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SUMMARY:Cruising into Age—Getting Older Queerly
DESCRIPTION:How do queers age gracefully — and queerly? How do they deal with traumatic pasts\, which sometimes leave painful personal and physical legacies\, and how do they do so while keeping desire and intimacy alive? Prolific queer author Jonathan Alexander discusses his two new Fall books\, the critical memoirs Stroke Book: The Diary of a Blindspot (Fordham University Press) and Bullied: The Story of an Abuse (Punctum) with fellow queer writer Alex Espinoza\, author of Cruising: An Intimate History of a Radical Pastime. \nRegistration on Eventbrite is required in order to receive the Zoom link ON THE DAY OF THE EVENT. \nClick here to register\nThis event is free\, but donations to support the Bureau’s work are always welcome! \nAnother great way to support the Bureau is to purchase books from us! \nClick on the following links to place an order: \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! \n  \nTo purchase Jonathan Alexander’s Bullied: The Story of an Abuse please visit the publisher’s website: punctumbooks.com. \n  \nJonathan Alexander is a writer living in Southern California where he is Chancellor’s Professor of English at the University of California\, Irvine. He is the author\, co-author\, or editor of twenty-one books. His cultural journalism has been widely published\, especially in the Los Angeles Review of Books for which he is the Young Adult editor\, where founding editor Tom Lutz called him one of “our finest essayists.” He lives with his husband and cat\, and when not writing\, dabbles in watercolors and plays piano in a music ensemble with friends. For more about Jonathan Alexander and his books please visit  www.thecreeptrilogy.com  and www.the-blank-page.com. Photo by Carla Wilson. \n  \nAlex Espinoza is the author of Still Water Saints\, The Five Acts of Diego León\, and Cruising: An Intimate History of a Radical Pastime. He’s written for the LA Times\, the NY Times Magazine\, VQR\, LitHub\, and NPR’s All Things Considered. The recipient of fellowships from the NEA and MacDowell as well as an American Book Award\, he lives in Los Angeles and is the Tomás Rivera Endowed Chair of Creative Writing at UC-Riverside.
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SUMMARY:EXCESS: Aesthetics\, Gender\, Performance. A Roundtable Discussion
DESCRIPTION:A Roundtable Discussion about how a new generation of Black and Latina girls\, drag queens\, and burlesque stars are employing excess as a political tool. Featuring scholars Jillian Hernandez (author of Aesthetics of Excess)\, Meredith Heller (author of Queering Drag)\, and Lynn Sally (author of Neo-Burlesque). Moderated by Joe E. Jeffreys. \nRegistration on Eventbrite is required in order to receive the Zoom link ON THE DAY OF THE EVENT. \nClick here to register\nThis event is FREE\, but we welcome donations to support the work of the panelists and the Bureau. You can make a donation when you register. Thank you! \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! \n  \nPurchase Jillian Hernandez’s Aesthetics of Excess: The Art and Politics of Black and Latina Embodiment (Duke University Press\, 2020\, paperback\, $27.95) directly from Duke University Press \n  \nJillian Hernandez is Associate Professor at the Center for Gender\, Sexualities\, and Women’s Studies Research at the University of Florida. She created\, Women on the Rise!\, an outreach initiative that introduces contemporary art and artists and offers art-making praxis to young Black and Latina women in Miami. She discusses this in her critically-acclaimed book published by Duke University Press (2020)\, Aesthetics of Excess: The Art and Politics of Black and Latina Embodiment. \n  \nMeredith Heller is a Senior Lecturer of Queer Studies in the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at Northern Arizona University. She specializes in queer theory and critical identity studies\, with additional expertise in performance studies and digital media. Queering Drag: Redefining the Discourse of Gender-Bending won the Popular Culture Association’s 2021 John Leo and Dana Heller Award for Best Book in LGBTQ Studies and was named one of NBC’s “10 LGBTQ books to watch out for in 2020.” \n  \nDr. Lynn Sally is a scholar and practicing