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SUMMARY:NYC Queer Comic Fair 2018
DESCRIPTION:  \nWhat is it: The NYC Queer Comic Fair the only fair in NYC 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). The event is organized by WabiSabiZinez and Carmine Street Comics and hosted by the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division . This year we are expanding to a two day event! \nWhen is it: The event will be hosted by the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division on Saturday\, March 31st and Sunday\, April 1st from 1-7pm each day.\nOrganizers: \n\n• WabiSabiZinez – https://wabisabizinez.storenvy.com/\n• Carmine Street Comics – https://www.carminestreetcomics.com/\n• Comics by Patrick – https://comicsbypatrick.com/\n\nVendors: \n\n• Adam David Bencomo – https://adamdavidbencomo.format.com/homepage\n • Carlos Quispe – https://www.uranuscomics.tumblr.com/\n • Doable Guys – https://www.instagram.com/doableguys/\n• Drake Rogers – https://www.instagram.com/parisisburning_portraits/\n • Granny Geek\n• j______johnson – https://www.instagram.com/j______johnson\n• Jean-Sebastien Coles – https://www.madeinbabas.com\n • John Jenson – https://johnjennison.wixsite.com/illustration\n• Khaleel – thisnumberisinvalid.tumblr.com\n• Kyle’s Bed and Breakfast – https://kylesbnb.blogspot.com/\n• luke kurtis – https://www.bd-studios.com/\n• Lucky Sanford – https://www.instagram.com/luckysanford/\n• Preternatch – https://preternatch.deviantart.com/gallery/\n• Susse Soenderby Jensen – https://unteleported-tomatoes.net/\n• SciFi Explosion – https://www.facebook.com/scifiexplosion/\n• Square Bears – https://www.instagram.com/squarebears/\n• #udonthave2banancy – https://www.instagram.com/stephenanton/\n• Valmontgod – https://shipjumpercomic.com\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Author Reading: Richard A. McKay's Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic\, with Sarah Schulman
DESCRIPTION:  \nPlease join Richard A. McKay\, author of Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic\, for a reading\, followed by a conversation led by Sarah Schulman. \n  \nThe search for a “Patient Zero”—popularly understood to be an epidemic’s first infected case—has been key to media coverage of major infectious disease outbreaks for more than three decades. Yet the term itself did not exist before the emergence of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the 1980s. How did this idea so swiftly exert a strong grip on the popular consciousness? In Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic\, Richard A. McKay demonstrates how this seemingly new concept drew upon centuries-old ideas—and fears—about contagion and social disorder. \n  \nMcKay presents a carefully documented account of the life of Gaétan Dugas\, a gay man whose skin cancer diagnosis in 1980 took on very different meanings as the epidemic developed and who gained widespread posthumous infamy when he was incorrectly identified as Patient Zero of the North American outbreak. McKay shows how public health investigators inadvertently created the term amid their early research into the emerging health crisis; how an ambitious journalist dramatically amplified the idea in his determination to reframe national debates about AIDS; and how many individuals grappled with the notion of Patient Zero—adopting\, challenging\, and redirecting its powerful meanings—as they tried to make sense of and respond to the first fifteen years of an unfolding epidemic in Canada and the United States. With important insights for our interconnected age\, Patient Zero untangles the complex process by which individuals and groups create meaning and allocate blame when faced with new disease threats. \n  \nCopies of Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic are available for purchase at the Bureau. To reserve a copy please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com. Please support the Bureau by buying books from us. Thank you! \n  \nOriginally from Vancouver\, Canada\, Richard A. McKay is a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. His research has been published in the Bulletin of the History of Medicine and in Nature\, and he is currently investigating the pre-AIDS history of sexual health and illness among gay men\, other men who have sex with men\, and trans people (https://www.beforehiv.hps.cam.ac.uk/share). Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic is his first book and has been nominated for the Publishing Triangle’s Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction. He lives in London\, where he also works as a coach for academics\, writers\, and other creative thinkers. \n  \nSarah Schulman’s work spans novels\, plays\, journalism\, and nonfiction. She is a Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at the College of Staten Island. Some of her recent works include the movie United in Anger: A History of ACT UP\, and the nonfiction work Conflict is not Abuse: Overstating Harm\, Community Responsibility and the Duty of Repair. Her 19th book\, Maggie Terry\, a novel of murder and intrigues\, will be published in September\, 2018 by The Feminist Press. This year she was awarded the Publishing Triangle’s Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement.
