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SUMMARY:Building Resilience through Writing; Exploring Trauma and Healing through a Queer Lens (in person and live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:Join novelists Mala Kumar\, author of What It Meant to Survive\, and JD Glass\, author of Fire Fall\, for a conversation about intersectionality\, queer resilience\, and the art of sapphic literary fiction. Moderated by mental health expert and the author of Toxic Productivity (forthcoming)\, Israa Nasir. Hear select readings from Mala and JD. Books will be available for purchase and signing. \nThis event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division\, 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: \nyoutube.com/@bgsqd \nSuggested donation to benefit the Bureau: $10. \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without a 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 \nMala Kumar is the author of the 2014 novel\, The Paths of Marriage. What it Meant to Survive is her second novel. Her op-eds\, interviews\, and essays have appeared in The Guardian\, The Advocate\, TechCrunch\, USA Today\, India Abroad\, The Aerogram\, and Brown Girl Magazine. In her professional life\, Mala is a global leader in tech for social good\, having worked extensively for the United Nations and at GitHub\, a Microsoft-owned software company. She is currently the Director of Program Management\, AI Safety at MLCommons. Mala lives in New York City with her wife Cybel. Visit https://malakumar.com for more information about her writing and work. \nFormer Managing Editor for The Advocate\, artist\, musician\, and author JD Glass is an American Library Association-Stonewall Finalist & Lambda Literary-Literature Finalist forher novel Punk Like Me\, Lambda Literary Finalist for Red Light\, with that and other titles earning Ben Franklin Literary Finalist\, Rainbow Reads Award\, and Golden Crown Literary Finalist and Award. A recipient of Columbia College Chicago’s Faculty Recognition Award\, and Columbia Scholar Award\, Glass’s visual work was selected for Chicago Manifest Art Showcase\, InArt Gallery Virtual Exhibit\, ISee Pixels exhibit\, and OnBigDrawingsII Virtual Exhibit. Glass is also the writer and executive producer for the short film rom-com Her Curve\, which has been earning laurels\, as well as the upcoming feature\, and for the series Punk Like Me–the B Sides\,\ncurrently in production. \nIsraa Nasir\, MHC-LP\, is a New York City based psychotherapist\, author of Toxic Productivity\, and the founder of WellGuide—a digital community for mental health awareness. Her work is centered on transforming the way we talk about mental health\, taking it from a place of shame to a place of empowerment. A Pakistani-Canadian child of immigrants\, she has a specific focus on mental health\, identity formation\, and healing for the AAPI immigrant (first and second generation) community. Israa has been featured in NBC\, Vox\, Huffpost\, Teen Vogue\, and other major publications and been invited to speak at corporations such as Google\, Meta\, and Yale. \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/building-resilience-through-writing-exploring-trauma-and-healing-through-a-queer-lens-in-person-and-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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SUMMARY:Launch of Criminalized Lives: HIV and Legal Violence (in person and live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:New York City Launch of Criminalized Lives: HIV and Legal Violence\, Rutgers University Press. Using storytelling\, theory\, and comic illustrations\, this book examines firsthand accounts of people living with HIV who have been criminalized because of their status. The book also traces activist social movement response working to counter the harms of HIV criminalization under the slogan #HIVISNOTACRIME. \nModerated by Blake Paskal of Visual AIDS\, this event will be a discussion with Criminalized Lives author Alexander McClelland\, along with activist and author Robert Suttle\, who wrote the foreword to the book\, and queer comic artist\, Eric Kostiuk Williams\, who did the illustrations for the book. Collectively\, this panel will discuss the current realities of HIV criminalization in the US\, and New York State\, as well as the ways public health responses can drive criminalization efforts\, recent successes in advocacy\, and the role of art\, archives\, and activism in supporting movements for change. \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\nAlso live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel: \nyoutube.com/@bgsqd \nSuggested donation to benefit the Bureau: $10. \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without a 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: \n\nAlexander McClelland is an Associate Professor at Carleton University\, and is the author of Criminalized Lives: HIV & Legal Violence. \nBlake Paskal is an arts educator and is the Programs Manager for Visual AIDS. \nEric Kostiuk Williams is a queer cartoonist and illustrator\, who’s work can be seen in 2am Eternal: a Decade of Queer Nightlife Posters + Comics (2023)\, and in Criminalized Lives: HIV & Legal Violence. \nRobert Suttle is a leading global expert working to counter the harms of HIV criminalization\, and author of the foreword to Criminalized Lives: HIV & Legal Violence.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/launch-of-criminalized-lives/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:Keith Haring Pop Up Book Release Party (in person only)
