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SUMMARY:Craft Class & Reading with Dana Levin (virtual class - online only)
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a Virtual Craft Class & Reading with Dana Levin. Craft Class will run from 11 AM-1PM EST. Followed by a reading from 1:05 PM-1:20 PM. \nSerious Play: This April Fool’s Day workshop will focus on play–the heart of any strong writing practice. We’ll start with Keats’ notion of negative capability\, discuss associative logic\, and start playing! My hope is that participants will come away refreshed and interested in generating new poems with zest. The workshop will end with a round of Japanese Renga. \nRegistration on Eventbrite is required in order to receive the Zoom link on Friday\, March 31st (the day before the craft class). \nClick here to register\nTo join the class on Saturday\, April 1st\, go to the Eventbrite page where you registered and click on “Access link” (under “When and Where” and “Location.” \nDana Levin’s new book is Now Do You Know Where You Are (Copper Canyon Press\, 2022)\, a New York Times Editors’ Choice. She the author of four other books of poetry\, including Banana Palace (Copper Canyon Press\, 2016) and Sky Burial (Copper Canyon Press\, 2011)\, which The New Yorker called “utterly her own and utterly riveting.” Her poems and essays have appeared in Best American Poetry\, The New York Times\, The American Poetry Review\, The Nation\, Poetry\, and Guesthouse\, among other publications. Levin is a grateful recipient of many fellowships and awards\, including those from the National Endowment for the Arts\, PEN\, the Witter Bynner Foundation and the Library of Congress\, as well as from the Lannan\, Rona Jaffe\, Whiting\, and Guggenheim Foundations. Levin currently serves as Distinguished Writer in Residence at Maryville University in St. Louis and as faculty for the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. \nOffice Hours Poetry Workshop is a community-based writing workshop for poets who show a demonstrated commitment to writing. The workshop fellowship culminates in a public reading each fall and spring to showcase sizzling new work. We welcome all poets\, especially people of color\, LGBTQ+\, and those who are womxn-identified. Our Craft Classes are free and open to the public with RSVP. \nThis event is funded in part by Poets & Writers through public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs\, in partnership with the City Council.
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SUMMARY:Lucy Jane Bledsoe presents her new novel Tell the Rest (in person event & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:Stonewall Award winning author Lucy Jane Bledsoe presents her new novel\, Tell the Rest\, which follows the lives of two estranged childhood friends who find themselves on parallel paths to return to the site of the conversion therapy camp that tore them apart. \nLucy will be joined in conversation by author Kirstin Valdez Quade\, author of the award-winning novel The Five Wounds and the short story collection Night at the Fiestas. \n  \nCopies of Tell the Rest (Akashic Books\, 2023\, hardcover $28.95) are available at the Bureau’s physical and online stores. \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. \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  \nLUCY JANE BLEDSOE is the author of several works of fiction\, including A Thin Bright Line\, which was a Lambda Literary Award and Ferro-Grumley Award finalist. She is the winner of an American Library Association Stonewall Award\, a Yaddo Fellowship\, a California Arts Council Fellowship in Literature\, two National Science Foundation Artists & Writers Fellowships\, and a finalist for the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association Fiction Award. A native of Portland\, Oregon\, she now lives in Berkeley\, California. Tell the Rest is her latest work. \n  \nKirstin Valdez Quade is the author of The Five Wounds\, which won the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize and the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award and the Lambda Literary Award. Her story collection\, Night at the Fiestas\, won the John Leonard Prize from the National Book Critics Circle\, the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, and a “5 Under 35” award from the National Book Foundation. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker\, The Best American Short Stories\, The O. Henry Prize Stories\, The New York Times\, and elsewhere. She teaches at Princeton and in September will join the faculty of the Stanford Creative Writing Program. (Author photo by Holly Andres)
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/lucy-jane-bledsoe-presents-her-new-novel-tell-the-rest/