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Martin Duberman’s The Rest of It: Hustlers\, Cocaine\, Depression\, and Then Some\, 1976–1988\, with Larry Mass
DESCRIPTION:  \nJoin us for the launch of Martin Duberman’s The Rest of It: Hustlers\, Cocaine\, Depression\, and Then Some\, 1976–1988 (Duke University Press\, March 2018). Following Duberman’s reading\, he will be joined in conversation by Gay Men’s Health Crisis (GMHC) co-founder Larry Mass.\n \nCopies of The Rest of It  will be available for purchase at the Bureau. To reserve a copy please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com. Please support the Bureau by buying books from us. Thank you!\n \nFor many\, the death of a parent marks a low point in their personal lives. For Martin Duberman—a major historian and a founding figure in the history of gay and lesbian studies—the death of his mother was just the beginning of what became a twelve-year period filled with despair\, drug addiction\, and debauchery. From his cocaine use\, massive heart attack\, and immersion into New York’s gay hustler scene to experiencing near-suicidal depression and attending rehab\, The Rest of It is the previously untold and revealing story of how Duberman managed to survive his turbulent personal life while still playing leading roles in the gay community and the academy.\n \nDespite the hardships\, Duberman managed to be incredibly productive: he wrote his biography of Paul Robeson\, rededicated himself to teaching\, wrote plays\, and coedited the prize-winning Hidden from History. His exploration of new paths of scholarship culminated in his founding of the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies\, thereby inaugurating a new academic discipline. At the outset of the HIV/AIDS epidemic Duberman increased his political activism\, and in these pages he also describes the tensions between the New Left and gay organizers\, as well as the profound homophobia that created the conditions for queer radical activism. Filled with gossip\, featuring cameo appearances by luminaries such as Gore Vidal\, Norman Mailer\, Vivian Gornick\, Susan Brownmiller\, Kate Millett\, and Néstor Almendros\, among many others\, and most importantly\, written with an unflinching and fearless honesty\, The Rest of It provides scathing insights into a troubling decade of both personal and political history. It is a stimulating look into a key period of Duberman’s life\, which until now had been too painful to share.\n \n \nTo read Larry Mass’s review of The Rest of It click here.\n \n \nMartin Duberman is Distinguished Professor of History\, Emeritus\, at City University of New York\, where he founded and directed the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies. He is the author of numerous histories\, biographies\, memoirs\, essays\, plays\, and novels\, which include Cures: A Gay Man’s Odyssey; Paul Robeson; Stonewall; Midlife Queer: Autobiography of a Decade\, 1971–1981; Black Mountain: An Exploration in Community; The Worlds of Lincoln Kirstein; Jews/Queers/Germans; and more than a dozen others. His biography of Charles Francis Adams won the Bancroft Prize\, and his coedited anthology Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past won two Lambda Literary Awards. He won a third Lambda Award for Hold Tight Gently: Michael Callen\, Essex Hemphill\, and the Battlefield of AIDS. Duberman received the 2007 Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Historical Association\, as well as two honorary degrees: Doctor of Humane Letters from Amherst College\, and Doctor of Letters from Columbia University. He was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Duberman lives in New York City. \n \n \nLawrence D. Mass\, M.D.\, wrote the first press reports on AIDS and is a co-founder of Gay Men’s Health Crisis. He is the author-editor of Dialogues of The Sexual Revolution\, Volumes I and 2; We Must Love One Another or Die: The Life and Legacies of Larry Kramer; and a memoir\, Confessions of a Jewish Wagnerite: Being Gay and Jewish in America. His reviews and essays\, and sequences of On the Future of Wagnerism\, his in-progress sequel to Confessions\, have appeared on Huffington Post.\n \n \n \n 
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SUMMARY:An Evening at The Mudd Club with Richard Boch
