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SUMMARY:OLNY Poly Movie Night: Professor Marston and the Wonder Women
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\, and celebrating 2 years of Poly Movie Night!\n \nPlease join us for Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (2017)\, written and directed by Angela Robinson and starring Luke Evans\, Rebecca Hall\, and Bella Heathcote. The movie was widely praised as one of the most positive portrayals of polyamory in modern American film to date.\n \nWednesday\, May 2 – 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm\nBureau of General Services—Queer Division\n208 W 13th St\, Rm 210\nNew York\, NY 10011\n \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.\n \nSynopsis: Based on the true story of the creator of the character Wonder Woman\, Harvard psychologist Dr. William Marston’s polyamorous relationship with his wife and their lover was more provocative than any adventure he had ever written. Running time: 1 hour 48 minutes. \n  \n  \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Lyle Ashton Harris: Today I Shall Judge Nothing that Occurs
DESCRIPTION:  \nPlease join us Thursday\, May 3 to celebrate Lyle Ashton Harris’ monograph Today I Shall Judge Nothing that Occurs with an evening of conversation with Lyle Ashton Harris\, Thomas Allen Harris\, and Alex Fialho. \n  \nThroughout the late 1980s and early 1990s\, a radical cultural scene emerged across the globe\, finding expression in the galleries\, nightclubs\, and bedrooms of New York\, London\, Los Angeles\, and Rome. In Lyle Ashton Harris: Today I Shall Judge Nothing That Occurs\, the artist’s archive of 35mm Ektachrome images are presented alongside journal entries and recollections by additional contributors coalescing in a presentation of what Harris has described as “ephemeral moments and emblematic figures… against a backdrop of seismic shifts in the art world\, the emergence of multiculturalism\, the second wave of AIDS activism\, and incipient globalization.” The Ektachrome Archive “constructs collective and private narratives to comment on identity\, desire\, sexuality\, and loss” and was included in the 2017 Whitney Biennial.\n  \nCopies of Today I Shall Judge Nothing that Occurs (Aperture Foundation\, 2017) 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  \n  \nFor more than two decades Lyle Ashton Harris has cultivated a diverse artistic practice ranging from photographic media\, collage\, installation and performance. His work explores intersections between the personal and the political\, examining the impact of ethnicity\, gender and desire on the contemporary social and cultural dynamic. Known for his self-portraits and use of pop culture icons (such as Billie Holiday and Michael Jackson)\, Harris teases the viewers’ perceptions and expectations\, resignifying cultural cursors and recalibrating the familiar with the extraordinary. Harris has exhibited work widely\, including at The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York) and The Whitney Museum of American Art (New York) among many others\, as well as at international biennials (São Paulo\, 2016; Busan\, 2008; Venice\, 2007; Seville\, 2006; Gwangju\, 2000). His work is represented in the permanent collections of major museums\, most recently The Museum of Modern Art\, New York. In 2014 Harris joined the Board of Trustees of the American Academy in Rome and was recipient of the David C. Driskell Prize by the High Museum of Art (Atlanta\, Georgia\, U.S.A.). In 2016 he was awarded the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship and was appointed a trustee of the Tiffany Foundation. Having studied at Wesleyan University\, the California Institute of the Arts\, and the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program\, Harris is currently an Associate Professor of Art and Art Education at New York University.