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SUMMARY:OLNY Poly Movie Night: A Home at the End of the World (in person event)
DESCRIPTION:Open Love NY presents Poly Movie Night\, a FREE series of feature films that focus on the portrayal of consensual / ethical non-monogamy in cinema. This month we’ll be in person at our regular venue\, the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division.\n \nPlease join us for A Home at the End of the World (2004)\, based on the novel by Michael Cunningham and starring Colin Farrell\, Dallas Roberts\, Robin Wright\, and Sissy Spacek.\n \nWednesday\, September 6 – 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: Tragedy leads to a complex and intimate relationship between childhood friends Bobby and Jonathan in 1960’s Cleveland. Their history follows them into adulthood when they reconnect in New York City. Running time: 1 hour 37 minutes.\n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/poly-movie-night-a-home-at-the-end-of-the-world/
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SUMMARY:Yasi Alipour & Meg Turner - A talk about photography\, queer collaborations\, and Meg’s new book WET (in person)
DESCRIPTION:Yasi Alipour & Meg Turner – A conversation about photography\, queer collaborations\, and Meg’s first photo book WET.  \nEditor\, writer and artist Yasi Alipour and long time friend and queer photographer Meg Turner talk about the creation of WET\, published in march 2023 by Burn Barrel Press. Intimitely involved in the creation of WET\, Yasi and Meg discuss collaboration\, publishing and photographic practices.  \n\n\n\n\n\nCopies of Meg Turner’s photo book WET will be available for purchase at the event. Meg is one part of the duo PATRICIDE with Courtney Webster currently featured in The Romance Of Entanglement\, on view at the Bureau and closing Sept 10th. \n\n\n\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. \n\n\n\n\nRegistration is not required. Seating is first come\, first served. \n\nSuggested donation to benefit the Bureau: $10. \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without a donation. \n  \n\nAlso live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel: \nyoutube.com/@bgsqd \n  \n\n\n\n\nBios:  \n Meg Turner (b.1985) is a multi-disciplinary visual artist based in New Orleans Louisiana. Her work employs printmaking\, photography\, sign making\, and installation in a style she refers to as Queer Maximalism. Combining intimate portraiture\, analog printing and a study of economic systems and propaganda\, Meg is focused on confronting/celebrating our expectations of utopia. Meg’s first solo museum show Here & Now opened in New Orleans at The Contemporary Art Center in 2019. Her work has also been exhibited at Arthur Rogers Gallery in New Orleans\, HERE arts center (NYC) the Orkiestra Sinfonia Varsovia in Poland\, The Center for Contemporary Printmaking in Norwalk Ct\, The Museum of The Rhode Island School of Design (Providence\, RI)\, and The Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans and other venues. \n\n\n\n\n\nMeg’s collaborative photographic project with Courtney Webster PATRICIDE received the Robert Giard grant in 2021 and has been shown in New York at The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art\, the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division\, BRIC\, and WildProject. \n\n\n\n\nMeg received her MFA from Columbia University and her BFA from The Rhode Island School of Design. She has been faculty at Parsons School of Design\, Columbia University in New York City\, and Tulane University in New Orleans. \n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\nYasi Alipour is an Iranian artist/writer based in Brooklyn. Her tactile works on paper uses folding to explore mathematics as a language\, with all the historical\, social\, political\, mortal\, and embodied ramifications any language holds. In her writing\, research\, and pedagogical approach\, Alipour focuses on intergenerational conversations that happen through and within histories of erasure. Alipour currently lives in Brooklyn and wonders about paper\, counting\, and silence. She is a recipient of the Luis Comfort Tiffany Grant (2022)\, Sharpe Walentas Studio Program Award (2019/2021)\, Rema Hort Foundation Emerging Artist Nominee (2018/2019)\, and the Triple Canopy Publication Intensive (2018). Her work has been exhibited in the United States and internationally\, spaces including solo exhibitions at Schlomer Haus (2023/SF)\, Bavan Gallery (2022\, Iran)\, 12 Gates Gallery (2022\, PHL) the Geary Contemporary (2021)\, Secca (2020)\, Venice Biennale (2019\, IT)\, Hercules Program (2019\, NY)\, 17 Essex (2019\, NY)\, Limiditi-Temporary Art Project (2018\, MR)\, Practice (2018\, NY)\, Museum of Contemporary Art Vijdovina (2018\, SR)\, Art in Odd Places (2017\, NY)\, and PPOW (2017\, NY). