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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180102T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180102T210000
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SUMMARY:Negative Press Reading + Launch
DESCRIPTION: \nNew year\, new cultural horizon! Negative Press\, a gay Marxist poetry collective\, invites you to an evening of poems and other provocations. \n \n \nKay Gabriel is a minor internet personality.\n \nZachary LaMalfa is a minor internet personality.\n \nDavid W. Pritchard is a minor internet personality.\n \nA.B. Robinson is a minor internet personality.\n \nCam Scott is a minor internet personality. \n \nArt by Cam Scott\n \n \n \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/negative-press-reading-launch/
LOCATION:Online event\, New York\, NY\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180103T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180103T213000
DTSTAMP:20260430T234123
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SUMMARY:OLNY Poly Movie Night: Three of Hearts: Kinsey
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 our regular venue\, the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division. \nPlease join us for Kinsey (2004)\, written and directed by Bill Condon and starring Liam Neeson\, Laura Linney\, and Peter Sarsgaard. \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: When Indiana University Professor Alfred Kinsey turns his attention from insects to the scientific study of human sexuality\, his controversial work has a profound impact on society’s attitudes toward sex. Along the way\, he makes discoveries about himself as well. Running time: 1 hour 58 minutes. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/olny-poly-movie-night-kinsey/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180111T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180111T210000
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SUMMARY:Artist Adriana Varella in conversation with curator Denise Carvalho
DESCRIPTION: \nJoin us for a conversation with our current exhibiting artist\, Adriana Varella\, and curator Denise Carvalho.\n \nVarella’s exhibition\, Getting Lost in Oneself (PrOceSS)\, is on view at the Bureau through January 21\, 2018.\n \nImage: Adriana Varella\, CRACKS 1\, metal barricade collected in the streets of NYC (5ft x 6ft).\n \n \nDr. Denise Carvalho is a Brazilian-born curator\, art critic and scholar who lives and works in the United States. She holds a Ph.D. in cultural studies\, M.A. in art history from the University of California\, Davis\, a Masters in anthropology from Hunter College\, and a B.F.A. from the School of Visual Arts.\n \nAs a curator\, her exhibitions include “Amor” (2016) at Oi Futuro in Rio de Janeiro\, Brazil; “ Love on the Edge” (2015) at Galeria Arsenal in Bialystok\, Poland; “Beyond Limits” at the Art Institute in San Diego and as part of the Postglobal Biennial (2013); the 3rd Mediations Biennale in Poznan (2012)\, with exhibitions at the National Museum\, the Jesuit Gallery\, the Zamek Culture Centre\, and the Archdiocesan Museum; “Innerspacing the City” (2013) at the Chelsea Museum (2011); “Minimal Differences” (2010) at White Box\, NYC; “Intangible Interferences” (2010) at Momenta Art in Brooklyn\, NY; “Bodies of Dispersion” (2010) at Galeria Arsenal\, Bialystok\, Poland; “A Part of No-Part” (2010) at the Chelsea Museum\, NYC. She is also the curator of “Preemptive Resistances” at Westport Arts Center (2009)\, “Holy Holes” at Dumbo Arts Center (2008)\, and “Infinitu et Contini” at Smack Mellon (2007). She has curated earlier international exhibitions and symposia\, such as “Hybrid Dwellings” at Arsenal Gallery in Poland (2001) and “Fairy-Tale” (1999) at the Center for Metamedia in the Czech Republic. Her curatorial projects explore current theoretical issues through multimedia works.\n \nAs an art critic\, Dr. Carvalho has published numerous articles and reviews in art magazines and journals\, including Art in America\, Sculpture\, Art Nexus\, NKA Journal of African Contemporary Art\, Afterimage\, and The International Journal of Art and Society\, as well as in several artists’ catalogues. Dr. Carvalho is also an independent scholar and has taught at various universities in the United States\, including Indiana University in Bloomington\, Ohio State University\, School of Visual Arts\, Fashion Institute of Technology\, Institute of Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts\, New Jersey City University\, Pratt Institute\, San Francisco State University\, Humboldt State\, and CSI CUNY. \n \n \n \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/artist-adriana-varella-in-conversation-with-curator-denise-carvalho/
