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SUMMARY:NYC Queer Comic Fair 2023
DESCRIPTION:We are BACK!  June 3-4\, come join us at the Bureau inside the LGBT Center in NYC\, where we will be celebrating the wonderful work of local queer comic creators!  This year\, we have over 30 vendors spanning the entire second floor of the LGBT Center!  FREE ADMISSION! 1-7PM\, Saturday and Sunday.\n  \nVendors:\n\n\nDoable Guys\nPatrick J. Reilly\nGilesdraws\nMiasmatik Art\nSlade\nRetrosofa\nGo Robo Now\nShadow Minis\nSquiddySprinkle\nDIS PATER\nEdward Ficklin\nCasey at the Bat\nTransoffinland\nLucky Sanford\nJames Dillenbeck\nD De Maglie\nHomosuperiorr\nLiam Donnelly\nZackery Francis\nGreg Lockard\nRoyal Nightshade Art\nJesse Arbor Illustration\nMacspins\nRat Decayy\n[GLASS//CUTTER]\nCarmen Pizarro\nKate Zimmermann\nVox the devil\nShiny Skunk\nThe Boy in Pink Earmuffs\nBunnysleepover
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/nyc-queer-comic-fair-2023/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:NYC Queer Comic Fair 2023
DESCRIPTION:We are BACK! June 3-4\, come join us at the Bureau inside the LGBT Center in NYC\, where we will be celebrating the wonderful work of local queer comic creators! This year\, we have over 30 vendors spanning the entire second floor of the LGBT Center! FREE ADMISSION! 1-7PM\, Saturday and Sunday.\n\nVendors: \n\nDoable Guys\nPatrick J. Reilly\nGilesdraws\nMiasmatik Art\nSlade\nRetrosofa\nGo Robo Now\nShadow Minis\nSquiddySprinkle\nDIS PATER\nEdward Ficklin\nCasey at the Bat\nTransoffinland\nLucky Sanford\nJames Dillenbeck\nD De Maglie\nHomosuperiorr\nLiam Donnelly\nZackery Francis\nGreg Lockard\nRoyal Nightshade Art\nJesse Arbor Illustration\nMacspins\nRat Decayy\n[GLASS//CUTTER]\nCarmen Pizarro\nKate Zimmermann\nVox the devil\nShiny Skunk\nThe Boy in Pink Earmuffs\nBunnysleepover
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/nyc-queer-comic-fair2/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:2AM Eternal Book Launch with Eric Kostiuk Williams & Ted Kerr (in person & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:Come by the Bureau on Wednesday\, June 7 for the launch of 2AM Eternal: A Decade of Queer Nightlife Posters + Comics\, 2012-2022. Your host\, Eric Kostiuk Williams\, captures a decade of nightlife in Toronto’s queer community — with detours to San Francisco and NYC — from basements to the backstage to the back rooms. Collecting one hundred event posters from 2012 to 2022\, along with short comics and write-ups from the author\, the organizers\, the performers\, and the crowd\, 2AM Eternal makes a scene — until last call. The pandemic prompts a series of posters for cancelled events\, and a pivot to digital events in the days of lockdown\, before the manic\, uneasy re-emergence of face-to-face\, wall-to-wall living. \nEric will be joined by author and activist Ted Kerr (We Are Having This Conversation Now: The Times of AIDS Cultural Production) for a discussion touching on nightlife in the 2010s\, Eric’s posters for NYC Inferno and Queer|Art|Film\, and much more. \nPraise for 2AM Eternal:\n“By linking his lived experience to the ebbs and flows of his clubbing community\, Williams creates a unique blend of autobiography and ethnography. A rare feat\, this collection informs\, entertains\, and seduces.” – Publishers Weekly \n“Eric Kostiuk Williams’ work has an incredible sense of physicality. Rooms and bodies live\, pulse\, transform from one thing to another. There’s a fluidity between the tangible and the abstract. At the end of the night\, will we return to the familiar or dissolve into the air? I’m so happy this book exists. Toronto is a city that seems hellbent on scrubbing itself of everything interesting about itself. I don’t think it’s hyperbolic to say that this is an incredibly important document and will probably change a few lives too.” – Jillian Tamaki (Roaming\, Supermutant Magic Academy\, Boundless) \nCopies of 2AM Eternal will be available for purchase at the event. We strongly encourage you to reserve a copy in advance so that we can be sure to have enough on hand. Please email us at contact@bgsqd.com with “Reserve 2AM Eternal”  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 \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. \nEric Kostiuk Williams is a Toronto-based cartoonist and illustrator. His work deploys a fluid\, surreal visual aesthetic to explore ideas surrounding queer culture\, gender expression\, and urban upheaval. Eric has contributed comics to NOW Magazine\, Dazed & Confused\, PEN American\, and The Believer. He has also created murals\, nightlife flyers\, harm reduction campaigns\, editorial illustrations\, album artwork\, and music videos. Eric is an Eisner\, Doug Wright\, and Lambda Literary nominee. Recent illustration clients include Queer|Art|Film\, VICE\, The Poetry Project\, and The Walrus. \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.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/2am-eternal-book-launch-with-eric-kostiuk-williams-ted-kerr/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Romance of Entanglement: Opening Reception
