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SUMMARY:Craft Class & Reading with Wo Chan (online class)
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a Virtual Craft Class & Reading with Wo Chan \nCraft class: 6:30-8:30 PM EST \nFollowed by a reading from 8:35-8:45 PM \n“I love you. I’m glad I exist”: Poems of Daily Gratitude and Dedication \nHow do we mark the days? How do we describe (with care) the mundane and charged experiences that fill our lives? In this class\, we will be reading poems that track daily living\, uplifting on-the-ground quotidian writing with deep\, intimate epistolary to open up a space of vulnerability\, immediacy\, and care. We will think about poetry writing as a ritualistic practice—for mourning\, for celebration\, and for tedium. We will read poems by Marilyn Hacker\, Aracelis Girmay\, Nazim Hikmet\, Fay Chiang\, Sharon Olds\, Gabrielle Calvorcoressi\, Dorianne Laux\, Wendy Cope\, and more. Come ready to write about your life as you are today. No prior writing experience necessary. \nSuggested donation is $10 (but not required). All donations go directly to the course instructor. Writers of all backgrounds welcome. You can make a donation when you register on Eventbrite. \nClick here to register\nRegistration on Eventbrite is required in order to gain access to this event on Zoom. \nWo Chan is the recipient of fellowships from Kundiman\, Poets House\, the Lambda Literary Foundation\, Poets & Writers\, and the Asian American Writers’ Workshop. They served as a program assistant for Poets & Writers and a communications assistant for Kundiman. They live in Brooklyn and are a member of the Brooklyn-based drag alliance Switch n’ Play. \nOffice Hours Poetry Workshop is a community-based writing workshop for poets who show a demonstrated commitment to writing. The workshop fellowship culminates in a public reading each fall and spring to showcase sizzling new work. We welcome all poets\, especially people of color\, LGBTQ+\, and those who are womxn-identified. Our Craft Classes are free and open to the public with RSVP.
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SUMMARY:HOCKEY NIGHT IN CANADA (online event)
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division and What Would an HIV Doula Do? \nFriday\, December 3\, 2021 \n4 PM PST / 5 PM MST / 6 PM CST / 7 PM EST \nOnline\, Free (registration on Eventbrite required for Zoom link) \nTwo Writers… One title. Decades apart\, and unbeknownst to each other\, writers Berend McKenzie and Francisco Ibanez Carrasco both wrote very beautiful – and very different – short stories about community\, connection\, and HIV set in Vancouver in the late 20th century\, with the same unique title: HOCKEY NIGHT IN CANADA. \nFor the first time\, the two writers will come together for World AIDS Day to share their short stories\, and talk with each other and an audience about living and creating with community\, history\, and HIV. Along the way they will also answer the question: What does hockey have to do with HIV anyway? \nBerend´s story is part of the collection BETWEEN CERTAIN DEATH AND A POSSIBLE FUTURE: Queer Writing on Growing Up with the AIDS Crisis. \nFrancisco´s story appeared in the underground publication\, Diseased Pariah News (issue 11). \nHockey Night image: Juan Saavedra (knowjuan.com) \nThis event is free\, but donations to support the Bureau’s work are always welcome! \nYou can make a donation when you register for the event on Eventbrite. \nClick here to register\n  \nAnother great way to support the Bureau is to purchase books from us. \nOrder Between Certain Death and a Possible Future: Queer Writing on Growing Up with the AIDS Crisis\, edited by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore (Arsenal Pulp Press\, 2021\, paperback\, $22.95) from the Bureau’s online store. \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  \nBIOS \nBerend McKenzie (he/she/they interchangeably) is a Treaty 6 Edmonton Alberta\, Canada based\, award-winning playwright\, producer\, actor\, screenwriter\, and published author\, known for their unflinching\, first-person writing style while drawing from their own lived experiences as a black\, mixed-race Canadian. Berend began writing short plays in 2004 for the Loud & Queer Festival in Edmonton\, Alberta\, leading to his first full-length play\, Get Off the Cross Mary! In 2009\, Berend premiered\, NGGRFG (Would you say the name of this play?). Their published works include NGGRFG (Signature Editions)\, Tassels (Brindle & Glass)\, Hockey Night in Canada (Arsenal Pulp Press). Berend is the 2021 Catalyst Theatre Confluence Fellow as well as a part of the 2021 Warner Media Global Access Writer’s Academy. \n  \nFrancisco Ibanez-Carrasco’s