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SUMMARY:Opening Reception: Wallpaper Saints: Photographs by Frank Mullaney (in-person event)
DESCRIPTION:The Bureau of General Services—Queer Division is proud to present Wallpaper Saints: Photographs by Frank Mullaney. \n“Wallpaper Saints was inspired by the holy prayer cards I collected during my Irish Catholic youth\,” Mullaney writes. “As an altar boy\, I used them to pray against the dawning awareness of my homosexuality. Yet the homoeroticism of the religious images only exacerbated my confusion\, causing me to careen from shame to lust and back again. With this project\, I’m photographing gay and trans men and women\, as each is seemingly lost in a moment of transcendence. I’m working to reject the self-shaming associations I had with these religious images while simultaneously acknowledging their erotic charge. While each subject has a uniquely different background\, chosen specifically for each person\, the repetitive use of nudity puts everyone on equal footing\, alone\, vulnerable\, and unprotected.” \n  \nFrank Mullaney grew up outside Boston and moved to New York the same week that Elvis died\, and the Son of Sam was apprehended. His aesthetic he learned from watching Hammer Studios horror films as a child. Everything else he learned at the International Center of Photography. His work has been exhibited in New York City\, Los Angeles\, Provincetown\, Ft Collins\, CO\, the Catskills\, and Mexico City. He divides his time between Manhattan and Livingston Manor\, NY. \nWallpaper Saints: Photographs by Frank Mullaney will be on view from March 3 – May 29\, 2022. \nOpening reception on Thursday\, March 3\, 2022\, 5-8 PM. \nDownload press release \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/opening-reception-wallpaper-saints-photographs-by-frank-mullaney/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:Stephen Vider in conversation with Sarah Schulman on The Queerness of Home (in-person event)
DESCRIPTION:Join historian Stephen Vider and novelist\, playwright\, and nonfiction writer Sarah Schulman for a conversation about Vider’s new book\, The Queerness of Home: Gender\, Sexuality\, and the Politics of Domesticity after World War II. Histories of LGBTQ activism and culture have centered almost exclusively on acts of public protest and demands for visibility. In The Queerness of Home\, Vider turns the focus inward\, showing that the intimacy of domestic space has been equally crucial to the history of LGBTQ life and politics. From gay and lesbian marriages in the 1950s\, to queer communes and lesbian architecture in the 1970s\, to caregiving for people living with HIV/AIDS\, Vider shows how LGBTQ people have continuously worked to reinvent the home\, reshaping the meanings of family and remapping the boundaries of their own communities. \n  \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. \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 or you can donate in advance on Eventbrite. \n  \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nPurchase Stephen Vider’s The Queerness of Home: Gender\, Sexuality\, and the Politics of Domesticity after World War II (University of Chicago Press\, 2022\, paperback\, $29) from the Bureau’s online store (click on the title). \nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us! \n  \n  \nStephen Vider is assistant professor of history and director of the Public History Initiative at Cornell University\, and author of The Queerness of Home: Gender\, Sexuality\, and the Politics of Domesticity after World War II\, published in December 2021 by University of Chicago Press. His writing has appeared in American Quarterly\, Gender & History\, Transition\, and The Public Historian\, as well as the New York Times\, Slate\, and Avidly\, among other places. In 2017\, he curated the exhibition AIDS at Home: Art and Everyday Activism\, at the Museum of the City of New York\, exploring how activists and artists have mobilized domestic space and redefined family in response to HIV/AIDS\, from the 1980s to the present. He was also co-curator of Gay Gotham: Art and Underground Culture in New York\, featured at the Museum of the City of New York from 2016 to 2017\, and co-author of the accompanying book. \n  \nSarah Schulman is the author of more than twenty works of fiction (including The Cosmopolitans\, Rat Bohemia\, and Maggie Terry)\, nonfiction (including Stagestruck\, Conflict is Not Abuse\, The Gentrification of the Mind\, Let the Record Show)\, and theater (Carson McCullers\, Manic Flight Reaction\, and more)\, and the producer and screenwriter of several feature films (The Owls\, Mommy Is Coming\, and United in Anger\, among others). Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker\, The New York Times\, Slate\, and many other outlets. She is a Distinguished Professor of Humanities at College of Staten Island\, a Fellow at the New York Institute of Humanities\, the recipient of multiple fellowships from the MacDowell Colony\, Yaddo\, and the New York Foundation for the Arts\, and was presented in 2018 with Publishing Triangle’s Bill Whitehead Award. She is also the cofounder of the MIX New York LGBT Experimental Film and Video Festival\, and the co-director of the groundbreaking ACT UP Oral History Project. A lifelong New Yorker\, she is a longtime activist for queer rights and female empowerment\, and serves on the advisory board of Jewish Voice for Peace. (Author photo by Drew Stevens)