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the release of the Keith Haring Pop-Up Book\, featuring a special book talk and reception! \nSchedule of events: \n3:00 – 4:00 panel discussion at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division (room 210 of The Center) \n4:00 – 4:30 book signing in the Keith Haring bathroom \n4:30 – 7:00 reception \nLocation: The LGBT Community Center\, 208 W 13th St\, New York\, NY 10011 \nCelebrate with us as we delve into the world of Keith Haring’s art and the creation of this unique new pop-up book. Enjoy an insightful discussion in the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division between paper engineer Simon Arizpe\, publisher Rosston Meyer\, and Keith Haring Foundation Director Gil Vazquez as they discuss the creation of the pop-up book and the importance of upholding Haring’s legacy. Explore Haring’s “Once Upon A Time…..” mural bathroom\, featured in the pop-up book\, with a reception to follow. \n  \nThe Bureau will have copies of the following items for sale: \nKeith Haring Pop Up Book $60 \nKeith Haring Pop Up Book Altarpiece Edition (includes pop up of Once Upon a Time … bathroom) $350 \nKeith Haring Marriage of Heaven and Hell Pop Up Poster $60 \nKeith Haring Love Pop Up  Cards $10 \nFor product details and photos visit: \npopositionpress.com/keith-haring-pop-up-book \n  \nTo reserve any of the above items to purchase at the event\, please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com with “October 6 Keith Haring Pop Up” in the subject line.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/keith-haring-pop-up-book-release-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:20241009T190000
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SUMMARY:Black Queer Dance: Gay Men and the Politics of Passing for Almost Straight (in person and live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the launch of Black Queer Dance: Gay Men and the Politics of Passing for Almost Straight by Mark Broomfield with Carlos Jones and Vincent E. Thomas. \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\nAlso live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel: \nyoutube.com/@bgsqd \nSuggested donation to benefit the Bureau: $10. \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without a 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\n\nMark Broomfield\, PhD\, MFA\, Associate Professor of English and Founding Director of Performance as Social Change at SUNY Geneseo\, is a London-born award-winning scholar and artist of Jamaican heritage. \nCarlos Jones is Professor and Chair of the Department of Dance at SUNY Brockport. He has a body of work that extends from the concert stage to theater to television and film. \n\n\nVincent E. Thomas\, dancer\, choreographer and teacher\, (MFA in Dance from Florida State University and a BME in Music from the University of South Carolina) has danced with Dance Repertory Theatre (FSU)\, Randy James Dance Works (NY/NJ)\, EDGEWORKS Dance Theater (DC)\, and Liz Lerman Dance Exchange (MD). He is the Founder/Artistic Director of VTDance and Professor of Dance at Towson University. \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/black-queer-dance-gay-men-and-the-politics-of-passing-for-almost-straight/
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:20241010T170000
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SUMMARY:Revisioning Democracy Podcast Episode 4: Opus Dei\, Radical Catholics\, Dark money (in person & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:Revisioning Democracy Podcast Episode 4: \nOpus Dei\, radical Catholics\, dark money – and Project 2025: a conversation with journalist Gareth Gore \nCohosts: Anne-christine d’Adesky and Jay W. Walker \nAre radical Catholics in Opus Dei secretly funding a dark political agenda in the US and world? Join UK Financial Times Gareth Gore and cohosts Anne-christine d’Adesky and Jay W. Walker for another live podcast of Revisioning Democracy at the Bureau of General Services – Queer Division\, on Thursday\, October 10th at 5 pm EST. \nWe’ll talk about Gore’s new book\, Opus\, an investigative deep dive into Opus Dei’s secret history for the first time. Opus is a thrilling exposé revealing how the secretive\, ultra-conservative Catholic sect has pushed its radical agenda within the Church and around the globe\, using billions of dollars siphoned from one of Europe’s largest banks\, Bano Popular in Spain. Gore exposing its role in bankrolling many right-wing causes globally\, including the US Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade. His book provides new details of the people and dark money ties between Opus Dei faithful and militant US Catholic activists including Leonard Leo\, who is now bankrolling Project 2025\, other US conservative architects of its Christian nationalist agenda. Opus comes out October 1 from Simon and Schuster. \nThe Bureau will have copies of Opus: The Cult of Dark Money\, Human Trafficking\, and Right-Wing Conspiracy Inside the Catholic Church (Simon & Schuster\, October 1\, 2024\, hardcover\, $30.99) available for purchase at this event. To reserve a copy\, please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com with “please reserve Opus for Oct. 10” 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: \nyoutube.com/@bgsqd \nGareth Gore is a financial journalist and editor with close to two decades of experience\, who had reported from over twenty-five countries and covered some of the biggest financial stories. His writing has been published by Bloomberg\, Thomson Reuters\, and International Financing Review. He is the host of The Syndicate\, which tells the behind-the-scenes stories of the biggest financial deals in history