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SUMMARY:Couplets & Friends (in person event & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:Beep beep! Come celebrate the last stop on the COUPLETS  book tour with readings from four NYC poets: Kay Gabriel\, Elisa Gonzalez\, Kyle Carrero Lopez\, and Maggie Millner. Come for the sonnets\, stay for the quips. No\, wait—come for the outfits\, stay for the rhymes. Or come for the horny verse\, stay for the horny vers! Whatever you want\, babe. Just come . . . and then stay. \nMillner’s Couplets\, Gabriel’s A Queen in Bucks County\, and Lopez’s Muscle Memory  will all be available for purchase at the event. To reserve a copy of any of these titles\, please email us at contact@bgsqd.com. \nBoth Millner’s and Gabriel’s books are also available on our online store: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\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. \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  \nKay Gabriel is a poet and essayist. With Andrea Abi-Karam\, she co-edited WE WANT IT ALL: AN ANTHOLOGY OF RADICAL TRANS POETICS. She’s also the author of the poetry collections KISSING OTHER PEOPLE OR THE HOUSE OF FAME and A QUEEN IN BUCKS COUNTY. \n  \nElisa Gonzalez is a poet\, an essayist\, and a fiction writer. Her work appears in The New Yorker and elsewhere. She is the author of GRAND TOUR\, forthcoming from FSG in 2023\, and the recipient of a 2020 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award.  \n  \nKyle Carrero Lopez was born to Cuban parents in northern New Jersey and is the author of MUSCLE MEMORY\, the chapbook winner of the 2020 [PANK] Books Contest. Among other subjects\, his work centers power\, social life\, and Afro-Cuban histories.  \n  \nMaggie Millner is the author of COUPLETS. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker\, The Paris Review\, BOMB\, and elsewhere. She is a Lecturer at Yale and a Senior Editor at The Yale Review.
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SUMMARY:Opening reception: Slava Mogutin: Analog Human Studies
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the opening reception of Slava Mogutin: Analog Human Studies\, on Wednesday\, April 12\, 6 to 8 PM.\n  \nSlava Mogutin: Analog Human Studies is on view at the Bureau from April 12 through June 4\, 2023.\n\nOn Sunday\, April 23rd\, at 3 PM\, Slava will screen a project called Gay Propaganda at the Bureau. More details soon. \n  \nAnalog Human Studies is an ongoing project that covers two decades of Slava Mogutin‘s film photography\, from the outtakes from his first monograph Lost Boys (2006) to most recent commission and editorial work\, portraits and nudes taken in NY\, LA\, Berlin and beyond. Based on Mogutin’s new book published by MenOnPaperArt (London)\, the show features a series of works on fabric\, as well as photo collages from Polaroid Rage\, another ongoing project documenting queer communities around the world. \n  \nBorn in Siberia\, Slava Mogutin is a Russian-American artist\, author and activist exiled from Russia for his outspoken queer writing and activism. A third-generation writer and self-taught photographer\, he became the first Russian to be granted political asylum in the US on the grounds of homophobic persecution. Informed by his bicultural dissident and refugee experience\, Mogutin’s work examines the notions of displacement and identity\, pride and shame\, devotion and disaffection\, love and hate.  Mogutin is the author of seven books of writings in Russian\, three monographs of photography and two illustrated collections of poetry published in the US\, as well as numerous artist editions. He’s the winner of Andrei Bely Prize for poetry and the Tom of Finland Foundation Award for artistic achievement. \nCopies of Analog Human Studies (MenOnPaper\, softcover\, 160 pages\, 210 x 297 mm / 8.25 x 11.75 inches\, $50) will be available for purchase at the Bureau.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/opening-reception-slava-mogutin-analog-human-studies/
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SUMMARY:BETTINA APTHEKER ON COMMUNISTS IN CLOSETS: QUEERING THE HISTORY 1930s-1990s\, WITH SARAH SCHULMAN (in person event & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:Bettina Aptheker in a rare New York live appearance\, will be discussing her fascinating new book about queer people and the Communist Party: Communists in Closets: Queering the History\, 1930s-1990s. The book transforms our understanding of the roots of many crucial aspects of queer liberation\, tracing their foundations to rejection by the party and analysis and organizing skills learned in the party. Subjects include Harry Hay and the creation of Mattachine\, Lorraine Hansberry and the Broadway production of Raisin In The Sun\, Alix Dobkin and the creation of lesbian separatism and women’s music\, the founding of Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays\, and Angela Davis’s role in and influence by the Communist Party. \nBettina will be interviewed by Sarah Schulman\, Kessler Prize awardee by the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies. \nA limited number of copies of Communists in Closets: Queering the History\, 1930s-1990s (Routledge\, 2023\, paperback) will be available for purchase at the event at the discounted price of $30 (regularly $48.95). To reserve a copy\, please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com \n\nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us!