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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190104T180000
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SUMMARY:CARPE ANNUM:  Readings by Jeppesen\, Kitto\, Benderson
DESCRIPTION: \nWhat better way to start off another year on our exhilarating ride toward redemption/oblivion\, than a reading by three of the sharpest minds around? In a rare NYC appearance\, writer and critic TRAVIS JEPPESEN will read from his work. On the same bill: the great essayist SVETLANA KITTO and the legendary BRUCE BENDERSON. Hosted by JASON NAPOLI BROOKS\n \nDrinks will be served for a donation. Admission is $10 suggested donation to benefit the Bureau (no one will be turned away for lack of funds).\n \n \nTravis Jeppesen is the author of the novels Victims\, Wolf at the Door\, and The Suiciders\, as well as two volumes of poetry and a collection of art criticism\, Disorientations: Art on the Margins of the “Contemporary”. In 2018\, his book See You in Pyongyang\, about his time living and studying in North Korea\, was published. His essays and criticism have appeared in Wall Street Journal\, New York Daily News\, Artforum\, Afterall\, Art in America\, Texte zur Kunst\, Flash Art\, Bookforum\, Spike\, Frieze\, and Mousse\, among other publications. Jeppesen is based in Berlin and Shanghai\, where he teaches at the Institute for Cultural and Creative Industry at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. His new collection of essays\, Bad Writing\, is forthcoming from Sternberg Press.\n \n \nSvetlana Kitto is a writer and oral historian in New York City. Her work has been featured in the New York Times\, Guernica\, Interview Magazine\, and BOMB\, among other publications. She co/curates the reading and performance series Adult Contemporary\, which is presented quarterly with Hauser & Wirth.\n \n \nBruce Benderson is a novelist\, essayist\, journalist and translator\, widely published in France. Benderson’s erotic memoir Autobiographie érotique\, about a nine-month sojourn in Romania\, won the prestigious French literary prize\, the Prix de Flore.His book-length essay\, Toward the New Degeneracy\, looks at New York’s Times Square\, where rich and poor once mixed in a lively atmosphere of drugs\, sex\, and commerce. Benderson argues that this kind of mingling of classes has been the source of many modern avant-garde movements\, and he laments the disappearance of that particular milieu. His novel User (1994) is a lyrical descent into the world of junkies and male hustlers. He is also the author of James Bidgood (Taschen\, 1999)\, about the maker of the cult film Pink Narcissus.\n \n \nJason Napoli Brooks’ fiction and non-fiction have appeared in various publications\, such as Ninth Letter\, Asymptote\, Bomb Blog\, Colors\, and the gay fiction anthology Satanica. His first novel\, Shelter\, was the recipient of The Chapbook Award for Best Fiction of 2006. From 2014-2017 Brooks published the psychedelic mystery series Cock of the Walk in zine format. It reached a wide audience and is now being translated intoSpanish. Brooks wrote the script for the multimedia theater work\, Soundstage\, starring actor Rebecca Hall and created/directed by Rob Roth\, which premiered in New York City at Here Arts Center in September 2018. Brooks is the founder\, curator\, and emcee of the long-running Enclave Reading Series\, which takes place at Club Cumming\, actor Alan Cummings’ nightclub in the East Village.\n \n \n \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/carpe-annum-readings-by-jeppesen-kitto-benderson/
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SUMMARY:Social Sculpture for Individual Goals
DESCRIPTION:  \nSocial Sculpture for Individual Goals is an opportunity to check in with others about your personal goals.\n \nThe way it works is very simple: A group of individuals gathers together\, and\, depending on how many individuals are present\, together we decide on a specific amount of time that each person will be allotted to speak to the group about their personal goals. We ask for one person to volunteer as a timekeeper\, and that person keeps track of time\, letting the person who is speaking know when they have one minute remaining\, and when their time is up.\n \nAs each one of us takes our turn to speak\, the group listens quietly and gives us an opportunity to speak from the heart about our personal goals. This process of personal goal-related sharing can go in many different directions\, and each person who speaks is welcome to use this time in whatever way feels most helpful to them. This process provides an opportunity for the speaker to sort out their thoughts\, to gain clarity around personal goals\, to share setbacks and successes\, and to be accountable to others. As we listen to others\, it is an opportunity for us to practice deep listening and to receive inspiration from others.\n \nWhile this is not an overly rule-bound process\, we do ask that attendees keep the following guidelines in mind:\n \n– When it is someone else’s turn to speak\, others in the group do not interrupt or query that person. We allow the person who is speaking to have ‘the stage’ to themself during their turn.