LOCATION:Online event\, New York\, NY\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180113T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180113T213000
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SUMMARY:TELL 40: First Look/Fresh Start
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. \nFirst Look/Fresh Start is the theme of the 40th installment of TELL\, with special guest host Topher Gross.  Featuring Harvey Katz\, Mariah MacCarthy\, Emily Ray Reese\, and Wazina Zondon.\n \n$10 suggested donation to support the Bureau and the performers. No one turned away for lack of funds. \n  \nTopher Gross (photo by Asher Torres)\nTopher Gross is a born and bred Brooklyn kid who learned the art of storytelling from his Jewish grandma\, Edith. He is an appearance enhancement artist aka hairstylist\, party thrower+ yenta\, aspiring cartoon voice over actor and marijuana dispensary owner. Topherhas performed stories at Tell\, Tell It\, at various burlesque shows\, dinner tables\, on live journal and a blog for original plumbing magazine. He was featured on the Graham Norton show as the “big gay following” of Kylie Minogue. \n  \n \nHarvey Katz first became a woman at a turquoise and peach colored Bat-Mitzvah in Miami in the early 90’s before coming into his manhood in a small city in Georgia. He spent 13 years on the road as a spoken word poet and is currently maybe pursuing a career in nursing. His lack of boundaries and general impulsiveness means he’s collected a story or two over the years. Catch him hosting Take Two Storytelling or trying to convince people to buy his hats on Etsy. This is life post poetry career. \n  \n \nMariah MacCarthy writes plays\, Young Adult novels\, essays\, overly-revealing one-woman shows\, and sexts. She’s won some awards\, her favorite being the Doric Wilson Independent Playwright Award. She’s an angry queer and she loves you. \n  \n \n Emily Ray Reese is a Lesbian from a ghost town in the mountains of New Mexico. She came to New York ten years ago after volunteering for the Peace Corps in El Salvador. Reese is a filmmaker by day and a dance floor demolisher by night. \n  \n \nWazina Zondon is a queer Muslim Afghan raised in New York City. She is the co-writer and co-performer of Coming Out Muslim: Radical Acts of Love\, a personal storytelling performance capturing the stories and experiences of being queer and Muslim. \nWhen she’s not agitating and reclaiming a truly radical Islam\, she teaches Sex Ed at an all-girl\, high school in Brooklyn\, NY. She also co-hosts Follow that Flannel\, a silly yet informative sexuality podcast. \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/tell-40-first-lookfresh-start/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180114T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180114T180000
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SUMMARY:'Queer City: A Reader' book launch & 'Queer City' film screening
DESCRIPTION:  \nBodies that listen\, dance\, resist\, manifest and become visible in our contemporary city. Bodies that dance the sounds of funk music\, rap\, samba\, voguing\, waacking\, among other sonic styles of contestation\, resistance and struggle. Through talks\, dinners\, experiences and exchanges\, a city seeks to discuss how we live\, work\, share and survive the different LGBT + stories and realities… and how we understand all this through a queer\, intersectional and non-normative lens?\n  \nThe mini-documentary Cidade Queer – Queer City\, directed by Danila Bustamante takes the name of a 2016 site-specific\, collective curatorial process in São Paulo\, Brazil. The overall process\, film\, and related publication\, Queer City: A Reader were organized by Lanchonete.org\, ArtsEverywhere/Musagetes\, EXPLODE! and many other partners. Queer City: A Reader contains an account of the site-specific program in São Paulo\, but also invites other contributors at the intersection of the contemporary city and queer thought. The Reader is one of the first books out of Publication Studio São Paulo (in partnership w/ Publication Studio Guelph housed at the Musagetes/ArtsEverywhere office).