\n\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 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  \nBettina Aptheker is Distinguished Professor Emerita\, Feminist Studies\, University of California\, Santa Cruz where she taught for more than 40 years\, and had over 17\,000 students in the course of her career. An activist-scholar she co-led the Free Speech Movement at UC Berkeley in 1964\, and the National Student Mobilization Committee To End the War in Vietnam. She was a member of the Communist Party from 1962-1981. She has been part of the LGBT movement since the late 1970s\, She has published several books including\, The Morning Breaks: The Trial of Angela Davis\, Tapestries of Life: Women’s Work\, Women’s Consciousness and the Meaning of Daily Experience\, and a memoir\, Intimate Politics: How I Grew Up Red\, Fought for Free Speech & Became A Feminist Rebel that was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award in 2006. She and her wife\, Kate Miller\, have been together since 1979. They live in Santa Cruz. \n  \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/bettina-aptheker-on-communists-in-closets-queering-the-history-1930s-1990s-with-sarah-schulman/
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 86: My Rainbow (in person & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:TELL 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. \nMy Rainbow is the theme of the 86th TELL\, guest-hosted by Darlinda Just Darlinda. Storytellers: Lyssette\, Klondyke\, and Nadia Iqbal. \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 86 in the message. Thank you for supporting the Bureau and TELL! \nAll are welcome to join\, with or without a donation. \nPhoto by Johnel Clemente\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.” darlindajustdarlinda.com\n \nLyssette is a black queer\, artist\, activist\, and filmmaker. As a former homeless youth and graduate of the Reciprocity Foundation\, Lyssette developed a love for yoga and meditation. She credits her first acupuncture treatment as the first time she felt “at home in her body”.  Armed with new tools\, Lyssette spoke out on the many ways trauma manifests in black and brown LGBTQ homeless youth. Acupuncture treatments\, yoga and mental health services have been supportive in speaking and finding the courage to heal.  \nInspired by the works of Audre Lorde\, Lyssette strives to make self care and healing accessible to those in need and reduce barriers  to healing. \nLyssette’s activism has led to many creative endeavors including an Emmy nominated short documentary about the myths and causes related to youth homelessness. They were also named one of the ‘Top Forty Under 40’ by The Advocate magazine and their work was featured on the cover of Gay City News.  \nLyssette says\, “By prioritizing my healing and my truth I give permission for others to commit to their healing  journey and show up authentically. \n  \n \nKlondyke is an alien tragg*t superstar!!! Child of a black hole and a supernova\, raised by a 4th dimensional rockstar. Experimental musical theatre composer\, Haus of Quench Member\, and winner of Cakeboys 2021 Takes the Cake Competition they are here to terrorize norms out of existence through the great unifier: MUUUUSIIIIIC! \n  \n \nNadia Iqbal is a writer\, actress and comedian based in Brooklyn\, NY. She is a certified cat lady and an official citizen oral historian for the 1947 partition archive. She is still very mad about colonialism. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/tell-86-my-rainbow/
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SUMMARY:Stir Up Magic with House Of Our Queer (in person event & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:We all have access to the magic that can change our lives. In this Book Talk\, author Bex Mui\, will share about her ever-growing spiritual toolbox including energy work\, astrology\, tarot\, sacred sexuality\, and honoring ancestors. Bex is thrilled to be in conversation with Tai\, a professional astrologer and co-founder of Novaa Network\, a community for spiritual practitioners. Using the framework of her Bex’s new release\, House of Our Queer: Healing\, Reframing\, and Reclaiming Your Spiritual Practice\, this moderated conversation will center on the blessing of queerness\, and aims