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SUMMARY:Transgender Children & Youth\, Book Launch & Talk\, with Elijah Nealy
DESCRIPTION:  \nJoin us to celebrate the publication of Transgender Children & Youth: Cultivating Pride and Joy with Families (W. W. Norton\, 2017)\, by Elijah C. Nealy.\n \nDr. Nealy\, a therapist and former deputy executive director of New York City’s LGBT Community Center\, and himself a trans man\, has written the first-ever comprehensive guide to understanding\, supporting\, and welcoming trans kids. Covering everything from family life to school and mental health issues\, as well as the physical\, social\, and emotional aspects of transition\, this book is full of best practices to support trans kids.\n \nThe reception begins at 7\, with a talk by Dr. Nealy at 7:30pm\, followed by a Q&A. Copies of the book will be available for sale.\n  \nElijah C. Nealy\, PhD\, M.Div.\, LCSW has worked extensively with LGBTQ adolescents and adults in both pastoral and social service capacities for the past 25 years. Dr. Nealy taught fulltime at Columbia School of Social Work\, currently is assistant professor of social work at the University of Saint Joseph\, West Hartford\, and for 12 years served the LGBT Community Center in New York City\, initially as Director of their adolescent and adult mental health programs and then as Deputy Director. His clinical practice has focused on transgender and gender diverse youth and their families. An openly identified transgender man\, Dr. Nealy lives in West Hartford with his partner and is the proud father of three amazing young people.\n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/transgender-children-youth-book-launch-talk-with-elijah-nealy/
LOCATION:NY
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SUMMARY:David Pratt's Wallaçonia\, Reading & Signing with guest Don Weise
DESCRIPTION:  \nDavid Pratt reads from his new young adult novel\, Wallaçonia. Following the reading\, independent editor Don Weise will join Pratt in a discussion of the process of writing and editing queer young adult novels. \nCopies of Wallaçonia will be available for purchase at the event.\nTo reserve a copy of Wallaçonia\, please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com. \n  \n \nDavid Pratt is the author of the novels Bob the Book (Lambda Literary Award winner) and Looking After Joey. His short stories are collected in the volume My Movie. He has performed worked for the stage in New York City at HERE\, Dixon Place\, the Cornelia Street Cafe and in the New York International Fringe Festival. He lives in Michigan. \n \n  \nDon Weise has more than twenty years publishing experience\, the majority of which has been devoted to LGBT literature. Don was named by Publishers Weekly as an industry “Change Maker” and listed among Out Magazine’s “100 Most Intriguing Gay Men and Lesbians” of the year. Weise is currently the founder/publisher of the LGBT press Querelle Books.\n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/david-pratts-wallaconia-reading-signing-with-guest-don-weise/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170506T190000
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SUMMARY:Dandy Darkly's Six Hundred and Sixty-Six Tales of Sex and Death! A Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:  \nNYC’s maestro of the macabre is dragging his tawdry tales of sex and death from the stage and on to the page. Dandy Darkly will be on hand at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division to sell some books\, sign some books and do a selected reading of tales from his brand new book\, and to kick off his upcoming USA tour. \nDandy Darkly’s Six Hundred and Sixty-Six Tales of Sex and Death! (Volume One) is a collection of short stories from Dandy’s critically acclaimed\, queer storytelling shows. The book also features illustrations by Dandy Darkly. The shindig kicks off at 7pm with a reading of Dandy’s favorite tales at 8pm. \n  \nDandy Darkly lives in Brooklyn\, New York with his husband and cats. “The Homer of the 21st century” (Washington Square News)\, Dandy is an emergent queer performance artist and cabaret storyteller. He has performed internationally at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe\, the London Horror Festival and the historic Royal Vauxhall Tavern. The East Village is Dandy’s playground\, with annual shows at Under St. Marks\, the Queerly Festival and Dixon Place. His critically acclaimed work has been described as “fantastical fairytale horror\, equal parts Tennessee Williams\, Edgar Allen Poe and Bruce La Bruce” (Time Out) and “a cross between Pam Ayres\, Liberace and Tales from the Crypt.” (The Scotsman). This “decidedly wicked storyteller” (New York Times) is “simply one of the most thoughtful\, hilarious and harrowing queer talents at work today.” (Scotsgay Magazine). \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/dandy-darklys-six-hundred-and-sixty-six-tales-of-sex-and-death-a-book-launch/
LOCATION:NY