DESCRIPTION:The Bureau of General Services—Queer Division is proud to present The Romance of Entanglement (in the era of the Observer’s Paradox)\, an exhibition of new work by eleven queer artists. The exhibition opens June 8 and runs through September 10. \nJoin us for the Opening Reception on Thursday\, June 8\, 6-8 PM \nThe Romance of Entanglement presents the work of artists working across photography\, fiber arts\, painting\, printmaking\, drawing and installation. The work in this exhibit has been made in deep collaboration with larger communities and in communication with queer legacies and histories.  \nWeaving\, quilting and drag are some of the communal and performative traditions artists draw from. These processes speak back to the collaborative art-making traditions of queer and feminist activism and performance. Working with color\, pattern\, texture and symbols\, much of the work in this show signals ecstatic joy and vibrates with abundance.  \nOther work interrogates capitalist systems and the tropes of representation produced by the dominant culture. This work posits queerness as an act of generative disobedience\, offering an alternate lexicon where the erased and invisible become seen\, empowered and celebrated.  \nIn an increasingly hostile landscape for LGBTQ+ people\, this exhibition offers a utopian re-envisioning of the present and a portal into the future. It chronicles the ways we are creating safety for ourselves\, conjuring our utopian visions into existence.  \nPARTICIPATING ARTISTS  \nLiz Collins • Dana Robinson • Natalie Woodlock • Courtney Webster • Meg Turner Voxigma Lo • Whit Forrester • Colin Roberson • Theodora Eliezer Katie Kaplan • Amaryllis DeJesus Moleski
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/romance-of-entanglement-opening/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:Circuit Party (in person & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:Circuit Party lays bare the electromagnetic substructure of contemporary relations\, creating a portalic space using sound\, electricity\, astrological magic and the hyperobject of technology. \nThe Bureau is hosting the performance Circuit Party in conjunction with the exhibition The Romance of Entanglement (in the era of the Observer’s Paradox)\, an exhibition of new work by eleven queer artists curated by participating artists Courtney Webster and Natalie Woodlock. The exhibition opens June 8 and runs through September 10. \nBio:\nForrester is based in San Francisco\, CA. Exhibited widely\, in both national and international contexts\, and with a range of aesthetic interests that include: practices of accumulation\, manifestations of power\, diaspora\, noetic science\, new materialisms\, discourses around the transcendent and the material relationship between self and world. These encounter fusion around ideas of regenerative relationships to both and land and people\, collective liberation\, quantum feminisms\, queer theory\, spiritual and occult praxis and ontology and addressing historical trauma as spiritual practice.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/circuit-party/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:Bushwick Book Club Presents New Songs and Art in Response to Gender Queer (in person only)
