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SUMMARY:Uranus Comics Reading (in person event & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:Come to our comic book anthology reading with creators Jennifer Camper\, Ivan Monforte\, Katie Fricas\, Jack Waters\, Mike Diana & Carlo Quispe. We are celebrating almost 20 years of making underground experimental comics together with the release of Uranus Comics 3: Uranus Attacks! Narratives of alien invasions\, disaster and monster scenarios reveal our deeper concerns regarding the pandemic\, ongoing colonialism and nuclear war.  \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  \nCopies of Uranus Comics 3: Uranus Attacks! are available for purchase at the Bureau and can be purchased at the event. To reserve a copy\, please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com. \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 on Venmo @bgsqd. \n\nParticipants’ bios:\n  \nJennifer Camper’s books include “Rude Girls and Dangerous Women” and “subGURLZ”\, and she edited two “Juicy Mother” comics anthologies. Her work appears in numerous publications and she was the founding director of the Queers & Comics Conferences.\n  \nMike Diana born in Upstate New York moved to Florida with his family when young.  He was convicted in court for creating obscene material due to his handmade fanzine called Boiled Angel.\n  \nKatie Fricas is a queer cartoonist and library worker in NYC. Her first graphic novel\, Checked Out\, is forthcoming from Drawn & Quarterly in 2024.\n  \n\nIván Monforte (he/they) is a New York City-based artist who uses conceptual strategies to explore themes of race\, class\, gender\, stigma\, and the pursuit of love. They are the recipient of a UCLA Art Council Award\, a Lambent Fellowship in the Arts from the Tides Foundation\, and an Art Matters grant for research in Samoa and have participated in residencies at Sidestreet Projects\, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture\, Lower East Side Printshop\, Center for Book Arts\, and Smack Mellon.\n\n  \nCarlo Quispe is a Peruvian born\, Brooklyn based Queer cartoonist\, creator of Uranus Comics\, (originally published by Printed Matter in 2010).\n  \n\nJack Waters is an artist\, film maker\, performer\, and cofounder of Allied Productions\, Inc.’s Le Petit Versailles community garden. Follow Jack’s Pestilence Project pestilenza.tumblr.com/
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: "Alice and Fay\, A Fairy Adventure" by Mare Davis (in person event)
DESCRIPTION:Author Mare Davis will be reading from her new children’s book Alice and Fay\, A Fairy Adventure. Along with the reading\, there will be a fun activity for families to share. \nFor kids ages 4 and up! \nCopies of Alice and Fay\, A Fairy Adventure will be available at the Bureau and will be available for purchase at the event.  \nYou can also purchase the book from our 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  \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. \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. \nA former contributor to both Just Out Portland (Oregon’s biweekly LGBTQ newspaper) and Options (Providence’s LGBTQ monthly)\, writer Mare Davis has previously published three books of poems: Twenty-eight Days\, My Father’s House\, and Dangerous Kisses. She holds a Ph.D. in English Literature and currently teaches college composition at Johnson & Wales University. Alice and Fay\, A Fairy Adventure is her first book for children – albeit of all ages – inspired in part by her many visits to the South of France where she owns a home with a group of friends.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/book-launch-alice-and-fay-a-fairy-adventure-by-mare-davis/
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SUMMARY:Satanic Panic Book Launch (in person and live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Sunday\, February 5th\, at 3 pm\, the final day of Catalina Schliebener Muñoz‘s exhibition at the Bureau\, Satanic Panic\, for the launch of their book on the Satanic Panic series. \nCata will be joined in conversation by artist and activist Avram Finkelstein. \nThis series references the moral panic that originated in the US in the 1980s\, spreading through many parts of the world in the late 1990s\, including their home country of Chile. This collective hysteria drew on cold war mythologies\, misogynist ideas surrounding care work\, racist tropes about outsiders\, and conservative responses to the AIDS crisis. As a queer\, brown\, South American immigrant living in the US and