DESCRIPTION: \nRichard Boch\, the author\, is an artist who was the doorman of the legendary\, New York City club. The place was more than just a venue for bands\, it was a true ‘club’ for artists of all disciplines\, and the relationships and collaborations made then still bear fruit today. Though it lasted only from 1978 to 1983\, its influence is pervasive-it was\, essentially\, the birthplace of the Eighties.\n \nKeith Haring was in charge of the ‘gallery.’ Anna Sui debuted her designs there. The Talking Heads\, and other seminal no wave/new wave bands found their start at the Mudd Club.\n \nFab Five Freddy (Fred Braithwaite) said this about Richard and The Mudd Club: “More than the well-known doorman of the Mudd Club\, Richard Boch played a pivotal role in why it was the coolest club in the world back then. Richard was the crowd curator\, carefully only letting in the right mix of the wildly creative downtown movers and shakers who made it our hangout\, leaving the squares and the unhip outside in the cold. Richard is now letting everyone into the Mudd Club by way of this well-written book that details the who’s who and all the fun we had while infiltrating\, changing and disrupting pop culture.”\n  \nThe Mudd Club is filled with anecdotes about and memories of coming to terms with sexuality\, drugs\, and how one becomes an artist in a time and place that is overripe with creative energy. Richard’s stories are personal yet are populated by the now famous (and infamous) denizens of New York’s artistic community.\n  \nRichard Boch will be introduced by Marc Jacobs.\n  \nCopies of The Mudd Club are available for purchase at the Bureau. To reserve a copy please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com. Please support the Bureau by buying books from us. Thank you!\n  \nAuthor photograph by Kate Simon.\n  \nRecent pieces about The Mudd Club:\n  \nNY Times- “A vivid tell-all” \n  \nDazed & Confused\n  \nBust Magazine- “The Mudd Club comes to life in a fascinating tell-all memoir.”\n  \nMerry Jane Magazine- “The book is a thing of wonder — funny\, ferocious\, masterfully written and assembled.” \n \n  \nRichard Boch is an artist\, writer and lifelong New Yorker. He was born in Brooklyn\, grew up on Long Island and studied printmaking and painting at The University of Connecticut and the Parsons New School for Design.\n  \nIn 2016 Boch narrated a slide presentation at HOWL Projects related to the New York club scene. Recent exhibitions of his work include a group show at McDaris Fine Art\, a suite of multimedia prints titled A Throwback Thrown Forward\, and a series of “Page Paintings” as part of No Wave Heroes. He was interviewed and quoted at length for High On Rebellion\, the story of Max’s Kansas City by Yvonne Sewall ­Ruskin\, New York in The 70s by Allan Tannenbaum\, Edgewise: A Picture of Cookie Mueller by Chloé Griffin\, Born This Way\, the story of Gia Carrangi by Sacha Lanvin Baumann and Life and Death on the New York Dance Floor by Tim Lawrence. In addition Boch is currently editing Bobby Grossman’s Low Fidelity: Still Photographs 1975­ – 1983 and recently contributed a sidebar to Tannenbaum’s Grit and Glamour. In November 2015 he served on the host committee of the Mudd Club Rummage Sale Benefitting the Bowery Mission\, the first Mudd-­related event in over thirty years. The New York Times referred to Boch as making “live or die decisions” as the club’s “longtime alpha doorman.”\n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:TELL 43: Higher Learning
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. \nHigher Learning is the theme for the 43rd installment of TELL. Featuring Jude Dry\, Jimena Lucero\, Mindy Raf\, and Pauline Park. \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 \nJude Dry is a writer and performer living in Brooklyn by way of Vermont. By day\, Jude writes about queer film for IndieWire. By night\, they ponder the meaning of a life well lived. Jude is currently single. \n  \n  \n\nJimena Lucero is a poet and activist born and raised in NYC. She was a 2017 Pushcart Prize nominee. \nShe is co-organizer of the TransisMagick Collective which pushes for trans liberation through art & community building. Jimena’s work appears in EOAGH and Blueshift Journal. \n  \n  \n \nMindy Raf is a comedian\, actress\, writer and musician based in Brooklyn\, New York. Mindy has contributed to MTV’s GIRL CODE\, COLLEGEHUMOR\, TNT\, VH1\, The Daily Comedy Network\, and the MY PARENTS WERE AWESOME anthology. Mindy’s debut young adult novel The Symptoms of My Insanity (DIAL/Penguin) is out now. Her critically acclaimed solo comedy show NOT THE ONE: a love story was named an “LBGT Best Bet by Time OutNew York\, “hilariously quirky” by Theatre Is Easy\, “Barrier Breaking” by The Edinburgh Reporter\, and “cheeky and infectious” by Ed Fest Magazine. Recently debuting Off Broadway at 59e59 Theatre and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival\, it is now playing monthly in NYC at Theaterlab: next show April 18. For more info please visit: mindyraf.com \n  \n  \n \nPauline Park (paulinepark.com) is chair of the New York Association for Gender Rights Advocacy (NYAGRA)\, which she co-founded in 1998\, and president of the board of directors of Queens Pride House\, which she co-founded in 1997. Pauline also co-founded the Out People of Color Political Action Club\, the first political club by and for LGBT people of color in New York City\, which she co-founded in 2001\, serving as co-president of the club from 2007-2010. And she co-founded Iban/Queer Koreans of New York in 1997\, which she served as coordinator of from 1997-1999. Pauline led the campaign for passage of the transgender rights law enacted by the New York City Council in 2002.  