\n  \n  \nBorn in the Bronx and raised in New York City and Dar es Salaam\, Tanzania\, Thomas Allen Harris began his career as a photographer before producing for public television\, for which he received several awards including two Emmy nominations (in 1991) for his work as a staff producer at WNET (New York’s PBS affiliate) on THE ELEVENTH HOUR. Harris is a recipient of numerous awards and fellowships including a 2015 NAACP Image Award\, United States Artist Award\, Guggenheim Fellowship\, Rockefeller Fellowship\, A Blade of Grass Fellow as well as a Tribeca Film Institute’s Nelson Mandela Award. Harris has taught\, written and lectured widely on media.<\nHarris is the founder and President of Chimpanzee Productions\, a company dedicated to producing unique audio-visual experiences that illuminate the Human Condition and the search for identity\, family\, and spirituality. Chimpanzee’s innovative and award-winning films have received critical acclaim at International film festivals such as Sundance\, Berlin\, Toronto\, FESPACO\, Outfest\, Flaherty and Cape Town and have been broadcast on PBS\, the Sundance Channel\, ARTE\, as well as CBC\, Swedish Broadcasting Network and New Zealand Television. In addition\, Harris’ videos and installations have been featured at museums and galleries including the Museum of Modern Art\, Whitney Biennial\, Corcoran Gallery\, Reina Sophia\, London Institute of the Arts and the Gwangju Biennale. He has held positions as Associate Professor of Media Arts at the University of California San Diego\, and Visiting Professor of Film and New Media at Sarah Lawrence College.\n  \n  \nAlex Fialho is a curator and arts writer based in New York City. He is a frequent contributor to Artforum\, and Programs Director at Visual AIDS\, where he facilitates projects around both the history and immediacy of the ongoing HIV/AIDS epidemic\, with particular stakes intervening against recent widespread whitewashing of HIV/AIDS cultural narratives.\nFialho has worked closely with Lyle Ashton Harris and Thomas Allen Harris in multiple capacities. In the context of Visual AIDS’ Day With(out) Art programs\, Fialho collaborated to commission new short videos from the artists: Lyle Ashton Harris’ Selections from the Ektachrome Archive was featured in Day With(out) Art 2014 ALTERNATE ENDINGS and Thomas Allen Harris’ About Face: The Evolution of a Black Producer was featured in Day With(out) Art 2017 ALTERNATE ENDINGS\, RADICAL BEGINNINGS\, curated by Erin Christovale and Vivian Crockett. Fialho’s 6 hour oral history with Lyle Ashton Harris will be included in the Smithsonian Archives of American Art’s “Visual Art & The AIDS Epidemic Oral History Project” and Fialho covered Lyle Ashton Harris’ Today I Shall Judge Nothing That Occurs: Selections from the Eckachrome Archive for Bookforum. Lyle Ashton Harris and Thomas Allen Harris will be honored alongside Steed Taylor with the Visual AIDS Vanguard Award on May 21\, 2018. \n  \n  \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Wo Chan\, Lonely Christopher\, Rami Karim\, & Emji Saint Spero!
DESCRIPTION:  \nEmji Saint Spero is in town from Oakland\, which is more than enough reason to throw a Spring Thing at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division! Wo Chan\, Lonely Christopher\, and Rami Karim join the celebration. \n  \n \nWo Chan is a nonbinary drag performer and poet based in Brooklyn. They are the recipient of fellowships from the New York Foundation of Arts\, Kundiman\, and the Asian American Writers Workshop. Their writing centers on personal narratives of immigration\, race\, and gender in text and stage performance. They are a standing member of Brooklyn-based drag/burlesque collective Switch N’ Play and currently an MFA candidate in Poetry at New York University. \n  \n \nLonely Christopher is the author of the poetry collections Death & Disaster Series (Monk Books\, 2014) and The Resignation (Roof Books\, forthcoming 2018). His short story collection The Mechanics of Homosexual Intercourse was a 2011 selection of Dennis Cooper’s Little House on the Bowery imprint of Akashic Books and his first novel\, THERE\, was published by The Writers’ Collective of Kristiania in 2017. His plays have been presented in Canada\, China\, and the United States. His film credits include several international shorts and the feature MOM\, which he wrote and directed. He lives in Brooklyn. \n  \n \nRami Karim is a writer and artist living in