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHer writing has appeared at the Brooklyn Rail\, Spot Magazine\, Asia Contemporary Art Week\, Photograph Magazine\, Volume One/Triple Canopy\, and the Dear Dave. She has been the recipient of MHZ Foundation’s Critics of Color (Curationist) and awarded the Guest Editor of the Brooklyn Rail’s Critic’s Page (November 2021). Her recent featured interviews include Julie Mehretu\, Dorothea Rockburne\, Rirkrit Tiravanija\, Okwui Okpokwasili\, Sanford Biggers\, Yto Barrada\, Hans Haacke\, Mark Dion\, Aliza Nisenbaum\, Jane Benson\, and Kevin Beasley.  \nAlipour holds an MFA from Columbia University and has been a Faculty at Parsons\, New School\, RISD\, and SVA.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/yasi-alipour-meg-turner/
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SUMMARY:Where We Belong: New Gay Fiction (in person event)
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an afternoon literary reading featuring authors Brian Alessandro\, Gerard Cabrera\, Tom Cardamone\, and Jonathan Harper. A Q&A will follow. \n  \nBooks by all four authors will be available for purchase at the event. To reserve a copy of any of these books\, please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com \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. \n  \n Brian Alessandro has written for Interview Magazine\, Newsday\, PANK\,  Huffington Post\, Lambda Literary\, The Gay & Lesbian Review\, and has recently co-adapted Edmund White’s A Boy’s Own Story into a graphic novel for Top Shelf Productions. His new novel\, Performer Non Grata\, was released in April by Rebel Satori Press. \n  \nGerard Cabrera’s debut novel\, Homo Novus\, was published in October 2022\, by Rattling Good Yarns Press\, and was supported by the Bread Loaf Writers Conference and a Bread Loaf Bakeless Foundation fellowship at The Camargo Foundation in Cassis\, France. Other writing has appeared in Gay Community News\, Acentos Review\, Angel Rust\, Apricity\, JONATHAN\, Kweli\, and Digging Press. \n  \nTom Cardamone is the editor of Crashing Cathedrals: Edmund White by the Book\, and the author of the Lambda Literary Award-winning speculative novella Green Thumb as well as the erotic fantasy The Lurid Sea and other works of fiction\, including two short story collections. Additionally\, he has edited The Lost Library: Gay Fiction Rediscovered and co-edited Fever Spores: The Queer Reclamation of William S. Burroughs. \n  \nJonathan Harper is the author of the novel You Don’t Belong Here and the short story collection Daydreamers (a Kirkus Indie Book of the Year for 2015). He received his MFA in Creative Writing from American University and his writing can be found in such places like The Rumpus\, The Rappahannock Review\, Chelsea Station\, and in the Best Gay Stories series.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/where-we-belong-new-gay-fiction/
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SUMMARY:Second Tuesday at the Bureau: Disorderly Men by Edward Cahill\, with Charles Kaiser
DESCRIPTION:Please join The Center for the kick off of the 2023 – 2024 season of The Center’s long running Second Tuesday lecture series. This month features a conversation with Ed Cahill in conversation with Charles Kaiser at the Bureau. \nTo RSVP please email rmorales@gaycenter.org \nCopies of Disorderly Men (Fordham University Press\, 2023\, hardcover\, $28.95) are available for purchase at the Bureau and can be purchased at the event. \nTo reserve a copy of Disorderly Men\, please write to the Bureau at contact@bgsqd.com with “Please reserve Disorderly Men” in the subject line. \nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us! \n  \nABOUT DISORDERLY MEN \nRoger Moorhouse is a Wall Street banker and Westchester family man with a preciously guarded secret. As the shouting begins and flashlights blaze in his face\, the life he’s carefully curated over the years—a fancy new office overlooking lower Broadway\, a house in Beechmont Woods\, his wife and children—is about to come crashing down around him. \nColumbia literature professor Julian Prince lives a comparatively uncloseted life when he finds his first committed relationship tested to its limits. How could he explain to Gus\, a fearless young artist\, that he couldn’t stay with him that weekend because the woman who was still technically Julian’s fiancée would be visiting? But when Gus is struck