rags-to-(somewhat)-riches story started with migrating from Chile\, from poverty and military dictatorship\, to 1985 Canada at 22 years old\, getting diagnosed with HIV in 1986\, becoming an AIDS activist in 1989\, and pursuing a thrilling combo of community work and qualitative social-behavioural research. Currently\, he is an Assistant Professor at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health\, University of Toronto. His fiction shows desperate measures for desperate time and oblique relationships. His memoir Giving It Raw was published in 2015 by Transgress Press\, Oakland\, CA. https://givingitraw.ca/ On December 1\, World AIDS day\, Francisco has been presented with a POZ Toronto Award from POZ Planet magazine for his fight to HIV-stigma – https://www.facebook.com/groups/POZPLANET/ \n  \nKristy Harcourt (she/her) is a member of the What Would an HIV Doula Do? Collective based in Edmonton\, Alberta. A 2SLGBTQ community worker\, social worker\, therapist and writer\, she is also a Sessional Instructorin Social Work and Gender Studies at MacEwan University. Kristy was a co-host and performer in the long running Loud’n Queer Cabaret (Guys in Disguise / Workshop West) and a contributor to Queering The Way: The Loud’n Queer Anthology (Touchwood Editions). \n  \nWhat Would an HIV Doula Do? is a community of people joined in response to the ongoing AIDS Crisis. We understand a doula as someone who holds space during times of transition. We understand HIV as a series of transitions that begins long before being tested\, continues after treatment and beyond. We know that since no one gets HIV alone\, no one should have to deal with HIV alone. We doula ourselves\, each other\, institutions and culture. Foundational to our process is asking questions. Learn more at hivdoula.work \n  \n  \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:The Journey to Still Stace: My Gay Christian Coming-Of-Age Story
DESCRIPTION:Join author and illustrator Stacey Chomiak for a reading and Q&A about her new queer memoir Still Stace: My Gay Christian Coming-of-Age Story. In this young-adult illustrated memoir\, Stacey Chomiak tells the true story of her teenage and young-adult years: of heartbreak\, family conflict\, trying to become ex-gay\, wrestling with her faith\, and finding love. \nRegistration on Eventbrite is required in order to gain access to the event on Zoom. \nClick here to register\nSuggested donation of $5 to benefit the Bureau’s work. \nAll are welcome to join\, with or without a donation. \nYou can make a donation when you register on Eventbrite. \nAnother great way to support the Bureau is to purchase books from us. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThank you for your support! \n  \nStacey Chomiak is currently an Art Director in the animation industry\, getting her start on the well-loved series\, “My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic”. While she continues to lend her talents to various children’s animated shows\, she also illustrates & writes kids books. She lives happily nestled with her wife and two kids amid the tall trees near Vancouver\, Canada. Stacey identifies as a gay Christian\, and loves to advocate for the LGBTQ+ community and have conversations around faith and sexuality. When she isn’t furiously sketching\, Stacey is likely to be out for a bike ride\, critiquing her favourite film\, or encouraging her children to dance with her to Whitney Houston. \n 
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SUMMARY:There Once Was  A Muse... Poetry Reading and Q&A (In-Person Event)
DESCRIPTION:One of NYC’s favorite male figure models and boylesque performer\, Sloppi Chulo will be reading a selection of his naughty limericks from his brand new chapbook\, “There Once Was A Muse…” and discussing his work (both written and performative). “There Once Was A Muse…” is the brand new publication from the homoerotic art collective\, Doable Guys. It pairs Sloppi Chulo’s limericks with artwork inspired by none other than the poet himself\, in a deliciously narcissistic project! It features artwork by over 20 different artists. \nCopies of “There Once Was A Muse…” will be available for purchase at the event. \nSafety protocol: \nIn an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19 \nPlease bring proof of vaccination with you.\nYou will need to show proof of vaccination and a photo id in order to attend the event.