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SUMMARY:OLNY Poly Movie Night: Professor Marston and the Wonder Women
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 our regular venue\, The Bureau of General Services—Queer Division and celebrating 7 years of Poly Movie Night!\n\nPlease join us for Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (2017)\, written and directed by Angela Robinson and starring Luke Evans\, Rebecca Hall and Bella Heathcote. The movie was widely praised as one of the most positive portrayals of polyamory in modern American film to date.\n\nWednesday\, May 3 – 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm\nBureau of General Services-Queer Division\n208 W 13th St\, Rm 210\nNew York\, NY 10011\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 $10 suggested donation to help fund future events is much appreciated.\n\nSynopsis: Based on the true story of the creator of the character Wonder Woman\, Harvard psychologist Dr. William Marston’s polyamorous relationship with his wife and their lover was more provocative than any adventure he had ever written. Running time: 1 hour 48 minutes
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SUMMARY:Past and Future Queers: Mary Ann Cherry in conversation with Mike Albo (in person & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:In celebration of their new books — a nonfiction biography and a speculative Young Adult novel — authors Mary Ann Cherry and Mike Albo will discuss uncovering queer facts and creating queer fictions. Cherry’s Morris Kight: Humanist\, Liberationist\, Fantabulist is “a story of gay rights and gay wrongs” that traces the life of a LGBTQ pioneer. Albo’s Another Dimension of Us\, a “speculative romance” follows queer kids from the past and future who travel to the astral plane to save the ones they love. It has been called “Lucid and thought-provoking” by Booklist. \nCopies of Morris Kight: Humanist\, Liberationist\, Fantabulist and Another Dimension of Us 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. \nMary Ann Cherry (she/her) has been based in Los Angeles for 45 years\, is a writer with a diverse background in network and syndicated television and independent documentary films. Cherry has worked with non-profit organizations\, most recently created the historical archive for AIDS Healthcare Foundation. She befriended and worked with Morris Kight during the last decade of his life which led to Kight giving his blessing for Cherry to write his biography. They shared a friendship and a passion for social justice and activism. She enjoys a second career as an in-demand specialized yoga therapist. maryanncherrywriter.com \nMike Albo is the author of three novels: Hornito\, considered one of the 50 Essential LGBT Works of Fiction by Flavorwire\, the cult classic The Underminer: The Best Friend Who Casually Destroys Your Life (written with Virginia Heffernan) and Another Dimension of Us\, released in 2023. His other works include the The Junket and Spermhood: Diary of a Donor. He has written for the The New Yorker\, New York Magazine\, TED\, Town and Country and numerous other outlets. He has performed nine solo and comedy shows across the US\, Canada\, and UK. His solo shows include “Spermhood: Diary of a Donor” and “The Junket” which ran Off-Broadway at the Lynn Redgrave Theater in 2014. Mikealbo.net
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/past-and-future-queers-mary-ann-cherry-in-conversation-with-mike-albo-in-person-live-streaming/
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SUMMARY:Author Appearance and Book Signing with Adaryll Moore
DESCRIPTION:Come meet author Adaryll T. Moore at the Bureau on Sunday\, May 7th\, from 3 to 5 pm. She will have copies of her books I Bring the Glitter Everywhere and God\, Forget the Wheel\, Please Take the Whole Damn Vehicle for sale and signing. \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. \n  \nEast-coast-based Adaryll T. Moore is a Transgendered Female\, born leader\, advocate for the LGBTQ community\, creator\, educator\, scholar with two degrees in Elementary Education and a Reading minor\, mentor\, motivational speaker\, poet\, published award-winning author of five books\, with so many other gifts and talents. With her heart of gold\, Adaryll strongly desires to liberate others\, especially LGBTQ+ children\, through her literary works and victim-to-victor life story. Find out more on her website: www.amooreenterprises.org
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/author-appearance-and-book-signing-with-adaryll-moore/
