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SUMMARY:Closed for holidays!
DESCRIPTION:The Bureau will be closed on Christmas Eve\, Christmas Day\, New Year’s Eve\, and New Year’s Day.
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SUMMARY:OLNY Poly Movie Night: Belle Époque (in person event)
DESCRIPTION:Open Love NY presents Poly Movie Night\, a FREE series of feature films that focus on the portrayal of consensual / ethical non-monogamy in cinema. This month we’ll be IN PERSON at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division.\n  \nPlease join us for Belle Époque (1992)\, directed by Fernando Trueba and starring Fernando Fernán Gómez\, Jorge Sanz\, Maribel Verdú\, and Penélope Cruz.\n  \nWe’ll meet at 6:30 pm at the Bureau (in room 210 of The Lesbian\, Gay\, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center at 208 West 13th Street) for pre-screening socializing and start the movie at 7 pm. The event is free\, although a $5-$10 suggested donation to help fund future events is much appreciated.\n  \nYou can send donations through Venmo to @Open-LoveNY.\n\nSynopsis: During the Spanish Civil War\, a young army deserter is helped by an artist with four daughters\, each of which he has a relationship with. Running time: 1 hour 49 minutes. In Spanish with English subtitles.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/olny-poly-movie-night-belle-epoque/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:Author Event: On Learning to Heal by Ed Cohen (in person event & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:Join professor Ed Cohen on Friday\, January 13 at 7:00pm (ET) for the launch of his new book\, ON LEARNING TO HEAL. He will be in conversation with Emily Lim Rogers. \nThe event will consist of a reading\, book talk\, Q&A\, and signing.  \nAbout ON LEARNING TO HEAL: At age thirteen\, Ed Cohen was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease—a chronic\, incurable condition that nearly killed him in his early twenties. At his diagnosis\, his doctors told him that the best he could hope for would be periods of remission. Unfortunately\, doctors never mentioned healing as a possibility. In ON LEARNING TO HEAL\, Cohen draws on fifty years of living with Crohn’s to consider how Western medicine’s turn from an “art of healing” toward a “science of medicine” deeply affects both medical practitioners and their patients. He demonstrates that although medicine can now offer many seemingly miraculous therapies\, medicine is not and has never been the only way to enhance healing. Exploring his own path to healing\, he argues that learning to heal requires us to desire and value healing as a vital possibility. With this book\, Cohen advocates reviving healing’s role for all those whose lives are touched by illness. \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. \nRegistration is not required. Seating is first come\, first served. \nAlso live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel \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 on Venmo @bgsqd. \n  \nEd Cohen is Professor of Women’s\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies at Rutgers University and author of A Body Worth Defending\, also published by Duke University Press. He hosts a therapeutic practice for people interested in healing: healingcounsel.com.  \n  \nEmily Lim Rogers is the Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Disability Studies at Brown University. She writes about chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis\, biomedicine\, and debility. Her work has appeared in Medical Anthropology Quarterly and Somatosphere\, and she is a contributor to the forthcoming anthology Crip Authorship: Disability as Method (NYU Press\, 2023).
