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SUMMARY:Walk Between Worlds Release: Samara Breger with Leah Schnelbach
DESCRIPTION:  \n\n\n\nCelebrate the release of Walk Between Worlds\, Samara Breger‘s debut novel\, called “the scrappy-sapphic-knight saga we all deserve\,” by Tuck Woodstock\, host of Gender Reveal. Samara will be joined in conversation by Leah Schnelbach\, Senior Staff Writer at Tor.com. \n  \nRegistration on Eventbrite is required in order to receive the Zoom link on the day of the event. \nClick here to register\nSuggested donation of $5 to support the Bureau’s work. \nAll are welcome to join\, with or without a donation. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nPurchase Samara Breger’s Walk Between Worlds from the Bureau’s online store to have the book shipped to you or to pick up at our physical store. \n  \nLeah Schnelbach is the senior staff writer at the pop culture website Tor.com\, and a fiction editor for the literary journal NoTokens. Their work has appeared in The Rumpus\, Joyland\, Electric Literature\, Volume 1 Brooklyn\, and other estimable places. Turn-ons: espresso\, Oreos\, well-deployed bi lighting; turn-offs: clickbait\, lima beans\, the death of the author. You can find them on Twitter @cloudy_vision \n  \nSamara Breger is a writer and performer from New York. In her previous life\, she was an Emmy-nominated journalist\, covering sexual and reproductive health. Now\, she writes books about magic and feelings. She has a crush on every character. \n 
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SUMMARY:Paul Moreno / Problem Areas Reception
DESCRIPTION:The Bureau of General Services—Queer Division is proud to present Paul Moreno / Problem Areas. This will be Paul’s first solo exhibition and includes a selection of paintings and drawings from 2016 through 2021. \nPlease join us for the opening reception for Paul Moreno / Problem Areas on Friday\, September 10\, 2021. \nPlease note that registration on Eventbrite is required. \nIn order to limit the number of people in the room at any given time\, we are asking visitors to schedule their visits in advance. When registering you will need to select a half-hour slot between 4 and 7 PM. Masks are required throughout The LGBT Community Center\, including the Bureau. \nClick here to sign up for a half-hour slot between 4 and 7 PM.\nPaul is a self-taught artist who grew up in Sparks\, Nevada. Paul studied Literature and Critical Thought at University of San Francisco and NYU. About the title\, Problem Areas\, Paul states “I took the title from the old adage that art-making is largely a process of problem solving. However\, the title is also meaningful in that when I choose subjects for my work\, I try to look at something that I have complex or unresolved feelings about. By spending time with the subject\, against the background of parsing it into formal elements that serve the picture\, I find spiritual resolution can also present itself. In this way\, the problem\, as it were\, is not a negative\, but an opportunity to expose the beauty in the subject to myself and hopefully the viewer.” \nPaul Moreno / Problem Areas will remain on view at the Bureau through December 31\, 2021. \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/paul-moreno-problem-areas-reception/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210916T180000
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SUMMARY:SHORTIES: Scott Alexander Hess & Joe Okonkwo on the Allure of Short Fiction
DESCRIPTION:Scott Alexander Hess and Joe Okonkwo discuss their latest books. Hess has a volume containing two novellas—The Root of Everything and Lightning. Okonkwo has published a collection of short stories called Kiss the Scars on the Back of My Neck. After reading selections from their books\, the authors will engage in a spirited conversation: How does writing short(er) fiction compare to composing full-length novels? \nPatrick E. Horrigan\, author of Pennsylvania Station\, calls Hess’s novellas “Historical fiction at its cutting-edge best\,” while noted author William J. Mann has lauded Okonkwo’s collection as “A remarkable examination of the human condition.” \n  \nSafety protocol: \nIn an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19\, we are limiting the number of attendees to 30. Registration on Eventbrite is required in order to attend. \nClick here to register\nIf you have any symptoms associated with COVID-19 in the days leading up to the event\, we ask you to please cancel your reservation so that others can attend. If all 30 reservations have been claimed and you would like to be placed on a wait list\, please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com. \nPlease note that masks are required