working in the field of early childhood education\, Schliebener Muñoz is particularly interested in the fact that many of those accused of crimes tied to this moral panic were queer and/or BIPOC childcare workers. \nThe Satanic Panic series comprises two primary types of work: large-format collages/murals\, and installations of juxtaposed objects such as porcelain figurines and articulated plastic characters from different Disney/Pixar movies. The collages combine fragments of Disney books published in the 1990s with portions of pedagogical books created in the 1960s and 70s. Questions raised by the work center how the activities and games outlined in these books replicate the gender\, sexuality\, race\, and class stereotypes of the adult world\, and how those interact with the equally regulated fantasy world of Disney. In this series\, Schliebener Muñoz explores the possibility of creating third images that in a subtle way bring all the narratives depicted in the original material into question. \n  \nTo reserve a copy of the book ($25)\, please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com. \nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us! \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. \nWatch a live-stream of the event at youtube.com/@bgsqd \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  \n \nThe exhibition Satanic Panic was made possible through a Visual Grant from the Café Royal Cultural Foundation. \n  \n  \n  \nCatalina Schliebener Muñoz\, is a Sudamerican\, Chilean-born visual artist who works primarily with collage\, installation\, and murals. Their work draws on images\, objects\, and narratives associated with childhood and explores gender\, sexuality\, and class. Their work has been exhibited in Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (Santiago\, Chile)\, Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art (New York\, NY)\, Bronx Museum of the Arts (New York\, NY)\, Children’s Museum of Manhattan (New York\, NY)\, Boston Center for the Arts (Boston\, MA)\, Centro Cultural de España (Santiago\, Chile)\, Centro Cultural Recoleta (Buenos Aires\, Argentina)\, Center for Books Arts (New York\, NY)\, Catalyst Arts (Belfast\, Northern Ireland)\, Tiger Strikes Asteroid (Brooklyn\, NY)\, Hache Galería (Buenos Aires\, Argentina)\, Galería Jardín Oculto (Buenos Aires\, Argentina)\, Galería Metropolitana (Santiago\, Chile)\, and Bureau of General Services—Queer Division (New York\, NY)\, among others. A recipient of multiple FONDART Grants (Cultural and Arts Development Fund of the Government of Chile)\, Schliebener Muñoz also received grants from DIRAC (Board of Cultural Affairs\, Ministry of Foreign Relations of Chile) and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts (New York\, NY). They also received a Queer Artist Fellowship from the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art (2017)\, and an Artist in the Marketplace (AIM) Fellowship from the Bronx Museum of the Arts (2018). \nIn addition\, Schliebener Muñoz has extensive teaching experience\, from early childhood education to undergraduate education\, on topics ranging from philosophy and art theory to art instruction in schools\, studios\, and museum settings. They are currently working as a teaching artist with the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art and The Queens Museum\, and they facilitate gender and sexuality trainings for the Early Childhood Professional Development Institute at the City University of New York (CUNY). They received a Bachelor of Philosophy and a Bachelor of Visual Arts from the Universidad de Arte y Ciencias Sociales (ARCIS; Santiago\, Chile). \n\n  \nAvram Finkelstein is a founding member of the Silence=Death and Gran Fury collectives. His work has shown at and is in the permanent collections of MoMA\, the Whitney\, the New Museum\, the Metropolitan Museum of Art\, the Victoria and Albert Museum\, and the Brooklyn Museum. He is featured in the artist oral history project at the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art\, and his book for UC Press\, After Silence: A History of AIDS Through its Images was nominated for the Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ Nonfiction\, and an International Center Of Photography Infinity Award in Critical Writing And Research. He has written for frieze\, BOMB\, OnCurating\, and Art21\, been interviewed by the New York Times\, Artforum\, NPR\, Slate\, and Interview\, and spoken at Harvard\, Yale\, Columbia\, Princeton and NYU. He is a recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant.