DESCRIPTION:The Bureau of General Services—Queer Division and The Lesbian\, Gay\, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center Host The Bushwick Book Club Presenting New Songs and Art in Response to Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe. \nFeaturing performers: \nJohn S. Hall (New Trout) \nDon Rauf \nSusan Hwang \nBoy Meets Pearl \nYva Las Vegass \nAnni Rossi \nPaula Spiro \nHoni Harlow \nHanuel Lee \nspiritchild \nEndless Arrows \nJason Trachtenburg \nStephanie Larriere \nOksana Horban \n  \nCopies of Gender Queer: A Memoir (Oni Press\, 2019\, paperback\, $19.99) will be available for purchase at the event. To reserve a copy please email the Bureau at contact@bgsqd.com with “please reserve Gender Queer” in the subject line. \nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us! \n  \nSuggested donation $10 to pay the performers \nPlease register on Eventbrite by clicking here.\nAbout the Bushwick Book Club: \nThe Bushwick Book Club began in January 2009 on a dare. Songwriter\, Susan Hwang\, dared Goodbye Blue Monday owner Steve Trimboli to let her have a night of new songs inspired by literature. He said\, “Sure.” \nThey started with Kurt Vonnegut’s Breakfast of Champions and now meet monthly employing the talents of local songwriters\, artists and chefs who plumb the depths of a chosen literary gem to create that rare and beautiful thing – a new song (or visual art\, dance\, film or snack). These literature-themed live shows have been inspired by everything from Raymond Carver to Charles Darwin to George R.R. Martin to the thesaurus. \nThe Bushwick Book Club now has several branches all over the world\, including Portland\, Los Angeles\, Seattle\, Santa Barbara\, New Orleans\, Greenville\, London and Malmö\, Sweden. \nThe Bushwick Book Club Podcast includes excerpts from the live shows plus interviews with authors and songwriters.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/bushwick-book-club-presents-new-songs-and-art-in-response-to-gender-queer/
LOCATION:The Lesbian\, Gay\, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 101\, New York\, 10011\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230611T150000
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SUMMARY:Celebrate Transgender and NonBinary people and their families in the book Authentic Selves (in person)
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Sunday June 11\, 2023 at 3:00 p.m. at the Bureau of General Services-Queer Division book store located at 208 West 13th St NY\, NY. – Room 210. We are celebrating the book release of Authentic Selves\, a collection of stories by Trans and Nonbinary People and their families from across the country. \nYou will meet authors Josef Burwell\, Tamira Burns\, Chris Mohn and Jozeppi Angelo Morelli who will discuss their passion for the book and share excerpts from their stories. Our special guest will be Peggy Gillespie Co-Director of Family Diversity Projects and the extraordinary human who interviewed all the authors in the book. \nBook signing will follow. \nCopies of Authentic Selves will be available for purchase at the event. We strongly encourage you to reserve a copy in advance so that we can be sure to have enough on hand. Please email us at contact@bgsqd.com with “Reserve Authentic Selves”  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. \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. \nJosef Burwell is a transgender man\, Physician Associate\, and humanitarian. He currently facilitates a peer support group for trans masculine individuals\, and works professionally providing medical care for First American people in Alaska. \nRev. Tamira Burns is a visible and vocal member of the LGBTQI+ community. She has been a human rights and social Justice advocate-activist for over 3 decades\, working to affect compassionate policy changes at the local and state level for women\, children and the LGBTQI+ community. \nChris Mohn (she/her) is a retired middle school educator\, a mom\, and a human committed to justice for all. I am honored to be a member of Joey’s chosen family\, witnessing and supporting (as I could) his journey to become his authentic self – a proud\, confident man\, and now a passionate activist for the Trans community. \nPeggy Gillespie is the Co-Founder/Director of Family Diversity Projects. She is the Editor-in- Chief of all of Family Diversity Project’s exhibits and books including Authentic Selves\, Love Makes a Family: Portraits of LGBT People and their Families. https://www.familydiversityprojects.org  \nJozeppi Angelo Morelli is a retired law enforcement officer and 911 WTC First Responder. He is an author\, gender educator\, activist and public speaker. He is also currently co-producing A Two Spirit Artist Show opening Oct 9\,2023 in the East Village at La Sala De Pepe\, a gallery and cultural center.