Brooklyn. They are a 2017 Margins Fellow at the Asian American Writers’ Workshop and graduate of the Brooklyn College Creative Writing MFA\, where they received the Rose Goldstein\, Himan Brown\, and Carole Lainoff awards in writing. Their work has appeared in The Brooklyn Review\, Apogee\, Makhzin\, The Margins\, and Tagvverk\, among others\, and they are the author of Smile & Nod (Wendy’s Subway\, 2018). \n  \n \nEmji Saint Spero is a queer performance artist and writer living in Oakland. They are an editor at Timeless\, Infinite Light and the author of almost any shit will do. Their work occupies a hybrid space between poetry and prose\, weaving together somatic ritual\, performance\, and collaborative experimentation. They work closely with other writers and artists\, stretching the potential of creative intimacies\, sociality\, and the poetics of relation. They are currently working on the Exhaustion trilogy\, a series of books obsessed with exploring and challenging Jose Muñoz’s notion that “utopia exists in the quotidian.”\n \n \n \n 
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SUMMARY:Indie Presses Evening: Find Out How to Publish Your Book
DESCRIPTION:  \nIndie Presses Evening: Find Out How to Publish Your Book \nThursday\, May 10\, 2018\, 7 pm \nBureau of General Services—Queer Division\, room 210 in The LGBT Community Center\, 208 W 13th Street\, New York\, NY \nParticipating Presses: Gaudy Boy\, Indolent Books\, Poets Wear Prada\, and Querelle Press \n  \nIndie publishers and editors speak about the exciting diversity of their presses and publications. They also read from representative published works of LGBT interest. The talks are followed by Q&A. Come and find out more about the writing and publishing scene. \n  \n  \nIndolent Books publishes work by underrepresented voices writing innovative\, provocative\, and risky poetry addressing urgent racial\, social\, and economic justice themes. Indolent was founded in 2015 by Michael Broder\, who now serves as board treasurer and managing editor. In 2017 the press became an imprint of the 501(c)(3) nonprofit entity Indolent Arts Foundation. \n  \nQuerelle Press is an independent LGBT book publisher whose mission is to celebrate and challenge how we view our lives as LGBT people. Querelle’s namesake is Jean Genet’s bold and distinctive novel\, and the press aspires to publish in the book’s outspoken spirit. Under the guidance of publisher and editor Don Weise\, and in partnership with writer and philanthropist Chuck Forester\, Querelle publishes two new titles per year. \n  \nHave you had your poetry today? Get your brain fuel from Poets Wear Prada. Publishing beautifully designed volumes of well-crafted poetry—and now\, fiction—you want to read\, since October 2006. Founded by former Wall Street banker Roxanne Hoffman with her late husband\, retired Hollywood agent Herbert Fuerst. John “Jack” Edward Cooper took over for Herb as co-editor from October 2011. Based in Hoboken\, New Jersey with European office in Salazac\, France. \n  \nFrom Latin gaudium meaning joy\, Gaudy Boy publishes books and media that delight readers and listeners with the various powers of art. Helmed by publisher Jee Leong Koh and managing editor Kimberley Lim\, Gaudy Boy brings literary works by authors of Asian heritage to the attention of an American audience. We publish poetry\, fiction\, and creative non-fiction of exceptional merit. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/indie-presses-evening-find-out-how-to-publish-your-book/
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SUMMARY:TELL 44: Intimacy