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SUMMARY:Undercover Girl: The Lesbian Informant Who Helped the FBI Bring Down the Communist Party
DESCRIPTION: \nJoin us for the launch of Undercover Girl: The Lesbian Informant Who Helped the FBI Bring Down the Communist Party\, by Lisa E. Davis.\n  \nThis is not the story of a bad lesbian. This is the story of a bad system and a terrible moment in American history we call “the McCarthy era.” The American Left never recovered. Our focus is Angela Calomiris (1916-95)\, a Village photographer well paid by the FBI to spy on the New York Photo League and the American Communist Party (1942-49). We know about her because she broke her cover to testify at the first Smith Act trial (1949) of the Party leadership accused of “conspiracy to advocate the overthrow of the US gov’t by force and violence.” They went to prison while Angela became a Red Scare celebrity with a (ghost-written) book about her patriotic service\, then tried to get a big-time job in photography out of the FBI. She later retreated to Provincetown where she owned several properties–Angel’s Landing was one–and kept her previous career as an informant a deep\, dark secret. A selection of vintage photos accompanies this presentation.\n \nLisa E Davis has lived in Greenwich Village for many years. Her latest book is “Undercover Girl: The Lesbian FBI Informant Who Helped the FBI Bring Down the Communist Party.” Her novel “Under the Mink\,” a film noir tale of gay and lesbian entertainers in mob-owned Village nightclubs of the 1940s\, was re-issued in 2015\, and has been optioned for a TV series/film. With a PhD in Comparative Literature\, Davis taught for years in SUNY and CUNY\, published numerous essays\, and lectured widely on New World and European literary topics. High points in her career include meeting Fidel Castro and almost drowning in the Colorado River.\n  \n  \n \n \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/undercover-girl-the-lesbian-informant-who-helped-the-fbi-bring-down-the-communist-party/
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SUMMARY:Get Healthy: improving LGBT health through film
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe 2015 short film\, Vanessa Goes to the Doctor\, turned LGBT cultural competence training on its head\, changing the way healthcare providers understand and treat their LGBT patients all in 8 entertaining minutes. Please come to a special screening of Vanessa and a fundraising kickoff for the production of three more films for this important and potentially life-saving film series.\nMeet the filmmakers who will talk about why they used this approach and learn about what they plan to do in continuing this series.\n \nReception 7 PM \nScreening 7:30 PM \n  \nliz margolies\, LCSW is the founder and executive director of the National LGBT Cancer Network. She produced this video\, along with filmsfornonprofits.org\, as part of a larger cultural competence training curriculum for health and human services providers\, presenting it at hospitals\, organizations and conferences across the country. In 2014\, liz was chosen as one of the OUT100 for her work. \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/get-healthy-improving-lgbt-health-through-film/
LOCATION:NY
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SUMMARY:Resist\, Rebel\, Transgress: Nothing Without Us Screening
DESCRIPTION:  \nIn conjunction with the Bureau’s current exhibition\, The Lesbian Avengers: 25th Anniversary Exhibition: \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  \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 event: \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  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/resist-rebel-transgress-nothing-without-us-screening/
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SUMMARY:TELL 34: Beginnings
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. \nBEGINNINGS is the theme of the thirty-fourth installment of TELL. Featuring Dorrell Clark\, Matthew K. Johnson\, and Justine Williams. \n  \n$10 suggested donation to support the Bureau and the performers. 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 \nDorrell Clark was born in New York City (Harlem Hospital) and grew up in Winsor\, North Carolina. She received her A.A.S. degree\, at Bronx Community College; majoring in Chemistry. Dorrell joined the US Army ranking as Private First Class. After 26 years of employment with NYC’s MTA\, she retired in 2011. Without a breather she jumped right into volunteering her services with:{BAAD} Bronx Academy of Arts & Dance\, SOUNDVIEW COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM\, MISTAH COLES PRODUCTION COMPANY and Susana Cook’s Co. Dorrell understands the rhythm and importance of preparation\, hard work\, and respect. Applying these values to her endeavors by making an inventory of resources\, planning activities and working on her goals daily. Her past experiences has completely supported her development and she is thankful for it. \n  \n  \n \nMatthew K. Johnson