In 2005\, she became the first openly transgendered grand marshal of the New York City Pride March. Pauline participated in the first US LGBTQ delegation tour of Palestine in 2012 and was the keynote speaker at the Queer Korea Festival/Seoul Pride Parade\, the largest event in the history of the LGBT community of Korea up until that point. Pauline did her B.A. in philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison\, her M.Sc. in European Studies at the London School of Economics and her Ph.D. in political science at the University of Illinois at Urbana. \n  \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Office Hours Spring Showcase Reading
DESCRIPTION:  \nCheck out sizzling new writing at the Office Hours Spring Showcase! The workshop provides post-MFA poets access to continued support for manuscript-development and everyday writing\, culminating in a public reading each fall and spring to showcase stellar new work. We welcome all poets\, especially people of color\, LGBTQ+\, and those who are woman-identified. Our name derives from our side hustle. Many of us are freelance\, adjunct instructors\, who continue to thrive in the margins of academia. \n  \nFeaturing: Marty Correia\, Caitlin Grace McDonnell\, Paco Márquez\, Holly Mitchell\, Sarah Sala\, Sanj Nair\, and Yanyi. \n  \nMarty Correia’s work has appeared in The Mailer Review\, FUSE\, Punk Soul Poet\, Lady Business (Sibling Rivalry Press) and Flock. The New York Department of Cultural Affairs and Venus Biennale funded Marty to produce the reading series A Tribe Called Butch. Correia has worked a steady union job for the past twelve years while writing poetry\, short stories and her first book\, Bridgeport Con. Marty earned her MFA in Creative Writing at New York University and is now represented by Ellen Geiger at the Frances Goldin Literary Agency. Marty has lived in the East Village with her spouse Kate Conroy since 1996. \n  \nCaitlin Grace McDonnell was a New York Times Fellow in poetry at NYU and has received fellowships from Yaddo\, Blue Mountain Center and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. Her poems and essays have been published widely\, most recently in Salon\, and she has two published books of poems\, Dreaming the Tree (belladonna 2003) and Looking for Small Animals (2012). Currently\, she’s an English teacher and lives in Brooklyn with her six-year-old daughter\, Kaya Hope.  \n  \nPaco Márquez is author of the chapbook Portraits in G Minor (Folded Word Press\, 2017). His work has appeared in Apogee\,Ostrich Review\, Live Mag! and Huizache\, among others. As Spanish Editor for William O’Daly\, he assisted in translating Pablo Neruda’s initial book\, Crepusculario\, for the first time into English\, Book of Twilight\, (Copper Canyon Press\, 2017). One of his poems went up on a public mural through Sacramento’s Del Paso Words & Walls Project. His work has been supported by New York University\, The Center for Book Arts\, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Originally from México and Northern California\, Paco lives in New York City with his partner of 12 years. \n  \nHolly Mitchell is a poet from Kentucky. A winner of an Amy Award from Poets & Writers and a Gertrude Claytor Prize from the Academy of American Poets\, she earned an MFA in Creative Writing from New York University and a BA in English from Mount Holyoke College. Her manuscript Farm Centos was a finalist for the 2017 Atlas Review Chapbook Series\, and her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Baltimore Review\, Juked\, Narrative Magazine\, and Paperbag\, among other journals. \n  \nSarah Sala’s debut poetry collection\, Devil’s Lake\, was a finalist for the 2017 Subito Press Book Prize\, and her chapbook The Ghost Assembly Line was published by Finishing Line Press in 2016. Her poem Hydrogen was featured in the Elements episode of NPR’s hit show Radiolab in collaboration with Emotive Fruition. Sarah is the series facilitator for Office Hours\, a free poetry workshop for adjunct instructors and co-produces AmpLit Fest with Lamprophonic and Summer on the Hudson. Her poems appear in Atlas Review\, The Stockholm Review of Literature\, and Poetry Ireland Review\, among others. Visit her at SarahSala.com. \n  \nSanj Nair writes\, paints and lives in Brooklyn with her husband and daughter.  