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/stephen-vider-in-conversation-with-sarah-schulman-on-the-queerness-of-home/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:Launch for Jeremy Sorese's The Short While/conversation With Lale Westvind (in-person event)
DESCRIPTION:Jeremy Sorese will be reading from his new book The Short While\, a Queer Science Fiction graphic novel which will be followed by a conversation with cartoonist Lale Westvind—about Science Fiction and Queerness and Comics. An author signing will follow with copies of the book available to purchase–you can also purchase the book on the Bureau’s online store. \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! \nThis event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division\, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center\, 208 W. 13th St.\, NYC\, 10011. \nIf you can’t join us in person\, watch the live-stream of the event on the Bureau’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzrAvfZMDF_ilmUH0CBn5iA \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. \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 or you can donate in advance on this page. \n  \nAfter graduating from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2010\, Jeremy Sorese (b. 1988) was accepted to La Maison des Auteurs\, a residency program in Angoulême\, France\, where he worked from 2012 through 2013. His first book Curveball\, published with Nobrow in 2015\, was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award. A sequel\, The Short While\, was published with Archaia in November 2021. He’s been teaching art for eleven years; Elementary School children in Chicago\, Middle Schoolers in Brooklyn\, college students at the Maryland Institute College of Art and most recently at The New School\, School of Visual Arts and The Animation Workshop in Viborg\, Denmark. \n  \nLale Westvind (b.1987) is a cartoonist and animator. Her work has been published in magazines and anthologies such as Kramers Ergot (USA)\, Best American Comics (USA)\, Bomb Magazine (USA)\, The Lifted Brow (AUS)\, Strapazin (SWZ)\, and Lagon Revue (FR). Her animation work has shown internationally at festivals\, galleries\, and the New Museum in New York City. Her music video for Lightning Bolt’s “Metal East” won an award at Leeds International Film Festival in 2015. Lale was lucky enough to be a guest artist and lecturer at comics residencies in France\, Germany and Russia in 2019. Lale Westvind has a passion for motorcycles\, movement and working with her hands. She currently teaches at Parsons School of Design in New York City.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/launch-for-jeremy-soreses-the-short-while-conversation-with-lale-westvind/
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SUMMARY:Jerome Ellison Murphy\, Lonely Christopher\, & Dazié Grego-Sykes @ the Bureau (in-person)
DESCRIPTION:  \nLocal queer writers and longtime friends of the Bureau Jerome Ellison Murphy and Lonely Christopher join poet-performer Dazié Grego-Sykes\, who is visiting from the Bay Area to participate in a show at the Park Armory. Live and in person! \n  \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. \n  \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nPurchase a copy of Dazié Grego-Sykes‘s Black Faggotry (Nomadic Press\, 2020\, paperback\, $12) from the Bureau’s online store. \nCopies of Dazié Grego-Sykes‘s Black Faggotry will also be available for purchase at the event. \nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us! \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 or you can donate in advance on Eventbrite. \n  \nJerome Ellison Murphy is a poet and critic based in New York City. He earned his MFA from the Creative Writing Program at New York University\, where he currently serves as Undergraduate Programs Manager. His poetry appears or is forthcoming in LitHub\, Narrative Magazine\, Bellevue Literary Quarterly\, The Cortland Review\,Spunk Arts Journal\, and elsewhere\, and was recorded for NPR as part of the Poetry