unconscious by a police baton\, Julian comes out of hiding to protect him\, even if exposure means losing everything. \nFor Danny Duffy\, an Irish kid from the Bronx with a sassy mouth and diverse group of friends\, the raid is a galvanizing\, Spartacus moment. Danny doesn’t have too much left to lose; his family has just disowned him. But once his name appears in the newspaper\, he’ll be fired from his job at Sloan’s Supermarket\, where he’s risen to assistant manager of produce\, and begin a journey that veers between political enlightenment and violent revenge. \nThe three men find themselves in a police wagon together\, their hidden lives threatened to be revealed to the world. Blackmail\, a private investigator\, Gus’s disappearance\, and Danny’s quest for retribution propel Disorderly Men to its piercing conclusion\, as each man meets the boundaries of his own fear\, love\, and shame. The stakes for each are different\, but all of them confront a fundamental question: how much happiness is he allowed to have … and what share of it will he lay claim to? \n  \nBios \nEdward Cahill is a Professor of English at Fordham University\, where he’s taught since 2005. He earned a Ph.D. from Rutgers University\, specializing in the literature of British America and the early US republic. He has published numerous articles in such journals as American Literature\, Early American Literature\, Early American Studies\, and ELH. His monograph\, Liberty of the Imagination: Aesthetic Theory\, Literary Form\, and Politics in the Early United States\, was published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 2012. More recently\, Cahill has been teaching modern and contemporary fiction and writing novels. Some of his favorite authors to teach are Jane Austen\, Henry James\, James Baldwin\, Toni Morrison\, Alan Hollinghurst\, Jennifer Egan\, Ben Lerner\, Tommy Orange\, Ocean Vuong\, Patricia Lockwood\, and Rachel Kushner. His debut novel\, Disorderly Men\, will be published by Empire State Editions for Fordham University Press in September 2023. It will be the press’s first original literary fiction release. Cahill lives on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. \n  \nCharles Kaiser is the author of three books including the New York Times Notable Book of the Year and Lamba Literary Award-winner The Gay Metropolis: The Landmark History of Gay Life in America. He has been a reporter for the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal\, and a press critic at Newsweek. He has also written for Vanity Fair\, New York\, Los Angeles Times\, and the Washington Post. He was a founder and former president of the New York chapter of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association\, and has taught journalism at Columbia and Princeton. He lives in New York City.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/second-tuesday-at-the-bureau-disorderly-men-by-edward-cahill-with-charles-kaiser/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:Further From Heaven book launch (in person only)
DESCRIPTION:New York City book launch at the Bureau for Candystore’s nonfiction debut\, Further From Heaven (Smutburger Editions)—“the smart and smutty journey of a budding genderfuck.” \nFurther From Heaven is a confrontational\, autobiographical work tracing a decade’s worth of profile photos\, anecdotes\, chat histories\, screenshots\, dick pics\, and poems shared by way of gay hookup apps. In juxtaposing the hyperreal invention of self in the digital world with the formation of the author’s fluctuating gender and erotic identifications\, Further From Heaven incites a queer ethos toward sex\, love\, play\, and desire on and offline. \nAlso on display\, 647-723-CNDY\, an infomercial-inspired erotic video (dir. Mike Feswick) and sexy dial-up hotline. Call now\, operators are standing by! \nReception begins at 7:00 PM with DJ Gay Panic. \nAt 7:30 PM\, Candystore will be in conversation with writer and artist Savannah Knoop with book signing to follow. \n\nThis event will take place in person (no live-stream) 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\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.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/further-from-heaven-book-launch/
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SUMMARY:I Cannot Begin to Tell You How Angry I’ve Been: Ryan Wilks\, Opening Reception