\n \n– During your own turn\, keep the focus on yourself\, and do not give feedback to others who have already spoken (note: it is okay to reference something someone else said\, for example\, something that inspired you–as long as you are mentioning it in relation to your own goals and your own process).\n \n– Nobody is required to share. It is okay to attend and just listen to others\, without sharing anything yourself. Also\, it is okay if someone wants to speak for less than their allotted time.\n \n– Please keep in mind that this is an open community forum; therefore\, information that attendees choose to share is not considered confidential or anonymous.\n \n \nThis project is a collaboration between the Bureau and Ben G. Adams\, a psychologist and artist whose work focuses on approaching tropes of personal and social transformation as art forms. The term ‘social sculpture’ was originally developed by 20th century conceptual artist Joseph Beuys in reference to the idea that all human beings are artists\, and that all aspects of life can be approached as art forms. Ben’s previous work includes an art book and dieting system titled The Creative Process Diet\, mixed media works in printmaking and sculpture\, and another (currently ongoing) iteration of Social Sculpture for Individual Goals developed in collaboration with the Religious Society of Friends of Truth (a.k.a. ‘Quakers’) beginning in January 2017. \n  \nThere is no required cost to attend Social Sculpture for Individual Goals\, which is being very generously sponsored by the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division\, an independent organization that is operated entirely by volunteers. During the meeting we will pass around a bowl so that everyone who attends will receive an opportunity to make a voluntary donation to support the Bureau. The suggested donation is $10\, and we ask attendees to be as generous as possible in their support of the Bureau\, which generously sponsors Social Sculpture for Individual Goals and many other community-building projects. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/social-sculpture-for-individual-goals/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190109T183000
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SUMMARY:OLNY Poly Movie Night: Tom of Finland
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.\n  \nOn Wednesday\, January 9th\, please join us for Tom of Finland (2017)\, directed by Dome Karukoski and starring Pekka Strang.\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 event is free\, although a $10 suggested donation to help fund future events is much appreciated.\n  \nSynopsis: Based on the life of Finnish artist Touko Laaksonen\, better known as Tom of Finland\, the film contrasts his closeted life as a post-WWII advertising executive in Helsinki with the joyful eroticism of his (now iconic) illustrations of hyper-masculinized gay men in uniforms and fetish gear. Running time: 1 hour 57 minutes. In Finnish with English subtitles.\n \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/olny-poly-movie-night-tom-of-finland/
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SUMMARY:Community\, Perversity and the Queer Left
DESCRIPTION:  \nCommunity\, Perversity and the Queer Left: A political conversation about community\, politics\, sex and history. Verso Books’ recent re-publication of Jeffrey Escoffier’s American Homo and three other pioneering works by radical queer left thinkers published in the early 1980s is the occasion of a discussion facilitated by Christopher Mitchell\, a professor of Gender Studies at Hunter College\, with Jeffrey Escoffier\, author of American Homo: Community and Perversity\, on the relevance of the queer left today. \n  \nCopies of American Homo: Community and Perversity (along with the other three titles from set 17 of Verso’s Radical Thinkers series) will be available to 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  \nJeffrey Escoffier is on the faculty of the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. His book\, American Homo: Community and Perversity\, was recently re-issued by Verso Books in its Radical Thinkers series. He the author of Bigger Than Life: Gay Porn Cinema from Beefcake to Hardcore and the editor of Sexual Revolution\, an anthology of the most influential writing on sex from the 1960s and 70s. He is the former executive editor of Socialist Review. He was one of the founders and the Publisher of the pioneering LGBTQ journal OUT/LOOK from 1989 to 1992. \n  \nChristopher Mitchell is a historian of queer life in NYC and a professor of gender studies at Hunter College\, CUNY. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/community-perversity-and-the-queer-left/
LOCATION:Online event\, New York\, NY\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190118T180000
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SUMMARY:Opening reception for Tobias Wong\, “Untitled” (Golden) ...