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/celebrate-transgender-and-nonbinary-people-and-their-families-in-the-book-authentic-selves-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:Boyslut Book Launch with author Zachary Zane and Jordyn Taylor (in person & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:Join sex expert and Men’s Health magazine columnist Zachary Zane in celebration of his new book Boyslut: A Memoir and Manifesto at the Bureau on Wednesday\, June 14th at 7pm ET! Zach will be in conversation with Jordyn Taylor\, executive digital editor at Men’s Health and co-author with Zach of Men’s Health Best. Sex. Ever.: 200 Frank\, Funny & Friendly Answers About Getting It On. \nNamed one of Buzzfeed’s Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Books of 2023\, Boyslut is a series of personal and tantalizing essays that articulate how our society still shames people for the sex that they have and the sexualities that they inhabit. Through the lens of his bisexuality and much self-described sluttiness\, Zane breaks down exactly how this sexual shame negatively impacts the sex and relationships in our lives and\, through personal experience\, shares how we can unlearn the harmful\, entrenched messages that society imparts to us. \nFrom stories of drug-fueled threesomes and risqué Grindr hookups to insights on dealing with rejection and living with his boyfriend and his boyfriend’s wife\, Boyslut is reassuring and often painfully funny—but most potently a testimony that we can all learn to live healthier lives unburdened by stigma. \nCopies of Boyslut 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. \n  \nZachary Zane is a Brooklyn-based columnist\, sex expert\, and activist whose work focuses on sexuality\, culture\, and the LGBTQ community. He’s the co-author of Men’s Health: Best. Sex. Ever. He currently has two columns: “Sexplain It” the sex and relationship advice column at Men’s Health\, and “Navigating Non-Monogamy” at Cosmo\, where he shares all the mistakes he’s made in his polyamory journey\, so you don’t have to. He is also the founder and editor-in-chief of Boyslut zine\, which publishes real sex stories from kinksters worldwide. His work on sexuality and relationships has been published in the New York Times\, Rolling Stone\, The Washington Post\, GQ\, OUT\, and many others. \n  \nJordyn Taylor is the executive digital editor at Men’s Health magazine and the co-author of Men’s Health Best. Sex. Ever.: 200 Frank\, Funny & Friendly Answers About Getting It On. \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/boyslut-book-launch/
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 for GENDER WITHOUT IDENTITY\, by Avgi Saketopoulou and Ann Pellegrini (in person & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:Join authors Avgi Saketopoulou and Ann Pellegrini as they discuss their new book\, GENDER WITHOUT IDENTITY. They will be in conversation with psychoanalyst Griffin Hansbury. The event will consist of a reading\, discussion\, Q&A\, and signing\, followed by a short reception with food and drink. \nAbout GENDER WITHOUT IDENTITY: At a time of unprecedented legislative attacks on LGBTQ+ people\, with gender-affirmative care for trans youth being outright banned in a growing number of states\, Saketopoulou and Pellegrini offer an innovative and at times unsettling theory of gender formation. Arguing for abandoning the fiction of “core gender identity” and the fantasy that there is something true or authentic about any gender\, Saketopoulou and Pellegrini instead propose that gender is something all subjects (not just trans and queer subjects) acquire. Trauma\, they daringly argue\, sometimes has a share in that acquisition. \nRooted in the work of French psychoanalyst Jean Laplanche and in conversation with bold work in queer and trans studies\, GENDER WITHOUT IDENTITY argues for the ethical urgency of recognizing that wounding experiences and traumatic legacies may be spun into gender. Such “spinning” involves self-theorizations that do not proceed from a centered self\, but are nevertheless critical to psychic autonomy. \nSaketopoulou and Pellegrini\, who are both practicing psychoanalysts\, offer theoretical and clinical resources for working with gender complexity and for complexifying (what is seen as) gender normativity. But\, above all\, GENDER WITHOUT IDENTITY is an impassioned defense of queer and trans life and flourishing. \nCopies of GENDER WITHOUT IDENTITY 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. \n  \nAvgi Saketopoulou (she/her) is a Cypriot and Greek immigrant and a psychoanalyst based in New York City. She is on faculty at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis\, and works extensively with