DESCRIPTION:The Bureau is pleased to present I Cannot Begin to Tell You How Angry I’ve Been\, a solo exhibition of work by Ryan Wilks. \nOpening reception: September 14\, 2023\, 6-8 PM \nExhibition dates: September 14 – November 19\, 2023 \nRyan Wilks is an artist working out of Kansas City. They delight in the dirty-schoolboy-like quality of drawing crude and beautifully executed illustrations of their deepest perversions. Though much of their work contains phallic imagery\, the execution and delicacy used to construct the human figure leads way to pause after a quick laugh. But the themes of Wilks’ work are much more thoughtful than a dick and fart joke. Their bodies of work weave in and out from themes of sexual celebration to the rampant Christian opposition to queer existence in America\, from prayer to\, most recently\, rage. \nThis body of work titled\, I Cannot Begin to Tell You How Angry I’ve Been\, is a visual meandering of ire. As we all approach the collapsing ecology of the world\, what does it mean to be heartbroken or to grieve the loss of a planned future? How do we hold and pursue our ambition while holding the prognosis of climate change\, warnings of global crop failure\, and no clean water by 2040? It feels trivial to hope for artistic success during a struggle for survival\, and yet here they are\, striving. This work is a space holder for both realities. Hope and Despair.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/ryan_wilks_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:Queer Ecologies: Writers on science\, nature\, queerness\, and the spaces in between (in person and live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:How many animal species are actually gay? What can whale falls teach us about relationships and rebirth? How can queer communities find and create safe spaces in the outdoors? How can queerness help us adapt to a changing climate? \nJoin us at the Bureau for Queer Ecologies\, an evening of readings by authors writing about queerness\, science\, and nature. Molly Adams\, Sabrina Imbler\, Eliot Schrefer\, and Elizabeth Weinberg will read from new and recent work. \nCopies of Adams’ Birding for a Better World\, Imbler’s How Far the Light Reaches\, Schrefer’s Queer Ducks (and Other Animals)\, and Weinberg’s Unsettling will be available for purchase. To reserve a copy of any of these titles please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com with “reserve book for Sept. 15th event” in the subject line. \n\n\nPLEASE WEAR A MASK FOR THIS EVENT. WE WILL HAVE SOME AVAILABLE AT THE REGISTER. THANKS! \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\n\n\n\nRegistration is not required. Seating is first come\, first served. \n\n  \nSuggested donation to benefit the Bureau: $10. \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without a donation. \n  \n\nAlso live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel: \nyoutube.com/@bgsqd \n  \nMOLLY ADAMS is the founder of the Feminist Bird Club and co-author of the upcoming book Birding For A Better World: A Guide to Finding Joy and Community in Nature. She has an M.A. in Marine Conservation and Policy from Stony Brook University and lives in the Catskill Mountains with her spouse\, their cat Rocky\, and their dog Shelly. \n  \nSABRINA IMBLER is a writer for Defector\, a sports and culture site\, where they write about creatures and the natural world. Their first full-length book\, How Far the Light Reaches\, won a 2022 LA Times Book Prize. Their chapbook Dyke (geology) was selected for the National Book Foundation’s Science + Literature program. Sabrina lives in Brooklyn with their partner\, a school of fish\, and their two cats\, Sesame and Melon. \n  \nELIOT SCHREFER is a New York Times-bestselling author\, has twice been a finalist for the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature\, received the Stonewall Honor for best LGBTQIA+ teen book\, and received the Printz Honor for best young adult book from the ALA. In naming him an Editor’s Choice\, the New York Times has called his work “dazzling… big-hearted.” His science writing has appeared in Discover\, Sierra\, USAToday\, Nautilus\, and The Washington Post Magazine. He has an M.A. in Animal Studies from NYU\, is on the faculty of the Fairleigh Dickinson and Hamline MFAs for creative writing\, and lives with his husband in New York City. \n  \nELIZABETH WEINBERG is a queer essayist\, science communicator\, and nature nerd\, and the author of Unsettling: Surviving Extinction Together. Her writing has appeared in Identity Theory\, The Rumpus\, The Toast\, American Wild Magazine\, SEVENSEAS\, and other publications\, and she holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Washington. She has supported science communication efforts for scientific organizations\, U.S. federal agencies\, and nonprofits. She lives in Portland with her spouse and their dog Pigeon.