is a playwright\, poet\, storyteller and fiction writer originally from Honolulu\, Hawaii. He has been a featured performer at numerous venues around New York City\, including the Bowery Poetry Club\, the C.O.W. Theater and Dixon Place\, and was the creator and host of “Tongue Lashing”\, a literary series at The Phoenix in the East Village that ran from 2007 to 2010. He lives in Brooklyn. \n  \n \nJustine is a performer-creator-educator working across disciplines and fields of study. She is founder and current Den Mother to Queer Scouts\, a civic performance project that takes up the traditional Boy and Girl Scouts\, re-imagining their handbooks\, histories and practices through a queer\, and creative/critical/activist lens. Her work as a creator-performer has been presented at the Public Theater\, Ars Nova\, Yale Rep\, Berkeley Rep\, the Metropolitan Museum of Art\, Queens Museum\, and her film work has presented at Maryland Film Festival\, MOMA’s New Directors/New Films\, Rotterdam Film Festival and others. She was a 2016 Queer Arts Mentorship fellow in Performance\, and is currently an Artist-in-Residence at Abrons Arts with the Queer Scouts. Justine teaches clown\, play\, games and creation at Yale School of Drama\, as well as within traditional and alternative learning spaces around the globe. MFA: CUNY/Brooklyn College in Performance and Interactive Media Arts\nwww.play-mountain.org \n  \n  \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Queer Collage Party
DESCRIPTION:  \nIt’s time for another Queer Collage Party! We provide the glue sticks and scissors\, you provide the pictures and paper/cardboard. 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 afternoon. You are encouraged but not required to bring a little snack to share — chips\, tangerines\, grapes\, hummus\, whatever. \nSuggested donation of $10 to benefit the Bureau. No one turned away for lack of funds. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170518T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170518T210000
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SUMMARY:Fierce Hearts: a reading of fierce and heartfelt poetry by Cheryl Boyce Taylor\, Joy Ladin\, and Lesléa Newman
DESCRIPTION:  \n  \nThe poets will read both published work and work from soon-to-be released collections. A book signing will follow the reading. \n  \n \nCheryl Boyce-Taylor is the recipient of the 2015 Barnes and Noble Writers For Writers Award\, and the founder and curator of Calypso Muse and the Glitter Pomegranate Performance Series. Cheryl earned an MFA in Poetry from Stonecoast: The University of Southern Maine\, and an MSW from Fordham University. She is the author of three collections of poetry: Raw Air\, Night When Moon Follows\, and Convincing the Body. A poetry judge for The New York Foundation for the Arts\, and The Astraea Foundation\, she has facilitated poetry workshops for Cave Canem\, Poets & Writers\, Poets House\, and The Caribbean Literary and Cultural Center. Her poetry has been commissioned by Jacob’s Pillow\, The Joyce Theater\, and the National Endowment for the Arts for Ronald K. Brown: Evidence\, A Dance Company. Her work has been published in Callaloo\, Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe\, Pluck!\, Killings Journal of Arts & Letters\, Adrienne\, and Prairie Schooner. Her fourth book Arrival\, is forthcoming from Northwestern University Press in 2017. \n  \n  \n \nJoy Ladin is the author of seven books of poetry\, including Lambda Literary Award finalists Impersonation and Transmigration; her eighth book\, Fireworks in the Graveyard\, is forthcoming in fall 2018 from Headmistress Press. Her memoir of gender transition\, Through the Door of Life\, was a 2012 National Jewish Book Award finalist. Her work has been recognized with a National Endowment of the Arts fellowship and a Fulbright Scholarship\, among other honors. She holds the Gottesman Chair in English at Yeshiva University. Her poems and essays are available at joyladin.com. \n  \n  \n \nLesléa Newman is a poet\, fiction writer\, essayist\, children’s book writer and anthologist whose 70 books include the children’s classic\, Heather Has Two Mommies and the poetry collections\, Still Life with Buddy\, Nobody’s Mother\, Signs of Love\, and October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard (novel-in-verse) which received a Stonewall Honor from the American Library Association. Ms. Newman’s literary awards include poetry fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Massachusetts Artists Foundation; the Burning Bush Poetry Prize; and second place runner-up in the Solstice Literary Journal poetry competition. Her poetry has been published in Spoon River Poetry Review\, Cimarron Review\, Evergreen Chronicles\, Lilith Magazine\, Kalliope\, The Sun\, Bark Magazine\, Sow’s Ear Poetry Review\, Seventeen Magazine and others. From 2008-2010 she served as the poet laureate of Northampton\, Massachusetts. Her most recent poetry collection\, I Carry My Mother\, received the 2016 Golden Crown Literary Society Poetry Award (“Goldie”) and was named a “Must-Read” title by the Massachusetts Center for the Book. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170520T190000