to meet participants wherever they are in their energetic and spiritual journeys. If you’re looking for a Sunday energy cleanse and restart for a fresh week\, you don’t want to miss this special event. \n  \nCopies of House of Our Queer: Healing\, Reframing\, and Reclaiming Your Spiritual Practice (Purple Palm Press\, 2023\, paperback\, $19.95) will soon be available at the Bureau’s physical and online stores. \nPlanning to purchase a copy at the event? \nWe strongly encourage you to reserve a copy in advance so that we can be sure to have enough copies on hand. Please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com with “reserve House of Our Queer”  in the subject line. \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.\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  \nAuthor/presenter: \nBex Mui\, M. Ed\, she/her is a biracial\, first gen\, queer witch\, spiritual organizer\, certified energy worker\, and long-time LGBTQ+ advocate. She is also the founder of House Of Our Queer\, a spiritual playspace for the queer and trans community. Bex is thrilled to return to NYC where she spent her formative 20s to stir up some magic in powerful queer community. \n  \nModerator: \nTai is an astrologer\, brand manager\, and globetrotter from Houston\, TX. She began her consulting practice in 2018 during her time studying criminology and law in London\, England. After traveling the world\, she came back to the USA in 2020\, where she began developing the idea that is now Novaa Network\, a community for spiritual practitioners. Novaa launched with cofounders in 2021\, and has hosted in person and virtual classes\, workshops\, and events with a variety of spiritual creators and practitioners.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/stir-up-magic-with-house-of-our-queer/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230422T150000
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SUMMARY:Rainbow Book Fair Presents Brian Broome (in person)
DESCRIPTION:In conjunction with the Rainbow Book Fair 2023\, the Bureau is pleased to announce that Brian Broome\, who resides in Pittsburgh\, will speak at the Bureau at 3 PM\, on Saturday\, April 22. \nBRIAN BROOME’s debut memoir\, Punch Me Up to the Gods\, is an NYT Editor’s Pick and the winner of the 2021 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction. He is a contributing columnist at The Washington Post. His work has also appeared in Hippocampus\, Poets and Writers\, Medium\, and more. Brian was a K. Leroy Irvis Fellow and an instructor in the Writing Program at the University of Pittsburgh. \nHe has been a finalist in The Moth storytelling competition and won the grand prize in Carnegie Mellon University’s Martin Luther King Writing Awards. Brian also won a VANN Award from the Pittsburgh Black Media Federation for journalism in 2019. His film\, Garbage\, won the Audience Choice Award at the Cortada Short Film Festival and was a semi-finalist in the Portland Short Fest. Brian is a 2022 Writer in Residence at St. Mary’s College in Moraga\, California. \nCopies of Punch Me Up to the Gods (Mariner Books\, 2022\, paperback\, $17.99) will be available for sale and signing by the author. To reserve a copy\, please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com with “Please reserve Punch Me Up to the Gods” in the subject line. \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. \nMore about the Rainbow Book Fair: \nThe New York Rainbow Book Fair\, the largest lgbtq+ book event in the US\, will resume once more on Saturday\, April 22\, from Noon to 6 PM\, at The Lesbian\, Gay\, Bisexual\, and Transgender Community Center\, 208 W. 13th Street in the West Village\, after a 2-year absence due to Covid-19. The theme of this year’s fair is WEIRD AND QUEER. Showing close to 100 exhibitors with books ranging from kids’ to seniors\, this book fair highlights the range\, depth\, and quality of queer books\, their authors\, and most importantly\, their readers. The popularity of the Rainbow Book Fair shows that books are NOT dead. At all. \nAlong with an array of books in two large rooms at the Center\, the Fair will also host its famous Poetry Salon\, curated by Nathaniel Siegel\, giving a showcase to close to 50 poets reading briefly\, and of course\, being poets\, talking to each other seriously (but fun\, too! Yeah.) \nThere will also be short readings by 30 authors\, and Featured Readings by Curtis Chin\, author of the memoir Everything I Learned I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant (Little Brown); Brian Broome\, Pittsburgh author of the landmark memoir Punch Me Up to the Gods (Mariner Books)\, chosen by the NY Times as one of the “100 Notable Books of the Year\,” winner Kirkus Non-Fiction Book Award; and West Coast author Felice Picano—The Lure\, The Joy of Gay Sex\, Like People in History — an original member of the famous Lavender Quill group that included Andrew Holleran and Edmund White. \nPlus\, exciting panels all day explore queer books and their authors in depth. They include “Weird and Queer: Sci-Fi\, Gothic\, Horror\, and Memoir”; “Librarians and Archivists: Fighting Back Against the Attacks on Queer Books”; “Queering Comics”; and “Queer Histories.” There will also be showcases for outstanding lgbtq+ publishers\, including Archer Books\, Rebel Satori\, and Riverdale Avenue Books. \nThe Rainbow Book Fair is free to attend\, but a voluntary $3 donation is asked at the door. For more information on the RBF\, go to rainbowbookfair.com\, or rainbowbookfair123@gmail.com; or belhuepress@earthlink.net.