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Sexuality Beyond Consent by Avgi Saketopoulou (in person event & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:Join queer and feminist psychoanalyst Avgi Saketopoulou on Wednesday\, Feb. 8th at 7:00pm (ET) for the launch of her new book\, SEXUALITY BEYOND CONSENT. Avgi Saketopoulou will be in conversation with professor Joshua Takano Chambers-Letson. The event will consist of a reading\, discussion\, Q&A\, and signing\, followed by a short reception with food and drink.  \nAbout SEXUALITY BEYOND CONSENT:  \nArguing that we have become culturally obsessed with healing trauma\, Sexuality Beyond Consent calls attention to what traumatized subjects do with their pain. The erotics of racism offers a paradigmatic example of how what is proximal to violation may become an unexpected site of flourishing. Central to the transformational possibilities of trauma is a queer form of consent\, limit consent\, that is not about guarding the self but about risking experience. Saketopoulou thereby shows why sexualities beyond consent may be worth risking-and how risk can solicit the future.  \nMoving between clinical and cultural case studies\, Saketopoulou takes up theatrical and cinematic works such as Slave Play and The Night Porter\, to chart how trauma and sexuality join forces to surge through the aesthetic domain. Putting the psychoanalytic theory of Jean Laplanche in conversation with queer of color critique\, performance studies\, and philosophy\, Sexuality Beyond Consent proposes that enduring the strange in ourselves\, not to master trauma but to rub up against it\, can open us up to encounters with opacity. The book concludes by theorizing currents of sadism that\, when pursued ethically\, can animate unique forms of interpersonal and social care. \nCopies of Sexuality Beyond Consent  will be available for purchase at the event. \nYou can also pre-order the book from our 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. \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  \nDr. Avgi Saketopoulou (she/her) is an award-winning psychoanalyst living and working in NYC. She is a member of the faculty of NYU’s Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. Her interview on relational psychoanalysis is part of the permanent collection of the Freud Museum in Vienna and in 2021\, she co-chaired the first US-based conference dedicated to the work of Jean Laplanche.  \nJoshua Takano Chambers-Letson (he/him) is Associate Professor of Performance Studies at Northwestern University\, author of “After the Party: A Manifesto for Queer of Color Life” (2018)\, and co-editor of the “Sexual Cultures Series\,” NYU Press.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/sexuality-beyond-consent-avgi-saketopoulo/
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SUMMARY:CELEBRATING OLD\, QUEER & KICKING! (in person event & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:Jonathan Ned Katz talks about his art & history\, work & life. \nFor his 85th birthday\, historian\, and visual artist Jonathan Ned Katz celebrates old queers. \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  \nJonathan Ned Katz is a historian activist\, and visual artist. He has published five books on the history of sexuality and intimacy\, most recently The Daring Life and Dangerous Times of Eve Adams (2021). He founded the free US LGBTQ public history website OutHistory.org (2008). In 2013 a solo exhibit of Katz’ visual art was held at the Leslie-Lohman Museum\, NYC and Katz published a memoir\, Coming of Age in Greenwich Village. That show was curated by Jonathan David Katz (no relation).
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/celebrating-old-queer-kicking/
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SUMMARY:Opening Reception for It Will End in Tears. Charlie Welch
DESCRIPTION:The Bureau is proud to present It will end in tears.\, a solo exhibition of collages by Charlie Welch. \nIt will end in tears. will be on view at the Bureau from February 10 through April 9\, 2023. \nCharlie will host a collage party at the Bureau on Saturday\, March 11th. Details forthcoming.\n  \nArtist’s statement:\n  \n“The collages included in It Will End in Tears. began as meditations\, typically created first thing in the morning. I have multiple sources that I use for references\, as well as many folders of images that I’ve been saving for many years. One day I started playing with layering and cropping of images in order to tell different stories\, unrelated to their original contexts\, and usually those stories are about desire.”