at all times inside The LGBT Community Center\, where the Bureau is located. \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  \nBoth Scott Alexander Hess’s The Root of Everything and Lightning: Two Novellas as well as Joe Okonkwo’s Kiss the Scars on the Back of My Neck are available for purchase from the Bureau. Click on either title above to purchase on our online store where you have the option to have books shipped to you or to pick up at our physical store. Books will also be available for purchase at the event. \nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us! \n  \nSuggested donation of $5 to benefit the Bureau’s work. We will pass a bag at the start of the event. \nAll are welcome to join\, with or without a donation. \n  \nScott Alexander Hess is the author of five novels\, including Skyscraper\, a Lambda Literary Award Finalist\, and The Butcher’s Sons\, which was named a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2015. His writing has appeared in HuffPost\, Genre Magazine\, The Fix\, Thema Literary Review\, and elsewhere. Hess co-wrote “Tom in America\,” an award-winning short film\, starring Sally Kirkland and Burt Young. He teaches fiction writing at Gotham Writers Workshop and curates Hot Lit\, an LGBTQ+ themed monthly newsletter. Originally from St. Louis\, Missouri\, Hess lives in New York City with his husband. \n  \nJoe Okonkwo’s debut novel Jazz Moon won the Publishing Triangle’s Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction and was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award. His short stories have appeared in Global City Review\, The Piltdown Review\, The New Engagement\, Storychord\, Love Stories from Africa\, and Strength. His story “Cleo” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Joe served as Prose Editor for Newtown Literary and he edited Best Gay Stories 2017. He is represented by the Baldi Literary Agency. \n 
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SUMMARY:Jake Hall\, Author of Art of Drag\, in Conversation with Dominique Morgan
DESCRIPTION:Jake Hall sits down with Dominique Morgan to discuss their latest book Art of Drag (2020) and how drag intersects with queer politics. Morgan is an award-winning TEDx speaker who has partnered her lived experience of being impacted by mass incarceration with a decade of change-making artistry and advocacy. Her book “Sex Ed for System Facing People” will be available early next year. Hall has written for Dazed Digital\, i-D\, VICE\, and British Vogue among others on topics from sustainability in fashion to government crackdowns on queer people. Join us as both authors look at the abolitionist movement through a queer lens\, the identity of drag\, and what it means to subvert social constructs\, hosted on Zoom by the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division in NYC. \n  \nRegistration on Eventbrite 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. \n  \nClick here to register\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! \n  \nJake Hall is a freelance writer who has written for Dazed Digital\, i-D\, VICE\, Highsnobiety\, INTO\, Refinery29 UK\, and British Vogue\, among others. They have written on topics from sustainability in fashion and body-shaming in queer communities\, to government crackdowns on queer people\, and intersex genital mutilation. Alongside this work\, they are studying for a PhD at the University of Birmingham. Jake’s research aims to illuminate the link between high fashion and queer theory\, as well as arguing the potential of clothing to radically challenge and subvert the social constructs of gender\, sexuality\, and race. \n  \nDominique Morgan (She/Her) is an award-winning artist\, activist\, and TEDx speaker. As the Executive Director of Black and Pink\, the largest prison abolitionist organization in the United States. She works daily to dismantle the systems that perpetuate violence on LGBTQ/GNC people and individuals living with HIV/AIDS. Partnering her lived experience of being impacted by mass incarceration (including 18 months in solitary confinement)\, with a decade of change-making artistry\, advocacy\, and background in public health\, she continues to work in spaces of sex education\, radical self-care\, and transformative youth development with intentions of dismantling the prison industrial complex and its impact on our communities. Ms. Morgan is a 2020 Ten Outstanding Young Americans Award recipient\, NAACP Freedom Fighter Award recipient\, and 2020 JM Kaplan Innovation Prize recipient. Her new album Pisces In E Flat Major is available on all platforms and her book “Sex Ed for System Facing People” will be available January 2022. Find out more about Dominique at www.dominiquemorgan.com.
