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SUMMARY:Radical Queer Reading Group: Chain-Gang All-Stars (in person only)
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we read radical leftist texts with a focus on queer liberation\, anti-capitalism\, and anti-colonialism. For April 8th\, we’re reading Chain-Gang All-Stars\, by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group\, January 23\, 2024\, paperback\, $18).\n  \nWe’ll meet on Wednesday\, April 8th\, at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division in room 210 of The LGBT Community Center in the West Village\, 7-8 PM.\n  \nCopies of Chain-Gang All-Stars\, by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group\, January 23\, 2024\, paperback\, $18) are available to purchase at the Bureau. Purchase the book before April 8th and receive 15% off ($15.30 instead of $18). Just mention the Radical Queer Reading Group when you check out.\n  \nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us!\n  \nThis event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division\, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center\, 208 W. 13th St.\, NYC\, 10011.
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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:Growing Up Golem Relaunch! Donna Minkowitz with Griffin Hansbury (in person & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the republication of Donna Minkowitz’s masterful 2013 memoir Growing Up Golem\, in which queer journalist Minkowitz “presents herself as a golem\, created and controlled by her wacky\, needy\, and sexually abusive mother” (Julie R. Enszer). Golem\, which was shortlisted for both a Lambda Literary Award and for the Publishing Triangle’s Judy Grahn Nonfiction Prize\, tells the story of Minkowitz’s attempts to transform from golem to human\, and to be “a servant no longer for her mother\, her sister\, or the women she dates” (Enszer). \nThe late celebrated novelist Ellis Avery said\, “In Growing Up Golem\, Donna Minkowitz comes to the unlikely\, brilliant conclusion that she must have been her mother’s golem\, a manikin formed from clay and garbage and sacred letters… Exciting\, startlingly fresh. Donna Minkowitz takes a dazzling leap of fancy and then writes a new bridge into being behind her for the rest of us to follow.” \nCopies of the new edition of Growing Up Golem will be available for purchase at the event. To reserve a copy please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com with “please reserve Growing Up Golem for April 9 event” in the subject line. \nThank you for supporting the Bureau by buying 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  \nAlso live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel: \nyoutube.com/@bgsqd \nThe Bureau will solicit donations at the beginning of the event—we especially encourage donations from those who do not plan to purchase any books. \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  \nDonna Minkowitz is a writer of memoir\, journalism\, and fantasy. Back in the day she served as the Village Voice’s main columnist and reporter on queer politics and culture. She is the author of the Lambda Literary Award-winning memoir Ferocious Romance: What My Encounters with the Right Taught Me about Sex\, God\, and Fury\, which was about covering the antigay Christian right undercover as a radical lesbian journalist. She also wrote DONNAVILLE\, a novel Chills at Will called “a master class in world-building” and which Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore said “shocks the senses to open the gates between myth and belonging.” She has also written for the New York Times Book Review\, The Nation\, Slate\, Salon\, and New York magazine. She is the winner of a GLAAD Media Award. \n  \nGriffin Hansbury is the author of Some Strange Music Draws Me In (winner of the Stonewall Award)\, Feral City (finalist for the Lambda Literary Award)\, and Vanishing New York\, as well as The Nostalgist and Day for Night\, a collection of poems. A trailblazer in the field of psychoanalysis\, he was also the first analyst to practice and publish as openly transgender.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/growing-up-golem-relaunch/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:This Queer Arab Family - NYC Book Launch (in person & live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:On 19 April\, the Bureau will host journalist & writer Elias Jahshan for the NYC launch of his latest book\, THIS QUEER ARAB FAMILY – a celebratory book that explores how queer Arab communities reimagine family beyond traditional expectations. Edited and compiled by Elias Jahshan\, the book features ten queer writers from across the Arab world and diaspora\, with stories that honour chosen kinship\, everyday acts of care and the creativity and resilience that sustain queer Arab communities. In many Arab cultures\, family roles are tightly defined\, often prioritising unity over individual desire. This Queer Arab Family questions what happens when queer Arabs challenge those norms and build a family on their own terms. Fierce\, vibrant and unapologetic\, This Queer Arab Family celebrates community\, survival and joy against all odds. \nElias Jahshan will be in conversation with Afeef Nessouli\, followed by an audience Q&A and author signings. Copies of the book will be available to purchase at the event. \n  \nTo reserve a copy of This Queer Arab Family (Saqi Books\, October 14\, 2025\, paperback\, $21.95) or This Arab Is Queer: An Anthology of LGBTQ+ Arab Writers (Saqi Books\, October 18\, 2022\, paperback\, $21.95)\, both edited by Elias Jahshan\, please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com with “please reserve book(s) for April 19 event” in the subject line\, and let us know which of the titles in the body of the email. \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  \nAlso live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel: \nyoutube.com/@bgsqd \nThe Bureau will solicit donations at the beginning of the event—we especially encourage donations from those who do not plan to purchase any books. \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  \nElias Jahshan is a Lebanese-Palestinian journalist and writer\, and the editor of groundbreaking anthologies THIS ARAB IS QUEER (2022) and THIS QUEER ARAB FAMILY (2025)\, both published by Saqi Books. This Arab Is Queer was a 2023 Lambda Literary Awards finalist in the USA and shortlisted for the 2023 Bread & Roses Award in the UK\, and has been translated into Italian and soon in French. He has had short memoirs published in several anthologies and has been published in The Guardian\, The New Arab\, Gay Times\, Attitude\, My Kali\, and more. A former editor-in-chief of Star Observer\, Australia’s longest-running LGBTQ+ media outlet\, Elias was born and raised in Sydney\, Australia and now lives in London\, UK. \n  \nAfeef Nessouli is a journalist and host of “With Afeef Nessouli” a weekly livestream about suppressed news\, and monthly interview show featuring journalists and sources. He recently spent nine weeks in Gaza as a humanitarian aid worker with Glia International and as a reporter with The Intercept. He is a recipient of the 2025 FIJ and Pulitzer Center grant awards. Afeef previously worked for Spotify and The Wall Street Journal’s daily news podcast\, “The Journal\,” The Daily Show with Trevor Noah\, CNN\, and as a legal adviser to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture. His current reporting focuses on US politics\, the Middle East\, and queer stories around the world.
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