New York. He has just completed a new novel\, ‘Like This Afternoon Forever.’ \n  \n  \n \n 
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SUMMARY:2017 NYC Queer Comic Fair
DESCRIPTION:  \n\nWabiSabiZinez and Carmine Street Comics are proud to present the first (hopefully) annual New York City fair geared entirely towards queer sequential art (comics\, graphic novels\, illustrated stories\, photo-comics\, or any other interesting take on the medium of still-visual narrative storytelling).\n\n  \nThe fair is free and open to the public\, thanks to our hosts\, the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division\, located on the second floor of The LGBT Center NYC\, 208 W 13th St.\, room 210.\n\n  \nVendors include:\n  \nWabiSabiZines: WabiSabiZineZ.Storenvy.Com / @Wabi_Sabi_Zinez\nCarmine Street Comics: carminestreetcomics.com / @CarmineStComics\nBearpad: bearpadshop.storenvy.com / @bearpadshop\nTim Bauer: cargocollective.com/tbauerillustration\nDoable Guys: doableguys.tumblr.com/\nEasy: easythecomic.com\nGreg Fox / Kyle’s Bed & Breakfast: Kylecomics.com\nMikey Hope / Preternatch: preternatch.deviantart.com/gallery/\nComics by Patrick J Reilly: comicsbypatrick.com/\nLucky Sanford: luckysanford.com\nSci-Fi Explosion: twitter.com/scifiexplosion\nSusse Sønderby: unteleported-tomatoes.net / @sussesonderby\nShip Jumper: ShipJumperComic.com\nSquareBears: Instagram.com/squarebears\nStevie Wilson: swinku.tumblr.com\nWoolybearz: woolybearz.tumblr.com / @woolybear\nBill Zanowitz: crimefighterinquiry.com / comicbookbears.com\n \n \n \n \n 
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SUMMARY:Great Weather for Union Square Slam
DESCRIPTION:  \nGreat weather for media has a brand new anthology called “The Careless Embrace of the Boneshaker.” We are excited to bring you some of the poets from this anthology to our stage.\n \nHere are the poets:\n \nTaylor Steele\nLiv Mammone\nCraig Kite\nBrendan James Gillett\n \nFounded in January 2012 by former Uphook Press editors Jane Ormerod\, Thomas Fucaloro\, and Brant Lyon\, great weather for MEDIA focuses on the unpredictable\, the fearless\, the bright\, the dark\, and the innovative…\n \nThey are based in New York City and showcase both national and international writers. As well as publishing the highest quality poetry and prose\, they organize numerous readings\, performances\, and book releases in New York City and across the country. Find them every Sunday on the Lower East Side at the Parkside Lounge\, 317 East Houston St\, for their reading series\, great weather presents Spoken Word Sundays. Featured readers and a poetry open mic\, 4:00 – 6:00 pm. They’d love to see you! This is a terrific New York City poetry open mic. \n  \n6:30pm Writing Workshop w/ IS Jones\n7:30pm Sign-ups and Socialize\n8:00pm Open Mic \nAll Ages // Wheelchair Accessible\nSuggested Donation: $5-$10 \n \n \n \n 
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SUMMARY:Author Readings and Discussion with Stefani Deoul & Ann Aptaker
DESCRIPTION:  \nJoin us as Stefani Deoul reads from and discusses her crazyfunkycool new YA novel\, On a LARP\, which features the fresh and feisty bit-bending teen heroine\, Sid Rubin. As an added attraction\, Lammy-winning historical criminal fiction writer\, Ann Aptaker will take the stage to talk about and share a reading from Genuine Gold\, Book Three of the popular Cantor Gold Crime Series. \nPlease support the authors and the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division and purchase copies of On a LARP\, Criminal Gold\, Tarnished Gold\, and Genuine Gold at the Bureau! \nWe look forward to seeing you there!\n \nSTEFANI DEOUL is the author of the award-winning novel The Carousel and the newly released YA novel On a LARP. She has written for numerous publications\, including Curve Magazine\, Outdoor Delaware and Letters from CAMP Rehoboth\, penned short stories\, and written both film and television treatments. As a television producer her resume includes TV series such as Haven for the SyFy Network\, The Dead Zone\, Brave New Girl\, Dresden Files and Missing.\n \nLambda Literary Award winner and native New Yorker ANN APTAKER has earned a reputation as a respected\, if cheeky\, exhibition designer and curator of art during her career in museums and galleries. Taking the approach that what art authorities find uncomfortable the public would likely enjoy\, exhibitions Ann has curated have garnered favorable reviews in the New York Times\, Art in America\, American Art Review\, and other publications. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/author-readings-and-discussion-with-stefani-deoul-ann-aptaker/