Previously work has appeared in Spoon River Poetry Review and Fence Magazine and she has work forthcoming in JuxtaProse Literary Magazine and The Equalizer\, the former including a piece written in a new form she’s worked out.  Part of a performative series in New York City called Emofru\, she’s also written The Lady Apple\, a collaboration between poet and composer that’s performed at Tribeca’s Flea Theater as well as featured on NPR’s Soundcheck.  Currently on Sabbatical\, she’s a full-time professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice with CUNY. \n  \nYanyi is the recipient of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize in Poetry\, awarded by Carl Philips\, and his first book\, THE YEAR OF BLUE WATER\, will be published by Yale University Press in 2019. He is a 2017-2018 Asian American Writers Workshop Margins Fellow and associate editor at Foundry. The recipient of a 2015 Emerging Poets Fellowship from Poets House\, Yanyi’s poems and criticism have recently appeared in The Margins\, Memorious\, and Model View Culture. \n  \n  \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Patty Schemel Discusses and Reads from her Memoir\, HIT SO HARD
DESCRIPTION:  \nPatty Schemel reads and discusses her recent memoir HIT SO HARD\, described as a “stunningly candid and inspiring memoir of recovery from addiction and the ’90s.”\n \nPatty Schemel was a drummer at the epicenter of the Seattle grunge scene in the early ’90s\, best known for her work with the alternative rock band Hole.\n \nCopies of Hit So Hard are available for purchase at the Bureau. To reserve a copy please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com. Please support the Bureau by buying books from us. Thank you!\n \nPhotograph by Darcy Hemley.https://darcyhemley.com \nHit So Hard begins with stories from a childhood informed by the AA meetings Schemel’s parents hosted in the family living room. Their divorce triggered her rebellious adolescence and first forays into drinking at age 11\, which coincided with her passion for punk rock and playing drums. Her efforts to come to terms with her sexuality further drove her memorably hard playing\, and by the late ’80s Schemel was performing regularly in well-regarded bands in Tacoma\, Seattle\, and Olympia. She met Kurt Cobain at a Melvins show\, pre-Nirvana\, and less than five years later she would be living with him and his wife\, Hole front-woman Courtney Love\, at the height of his fame and on the cusp of hers. As Hole’s new drummer\, Schemel contributed memorable\, driving drum parts to hits like “Beautiful Son\,” “Violet\,” “Doll Parts\,” and “Miss World.” But the band was plagued by tragedy and addiction\, and by the time Hole went on tour in support of their ironically titled and critically acclaimed album Live Through This in 1994\, both Cobain and Hole bassist Kristen Pfaff were dead at age 27.\n \nWith surprising candor and wit\, Schemel intimately documents the events surrounding her exit from the band in 1998 that lead to her dramatic descent into a life of homelessness and crime on the streets of Los Angeles and the difficult but rewarding path to sobriety after over twenty serious attempts to get clean. Hit So Hard chronicles the extraordinary coming of age of a musician and an addict during the last great era of rock ‘n’ roll excess.\n \n \n  \n 
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180422T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180422T170000
DTSTAMP:20260501T011433
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SUMMARY:Let's Read: Pray The Gay Away
DESCRIPTION:  \nJoin Michael and Zach Zakar for a reading and signing from their new book Pray the Gay Away \nCopies of Pray the Gay Away are available for purchase at the Bureau. To reserve a copy please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com. Please support the Bureau by buying books from us. Thank you! The Zakar twins will happily sign your copy. \n  \n“Mom knows.” A simple text that would change two twin brothers’ lives forever. Coming out is hard. The struggle is ongoing\, a daily part of life whether to a new friend\, a co-worker\, or most importantly yourself. Pray the Gay Away chronicles Michael and Zach as they face awkward sexual encounters\, drug-fueled escapades\, coming out to each other\, and their biggest foe – Mom\, a woman who gave birth to what she calls not just one regret – but two. The memoir hilariously and poignantly explores what it’s like growing up as gay\, Iraqi twins in modern America. Pray the Gay Away was inspired the night Mom snuck into their bedroom and force fed them “holy grapes\,” determined to “de-gay” them. The Zakar Twins are new voices speaking out against generations\, particularly within the Iraqi culture\, who look down on being gay. This book is not only for the LBGTQ community\, but for young adults\, looking to achieve normalcy. \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/lets-read-pray-the-gay-away/