\n  \nCharlie Welch received a BFA\, with a focus on photography\, from Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design in Los Angeles in 1989. After graduating he moved to New York where he worked as a photo assistant for Josef Astor and David Seidner. In 1994 he began working in window displays at Barneys\, Bergdorf Goodman and Ralph Lauren. In 1998 he began assisting as a prop stylist and set designer and went solo three years later. In 2006 he moved to Barcelona to continue his art studies at Metàfora International Workshop focusing on sculpture\, installation and public intervention. At the end of 2008 he returned to New York and resumed working as a prop stylist\, set designer and photographer\, while also putting more focus on his personal work. \nHis experience from commercial work comes into play with his fine art. Photography is his main medium\, but he also incorporates sculpture and collage. Constructed environments and playful sets are signatures of his work\, which conveys narratives about identity formation\, public and private selves\, and how we navigate daily life. \nCharlie is a co-founder of the NY Queer Zine Fair and co-organizer from 2015-2018. He also was part of the Queer Action Figures collective (1994-96) and one half of KNOWSGAY\, along with Paul Anthony Moreno. Charlie’s projects include short films\, collage\, photography\, limited edition stickers\, t-shirts\, posters\, objects and zines. He draws his inspiration from dirty sailors\, fancy desserts and sad pop songs.  \nHe is also an award-winning pie baker. \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/it-will-end-in-tears-charlie-welch-opening/
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SUMMARY:My Government Means to Kill Me by Rasheed Newson with Jelani Alladin (in person event & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:Come celebrate and enjoy a reading and Q & A with acclaimed author\, Rasheed Newson\, author of the debut novel MY GOVERNMENT MEANS TO KILL ME\, which was named a notable book of 2022 by the New York Times Book Review. He will be in conversation with Broadway actor Jelani Alladin\, who narrated the audiobook.  \nA fierce and riveting queer coming-of-age story following the personal and political awakening of a young\, gay\, Black man in 1980s New York City.  \nEarl “Trey” Singleton III arrives in New York City with only a few dollars in his pocket. Born into a wealthy Black Indianapolis family\, at 17\, he is ready to leave his overbearing parents and their expectations behind.  \nIn the city\, Trey meets up with a cast of characters that changes his life forever. He volunteers at a renegade home hospice for AIDS patients\, and after being put to the test by gay rights activists\, becomes a member of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP). Along the way Trey attempts to navigate past traumas and searches for ways to maintain familial relationships—all while seeking the meaning of life amid so much death.  \nVibrant\, humorous\, and fraught with entanglements\, Rasheed Newson’s My Government Means to Kill Me is an exhilarating\, fast-paced coming-of-age story that lends itself to a larger discussion about what it means for a young gay Black man in the mid-1980s to come to terms with his role in the midst of a political and social reckoning.  \nCopies of My Government Means to Kill Me are available at the Bureau and will be available for purchase at the event.  \nYou can also purchase the book from our 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! \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  \nRasheed Newson is a writer and producer of Bel-Air\, The Chi\, and Narcos. He currently resides in Pasadena\, California with his husband and two children. My Government Means to Kill Me is his debut novel.  \nJelani Alladin originated the role of Kristoff in the Frozen musical and narrated the audiobook of My Government Means to Kill Me.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/my-government-means-to-kill-me-by-rasheed-newson-with-jelani-alladin/
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Scenes of Projection by Jill H. Casid (in person & streaming)
DESCRIPTION:Join queer-feminist theorist\, artist and historian Jill H. Casid at the Bureau on Friday\, February 17th at 5 PM for the launch of the Spanish translation of her book\, Scenes of Projection/Escenas de proyección.  