LOCATION:NY
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SUMMARY:TELL 33: Betrayal
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. \nBETRAYAL is the theme of the thirty-third installment of TELL. Featuring Erica Caldwell\, Amalia Q\, Persephone Sarah Jane Smith\, and Pamela Sneed. \n  \n$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. 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 with Rebecca Drysdale\, YOU MOVE ME won the Audience Award for Outstanding Narrative Short at OUTFEST 2010 and has been shown in festivals globally. Drae won the grand prize at the first annual San Miguel De Allende Storytelling Festival in Mexico. She once reigned as Miss LEZ and also got dubbed “the next lezzie comedian on the block” by AfterEllen.com for her comedic stylings on the interwebs. Campbell hosts and curates a monthly queer storytelling show called TELL at BGSQD. Check her out online!  www.draecampbell.com. \n  \n  \n \nErica Cardwell is a writer and radical educator. Her essays and reviews have appeared in Hyperallergic\, Sinister Wisdom\, the Lightwork Annual\, The Feminist Wire\, Bitch Media\, and EMERGE: An Anthology of the 2105 Lambda Literary Fellows. Erica hopes to complete a draft of her first book\, Stone Fruit- a collection of personal essays by December. \n  \n  \n \nAmalia Q is a latinx queer unicorn from LA. As the daughter of immigrant parents\, the pull to overachieve and give back was immense; therefore\, as of late\, Amalia had been trying to practice self-care by slowing down and hanging out with tiny humans (aka kids). Amalia holds masters degrees from all the schools and knows a whole lot about microaggressions\, substance use\, and mental health. You can find Amalia on a dance floor near you! \n \n  \n \nPersephone Sarah Jane Smith (They/Them/Theirs)\nA singer songwriter and poet that lives in Bushwick with far too many hobbies to list. Thier Latest endeavor is running for City Council in their District. Greatest skill though is telling Humorous stories from their tragic life. \n \n  \n \nPamela Sneed is a New York based poet\, writer and actress. She has been featured in the New York Times Magazine\, The New Yorker\, Time Out\, Bomb\, VIBE\, and on the cover of New York Magazine. In 2015\, she appeared in Art Forum\, Black Book and The Huffington Post. She hosted Queer Art Film at the IFC in New York City. She is author of Imagine Being More Afraid of Freedom Than Slavery\, published by Henry Holt in April 1998\, KONG & other works\, published by Vintage Entity Press (2009) and a chapbook Lincoln (2014). In 2015\, she published the Chaplet Gift with Belladonna. She has performed for sold out houses at Lincoln Center\, P.S. 122\, Ex-Teresa in Mexico City\, The ICA London\, The CCA in Glasgow Scotland\, The Green Room in Manchester England\, BAM Cafe\, Joes Pub\, The Public Theater\, Central Park Summer Stage\, Bronx Summer Stage and recently Columbia University’s Tribute to James Baldwin\, The Whitney Museum and BRIC. She appears in Nikki Giovanni’s\, The One Hundred Best African American Poems. She has taught at Sarah Lawrence as a guest faculty member and is an online Professor at Chicago’s School of the Art Institute teaching Human Rights and Writing Art. She was a mentor/consultant for the poet-Linc program at Lincoln Center and directed a final show at Lincoln Center Atrium in 2016. She has recently presented at a symposium at NYU on Humor\, Politics and the AIDs crisis. In summer 2016\, she has received a residency at Denniston Hill and is an SAIC visiting artist in the MFA low residency program. She is completing a collection of short stories “Anna Mae/For Black Women Survivors\,” and has a forthcoming chapbook Sweet Dreams with Belladonna2017. \n \n \n \n 
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SUMMARY:Union Square Slam presents Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib and Team Selection Finals!