\nIf you have any symptoms associated with COVID-19 in the days leading up to the event\, we ask you to please stay home. \nPlease note that masks are required at all times inside The LGBT Community Center\, where the Bureau is located. \nIf you are unable to join in person\, please visit the Bureau’s YouTube channel where we will live-stream the event. \n  \nSuggested donation $10 to benefit the Bureau’s work. \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without donation. \nWe will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event\, but we can also take credit card donations at the register. Thanks for your support! \n  \n \nSloppi Chulo was born and raised in Hoboken\, New Jersey. After collecting a couple of degrees from Yale University\, he decided to make his parents and his alma mater proud by being a slutty slutty boy for a living. An accomplished figure model who has inspired visual artists and provided memorable drink-and-draw party experiences all over the tri-state area for over a decade\, he has thousands of hours under his belt. As a performing artist and shameless exhibitionist\, his leap into the world of burlesque was a natural one\, debuting at the Stonewall Inn with Bad Apple Boylesque in 2015 and officially giving birth to the moniker Sloppi Chulo\, a show-stealing clown who combines elements of musical theater\, hip hop\, physical comedy\, and striptease. During the pandemic\, like so many theater makers whose stages had disappeared\, he transitioned to the virtual arena\, starting an immediately successful OnlyFans account\, where he continues to create content to make you laugh and blush\, sharing artistic nudes from professional shoots as well as naughtier DIY fare\, searching for the intersection between silliness and sexiness and having good dirty fun while doing it.  \nThe event will be hosted by Kyle Anderson. He is the curator of Doable Guys\, a homoerotic art collective showcasing and promoting a wide variety of styles of art from around the world. Doable Guys strives to celebrate the beauty of the male form and the Queer art community as a whole. That includes ALL queer artists\, no matter their gender\, sexual orientation\, medium of choice or skill level. \n 
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SUMMARY:Office Hours Fall 2021 Showcase Reading (online event)
DESCRIPTION:The Office Hours Poetry Workshop Fall 2021 fellows will give a brief reading in celebration of another strong semester of poetry making\, community building\, and thriving in difficult creative times. Fellows will read the innovative poetry they’ve developed over the course of four workshop sessions\, write ins\, and a virtual book club. \nAbout us: Office Hours is a community-based writing workshop for poets who show a demonstrated commitment to writing. We provide continued support for manuscript-development and everyday writing. We welcome all poets\, especially people of color\, LGBTQ+\, and those who are femme-identified. Our name derives from our side hustle. Many of us are freelance\, adjunct instructors\, who continue to thrive in the margins of academia. http://sarahmsala.com/office-hours \n  \nRegistration on Eventbrite is required in order to gain access to the event on Zoom. \nSuggested donation of $5 to $10 to benefit Office Hours \nYou can make a donation when you register on Eventbrite. \nClick here to register\n  \nReaders: \nLaura Cresté is the author of You Should Feel Bad\, winner of a 2019 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship. She holds an MFA from New York University\, and is currently a 2021-2022 writing fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Yale Review’s Poem of the Week series\, Bennington Review\, Poetry Northwest\, and No Tokens. \n  \nJ. Freeborn is a teacher and the anthology books managing editor at The Poetry Society of New York. They have recent work in Dream Pop\, Occulum\, Impossible Task\, and elsewhere \n  \nJames Fujinami Moore‘s debut collection is Indecent Hours (Four Way Books\, 2022). His work has appeared in Barrow Street’s 4×2\, The Brooklyn Rail\, Guesthouse\, The Margins\, the Pacifica Literary Review\, and Prelude. He has received support from Poets House\, Bread Loaf\, and the Frost Place\, and received his MFA from Hunter College in 2016. He lives in Los Angeles. \n  \nLinda Harris Dolan is a Brooklyn-based poet\, editor\, and educator. As a teaching artist at NYU Langone’s Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital\, she leads one-on-one writing sessions with pediatric patients. She holds an MFA in Poetry from NYU\, where she was a Starworks Creative Writing Fellow\, and an MA in English & American Literature from NYU. She is the recipient of fellowships for Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the Ruth Stone House Next Galaxy Retreat. Her work is featured in Bellevue Literary Review\, Pigeon Pages\, Barrow Street\, Brooklyn Review\, Cordella\, and No\, Dear\, among others. She can be found online at lindaharrisdolan.com \n  \nCarrie