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. \nIntimacy is the theme for the 44th installment of TELL. Featuring Darlinda Just Darlinda\, Mieke Dee\, Sarah Fonseca\, and Dylan Stephen Levers. \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 \nThe Village Voice calls DARLINDA JUST DARLINDA a “Mastermind of Bizarre Extravaganza” and she has been working as a Burlesque Performer Performance Artist and Producer since 2004 locally (NYC) and internationally (Australia\, China\, Finland\, Germany\, France\, England\, Canada\, and most of the USA including Alaska!) Darlinda is one half of the Burlesque duo The Schlep Sisters\, co producing such shows as The 11th Annual Menorah Horah and The Burning Bush vs. The Second Coming. Darlinda has produced shows\, The New York Times calls “shockingly explicit.” Darlinda has also performed Off Broadway and on television; she performed with Taylor Mac in The Lily’s Revenge (Obie)\, The 29th Annual Roots of American Music Festival at Lincoln Center\,Celebrate Brooklyn and 24 Decades of Popular Music (Obie). She can be found on television\, in HBO’s Boardwalk Empire\, Amazon’s The Marvelous Mrs Maisel and The Other F Word Series. She’s lectured for Yale’s infamous Sex Week. She’s made performance art with her year long “life as art” projects Year in Dance and Year in Rainbow and is co-founder of LadyBox Theater currently creating Untitled Rainbow Project. Darlinda is a current faculty member at the New York School of Burlesque and also teaches internationally. The Sundance Channel made Darlinda a “Top 10 Badass Burlesque Babe\,” she was voted in the Top 50 International Burlesque Industry Figures of 2011-2014! Darlinda is the recipient of the Golden Pastie Award for The Most Innovative and Creative and The first ever Brooklyn Nightlife Award Winner for Best Burlesque!  USA Today says “It’s hard to top Darlinda.” \n  \n  \n \nMieke Dee \n \n  \n \nSarah Fonseca is a publicly-educated writer who lives in New York City via the Georgia foothills. Her essays\, criticism\, filthy ideas\, and their overlapping iterations have appeared in Best Lesbian Erotica 2018\, The Lambda Literary Review\, Math Magazine\, Posture Magazine\, and Slate. She’s currently working on a series of essays on women and strength pursuits. \n \n  \n \nDylan Stephen Levers is an NYC-based filmmaker. His film “this is a film about Tom and Maddy.” was a Vimeo staff pick and can be seen on Short of the Week and NoBudge.com. Short shorts\, his collection of minute-long films\, can be seen at https://vimeo.com/shortshorts.\n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Annie Lanzillotto & Erica Cardwell Read
DESCRIPTION: \nPride Comes Early! Annie Rachele Lanzillotto reads from her new double book “Hard Candy” and “Pitch Roll Yaw.” Erica Cardwell reads new work. Special guests include: Gabriella Belfiglio\, Clare Ultimo\, Rosette Capotorto\, Zhaleh Afshar.\n \n  \nAnnie Rachele Lanzillotto is the author of the books: Hard Candy: Caregiving\, Mourning\, and Stage Light and Pitch\, Roll\, Yaw (Guernica World Editons 2018); L is for Lion: An Italian Bronx Butch Freedom Memoir (SUNY Albany Press 2013\, LAMBDA Literary Award Finalist); and Schistsong\, poems\, (Bordighera Press 2013.) Lanzillotto is the singer/songwriter of the albums: Never Argue With a Jackass (2017); Swampjuice: Yankee with a Southern Peasant Soul (2016)\, Carry My Coffee (2012)\, Eleven Recitations (2011); and Blue Pill (2010.) For more info on her books\, audiobooks\, albums\, films\, and performance works\, visit www.annielanzillotto.com. \n \n  \nErica Cardwell is a writer and radical educator based in New York. Her writing has appeared in Hyperallergic\, The Believer\, Rewire\, and forthcoming for Green Mountain Review. She received her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and was awarded a nonfiction fellowship from the Lambda Literary Foundation in 2015. She teaches English and Literature at the Borough of Manhattan Community College. Erica lives in Brooklyn with her partner and their turtle\, Smiley Mousa. \n \n \n \n 
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SUMMARY:Pop Gym Pop Up: Free Self-Defense Workshop at the Bureau