artist. She received her PhD in Performance Studies from New York University and MA in Gender Studies and Feminist Theory from The New School for Social Research. Her recent book Neo-Burlesque: Striptease as Transformation (Rutgers University Press\, 2022) has been hailed “a smart\,feminist tour de force…must read” by Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens. She also writes creative nonfiction at Medium and www.lynnsally.com. \n  \nJoe E. Jeffreys is a drag historian. He teaches theatre studies at New York University and The New School and has video documented NYC’s vibrant drag and burlesque scenes for over a dozen years. See samples of his video work at https://vimeo.com/joejeffreys
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SUMMARY:What Wasn’t I Thinking: Sebastian Stuart Talks with Stephen McCauley
DESCRIPTION:If you are having trouble registering on Eventbrite (the site isn’t working properly right now\, Thurs.\, Nov. 11\, at 2 pm)\, please email us at contact@bgsqd.com and we’ll send you the Zoom link you need to join us online tonight at 7 PM.\n\n\n  \nJoinSebastian Stuartas he reads fromWhat Wasn’t I Thinking?: A Memoir Of Rebellion\, Madness and My Mother.The reading will be followed with a conversation between Sebastian and authorStephen McCauley. \n“Sebastian Stuart’s dazzling memoir held me in its thrall like the best kind of novel. His mastery of suspense and his inherent humanity make for one electrifying read. And\, like all good memoirists\, he made me reexamine my own life along the way.” –Armistead Maupin \n“A madcap and a captivating\, deeply moving chronicle of madness—a combination ofThe Marvelous Mrs. Maisel\,Franny and Zooey\,andThe Bell Jar.” —Kevin Sessums\, author ofMississippi Sissy \n“A gripping read—as sad and sweet as life itself.” —Edmund White \n  \nRegistration on Eventbrite is required in order to receive the Zoom link ON THE DAY OF THE EVENT. \nClick here to register\nThis event is free\, but donations to support the Bureau’s work are always welcome. \nAnother great way to support the Bureau is to purchase books from us! \nClick on the following links to place an order on the Bureau’s online store: \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 your support! \n  \nSebastian Stuarthad a heady childhood. His brilliant\, acerbic mother was the Entertainment Editor ofLifemagazine and his father was an Oscar-nominated filmmaker. James Baldwin was a dinner guest and Bette Midler paid a courtesy call. Yet beneath the glittering parties\, the family was haunted by unspoken tragedy. By age fifteen Sebastian was dropping acid and turning tricks for money. He found friendship and solace with his cousin Tina\, an aspiring poet and striking beauty who was signed by the Ford modeling agency. When Tina began to exhibit symptoms of schizophrenia\, Sebastian was torn between a desire to save her and the fear of losing himself in her madness. From San Francisco in the ’70s to New York in the AIDS-ravaged ’80s\, Stuart’s quest for self-discovery leads to a sad and shocking understanding of his family history and the price of grief denied. And\, ultimately\, it leads to redemption. By turns hilarious\, irreverent and heartbreaking\,What Wasn’t I Thinking?is an unflinching evocation of loss and forgiveness. \nSebastian Stuarthas published nine novels\, including a national bestseller published in eight languages\, a New York Times bestseller and a Book of the Month Club selection. His novelThe Hour Betweenwas an NPR Season’s Readings selection and won the Ferro-Grumley Award as best LGBT novel of the year. He lives in Cambridge\, Massachusetts. \n  \nStephen McCauleyis the author of six previous novels\, includingThe Object of My Affection\,True Enough\, andAlternatives to Sex. Many have been national bestsellers\, and three have been made into feature films.The New York Times Book Reviewdubbed McCauley “the secret love child of Edith Wharton and Woody Allen”\, and he was named a Chevalier in the Order of Arts and Letters by the French Ministry of Culture. His fiction\, reviews\, and articles have appeared inThe New York Times\,The Washington Post\,Harper’s\,Vogue\, and many other publications. He currently serves as Co-Director of Creative Writing at Brandeis University. He has several properties listed on Airbnb in Massachusetts and New York and owns a total of zero toss pillows. \n 