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SUMMARY:Queer Science: Neil Theise on Notes on Complexity (in person & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:Neil Theise and Bureau co-founder Greg Newton in conversation about Neil’s new book\, Notes on Complexity. \nWe strongly encourage you to reserve a copy of Notes on Complexity: A Scientific Theory of Connection\, Consciousness\, and Being (Spiegel & Grau\, May 9\, 2023\, hardcover\, $27) if you plan on purchasing it at the event. Please email us with “Please reserve Notes on Complexity” in the subject line: contact@bgsqd.com \nOr purchase a copy from our online store to have a copy shipped to you: \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  \nAbout Notes on Complexity: A Scientific Theory of Connection\, Consciousness\, and Being: \nAn electrifying introduction to complexity theory\, the science of how complex systems behave\, that profoundly reframes our understanding and illuminates our interconnectedness. \nNothing in the universe is more complex than life. Throughout the skies\, in oceans\, and across lands\, life is endlessly on the move. In its myriad forms—from cells to human beings\, social structures\, and ecosystems—life is open-ended\, evolving\, unpredictable\, yet adaptive and self-sustaining. Complexity theory addresses the mysteries that animate science\, philosophy\, and metaphysics: how this teeming array of existence\, from the infinitesimal to the infinite\, is in fact a seamless living whole; and it investigates what our place\, as conscious beings\, is within it. Neil Theise takes us to the exhilarating frontiers of human knowledge and\, in the process\, restores wonder and meaning to our experience of the everyday. \n“An extraordinary book that will change the way you understand yourself and the universe.” \n—Deepak Chopra \n“A must-read instant classic.”—Robert Thurman \n  \nNeil Theise is a professor of pathology at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine and a pioneer of adult stem cell plasticity. He is also a longtime student of Zen Buddhism. He lives in New York. \n 
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SUMMARY:Poetry Reading: Kevin McLellan\, Ed Madden\, and Jayson P. Smith (in person & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:Poetry Reading featuring Kevin McLellan\, Ed Madden\, and Jayson P. Smith\, with introductions by Michael Broder.  \nCopies of Kevin McLellan’s in other words you/ (The Word Works\, 2023\, paperback\, $18) and Ed Madden’s A Pooka in Arkansas (The Word Works\, 2023\, paperback\, $19) will be available for purchase at the event. To reserve a copy of either book\, 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. \nKEVIN MCLELLAN is the author of: in other words you/ (selected by Timothy Liu for the 2022 Hilary Tham Capital Collection)\, Hemispheres\, Ornitheology (2019 Massachusetts Book Awards recipient)\, [box] (in the Blue Star Collection at Harvard University and other special collections)\, Tributary\, and Round Trip. Kevin makes videos under the name\, Duck Hunting with the Grammarian. His video Dick won Best Short Form Short Film at the LGBTQ+ Los Angeles Film Festival. It also showed in the Flickers’ Rhode Island Film Festival\, the Tag! Queer Film Festival\, the Berlin Short Film Festival\, and the Vancouver Queer Film Festival. https://kevmclellan.com/  \nED MADDEN is the author of four other books and four chapbooks of poetry\, most recently Ark\, a book about his father’s last months in hospice care\, and So they can sing\, which won the 2016 Robin Becker Chapbook Prize. He is a professor of English and the former director of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of South Carolina\, where he teaches Irish literature\, queer studies\, and creative writing. Ed served as the poet laureate for the City of Columbia\, SC\, 2015-2022. He is recipient of an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship and artist residencies at the Hambidge Center in Georgia and the Instituto Sacatar in Itaparica\, Brazil. \nJayson P. Smith is an interdisciplinary artist\, writer\, educator\, and curator from the Bronx. Their work has received support from NYFA\, The Poetry Project\, Poetry Foundation\, and Callaloo\, among others. Recent performances include Center for Performance Research\, Miriam Gallery\, and The Guggenheim. In 2016\, Jayson founded and continues to host NOMAD Readings. Find them in Brooklyn—listening—or at www.jaysonpsmith.com.