DESCRIPTION:  \nPalm Heels for the people! Don’t get that joke? No worries! Come by this FREE Pop Up workshop to learn some introductory skills that will keep you feeling safe. We’ll be covering the basics: stretching\, conditioning\, technique\, and theory\, with the hope that participants will leave with some super useful foundations that will aid them in the day-to-day. Mix that in with some sweat and some movement\, and you’ll have an accessible and confidence-boosting good time for all. Whether you are a beginner\, or someone with experience\, come work it out with us!\n \nOpen to all ages! We’ll be moving around\, so participants should wear clothing in which they are comfortable stretching and sweating.\n \n#POPGym is a new project\, working towards opening a physical space in Brooklyn that offers free self-defense\, fitness\, and skill share classes 7 days a week. As we continue planning\, we invite you to come by any of our events this summer! Our workshops have been described as\, “fun”\, “holistic” and “empowering”\, and for any questions\, comments\, or inquiries for future workshops for you or your organizations\, email us at info@popgym.org #popup\n \n \n \n 
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SUMMARY:Red Pubes: Writing the Queer Body
DESCRIPTION:  \nPoetry reading followed by Q & A with renowned poets Omotara James and Christopher Atamian. \n  \n  \n \nOmotara James is a poet and essayist. The daughter of Nigerian and Trinidadian immigrants\, she lives and studies in New York City. Her poetry chapbook\, “Daughter Tongue\,” was selected by African Poetry Book Fund\, in collaboration with Akashic Books\, for the 2018 New Generation African Poets Box Set. Her debut full length collection\, “Mama Wata\,” is forthcoming in the Fall of 2018 from Siren Songs\, of CCM press. She has been award fellowships from Cave Canem and Lambda Literary. Her awards include the Bridging the Gap Award for Emerging Poets and the Nancy P. Schnader Academy of American Poets Award. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Recluse\, Nat.Brut\, American Chordata\, Winter Tangerine\, Cosmonauts Avenue\, The Seventh Wave\, Arkansas International and elsewhere. Currently\, she is an MFA candidate in poetry at NYU.\n \n \n \nChristopher Atamian is a writer and creative producer of Italian–Armenian background and the grandson of Armenian Genocide survivors. While his current work is increasingly devoid of overt ethnic topics\, much of his early writings centered around issues of sexuality\, ethnic origin and assimilation. At Collegiate School Atamian was a National Merit Scholar. He received his B.A. in Literature\, Magna Cum Laude from Harvard University before completing his education at USC Film School and Columbia Business School where he received the school’s highest honor\, the Samuel Bronfman Scholarship. Apart from creative endeavors and professional activities as a senior executive in leading media companies and consultancies\, Atamian has concentrated on community activism. He is the former President and a current board member of AGLA New York and in 2004 founded Nor Alik\, a non-profit cultural organization responsible for producing the First Armenian International Film Festival. He also co-produced the OBIE Award-winning play Trouble in Paradise in 2006\, directed by Elyse Singer\, as well as several music videos and short films. Atamian was selected for the 2009 Venice Biennale on the basis of his video Sarafian’s Desire and received a 2015 Ellis Island Medal of Honor. He continues to contribute critical pieces to leading publications such as The New York Times Book Review and The Huffington Post\, while working on other creative endeavors in film and theater. Atamian’s poetry has appeared in The Hye-Phen Magazine\, The Armenian Poetry Project\, Groong Online\, and Mes Arménies. Into the Woods was adapted as a rock song by musician Anne Hirschfeld.\n \n \n \n 
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SUMMARY:John Fleck Is Who You Want Him to Be: Screening with Director Kevin Duffy and Guest Lucy Sexton of Dancenoise
DESCRIPTION:  \nJOHN FLECK IS WHO YOU WANT HIM TO BE is a documentary film by Kevin Duffy examining the legendary performance artist who was at the center of the culture wars during the AIDS crisis. The film includes contemporary cinema vérité footage of Fleck’s performances in New York and LA\, a sit-down interview and archival footage reaching back over 30 years\, including never before seen footage of the performance that sparked the NEA 4 crisis and the subsequent US Supreme Court decision.\nDirector Kevin Duffy will engage in a Q&A following the screening.\n \n \nA Q&A will follow the screening with the filmmaker hosted by Moderator Lucy Sexton of DANCENOISE\, the subject of the recent retrospective “Don’t Look Back” at the Whitney Museum.