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/author-event-on-learning-to-heal-by-ed-cohen/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:Gender.Network Launch Party (in person event & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:A hybrid in-person/virtual launch party and conversation about the first installment of Gender.Network\, an interactive digital exhibition of flyers\, photos\, artwork\, cartoons\, letters\, poems\, and other media created by trans\, Two-spirit\, non-binary\, and gender liberation activists\, organizers\, and artists during the 1960s–1990s. \nGender.Network has grown out of ongoing conversations with elders\, researchers\, and activists\, who suggested many of the materials\, events\, and people that are represented in the exhibition. Each person we spoke with helped connect us with others\, who in turn suggested further materials to research and people to contact. \nWe hope that you will do the same! Please join us at this event to share your thoughts both about what is here and what is still missing\, and help shape the future of this project. \nIn collecting and curating these materials\, we honor the activists\, organizers\, and artists who continue to lead the way forward and remember those whose voices\, images\, and energy live on in these materials. \nCurated by Sky Syzygy \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. \nRegistration is not required for those attending in person. Seating is first come\, first served. \nIf you would like to join this event via Zoom\, you will need to register on Eventbrite. \nClick here to register\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 and click on “Access link” (beneath “When and Where/location/online”). But you will only be able to access this AFTER you have registered. \nClosed-captioning will be available on Zoom. \nAlso live-streaming at youtube.com/@bgsqd \nDeep gratitude to Christian Camacho-Light\, Roxana Fabius\, and the membership of A.I.R. Gallery\, who have provided a home base\, administrative\, fiscal\, and moral support for this project. \nEndless thanks and admiration to our advisory committee: Che Gossett\, Finn Enke\, Jeanne Vaccaro\, Malcolm Shanks\, and Susan Stryker. \nMajor thanks to Ritu Ghiya for her incredible web design. \nThis project would not exist without the many questions\, insights\, anecdotes\, stories\, and conversations that have helped guide and shape our research. Thank you to Aiden Bettine\, Ariel Goldberg\, AJ Lewis\, Charley Burton\, Chelsea Goodwin\, Chris Vargas\, Christina Linden\, Cicely Haggerty\, Daria Dorosh\, Darla Bjork\, Dee Dee Chamblee\, Dee Farmer\, Dena Muller\, Donna Kessinger\, Efrain John Gonzales\, Frances Woods-Baugh\, Gayle Rubin\, Harmony Hammond\, Harrison Apple\, Ignacio Rivera\, Jamison Green\, Jaune Quick-to-see-Smith\, Jessica Xavier\, Joanna Rivera\, Jolene Rickard\, Jonathan Thunderword\, Joshua Burford\, Jude Patton\, Judy Grahn\, Judy Greenspan\, Kai Pyle\, Kaspar Saxena\, Kat Griefen\, Kay Turner\, Kelly Wooten\, Lauren Berke\, Leah DeVun\, Leo Valdes\, Lou McCarthy\, Madsen Minax\, Marisa Richmond\, Martha Wilson\, Minnie Bruce Pratt\, Muriel Miguel\, Nancy Azara\, Pat Califia\, Reneé Imperato\, Sandi Salas\, Shannon O’Neill\, Sharon Day\, Simon Fisher\, Suzanne Iacenza\, Venus de Mars\, Xiomara Niculescu\, and so so many more for your time and energy and brilliance. \nGender.Network is made possible in part by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature; by Humanities New York with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities; with public funds from Creative Engagement\, a regrant program supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and administered by LMCC; and by The Puffin Foundation\, Ltd.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/gender-network-launch-party-in-person-event-live-streaming/
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SUMMARY:Jeanne\, Eli\, Felix\, and River read and launch books (in person event & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:Four acclaimed trans authors based in Canada and New York read from their latest works: H. Felix Chau Bradley reads from Personal Attention Roleplay; River Halen reads from Dream Rooms; Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch reads from The Good Arabs; Jeanne Thornton reads from Summer Fun and/or new work. Personal Attention Roleplay is praised by Casey Plett as “a perfect album of stories”; Dream Rooms is described by Gail Scott as “a marvelous confection of the author’s definition of ‘revolution’”; and The Good Arabs as “bold and deeply necessary” by Liz Howard. Summer Fun won the 2022 Lambda Award for transgender fiction.  \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. \nRegistration is not required. Seating is first come\, first served. \nAlso live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel \nPlease note: masks are required for all attendees. Thank you!