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SUMMARY:George Platt Lynes: The Daring Eye (and the Daring Life)
DESCRIPTION:This PowerPoint presentation and interview will examine the fascinating life and work of the gay photographer George Platt Lynes\, who grew up in New Jersey and the Berkshires but became a transatlantic cosmopolitan with a wide network of queer friends—artists\, writers\, and performers. After befriending Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas when he went to Paris at age eighteen in 1925\, Lynes eventually took up photography in NYC. His highly theatrical studio work in portraiture\, fashion\, classical dance\, mythological subjects\, and especially the male nude\, were influenced by Surrealism. For nearly fifteen years he shared his life with Monroe Wheeler\, a publisher who became a prominent behind-the-scenes figure at the Museum of Modern Art\, and the novelist Glenway Wescott\, who lived with Wheeler in France in the 1920s and became a member of the influential literary Lost Generation. Their threesome was at the nexus of intersecting queer cultural circles and included such artists as Paul Cadmus\, Jared French\, and Margaret French (PaJaMa)\, fiction writer Katherine Anne Porter\, impresario Lincoln Kirstein\, and the painter and illustrator Bernard Perlin. Lynes-Wheeler-Wescott aided Dr. Alfred Kinsey’s Institute for Sex Research\, and the Institute’s collection of Lynes’s male nudes preserves images almost never exhibited and rarely published in Lynes’s lifetime. \n  \nSafety protocol: \nIn an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19\, we are limiting the number of in-person 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. \nIf you’re unable to join in person\, please note that we will post a video recording of the event on the Bureau’s YouTube channel a day or two after the event. \n  \nSuggested donation of $10 to benefit the Bureau’s work. We will pass a bag at the start of the event. But you are more than welcome to make a donation on Eventbrite when you register. Thank you for supporting the Bureau’s work! \nAll are welcome to join\, with or without a donation. \nPre-order Allen Ellenzweig’s George Platt Lynes: The Daring Eye (Oxford University Press\, hardcover) from the Bureau at a 20% discount: $36 (marked down from $45)! Release date is November 9\, 2021–shipments to go out as soon as we have copies in hand. \nWe hope to have copies in hand by November 12th\, but we cannot guarantee that they will arrive on time for the event. We will update this page as soon as we have a confirmed date of arrival. \nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us! \n  \nAllen Ellenzweig is a cultural critic and commentator who has published in numerous arts and general interest periodicals\, including The Village Voice and Art in America\, as well as the online journals Tablet\, The Forward\, and Poetry Magazine. His landmark history\, The Homoerotic Photograph: Male Images from Durieu/Delacroix to Mapplethorpe\, was published in 1992. He is a regular contributor to the Gay & Lesbian Review/Worldwide and teaches in the Writing Program of Rutgers University.
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SUMMARY:Trans...Back in the Day (online event)
DESCRIPTION:Please join writer Alex Reeve\, award-winning filmmaker Fiona Dawson\, activist Blake Dremann\, and actor Ash Palmisciano (of TV’s “Emmerdale”) for an exploration of trans life in the 19th century. FREE EVENT plus some TASTY DISCOUNTS. Join us November 18\, 7pm (Eastern Time). In partnership with the Bureau of General Services – Queer Division.  \nFiona Dawson emcees this special presentation\, featuring an interview of author Alex Reeve and a dramatic reading by Ash Palmisciano. To close things up\, Alex will take your questions in an Author Meets Reader event. Presented by Felony & Mayhem Press\, in partnership with the Bureau of General Services – Queer Division. \nClick here to register\n  \nPurchase the first two books in Alex Reeve’s Leo Stanhope series from the Bureau at a 25% discount courtesy of Felony & Mayhem! \n 
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211120T190000
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SUMMARY:TELL 75: Soft (IN PERSON!)