DESCRIPTION:  \n!! TIME !! FOR !! TEAM !! SELECTION !! FINALS !!\n \nfeaturing\nHANIF WILLIS-ABDURRAQIB\n \nARE YOU READY FOR POEMS?!\n \n6:30pm: Writing Workshop by Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib\n7:45pm: Slam\, First Round\n8:30pm: Feature: Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib\n9:00pm: Slam\, Second Round\n \nWriting Workshop\, by donation/pass-the-bag\nFeature/Slam: suggested $7-$10\, collected at door\n \n* * * We’ll also be selling limited edition copies of Union Square Slam’s Inaugural Year Team Slam Chapbook — all proceeds go to getting the team to Nationals this year ♥ * * *\nBureau of General Services – Queer Division\n(inside the LGBT Center)\n \n208 W 13th St.\, #210 (btw 7th and 8th Ave) \nAll Ages // Wheelchair Accessible\nAbout our Feature:\n \nHanif Willis-Abdurraqib is a poet\, essayist\, and cultural critic from Columbus\, Ohio. His first collection of poems\, The Crown Ain’t Worth Much\, was released by Button Poetry in 2016. His first collection of essays\, They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us\, is forthcoming from Two Dollar Radio in winter 2017. \n  \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Open Love New York Poly Movie Night: Carrington
DESCRIPTION:  \nOpen Love NY presents Poly Movie Night\, a FREE series of feature films that focus on the portrayal of consensual / ethical non-monogamy in cinema. This month we’ll be meeting at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division which is located on the second floor of The LGBT Center\, Room 210. \nPlease join us for Carrington (1995)\, directed by Christopher Hampton and starring Emma Thompson (Harry Potter) and Jonathan Pryce (Game of Thrones). \nWe’ll meet at 6:30 pm at the Bureau for pre-screening socializing and start the movie at 7 pm. The more people come\, the more likely we’ll continue the event! The event is free\, although a $10 suggested donation to help fund future events is much appreciated. \nSynopsis: “Who on earth is that ravishing boy?” asks writer Lytton Strachey when he first sees Carrington. Despite his initial disappointment that Carrington is not a boy\, he becomes very fond of her while she falls in love with him. The film is based on the lives of the early twentieth-century painter Dora Carrington and gay Bloomsbury writer Lytton Strachey. Running time: 2 hours. \n  \n 
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170421T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170421T210000
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SUMMARY:Resist\, Rebel\, Transgress: Sarah Schulman & Carmen Machado
DESCRIPTION:  \nIn conjunction with the Bureau’s current exhibition\, The Lesbian Avengers: 25th Anniversary Exhibition: \n“Resist\, Rebel\, Transgress” in co-operation with Lambda Literary. Reading from their work: Avenger co-founder and writer Sarah Schulman\, and writer Carmen Machado. \nSuggested donation of $5 to $10 to benefit both the traveling exhibition The Lesbian Avengers: 25th Anniversary Exhibition and the Bureau. No one turned away for lack of funds. \n  \nCarmen Maria Machado’s debut short story collection\, Her Body and Other Parties\, is forthcoming from Graywolf Press. Her fiction and nonfiction has appeared in The New Yorker\, Granta\, Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy\, Best Horror of the Year\, and Best Women’s Erotica. She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and is the Artist in Residence at the University of Pennsylvania.\n \nSarah Schulman is the author of 18 books\, most recently the novel THE COSMOPOLITANS\, selected by Publishers Weekly as one of the top 20 American novels of 2016\, and CONFLICT IS NOT ABUSE\, which bell hooks called “awesome brilliant.” Sarah is on the advisory board of Jewish Voice for Peace\, faculty advisor to Students for Justice in Palestine\, and on the advisory board of Claudia Rankine’s Racial Imaginary Institute. She is currently writing the book to a musical based on the songs of Joan Armatrading.\n  \n  \nThe Lesbian Avengers: 25th Anniversary Exhibition is on view at the Bureau through June 4\, 2017. \nWe did it\, and we’ll do it again! A multimedia activist exhibit celebrating the Lesbian Avengers\, formed 25 years ago during another surge of hardcore misogyny\, and anti-gay\, white Nationalist hate. Includes still photos\, flyers\, posters\, slide shows\, and video. Were you there? We welcome your participation. This mobile exhibit won’t take on its final form until late April. In June\, it will begin to pop up all over the country. Including a neighborhood near you!\n \nRelated upcoming events:\n \nFriday\, May 12 7 p.m. Lesbian Avengers 25 event series\, “Resist\, Rebel\, Transgress.” A screening of the powerful film\, Nothing Without Us\, by Harriet Hirshorn and Mary Patierno about women fighting AIDS worldwide. \nNothing Without Us is the first and only documentary telling the story of the inspiring women at the forefront of the global AIDS movement. Combining archival footage and interviews with female activists\, scientists and scholars in the US and Africa\, Nothing Without Us: The Women who Will End AIDS reveals how women not only shaped grassroots groups like ACT-UP in the U.S.\, but have also played essential roles in HIV prevention and the treatment access movement throughout sub-Saharan Africa. The film explores the unaddressed dynamics that keep women around the world at risk of HIV\, while introducing the remarkable women who have the answers to ending this 30-year old pandemic.\n \nFriday\, June 2 7 p.m. Lesbian Avengers 25 event series\, “Resist\, Rebel\, Transgress” in co-operation with Lambda Literary. Includes Lesbian Avengers and writers\, Susana Cook\, Ana Simo (co-founder)\, and others. \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Union Square Slam Presents: Kate & Izzi!
