Please join Max Steele for the release of his new zine DOOR GIRLS at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division for a launch party and reading featuring Doug Keeler, Justin Allen and Erin Markey.

Justin Allen is a writer from Northern Virginia whose work traces the ways geographies, both URL and IRL, shape identity.

Doug Keeler is a poet, temptress, and karaoke queen. He has written for the Helix Queer Performance Network’s Critical Squad (https://helixqpn.org/tagged/doug+keeler), and recently participated in the BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange workshop NEEDING IT: Solo Performance in Queer Community. His current projects include the poetry series “reasons to get up in the morning” (https://whyigotup.tumblr.com/) and diatribe blog POP-OFF QUEEN (https://popoff-queen.tumblr.com/). His major influences include José Esteban Muñoz, Nomi Malone, and Brent Corrigan.

Erin Markey is a comedic writer/performer, actress and singer who has shown work at BAM, Under The Radar Festival, New Museum, PS 122, Lincoln Center Director’s Lab, New York Comedy Festival, San Francisco Film Society, and frequently at Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater. She is currently a 2013-2015 artist-in-residence at Brooklyn Arts Exchange writing a musical, A Ride On The Irish Cream which will premiere at Abrons Arts Center in January 2016. She is a 2014 Franklin Furnace Fund recipient.

Max Steele is a writer and performer. He’s written the psychedelic porno poetry zine Scorcher since 2006 and in 2015 started a new zine, DOOR GIRLS, about night life.