LOCATION:Online event\, New York\, NY\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180424T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180424T203000
DTSTAMP:20260501T011433
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SUMMARY:Bespoke
DESCRIPTION:  \nDressed smart like a London bloke\, before he speak his suit bespoke. – Kanye West. Change “he” to “she” and “his” to “their\,” and you’ve found the all-inclusive spirit of Bespoke at the Bureau.\n  \nFeeling a bit drab in your literary lifestyle? Craving some chic with your geek? Save the date: On Tuesday\, April 24\, the Bureau will feature Eileen Myles\, Joe Okonkwo\, Diana Oh and one “wild card” to inaugurate Bespoke\, a bimonthly queer series where featured readers dress fun\, fancy\, or flirtatious\, supporting the Bureau and resisting fascism. Our sinfully sartorial series presents fashionable femmes\, dapper dykes\, chic twinks\, trendy trans* folk\, & frothy FTMs. Featured writers are encouraged to suit up or dress down : readers’ choice.\n  \nYour hosts are the dangerously deviant trio Christina “CQ” Quintana (writer/playwright/dyke about town)\, Jerome Ellison Murphy (poet\, critic and NYU Creative Writing Program administrator) and Tim Murphy (longtime LGBTQ journalist\, activist and author of the novel Christodora)\, who invite you to turn out in your Tuesday best (dress up is welcome & encouraged\, not mandatory) every other month for drinks and chat before & after our reading.\n  \nWriters! When else will you join a lineup of such stylish stature? Cast your name into the Bespoke rainbow top hat for your chance at being the featured “wild card” reader\, and give your CV a makeover! Be ready with a short & sassy selection. \n  \nComing down the runway: \n  \nEileen Myles is a poet\, novelist\, performer and art EILEEN MYLES. Eileen Myles is a poet\, novelist\, performer and art journalist who needs no introduction! Their twenty books include Afterglow (a dog memoir)\, a 2017 re-issue of Cool for You and I Must Be Living Twice/new and selected poems\, and Chelsea Girls. Eileen is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship\, an Andy Warhol/Creative Capital Arts Writers grant\, four Lambda Book Awards\, and the Shelley Prize from the PSA. In 2016\, Myles received a Creative Capital grant and the Clark Prize for excellence in art writing. Currently they teach at NYU and Naropa University and live in Marfa\, TX and New York.\n \n  \nJoe Okonkwo is an award-winning novelist\, short story writer\, and editor\, whose debut novel Jazz Moon won the Publishing Triangle’s prestigious 2016 Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction\, and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Best Gay Fiction. Set against the backdrop of the Harlem Renaissance and glittering Jazz Age Paris\, it was published by Kensington Books in 2016. Joe’s short stories have appeared in Promethean\, Penumbra\, CooperStreet\, Storychord\, LGBTsr.org\, Chelsea Station\, and Shotgun Honey. His work has been anthologized in Love Stories from Africa (his first fiction published outside the U.S.)\, Best Gay Love Stories 2009\, and Best Gay Stories 2015.\n \n  \nDiana Oh is an actor/singer-songwriter/theatremaker/performing artist. She is the inaugural 2016 Van Lier Fellow in Acting with the Asian American Arts Alliance\, one of Refinery 29’s Top 14 LGBTQ Influencers\, the First Queer Korean ­American interviewed on Korean Broadcast Radio\, Creator of #AsianPeopleareNotMagicians on Mic.com\, Creator of {my lingerie play}: a concert & installation series in lingerie staged in an effort to provide a saner\, safer\, more respectful world for women to live in featured in People\, on stage at EST\, The Lark\, Joe’s Pub\, All For One\, and on stage at Rattlestick Theatre September 2017 in co-pro with Ma-Yi. She will be in concert in April 2017 at The Center (www.gaycenter.org). The Wall Street Journal & Upworthy call her “bad­ass.” mylingerieplay.com \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/bespoke/
LOCATION:Online event\, New York\, NY\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180425T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180425T203000