DESCRIPTION:  \n*Mark your calendars: the last Tuesday of every month will feature a local musical performer.* \nTonight\, we are beyond excited to bring you the entrancing sounds of this sister duet!\nAbout our Show: \n7:30pm: Sign-ups and Socialize\n8:00pm: Open Mic (Music + Poetry Are Welcomed Here!)\n8:45pm: KATE & IZZI \nAll Ages // Wheelchair Accessible\nOpen Mic // Suggested $5-10 donation\nAbout our Feature: \nKate & Izzi are sisters making music. We grew up in DC\, went to school in New York\, lived in Berlin and taught music in a refugee camp. Now we’re creating original music in our basement. Kate & Izzi will be releasing our first EP this summer. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/union-square-slam-presents-kate-izzi/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170426T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170426T210000
DTSTAMP:20260425T200801
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SUMMARY:The Publishing Triangle Finalists Reading
DESCRIPTION:  \nJoin eight of the best LGBT writers of 2016 on Wednesday\, April 26\, at 7 PM\, at the Bureau of General Services-Queer Division as they read from their work\, all of which are finalists for the prestigious Publishing Triangle and Ferro-Grumley awards to be announced on Thursday\, April 27\, at the Publishing Triangle Awards Ceremony & Reception\, at The Auditorium of the New School\, 66 West 12th street (between Fifth and Sixth Avenues). \n  \nFeaturing: \nKathy Anderson: Bull and Other Stories (Autumn House Press)\, Finalist for the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction \nLucy Jane Bledsoe: A Thin Bright Line (University of Wisconsin Press)\, Finalist for The Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction \nElizabeth M. Edman:  Queer Virtue: What LGBTQ People Know About Life and Love and How It Can Revitalize Christianity (Beacon Press)\, Finalist for the Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction \nMatthew Griffin: Hide (Bloomsbury USA)\, Finalist for the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction \nAlan Lessik: The Troubleseeker (Chelsea Station Editions)\, Finalist for The Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction \nPaul Lisicky\, The Narrow Door (Graywolf Press); finalist for the Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction \nJoe Okonkwo: Jazz Moon (Kensington)\, Finalist for the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction \nWill Schwalbe: Books for Living (Alfred A. Knopf)\, Finalist for the Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction \n  \n \n  \n \nKathy Anderson is the author of Bull and Other Stories (Autumn House Press\, 2016)\, winner of the 2015 Autumn House Press Fiction Prize. In addition to being a finalist for the 2016 Publishing Triangle’s Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction\, Bull and Other Stories was a finalist for the 2016 Lambda Literary Awards and the 2016 Foreword INDIES Awards and was longlisted for The Story Prize\, 2016. She is also a playwright and member of the Dramatists Guild. She lives with her wife in Philadelphia\, PA. \n  \n  \n\n \n\n \nLucy Jane Bledsoe‘s new novel\, A Thin Bright Line\, was just released. She’s the author of a collection of short stories\, a collection of narrative nonfiction\, and four novels\, including The Big Bang Symphony. Her recent short story\, “The We of Me\,” published in The Rumpus\, was chosen by Ploughshares Magazine as the best story published in lit mags that week. \nHer fiction has won a Yaddo Fellowship\, the 2013 Saturday Evening Post Fiction Award\, the Arts & Letters Fiction Prize\, the Sherwood Anderson Prize for Fiction\, a Pushcart nomination\, a California Arts Council Fellowship\, an American Library Association Stonewall Award\, and two National Science Foundation Artists & Writers Fellowships. Her stories have been translated into Japanese\, Spanish\, German\, Dutch\, and Chinese. \nLucy loves teaching workshops\, cooking\, traveling anywhere\, basketball\, doing anything outside\, and telling stories. She’s traveled to Antarctica three times\, as a two-time recipient of the National Science Foundation’s Artists & Writers in Antarctica Fellowship and once as a guest on the Russian ship\, the Akademik Sergey Vavilov. She is one of a tiny handful of people who have stayed at all three American stations in Antarctica. She has also stayed in a number of field camps\, both on the coast and in the Transantarctic mountains\, where scientists are studying penguins\, climate change\, and the Big Bang. \n  \n  \n \n  \nPhotograph by Keryn Lowry\n \nLiz Edman is an Episcopal priest and political strategist.  She is the author of Queer Virtue: What LGBTQ People Know About Life and Love and How It Can Revitalize Christianity (Beacon Press\, 2016).  