\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 on Venmo @bgsqd. \n  \nH Felix Chau Bradley is the author of Personal Attention Roleplay\, which was a finalist for the Danuta Gleed Literary Award and the Kobo Rakuten Emerging Writer Prize\, as well as the poetry chapbook Automatic Object Lessons. They are the fiction editor for This Magazine and the host of Strange Futures\, a speculative fiction book club. They live in Tiohtià:ke (Montréal).  \n  \nRiver Halen is an award-winning\, transgender writer of Catalan and Danish descent living in Tio’tia:ke/Mooniyang/Montreal. Their poems and essays dealing with relation\, ecology\, transformation\, and sexuality have been published widely in Canada\, as well as in the U.S.\, Australia\, and in translation in Japan. Their first book\, Match\, was shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry\, and their most recent book\, Dream Rooms\, a collection of essays and poems\, is praised by the Bay Area Reporter as “unique and mesmerizing.”  \n  \nEli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch is a writer living in Tio’tia:ke. Their work has appeared in The Best Canadian Poetry 2018 anthology\, The New Quarterly\, Arc Poetry Magazine\, and elsewhere. They were longlisted for the CBC poetry prize in 2019. Their book\, knot body (2020)\, published by Metatron Press\, was shortlisted for the QWF Concordia First Book Award\, and their second book\, The Good Arabs\, was published by Metonymy Press in September 2021\, and received the honorary mention for the Arab American Book Award for Poetry. They are the non-fiction editor at The Puritan. They are also an acquisitions editor at Metonymy Press. They are currently translating Gabrielle Boulianne-Tremblay’s La fille d’elle-même from the French\, forthcoming Fall 2023. With co-editor Samia Marshy\, they are editing El Ghourabaa\, an anthology of weird and experimental queer and trans writing by Arab and Arabophone writers.  \n  \nJeanne Thornton is the author of Summer Fun (Soho 2021)\, The Black Emerald (Instar 2014)\, and The Dream of Doctor Bantam (OR 2012). She is the copublisher of Instar Books and the editor\, with Tara Madison Avery\, of the Ignatz Award-winning We’re Still Here: An All-Trans Comics Anthology. Her fiction has appeared in n+1\, WIRED\, The Evergreen Review\, and more.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/jeanne-eli-felix-and-river/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:TELL 84: "This One Time ..." (in person & live-streaming)
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. \n“This One Time …” is the theme of the 84th TELL\, on Saturday\, January 21\, 2022\, 7 PM IN PERSON at the Bureau! Featuring: Darlinda Just Darlinda\, Veronica Garza\, Fareeha Khan\, and Morgan Sullivan. \n  \nThe event will also be live-streamed at youtube.com/@bgsqd \nSuggested donation of $10 to benefit the Bureau and the storytellers. \nWe will pass a bag at the start of the event. Donations by card can be made at the register or via Venmo @bgsqd with TELL 84 in the message. Thank you for supporting the Bureau and TELL! \nAll are welcome to join\, with or without a donation. \nWe ask that all attendees bring proof of vaccination and wear masks. Thank you!\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\n\nCoined “Mastermind of Bizarre Extravaganza” by The Village Voice\, Darlinda Just Darlinda has been working as an International Performance Artist and Burlesque Performer since 2004. Darlinda is the Creator of the Year in Rainbow. Darlinda has produced shows The New York Times calls “shockingly explicit.” Darlinda has also performed Off Broadway in Year in Rainbow LIVE (Joe’s Pub 2022)\, One Woman Rainbow (Joe’s Pub 2019) and with Taylor Mac in The Lily’s Revenge (Obie 2009) &  24 Decades of Popular Music (Macarthur Award 2016). USA Today says “It’s hard to top Darlinda”  www.darlindajustdarlinda.com \n  \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  \n  \nPhoto: Bridget Badore @bridgetbadore www.bridgetbadore.com\nFareeha Khan is a comedian and artist based in Brooklyn. She’s been on Comedy Central’s “Tight Five” presented by Ilana Glazer and has toured her stand up with Man Repeller.  She recently self published a zine she wrote and llustrated\, Is Making Art Under Capitalism Futile?\, which you could cop on her Etsy shop if you felt so inclined: https://www.etsy.com/shop/CoolExistentialZines \n  \n\n\n Morgan Sullivan (he/they) is an NYC-based actor\, screenwriter\, filmmaker and dog dad of two longhaired dachshunds. As a transgender advocate\, many of the projects he works on address topics affecting the LGBTQI+ community. Morgan can be seen in multiple television projects as well as starring in Matthew Puccini’s Sundance-selected film\, Dirty. His own films Here With You and Going Away with collaborator Noah Schamus have screened internationally and at U.S. Festivals including Frameline\, Outfest\, and Newfest.\n\nMorgan is the proud founder of the Trans Film Collective\, a NYC-based collective focused on building community among trans filmmakers and trans film actors. He is also an active member of Room Tone\, a group creating practical solutions for equitable work experiences in the entertainment industry for people of all backgrounds. He believes that accurate representation is key in order for the trans community to thrive\, and is excited to create more work that centers trans narratives. \nMore info: www.morgan-sullivan.com \n\n 