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/rainbow-book-fair-presents-brian-broome-in-person/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:Gay Propaganda: Film Screening and Poetry Reading by Slava Mogutin (in person event)
DESCRIPTION:In conjunction with the Bureau’s current exhibition\, Slava Mogutin: Analog Human Studies\, the Bureau is happy to host Slava for a screening of short films and a poetry reading on the day of the Rainbow Book Fair. \nFeaturing short films by:\nKris Canavan\, Christeene\, Harry Clayton-Wright\, Yves De Brabander\, David Hoyle\, Dominic Johnson\, Brian Kenny\, Bruce LaBruce\, Mathieu & Leolo\, Matt Lambert\, Murphy Maxwell\, Daniel McKernan\, Slava Mogutin\, No Bra\, Patriarchy\, Peaches\, PJ Raval\, A.L. Steiner\, Vaginal Davis\, Lex Vaughn and David Wilson\n  \nCopies of Analog Human Studies (MenOnPaper\, softcover\, 160 pages\, 210 x 297 mm / 8.25 x 11.75 inches\, $50) is available for purchase at the Bureau.\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. \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/gay-propaganda-film-screening-and-poetry-reading-by-slava-mogutin-in-person-event/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:Publishing Triangle Finalists Readings: Two Nights\, Hybrid In-Person & Virtual
DESCRIPTION:Join us for two night’s of hybrid in-person & virtual readings by finalists for Publishing Triangle Awards at the Bureau! Both readings will also stream on the Bureau’s YouTube channel: youtube.com/@bgsqd \nPlease note: the Bureau is usually closed on Tuesdays\, but we will open at 6 pm for this event. \nReaders on Tuesday\, April 25th: \nWo Chan: Togetherness (Nightboat Books) \nRon Goldberg: Boy with the Bullhorn: A Memoir and History of Act Up (Fordham University Press) \nRage Hezekiah: Yearn (Diode Editions) \nIrena Klepfisz: Her Birth and Later Years (Weslyan University Press) \nGabriel Ojeda-Sagué: Madness (Nightboat Books) \nEric Tran: Mouth\, Sugar\, and Smoke (Diode Editions) \nCheck out the line up for Wednesday\, April 26th! \nBooks will be available for purchase! To reserve a copy of any title\, please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com with Publishing Triangle Finalists Readings in the subject line. \nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us! \n  \nSuggested donation to benefit the Bureau: $10 \nAll are welcome to join\, with or without a donation. \n  \nThe Publishing Triangle’s 35th Annual Awards Ceremony will take place on Thursday\, April 27th\, at 7 PM\, at The New School’s Tishman Auditorium\, 66 West 12th Street\, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. All are welcome to attend! \nTo see the full list of finalists for each category visit The Publishing Triangle’s website. \nThe Bureau will sell books at the Awards Ceremony. \n  \nThe Publishing Triangle is a group of queer folks who work to further the publication of books and other materials written by LGBTQ authors or with LGBTQ themes. \nWe come from all types of backgrounds. We are on staff and we’re freelancers. We are editors\, agents\, and booksellers; we work in sub rights\, publicity\, sales\, design\, and production. Many of us are writers. We are also librarians\, teachers\, booksellers\, and even avid readers who don’t work in a publishing-related field. \nOur primary method of shining a much-needed light on queer books is through our awards program. We give out ten awards annually (at an awards ceremony\, usually in April at the New School in Manhattan)\, each with a cash prize of between $500 and $3000. Seven of these awards honor the best books published in the previous calendar year in nonfiction\, fiction\, poetry\, and trans/gender-variant literature. There is a lifetime achievement award and an emerging-writer award; and we also honor a book-industry figure each year (not a writer) with our leadership award. \nThrough our social media and our newsletter—as well as through readings\, social networking events\, and other programs in the New York City area—we strive to promote a sense of camaraderie in the queer literary community. \nMembership dues start at $40 a year for individuals (there are additional levels of membership for families and businesses). For more details\, see our membership page. \nIf you have additional questions about the Triangle and its programs\, please email us at info@publishingtriangle.org or write us at the address listed below. \nThe Publishing Triangle\n511 Avenue of the Americas\, #D36\nNew York\, NY 10011