Liz has lived and worked on the front lines of the most salient contemporary issues where religion meets sexuality\, serving as an inner city hospital chaplain to people with HIV/AIDS from 1989 to 1995 and helping craft political and communications strategies for marriage equality efforts.  In 2017\, she partnered with Parity to create Glitter+Ash Wednesday\, a project to increase the visibility of progressive\, queer-positive Christians and to explore Christian liturgical tradition through a queer lens.   She lives in New York. \n  \n  \n \n  \n\n \nMatthew Griffin is a graduate of Wake Forest University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He has taught writing at the University of Iowa and University of Louisiana at Lafayette\, and he worked for several years as Assistant to the Director of Highlander Research and Education Center\, a renowned hub of grassroots organizing for social justice throughout the South and Appalachia. His first novel Hide was the winner of the 2017 Crook’s Corner Book Prize\, a Stonewall Honor Book\, and longlisted for the PEN/Bingham Prize for debut fiction. His writing has appeared in The Guardian\, Granta\, Electric Literature\, and elsewhere. He was born and raised in North Carolina and now lives with his husband and too many pets in New Orleans\, Louisiana\, where he teaches at Tulane University. \n  \n  \n \n  \n\n \nAlan Lessik is a novelist and writer\, zen practitioner\, amateur figure skater\, and LGBT activist\, non-profit leader and world traveler. His debut novel\, The Troubleseeker\, was published by Chelsea Station Editions in 2016. He has had non-fiction articles and commentaries published in the Advocate\, San Francisco Bay Guardian\, andFrontiers as well as recorded as part of KQED Radio Perspectives. He was the co-founder of Out & Equal\, the Deputy Director of the AIDS Research Institute at UCSF and Treasurer of the Federation of Gay Games. Currently he is the Executive Director of Civicorps. Alan lives in San Francisco. \n  \n  \n\n \nPhoto by Star Black\n \nPaul Lisicky is the author of five books: The Narrow Door (a New York Times Editors’ Choice)\, Unbuilt Projects\, The Burning House\, Famous Builder\, and Lawnboy. His work has appeared in The Atlantic\, Conjunctions\, Fence\, The New York Times\, The Offing\, Ploughshares\, Tin House\, and elsewhere. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown\, among others. He is an associate professor in the MFA Program at Rutgers University-Camden and lives in Brooklyn.\n \n \n\n \n\n \nJoe Okonkwo is a Pushcart Prize nominee who has had stories published in a variety of print and online venues including Promethean\, Penumbra Literary Magazine\, Chelsea Station\, Shotgun Honey\, and Best Gay Stories 2015. In addition to his writing career\, he has worked in theater as an actor\, stage manager\, director\, playwright and youth theatre instructor. He earned an MFA in Creative Writing from City College of New York. Jazz Moon is his debut novel.\n \n \n\n \n\n \nWill Schwalbe has worked in publishing (now with Macmillan); digital media\, as the founder and CEO of Cookstr.com; and as a journalist\, writing for various publications\, including The New York Times and the South China Morning Post. He is the author of the New York Times best seller The End of Your Life Book Club and coauthor\, with David Shipley\, of Send: Why People Email So Badly and How to Do It Better. His most recent book\, Books for Living\, is a memoir about the books that found him when he needed them most. \n  \n  \n \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/the-publishing-triangle-finalists-reading/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170427T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170427T210000
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SUMMARY:Vexilloids: a Protest Flag Workshop with LACTIC Incorporated\, with support from Queer Threads
DESCRIPTION: \nJoin Randi Shandroski and Ickarus of LACTIC Incorporated at the Bureau of General Services-Queer Division on Thursday\, April 27th from 6 ‘til 9PM for a workshop presenting the history of vexilloids which will conclude with the participants’ creation of their own.\n \nPresented in collaboration with John Chaich\, curator of the Queer Threads book and exhibition\, in light of current events\, LGBTQ Pride Month\, and the March on Washington in June.\n \nTextiles and materials will be provided although participants are strongly encouraged to bring some of their own fabrics. No prior sewing experience needed although highly recommended. \n \nPLEASE NOTE:\nThis event is limited to 15 participants. Please RSVP via ickarus@lacticincorporated.com.\n \n \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/vexilloids-a-protest-flag-workshop-with-lactic-incorporated-with-support-from-queer-threads/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170429T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170429T210000
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SUMMARY:EOAGH Spring 2017 Launch!