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SUMMARY:Martin Duberman Reads from Jews Queers Germans
DESCRIPTION:  \nMartin Duberman returns to the Bureau for a reading from his latest novel\, Jews Queers Germans. \n  \nJews Queers Germans recreates the intimate milieu around Kaiser Wilhelm II of pre-Weimar Germany\, a time period during which queer life flourished —albeit secretly—throughout the major cities of Germany. The story revolves around three men: Prince Philipp von Eulenburg\, Kaiser Wilhelm II’s closest friend\, who becomes the subject of a notorious 1907 trial for homosexuality; Magnus Hirschfeld\, a famed Jewish sexologist who gives testimony at the trial; and Count Harry Kessler\, a leading proponent of modernism and the keeper of a famous set of diaries that lay out in intimate detail the major social\, artistic\, and political events of the day and allude as well to his own homosexuality. Adhering closely to the historical record\, Duberman portrays the gay life of a very upper-crust intellectual milieu at a time when old-world mores still mattered\, and yet art and the social sciences were spiraling quickly toward the modern.\n \nPRAISE FOR JEWS QUEERS GERMANS:\n  \n“Riveting. Stunning. By turns exhilarating and harrowing. At the height of his imaginative and interpretive powers\, award-winning author Martin Duberman elaborates the rich\, complex promises and perils of German life and politics in advance of World Wars I and II\, with ghostly echoes reverberating across the Atlantic to this very day.” —John Howard\, author of White Sepulchres and Men Like That\n \n \n“With a bold\, grand vision and an unparalleled grasp of the endless details that make up the arc of history\, Martin Duberman elucidates and illuminates how sex\, art\, hatred\, violence\, and intrigue shape a national politic. His sprawling canvas here—populated by Kaiser Wilhelm II\, Isadora Duncan\, Magnus Hirschfeld\, and Ernst Röhm among many others—is late nineteenth century to pre–World War II Germany. The implications and resonances of this story are\, however\, frighteningly contemporary. Sweeping and poetic\, minutely observed and realistic\, Jews Queers Germans is a brilliant window to the past that shows us the present and possibly the future.” —Michael Bronski\, author of A Queer History of the United States and Professor of Practice in Media and Activism at Harvard University \n \n“In the new and daring novel/history Jews Queers Germans\, Martin Duberman unleashes his awesome powers to tell a story of friendship\, friction\, and the flourishing of homosexual relationships during the belle époque.  Focusing on Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany and his closest friends\, Duberman’s creative narrative allows us to eavesdrop on some of what might have been their private conversations while we also witness rising public intolerance toward Jews and queers in Germany. As always\, Duberman engages and illuminates the past brilliantly while providing guidance for the present.” —Marcia M. Gallo\, author of “No One Helped”: Kitty Genovese\, New York City\, and the Myth of Urban Apathy \n\n  \n\n\n\nDistinguished Professor of History Emeritus\, CUNY\, MARTIN DUBERMAN is the author of some two dozen books\, including Paul Robeson; Cures; Black Mountain; the novel Haymarket (a Seven Stories book); Howard Zinn; Stonewall; and Hold Tight Gently. Duberman is the recipient of numerous awards\, including the Bancroft Prize\, the Vernon Rice Drama Desk Award (for his play In White America)\, three Lambda Literary Awards\, a Special Award from The National Academy of Arts and Letters for his “contributions to literature\,” the 2007 Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Historical Association\, and the Whitehead Lifetime Achievement Award in Non-Fiction. He has also been a Finalist for both the National Book Award (for James Russell Lowell) and the Pulitzer Prize (for The Worlds of Lincoln Kirstein). In 2012 Amherst College awarded him an honorary degree\, Doctor of Humane Letters.\n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/martin-duberman-reads-from-jews-queers-germans/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170523T183000
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SUMMARY:Save The Date: Tim "Toaster" Henderson (workshop and feature)