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. \nSoft is the theme of the 75th TELL\, on Saturday\, November 20\, 2021\, 7 to 9 PM (EST) IN PERSON at the Bureau! Featuring: Melissa Rocha\, Scotty Salame\, and Nessa Norich. \nSafety protocol: \nIn an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19\, we are limiting the number of in-person attendees to 30. Proof of vaccination required. 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 bring proof of vaccination with you. You will need to show proof of vaccination and a photo id in order to attend the event.\nPlease note that masks are required at all times inside The LGBT Community Center\, where the Bureau is located. \nSuggested donation of $10 to benefit the Bureau and the storytellers. \nWe will pass a bag at the start of the event. But you are more than welcome to make a donation here when you register. Thank you for supporting the Bureau and TELL! \nAll are welcome to join\, with or without a donation. \nPhotograph by Grace Chu\nDrae Campbell is an actor and performer who has appeared on stages all over NYC and on the internet\, movies and tv.  She’s been spotted on the tv shows New Amsterdam and Bull and on the web series Dinette directed by Shaina Feinberg. She can also be found online on Refinery29\, IFC.Com and BRICTV to name a few. Some fave stage acting credits: Only You Can Prevent Wildfires\, Ricochet Collective\, Non-Consensual Relationships With Ghosts\, La Mama\, My Old Man\, Dixon Place\, Oph3lia at HERE\, The Nosebleed at The Public Theatre. Drae also appeared as a radical lesbian in Taylor Mac’s 24 Decade History Of Popular Music at St. Ann’s Warehouse. Drae’s been hosting and curating TELL at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division for 7 plus years. If you like  queer stories\, TELL is also a Podcast! www.draecampbell.com \n  \n \nNessa Norich is a queer Ashkenazi filmmaker\, performance artist\, creative coach\, educator and producer living in Brooklyn. Her work addresses the spiritual deficiencies of Western culture by opening up sacred containers for deep joy and collective grief. Nessa has directed music videos\, experimental films\, webseries and short narrative films. She has written\, directed and performed in dozens of critically acclaimed original plays\, internationally\, and has starred in several feature length and short films that have played in festivals around the country. Recent: Nessa just wrapped the first short narrative film that she wrote\, directed and acted in. Her musical comedy short\, MAKE HAPPY\, which imagined a conversation between the spirit of RBG and Melania Trump\, days before the 2020 election\, was viewed over 12\,000 times in the four days between its release and Election Day. From March 2020 to April 2021\, Nessa’s artist collective\, Well of Wills\, co-produced and co-created The Ark\, a hybrid documentary short that poetically captures the first 40 days of Shelter in Place\, weaving together the video diaries of 26 filmmakers with the ancient myth of The Great Flood. \nNessa is an alum of Emerge NYC and the NY Neo-Futurists. She is a graduate of Jacques Lecoq International School of Theatre in Paris and received her B.A from Barnard College. Her teaching credits include Columbia University\, Parsons\, The New School\, The Generations Project and Crossingpoint Arts. \n  \n \nMelissa Rocha is a brooklyn based comic. She’s very nice and is looking forward to spending the evening with you. \n  \n \nScotty Salame is a New York based performer\, Emmy nominated production designer\, and visual artist. Past stage acting credits include One Love (Theatre for the New City)\, Parker & Dizzy’s Fabulous Journey to the End of the Rainbow (TNC)\, Fat Asses (TNC)\, and HAIR (Salem Theatre Company.) You can currently watch him on screen in titles including the comedy series Cady Did (YouTube)\, Pride: The Series (Amazon Prime Video) and the 2014 family film A Little Game. www.scottysalame.com
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SUMMARY:Closed for Thanksgiving
DESCRIPTION:The Bureau will be closed on Thursday\, November 25th\, and  \nFriday\, November 26th. \nWe will re-open on Saturday\, November 27th.
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