DESCRIPTION:  \nEOAGH Spring 2017 Launch! \nFeaturing: Abigail Child\, Kenyatta JP Garcia\, Phoenix Nastasha Russell\, Kerry Downey\, Jay Lucero\, Pazia Miller\, and Isabelle Shallcross. \nHosted by Trace Peterson at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division \nSaturday\, April 29 at 7-9 PM\, \nAbigail Child is a media artist and writer who pushes the envelope of sound-image-text relations with humor\, liveliness and complex “plangent\, friable\, nacreous\, lambent\, sinewy…and syncopated” montage. An award-winning filmmaker\, Child is the author of six books of poetry\, among them\, A Motive for Mayhem\, Scatter Matrix and her most recent MOUTH TO MOUTH\, as well as a book of criticism\, THIS IS CALLED MOVING: A Critical Poetics of Film (2005) from University of Alabama Press. \nKenyatta JP Garcia is the author of Slow Living (West Vine Press) and This Sentimental Education. They were raised in Brooklyn but currently live in Albany\, NY. They spend their nights being paid to put boxes on shelves while their days are dedicated to dreaming. \nPhoenix Nastasha Russell is an accomplished poet. Several of her poems have been published in art books like “Rivers of Emotion” and on websites like Poetry.com. She has performed her art work of words in all sorts of venues and has gotten the highest of acclaims. Nastasha’s art oft times incites gut wrenching laughter and at other times intense contemplation as she fires of verse after verse of spellbinding lexis. When she orates her art you can tell that she is truly in her element. Nastasha will entice you and delight you\, just like her namesake she’s like a Phoenix taking flight on wings of searing light….her words will never disappoint cause you’ll know and feel just where she’s coming from. \nKerry Downey (born Fort Lauderdale\, 1979) is an interdisciplinary artist\, writer\, and teacher. Downey’s work explores how we interact with each other physically\, psychologically\, and socio-politically. Encompassing video\, works on paper\, writing\, and performance\, their work reimagines the possibilities and limitations of language\, gender and intimacy. Their work has recently been exhibited at the Queens Museum\, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions\, the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College\, the Drawing Center\, and Taylor Macklin. In 2015\, Downey was awarded the Joan Mitchell Foundation Emerging Artist Grant. They hold a BA from Bard College and an MFA from Hunter College. \nJay Lucero aka Silverfemme is a senior at Hunter College. They were awarded the Martin Luther King Jr. Award from Queensborough Community College. Jay is a poet\, actor\, and activist born and raised in NYC. They are a magical brown oddity that embodies no and all genders. Instagram: @silverfemme. \nPazia Miller is a queer poet and public school teacher living in Brooklyn. She is currently working on two different poetry collections\, one of which is a long form confessional poem in blank verse. Her poetry lives in small corners of the internet and can be found on The Bridge. \nIsabelle Shallcross (she/her) writes poems about the South\, nature\, and being a sad and problematic person under capitalism. Her favorite writers include Chris Kraus\, Ross Gay\, and Mira Gonzalez. She has received a scholarship to study poetry at the Bread Loaf School of English and is originally from Alabama. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/eoagh-spring-2017-launch/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170430T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170430T170000
DTSTAMP:20260425T200801
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SUMMARY:Anti-Fascist Book Club
DESCRIPTION:  \nA reading group for those fighting fascism! We will begin with Hannah Arendt and James Baldwin and expand from there. Hopefully our readings will inspire thoughtful and informed activism.\n \nFor the first meeting we will be discussing the first 100 pages of Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism (available at the Bureau—please support the Bureau by purchasing your copy from us. Thank you!) \n  \nQuestions? Write to Grey Vild: greyvild@gmail.com \n \n \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/anti-fascist-book-club/
LOCATION:NY
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