DTSTAMP:20260501T011433
CREATED:20180326T174705Z
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SUMMARY:Publishing Triangle Awards Finalists Reading
DESCRIPTION:  \nJoin nine of the best LGBT writers of 2017 on Wednesday\, April 25\, 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 26\, at the Publishing Triangle Awards Ceremony & Reception\, at New School’s Tishman Auditorium\, 63 Fifth Avenue\, in Greenwich Village\, New York.\n \nCopies of the nominated books are available for purchase at the Bureau. To reserve a copy of one or more of the books please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com. Please support the Bureau by buying books from us. Thank you!\n \nFeaturing:\n \n \n \nFrank Bidart\, Half-Light: Collected Poems\, 1965-2016\, (Farrar\, Straus and Giroux)\, Finalist for the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry \n \n  \n \n \nFrankie Edozien\, Lives of Great Men (Team Angelica Publishing)\, Finalist for the Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction   \n \n  \n \n \nPeter Gajdics\, The Inheritance of Shame (Brown Paper Press)\, Finalist for the Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction   \n \n  \n \n \nCatherine Hernandez\, Scarborough (Arsenal Pulp Press)\, Finalist for the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction \n \n  \n \n \nMatthew Lansburgh\, Outside is the Ocean (University of Iowa Press)\, Finalist for the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction \n \n  \n \n \nPaula Martinac\, The Ada Decades (Bywater Books)\, Finalist for the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction \n \n  \n \n \nMaureen N. McLane\, Some Say (Farrar\, Straus and Giroux)\, Finalist for the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry \n \n  \n \n \nAlistair McCartney\, The Disintegrations (University of Wisconsin Press)\, Finalist for the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction \n \n  \n\n \nCharif Shanahan\, Into Each Room We Enter Without Knowing (Southern Illinois University Press)\, Finalist for the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry \n \n \n \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/publishing-triangle-awards-finalists-reading-3/
LOCATION:Online event\, New York\, NY\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180426T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180426T213000
DTSTAMP:20260501T011433
CREATED:20180410T160031Z
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SUMMARY:Pauline Gloss: Lullabies for the Psychotic and Other Recent Work
DESCRIPTION: \nLiterary sound-artist Pauline Gloss will present an evening of new and recent work in the text-sound / sound-poetry tradition. She will present her new cycle for solo voice\, “Lullabies for the Psychotic” and screen her record (with accompanying video from Nicolas Bermeo) “Greetings from Here: Audio Postcards in Transition\,” from 2016.\n \nPauline’s current body of work is concerned with how the smallest bits of language— in both their sonic and meaning-making dimensions— can\, through repetition\, variation\, and syntactical rewiring\, create temporary sonic and semantic meaning-making structures.\n \nHer work investigates and foregrounds the physicality of language by rendering it architecturally. She makes of its discreet bits semantic and sonic building-blocks whose stability is always already in question.\n \nWith the character and reach of this tool set\, she attempts to form a language in which the boundaries and traditional formations of selfhood are plied\, questioned\, and reformed.\n \n \nPauline Gloss is a writer and literary sound-artist based in Los Angeles. Her language-sound work attempts to dramatize and expand language in its timbral\, rhythmic\, textural\, and meaning-making dimensions.\n \nShe runs Spoken Records\, a label specializing in the release of work in the Text-Sound tradition. She has been written about favorably in art and music publications and has performed or had work shown in Los Angeles\, London\, and New York at institutions including MoCA Geffen\, Cal Arts\, Human Resources (LA)\, Resonance FM (London)\, Poetic Research Bureau\, The Lambda Literary Festival\, Automata\, Betalevel\, and others.\n \n \n \n \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/pauline-gloss-lullabies-for-the-psychotic-and-other-recent-work/
LOCATION:Online event\, New York\, NY\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180428T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180428T210000
DTSTAMP:20260501T011433
CREATED:20180313T163547Z
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SUMMARY:Cuarenta y Nueve book launch celebration in New York!