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SUMMARY:Practices: Running and Raving (in person only)
DESCRIPTION:Lindsey Freeman\, who runs but does not rave\, and McKenzie Wark\, who raves but cannot run\, will read from their books in the new Practices series from Duke University Press. And will talk about queer practices\, including the practice of writing. \n  \nCopies of Running and Raving are available at the Bureau ($15.95 each). 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. \n  \nLindsey A. Freeman is a writer and sociologist interested in endurance\, memory\, and poetics. Her most recent book\, Running\, is about practice\, love\, queerness\, and long distance running (Duke University Press). She is now working on a book about soccer\, queer joy\, and how hard it is to care about things. \n  \nMcKenzie Wark is the author\, among other things\, of Reverse Cowgirl (Semiotexte) and Capital is Dead (Verso). She edited the trans | fem | aesthetics issue of eflux journal and co-edited the Black Rave issue. She teaches at The New School.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/practices-running-and-raving-in-person-only/
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SUMMARY:Craft Class & Reading with Joan Kwon Glass (virtual)
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a Virtual Craft Class & Reading with Joan Kwon Glass \nForm & Wonder: Led by Joan Kwon Glass\, poets will use form to empower and serve curiosity. Looking at examples\, we’ll explore how form serves the poem; and with writing prompts\, we’ll practice being open to form to help in the process of wondering. Forms we may study include hymn\, elegy\, epistle\, pantoum\, and erasure. \nRegistration on Eventbrite is required in order to access the Zoom link for the class. Click here to register.\nTo join the class on Thursday\, May 18th\, at 6:30 PM (EDT)\, return to the Eventbrite page where you registered and click on “Access link” (under “When and Where” and “Location”). \n\n \n\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:Office Hours Spring 2023 Showcase Reading (hybrid in-person/virtual)
DESCRIPTION:Join us Friday\, May 19th\, at 7:00 PM EDT for the Office Hours Spring 2023 Showcase Reading\, a hybrid event (both in person readers & virtual). Our current fellows will give a brief reading in celebration of another strong semester of poetry making\, community building\, and surviving in difficult creative times. \nIn person:  \nEmily Hockaday \nAbba Belgrave \nNoel Sikorski \nAvia Tadmor \nMeghan Pinto \nSarah Sala \nPaco Márquez \n  \nOn Zoom: \nJames Fujinami Moore \nRyan Dzelzkalns \nAnnie Wei \nShakeema Smalls \nCarrie Hohmann \nRegister on Eventbrite to join the event on Zoom. Click here to register.\nTo join the event on Zoom (after you’ve registered)\, on Friday\, May 19th\, at 7 PM (EDT)\, return to the Eventbrite page and click on “Access link” (under “When and Where” and “Location”). \nIf attending in person\, no registration is necessary. Seating is first come first served. \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. \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.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/office-hours-spring-2023-showcase-reading/
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SUMMARY:Queer Heroes of Myth and Legend with author Dan Jones (in person & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:Join author Dan Jones for the launch of Queer Heroes of Myth and Legend: A celebration of gay gods\, sapphic saints and queerness through the ages  \nA discussion and book signing with author Dan Jones and Joshua Mackey\, Assistant Editor\, INTO \n  \nCopies of Queer Heroes of Myth and Legend (Radar\, May 2\, 2023\, hardcover\, $19.99) will be available for purchase 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 Queer Heroes”  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  \nDan Jones is a best-selling British author living in New York. A onetime magazine editor (i-D Magazine\, Time Out London)\, Dan writes about fashion\, grooming\, booze\, and queer culture.  \nJoshua Mackey is an editor\, writer\, interviewer\, and culture/film/tv critic whose writing is at the intersection of Black\, queer\, and nerdy. The assistant editor for LGBTQ-focused publication INTO\, his work can also be found in Nerdist\, Huffington Post\, and Geeks of Color.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/queer-heroes-of-myth-and-legend-with-author-dan-jones/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:Fact and Fiction: Transgender Issues In the Real World and Through the Prism of Fiction (in person & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:In 2019\, the ACLU of New Jersey\, led by attorneys Jeanne LoCicero\, Alexander Shalom\, and Tess Borden\, along with attorney Robyn Gigl of Gluck Walrath LLP\, sued the New Jersey Department of Corrections and its officers on behalf of a transgender woman. As part of the settlement of that case\, New Jersey adopted a system-wide policy to improve conditions for incarcerated transgender people that included presumptively housing people in custody in line with their gender identity\, and not sex assigned at birth. Only a few other states in the nation have such protections in place. \nThe presentation will feature Jeanne LoCicero\, Legal Director of the ACLU-NJ\, and Attorney and Author\, Robyn Gigl\, discussing