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/revisioning-democracy-episode-4/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241011T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241011T203000
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SUMMARY:Celebrating Paperback Publications: Where There Was Fire and The Sea Elephants (in person and live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:Where There Was Fire and The Sea Elephants\, novels by John Manuel Arias and Shastri Akella\, share more than their publisher (Flatiron Books) and the DNA of being debut novels released in 2023. Set in international geographies (Costa Rica and India respectively)\, both stories look at the restorative power of community and queer resistance in the face of oppressive power. \nJoin the authors as they celebrate the release of the paperbacks editions of their debut novels this fall. They will read from their debuts\, engage in conversations\, about work old and new\, and about being queer writers of color navigating the American publishing industry. \nJohn Manuel Arias is a queer\, Costa Rican American poet and writer\, and the National Bestselling author of Where There Was Fire\, published in the US and the UK and a Good Morning America Buzz Pick and Barnes & Noble Discover Pick. A Canto Mundo fellow & an alumnus of the Tin House Summer Writers Workshop\, his prose and poetry have been published in The Kenyon Review\, PANK\, The Rumpus\, and Akashic Books. He has lived in Washington D.C.\, Brooklyn New York\, and in San José\, Costa Rica with his grandmother and four ghosts. \nShastri Akella is a queer\, neurodivergent migrant of color who comes from a working-class background. His writing is/will be in Best American Short Fiction 2024\, Guernica\, Fairy Tale Review\, CRAFT\, Masters Review\, World Literature Review and elsewhere. His stories became finalists for the Narrative Fiction Prize twice and he won the 2024 BLR Goldenberg Prize for Fiction\, a 2023 Pushcart Prize \,and a 2022 Fiction Fellowship at the Fine Arts Works Center in Provincetown. He earned an MFA in Creative Writing and a PhD. in Comparative Literature from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He’s an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Michigan State University. The Sea Elephants\, his debut novel\, published in the US (Flatiron\nBooks) and India (Penguin)\, was named a most-anticipated debut by Good Morning America\, Electric Lit\, Book Riot\, and LGBTQ Reads\, among others. \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\nAlso live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel: \nyoutube.com/@bgsqd \nSuggested donation to benefit the Bureau: $10. \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without a 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/celebrating-paperback-publications-where-there-was-fire-and-the-sea-elephants-in-person-and-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:20241012T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241012T120000
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SUMMARY:lesbian book club (in person only)
DESCRIPTION:We’ll be reading fiction and non-fiction — classic\, contemporary\, revealing and visionary. As a group we will decide what to read each month\, focusing on lesbian authors and/or related topics. Co-founded by lesbian book lovers Judi Komaki and Piper Olsen. \n\n\nFor October 12th\, the lesbian book club will read Audre Lorde’s Sister Outsider. \nPurchase Sister Outsider from the Bureau before October 12th and receive a 15% discount ($15.29 instead of $17.99)! Just mention the lesbian book club when you purchase the book. \nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us! \n\n  \nFor our November 9th meeting\, we’ll read Divagaciones II\, by our very own member Jaqueline Jimenez Polanco! Copies will be available at the October 10th meeting and will remain available at the Bureau after the 10th. \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. 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/lesbian-book-club-october/
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:20241012T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241012T160000
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SUMMARY:Representing Ourselves: Queer Short Stories (in person & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:Join Jarrod Campbell and Matthew Lansburgh for a reading from their story collections and a discussion about the importance of representing queerness in fiction\, why this need for honest\, varied representation has brought us here and where these bold portrayals will take us. \n  \nThis event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division\, 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: \nyoutube.com/@bgsqd \nSuggested donation to benefit the Bureau: $10. \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without a 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  \nJarrod Campbell is a writer living in the Northern Virginia suburbs of Washington\, DC. His fictions\, essays\, reviews and poetry have appeared in Heavy