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/publishing-triangle-finalists-reading-april-25/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:Publishing Triangle Finalists Readings: Two Nights\, Hybrid In-Person & Virtual
DESCRIPTION:Join us for two night’s of hybrid in-person & virtual readings by finalists for Publishing Triangle Awards at the Bureau! Both readings will also stream on the Bureau’s YouTube channel: youtube.com/@bgsqd \nReaders on Wednesday\, April 26th: \nPhilip Clark: Invisible History: The Collected Poems of Walta Borawski (Rebel Satori) \nSiaara Freeman: Urbanshee (Button Poetry) \nDavid Santos Donaldson: Greenland (Amistad/Harper Collins) \nEstela González: Arribada (Cynren Press) \nRachel M. Harper: The Other Mother (Counterpoint) \nimogen xtian smith: stemmy things (Nightboat Books) \nAlyssa Songsiridej: Little Rabbit (Bloomsbury Publishing) \nMecca Jamilah Sullivan: Big Girl (Liveright/W.W Norton & Co) \nBooks will be available for purchase! To reserve a copy of any title\, please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com with “Publishing Triangle Finalists Readings” in the subject line. \nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us! \n  \nSuggested donation to benefit the Bureau: $10 \nAll are welcome to join\, with or without a donation. \n  \nThe Publishing Triangle’s 35th Annual Awards Ceremony will take place on Thursday\, April 27th\, at 7 PM\, at The New School’s Tishman Auditorium\, 66 West 12th Street\, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. All are welcome to attend! \nTo see the full list of finalists for each category visit The Publishing Triangle’s website. \nThe Bureau will sell books at the Awards Ceremony. \n  \nThe Publishing Triangle is a group of queer folks who work to further the publication of books and other materials written by LGBTQ authors or with LGBTQ themes. \nWe come from all types of backgrounds. We are on staff and we’re freelancers. We are editors\, agents\, and booksellers; we work in sub rights\, publicity\, sales\, design\, and production. Many of us are writers. We are also librarians\, teachers\, booksellers\, and even avid readers who don’t work in a publishing-related field. \nOur primary method of shining a much-needed light on queer books is through our awards program. We give out ten awards annually (at an awards ceremony\, usually in April at the New School in Manhattan)\, each with a cash prize of between $500 and $3000. Seven of these awards honor the best books published in the previous calendar year in nonfiction\, fiction\, poetry\, and trans/gender-variant literature. There is a lifetime achievement award and an emerging-writer award; and we also honor a book-industry figure each year (not a writer) with our leadership award. \nThrough our social media and our newsletter—as well as through readings\, social networking events\, and other programs in the New York City area—we strive to promote a sense of camaraderie in the queer literary community. \nMembership dues start at $40 a year for individuals (there are additional levels of membership for families and businesses). For more details\, see our membership page. \nIf you have additional questions about the Triangle and its programs\, please email us at info@publishingtriangle.org or write us at the address listed below. \nThe Publishing Triangle\n511 Avenue of the Americas\, #D36\nNew York\, NY 10011
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/publishing-triangle-finalists-readings-april_26/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:Queerness & Catholic Imagery (in person event & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:Vince Sgambati\, IPPY Award winning author\, will read from his latest novel\, Sanctuaries––a tender story of caring and personal healing\, set against the larger turmoil of the Vietnam War\, the Civil Rights Movement\, Stonewall\, and the lingering ashes of the Holocaust. Gabriel Garcia Roman\, artist\, craftsman\, and creator of the Queer Icon series\, will share images from the series. Vince and Gabriel will discuss how Catholic imagery influenced their work and invite participants to join their conversation with questions and comments. Vince will sign copies of Sanctuaries. \nPlanning to purchase a copy of Sanctuaries (Standing Stone Books\, 2023\, paperback\, $18) at the event? \nWe strongly encourage you to reserve a copy in advance so that we can be sure to have enough copies on hand. Please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com with “reserve Sanctuaries”  in the subject line. \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.