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SUMMARY:Queer Appalachian Parents\, Sex Work\, and the End of the World
DESCRIPTION:Join rural authors Alison Stine\, winner of the 2021 Philip K. Dick Award\, and Becca Spence Dobias to discuss their new books\, Trashlands and On Home. \nTrashlands is a strip club at the edge of an apocalyptic junkyard where a mother works to earn enough to rescue her son. \nIn On Home\, three generations of Appalachian mothers\, including one who works as a cam girl\, struggle with the weight of the past and the small town they call home. \nWhat can rural America—past\, present\, and near-future\, teach us about queerness and the volatile world we find ourselves in today? Stine and Spence Dobias will ask each other these questions and more. \n  \nRegistration on Eventbrite is required in order to receive the Zoom link on the day of the event. \nClick here to register\nSuggested donation to benefit the Bureau: $5. \nAll are welcome to join\, with or without a donation. \n  \nPurchase Becca Spence Dobias’s On Home (paperback\, $18.99) from the Bureau’s online store to have the book shipped to you or to pick up in the physical store. \n  \nPre-order Alison Stine’s Trashlands (hardcover\, $27.99) from the Bureau’s online store to have the book shipped to you or to pick up in the physical store–please note the release date is October 26\, 2021. \n  \nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us! \n  \nAlison Stine grew up in rural Ohio and now lives in Colorado. Her first novel Road Out of Winter won the 2021 Philip K. Dick Award. A disabled writer\, she is the recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and National Geographic\, and writes for The New York Times\, The Atlantic\, The Washington Post\, 100 Days in Appalachia\, and elsewhere. Her next novel Trashlands publishes from MIRA (HarperCollins) in October 2021. \n  \nBecca Spence Dobias grew up in West Virginia and now lives in Southern California with her husband and two children. She is the Project Manager for Writing Bloc and a co-host of its podcast\, The Indie Writer Podcast. On Home is her first novel.
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SUMMARY:“Summer Fun” + “You’re Pretty Gay”: Jeanne Thornton and Drew Pisarra
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the release of Summer Fun\, Jeanne Thornton’s second novel and You’re Pretty Gay\, Drew Pisarra’s new collection of short stories. The former has been hailed as “Wildly imaginative . . . Thornton’s writing is as rich as her ideas and spiked with wit.” by Kirkus Reviews while the latter has been described as “a mosaic of wit\, surrealism\, sex\, queerness\, memory\, mortality and self-discovery” by The Washington Blade. \n  \nRegistration on Eventbrite is required in order to receive the Zoom link on the day of the event. \nClick here to register\nSuggested donation to benefit the Bureau: $5. \nAll are welcome to join\, with or without a donation. \n  \nPurchase Jeanne Thornton’s Summer Fun (hardcover\, $27) from the Bureau’s online store to have the book shipped to you or to pick up in the physical store. \nPurchase Drew Pisarra’s You’re Pretty Gay (paperback\, $14) from the Bureau’s online store to have the book shipped to you or to pick up in the physical store. \nThank you for supporting the Bureau’s work by purchasing books from us! \n  \nJeanne Thornton is the author of Summer Fun\, The Dream of Doctor Bantam\, and The Black Emerald\, as well as the coeditor (with Tara Madison Avery) of We’re Still Here: An All-Trans Comics Anthology. She is the copublisher of Instar Books and lives in Brooklyn. More information is available at her website\, jeannethornton.com. \n  \nDrew Pisarra is the author of the books You’re Pretty Gay\, Infinity Standing Up\, and Publick Spanking as well as the radio play “The Strange Case of Nick M.” A literary grant recipient of both Café Royal Cultural Foundation and Curious Elixirs: Curious Creators\, he currently lives in Hell’s Kitchen in real life and at mistermysterio in the Twittersphere.
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SUMMARY:Leslie Cohen Shares The Audacity of a Kiss: Love\, Art\, and Liberation
DESCRIPTION:Leslie Cohen will discuss her new memoir\, The Audacity of a Kiss: Love\, Art\, and Liberation\, published by Rutgers University Press. Cohen and her partner Beth Suskin served as models for George Segal’s iconic sculpture Gay Liberation\, located in Christopher Park across from the Stonewall Inn. In her evocative memoir\, Cohen tells the story of a love that has lasted for over fifty years and recounts her quest to build gay and feminist oases in New York\, including the groundbreaking women’s nightclub Sahara. \nRegistration on Eventbrite is required in order to receive an email with 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. \nClick here to register\n  \nLESLIE COHEN has been a museum curator\, a nightclub owner and promoter\, a limousine driver\, and a lawyer\, as well as a writer whose work has appeared in such publications as Curve and The New York Times Style Magazine. Now retired\, she and her wife Beth live in Miami\, Florida with their cat\, Birdie. \n  \nPurchase The Audacity of a Kiss from the Bureau’s online shop or our physical store in Manhattan’s LGBT Community Center! Thank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us! \n  \n 
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