Feather Review\, Northwest Review\, Modern Literature\, Wicked Gay Ways\, and Boner World (Berlin). His collection of short stories\, The Reason I’m Here\, (June 2023\, Stalking Horse Press)\, was listed as an anticipated June LGBTQIA+ read by Lambda Literary. \n  \nMatthew Lansburgh‘s collection of linked stories\, Outside Is the Ocean\, won the Iowa Short Fiction Award and was a finalist for the 30th Annual Lambda Literary Award and the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction. His fiction has appeared in journals such as One Story\, VQR\, New England Review\, Glimmer Train\, Ecotone\, Epoch\, Alaska Quarterly Review\, Electric Literature\, StoryQuarterly\, Columbia Journal\, Guernica\, and Michigan Quarterly Review\, and has been shortlisted in the Best American Short Stories series (in 2018 & 2022) and the Pushcart Prize series (in 2017). \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/representing-ourselves/
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:20241013T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241013T160000
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SUMMARY:Robert Raasch\, author of The Summer Between\, in conversation with Christopher Bram (in person & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:A book launch in kind with National Coming Out Day. Christopher Bram is the acclaimed author of twelve books\, including the novel that became the Academy-Award-winning movie\, Gods and Monsters. He teaches at the Gallatin School of New York University. Christopher and Robert Raasch will read from Robert’s much-awaited debut novel\, The Summer Between. Set in New York City’s vibrant Greenwich Village in 1978\, The Summer Between is the bittersweet\, unsparingly honest coming-of-age saga of Andrew Jackson Pollock. Christoper and Robert will read excerpts from the novel amidst conversation and questions and answers. \nThis event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division\, 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: \nyoutube.com/@bgsqd \nSuggested donation to benefit the Bureau: $10. \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without a 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  \nChristopher Bram is the author of twelve books\, including the novel that became the Academy-Award-winning movie\, Gods and Monsters. He teaches at the Gallatin School of New York University. \nRobert Raasch was raised in Northern New Jersey. He is a writer\, architect/designer\, and visual artist who is an active participant in 24PearlStreet and the Fine Arts Work Center (FAWC) in Provincetown\, Massachusetts. He divides his time between Southwest Florida\, New York\, and Copenhagen\, where he is working on his second novel.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/robert-raasch-christopher-bram/
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:20241017T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241017T203000
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SUMMARY:Donna Minkowitz's DONNAVILLE Launch! In Conversation with David Groff (in person & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:Come celebrate the launch of Donna Minkowitz’s hell-bent\, boundary-busting novel DONNAVILLE\, in which different parts of the author attack each other\, fuck each other\, and try to save each other from a terrifying jail inside. \nCan they burn the prison down? Will anyone succeed at having sex with the Divine Mother? \nA multi-gender\, multi-sexuality\, queer as f  internal quest. \nTo reserve a copy of DONNAVILLE please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com with “please reserve Donnaville for Oct. 17” in the subject line. \nThis event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division\, 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: \nyoutube.com/@bgsqd \n  \nDonna Minkowitz is the Lambda Literary Award-winning author of the memoirs Growing Up Golem and Ferocious Romance: What My Encounters with the Right Taught Me about Sex\, God\, and Fury. She is the Village Voice’s former longtime columnist on queer politics and culture\, and a former columnist for The Advocate. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times Book Review\, The Nation\, Slate\, and Salon\, and she has frequently gone undercover to report on the far right. Minkowitz is the recipient of a GLAAD Media Award\, an Exceptional Merit Media Award\, and an award for outstanding journalism from NLGJA: the Association of LGBTQ+ Journalists. \nDavid Groff is a multi-award-winning poet\, writer\, and independent editor. He is the author of three books of poems\, Live in Suspense\, Clay\, and Theory of Devolution. Groff is coeditor of the anthology Who’s Yer Daddy? Gay Writers Celebrate Their Mentors and Forerunners\, and is a founder of the Publishing Triangle.