DESCRIPTION:  \nPlease join us at the opening reception for Tobias Wong\, “Untitled” (Golden) … on Friday\, January 18\, 2019\, 6-9 PM \n  \nTobias Wong\, “Untitled” (Golden) … \nJanuary 18 – March 17\, 2019  \nDownload a PDF of the press release. \nNew York\, New York –The Bureau of General Services—Queer Division is proud to present Tobias Wong\, “Untitled” (Golden) …\, an exhibition of the late artist/designer’s work that played with the definition of what constituted art or design. The exhibition will present a selection of his work alongside objects from his personal collection that served as muses for his artistic design work.  This includes a wide variety of table lamps as well as ephemera that he collected. \nIn a press release issued at the time of Wong’s death in 2010\, architecture and design curator\, friend\, and colleague Aric Chen wrote: “Through his work\, Wong helped bring forth much of what is now taken for granted in contemporary culture. Influenced by Dada and\, especially\, Fluxus\, he questioned authorship through appropriation; held a mirror to our desires and absurdities; upended the hierarchy between design and art\, and the precious and the banal; and helped redefine collaboration and curation as creative practices. Working within what he termed a “paraconceptual” framework\, Wong prompted a reevaluation of everything we thought we knew about design: its production\, its psychological resonance\, its aesthetic criteria\, its means of distribution\, its attachment to provenance\, its contextualization and its manner of presentation. Wong was a keen observer\, an original mind\, a brilliant prankster\, and an unerring friend. \n“Wong’s work was widely exhibited\, including at the Museum of Modern Art and Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. His many projects included those for Colette\, Comme des Garcons\, Prada/OMA\, Cappellini and Swarovski Crystal Palace. In addition to the objects he created\, re-created\, repurposed\, rarefied and otherwise manipulated\, Wong’s work included events and happenings that included\, among many others\, a pop-up tattoo parlor at Art Basel Miami Beach/Design Miami and the Wrong Store\, a “store” in New York that was in fact never open. (As with much of Wong’s work\, both were collaborations.) Wong was named Young Designer of the Year by Wallpaper* magazine (2004) as well as the Brooklyn Museum of Art (2006). In 2008 and 2009\, he served as founding co-creative director of 100% Design Shanghai\, affiliated with the 100% Design fairs in London and Tokyo. \n“Born and raised in Vancouver\, Wong studied in Toronto before moving to New York in 1997 to attend the Cooper Union\, from which he graduated with a major in sculpture.” \n  \nThe exhibition is curated by: \nDean MacGregor\, an artist who has done projects at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art\, the Morgan Library and many others.  He recently did his sleeping project at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. \nPablo Griff is an artist and was a consultant to the retrospective of Tobias Wong’s work at the Museum of Vancouver in 2012. \n  \nImage: Tobias Wong\, blue anus\, 1998 (replica 2016 courtesy Lite Brite Neon\, Brooklyn)\, Estate of Tobias Wong \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/opening-reception-for-tobias-wong-untitled-golden/
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SUMMARY:Social Sculpture for Individual Goals
DESCRIPTION:  \nSocial Sculpture for Individual Goals is an opportunity to check in with others about your personal goals. \nThe way it works is very simple: A group of individuals gathers together\, and\, depending on how many individuals are present\, together we decide on a specific amount of time that each person will be allotted to speak to the group about their personal goals. We ask for one person to volunteer as a timekeeper\, and that person keeps track of time\, letting the person who is speaking know when they have one minute remaining\, and when their time is up. \nAs each one of us takes our turn to speak\, the group listens quietly and gives us an opportunity to speak from the heart about our personal goals. This process of personal goal-related sharing can go in many different directions\, and each person who speaks is welcome to use this time in whatever way feels most helpful to them. This process provides an opportunity for the speaker to sort out their thoughts\, to gain clarity around personal goals\, to share setbacks and successes\, and to be accountable to others. As we listen to others\, it is an opportunity for us to practice deep listening and to receive inspiration