\n  \nCopies of Queer City: A Reader will be available for purchase at the event for $20. \nTo reserve a copy of Queer City: A Reader please write to the Bureau at contact@bgsqd.com. \n \nhttps://publication-studio.myshopify.com/products/queer-city-a-reader\n  \nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opTx-OShKvI\n  \nEvent image: photograph from Pato Hebert‘s Ataqueridas series\n  \nLanchonete.org is an artist-led\, cultural platform focused on how people live and work in\, navigate and share the contemporary city with the Center of São Paulo as our outlook. It gets its name from the ubiquitous lunch counters—convivial\, fluorescent-lit\, open-walled\, laborious\, points of commerce—that populate almost every street corner. Lanchonete.org is about the issues that big cities face\, the different forms of ‘urban power’\, and the Right to the City\, but not insomuch as to define these constructs…rather to stretch the platform as far as is necessary to consider diverse viewpoints. Lanchonete.org takes its cue from French philosopher and sociologist Henri Lefebvre’s Le Droit à la ville (1968)\, or one that “demand[s] a transformed and renewed access to urban life.” \n \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/queer-city-a-reader-book-launch-queer-city-film-screening/
LOCATION:Online event\, New York\, NY\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180119T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180119T210000
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SUMMARY:Queer Sex Magic 101
DESCRIPTION:  \nIf sex is sacred\, your body is a temple. Join writer\, witch and tarot reader Ashley Young for an evening of learning how to worship It! This workshop provides hands on tools on how to incorporate magic into queer sex practices. From creating altars with candles and crystals\, using divination such as tarot and developing sex rituals\, participants will examine how to call on spiritual practice to enhance one’s queer relationship with themselves and others. This workshop will also look at alternative relationships and sex practices such as polyamory and kink.\n  \nSpace is limited to 20 participants. The $10 fee will be shared equally between the instructor and the Bureau. \nTickets:\nhttps://www.artful.ly/store/events/14193 \n  \n \nAshley Young is a Black Queer genderqueer (pronouns they/them/their) writer\, teacher\, witch and tarot reader. They are a spirituous\, pagan and Santeria practioner reading cards through their small business Black Unicorn Tarot and in house at Catland Books in Brooklyn\, NY. They identify as a polyamorous\, kinky\, Dominant Mama switch. Their work has been published in three anthologies and several online journals on topics such as POC LGBTQ issues\, mental illness\, sex/body positivity and more. Ashley lives in Brooklyn with a fellow witch and two sweet\, wild cats. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/queer-sex-magic-101/
LOCATION:Online event\, New York\, NY\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180120T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180120T210000
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SUMMARY:Ron Amato & Models Discuss His Photo Book "THE BOX"
DESCRIPTION: \nJoin fine art photographer and Fashion Institute of Technology Associate Professor of Photography Ron Amato for a brief presentation of his striking\, sexy\, and sensual book of male nudes\, The Box. \n \nFollowing Amato’s presentation\, he and several of the models featured in The Box will answer questions\, and Amato will sign copies of the book.\n  \nTo reserve a copy of the book please contact the Bureau at contact@bgsqd.com.\n \n \nRon Amato is an full-time Associate Professor of Photography at New York City’s FIT (The Fashion Institute of Technology)\, where he has been for the last 12 years\, 6 of which as the Chairperson of the Photography Department.\n \nHe has exhibited extensively in the US and internationally\, been published in a number of anthologies and photographed for fitness and sports magazines\, including Men’s Health\, Men’s Fitness and Sports Illustrated. He lives in Brooklyn with his husband Seth and their two Fox Terriers\, Ben and Zeb. Visit Amato’s classy\, but NSFW website at www.ronamato.com.\n  \n  \n \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/ron-amato-models-discuss-his-photo-book-the-box/
LOCATION:Online event\, New York\, NY\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180125T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180125T210000
DTSTAMP:20260430T234123
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SUMMARY:Opening reception for MARK JOHN SMITH’S - MAN MANY MEN
