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SUMMARY:Kid Division: Storytime with author Kyle Lukoff
DESCRIPTION:  \nHear Stonewall-award winning author Kyle Lukoff read some of his books! Open to all ages\, children encouraged to join! \n  \nRegistration on Eventbrite (link below) is required in order to receive the Zoom link on the day of the event. \nSuggested donation to benefit the Bureau: $5. \nAll are welcome to join\, with or without a donation. \nYou can make a donation when you register on Eventbrite: \nClick here to register\nKyle Lukoff is the author of the 2020 Stonewall-award winning book When Aidan Became A Brother\, as well as several other picture books. His debut middle-grade novel Too Bright To See releases in April. After spending 8 years as an elementary school librarian\, Kyle now writes full-time. \nKyle’s books are available for purchase on the Bureau’s online store. Click on any title below to learn more or to make a purchase: \n25% off of Kyle Lukoff’s books – This week only!\nLast day of sale February 13th\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\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\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\n\n \nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us!
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LOCATION:Online event\, New York\, NY\, United States
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SUMMARY:Spivy: Unsung LGBTQ Pioneer\, Presented by Original Cockette Rumi Missabu
DESCRIPTION:Original Cockette Rumi Missabu returns to the Bureau (virtually) to regale us with stories of Madame Spivy\, unsung LGBTQ pioneer. Featuring film clips and tales of the Brooklyn-born entertainer! \n“Madame Spivy was born on September 30\, 1906 in Brooklyn\, New York\, USA as Bertha Levine. She was an actress\, known for Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962)\, The Manchurian Candidate (1962) and All Fall Down (1962). She died on January 7\, 1971 in Woodland Hills\, Los Angeles\, California\, USA. \n“Operated the nightclub Spivy’s Roof\, New York City\, 1940-1951.” (IMDB) \nCheck out this cute little teaser for the event on YouTube! \nSuggested donation to support the Bureau’s work: $5 \nBut all are welcome to join\, with or without a donation. \nRegistration on Eventbrite required in order to receive the Zoom link on the day of the event. \nClick here to register\n  \n 
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SUMMARY:TELL 70: Rose-Colored Glasses\, The Seventh-Anniversary Edition!
DESCRIPTION:TELL 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. \nRose-Colored Glasses is the theme of the 70th TELL\, on Saturday\, February 20\, 2021\, 6 to 7:30 PM (EST). This month’s line-up of storytellers has been curated by Mariel Reyes. Featuring:  Yunique\, Patric Pardo\, Dirty Lola\, and Mariel Reyes. \nThe event will take place on Zoom. \nThis is a free event\, but you must register on Eventbrite in advance of the event in order to receive the Zoom meeting link on the day of the event. \nSuggested donation $10 to benefit the storytellers and the Bureau. \nBut all are welcome to join\, with or without a donation. \nYou can make a donation when you register on Eventbrite. \nClick here to register\n  \nPhotograph by Grace Chu\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 \nMariel Reyes is an Queer Afrolatinx performance artist & producer\, with works based out of some of your favorite experimental theater spaces in NYC (Dixon Place\, Brooklyn Arts Exchange) She has also appeared on screen in the film “Appropriate Behaviour” which premiered at Sundance in 2014 and the award winning web series “The Feels” currently in its third season. \n  \nYunique is an artist and food enthusiast. They show up for the in between the unsaid the unknown and the nuance. \n  \n \nPatric Prado is an epidemiologist working on COVID and HIV\, primarily focusing on health disparities here in San Francisco and in the Global South. He is currently working as a data scientist working with COVID mass testing for Latinx Populations\, who as we all know have been disproportionately impacted. Working with data\, data systems\, and dashboards all day; it’s hard to sometimes see the light at the end of the tunnel. Replicating the same lessons on who gets hit the hardest\, why they get hit the hardest\, and how – seems like public health never goes far enough to solve these structural issues. But if we are doomed to repeat our histories of inequality\, oppression\, and impacts of racism – What does this mean for our collective and individual resilience? \n  \n \nDirty Lola is a sex edutainer\, speaker\, and self-proclaimed dildo slinger. Known for her live sex ed Q&A show Sex Ed A Go-Go and as co-host of New York Magazine’s The Cut’s “Sex Probz” web series\, Lola has spent almost a decade working to end stigma and shame surrounding sex and sexuality. Having started her journey sharing personal discoveries with polyamory and kink online\, Lola now uses her knowledge\, warm candor\, and public platforms to teach the masses in-person and to rapt Internet audiences. \nIn addition to her educational projects\, Lola is also the creative director of Spectrum Journal an online magazine offshoot of the female-owned online sex shop\, Spectrum Boutique based in Detroit\, and has brought her unique brand of sex-positive sex education to brands such as B-Vibe\, Spencers Gifts\, and Math Magazine. \nWebsite: SexEdAGoGo.com \nTwitter: @DirtyLola \nInstagram: @DirtyLola \nFetlife: Dirty Lola
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SUMMARY:Queer Filmmakers Q&A: Mental Health\, Coming Out\, and BLOCK The Film
DESCRIPTION:On a mission to put a face to queer mental health struggles and in an attempt to work though her own coming out story\, Carrie Brennan wrote BLOCK– where she stars as Kit O’Brien: a twenty-something year old who’s internal homophobia literally manifests itself as a cinderblock. In order to face her fears and free herself from BLOCK\, she’s got to come out. This is a story of self-acceptance\, self-love\, mental health\, and sisterhood. \n  \nThe film-now in the film festival circuit-has grown beyond its original medium\, creating a platform for Carrie and the BLOCK Team to meet and interact with its surrounding community. Join us as we sit with producer\, actor and writer Carrie Brennan and costar and producer Victoria Ratermanis to talk filmmaking\, mental health\, queer stories\, and BLOCK. \n  \nTwo lucky attendees will receive tickets to the March 4th premiere of BLOCK! \nWe will pick two names at random from the audience during the event. \n  \nRegistration on this page is required in order to receive the Zoom link on the day of the event\, Thursday\, February 25. \nSuggested donation to benefit the Bureau: $5. \nAll are welcome to join\, with or without a donation. \nYou can make a donation when you register on Eventbrite. \n  \nClick here to register\n  \n***\n  \nGet Tickets to the live-streamed virtual Premiere of BLOCK (Thursday\, March 4th\, 7 PM EST): https://www.blockthefilm.com/tickets \nFollow Block on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/blockshortfilm \nFollow Block on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/blockthefilm/ \n 
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