from others. \nWhile this is not an overly rule-bound process\, we do ask that attendees keep the following guidelines in mind: \n– When it is someone else’s turn to speak\, others in the group do not interrupt or query that person. We allow the person who is speaking to have ‘the stage’ to themself during their turn. \n– During your own turn\, keep the focus on yourself\, and do not give feedback to others who have already spoken (note: it is okay to reference something someone else said\, for example\, something that inspired you–as long as you are mentioning it in relation to your own goals and your own process). \n– Nobody is required to share. It is okay to attend and just listen to others\, without sharing anything yourself. Also\, it is okay if someone wants to speak for less than their allotted time. \n– Please keep in mind that this is an open community forum; therefore\, information that attendees choose to share is not considered confidential or anonymous. \nThis project is a collaboration between the Bureau and Ben G. Adams\, a psychologist and artist whose work focuses on approaching tropes of personal and social transformation as art forms. The term ‘social sculpture’ was originally developed by 20th century conceptual artist Joseph Beuys in reference to the idea that all human beings are artists\, and that all aspects of life can be approached as art forms. Ben’s previous work includes an art book and dieting system titled The Creative Process Diet\, mixed media works in printmaking and sculpture\, and another (currently ongoing) iteration of Social Sculpture for Individual Goals developed in collaboration with the Religious Society of Friends of Truth (a.k.a. ‘Quakers’) beginning in January 2017. \n  \nThere is no required cost to attend Social Sculpture for Individual Goals\, which is being very generously sponsored by the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division\, an independent organization that is operated entirely by volunteers. During the meeting we will pass around a bowl so that everyone who attends will receive an opportunity to make a voluntary donation to support the Bureau. The suggested donation is $10\, and we ask attendees to be as generous as possible in their support of the Bureau\, which generously sponsors Social Sculpture for Individual Goals and many other community-building projects. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/social-sculpture-for-individual-goals-2/
LOCATION:Online event\, New York\, NY\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190119T190000
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SUMMARY:TELL 50: BELIEVING
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. \n  \nBELIEVING is the theme of the 50th installment of TELL. That’s right\, the 50th TELL! \nFeaturing stories by Juju Garcia\, Linden Crawford\, Wo Chan\, Jordana De La Cruz\, and REXYLAFEMME. \n  \n$10 suggested donation to support the Bureau and the performers. No one turned away for lack of funds. \n \n  \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 the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division. Check her out online!  www.draecampbell.com. \n \n  \n\n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n \n \nJuju Garcia’s passion for fashion\, film and music magnetized him away from the most economically segregated city in the country – San Antonio\, Texas – all the way to New York City\, at the age of 18. After some growing pains\, he discovered a skill for writing pop songs and is now determined to inject queerness into the music industry\, while being a voice for young\, queer folks trying to find their way in the world. \n \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n \n \nLinden Crawford grew up in Sacramento\, California\, and went to the same high school as Joan Didion\, which they hope counts for something. Linden moved to Brooklyn after an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of New Orleans\, and recently had their first publication\, a personal essay about getting top surgery\, called “All in One Piece”\, in the New York Times. \n \n  \n\n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nWo Chan is a queer poet and drag performer living in Brooklyn. Wo has received fellowships from the New York Foundation of the Arts\, Kundiman\, and the Asian American Writers Workshop. As a member of the Brooklyn based drag/burlesque collective Switch N’ Play\, Wo has performed at venues including The Whitney\, National Sawdust\, New York Live Arts\, and BAM Fisher. Check them out on instagram @theillustriouspearl. \nPhoto by AJ Jordan \n \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n \n  \nJordana De La Cruz is a Brooklyn-based director\, cultural producer\, queer babe\, and dog mom extraordinaire. She creates events\, performances\, and public programs that spark cross cultural dialogue and challenge the traditional notions of identity. She has worked with JACK\, La Mama\, The Flea Theater\, IATI Theater\, INTAR Theatre\,The Story Pirates\, and Young Jean Lee’s Theater Company\, among others. Jordana is currently curating public programs at the Park Avenue Armory\, a cultural arts institution dedicated to producing unconventional work. \n \n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n \nREXYLAFEMME (rex renée leonowicz) is a visual + performing artist\, writer\, and songwriter born and raised in NYC. As a working class trans femme\, rex’s work is grounded in a politics of radical resistance\, healing\, and witness. rex blends genders and genres\, often utilizing drag and burlesque\, to critically respond to the relationships people “on the margins” have with our surroundings and each other. rex’s book of poems and illustrations\, when there is no one and there is everyone\, is available from Magic Helicopter Press. S/he was a 2017 EmergeNYC Performance Fellow with the Hemispheric Institute at NYU and has an MFA in Poetry from Mills College. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190120T160000
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SUMMARY:Physique Pictorial Volume 47 Release Party
DESCRIPTION:  \nCome celebrate the release of Physique Pictorial\, photographer Bob Mizer’s art journal that fought censorship laws back in the day — and freed up the nude male physique throughout American culture.\n \nThe new Physique Pictorial relaunched last year and you can help us celebrate the release of the latest volume with The Bob Mizer Foundation and the Bureau of General Services-Queer Division.\n \nCome and meet Physique Pictorial’s spokespersons\, Ross Collab and Edward Joseph who are hosting the event in the incredible space that is the Bureau. Enjoy queer art\, conversation\, drinks\, music\, vintage Bob Mizer films\, and even a chance to win a copy of the new Physique Pictorial V47!\n \nSuggested donation of $10 to benefit the Bureau. No one turned away for lack of funds.\n \n \n \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/physique-pictorial-volume-47-release-party/
LOCATION:Online event\, New York\, NY\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190131T190000
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SUMMARY:BED 26: Memoir of an African Man's Asylum in the United States
DESCRIPTION:  \nEdafe Okporo marks his publishing debut with the release of Bed 26 (published by XlibrisUS)\, a memoir charting the experiences of refugees in America and the life of a gay man amidst discrimination. \n  \nBased on a true life story\, Bed 26 narrates the experiences of Nigerian and West African gay\, bisexual men and the reason they are forced to flee from their home country. The book also talks about the experiences of immigrants in an immigration detention\, and the gap between the perceived American dream and its reality of racism\, discrimination and phobia for people of color in America. \n  \nThrough the book\, Okporo stresses why people should not be categorized based on accepted norms “that are created to suit people who created them.” His story encourages looking beyond labels such as “refugees” and “citizens” and looking inward into human character and behavior. “The stigma in today’s society is overbearing and this book helps us to accept people the way they are and love them just the same\,” he adds. \n  \n“I want my readers to be more compassionate and caring for people around them\, their loved ones and people who are close to them. You should not judge people without knowing how far they have come\,” Okporo reminds. “This book is also about forgiveness for people who have wronged you in the past\, and resilience for young and old people to challenge the norm.” \n  \nCopies of Bed 26 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  \nEdafe Okporo is the Executive Director of RDJ Refugee Shelter\, a Nigerian LGBTQ refugee\, and advocate for human rights of LGBTQ\, immigrants\, and minorities. He is the author of BED 26: A Memoir of an African Man’s Asylum in United States. Host of the Pont Podcast promoting LGBTQ and Refugee access\, awareness and education. Twitter @edafeokporo. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/bed-26-memoir-of-an-african-mans-asylum-in-the-united-states/
LOCATION:Online event\, New York\, NY\, United States
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