DESCRIPTION:  \nNEW YORK CITY\, YOU LUCKY DUCKIES!!! \nNationally-acclaimed performance poet Tim “Toaster” Henderson is dropping in to host a writing workshop and feature at Union Square Slam!! \nSAVE THE DATE: May 23rd\, 2017 \n6:30pm: Writing Workshop w/ Toaster\n7:30pm: sign-up and socialize\n8:00pm: Feature and Show \nSuggested Donation:\nWorkshop or Show: $5-$10\nWorkshop and Show: $10-$20 \nAll Ages // Wheelchair Accessible \nAbout our Feature: \nToaster\, a performance poet\, mural artist and musician\, Toaster uses a kaleidoscope of artistic vision to create\, express and teach. Toaster is an accomplished slam poet as well\, competing for the Berkeley\, Bay Area Unified and Mental Graffiti slam teams at the National Poetry Slam. Toaster was also crowned grand slam champion in Berkeley (2012) and Chicago (2016)\, ranking 9th in the world at the 2016 Individual Poetry Slam. He has been featured on many stages across North America including Lexus Versus and Flow\, National Public Radio\, and in front of the most cutthroat audiences of all – teenagers. Aside from pursuing his own craft\, Toaster works in Chicago schools as a teaching artist for Young Chicago Authors\, as well as facilitating his own workshops in elementary schools\, high schools\, universities and other educational settings. You can find Toaster’s work on youtube\, in your local dive bar and by following him on social media: \nFacebook- Facebook.com/ToasterPoetry\nTwitter -hewhotoastsbrEd\nInstagram – toastersmodernlife \n 
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170524T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170524T210000
DTSTAMP:20260425T200756
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SUMMARY:Queer Travelers’ Tales with Andrew Evans and Alden Jones
DESCRIPTION: \nJoin queer travel writers Andrew Evans and Alden Jones as they discuss their books The Black Penguin and The Blind Masseuse. Andrew Evans has completed more than thirty assignments for National Geographic\, reporting from all seven continents\, and Alden Jones has lived\, worked\, and traveled in more than forty countries. Reception\, reading\, discussion\, Q&A session. \n \nReception 7 pm\, presentation 7:30 \n \n\n \n\nAndrew Evans lives in Washington\, DC. and has completed more than thirty assignments for National Geographic\, reporting from all seven continents. He has received two Lowell Thomas Awards from the Society of American Travel Writers\, two Folio Awards\, and two awards from the National Travel Journalism Association. He gained a worldwide following when he made a 12\,000­mile journey by bus\, from National Geographic headquarters in Washington all the way to Antarctica.\n \n \n \n\n \n\nAlden Jones lives in Boston and has traveled\, worked\, and lived in more than forty countries\, including as a WorldTeach volunteer in Costa Rica\, a program director in Cuba\, and a professor with Semester at Sea. Her book The Blind Masseuse is now in paperback. It was a finalist for the best travel book award of the North American Travel Journalists Association\, winner of the Bisexual Book Award for memoir\, and was one of eight finalists for a PEN Award for the Art of the Essay. \n  \n \n \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/queer-travelers-tales-with-andrew-evans-and-alden-jones/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170525T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170525T210000
DTSTAMP:20260425T200756
CREATED:20170413T212103Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170508T164531Z
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SUMMARY:Queer\, There\, and Everywhere: Book Launch & Reading
DESCRIPTION:  \nStart celebrating Pride early this year! Join activist Sarah Prager to hear incredible stories from her new queer history book\, Queer\, There\, and Everywhere: 23 People Who Changed the World\, out on May 23 from HarperCollins. After a reading\, Sarah will answer your questions and sign copies of the book. Copies will be available for sale. \nSuggested donation of $10 to benefit the Bureau. No one turned away for lack of funds. Free for ages 18 and under! \n“Queer\, There\, and Everywhere is so conversational\, fast paced\, and infused with pop culture sensibilities that it tricks you into forgetting it’s a series of (incredibly timely) biographies. An absolute must-read for people interested in their queer forebears\, or for anyone who doesn’t already know the majesty of Elagabalus\, Empress of Rome.”\n—Meredith Russo\, author of Stonewall Award-winner If I Was Your Girl \n“Accessible\, irreverent\, and meticulously researched\, at times heartbreaking and just as often wildly funny\, this stunningly diverse survey of queer histories is a nourishing and inspiring addition to our arsenal of queer possibilities. Should be required reading for all of us\, queer or not.”\n—Sarah McCarry\, author of the LAMBDA Award-nominated About a Girl \n“Sarah Prager does the impossible: she takes several millennia of complicated history and makes it accessible and fun. Prager tells us twenty-three fascinating stories\, some of them new twists on familiar ones (like Abraham Lincoln) as well as ones about figures that history has nearly forgotten\, mixing light-hearted humor with impeccable scholarship so that the reader keeps turning the page to see ‘what’s next.’ In short\, Prager combines fun and facts to present an unforgettable overview of two thousand years of queer history.”