DESCRIPTION:  \nMARK JOHN SMITH’S – MAN MANY MEN  \nJanuary 25th – March 18th 2018 \nOpening reception on Thursday\, January 25th\, 6-9 PM \n*Bring a pen – this work needs defacing. \nThe Bureau of General Services – Queer Division is proud to present Man Many Men\, a solo exhibition of new works by artist Mark John Smith. \nDownload Press Release here. \nPress release \nPress disease \nPress release \nPress please \n  \nBritish gay \nLanguage \nDyslexia* \nEvery day \n  \n*sic \nsick \nsix \n  \nIn a series of new interactive and immersive works\, Smith questions the conflicting lexicon of the everyday in relation to spaces of intimacy. His work explores the manner in which prejudice and bias are enacted through the self – via both high and low relief implementations of façade. \nMan Many Men is comprised of elements imported from the entertainment industries\, inviting visitors to employ all senses in an experiential tapestry that fuses language\, gesture and identity. This is a body of work that hurts\, sleeps\, cries\, fucks\, exhales\, sucks\, breathes\, sees. \nOn February 15\, join Smith for a walk-through of the exhibition. Why not snuggle down as we invite you to embed yourself in the creation of new confessional and constructed narratives? There’s always a need for a ‘duvet day’. \n  \n \nIn support of Man Many Men\, Mark presents Blue Blue Balls\, an intimate and jarring publication featuring images and text lifted from within the artist’s personal devices. The book features an accompanying essay by Matt Whitman – artist filmmaker and faculty at Parsons School of Design. \n“We become complicit in a kind of ‘Freudian slip’. Smith slowly points us outside of the safe assumptions built within language and toward something a bit more sinister. The mistake\, in its innocence and earnestness is\, in fact\, a reminder of our role as viewer and violence of assumption.” \nCopies of the book will be available at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division for the duration of the artist’s show.\n \n \nMark John Smith is a British artist based in Brooklyn\, New York. He holds an MFA in Fine Arts from Parsons School of Design and BA Hons Degrees in Fine Art and Art History from The University for the Creative Arts in the United Kingdom. Mark is a founding member of Franklin Collective and currently serves on the advisory board of Rutgers University’s Design Thinking program. Last year Mark exhibited with Franklin Collective at Petzel Gallery\, Manhattan\, NY in group show WE NEED TO TALK…. In November 2017\, Mark launched JML50\, The Reading Room 2017\, and The Placards 2017\, new publicly commissioned works currently on view at the Jefferson Market branch of the New York Public Library. In mid-2018\, a feature length documentary following his work on JML50 will be released. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/mark-john-smiths-man-many-men/
LOCATION:Online event\, New York\, NY\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180126T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180126T210000
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SUMMARY:Affirmative Laughter Returns
DESCRIPTION:  \nHost Elsa Waithe is bringing some of NYC’s funniest non-straight non-White non-cis male comedians together for a night dedicated to diversity and hilarity. \n  \nThis Month:\nJes Tom\nSydnee Washington\nWanjiko Eke\nDavid Bradley Isenberg\n+MORE! \n  \nThe Bureau will host Affirmative Laughter on the last Friday of every month. \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/affirmative-laughter-returns/
LOCATION:Online event\, New York\, NY\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180127T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180127T210000
DTSTAMP:20260430T234123
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SUMMARY:Homo GoGo Man: a fairytale about a boy who grew up in discoland
DESCRIPTION:  \nAuthor Christopher Duquette reads a chapter from Homo GoGo Man: a fairytale about a boy who grew up in discoland\, a novel about club hopping in New York City from 1976 – 2004. Duquette will be accompanied by a DJ playing music relative to the hedonistic disco era that captivated and eventually devoured a curious and confused young man who had been fatally bitten by the disco bug\, hoofing professionally and recreationally for thirty years of his adult life. \n  \nBorn in 1958 like Madonna\, Prince and Michael Jackson (R.I.P.)\, Christopher Duquette was part of the X-gens who wanted the most out of life\, regardless of the cost. Proving his emotionally and financially unsupportive parents wrong\, he succeeded in completing a Master Degree in 5 years from Stony Brook University\, found cache in the corporate world acquiring well paid employment to finance his hedonistic lifestyle until crashing and burning from too much of the above at age 44. \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/homo-gogo-man/
LOCATION:Online event\, New York\, NY\, United States
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