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/donna-minkowitzs-donnaville/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:In Care Of (in person & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:In Care Of is intimate conversation between the curators of Art in Odd Places 2024 CARE\, and a select group of its international and US artists about their 2024 CARE projects\, artistic processes and the role of CARE in their life and work. \nAiOP 2024 CARE is curated by Patricia Miranda and Christopher Kaczmarek and is scheduled for October 18-20\, 2024. AiOP 2024 CARE is the nineteenth edition of the iconic public visual and performance art festival that takes place along 14th Street in Manhattan every fall. The 70+ artists participating in AiOP 2024 CARE will enact actions\, notions\, considerations and representations of care along 14th Street and invite the public to stop\, to rest\, to consider\, and\, above all\, care. AiOP CARE 2024 asks how art can create spaces and actions of compassionate fearless care. Can we offer and enter them with joy and love? \n  \nThis event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division\, 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: \nyoutube.com/@bgsqd \nSuggested donation to benefit the Bureau: $10. \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without a 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  \nArt in Odd Places (AiOP) is an annual festival that presents visual and performance art in public spaces along 14th Street in Manhattan\, NYC from Avenue C to the Hudson River each October. Active in New York City since 2005\, AiOP aims to stretch the boundaries of communication in the public realm by presenting artworks in all disciplines outside the confines of traditional public space regulations. \nCurators Patricia Miranda and Christopher Kaczmarek are NYC-based artists\, curators\, and educators. Miranda is the founder of the artist-run organizations The Crit Lab and MAPSpace\, and works with donated\, repurposed\, lace and linens in site-responsive sculpture and installation. Kaczmarek’s work spans both experimental and traditional practices\, including sculpture\, site-specific installations\, performance\, video\, built circuits\, and solar-powered objects. \nFounder and Director Ed Woodham\, is a queer elder conceptual artist\, curator\, and educator based in Manhattan originally from Atlanta\, Georgia where Art in Odd Places began. \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/in-care-of/
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:20241023T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241023T210000
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SUMMARY:OUTspoken: The Publishing Triangle's Reading Series\, October Edition (in person & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:The Publishing Triangle presents its monthly OUTspoken Reading Series as host Rob Byrnes welcomes Ann McMan\, John Copenhaver\, Daniel Meltz\, Gary Zebrun\, Nicco Diaz\, Jendi Reiter\, and David S. Pederson. \nJoin us as in-person or watch the live-stream (see below) to hear from some of queer literature’s most dynamic established and up-and-coming voices. \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\nAlso live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel: \nyoutube.com/@bgsqd \n  \nSuggested donation to benefit the Bureau: $10. \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without a 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/outspoken-october-edition/
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:20241025T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241025T210000
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SUMMARY:Revisioning Democracy Podcast Episode 5: Stopping the Soft Coup (in person & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:Episode 5: Stopping the Soft Coup:  \nResisting Project 2025’s extremist plan to destroy America’s government \nOn Episode 5 of Revisioning Democracy\, we’ll dig into the progress – and challenges – of Stopping the Soft Coup: Resisting Project 2025’s extremist plan to destroy America’s government. Project 2025 calls for dismantling the federal government\, mass firing federal employees\, and replacing them with a Christian conservative government-in-waiting loyal only to the president. Join us for an urgent public conversation with three experts in the areas of federal policy and labor: Steve Lenkart\, Executive Director of the National Federation of Federal Employees (NFFE); James Goodwin\, Executive Director of the Center for Progressive Reform; and progressive labor journalist\, activist\, and author Bill Fletcher. \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: \nyoutube.com/@bgsqd \n  \nSteve Lenkart has been the Executive Director of NFFE since 2016. Mr. Lenkart held senior leadership appointments under Democratic and Republican presidential administrations\, and continues to maintain strong bipartisan relationships with the U.S. Congress and the Executive Branch. \n  \nJames Goodwin\, J.D.\, M.P.P.\, is the Policy Director at the Center for Progressive Reform. He joined CPR in May of 2008. Prior to joining CPR\, Mr. Goodwin worked as a legal intern for the Environmental Law Institute and EcoLogix Group\, Inc. \n  \nBill Fletcher is a journalist\, labor advocate\, and creative writer who has been raising public attention to Project 2025’s threats to labor and the economy. He is the author of  ‘They’re Bankrupting us’ – And Twenty other myths about unions; and co-author (with Fernando Gapasin) of Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and A New Path Toward Social Justice (UC Press\, Oct 2009). He has also co-edited a book of political essays and two mystery novels. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/revisioning-democracy-episode-5/
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:20241026T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241026T163000
DTSTAMP:20260415T042822