Hohmann Campbell lives in Northwestern Pennsylvania where she teaches writing at Edinboro University\, writes poetry\, raises chickens\, bakes incessantly\, and enjoys life with her husband\, son\, and pets. She earned her BA in English and Creative Writing from Allegheny College and her MFA in poetry from New York University. Her second chapbook Drawn to Extinction was published by Finishing Line Press in May 2018. \n  \nMegan Pinto is a writer living in Brooklyn. Her poems can be found or are forthcoming in Ploughshares\, Lit Hub\, Plume\, RHINO\, and elsewhere. In 2019\, Megan attended Bread Loaf as a Work-Study Scholar and the Port Townsend Writers’ Conference as the Bill Ransom Founders Scholar. She received a 2019 Amy Award from Poets & Writers\, a 2020 Emerging Woman Poet Honor from Small Orange\, and a 2021 Voices of Color Fellowship from the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing. Megan’s chapbook length manuscript “These Contusions” was chosen by Joshua Bennett as a finalist for the 2021 PSA Chapbook Fellowship. Megan holds an MFA in Poetry from Warren Wilson. \n  \nSarah M. Sala is a queer poet of Polish-Lebanese descent. Her debut collection\, Devil’s Lake (Tolsun 2020) was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award\, a Publishing Triangle Award\, and an Eric Hoffer Provocateur Award. She is the founder of the free poetry workshop\, Office Hours\, and Poetry Editor at the Bellevue Literary Review. She is a clinical associate professor in the expository writing program at New York University. Her work appears in BOMB\, the Southampton Review\, and the Los Angeles Review. www.sarahmsala.com \n  \nNoel Sikorski‘s poems and Artwork are featured in Painted Bride Quarterly\, Georgetown Review\, Action Spectacle\, The American Poet: The Journal of the Academy of American Poets\, and The Bellevue Literary Review. She teaches writing at NYU. \n  \nAvia Tadmor is an Israeli-born writer and educator. She has been a member of the Office Hours Poetry Workshop since Spring 2021. Avia’s poems appear or are forthcoming in The New Republic\, The New England Review\, The Adroit Journal\, Apogee\, and elsewhere. Her poetry received support from the Vermont Studio Center\, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts\, and the Rona Jaffe Foundation/Bread Loaf Writers’ Summer Workshop. Currently\, Avia is a Clinical Assistant Professor at New York University’s Expository Writing Program.
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SUMMARY:Holiday Book Signing with Linda Simpson at the Bureau
DESCRIPTION:The legendary Linda Simpson will hold court at the Bureau on Saturday\, December 18\, 2021\, from 2 to 5 PM! She’ll be signing copies of her book\, The Drag Explosion (Domain Books\, 2020\, hardcover\, $50). We’ll have copies of The Drag Explosion and Drag Explosion t-shirts available for purchase. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nNew York’s momentous drag scene of the 1980s and ‘90s reigns again in this volume of photos by Linda Simpson\, who spent the era in the middle of the action taking just-for-fun snapshots. The vivid images capture wild nightlife\, queer activism\, pop-culture moments\, and colorful characters galore as they joyfully pushed the boundaries of gender expression\, including Lady Bunny\, RuPaul\, Lypsinka and Leigh Bowery. Ultimately\, her collection is a tribute to a golden age\, when drag transformed from an underground art form into a mainstream sensation\, and paved the path for today’s drag renaissance. \nSafety protocol: The Center requires all visitors to wear masks at all times. \nIt’s a miracle! After more than 30 years as a drag queen\, Linda Simpson continues to dazzle her fans with her witty demeanor\, fine-tuned camp sensibility and unique blend of sass and class. And let’s not forget her stunning appearance! \nSince emerging from the East Village drag scene in the late 1980s\, the multi-faced queen has racked up a mile-long list of creative endeavors\, including nightlife work galore as a hostess and party promoter; publishing the “revolutionary gay magazine” My Comrade; writing and starring in four different plays; and extensive work as a journalist\, often in cahoots with her male alter ego\, Les Simpson. \nAnother of Linda’s roles is drag her-storian. Her acclaimed slideshow presentation\, THE DRAG EXPLOSION\, features her vivid photos of NYC’s drag subculture in the 1980s and ‘90s. \nAnd can you say BINGO? Throngs of people have attended her weekly club gigs and special events featuring fabulous prizes! \nLinda’s staying power has also helped make her a drag pundit of sorts\, and she has been featured in oodles of articles\, videos and documentaries. \nThe New York Times has called her “A worldly wit… A kind of mother superior of the New York drag scene\,” while Paper considers her “The thinking woman’s drag queen.” \nYesterday\, today and tomorrow\, Linda enthusiastically embraces the role she was born to play— a reigning queen! \n 