\n–Kevin Jennings\, Founder of GLSEN\, and Former Assistant Deputy Secretary of the US Department of Education\, and author of Becoming Visible: A Reader in Gay and Lesbian History for High School & College Students \n  \n \nSarah Prager began her life as an activist when she came out at the age of 14. Since then\, queer history has been her passion. In 2013 she launched the free mobile app Quist\, which provides daily queer history stories to thousands of people around the world. Last year she became a mom and lives with her wife and daughter in Connecticut. This week her second baby was born – Her first book – Queer\, There\, and Everywhere: 23 People Who Changed the World. \n  \n \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/queer-there-and-everywhere-book-launch-reading/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170528T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170528T160000
DTSTAMP:20260425T200756
CREATED:20170517T175449Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170526T165514Z
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SUMMARY:Anti-Fascist Book Club Reads James Baldwin's Going to Meet the Man
DESCRIPTION:  \nA reading group for those fighting fascism! \nHopefully our readings will inspire thoughtful and informed activism. \n  \nJoin us for our second meeting on Sunday\, May 28th\, from 2 to 4 PM. We will discuss James Baldwin’s Going to Meet the Man. (Hint: if you don’t have time to read the whole thing just read the title piece!)\n \nIn our first meeting in April we discussed the first 100 pages of Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism.\n \nJames Baldwin’s Going to Meet the Man is available at the Bureau—please support the Bureau by purchasing your copy from us. Thank you!\n \nQuestions? Ideas for future readings?\nWrite to Grey Vild: greyvild@gmail.com\n \n \n \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/anti-fascist-book-club-baldwin-going-to-meet-the-man/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170530T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170530T213000
DTSTAMP:20260425T200756
CREATED:20170522T164925Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170522T164925Z
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SUMMARY:Union Square Slam Presents: OOMPA
DESCRIPTION:  \n*Mark your calendars: the last Tuesday of every month will feature a local musical performer.*\n \nTonight we have the helluv incomparable Oompa coming through. Prepare to unlearn whatever you thought you knew about hip hop and lyricism\, cuz Oomp gon’ learn you real quick.\n \nAbout our Show: \n7:30pm: Sign-ups and Socialize\n8:00pm: Open Mic (Music + Poetry Are Welcomed Here!)\n8:45pm: Oompa \nAll Ages // Wheelchair Accessible\nOpen Mic // Suggested $5-10 donation\nAbout our Feature:\n \n \nOompa is a nationally-renowned\, boston-born\, poet\, educator\, and lyricist who is forever representing the queer\, black\, orphaned\, hood kids an’ nem. Oompa is the winner of the 2017 Women of the World Poetry Slam\, and a finalist at the 2017 National Poetry Slam. Her work has been featured in Huffington Post\, Allston Pudding\, Mass Apparel\, and KillerBoomBox among others. Oompa’s debut album\, Nov. 3\, was named one of Dig Boston’s Top 30 Local Albums of 2016\, one of Allston Pudding’s Favorite albums of 2016\, and her sound has compared to that of Lauryn Hill\, J.Cole\, and Talib Kweli. Most notably\, she is her nephews’ favorite of all time. Currently based in Boston\, MA\, Oompa is an organizer\, mentor\, and coach\, as well as a member of media brand and collective Hipstory\, and co-slam master of The House House Slam.\n \nTwitter: @oompoutloud\nInstagram: @oompoutloud\nFacebook: Oompa\nTumblr: oompoutloud.tumblr.com\nE-mail: oompoutloud@gmail.com/booking.oompa@gmail.com Soundcloud: @oompoutloud \n  \n  \n \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/union-square-slam-presents-oompa/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170531T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170531T213000
DTSTAMP:20260425T200756
CREATED:20170513T183023Z
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SUMMARY:OLNY's Poly Movie Night: Love Songs
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 at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division. \nPlease join us for Love Songs/Les Chansons d’Amour (2007)\, directed by Christophe Honoré and starring Ludivine Sagnier (Swimming Pool)\, Louis Garrel\, and Clotilde Hesme. \nWe’ll meet at 6:30 pm at the Bureau (in room 210 of The Lesbian\, Gay\, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center at 208 West 13th Street) 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: Julie and Ismaël live together. Ismaël’s work colleague Alice sometimes joins them in bed. Julie isn’t sure she’s happy with the situation. Ismaël is sometimes jealous of Julie and Alice’s relationship. And they all sing about it. Running time: 1 hour 31 minutes. In French with English subtitles. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/olnys-poly-movie-night-love-songs/
LOCATION:NY
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