A reading with special guests and a book signing will be followed by a reception. \nGuest readers include Camilo Godoy\, Vick Quezada\, and Catalina Schliebener Muñoz. \nAbout Scenes of Projection/Escenas de proyección: \nTheorizing vision and power at the intersections of the histories of psychoanalysis\, media\, scientific method\, and colonization\, Scenes of Projection poaches the prized instruments at the heart of the so-called scientific revolution: the projecting telescope\, camera obscura\, magic lantern\, solar microscope\, and prism. From the beginnings of what is retrospectively enshrined as the origins of the Enlightenment and in the wake of colonization\, the scene of projection has functioned as a contraption for creating a fantasy subject of discarnate vision for the exercise of “reason.” \nJill H. Casid demonstrates across a range of sites that the scene of projection is neither a static diagram of power nor a fixed architecture but rather a pedagogical setup that operates as an influencing machine of persistent training. Thinking with queer and feminist art projects that take up old devices for casting an image to reorient this apparatus of power that produces its subject\, Scenes of Projection offers a set of theses on the possibilities for felt embodiment out of the damaged and difficult pasts that haunt our present. \n  \nEscenas de proyección toma los instrumentos proyectivos de la revolución científica –desde el telescopio de proyección y la cámara oscura\, hasta la luz solar y el microscopio– para demostrar que la escena es un complejo dispositivo de poder que produce su propio sujeto. En la medida que saca al yo de su vulnerabilidad e instala la fantasía de una visión de un sujeto racional e inmanente respecto de todas las figuras minoritarias\, raciales\, queer\, feminizadas\, perpetúa una estructura de dominación. \nA lo largo de este libro\, Jill H. Casid nos lleva desde los orígenes míticos de la representación hasta instancias ejemplares del arte contemporáneo\, con el objetivo de explorar el potencial de transformación de las tecnologías de proyección e invertir su dirección en virtud de posiciones no normativas. Es decir\, traza conexiones reprimidas entre elementos de la escena y elementos que cruzan de una escena a otra\, para así abrirla y reinventar el sujeto\, inaugurar devenires\, liberar el potencial del por qué-no\, del no no-aquí y del no no-todavía. \n  \nCopies of Scenes of Projection/Escenas de proyección (both English and Spanish versions) will be available for purchase at the event. \nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us! \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. \n  \nRegistration is not required. Seating is first come\, first served. \nAlso live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel \nSuggested donation $10 to benefit the Bureau’s work. \nAll are welcome to join\, with or without a donation. \n  \nAbout Casid: \nA queer-feminist theorist\, historian and artist\, Casid holds the position of Professor of Visual Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The author of Sowing Empire: Landscape and Colonization (Minnesota\, 2005) and Scenes of Projection: Recasting the Enlightenment Subject (Minnesota\, 2015) which has just been released by Metales Pesados in Spanish translation\, Casid is currently bringing to completion Photogenic: Essays on Refusing Photography and Necrolandscaping\, the first part of a two-book project on Form at the Edges of Life. Casid’s artwork has been exhibited nationally and internationally\, including at the Ford Foundation Gallery in New York and Documenta 15. \n@jillhcasid \njillhcasid.net \n  \n  \nCamilo Godoy is an artist and educator born in Bogotá and based in New York City. He has participated in residencies at Movement Research\, International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP)\, coleção moraes-barbosa\, Recess\, New Dance Alliance\, among others. Godoy’s work has been exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum\, Leslie-Lohman Museum\, CUE\, OCDChinatown\, PROXYCO Gallery\, New York; Moody Center\, Houston; UNSW Galleries\, Sydney; Centro de Arte Contemporáneo\, Quito; among others. He has performed at Danspace Project\, Movement Research at the Judson Church\, Center for Performance Research\, New York; Toronto Biennial; and Künstlerhaus Mousonturm\, Frankfurt. Godoy teaches at Bard College\, Parsons School of Design\, Recess\, Whitney Museum\, and School of Visual Arts. \n  \n  \nVick Quezada grew up in El Paso\, Texas right where the United States and Juarez\, Mexico border converge. Quezada currently lives in Western Massachusetts where they are a Visiting Lecturer in Sculpture at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley\, MA. Quezada is currently a Yale Mellon Arts & Practitioner Fellow at the Center for the Study of Race\, Indigeneity\, and Transnational Migration. Additionally\, in 2023 their works will be shown at Des Moines Art Center\, Grand Rapids Art Museum\, Artspace New Haven\, Atlantic Wharf Gallery Boston\, American Museum of Ceramic Art Pomona\, and Presa House Gallery in San Antonio\, TX. In 2021\, they were a select recipient of the Andrew W.Mellon Fellowship co-sponsored by the Ford Foundation in Latinx art. In 2020 Quezada was