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SUMMARY:Heart Less Book Party (in person & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:Join Indolent Books author Carley Moore as she reads from her debut poetry collection\, Heart Less\, and celebrates the work of Julián Delgado Lopera\, Megan Milks\, and Miro Spinelli\, who will also read from their work. \nHeart Less is about the end of a marriage\, coming out as bisexual\, dating\, and co-parenting in the midst of global catastrophe. Woven through the book are questions about the heart\, heartache\, heart break\, and the complicated nature of grief and loss. \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\nRegistration is not required. Seating is first come\, first served. \n\nAlso live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel: \nyoutube.com/@bgsqd \nSuggested donation to benefit the Bureau: $10. \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without a 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\n\n  \nCarley Moore is the author of Heart Less\, Panpocalypse\, The Not Wives\, 16 Pills\, and The Stalker Chronicles.  She’s a Clinical Professor of Writing and Creative Production at New York University and an Associate at The Institute for Writing and Thinking at Bard College. Carley lives in Brooklyn with her kid and two cats. Follow her on Instagram @fragmentedsky or find her blogging on Substack. \nJulián Delgado Lopera is the author of The New York Times acclaimed novel Fiebre Tropical (Feminist Press 2020)\, the Winner of the 2021 Ferro Grumley Award and a 2021 Lambda Literary award; a finalist of the 2020 Kirkus Prize in Fiction and the 2021 Aspen Literary Prize. Julián currently resides in San Francisco. Their second novel is forthcoming from Liveright.  \nMegan Milks is the author of Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body and Slug and Other Stories\, both published by Feminist Press; and Tori Amos Bootleg Webring\, published by Instar Books as part of the Remember the Internet series. \nMiro Spinelli is a Brazilian trans artist and scholar. They are a PhD candidate in Performance Studies at NYU. They also hold a Master’s Degree from the Arts of the Scene Graduate Program at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. In their creative and intellectual production\, Spinelli investigates how performance can establish radical connections with materiality\, writing\, and dissent. Since 2014\, they have been developing the performance series “Gordura Trans” (“Trans Fat”)\, and since 2017\, the installation series “All That You Touch You Change; All That You Change Changes You.” Their first poetry book\, “pele ou pedra nothing heavy\,” a bilingual work created between Brazil and New York City\, will be released soon.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/heart-less-book-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:20241027T150000
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SUMMARY:Reading and Telling Queer Secrets: Hugh Ryan and Keiko Lane in Conversation (in person & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:Join writers Hugh Ryan and Keiko Lane as they read from their work and discuss writing about and telling queer secrets. As scholars\, activists\, artists\, and survivors of the queer and HIV/AIDS activisms of the 1990s\, they both explore questions about how narratives and subtext change through time. Are sexualities\, relationships\, and political actions that were taboo 20 or 30 years ago still embargoed stories? How do tell them now?  What stories do we think the dead would tell if they were still alive? What do our ghosts want us to do now? \nKeiko Lane will read from her new memoir Blood Loss: A Love Story of AIDS\, Activism\, and Art\, and Hugh Ryan will read from new works-in-progress. Their conversation will be moderated by Joshua Gutterman Tranen. \nThe reading and conversation will be followed by a book signing and reception. \n  \nThis event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division\, 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: \nyoutube.com/@bgsqd \nSuggested donation to benefit the Bureau: $10. \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without a 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  \nKeiko Lane is an Okinawan American poet\, essayist\, memoirist\, and psychotherapist writing about the intersections of queer culture\, oppression resistance\, liberation psychology\, racial and gender justice\, HIV criminalization\, and reproductive justice. Her writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books\, The Feminist Porn Book\, and Between Certain Death and a Possible Future. Blood Loss: A Love Story of AIDS\, Activism\, and Art is her first book. \n  \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 Israel Fishman Stonewall Book Award from American Library Association and the biennial Wiliiam A. Percy award from the Warren Johansson Foundation. His first book\, When Brooklyn Was Queer\, won a 2020 New York City Book Award\, was a New York Times Editors’ Choice in 2019\, and was a finalist for the Randy Shilts and Lambda Literary Awards. He was honored with the 2020 Allan Berube Prize from the American Historical Association. \n  \nJoshua Gutterman Tranen is a writer based in Durham\, North Carolina. His essays on the cultural history of HIV/AIDS have appeared in The Nation\, Boston Review\, Los Angeles Review of Books\, and The Poetry Project. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/hugh-ryan-and-keiko-lane/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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