trans children and their families. She is also the author of Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk\, Race\, Traumatophilia\, which was published earlier this year by New York University Press. \n  \nAnn Pellegrini (all pronouns) is Professor of Performance Studies & Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University\, and a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City. Their books include “You Can Tell Just By Looking” and 20 Other Myths about LGBT Life and People\, coauthored with Michael Bronski and Michael Amico (Beacon Press\, 2013). Pellegrini is the founding coeditor of the “Sexual Cultures” series at New York University Press. \n  \nSaketopoulou and Pellegrini are the recipients of the first Tiresias Paper Award\, from the Sexual and Gender Diversity Studies Committee of the International Psychoanalytical Association. \n  \nGriffin Hansbury (he/him) is a psychoanalyst in New York City. Under the pen name Jeremiah Moss\, he is the author of Feral City and Vanishing New York. His writing on the city has appeared in the New York Times\, The New Yorker\, The Paris Review\, and the New York Review of Books.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/book-launch-for-gender-without-identity-by-avgi-saketopoulou-and-ann-pellegrini-in-person-live-streaming/
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SUMMARY:Deep Moon\, Pluto (in person and live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:Kuba Falk + Zbigniew Bzymek present: Deep Moon\, Pluto \nA body performance with video monitor working with themes of gay masculinity and superimposition and submission to image. \nThe Bureau is hosting the performance Deep Moon\, Pluto in conjunction with the exhibition The Romance of Entanglement (in the era of the Observer’s Paradox)\, an exhibition of new work by eleven queer artists curated by participating artists Courtney Webster and Natalie Woodlock. The exhibition opens June 8 and runs through September 10. \nBio \nKuba Falk and Z Bzymek make up the queer art duo INTERHUMAN – making art that explores the diverging needs of individual spiritual growth and community interconnectedness. \n  \n@interhuman_interform \n@kuba_falk \n@zbi_bzym
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/deep-moon-pluto/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230618T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230618T180000
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Drew Pisarra's Periodic Boyfriends (in person & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:Join author Drew Pisarra for the launch of Periodic Boyfriends\, his new poetry collection inspired by the Periodic Table of Elements and his personal catalog of one- night-stands. A discussion between the author and Capturing Fire Publisher and Nuyorican Poets Café Slam Legend Regie Cabico will follow the reading. \nCopies of Periodic Boyfriends ($20) will be available for purchase at the event. We strongly encourage you to reserve a copy in advance so that we can be sure to have enough on hand. Please email us at contact@bgsqd.com with “Reserve Periodic Boyfriends”  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 \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. \nDrew Pisarra is a grantee of Café Royal Cultural Foundation\, Curious Elixirs: Curious Creators\, and LMCC as well as the author of the poetry collections Periodic Boyfriends (2023) and Infinity Standing Up (2019) [lauded as “brazen and lusty and often amusing” by The Washington Post] and the short story collections You’re Pretty Gay (2021) [excerpted by Ms. magazine] and Publick Spanking (1996). \nRegie Cabico is a spoken word pioneer having won The Nuyorican Poets Cafe Grand Slam and later taken top prizes in three National Poetry Slams. TV credits include TEDx\, two seasons of HBO’s Def Poetry Jam\, and NPR’s Snap Judgement. His new collection of poetry\, A Rabbit in Search of a Rolex will be released Sep. 2023 by Day Eight Press. He is the publisher/producer of Capturing Fire Press and resides in DC.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/book-launch-drew-pisarras-periodic-boyfriends-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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230621T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230621T200000
DTSTAMP:20260421T150427