DESCRIPTION:  \nCuarenta y Nueve‘s 3rd and final book launch party is in New York City. Please join us to celebrate this beautiful coffee table book dedicated to the 49 lives lost in the Orlando Pulse nightclub massacre. Many of the 49 artistic contributors will attend. Readings\, book signings\, performers + celebrating the love and light of our rainbow community. Please join us on this ‘pride full’ occasion! \nCuarenta y Nueve means 49 in Spanish. This beautiful coffee table book is an artistic homage to the 49 lives lost on June 12\, 2016\, at the Pulse Nightclub massacre\, in Orlando Florida. Writers of every discipline & genre\, photographers\, artists\, and even an Executive Chef have come together to create this must have tribute. By 49 and for 49\, Cuarenta y Nueve was the vision of (and curated by) best selling author Joie Lamar\, who has also arranged for 100% of the proceeds to be donated to positive LGBTQ+ organizations\, specifically Pride School Atlanta & GLAAD. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/cuarenta-y-nueve-book-launch-celebration-in-new-york/
LOCATION:Online event\, New York\, NY\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180429T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180429T163000
DTSTAMP:20260501T011433
CREATED:20180409T160736Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180427T154805Z
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SUMMARY:Beautiful to Look At But Painful to Touch: Marco DaSilva in conversation with Travis Chamberlain
DESCRIPTION: \nJoin Marco DaSilva for an intimate conversation about his artistic process with Travis Chamberlain\, Managing Director at Queer|Art\, where DaSilva is a fellow in QUEER|ART|MENTORSHIP for 2017-2018. DaSilva’s paintings\, collages\, and sculptures are currently on view in No Reason To Be Careful through June 10th at the Bureau of General Services – Queer Division. This program is free and open to the public.\n \n \n \nMarco DaSilva is a native New Yorker whose symbol-based paintings explore hybridity through the intersections of his Brazilian-American\, queer identity and manic experience. He has exhibited work at IMAGE Gallery\, Heath Gallery\, and the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art. He is also a NYFA Artist as Entrepreneur Fellow. He creates work at his studio in Bedford-Stuyvesant. Marco has a BFA in Painting and Drawing from SUNY New Paltz.\n \n \nTravis Chamberlain is a curator whose work encompasses performances\, residencies\, exhibitions\, and community organizing\, with a focus on the excavation of marginalized cultural histories and the advancement of emerging queer voices. Major projects have included work with artists Ishmael Houston-Jones\, Dennis Cooper\, Karen Finley\, Julie Tolentino\, Wu Tsang\, Jack Ferver\, Tina Satter\, Young Jean Lee\, and Jennifer Monson\, among others. Formerly Associate Curator of Performance at the New Museum and Artistic Director of Galapagos Art Space in Brooklyn\, Chamberlain is now Managing Director at Queer|Art\, a New York-based non-profit that supports the creative and professional development of LGBTQ artists through models of mentorship and community exchange. \n \n \n \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/beautiful-to-look-at-but-painful-to-touch-marco-dasilva-in-conversation-with-liz-collins/
LOCATION:Online event\, New York\, NY\, United States
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