Doe v. NJ Department of Corrections\, the legal strategy\, the landmark settlement\, and the settlement implications for transgender and non-binary identified people in custody. Robyn will also discuss how her experiences as an attorney and transgender woman have influenced her novels\, By Way of Sorrow\, Survivor’s Guilt and her most recent novel\, Remain Silent\, which feature Erin McCabe\, a transgender criminal defense attorney and all of which touch on issues involving the incarceration of trans identified characters. \nCopies of Robyn Gigl’s Remain Silent(Kensington Publishing\, May 23\, 2023\, hardcover\, $27) will be available for purchase at the event (along with earlier titles by Gigl). We strongly encourage you to reserve a copy of any books you plan on purchasing to ensure that we have plenty of copies on hand. Please write to us with “Please reserve a copy of Remain Silent” in the subject line:contact@bgsqd.com. \nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us! \nThis event will take place in person at theBureau 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 atYouTube.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. \nRobyn Gigl\, the author of the Erin McCabe legal thrillers\, is an attorney\, speaker and activist who has been honored by the ACLU-NJ and the NJ Pride Network for her work on behalf of the LGBTQ community. Appointed by the New Jersey Supreme Court to the Court’s Committee on Diversity Inclusion and Community Engagement\, she’s practiced law for more than 40 years\, representing clients in state and federal courts. She is active in the New Jersey State Bar Association where she is a member of the Women in the Profession Section and a Past Chair of the Bar’s LGBT Rights Section. She also is a member of the Board of Directors of Garden State Equality\, NJ’s largest LGBTQ+ Civil Rights Organization. A frequent lecturer on diversity issues\, she lives in New Jersey and can be found online at RobynGigl.com or on Twitter @RobynGigl. \nJeanne LoCicero is the Legal Director of the American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey. She supervises the litigation program and related advocacy of the ACLU-NJ’s Legal Department and manages its 10+\nperson staff. Jeanne joined the ACLU-NJ as a staff attorney in 2004 and served as its Deputy Legal Director for ten years prior to becoming legal director in 2018. She has litigated and advocated in a wide range of civil rights and civil liberties cases\, with a focus on prison conditions\, racial equity\, LGBTQ rights\, women’s rights\, and reproductive health. She recently served on New Jersey’s Transgender Equality Task Force\, is a trustee of the Association of the Federal Bar of New Jersey\, and serves on other legal and policy committees. Jeanne started her legal career as a legal fellow at the ACLU of Alabama after graduating with highest honors from Rutgers School of Law – Newark. She spent three years in private practice before joining the ACLU-NJ.
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SUMMARY:WHO NEEDS GAY BARS? Book talk and signing (in person & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:Join author Greggor Mattson and interlocutor Hugh Ryan for a conversation about the past\, present\, and future of gay bars and LGBTQ+ spaces. Mattson’s new book WHO NEEDS GAY BARS? reports on more than 300 gay bar visits in 39 states and conversations with bar owners and bartenders\, drag queens and DJs (Redwood Press May 2023). Samantha Allen\, author of Real\, Queer America\, describes WHO NEEDS GAY BARS? as: “Breathtakingly intimate and yet vast in scope\, this passion project balances sharp insights with the kind of lived-in details that make you want to pull up a stool and stay a while.” After a conversation and Q&A\, the author will sign copies for purchase at the event. \nCopies of WHO NEEDS GAY BARS? will be 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. \nGreggor Mattson is Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Department at Oberlin College & Conservatory where he teaches courses on sexuality\, cities\, law\, and nightlife. He has been gay since 1974\, has conducted research in gay bars since 1999\, and has published on them in such venues as Slate\, Literary Hub\, Urban Studies\, and Gender\, Place\, and Culture. He grew up in small-town Washington and lives in small-town Ohio\, and tweets @greggormattson. \nHugh Ryan is a writer and curator\, and most recently\, the author of The Women’s House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison\, which won the American Library Association’s Stonewall Book Award for Nonfiction and the W.A. Percy Foundation’s William Johansson Award. His first book\, When Brooklyn Was Queer\, won a New York City Book Award\, was a New York Times Editors’ Choice\, and was a finalist for the Randy Shilts and Lambda Literary Awards. He has been honored with the Allan Bérubé Prize from the American Historical Association\, multiple grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts\, the Duberman Fellowship at the New York Public Library\, and residencies at Yaddo and Watermill. He teaches in the MFA Program at Bennington College.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/who-needs-gay-bars-book-talk-and-signing-in-person-live-streaming/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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