\n \n \nReception 7:30 PM\nScreening 8 PM\n \n \nJOHN FLECK (Subject) is a performance artist and actor based in Los Angeles\, California. In 1990 he and 3 other performance artists became known as the NEA-4 denied funding by the National Endowment for the Arts because of religious and political pressure. Fleck’s latest venture BLACKTOP HIGHWAY premiered @ REDCAT in Los Angeles and recently made its NYC debut @ Dixon Place receiving rave reviews and a critic’s choice in the NY Times. His last show MAD WOMEN won the 2012 LA Weekly Award for ‘Outstanding Solo Performance’ and was nominated for a Bessie Award. \n \n  \nKEVIN DUFFY (Filmmaker) directed\, produced\, shot and edited the documentary feature\, JOHN FLECK IS WHO YOU WANT HIM TO BE. The film has screened at the American Cinematheque\, Los Angeles\, the Los Feliz 3 Cinema\, the New York Indie Theater Film Festival and CalArts. Duffy’s first independent feature\, BECOMING BLOND (2010) starring Mink Stole is distributed by Ariztical Entertainment and has screened on Here TV. Duffy’s short film\, cheap flight\, (1996) screened on the Sundance Channel\, at the Hamptons International Film Festival\, the American Cinematheque and other venues. A graduate of New York University\, Duffy won a Fellowship in Playwriting from the New York Foundation for the Arts. He received an M.F.A. in screenwriting from the American Film Institute. \n \n  \nLucy Sexton is a Brooklyn-born choreographer\, director\, and producer who works in the fields of dance\, theater\, and film. With Anne Iobst\, she created the dance performance duo DANCENOISE. She directed the off-Broadway plays Spalding Gray; Stories Left to Tell and Tom Murrin’s The Magical Ridiculous Journey of Alien Comic; and produced the Charles Atlas films The Legend of Leigh Bowery and TURNING with Antony and the Johnsons. Since 2009\, she has served as the Executive Director of the NY Dance and Performance Awards\, The Bessies. \n  \n \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/john-fleck-is-who-you-want-him-to-be/
LOCATION:Online event\, New York\, NY\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Bureau of General Services%E2%80%94Queer Division":MAILTO:contact@bgsqd.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180519T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180519T200000
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SUMMARY:Gay Artists of the Negro Renaissance
DESCRIPTION: \nJoin longtime activist\, scholar of African American studies\, and friend of the Bureau James Wright and guest speakers for a discussion of gay artists of the Negro Renaissance.\n \nFeaturing a historic overview of Harlem\, the Negro Renaissance\, and biographical information on several gay artists of the period\, including Countee Cullen\, Wallace Thurman\, Alain Locke\, and Bruce Nugent.\n \nWe will screen Brother to Brother (2005\, written and directed by Rodney Evans\, 90 minutes)\, a dramatic film about the life and times of Bruce Nugent.\n \n \nJames Wright has organized events at the Bureau exploring the lives and works of James Baldwin and Lorraine Hansberry\, as well as an event focused on Bruce Nugent and the first and only issue of the black literary journal FIRE!!\, which Nugent created with Langston Hughes\, Zora Neale Hurston\, Wallace Thurman\, Aaron Douglas\, Gwendolyn Bennett\, and John P. Davis in 1926.\n \n \nAbout the image: In 1926\, Langston Hughes\, Zora Neale Hurston\, Wallace Thurman\, Aaron Douglas\, Richard Bruce Nugent\, Gwendolyn Bennett\, and John P. Davis created the first and only issue of the black literary journal FIRE!!\, which included Nugent’s explicitly gay poem “Smoke\, Lilies and Jade.”  \n  \n  \n \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/gay-artists-of-the-negro-renaissance/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180520T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180520T173000
DTSTAMP:20260501T163510
CREATED:20180426T182605Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180426T182801Z
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SUMMARY:Queer/Literary Defiance!