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SUMMARY:It's All A Mystery To Me: H.N. Hirsch in conversation with J.M. Redman (virtual event)
DESCRIPTION:Join author H.N. Hirsch discussing Fault Line\, the sequel to Shade\, of his Bob and Marcus Mystery series along with award-winning author J.M. Redmann\, who is celebrating the release of her eleventh Mickey Knight mystery\, Transitory. They will each read from their books\, discuss their lives as mystery writers and what it is like to write a mystery series. \nThis event will take place online only. \nIn order to join the event on Zoom\, please register on the event page on Eventbrite: \nClick here to register\nAlso live-streaming at YouTube.com/@bgsqd \nSuggested donation of $5 to benefit the Bureau. \nYou can make a donation when you register on Eventbrite. \nThank you for your support! \nAll are welcome to join\, with or without a donation. \n  \nH.N. Hirsch grew up in Chicago and graduated with highest honors from the University of Michigan in 1974. He received a PhD in politics from Princeton in 1978 and then was appointed an assistant professor at Harvard\, where he published his first book\, The Enigma of Felix Frankfurter\, which the New York Times called “brilliant” and which received widespread critical attention. In 1986 he moved to a tenured appointment at the University of California at San Diego\, where he served a board member of the ACLU and a board member and president of Diversionary Theatre\, one of the oldest and most highly acclaimed LGBT theaters in the country. \nIn 2000\, he moved to an endowed chair at Macalester College in Minnesota\, and in 2005 was appointed Dean of the Faculty at Oberlin College in Ohio\, where he continued to teach until his retirement in 2021. In 2016\, he published a memoir about his academic life and his life as a gay men\, Office Hours\, which one critic called “wistful and well crafted.” \nA voracious reader of fiction\, he realized a life-long ambition to publish his own mystery novel\, Shade\, in 2022\, and then his current work\, Fault Line\, both featuring a gay couple as the main characters. \n  \nJ.M. Redmann has published ten novels featuring New Orleans PI Micky Knight. Her first book was published in 1990\, one of the early hard-boiled lesbian detectives. Her books have won three Lambda Literary awards. THE INTERSECTION OF LAW & DESIRE was an Editor’s Choice of the San Francisco Chronicle and a recommended book by Maureen Corrigan of NPR’s Fresh Air. Two books were selected for the American Library Association GLBT Roundtable’s Over the Rainbow list and WATER MARK won a ForeWord Gold First Place mystery award. She is the co-editor with Greg Herren of three anthologies\, one of which\, NIGHT SHADOWS: QUEER HORROR\, was shortlisted for a Shirley Jackson award. Her books have been translated into German\, Spanish\, Dutch\, Hebrew and Norwegian. She lives in New Orleans. \n 
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SUMMARY:My Purpose For Dying / A Reading with Author  Clyde Jeanette Shore (in person & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:North Carolina author\, Clyde Jeanette Shore\, has published My Purpose For Dying. Her work of non-fiction has been years in completing and much awaited by many in the LGBTQ+ community\, friends\, and family. The Bureau of General Services—Queer Division will host a book reading on Thursday\, September 21\, 2023\, beginning at 7:30 pm. The evening will include a meet-and-greet with Clyde Jeanette Shore at 7 PM\, a reading at 7:30 PM\, Q&A to follow\, with a book signing.  \nIn My Purpose For Dying\, Jeanette opens a heart-felt door by honoring a promise made to her youngest brother\, Ricky Frederick Shore\, to write his life story. A LGBTQ work of non-fiction\, it’s the story of Ricky’s fierce life spirit since birth\, his journey coming to terms with being gay\, and eventually contracting AIDS during the height of the 1980’s pandemic.  \nJeanette found inner peace\, forgiveness\, and the strength to write Ricky’s story by penning an unedited manuscript titled\, Chicken Bridge Road. Here\, she focused on her mother’s tragic story taking place in the early to mid-twentieth century. Her first attempt at writing proved a powerful cathartic journey for Jeanette in-light-of disclosing her mother’s battle with lifelong hardships brought on by domestic abuse\, and the society steeped for centuries in rampant misogyny. It also brought to the forefront the complete lack of justice for Women’s Rights. Chicken Bridge Road is soon to be Jeanette’s second book.  \nIt can be said that Jeanette has spent over twenty-five years on the production in writing these two\, prominent family stories\, and is thrilled to finally share her achievements. She credits her family\, who have been instrumental in supporting her healing and writing over the past years.  \n“I couldn’t have accomplished My Purpose For Dying without the tremendous love and support from my daughter\, Angela\, and friends\,” Shore said. Also\, to Anthony Dronchi for signing on as my creative editor. “I value the good work of GMHC\, that they continue to provide those living with HIV/AIDS today in the community.”  \nThe event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division\, the independent\, all-volunteer queer bookstore and cultural center located in room 210 of The LGBT Community Center\, 208 W. 13th St. New York City. Reading begins at 7:30 PM. \nAlso live-streaming at 7:30 PM on the Bureau’s YouTube channel: youtube.com/@bgsqd \nThe Bureau is open Wed-Sat\, 1pm-7pm.  You may purchase My Purpose For Dying directly from the Bureau\, and we will have plenty of copies available at this event.  \nTo reserve a copy\, please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com with “please reserve My Purpose for Dying” in the subject line. Thank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us! \nThe Bureau is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas\, a non-profit arts service organization. Please consider donating online. For more information\, please visit: bgsqd.com/donate.  \n  \nMore About the Author  \nClyde Jeanette Shore\, named after her father and paternal grandmother\, grew up on a tobacco farm situated on Chicken Bridge Road\, located in Chatham County\, Pittsboro\, N.C. Jeanette is well traveled\, appreciates innovative cuisine\, enjoys rock n’ roll\, gospel\, folk and blues music. You can find Jeanette writing in the early morning hours. Shore\, a native of North Carolina\, resides in Greensboro\, N.C.  \nMedia Contact:\nAngela Shore\n(646) 298-7234 angela@clydejeanetteshore.com
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LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:Author Donald Mengay reading and in conversation with photographer Hrvoje Slovenc (in person & livestreaming)
DESCRIPTION:Join author Donald Mengay and photographer Hrvoje Slovenc for a reading and conversation about Mengay’s debut novel\, The Lede to Our Undoing.  The work explores the challenges of being queer in the American Midwest or Rust Belt––so-called flyover America. The narrative is set in the 1970s\, but it speaks to the broad retrenchment of rights occurring today: It presents the challenges for queer people in MAGA America\, though before it got the name. It also explores the stifling effects of evangelical religion on queer identity\, relationships\, and culture. After a short reading\, conversation\, and Q&A\, the author will sign copies for purchase at the event. \nCopies of The Lede to Our Undoing  (Saddle Road Press\, 2023\, paperback\, $25) will be available for purchase at the event. To reserve a copy\, please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com with “reserve a copy of The Lede to Our Undoing” 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 on the Bureau’s YouTube channel: 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  \nDonald Mengay grew up in a suburb of Cleveland\, Ohio\, where he worked in a factory for a time and managed a bookstore. He began writing fiction in his early twenties while pursuing a degree in Psychology at Metropolitan State University in Denver. He earned a Masters in English Lit at the University of Denver and a Ph.D. in Comparative Lit from NYU. He taught Queer and Post-Humanist Lit at the City University of New York for over thirty years\, as well as English at the University of Paris\, Nanterre.  During his years teaching he published several articles of queer criticism in academic journals that include among others Genders\, Genre\, and Minnesota University Press. He has also published a book entitled Dis/Inheritance: New Croatian Photography\, from Ikon Press. The Lede to Our Undoing is his debut novel\, the first in a trilogy.  He lives in Santa Fe\, New Mexico. \nHrvoje Slovenc (b. Zagreb\, Croatia\, 1976) is a Croatian/American photographer based in New York. He holds MFA in Photography from Yale University School of Art (2010) and MS in Biochemistry from University of Zagreb\, Croatia (2000). Selected exhibitions include Traversing the Past\, Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago; Biennial\, the Bronx Museum of the Arts; Past is Now\, Munchner Stadtmuseum in Munich\, Germany; Marble Hill\, Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb\, Croatia; New Media\, Sex\, and Culture in the 21st Century\, Museum of New Art in Detroit; New Acquisitions 2003-2013\, Museum of Arts and Crafts in Zagreb\, Croatia; and Young Artists’ Biennial in Bucharest\, Romania. His work is in the permanent collections of Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago\, as well as Museum of Contemporary Art and Museum of Arts and Crafts in Zagreb\, Croatia. \n  \n 
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LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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