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SUMMARY:Two Novels About Complicated Friendships: Randi Triant and Ann Wadsworth (in person event & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:Join authors Randi Triant and Ann Wadsworth on Friday\, January 27th at 7 PM ET\, for a reading and conversation about their latest novels\, What We Give\, What We Take and Libretto\, two stories of complicated relationships and grief and loss around HIV/AIDS.  \nRandi Triant’s latest LGBTQ+ novel\, What We Give\, What We Take\, was selected for Parade Magazine’s “20 Best LGBTQ+ Books of 2022 We Love.” Foreword Reviews said\, “At once tender\, cruel\, sensitive\, and raw\, What We Give\, What We Take is a searing novel in which wounded people make hard decisions in order to survive.” In 1967\, Fay Stonewell\, a water tank escape artist in Florida\, leaves for Vietnam to join the Amazing Humans—a jerry-rigged carnival there to entertain the troops—abandoning her disabled teenage son\, Dickie\, to the care of an abusive boyfriend. Decades later\, Dickie is forty\, living in Massachusetts with a man who’s dying of AIDS\, and doing everything he can to escape his past.  \nIn Ann Wadsworth’s Libretto\, freelance journalist Allyn Crosbie\, whose reporting concentrates on musical theater and opera production\, arrives in central Italy in pursuit of a quick story about a new production that’s in danger of falling apart. In the ancient city of Perugia she becomes entangled with the lives of Elaine Bishop\, a brilliant but troubled stage director\, and Vincent Norrie\, a composer who’s battling a life-threatening illness. Ally joins them — and a colorful cast of local characters — in their efforts to head off the opera’s librettist\, who’s attempting to sabotage Elaine’s premiere. Although Allyn falls for Elaine\, the novel “excels at depicting the complicated love between Ally and Vincent\, two queer characters whose intimacy is vivid and authentic.” The book is “a leisurely\, moving tale of intimacy and art\, with a lovingly drawn Italian setting.” (Quotes from the starred Kirkus Review) \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. \nRegistration is not required. Seating is first come\, first served. \nAlso live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel \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 on Venmo @bgsqd. \n  \nRandi Triant is the author of three LGBTQ novels\, What We Give\, What We Take\, A New Life\, and The Treehouse. Her short fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The Gay & Lesbian Review\, Art & Understanding\, Christopher Street\, and two anthologies of writing about HIV/AIDS: Art & Understanding: Literature from the First Twenty Years of A & U and Fingernails Across the Chalkboard: Poetry and Prose on HIV/AIDS from the Black Diaspora. She has taught writing at Boston College and Emerson College. \n  \nAnn Wadsworth is the author of two novels\, Libretto and Light\, Coming Back. Light\, Coming Back was short-listed for the Ferro-Grumley Prize\, the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction\, and the Stephen Crane First Fiction Award. German and French translations are available with the title Mrs. Medina.  Her short stories have appeared in several publications\, including Christopher Street and Blithe House Quarterly. She has been a MacDowell Colony Fellow and the recipient of a Wellspring Grant from the Boston Athenaeum. She lives in Boston.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/randi-triant-ann-wadsworth/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:Finding Your Voice Through Self-Publishing (in person event & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:Join a conversation about self-publishing and finding your voice\, hosted by the Bureau of General Services – Queer Division. The speakers are Fashion Photographer and author of NAKNA and Face of Beauty\, Mikael Shultz; and illustrator and author of A Visual Diary\, and Jojoba\, Anthony Amiewalan. They will discuss their process of self-publishing their books\, share their respective works through reading and photo essays\, and the influence their gay identities has in their art. Darius Somers\, Pratt University professor\, and architect\, will guide the discussion\, revealing the various themes that shape the presenters’ work. \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. \nRegistration is not required. Seating is first come\, first served. \nAlso live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel \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 on Venmo @bgsqd. \n  \nBooks by Mikael Shultz and Anthony Amiewalan will be available for purchase at the event.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/finding-your-voice-through-self-publishing/
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