hand selected from a “large-scale survey” of 40 emerging artists from the US and Puerto Rico to be featured in El Museo del Barrio’s groundbreaking\, La Trienal. From 2019-20 Quezada was the artist-in-residence at the Latinx Project at NYU where they gave public talks\, and workshops. In 2018\, Quezada was selected as the University Massachusetts Contemporary Arts -University Massachusetts at Amherst Curatorial Fellow\, along with Fred Wilson\, who curated the show\, 5 Takes On African Art. Their work has been featured in Hyperallergic\, BOMB Magazine\, The Boston Globe\, The New York Times\, Art News\, Trans Studies Quarterly\, and Remezcla. Quezada holds a BA from the University of Texas at El Paso and an MFA from UMASS Amherst. \n  \n  \nCatalina Schliebener Muñoz is a Sudamerican\, Chilean-born visual artist who works primarily with collage\, installation\, and murals. Their work draws on images\, objects\, and narratives associated with childhood and explores gender\, sexuality\, and class. Their work has been exhibited in Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (Santiago\, Chile)\, Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art (New York\, NY)\, Bronx Museum of the Arts (New York\, NY)\, Children’s Museum of Manhattan (New York\, NY)\, Boston Center for the Arts (Boston\, MA)\, Centro Cultural de España (Santiago\, Chile)\, Centro Cultural Recoleta (Buenos Aires\, Argentina)\, Center for Books Arts (New York\, NY)\, Catalyst Arts (Belfast\, Northern Ireland)\, Tiger Strikes Asteroid (Brooklyn\, NY)\, Hache Galería (Buenos Aires\, Argentina)\, Galería Jardín Oculto (Buenos Aires\, Argentina)\, Galería Metropolitana (Santiago\, Chile)\, and Bureau of General Services—Queer Division (New York\, NY)\, among others. A recipient of multiple FONDART Grants (Cultural and Arts Development Fund of the Government of Chile)\, Schliebener Muñoz also received grants from DIRAC (Board of Cultural Affairs\, Ministry of Foreign Relations of Chile) and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts (New York\, NY). They also received a Queer Artist Fellowship from the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art (2017)\, and an Artist in the Marketplace (AIM) Fellowship from the Bronx Museum of the Arts (2018). In addition\, Schliebener Muñoz has extensive teaching experience\, from early childhood education to undergraduate education\, on topics ranging from philosophy and art theory to art instruction in schools\, studios\, and museum settings. They are currently working as a teaching artist with the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art and The Queens Museum\, and they facilitate gender and sexuality trainings for the Early Childhood Professional Development Institute at the City University of New York (CUNY). They received a Bachelor of Philosophy and a Bachelor of Visual Arts from the Universidad de Arte y Ciencias Sociales (ARCIS; Santiago\, Chile).
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/book-launch-scenes-of-projection-by-jill-h-casid/
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SUMMARY:SECOND TUESDAY PRESENTS: A PILL FOR PROMISCUITY – GAY SEX IN AN AGE OF PHARMACEUTICALS
DESCRIPTION:Join editor\, Andrew Spieldenner\, in conversation with contributors Justice Jamal Jones and Ted Kerr\, for the launch of the recently released book A Pill for Promiscuity – Gay Sex in an Age of Pharmaceuticals (Rutgers University Press 2023)\, which brings together artists\, academics\, and artists from various disciplines to reflect on how gay sex has altered in a post-PrEP era. \nRegister to Attend: https://gaycenter.org/a-pill-for-promiscuity/ \nPlease note that February 2023’s Second Tuesday will be taking place on a Saturday. To request an accommodation for this event\, please contact Richard Morales at rmorales@gaycenter.org or 646.502.6370 by February 10\, 2023. \nABOUT A PILL FOR PROMISCUITY – GAY SEX IN AN AGE OF PHARMACEUTICALS \nA Pill for Promiscuity brings together academics\, artists\, and activists—from different generations\, countries\, ethnic backgrounds\, and HIV statuses—to reflect on how gay sex has changed in a post-PrEP era. Some offer personal perspectives on the value of promiscuity and the sexual communities it fosters\, while others critique unequal access to PrEP\, and the increased role Big Pharma now plays in gay life. With a diverse group of contributors that includes novelist Andrew Holleran\, trans scholar Lore/tta LeMaster\, cartoonist Steve MacIsaac\, and pornographic film director Mister Pam\, this book asks provocative questions about how we might reimagine queer sex and sexuality in the 21st century. \nThe Bureau will be on hand at the event to sell copies of A Pill for Promiscuity  (Rutgers University Press\, 2023\, paperback\, $16.95). We