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SUMMARY:JesusDevil: New York Launch with Alexis De Veaux and J. Wortham (in person & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:JesusDevil: The Parables\, synthesizes a lifetime of Alexis’s movement through genre\, resulting in her boldest statement on form\, alternate worldmaking\, and black queer life to date. For this New York launch event\, Alexis will read from JesusDevil\, and then join a discussion with writer J. Wortham about the book and its expansive\, black queer imaginings. \nEvocative and experimental\, JesusDevil: The Parables is a nonlinear tale of black life and spiritual expression. Writing in a style she calls “afiction\,” author Alexis De Veaux expands and moves beyond traditional narrative\, following the adventures of Fhill\, a black\, queer spirit who has taken human form. Neither male nor female\, Fhill moves fluidly and disruptively across concepts of identity\, passing through the nine “parables” that comprise this text. Examining aspects of what it means to be black and human—from a nonhuman perspective—Fhill’s liminal nature redefines social and literary categories\, exploring social constructions of blackness as well as themes of desire\, memory\, sex\, revenge\, and more. \nCopies of JesusDevil: The Parables  will be available for purchase at the event. We strongly encourage you to reserve a copy in advance so that we can be sure to have enough on hand. Please email us at contact@bgsqd.com with “Reserve JesusDevil”  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 \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. \nAlexis De Veaux is a black queer feminist independent scholar whose internationally known work is published in six languages. She has been publishing fiction\, poetry\, plays\, memoirs\, and children’s literature since 1973\, and her work is anthologized in numerous collections. De Veaux is the author of Yabo and Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde; and was tenured faculty at the University at Buffalo\, Department of Women’s Studies\, for more than twenty years\, mentoring a new generation of interdisciplinary scholars of black\, feminist\, and queer studies. \nJ Wortham (they/them) is a sound healer\, reiki practitioner\, herbalist\, and community care worker oriented towards healing justice and liberation. They are also a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine\, and co-host of the podcast ‘Still Processing\,’ With Kimberly Drew\, they co-edited Black Futures\, a visual anthology and compendium of radical\, imaginative\, and provocative art by contemporary Black creators.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/jesusdevil-new-york-launch-with-alexis-de-veaux-and-j-wortham-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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230622T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230622T210000
DTSTAMP:20260421T150427
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SUMMARY:KNOWSGAY No. 8 Launch Party
DESCRIPTION:KNOWSGAY is back to celebrate it’s 10 year anniversary. Please join us to celebrate and pick up a copy of our latest issue. \nKNOWSGAY was created for the Los Angeles Art Book Fair in 2013. An unconventional approach to zine making\, KNOWSGAY exists as a lovingly assembled collection of art/ephemera that memorializes fleeting thoughts\, queer emotions\, and iconic and esoteric queer icons. KNOWSGAY is created by Charlie Welch and Paul Moreno. Charlie and Paul are also the founders of the New York Queer Zine Fair. \nKNOWSGAY 8 will be an edition of 50 and will be for sale exclusively at the Bureau. \nA portion of all sales will benefit the Bureau.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/knowsgay-no-8-launch-party/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230628T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230628T210000
DTSTAMP:20260421T150427
CREATED:20230529T025930Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230529T030253Z