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SUMMARY:TELL 76: Spreading Queer! Holigay Stories! (ONLINE EVENT)
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. \nSpreading Queer! Holigay Stories! is the theme of the 76th TELL\, on Saturday\, December 18\, 2021\, 7 to 9 PM (EST) on Zoom! Featuring: olaiya olayemi\, Shomi Noise\, Chewy May\, and Calvin Cato.\n\n\nRegistration on Eventbrite required in order to gain access to the Zoom link.\nClick here to register\nSuggested donation of $10 to benefit the Bureau and the storytellers. \nYou can make a donation when you register on the Eventbrite page. Thank you for supporting the Bureau and TELL! \nAll are welcome to join\, with or without a donation. \nOnce you have registered on Eventbrite you will receive an email with the link you need to join the event on Zoom–or you can simply return to the Eventbrite page for the event and click on “Access the event.” But you will only be able to access this AFTER you have registered. \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 \nolaiya olayemi is a blk/trans/femme/womxxxn/anti-disciplinary artist/educator/and organizer. she has performed at Brooklyn Arts Exchange\, JACK\, AAA3A\, metaDEN\, The Wild Project\, The Langston Hughes House\, Starr Bar\, Mayday Space\, and Dixon Place. she holds a b.a. in english/creative writing from depaul university and a m.f.a. in creative writing from emerson college where she was a recipient of the Dean’s Fellowship. she is a 2019-2020 Performance Fellow in Queer Art’s mentorship program\, a Fall 2020 Brooklyn Arts Exchange Space Grantee\, and a 2020-2021 American Woman Fellow in Dramatic Question Theatre’s American Woman Lab. she currently lives in philadelphia. \n  \nShomi Noise is a musician\, DJ\, writer and storyteller with an established reputation in the Brooklyn queer underground scene. She uses music to share empowering messages with the world through creative sets that mix various genres & sounds ranging from Latin\, punk\, hip-hop\, reggae\, and pop. She is also the lead singer of the Selena Quintanilla punk tribute band Amor Prohibido. \n  \n \nChewy May is a comic born and raised in Brooklyn\, New York. She has over 20 years of social awkwardness under her belt which fuels her comedy mind and her perspective on life. \nHas been featured on: \nBrooklyn Pride Comedy Show (Brooklyn\, NY) – 2016 \nCrosstown Comedy Festival (New York\, NY) – 2016 \nNasty Women Unite Fest (Queens\, NY) – 2017 \nStand Up NY Comedy Festival (New York\, NY) 2017 \nThunderFest (Allston\, MA) 2017 \nHarlem Comedy Festival (New York\, NY) 2017 \nShe-Devil Comedy Festival (New York\, NY) 2017 \nHell Yes Fest (New Orleans\, LA) 2018 \n  \n \nCalvin S. Cato has performed all across the United States and has even crossed the border into Canada. His television appearances include the Game Show Network\, Oxygen’s My Crazy Love\, National Geographic’s Brain Games\, and an unaired pilot for Vice Media called Emergency Black Meeting. His work has been featured in numerous festivals including San Francisco Sketchfest\, Brooklyn Pride\, Gotham Storytelling Festival and the Women in Comedy Festival. In addition\, you may have heard him on Sirius XM or on the popular podcasts RISK!\, Guys We F*cked\, Las Culturistas\, and Keith and the Girl. In 2017\, Calvin was named one of Time Out New York’s Queer Comics of Color to Watch Out For. In 2021\, Calvin contributed to Kweendom\, an anthology of essays written by queer comedians. \n 
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SUMMARY:Bureau Closed through January 4th
DESCRIPTION:The Bureau will be closed from December 20th through January 4th due to The Center’s restricted hours during this period. \nWe will resume regular hours\, Wednesdays-Sundays\, 1 to 7 PM\, on Wednesday\, January 5\, 2022. \nHere is the updated from The Center: \n“Due to the rising COVID rates\, we are seeking to reduce the density and people traffic at The Center.  One way we are achieving this is by having all non-essential staff working remotely from now until January 2nd.  This means we will be offering mostly virtual programs/services.  We will also be expanding our Holiday schedule.  We will be observing Holiday Hours from Thursday\, Dec. 23rd through Sunday\, January 2nd\, 2022; on these days we will only be open from 5pm-9pm.”
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/bureau-closed-until-january-5th/
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