encourage you to reserve a copy of the book if you plan on purchasing it. Please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com with “please reserve a copy of A Pill for Promiscuity” in the subject line. \nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us! \n  \nABOUT THE EDITORS \nAndrew Spieldenner is the Executive Director of MPact: Global Action for Gay Rights and associate professor of communication at California State University San Marcos. Openly living with HIV\, he writes about LGBTQ community\, HIV\, and disability\, while serving as co-editor for the collections Intercultural Health Communication and Post-AIDS. \n  \nJeffrey Escoffier (1942-2022) was a research associate and faculty member at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. He was one of the founders and the publisher of the pioneering LGBTQ journal “OUT/LOOK\,” and is author of the books\, “Bigger Than Life\, American Homo\,” and “Sex\, Society\, and the Making of Pornography” (Rutgers University Press). \n  \nABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS \nJustice Jamal Jones (she/he/they) is a filmmaker\, actor\, and writer based in New York City. As a Black Queer Alchemist\, they integrate Black Feminist Queer theory alongside Black diasporic spirituality\, such as Vodou (Voodoo)\, into their work. Their debut film “How To Raise a Black Boy” was a reimagining of Jones’ childhood linking their boyhood to their identity as a nonbinary artist. The film was internationally recognized at over 30 film festivals\, earning 10 awards. Justice is a 2021 Sundance Ignite Fellow\, and in 2022 was a commissioned director for MTV and Calvin Klein. Jones was also a guest on Good Morning America’s Hulu special “A Conversation Between Black Men\,” where Jones was an advocate for Black trans and nonbinary individuals. In 2023 Jones’ sophomore film “Crossroads Blues” was set for pre-production\, alongside the release of the anthology\, “A Pill for Promiscuity.” Jones enjoys dinner parties with friends\, the occasional glass of green Chartreuse\, and playing with their kitty\, Esu. \n  \nCanadian-born Theodore (Ted) Kerr is a Brooklyn-based writer and organizer whose work focuses on HIV/AIDS\, community\, and culture. In 2022\, his book “We Are Having This Conversation Now: The Times of AIDS Cultural Production\,” with co-author\, Alexandra Juhasz\, was published by Duke University Press. His writing has also appeared in Women’s Studies Quarterly\, The New Inquiry\, BOMB\, CBC (Canada)\, Lambda Literary\, POZ Magazine\, The Advocate\, Cineaste\, The St. Louis American\, IndieWire\, HyperAllergic\, and other publications. \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/second-tuesday-presents-a-pill-for-promiscuity-gay-sex-in-an-age-of-pharmaceuticals/
LOCATION:The LGBT Community Center\, 208 West 13th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:RED CLAY SUZIE: Coming of Age Queer in the Deep South (in person event & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:In conversation with Jeffrey Dale Lofton\, including readings by the author from his award-winning debut novel RED CLAY SUZIE\, a fictionalized memoir of growing up gay and physically misshapen in a deeply conservative family and community in the Deep South. \nJeffrey will be joined in conversation by author Ryan La Sala \nCopies of Red Clay Suzie (Post Hill Press\, 2023\, hardcover\, $28) are available for purchase at the Bureau and can be purchased at the event or on our 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! \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 at YouTube.com/@bgsqd \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  \nJeffrey Lofton hails from Warm Springs\, Georgia\, best known as the home of Roosevelt’s Little White House. He calls the nation’s capital home now and has for over three decades. During those early years he spent many a night trodding the boards of the DC’s theaters and performing arts centers\, including the Kennedy Center\, Signature Theatre\, Woolly Mammoth\, and Studio Theatre. He even scored a few television screen appearances\, including a residuals-rich Super Bowl halftime commercial\, which his accountant quipped “is the finest work of your career.”  \nUltimately he stepped away from acting for other pursuits\, including helping war veterans tell their stories to add richness and nuance to historical accounts. At the same time\, he focused on pursuing post-graduate work\, ultimately being awarded Master’s degrees in both Public Administration and Library and Information Science. Today\, he is a senior advisor at the Library of Congress\, surrounded by books and people who love books—in short\, paradise. \n  \nRyan La Sala writes about surreal things happening to queer people. He is the author behind the luminous and terrifying horror The Honeys. His previous titles include the riotously imaginative Reverie\, and the brilliantly constructed Be Dazzled\, both of which made the Kids’ Indie Next List. He has been featured in Entertainment Weekly\, NPR\, Tor.com. Ryan is the host of the infamous Bad Author Book Club Podcast\, and a frequent speaker at events/conferences. When not writing\, Ryan does arts & crafts\, and rollerblades around Central Park. His next book\, BEHOLDER\, will be published in October 2023 with Scholastic Press.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/red-clay-suzie-coming-of-age-queer-in-the-deep-south/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Sexually Explicit Art\, Feminist Theory\, and Gender in the 1970s (in person event & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:Christian Liclair in conversation with the artist and writer Jillian McManemin about his book Sexually Explicit Art\, Feminist Theory\, and Gender in the 1970s and\, in particular\, the subversive pleasures of BDSM. Drawing on the theorization of sadomasochism from Michel Foucault over P. Califia to DIY manuals from the 1970s\, Liclair and McManemin discuss artistic representations of BDSM as a pleasurable experiment to disrupt sexual subjectification and challenge the body’s heteronormative organization\, which have been perpetuated by psychoanalytical concepts of sexual desire. \nBook cover art: Joan Semmel\, Red\, White and Blue (1973). Oil on canvas\, 46″ × 54″. \nCopies of Sexually Explicit Art\, Feminist Theory\, and Gender in the 1970s  will be available for purchase at the event. \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. \nRegistration is not required. Seating is first come\, first served. \nAlso live-streaming at YouTube.com/@bgsqd \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  \nChristian Liclair is an art historian and critic. He is currently Editor-in-Chief at the Berlin-based art quarterly TEXTE ZUR KUNST. He received his Ph.D. from Freie Universität Berlin in 2021. After being a Visiting Fellow at the Graduate School for Art and Sciences at Harvard University\, he co-established the DFG-funded research project “Aesthetic of Desire: Counter-hegemonic Visualizations of Bodies\, Sexuality\, and Gender” at Freie Universität Berlin.  \n  \nJillian McManemin is a writer\, artist\, and Founder of the Toppled Monuments Archive. She has written for Hyperallergic\, ART PAPERS\, The Broadcast\, The Brooklyn Rail\, BOMB Magazine\, Art Agenda\, Metrograph Editions\, among other publications including forthcoming pieces with TEXTE ZUR KUNST and SITUATIONS Gallery.
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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 85: POTPOURRI (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. \nPotpourri is the theme of the 85th TELL\, guest-hosted by Nonye Brown-West. Storytellers: Neje Bailey\, Calvin S. Cato\, and Lois Thompson. \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 85 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!\nNonye Brown-West is a Nigerian-American comedian and writer. She has been featured in the Boston Globe’s Rise column as a Comic to Watch\, NPR\, PBS\, ABC\, Sway In The Morning\, and the New York Comedy Festival. Nonye has two animated web series\, Fairytales with Nonye and Gayby Jesus. \n  \nMy name is Neje Bailey. I am the last Bailey standing whose bloodline predates freedom and I’m Queer … boy\, do I have a story for you! \n\n\n\n\n  \n \nNamed one of Time Out New York’s Queer Comics of Color to Watch Out For\, Calvin S. Cato has dazzled audiences around the world. His television appearances include Oxygen\, Netflix\, and an unaired pilot for Vice Media called Emergency Black Meeting. His comedy has been featured in numerous festivals including San Francisco Sketchfest\, Brooklyn Pride\, Edinburgh Fringe Festival\, Gotham Storytelling Festival\, and FlameCon. In early 2021\, Calvin was published in Kweendom\, an anthology of essays by queer comedians and entertainers.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\nFor the past ten years\, Lois Thompson has produced and hosted Blacklight Comedy Show at The Brooklyn Moon. Always an all-female line-up\, Blacklight has become a must-do stage for NYC and visiting comedians alike.  Since 2016\, she has also produced the comedy portion of the Brooklyn Pride Celebration.   \nWhen Lois isn’t making folks laugh with her irreverent comedy\, she is helping people fulfill the dream of home ownership through her 20+ year career as a real estate broker.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/tell-85/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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