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SUMMARY:We Made It: The Testimony of Black Queer Writers with David Santos Donaldson & Robert Jones\, Jr. (in person & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:“We Made It: The Testimony of Black Queer Writers”\nA conversation with novelists Robert Jones\, Jr. & David Santos Donaldson about their journeys being Black and queer in the world of publishing\, activism\, and following the legacies of Black queer artists. \nCopies of The Prophets & Greenland will be available for purchase at the event. We strongly encourage you to reserve a copy in advance so that we can be sure to have enough on hand. Please email 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. \nRobert Jones\, Jr. (formerly known as “Son of Baldwin”) is the author of The New York Times bestselling novel\, The Prophets\, which won the 2022 Publishing Triangle Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction\, and was a finalist for the 2021 National Book Award for Fiction. His work has been featured in The New York Times\, Essence\, Variety\, and The Paris Review\, as well as in the critically acclaimed anthologies Four Hundred Souls and The 1619 Project. You can subscribe for free to his newsletter\, Witness\, on Substack. \nDavid Santos Donaldson is the author of the novel Greenland\, a finalist for the 2023 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and the 2023 Publishing Triangle Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction. He was raised in Nassau\, Bahamas\, and has lived in India\, Spain\, and the United States. Donaldson attended Wesleyan University and the Drama Division of the Juilliard School\, and his plays have been commissioned by the Public Theater. His writing has appeared in various magazines including Poets & Writers\, Literary Hub\, Electric Literature\, The Rumpus\, and the German literary magazine Geistesblüten.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/we-made-it-the-testimony-of-black-queer-writers-with-david-santos-donaldson-robert-jones-jr-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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230629T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230629T203000
DTSTAMP:20260421T150427
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SUMMARY:SEX WORKER STORY HOUR (in person only)
DESCRIPTION:Scratch the surface of any sizeable gathering of gay men and you will find a number of guys who have engaged in one form of sex work or another at some time in their lives: erotic massage\, escorting\, sacred intimacy\, go-go dancing\, stripping\, camming for cash\, appearing in adult videos (porn)\, OnlyFans/JustForFans\, hosting sex parties\, selling used underwear online\, etc. And we all have stories to tell. What circumstances brought you into sex work\, and what made you cycle out of it? What did you learn about yourself in the process? What were memorable triumphs or debacles for you? \nBring a story to tell\, or let yourself be interviewed by Tomik Dash\, founder and publisher of Fag Rag magazine\, and Don Shewey\, author of the just-published memoir Daddy Lover God: a sacred intimate journey (Joybody Books). Connoisseurs of sex workers also welcome to share. \nCopies of Daddy Lover God will be available for purchase and signing. Copies of Fag Rag NYC will be available free of charge. \nReserve a copy of Daddy Lover God by writing 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.\n \nSuggested donation $10 to benefit the Bureau’s work.\nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without donation.\n \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 \nBiographies of participants: \nTomik Dash is a Black\, gay\, left-handed\, near-sighted\, outspoken entrepreneur\, writer\, activist\, and sex worker. At least three of those attributes got him scholarships into college. He publishes a regional brand of fine art\, LGBTQ magazines called Fag Rag that currently have editions in NYC\, Fire Island\, and Provincetown. He is also the President of a nonprofit called the Black and Brown Equity Coalition that advocates for Black and transgender equity on Fire Island.\nwww.tomik2point0.com \nInstagram:  @tomik2point0\n \n \nDon Shewey is a writer\, therapist\, and pleasure activist in New York City. As a journalist and critic\, he has published three books about theater and hundreds of articles for the New York Times\, the Village Voice\, and other publications. He has chronicled his psycho-sexual-spiritual adventures in essays for numerous anthologies as well as the book-length The Paradox of Porn: Notes on Gay Male Sexual Culture. An archive of his writing is available online at donshewey.com. \nInstagram: @donsheweynyc \n  \nImages: \nCover of Daddy Lover God \nDon Shewey headshot: Liam Cunningham Photography \nCover of Fag Rag NYC\, featuring art work by Gio Black Peter \nTomik Dash headshot: Erik Carter\n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/sex-worker-story-hour-in-person-only/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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