Well performance series. His critical writing has appeared in The Yale Review\, LA Review of Books\, Publishers Weekly\, The Brooklyn Rail\, and elsewhere. He warmly salutes the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division on a decade of service to the community. \n  \nLonely Christopher is the author of five books\, most recently the poetry collections Death & Disaster Series and In a January Would. He is the founding creative director of Inter Poets Theater\, managing director of the Segue Foundation\, and an editor for Roof Books. His plays have been presented in Canada\, China\, and the United States. His film credits include several international shorts and the feature MOM\, which he wrote and directed. He works for homeless queer youth and lives in Brooklyn. \n  \nDazié Rustin Grego-Sykes is an Oakland\, California based performance artist and poet. He holds a B.A. from The Experimental Performance Institute and an M.F.A. in Interdisciplinary Arts and Writing from the California Institute of Integral Studies. Dazié is most notably known for writing\, performing and touring his award-winning solo plays Nigga-Roo and Am I A Man. Currently he is working as an Associate Artistic Director for Skywatchers a community-based performance art ensemble in San Francisco. Look for his original collection of poetry titled Black Faggotry and his debut spoken-word album titled Make Me Black. www.DazieGrego.com
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/jerome-ellison-murphy-lonely-christopher-dazie-grego-sykes-the-bureau/
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SUMMARY:Larry Mass & Bill Goldstein in Conversation: On the Future of Wagnerism (in-person event and live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:Join Larry Mass and Bill Goldstein in conversation on the occasion of the release of Larry Mass’s book\, On the Future of Wagnerism: Art\, Intoxication\, Addiction\, Codependence and Recovery\, the sequel to his memoir\, Confessions of a Jewish Wagnerite: Being Gay and Jewish in America. Select readings will be followed by an an open discussion on a range of subjects–from art\, addiction and AIDS to Larry Kramer\, Richard Wagner and the future. The authors will additionally reflect on the recent loss of Mass’s life partner\, gay activist and writer Arnie Kantrowitz. \n  \nThis event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division\, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center\, 208 W. 13th St.\, NYC\, 10011. \nIf you can’t join us in person\, watch the live-stream of the event on the Bureau’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzrAvfZMDF_ilmUH0CBn5iA \n  \nSafety protocol: \nIn an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19: \nPlease note that masks are required at all times inside The LGBT Community Center\, where the Bureau is located. \nIf you have any symptoms associated with COVID-19 in the days leading up to the event\, we ask you to please stay home. \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 or you can donate in advance on Eventbrite. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nPurchase Lawrence D. Mass’s On the Future of Wagnerism: Art\, Intoxication\, Addiction\, Codependence and Recovery (Sentinel Voices\, 2021\, paperback\, $29.95) from the Bureau’s online store (click on title). \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nPurchase Bill Goldstein’s The World Broke in Two: Virginia Woolf\, T. S. Eliot\, D. H. Lawrence\, E. M. Forster\, and the Year That Changed Literature (Picador USA\, 2017\, paperback\, $17) from the Bureau’s online store (click on title). \nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us! \n  \nLawrence D. Mass\, M.D.\, is a co-founder of Gay Men’s Health Crisis and was the first to write about AIDS in the press. He is the author of Homosexuality and Sexuality: Dialogues of the Sexual Revolution\, Volume 1\, and Homosexuality as Behavior and Identity: Dialogues of The Sexual Revolution\, Volume 2. He is the author/editor of an anthology\, We Must Love One Another Or Die: The Life and Legacies of Larry Kramer\, and the author a memoir\, Confessions of a Jewish Wagnerite: Being Gay and Jewish in America. The sequel to that memoir is the current collection\, On the Future of Wagnerism: Art\, Intoxication\, Addiction\, Codependence and Recovery. Mass has written widely on medicine\, health and culture for mainstream and specialist publications. A recently retired physician specializing in addiction medicine\, Mass resides in New York City. \n  \nBill Goldstein reviews books and interviews authors for NBC’s Weekend Today in New York\, and was the founding editor of The New York Times books website. A graduate of the University of Chicago\, Goldstein received a PhD in English from the City University of New York Graduate Center. He is writing a biography of Larry Kramer\, to be published by Crown\, and worked on the book as a 2019-2020 fellow at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at The New York Public Library. His book\, The World Broke in Two: Virginia Woolf\, T. S. Eliot\, D. H. Lawrence\, E. M. Forster\, and the Year that Changed Literature\, was published in 2017.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/larry-mass-bill-goldstein-in-conversation-on-the-future-of-wagnerism/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:Jack Parlett in conversation with Hugh Ryan on The Poetics of Cruising (in-person)