\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  \nVince Sgambati’s debut novel\, Most Precious Blood\, received an IPPY Award\, a KIRKUS star review\, was a Foreword Indies Finalist in literary fiction\, a Central New York Book Awards Finalist\, and was listed as recommended reading by the Working Class Studies Association. His short story collection\, Undertow of Memory\, includes stories awarded by the Katherine Ann Porter Prize for Fiction and the Saints and Sinners Fiction Contest. His fiction and creative nonfiction have appeared in the anthology Queer and Catholic\, North American Review\, Nimrod International Journal\, Voices In Italian Americana\, Saints and Sinners: New Fiction From The Festival\, Off the Rocks\, The Journal of GLBT Family Studies\, and Lavender Magazine where he wrote a Queer parenting column. Sanctuaries is Vince’s second novel. \n  \nGabriel Garcia Roman is a multi-disciplinary artist and craftsman who examines and decodes the politics of identity through intricate and process-based work. His art has been acquired by the International Center of Photography and has been shown at the Museum of Latin American Art (Long Beach\, CA)\, Cathedral of St. John the Divine (New York\, NY)\, the Center for Photography at Woodstock (Woodstock\, NY)\, and numerous other institutions and galleries. He was a 2018 recipient of the National Association of Latino Arts & Culture’s artist grant and in 2019 was commissioned by the Leslie-Lohman Museum to bring his Queer Icons series into the streets for the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots where 100 Queer Icons flags were marched down the World Pride route. In 2022 he was one of 7 artists whose work was featured in collaboration with Target’s Mas Que campaign for Latinx Heritage Month.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/queerness-catholic-imagery/
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 of Patrick E. Horrigan's AMERICAN SCHOLAR (in person event & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:A party and reading to mark the publication of the novel AMERICAN SCHOLAR (Lethe Press) by Patrick E. Horrigan. \nCopies of AMERICAN SCHOLAR (Lethe Press\, 2023\, paperback\, $20) are available at the Bureau. \nPlanning to purchase a copy at the event? \nWe strongly encourage you to reserve a copy in advance so that we can be sure to have enough copies on hand. Please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com with “please reserve a copy of American Scholar” in the subject line. \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. \nPatrick E. Horrigan is the author of the novels PENNSYLVANIA STATION and PORTRAITS AT AN EXHIBITION\, the memoir WIDESCREEN DREAMS: GROWING UP GAY AT THE MOVIES\, the play MESSAGES FOR GARY\, and the solo sow YOU ARE CONFUSED!\, which he co-authored with his husband Eduardo Leanez. Having taught literature for over twenty-five years at LIU Brooklyn\, he is currently training to become at docent at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/book-launch-of-patrick-e-horrigans-american-scholar/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:A Reading by Queer Poets janan alexandra & Emma Wynn (in person event & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:Join queer poets janan alexandra (she/her) and Emma Wynn (they/them) for a joint reading and the NYC book launch of Emma’s first full-length collection\, The World is Our Anchor. The event will consist of readings\, a Q&A\, and book signing. \nCopies of The World Is Our Anchor (Futurecycle Press\, 2023\, paperback\, $15.95) are available at the Bureau. To reserve a copy\, please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com. \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 \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. \njanan alexandra was born in Nicosia\, Cyprus to a Lebanese mother and an American father. She received her MFA in Poetry from Indiana University. A 2021-2022 Creative Research Fulbright Scholar\, janan currently teaches English at the Hotchkiss School in CT. You can find her work in Gulf Coast\, Ploughshares\, Mizna\, Muzzle\, The Adroit Journal and elsewhere. \nEmma Wynn received their MTS from Harvard Divinity School and teaches Philosophy\, Religious Studies\, Psychology\, and LGBTQI+ U.S. History at the Hotchkiss School in CT. They have been published in a variety of online and print journals and nominated for a Pushcart Prize twice. Their first book\, The World is Our Anchor\, was published in February by FutureCycle Press.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/a-reading-by-queer-poets-janan-alexandra-emma-wynn/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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