DESCRIPTION:  \nCultural defiance has maintained Queer identity\, keeping alive a culture rich in creativity\, zest\, and courage. In today’s political and social environment\, when LGBTQ rights and legitimacy are again under attack\, Queer cultural defiance is a bulwark against forcing the community back into hiding. \n  \nOn Sunday\, May 20th\, five acclaimed Queer writers—poets\, playwrights and novelists—will celebrate Queer/Literary Defiance. Each will read a short passage from their work\, followed by a discussion of the role of defiance in their writing; how it shapes it\, informs it\, gives it fire. This award-winning lineup of authors represents a diversity of social and cultural experience in the Queer community. As writers\, they distill those experiences into art. \n  \nFeaturing Ann Aptaker\, Ella Boureau\, JP Howard\, Jee Leong Koh\, and Trace Peterson. \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/queerliterary-defiance/
LOCATION:Online event\, New York\, NY\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Bureau of General Services%E2%80%94Queer Division":MAILTO:contact@bgsqd.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180525T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180525T210000
DTSTAMP:20260501T163510
CREATED:20180507T151824Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180510T161152Z
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SUMMARY:Affirmative Laughter
DESCRIPTION:  \nCome celebrate Elsa Waithe‘s 30th bday the only way she know how… WITH LAUGHTER!!! On May 25th @ 7pm\, Bureau of General Services-Queer Division is gonna be packed as we ring in Elsa’s new decade with this hot lineup:\n \nBeth Maria\n Margo Reiss\n Shelly Colman\n Sarah Hartshorne\n Norah Yahya\n Mamoudou N’Diaye\n \n$10 suggested donation to benefit the Bureau and Affirmative Laughter performers. No one turned away for lack of funds!!!! \n  \n \n \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/affirmative-laughter-3/
LOCATION:Online event\, New York\, NY\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Bureau of General Services%E2%80%94Queer Division":MAILTO:contact@bgsqd.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180526T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180526T210000
DTSTAMP:20260501T163510
CREATED:20180426T185506Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180426T185506Z
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SUMMARY:Book Launch - A Reprobate Sense by Hunter O'Hanian
DESCRIPTION: \nThis artist’s book explores the origins of anti-same sex attitudes found in modern society. The author\, Hunter O’Hanian\, uses a book written in 1049\, The Book of Gomorrah\, which for the first time\, cataloged the sins associated with same-sex behavior. \n  \nO’Hanian researched Peter Damian’s life\, the origin of the book and its impact on modern day society. A Reprobate Sense contains selected excerpts from Damian’s work illustrated with screen shots from 1970s films made to entertain gay males.\n  \nGay writer and historian Hugh Ryan will interview O’Hanian about the book.\n \nCopies of A Reprobate Sense 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 \n  \nAbout Hunter O’Hanian – With degrees from Boston College and Suffolk University Law School\, Hunter O’Hanian has held leadership positions at visual arts programs including the Fine Arts Work Center (Provincetown\, MA)\, Anderson Ranch Arts Center (Snowmass Village\, CO)\, Massachusetts College of Art and Design Foundation (Boston\, MA)\, Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art (New York\, NY)\, and College Art Association (New York\, NY). He has served on non-profit boards and panels for more than 30 years. His contributions have been recognized through an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from the Art Institute of Boston and a permanently endowed fellowship in his name at the Fine Arts Work Center.\n \n  \nAbout Hugh Ryan – A journalist\, curator\, and speaker write for folks like The New York Times\, The Guardian\, The Daily Beast\, VICE\, and Slate\, and other places. He mostly covers queer culture\, art\, and politics\, but also Rube Goldberg machines\, racism on reality television\, the renaissance of Shirley Jackson\, non-linear non-fiction\, and the literary origin of zombies in America. Recently\, he became the resident historian at them\, the new Conde Nast LGBTQ publication\, where we writes a column called “Themstory” every two weeks. This year\, he will be a resident artist at The Watermill Center as he finishes his new book\, When Brooklyn Was Queer\, due out with St. Martin’s Press in March of 2019.\n \n \n \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/book-launch-a-reprobate-sense-by-hunter-ohanian/
LOCATION:Online event\, New York\, NY\, United States
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