DESCRIPTION:Join poet and scholar Jack Parlett and historian Hugh Ryan\, author of When Brooklyn Was Queer\, for a conversation about cruising\, poetry and Parlett’s new book The Poetics of Cruising: Queer Visual Culture From Whitman to Grindr. From Walt Whitman’s addresses to passing strangers in the late nineteenth century and Langston Hughes’s portraits of subway intimacies\, to more recent works by contemporary writers exploring hook-up app culture\, there is a long and rich tradition of queer poets writing about cruising. What is it that happens in these transient moments of encounter\, where looks between strangers are intensified and eroticized? Parlett’s book traces the history of writers cruising for sex in New York City – a history that also includes Frank O’Hara\, David Wojnarowicz and Eileen Myles – and illuminates its subject as a site where questions of desire\, power and visuality meet. \nThis event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division\, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center\, 208 W. 13th St.\, NYC\, 10011. \n  \nSafety protocol: \nIn an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19: \nPlease note that masks are required at all times inside The LGBT Community Center\, where the Bureau is located. \nIf you have any symptoms associated with COVID-19 in the days leading up to the event\, we ask you to please stay home. \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 or you can donate in advance on Eventbrite. \n  \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nPurchase Jack Parlett’s The Poetics of Cruising: Queer Visual Culture From Whitman to Grindr (University of Minnesota Press\, 2022\, paperback\, $27) from the Bureau’s online store (click on the title). \nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us! \nCopies are also available at the Bureau’s physical store. \n  \nJack Parlett is a writer\, poet and scholar. His research focuses on 20th and 21st century American literature and culture\, with an emphasis on queer writing. He completed a PhD in English at Cambridge University\, which was recently published as a monograph by the University of Minnesota Press\, entitled The Poetics of Cruising: Queer Visual Culture from Whitman to Grindr. His next book\, Fire Island: Love\, Loss and Liberation in an American Paradise\, will be published by Hanover Square Press in June 2022. He currently holds a Junior Research Fellowship at University College\, Oxford\, where he also teaches modern American literature and literary theory. His debut poetry chapbook\, Same Blue\, Different You\, was published by Broken Sleep Books in 2020\, and his essays have appeared in Poetry London\, Lit Hub and elsewhere. He lives in Oxford. Author photo by Alex Krook. \n  \nHugh Ryan is a writer\, historian and curator in New York City. Hugh’s current project\, entitled The Women’s House of Detention\, is a queer history of the Women’s House of Detention in Greenwich Village. It is the story of one building: the people it caged\, the neighborhood it changed\, and the resistance it inspired. Hugh’s first book\, When Brooklyn Was Queer\, was called a “boisterous\, motley new history” and “an entertaining and insightful chronicle” by the New York Times\, who made it an Editor’s Pick in 2019. In 2019\, Hugh was honored by the Brooklyn Historical Society\, the Committee on LGBT History of the American Historical Association\, and the Brooklyn Borough President. Hugh has received the 2016 Martin Duberman Fellowship at the New York Public Library\, several New York Foundation for the Arts grants in Nonfiction Literature\, the 2019-2020 Allan Berube Prize for outstanding work in public LGBT History from the Committee on LGBT History at the American Historical Association\, and the 2019 New York City Book Award. Hugh regularly teaches Creative Nonfiction in the MFA Program at SUNY Stonybrook\, and is currently on the Board of Advisers for the Archives at the LGBT Center in Manhattan and The Stonewall National Museum and Archives in Ft. Lauderdale. Author photo by Jia Oak Baker.
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SUMMARY:TELL 79: Chaos (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. \nChaos is the theme of the 79th TELL\, on Saturday\, March 19\, 2022\, 7 PM IN PERSON at the Bureau! Featuring: Veronica Garza\, Rexylafemme\, and Zo Tipp. \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.\nPlease note that masks are required at all times inside The LGBT Community Center\, where the Bureau is located. \nIf you have any symptoms associated with COVID-19 in the days leading up to the event\, we ask you to please stay home. \n  \nSuggested donation of $10 to benefit the Bureau and the storytellers. \nWe will pass a bag at the start of the event. 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  \nVeronica Garza is a Brookyn-based stand up comedian who is originally from Dallas\, Texas. She performs all over New York City and has been featured on MTV’s “Decoded”\, NPR\, Sirius XM\, and Daily Mail. \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  \nZo Tipp (they/he) is a jewish-japanese-american non-binary actor. TV: Dickinson. NewFest 2020: Top and Bottom; Sideways Smile; Dissonance. Apocalyptic Artist’s Ensemble’s feature film Midsummer Night’s Dream (Puck). NY theater: INTAR: Bundle of Sticks; Red Bull: Gallathea; CSC/OSF: Play On! (Laertes\, Mercutio/Prince/Paris…); Rattlestick: Pride Plays; Pan Asian Rep: Incident at Hidden Temple. Concert: Queering the Stage (Ring of Keys\, Birdland); Songs for Our City (Times Square). www.zotipp.com IG @zotipp \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/tell-79-chaos/
LOCATION:NY
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ORGANIZER;CN="Bureau of General Services%E2%80%94Queer Division":MAILTO:contact@bgsqd.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220320T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220320T160000
DTSTAMP:20260502T142910
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SUMMARY:Wayne Hoffman talks about his true crime memoir\, with Q&A by Larry Flick (in-person AND live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:Award-winning gay novelist Wayne Hoffman (Hard\, An Older Man\, Sweet Like Sugar) makes his nonfiction debut with The End of Her: Racing Against Alzheimer’s to Solve a Murder. \nWayne’s great-grandmother\, a Russian Jewish immigrant\, was brutally murdered in 1913 in Winnipeg’s so-called Hebrew Colony. The crime made headlines across Canada\, in English and Yiddish newspapers\, and her funeral was the largest Winnipeg had ever seen. But the killer was never found. A century later\, Wayne—a veteran journalist—set out to solve this mystery when his mother (named in her slain grandmother’s memory) was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. The result is a family memoir about a gay man caring for his mother as her mental health deteriorates\, interspersed with a historical investigation into the events of a century ago\, as he races to find the answers before his mother loses the ability to understand her own family history. \nReading followed by a Q&A with veteran Billboard editor and Sirius XM radio host Larry Flick\, joining us virtually from Wales. \nJoin Wayne Hoffman in-person at the Bureau OR watch the live-stream of the event on the Bureau’s YouTube channel:  \nhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzrAvfZMDF_ilmUH0CBn5iA \n. \nSafety protocol (for those joining in person): \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. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nPurchase Wayne Hoffman’s The End of Her: Racing Against Alzheimer’s to Solve a Murder (Heliotrope Books\, 2022\, paperback\, $18) from the Bureau’s online store. \nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us! \nCopies of The End of Her are also available at the Bureau’s physical store. \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 or you can donate in advance on EVENTBRITE. \n  \nWayne Hoffman is the author of three novels—Hard\, An Older Man\, and Sweet Like Sugar—and his essays have appeared in such anthologies as Mama’s Boy: Gay Men Write About Their Mothers and Best Gay Stories 2010. His cultural reporting has appeared in the Washington Post\, Village Voice\, Billboard\, Out\, The Advocate\, Poz\, and elsewhere; he is currently executive editor of the Jewish online magazine Tablet. \n  \nLarry Flick is a 35-plus year veteran of music and media. He first made his mark at Billboard magazine as a senior editor for 14 years. He then took to the airwaves of SiriusXM as a host and producer for 18 years. He is currently a music curator for VERO Music\, and a writer for publications that include the Telegraph UK and Rival magazine.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/wayne-hoffman-talks-about-his-true-crime-memoir-with-qa-by-larry-flick/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Bureau of General Services%E2%80%94Queer Division":MAILTO:contact@bgsqd.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220326T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220326T160000
DTSTAMP:20260502T142910
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SUMMARY:Queer Rain Pop Up at the Bureau (IN-PERSON)
DESCRIPTION:Pick up the inaugural issue of the Queer Rain magazine from the editors Alma Leppla and Tricia Rainwater\, visiting from San Francisco! \nThe mission of Queer Rain is to celebrate and uplift queer BIPOC femmes and gender-expansive artists. As two queer femmes of color we have individually and collectively felt barriers in the art world. We formed as a collective in February 2021\, hosting workshops and holding space for artists at the intersection of queerness and BIPOC identities. We’re proud to share the launch of our inaugural publication in January 2022\, an anthology showcasing work from 20 queer BIPOC femme and gender-expansive artists. \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/queer-rain-pop-up-at-the-bureau/
LOCATION:NY
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ORGANIZER;CN="Bureau of General Services%E2%80%94Queer Division":MAILTO:contact@bgsqd.com
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